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  • (June giggling) (gentle music)

  • - [June] I have always known exactly what I'm worth.

  • - $1 Million.

  • 2 million! 3 million!

  • 3,245,000.

  • That's how much I had to pay to keep you.

  • And you are worth it.

  • You are worth all of it.

  • (June giggling)

  • You know what that means, right?

  • Means you get to stay here,

  • means you don't have to go to your mom's.

  • Means I get to see you every day.

  • - Airplanes?

  • - We can do airplanes.

  • We can build any airplane you want

  • because I'm not going to work today or ever.

  • It's Christmas and we're gonna do airplanes

  • and we're gonna make 'em fly.

  • (upbeat music)

  • - [June] $3,245,000.

  • That's what he paid my mom

  • for sole custody after the divorce.

  • What I didn't know was he only divorced her.

  • He didn't divorce the office.

  • - What do you mean he backed out of the deal?

  • He doesn't get to back out of the deal.

  • He needs to deliver 500,000 novelty armadillos

  • before New Year's

  • or I'll see him in court from now until July.

  • Oh, he wants to talk sphincter molds, does he?

  • I'll tell him about sphincter molds.

  • You tell him that I've been doing sphincter molds

  • since before he was born.

  • - [June] What can I say?

  • You can't divorce your mistress.

  • - June!

  • Stop playing with that stuff.

  • The semester starts today.

  • What? No, it's just my kid and her danged airplanes.

  • (gentle music)

  • - I actually thought 3 million meant he really loved me.

  • Now, I think he was just a bad negotiator.

  • (gentle music)

  • Here's another thing I'm sure of,

  • nothing I do here matters at all.

  • My dad's got a dozen companies

  • and the instant I get a diploma,

  • he's gonna stick me in a corner office somewhere

  • with a thick salary and that's that.

  • I'll never have to worry about a thing.

  • Not a thing.

  • - Hey, uh, I really need that back.

  • - Angle of incidence.

  • - Excuse me?

  • - Well, this is an old Wright Brothers box glider, right?

  • - Mm-hmm.

  • - They used to call it angle of incidence

  • but today it's called-

  • - Angle of attack. Yes, I'm aware.

  • Um, could you just give that back? Please-

  • - See if you go over that, the wing loses lift,

  • you get loss of airflow over the wing,

  • which would lead directly to an abrupt loss of altitude-

  • - Okay, look, I'm very impressed

  • that you read further than I did.

  • That's, that's awesome.

  • But that's due in two minutes.

  • Okay? - You know

  • this can go a lot farther, right?

  • I mean, you've really compromised your lift here.

  • But- - Look, I don't need it

  • to go farther.

  • I just need it to go 30 feet.

  • - Just one little tweak to the wing-

  • - Uh, no. No messing with it.

  • That is due.

  • - But it could be so much better.

  • - Look, whoever you are, I don't care.

  • Okay?

  • It's just a grade.

  • I don't need to go round the world.

  • Just need it to pass.

  • - But it's an airplane.

  • - It's just a grade.

  • Oh, come on.

  • What are you? Seven?

  • I gotta get that turned in.

  • And look, if you wanna take one home to daddy

  • and play there, that's fine.

  • But that one is not a toy.

  • No, no.

  • Come on. No.

  • No. Come on.

  • Please do not. (airplane cracks)

  • Ah! No.

  • What are you doing?

  • (wind whooshing)

  • - You better go get that. It's due.

  • (wind whooshing)

  • (wind whooshing)

  • (Declan gasps)

  • - Is this your project?

  • You get an A.

  • (playful music)

  • - [June] You know how some people are like car problems

  • or annoying relatives?

  • They just keep turning up.

  • - You are applying arbitrary standards

  • to get your favored result knowing full well

  • that comparable risks are tolerated all the time.

  • - And you are ignoring the fact that risk is cumulative

  • and will add up to unacceptable levels

  • within that timeframe.

  • - [Declan] While you seem to believe

  • that the organization can only do one thing right.

  • - And you do not understand

  • that it is a question of priorities.

  • And those are clearly spelled out in-

  • - Time!

  • Enough about the seating chart.

  • Let's move on to the actual debate.

  • (playful music)

  • - But then one day, one wonderful day,

  • you move on and you'll never, ever, ever

  • have to deal with that arrogant,

  • stuck up, selfish jerk again-

  • (record scratches)

  • (attendees chattering softly)

  • (June sighs lightly)

  • (Declan blows raspberry)

  • - Hello everyone. - So?

  • - [Emcee] Welcome to this year's graduation.

  • - So is not a five-syllable word.

  • (Emcee chattering faintly)

  • - So. (clears throat) Business?

  • Really? Business major?

  • That's kind of surprising.

  • - Didn't know I had to get your approval for it.

  • - Like, business?

  • I mean really. (audience cheering)

  • I mean, I, I would've figured you for aeronautics.

  • - (chuckles) Figuring wrong seems to be a habit of yours.

  • - Not just aeronautics though. Like valedictorian.

  • Or at least with honors, right?

  • (audience applauding)

  • I mean, right?

  • Even the guy that forgot his hat can see

  • that you are way too smart for business.

  • - Is this your warped way of giving me a compliment?

  • - Is this your warped way of receiving one?

  • (audience applauding)

  • Fine. Let's just say it.

  • You're bone-chillingly smart.

  • And I did not think for a moment

  • that it would be for business.

  • - (sighs) Explain to me

  • why it's your expectations I should meet?

  • - Well, then whose expectations are you meeting?

  • 'Cause if it's not your own either, then come on.

  • You're just coasting.

  • Like an F-16 being used as a glider.

  • (June scoffs)

  • - Are you having some sleepless nights?

  • Thinking about all the places you won't be employed?

  • - Excuse me?

  • - Broadcast, you majored in broadcast,

  • not tech, not new media, broadcast, with honors.

  • - Well, my apologies on behalf of those of us

  • who have an actual plan.

  • - Broadcast?

  • Like big antennas on mountains

  • and endless reruns of "Lawrence Welk."

  • In the age of streaming, really? (laughs)

  • Were the newspapers not hopeless enough for you?

  • - Oh, what, you're saying you've never watched TV before?

  • - Honestly, no.

  • Growing up there was a big screen

  • in every room of the house, all streaming.

  • That's not even the future. That's the recent past.

  • I mean, what do you think you're gonna do?

  • Exhume Walter Cronkite?

  • - (scoffs) You know, some of us have actual ideas.

  • - Yeah.

  • And some of us have actual earnings.

  • Go ahead. Say what you want.

  • I've had a job since day one.

  • What do you got lined up?

  • - I've got resumes out.

  • - Lined up.

  • Well, that's lovely.

  • You can make the world a better place

  • by being unemployed with honors.

  • - (sighs) Well, wherever I end up, I'll be flying.

  • You'll just be coasting.

  • Happy graduation.

  • (audience applauding)

  • (gentle music)

  • (gentle music continues)

  • (airplane buzzing)

  • - [John] You're what?

  • - I'm not coming in tomorrow, Dad.

  • - You can't take vacation now.

  • - It's not a vacation. I quit.

  • - You what now?

  • - Quit. Quit.

  • Q-U-I-T.

  • Look it up in the dictionary.

  • - Quit is not in our family vocabulary.

  • - Yeah. Well, maybe you should learn a new language.

  • - Tell me straight.

  • Is this about money?

  • Because if it is, good deal.

  • We can just add another zero to your-

  • - Dad, it's really not.

  • - Your mom?

  • Your mom's been talking to you.

  • - Mom hasn't given me anything other than postcards

  • in the last 15 years and you know it.

  • - Private jet, huh?

  • I'll get you the key.

  • - Dad, I don't want anything from you.

  • I just wanna fly instead of coasting.

  • Okay?

  • - Okay.

  • - We're good on this, right?

  • I mean, we're, we're good?

  • - Oh yeah. Yeah, we're good.

  • So you got another job?

  • - Uh, yeah. Yeah.

  • Beachwood & Haggle. Mid-sized investment place.

  • I'll be doing the client outreach thing.

  • - Great.

  • Good for you and all that.

  • I know you'll do great.

  • - Yeah.

  • (phone beeps)

  • (hopeful music)

  • (car chirps)

  • (hopeful music continues)

  • (door knocking) - Come in. Come in.

  • June, I have good news. I just sold the company.

  • - You're getting a promotion.

  • A big one.

  • - [June] I resign.

  • - Kids.

  • - Hi, Mr. Kelgood.

  • I'm calling about the client-facing job,

  • wondering if it's still available.

  • (bright music)

  • (bright music continues)

  • (bright music continues)

  • (bright music continues)

  • (June groans)

  • (TV chiming)

  • - [TV] What is it?

  • My name is Allison. This is-

  • (phone ringing)

  • - Jeeper's crow, Dad.

  • - [John] Hey, now we made a lot of people happy today.

  • - Yeah. Well, you sure didn't make me happy.

  • - [John] Well, maybe that's your own fault.

  • You ever think about that?

  • - Just don't. I am not the one with the problem here.

  • You are the one with the problem.

  • - [John] I'm also the one who's employed

  • and there's no reason you couldn't be too.

  • - Don't you dare.

  • - [John] Don't I dare. What?

  • - Don't you dare try and keep this up.

  • I will outlast you.

  • I will find something.

  • - [John] Where?

  • - We can never be bought.

  • That's right folks. Nobody owns us.

  • No one can buy us.

  • We only answer to viewers like you.

  • Our city's only public television station since 1969.

  • Always independent, right from the start.

  • We'll always give you our best

  • because you've always given us your best, viewers like you.

  • - [John] Sweetheart?

  • Where?

  • - Just you try and find out.

  • - [John] Wait, what?

  • (phone beeps)

  • (upbeat music)

  • (car chirps)

  • (upbeat music continues)

  • (buzzer buzzing) - Hello?

  • Hello. Anybody?

  • Hello?

  • Hello? Hello?

  • Hello?

  • Anybody?

  • Hello.

  • Hi. Excuse me.

  • Hi. Hi, excuse me.

  • - (gasps) For crying out loud child.

  • - Sorry.

  • Really, sorry. - What is it you want?

  • - Um, well, hi, I'm June Schroeder.

  • I called ahead and left a message.

  • - Well, don't come in with the garbage, girl.

  • Go around front like a human being.

  • - Well, I tried, but it was locked.

  • (wind rustling)

  • Hello?

  • Hello, are you in there now?

  • - [Claire] Whom shall I say is calling?

  • - (chuckles) It's me. June Schroeder.

  • We literally just met around the back.

  • (lock chimes and thunks)

  • Finally.

  • - Do you have an appointment?

  • - Uh, no. Like I said, I, I called ahead and left a message.

  • - If all you need is the pleasure

  • of talking to our answering service,

  • you can do that at any time.

  • No appointment necessary.

  • - I just wanna talk to someone in charge.

  • - Whom shall I say is calling?

  • - Look, you can stop playing games with me now.

  • I've had a look around this place.

  • It is anything but busy, okay?

  • But you know, (chuckles) it sure looked to me

  • like you were digging up something out back

  • that you maybe weren't supposed to have.

  • So I will get through to someone in charge sooner or later.

  • Might as well make it sooner while I'm more willing

  • to keep quiet about certain things, huh?

  • - Well, you got through sooner than you thought.

  • That's right. I'm in charge.

  • First the head of the board left, then the board,

  • then the general manager, and then the station manager.

  • And who do you think they dumped all their decisions on?

  • Don't even think about trying to play games with me, kiddo.

  • - So, (chuckles nervously)

  • you admit you could really use some help then?

  • - You wanna know why my checkbook's staying shut?

  • You never argue.

  • - [Declan] Well, you know, most places, Mr. Leech,

  • wouldn't consider that very professional.

  • - I've got all the help I can stand.

  • What just got into you?

  • (June chuckles)

  • Hold it. Wait a minute.

  • - How do you think we handled things

  • on the set of "The Woking Mysteries?"

  • Arguments, that's how. We weren't afraid to argue.

  • - Yeah, I, I heard how things went down on that set.

  • - Stuff of legend. Am I right?

  • - Yeah, like Mt. Vesuvius.

  • Keeping things peaceful here. Mr. Leech, I-

  • - Well, look who still can't close a deal?

  • - What are you doing here?

  • - What is she doing here?

  • - So tell me, are you actively saying the wrong things

  • or are you just forgetting to say the right ones?

  • Like how this station is number 42 in the national market.

  • And that's pretty good for out of 300 something affiliates.

  • - You know, I led with that little detail.

  • Thank you.

  • - Well, there's your problem.

  • Anyone can lead with something generic.

  • What are you gonna come up with

  • that means something to him?

  • - I did my homework. Okay.

  • - Well, he had a series.

  • I know I heard that much.

  • Don't suppose you were planning on acknowledging that.

  • - Actually, as a matter of fact,

  • I have three charts on it right here.

  • - Old news, old news.

  • What are you gonna come up with that's new?

  • What's the new demo on the streaming site?

  • What's the new rebrand on the compilation series?

  • I mean, is he really thinking about these things?

  • Or is it all just, "Welcome to the '90s again."

  • - Claire, what is she doing here?

  • (pen scratching)

  • - Don't mind me. I'm just signing this enormous check.

  • Well, not too enormous.

  • Just a little something.

  • A little pledge for the month.

  • See now I know, you people give a darn.

  • - Well, thank you Mr. Leech. I'd...

  • - I'll be seeing a lot more of you around here, right?

  • (laughs) So now let's go shoot.

  • - Claire, what's going on here?

  • - Job interview.

  • So if I hire her, what am I getting?

  • - I'm right here.

  • - He's your reference.

  • Well?

  • - I guarantee you that she doesn't understand

  • the first thing about working in broadcast,

  • aside from maybe what she Googled last night.

  • - Well, six months ago,

  • all I knew how to do was scheduling.

  • Anything else?

  • - She's a royal pill.

  • - Observed.

  • And anything else?

  • - She's smart.

  • She's real smart.

  • - That we can work with.

  • This can keep us going for another week,

  • including her salary.

  • Wanna stick around?

  • Get more pledges.

  • - (sighs) So.

  • - So.

  • - So... - Ugh.

  • - This is where you ended up.

  • - Do you always give people grief for saving your workplace?

  • - (laughs) Is it too much to hope

  • that you actually did Google something

  • about working in broadcast last night?

  • Or... - Look.

  • Didn't I just hear that guy say you have a shoot?

  • - Yes. - Hmm.

  • - Yes he did.

  • As a matter of fact, since you work here now,

  • you should come sit in on it, newbie.

  • - Hmm.

  • (jaunty music)

  • - Hello, movie lovers everywhere.

  • I'm Cary Leech,

  • star of "The Reverend Woking Mysteries"

  • and your host for this edition of "Weekend Classics."

  • Tonight's movie stars the infamous Charlie Chaplin.

  • A giant of the silent screen,

  • he almost made it in talkies before leaving the U.S.

  • to take over Germany and start World War II.

  • It wasn't long before his next picture,

  • "The Scarlet Empress" inadvertently helped launch

  • the Red Scare in his native U.S. of A.

  • (June sighs)

  • - How you feeling?

  • - My brain hurts.

  • This, this cannot be your business model.

  • Just let him spout nonsense introducing old movies

  • so he'll, he'll make a donation every once in a while.

  • - Not donations, pledges.

  • We call 'em pledges.

  • - Ew. Don't say pledge.

  • That gives me sorority flashbacks.

  • - Well, it's what we got going on for now.

  • Unless you know somebody with some really deep pockets.

  • - Um, let's just say no to that. (chuckles)

  • - Yep. Me neither.

  • - So one week to get him to open his checkbook again.

  • - It's not our only deadline, but, yeah.

  • - And the only two things he cares about

  • are being on screen and watching us fight,

  • and one of which he already has by default.

  • - Yeah.

  • So, are we gonna fight?

  • - Just try and keep up.

  • (Declan laughs)

  • - Yeah. Remember to tell yourself that.

  • (playful music)

  • - Broadcast. Point me to it.

  • - You mean, you mean like streaming?

  • (playful music continues)

  • (playful music continues)

  • (playful music continues)

  • (playful music continues)

  • - All right, let's get our foreign programming

  • converted over to NTSB,

  • resolution 16x9 in 1920 by 24p.

  • - Wow.

  • Yeah, just gotta say,

  • none of what you just said made any sense at all.

  • (playful music)

  • Wait, so you're telling me

  • that you tried to learn about modern electronics

  • in a printed volume?

  • - What's wrong with a book?

  • Mm, lots of books.

  • - You didn't even start with Google? Come on.

  • - Would you look at this stuff? It's old.

  • - Okay. But it's not that old.

  • It's just specialized.

  • Like, really specialized.

  • Honestly, I'm not even sure

  • if you could find what you're looking for on Google.

  • - Are you saying the exact thing you just suggested

  • would not have even worked?

  • - What I'm saying is it's a craft, you know?

  • It's its own craft.

  • And I spent four years learning this stuff in college,

  • and you thought that you were gonna cram it all in

  • in an all-nighter.

  • - Some of us like to get a head start, okay?

  • Whatever. Let's just start now.

  • - Okay.

  • So live switching.

  • - Yes, live switching.

  • I remember that.

  • - Yeah.

  • So I bet you're looking for a great big switch, right?

  • Yeah.

  • (button clicks)

  • - Of course. Mouse clicks.

  • - Mm-hmm.

  • - Because everything's a computer now.

  • - Yeah- - Okay.

  • - even airplanes are great big computers now.

  • - Now you're just being mean.

  • (energetic music)

  • (energetic music continues)

  • (energetic music continues)

  • (energetic music continues)

  • Uh-uh. No, no way.

  • - Yes. Yes you did.

  • You missed that cue.

  • - Oh, 'cause you miscued me.

  • - (sighs) I did miscue you once, but it was not that time.

  • - Right, so if I can't trust your cues,

  • I have to figure them out on my own.

  • - You're getting hung up on one cue.

  • - You said so yourself,

  • there's no second takes when you're live.

  • - Hey, love birds.

  • We've got "Miles Gloriosus" back in an hour.

  • Get ready for showtime.

  • - [June] Showtime.

  • - Hmm.

  • - Well, what can we come up with?

  • - You're seriously trying to tell me

  • that you wanna do a zoom-to-medium closeup

  • in the middle of camera two?

  • - Yes. Yes, it's perfect.

  • Read the script. It's the exact right moment.

  • - I've read the script and no,

  • you still understand nothing about screen grammar.

  • - Oh, please. To heck with the screen grammar.

  • Ride the fricking moment.

  • - What do you mean by the moment?

  • - I mean- - There's a formula.

  • - Ride the- - You follow it.

  • The screen grammar is important.

  • - I don't know why. - I've been doing this

  • way longer than you. - Oh,

  • here we go again with that. - So let's go.

  • - Let's not forget,

  • you wouldn't even be here if it wasn't for me.

  • Mm-hmm.

  • - Okay, first of all, a little low.

  • - I am telling you she is not at Haggle's anymore.

  • Now, I know somebody in this town knows where she's working.

  • You stop putting me off.

  • Don't give me that, wouldn't hire her crap.

  • They'd be idiots not to hire her. They'd all be idiots.

  • And they're even bigger idiots

  • if they think they can hide her beneath a bushel.

  • Now, do you have some more news for me, or do you not?

  • (phone chattering)

  • - Yeah, that's what I thought.

  • Enjoy the coal in your stocking.

  • - And that wraps up our showing

  • of one of the most holly-jolliest movies of all time.

  • Doesn't it just warm your heart folks?

  • I watch that one

  • and I just want to go to sleep smiling every time.

  • We'll be back next week with another "Holly Jolly Hour"

  • that will bring your whole family together once more.

  • I would like to thank everyone here at KPRP

  • for making this possible, including Claire Rubin,

  • our everything that needs done, she does it person.

  • And we got Declan Riordan, our producer.

  • - I'll give you something to be thankful for

  • you holly jolly son-of-a-

  • - And new on the team, June Schroeder. (chuckles)

  • Oh, it's our most wonderful time of the year, folks.

  • What are you grateful for?

  • (John chuckles)

  • (phone ringing)

  • - KPRP Public Television, how can I-

  • - Is this how you treat all your important calls?

  • - Excuse me?

  • - Yeah. Well, don't worry about it.

  • Nobody's any better these days.

  • Just gimme the man in charge.

  • - The what? - The man in charge.

  • You think I got all day to fuel your office gossip?

  • - Whom shall I say his calling?

  • - John Schroeder.

  • Yeah, that's right, the John Schroeder.

  • - Schroeder?

  • - Yeah.

  • I bet you regret dragging your feet now, don't you?

  • Well, nevermind.

  • Just gimme the man in charge

  • and we can forget your little fit ever happened.

  • - One moment, please, sir.

  • June?!

  • - Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

  • - So you do know him?

  • - How did he find out I'm working here?

  • You told him.

  • - Hey, I don't even know the guy.

  • (June groans)

  • - Family?

  • - He's my dad.

  • - (chuckles) Your dad.

  • - The John Schroeder is your dad.

  • - Oh, so now you know him.

  • - Well, we know of him.

  • He's kind of famous.

  • - Guy like that,

  • he could make all of our problems disappear with one pledge.

  • - (laughs) He's not calling to pledge.

  • He's calling to buy. - Buy what?

  • - Everything. Everything.

  • It doesn't matter.

  • The station, everything in it, you, me, him.

  • - And he does realize

  • that's not something that can actually happen, right?

  • - That's true.

  • That's true. That that can't actually happen, right Claire?

  • But please tell me that can't actually happen.

  • - No. No, it can't.

  • Charter's not set up that way.

  • Although, he could push for a few things

  • in exchange for a large enough pledge.

  • But even then there'd be pushback.

  • - He's not gonna settle for less than everything.

  • - So you're saying there's no point in making nice with him

  • and hoping he'll pledge?

  • Pity.

  • - Just please don't make me talk to him.

  • (groans) What? (Declan chuckles)

  • - Okay, moving on. - Yeah.

  • - Stress ball. - No.

  • Yes.

  • (Claire exhales sharply)

  • - Hello.

  • And thank you for calling

  • the voice activated answering service

  • for KPRP Public Television.

  • Please state the name of the person you wish to call.

  • - You want me to what?

  • - I'm sorry.

  • I don't understand that command.

  • Please state the name of the person you wish to call.

  • - Just get me the front desk.

  • - I'm sorry, I don't understand that command.

  • Please state the name of the person you wish to-

  • - Front desk!

  • - I'm sorry, I don't understand that command.

  • Please state the name of-

  • - Front desk! Front desk, already.

  • Front desk.

  • - At the sound with the tone,

  • the time will be 10 minutes past the hour.

  • (bell dings) - Finally, something diff-

  • Wait, what?

  • - Would you like to take this brief survey?

  • - (grunts) No, don't do this to me.

  • It's been years since I've been in phone tree purgatory.

  • - You've just qualified for an exciting offer.

  • - Front desk, you stupid miserable piece of silicon trash.

  • What's so hard about that?

  • Just get me the stupid stinking front desk.

  • - Have you considered switching wireless carriers?

  • - Ah!

  • Front desk. Front desk.

  • If you don't gimme the front desk,

  • I will leave you for hobos on skid row.

  • - Please enter the last four digits of

  • your social security number. - Ah! (grunts)

  • Just get lost, you stupid, stinking pile of transistors.

  • Just get lost and, and goodbye.

  • - Goodbye. And get lost too.

  • - [Phone] (chimes) Hello, you have an important reminder.

  • (serious music)

  • (door buzzes)

  • - All right, Miss Radio Voice.

  • Show your darn face

  • before I waylay your boss on his way home.

  • - [Claire] Whom shall I say is calling?

  • - You know who's here.

  • I told you once, I told you twice,

  • and I ain't gonna tell you a darn thing ever again.

  • - [Claire] Well, thank goodness for that.

  • Have a good day, sir.

  • - Wait, what? No, hold on.

  • Hold on. Get back on here.

  • You miserable, little minimum wage-

  • - Excuse me.

  • Claire, sweetie. Guess who?

  • (lock chimes)

  • Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa.

  • Where do you think you're going, beautiful.

  • This is a closed set.

  • - (snickers) Yeah, you try and talk smart to me

  • after I get a signature on these.

  • - Oh, those.

  • Oh, of course.

  • Always have time for my fans, even the noisy ones.

  • And remember, if you're going scalp these,

  • don't settle for less than a grand.

  • Hello, darling. - Hello.

  • - You look ravishing today. - Well, thank you.

  • How are you Charmer?

  • - We're late. We're late again.

  • And I am not the reason.

  • - Um, yes, you are.

  • And you're not about to pin this on me, okay?

  • - All right. Pardon me, Mr. Leech.

  • Declan here was just having some technical difficulties

  • at his workstation. - Oh, pardon me, Mr. Leech,

  • but it seems that June here has forgotten

  • how to format a shooting script,

  • which as you know, is very important for her job.

  • - Okay, well, pardon me, Mr. Leech,

  • Declan has forgotten how to stick to a call time.

  • Shall we head for makeup?

  • By which I mean make up for his delays.

  • - What she's saying is absolutely false.

  • I've never missed a call time, Mr. Leech.

  • - Don't listen to him. - But come with us.

  • - We gotta go, okay?

  • Bye Claire.

  • - I understand- - Listen to me-

  • - that call times are of the utmost importance

  • - Call time is very important- - And treating you like

  • a star is what really matters. - as you well know from your-

  • (both groan)

  • - You got another one of those?

  • - I mean, he doesn't honestly think

  • that "The Wizard of Oz" switched to color

  • because they ran out of black and white film.

  • Does he?

  • - Honestly, who can say. (June grunts)

  • - Oh. Gimme that.

  • - I mean, we didn't always do this right?

  • Just give some loud mouth

  • a permanent platform to spout lunacy from?

  • Because if I wanted that, I could just call home.

  • - No.

  • No. This place used to have a rep.

  • Good one.

  • (gentle music)

  • (sighs) Award-winning programs,

  • valuable community institutions, all that.

  • You can't tell from looking around today.

  • Dumped all the archives just before I got here. So...

  • - All of them?

  • (air droning softly)

  • (crank creaking)

  • (box scrapes softly)

  • - What are those?

  • - Legacy.

  • (cassette whirring)

  • (festive music)

  • - We made that?

  • - We used to every year.

  • One Christmas spectacular was all we needed

  • and then we'd get in enough pledges for the next 12 months.

  • Local history, local politics, documentaries,

  • the stuff that made a difference.

  • - Why'd you stop?

  • - The board wanted to go edgy.

  • Thought these fancy concerts were too expensive.

  • Wanted to cut it to the bone and do more with less.

  • Instead, we ended up doing less with less.

  • And now we're doing next to nothing.

  • - So where's the board now?

  • - Where do you think?

  • Bailed once they realized how badly they'd screwed up,

  • and believe me, nobody was volunteering to replace them.

  • - Well, let's do one of these again.

  • Oh, come on. How hard can it be?

  • - "How hard can it be?"

  • "How hard can it be?" she says.

  • Sweetie, we earned those 12 months every single time.

  • Do you have any idea what it takes

  • to stage a show like that?

  • - No. So tell me.

  • - My word.

  • - Multiple cameras, live switching,

  • on location, music clearances.

  • - Kept the lawyers busy for weeks.

  • - Plus, it looks like we always had a star name

  • to host the show.

  • - That's right.

  • Star power or the closest thing to it at this level.

  • Mayor, some big news anchor, somebody.

  • And who is gonna give us the time of day now?

  • - Plus we don't have much time to work with anyway.

  • Christmas is practically here.

  • - So let's do it next Christmas.

  • - No, there is no next year.

  • We've got a mortgage on this dump

  • and we have burned through every trick for putting it off.

  • Either we come up with a huge chunk of change by New Year's,

  • or we go dark for the first time in five decades.

  • - New Year's?

  • It's a hard deadline?

  • - As hard as they come.

  • Do you two want to be employed after the balloon drop?

  • - Get that man to pledge.

  • (Emcee chattering indistinctly)

  • - New Year's.

  • - Yeah.

  • You got any bright ideas?

  • - Well, he's already paying this much

  • to see us squabble, right?

  • Let's kick it up a notch.

  • - Kick it up.

  • - Play for blood.

  • So far we've been pretty nice.

  • - I don't think we've been very nice.

  • - There are definitely places you could've gone

  • and you didn't because you're nice.

  • Face it.

  • Nice, just won't do it anymore.

  • - Well, June, I, I just don't think it's a very good-

  • - Daddy issues. Hit me with those.

  • You'll have material for days.

  • Okay, come on now, gimme something I can work with.

  • - June, seriously?

  • I don't think it's- - Declan, you've seen

  • what I go back to if I can't stay here.

  • If you can't do it for the station, then do it for me.

  • (playful music)

  • (door buzzes)

  • - Open the door. I got your heart's desire.

  • - [Claire] You brought George Clooney?

  • - Oh wait, no, I... (sighs)

  • (door buzzes)

  • I bring you nectar and ambrosia.

  • - [Claire] That's a terrible name for a rock band.

  • (door buzzes)

  • - I bring you the glorious wines of nature.

  • - [Claire] If those weren't metaphorical,

  • you might've stood a chance.

  • - Wait. I, I would?

  • Ah!

  • (bottles clinking)

  • (John grunting)

  • (John continues grunting)

  • - Hey, Big John. (John grunts)

  • (bottles shatter)

  • Whoa.

  • Clean up on aisle five.

  • - What in the world was...

  • (gasps) You hog!

  • It's not even nine o'clock in the morning.

  • You get a off this property.

  • - [John] Ah! - Get, get, get!

  • Oh, Cary dear.

  • I'm so sorry about that. - Oh, no worries.

  • I know this is a good neighborhood.

  • Well, usually.

  • (contentious music)

  • - So.

  • - So?

  • - So.

  • That's your idea?

  • - You can feel free to start praising it at any time.

  • - We've got our biggest name talent sitting right over there

  • and you wanna shoot him like a '90s talk show.

  • - Yeah. That was a great era of television.

  • - That was almost older than you are.

  • Who is gonna watch that?

  • - Oh, I don't know. Everyone.

  • - This is television. There is no everyone.

  • What group?

  • Which age?

  • - Kids, parents, grandparents, everyone in between.

  • Okay? People crave this stuff.

  • - Families don't watch things together anymore.

  • What century are you from?

  • - They can, they can.

  • And they do.

  • - Name one. Name one family. - I'll give you one family.

  • Mine. - Yeah. One weird family.

  • - (chuckles) Yeah. We were weird, all right.

  • Me, Mom, and a jar of ashes on the mantle

  • that used to be Dad.

  • Car accident, in case you were wondering.

  • Oh, I was four, by the way

  • and Mom had to keep working.

  • So the time that we spent together

  • was mostly watching KPRP kids programs

  • early in the morning.

  • That's what we did together most.

  • So, yeah, we watched it.

  • And lots of us still would.

  • Don't you dare think otherwise.

  • - Come on, don't let him win.

  • - What if I said you were lucky?

  • - (laughs) Lucky? - Lucky.

  • At least your mom cared about you.

  • At least she didn't leave.

  • - She left every single day.

  • - And came back. Not everyone's does.

  • So what do you think of that? Huh?

  • What have we got for kids like that?

  • - Uh, June, your dad stuck around.

  • - Yeah, sure. He stuck around.

  • At least his face did.

  • His brain? Gone.

  • Always somewhere else.

  • At the office, around the globe, just gone.

  • At least when your mom was with you, she was present.

  • - Don't you dare start making comparisons, okay?

  • At least your dad is alive.

  • - I would've swapped. You get that?

  • There are times I would've swapped.

  • At least you know your dad didn't wanna leave you.

  • - June! You... (exhales heavily)

  • - Say it.

  • Whatever it is, just say it.

  • - Say it, say it.

  • - If you were like this all the time,

  • I can definitely see why.

  • Ah, June. - What did you say?

  • What did you say?

  • I was seven. Seven.

  • What seven-year-old deserves that?

  • To have her mom walk out and her dad checkout.

  • And it never stopped.

  • Not in middle school, not in high school,

  • not even graduating with fricking honors.

  • Not for one second

  • was I ever more important than a line on a spreadsheet.

  • And you wanna know the worst part?

  • He paid to keep me so I felt like I owed him.

  • Like it was some kind of debt I had to pay back.

  • You think student loans are bad?

  • Try having to pay back a debt like that.

  • So don't you try and tell me

  • that I had it any better than you.

  • I'm sorry your dad is gone. I really am.

  • But at least he didn't hang around

  • making whatever problems you had worse.

  • (Cary clapping)

  • - What a scene. Ha!

  • What a scene.

  • I don't have a check big enough for that one.

  • I'm serious. I don't have a check big enough.

  • I need to go talk to some people.

  • - Too much?

  • Nah. That's not too much.

  • - Now, just gimme a few days.

  • A few days. No more.

  • And you'll be hearing from everyone.

  • Everyone.

  • Oh, and this time,

  • don't forget what a shooting script is, huh? (laughs)

  • Whew.

  • (traffic droning faintly)

  • - June, hey, are you okay?

  • Look, I, I know what I said was just-

  • - No, I'm fine.

  • I'm, really, I'm fine.

  • Just, we got it, right?

  • Come on, please tell me we got it.

  • - We got it.

  • - Yes. (both chuckle)

  • - Excuse me. I think your Uber is elsewhere.

  • - You are a callous, rude,

  • mean little excuse for a thespian.

  • - Whoa, I've had some bad reviews before,

  • but that was a little over the top, don't you think?

  • - You think this is Hollywood? Huh?

  • You think you can just walk away from anything?

  • Because, because you're the big-shot star.

  • There's no stunt double out here.

  • There's no one to take the fall for you.

  • Can you cry on cue?

  • Huh?

  • Can you cry on cue? - Yes. Yes.

  • - Good.

  • Because if you ever make my little girl cry again,

  • you're not only gonna cry on cue, you're gonna cry off cue

  • and for the entire running time,

  • you fourth-rate, Z-grade

  • certified-farm-fresh, organic actor.

  • - Whoa. (sobs weakly)

  • (John snickers)

  • - I felt it.

  • I really felt it.

  • I did it.

  • - You did what?

  • - Um... - You did what?

  • Oh my God, I can't believe this.

  • Just when I thought you'd finally run out of ways

  • to royally screw up my life,

  • you go and invent a totally new one.

  • - Hey, I'm just trying to help.

  • - Trying and failing.

  • Do you get that last part, Dad? Failing.

  • Look around and listen for once in your life.

  • Do I seem any happier when you pull this stupid stuff?

  • - Well, maybe if you learned a little gratitude.

  • - Gratitude? For what?

  • Do you think I was grateful

  • for every day you spent screaming on the phone

  • instead of being with me?

  • Because whoever was on the other end of the line

  • was always more important than me.

  • - Hey. I paid $3 million for you.

  • - Shut up about the $3 million, Dad.

  • You made that back in a month.

  • You could've retired 15 years ago and you didn't

  • because nothing is as important to you

  • as thinking that the sun doesn't rise unless you crow at it.

  • - I gave you everything I could.

  • - (chuckles) Yeah, I guess you did, Dad.

  • Just not anything that mattered.

  • - What do I need to do? - Nothing. Nothing.

  • Absolutely nothing.

  • Just stop trying.

  • That is the only way you'll stop making things worse.

  • - But I gotta do something.

  • - Too late, Dad.

  • Just, too late.

  • (John exhales softly)

  • - So I take it we now know

  • why Cary Leech dropped off the map.

  • - Okay. Yep.

  • We're not gonna wallow in our own pity here.

  • So let's go.

  • There's only one thing that can fix this.

  • Breakfast for dinner.

  • Let's go.

  • Let's go, people.

  • Andele. Get a move on.

  • (traffic droning gently)

  • - No, no, no.

  • This is diet suicide.

  • (Declan laughs) Look at this.

  • - I don't care.

  • Can I have some of this?

  • - Syrup?

  • - Okay. Young metabolisms.

  • I'm in. Let's do this.

  • (all chuckle)

  • (all groaning)

  • - Oh my gosh.

  • - More bacon, anyone?

  • - [June & Claire] Evil.

  • - Mm!

  • - Better?

  • - I, I've never felt better or worse in my life.

  • - Yeah, I hope you don't want

  • a brainstorming session right now,

  • 'cause I'm gonna be in a gluttonous hangover until tomorrow.

  • - I wasn't.

  • More of a glad to be still alive session.

  • It's the only place that's open this early.

  • Early enough for my mom to take me before her shifts.

  • It's the only place we ever ate out

  • so it's a special place.

  • - Claire,

  • we need to do the Christmas concert.

  • - Interesting fantasy.

  • - I'm serious. We need to.

  • - Well, the necessity's not in question, only the means.

  • - We'll think of something.

  • - That is not a plan.

  • - It's Christmas music, right?

  • I mean, all that famous stuff is already public domain.

  • We can make a program out of anything we want.

  • - Sure. But who's gonna arrange it?

  • More importantly, who's gonna perform it?

  • - [June] I don't know. We'll find people.

  • - And we're right back to, that is not a plan.

  • - This is TV. Okay?

  • And this is not crap TV either. This is PBS.

  • That has to mean something.

  • - Yeah, it means we're broke.

  • - It means they'll know we're not solely about the money.

  • - Um, technically-

  • - Shut up, Declan. - Okay.

  • - You know what? Fine, fine.

  • You wanna plan? Here's the plan.

  • I will find someone,

  • you two can sit around in a sugar coma for all I care.

  • But I am betting my entire salary,

  • which, is really not that much,

  • but I am betting my entire salary

  • that there is at least one,

  • one really awesome musician out there

  • who would cross oceans to get on PBS.

  • Mm-hmm.

  • For PBS!

  • - She's got a lot of energy today.

  • - No more coffee for her. (Declan laughs)

  • (motivated music)

  • - Hello? Mr. Krauss.

  • - [Mr. Krauss] I'm a general music director!

  • - Okay. I'm sorry. (laughs)

  • I'm sorry. Mr?

  • - [Mr. Krauss] I'm a general music director!

  • - Wait, what was that?

  • - [Mr. Krauss] I'm a general music director!

  • - Okay, Mr. Aubur-general-music-director. (laughs)

  • My name is June Schroeder

  • and I am a television producer at KPRP Public Television.

  • And we would like to put your choir on TV.

  • (Mr. Krauss chattering angrily)

  • Good morning, ma'am. Hi. How are you?

  • We hear you lead the best orchestra in-

  • (orchestra director mutters indistinctly)

  • Oh, no, no, ma'am.

  • I, I'm not selling insurance.

  • I'm with PBS.

  • (orchestra director mutters indistinctly)

  • No, not PS5, PBS. (chuckles)

  • I can't get you a PS5. Sorry.

  • Please, sir, I, I have no control

  • over when they play the Louis Valois Orchestra

  • and, and I really don't care-

  • (Mr. Krauss chattering angrily)

  • No, sir, I have no idea what he's like off the air. Mm-mm.

  • Ma'am, I, I really don't have a PS5.

  • Really sorry about that,

  • but what I wanted to talk to you about is-

  • (orchestra director mutters indistinctly)

  • No. No, I am not hoarding them to scalp on eBay.

  • Why would I do that?

  • I have no idea what he was like in music school.

  • Nope. No.

  • Uh-uh.

  • Ma'am. (chuckles) Please.

  • I am a television producer. (laughs)

  • My buddy cannot get you a PS5

  • because I don't have a buddy with a PS5.

  • You wanna know what we're gonna do?

  • Here's what we're gonna do.

  • Mm-hmm. Yeah, that's right.

  • You and me. You and me, Aubur-general-music-director.

  • We are gonna take Louis Valois down.

  • You are right. I have PS5s.

  • I have so many PS5s.

  • I have despised him too.

  • Mm-hmm. Oh yeah.

  • With his waltzes and his fiddles

  • and his, his, um, mincing harps.

  • It just started with a few, you know,

  • and then I just, I just couldn't stop.

  • Boxes and truckloads and warehouses,

  • filling up my garage, the attic, the basement.

  • At last. I know how to make him pay.

  • And only your talent can do it. (guffaws)

  • I don't even know if my pets are still alive in there.

  • Just lost. Lost in all of my PS5s. (sobs)

  • Will you really take that many PS5s?

  • Are you sure you can't take more? Please take more?

  • (orchestra director mutters indistinctly)

  • Thank you.

  • Yes. We can rule together.

  • (June laughs and sighs)

  • Hi.

  • - Hi.

  • Uh, how's it going? - Oh, perfect. Perfect.

  • Absolutely perfect.

  • We have all the music you could ever want.

  • We just have to find 500 PS5s

  • and Louis Valois' violin on a pike.

  • How about you?

  • - Uh, great. It looks like we might have a venue.

  • It's not a definite yes, but something other than an no.

  • - Okay, well let's go.

  • Let's go. C'mon. - Okay.

  • - Move, move, move. Oh, wait, I'm outta coffee.

  • - You probably don't need more. It's okay.

  • (bells tolling)

  • - Oh my.

  • It's perfect.

  • It's perfect. (laughs)

  • Wow, this has always been here?

  • Why have you never used it before?

  • - Hey, I wasn't here before.

  • Plus, I think that they tried to,

  • but they could never get a deal done for it-

  • - Oh my goodness. Would you just listen to those acoustics?

  • Hello World! Here we are!

  • Can you imagine what the choir

  • is gonna sound like under that?

  • And the orchestra? - Uh, June-

  • - We could do better than this.

  • You hear me? We could not do better.

  • - Well, if you can't do better,

  • you have a good reason for meeting our price.

  • - So I'm sure you're aware, we're not a very large station.

  • - You are a station who has had a half a century

  • to build an endowment.

  • - Yes. Well, you know how that goes.

  • Keeps you in business

  • but you can't go on any shopping sprees with it.

  • - Do you have any idea

  • what the wedding demand is for a place like this?

  • - Oh, I'm sure it's a wonderful place-

  • - Do you have any idea what people pay

  • for those sorts of things?

  • - And I'm sure a little classy TV exposure

  • would be just the thing-

  • - Ms. Schroeder, this building is a century old

  • and is visible from virtually everywhere in the city.

  • Exactly what makes you think exposure is anything we need?

  • - We've had our struggles, and I'm sure you have too.

  • We really feel that this could be

  • an excellent collaboration- - Ms. Schroeder,

  • so far you have failed to present any scenario

  • that does not represent a certain short-term cost

  • to this church in exchange for dubious

  • and highly-uncertain long-term gains.

  • So unless you are prepared

  • to meet our standard rate for an outside event,

  • I suggest your time would be better employed elsewhere.

  • - I don't suppose there's anything else

  • that could possibly change your mind?

  • - Unless you intend to march Cary Leech through our door,

  • I'm afraid you're out of options.

  • - Cary Leech?

  • - Child, don't pretend to have any idea who that is.

  • It's before your time.

  • - You mean our Cary Leech?

  • - What do you mean, "Our Cary Leech?"

  • - You first. Show me your Cary Leech.

  • - I am not accustomed to taking demands.

  • - Get used to it. Show me.

  • (cassette clatters)

  • - And the murderer is one of you.

  • (congregants gasp)

  • - Huh?

  • - I say!

  • - Oh, it's all quite simple, really.

  • Now, your late father was left-handed,

  • was he not Miss Fairfax?

  • - Hm? - Huh?

  • - Knowing that then, perhaps you can explain to me

  • how he could possibly have heard

  • the huntsman's call, Lord Shepperton?

  • (dramatic music)

  • (dramatic music continues)

  • - Your turn.

  • What's this about Cary Leech?

  • - He will be hosting the special.

  • - From here?

  • - Mm-hmm. That's right.

  • He'll be announcing every song,

  • telling stories from set, meeting new fans.

  • And so help me,

  • that man signs everything I put in front of him.

  • But as for the from here part,

  • well that's not really up to me now, is it?

  • - I cannot believe that you just lied in a church.

  • I mean in a church, June.

  • - It's not a lie yet, okay?

  • Not if we can get Cary Leech back.

  • - June, he's bunkered somewhere.

  • I mean off the grid for all we know.

  • He's probably got a thousand-acre estate

  • somewhere in Sun Valley that we'll never be able to find.

  • - [June] Well, what addresses do we have for him?

  • - None.

  • All correspondence goes through his lawyer.

  • - All right, well what's his address?

  • (sirens whoop)

  • His lawyer works out of an apartment?

  • - I guess I always kind of assumed

  • he had a better lawyer than this.

  • (footsteps thudding softly)

  • (traffic droning faintly)

  • (door knocking)

  • - What do you want now?

  • Oh!

  • - Hey! Leech!

  • Come on, open up. What is going on?

  • - Get on in here.

  • (Cary groaning)

  • Right, first thing I wanna know is,

  • how did you find me?

  • For years, I have battled to preserve my anonymity,

  • yet somehow, you have penetrated the wilyest of defenses.

  • So lay out the trail.

  • What gossamer thread of clues did you follow to get here?

  • (paper rustles)

  • (Cary laughs)

  • - So I'm gonna go way out on a limb here and just assume

  • that there was never any big check coming.

  • - Meh.

  • Oh, don't get too sore.

  • I always knew your fighting was fake.

  • I just admired the performance.

  • - How did you even get here?

  • I mean, the residuals from your show must be-

  • - Not so much anymore.

  • But I'd like to think that what I had, I spent well.

  • - Okay. (chuckles)

  • Well, um, anything to get on the air one last time?

  • - For some of us,

  • there's only one place we're ever truly happy.

  • I got nothing for you.

  • - Maybe you still do, actually.

  • We're throwing a big Christmas concert

  • like the station used to do in the old days,

  • and we want you to host it.

  • - Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

  • No, negative. Uh-uh.

  • Nope. Nope, nope.

  • Nein.

  • - Why not?

  • - You think I'm showing my face around that studio of yours

  • while that psychopath is out there?

  • You only just caught me before I blew town.

  • Find me some other PBS station

  • that still fills time with "The Woking Mysteries."

  • - This is to save the station.

  • This could be big.

  • Your big closing act.

  • - Oh, if that loon shows up,

  • it'll be a closing act all right.

  • And I don't intend to star in it.

  • - We- we'll get the police on it.

  • - [Cary] Have you never seen a single episode of my series?

  • The bobbies are useless.

  • - How did he hear the huntsman's call?

  • - What's that?

  • - How did he hear the huntsman's call?

  • (suspenseful music)

  • - I remember that one.

  • - Come on.

  • How did he hear the huntsman's call?

  • - How?

  • Hmm. I'll tell you how.

  • - 'Twas the moors who done it.

  • Aye, the moors.

  • The misty moors where screams are swallered

  • and murder rings clear.

  • 'Twas there you set the trap.

  • - Give him a nudge.

  • - Okay. - N- no. Stay.

  • - So you laid it.

  • You laid the trap and waited.

  • Knowing full well he'd be done in for sure

  • by that gouty foot of his.

  • And once he was, you'd lay your hands

  • on the greatest treasure in lower Shropshire,

  • his mighty collection of taxidermed hamster.

  • - Who wrote this crap? - Shh. Give him a nudge.

  • - Confess, sir.

  • Confess and the magistrate may go easy on ya.

  • Confess and spare the bloody wretch

  • who now answers for your crimes on the gallows.

  • - Are we seriously airing this?

  • - [Rev. Woking] Confess!

  • - Reverend, he's getting away.

  • - [Cary] Um, who's this now?

  • - The accomplice.

  • - [Cary] The accomplice?

  • - Aye! The accomplice!

  • - [June] (laughs) Come on.

  • (gentle music)

  • - So whom would you say is calling?

  • - I don't believe we've met.

  • - Hi.

  • I am the John Schroeder

  • who just might be the worthwhile human being.

  • - Really?

  • - Stranger things have happened.

  • - My wildest fantasies don't get that wild.

  • What are you here for?

  • Because you're sure not buying anything.

  • - I could buy you dinner.

  • - And just what do you think you are buying along with that?

  • - Conversation, company.

  • Come on.

  • It's been a long time

  • since I've had anything other than a business dinner.

  • A very long time.

  • - You think I trust you?

  • - The only thing you need to trust

  • is that I won't run out on the check.

  • And I am a good tipper.

  • Come on.

  • I've been hanging around here long enough

  • to know it's just you and the younglings running the place.

  • And before them, mostly you.

  • Come on.

  • Your good deeds have been punished long enough.

  • Let's go get us something good.

  • - The accomplice!

  • Aye, you, sir.

  • It was always you.

  • You and your red right hand.

  • Oh, you thought you had it, did you?

  • Thought you free and clear,

  • with that trail of clues from here to Aberdeen. (laughs)

  • Nay, sir. Nay.

  • And again, I say nay.

  • Oh, justice is visited upon ya, sir.

  • Justice in the sight of the parish constabulary

  • and the Anglican parsonage.

  • Now, open the gates and move aside.

  • Move aside!

  • (playful music)

  • - What a scene. What a scene.

  • Let's do another take.

  • - Okay, as much as I'd love to see that again,

  • we have bigger scenes to get done.

  • - Right. Right.

  • What's next on the day outta days?

  • - Um, you have to go see a nun.

  • Uh-huh.

  • No, Bishop, I had not heard

  • about the buses coming in from the convent.

  • Um, we, we never dreamed that Mr. Leech's presence

  • would cause this kind of disruption. (laughs)

  • So yes. Yes.

  • Naturally, we will have crowd control in place.

  • Don't you worry.

  • We are very aware of how rowdy nuns can be.

  • Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

  • Mm-hmm?

  • We will get you his autograph most discreetly. Goodbye.

  • Okay. Crowd control,

  • exclamation point.

  • The concert's tomorrow, and you're just sitting there?

  • - What else is there to do?

  • - I don't know. Something.

  • There's always something.

  • Something to get ahead of, a problem to fix,

  • something that could go better.

  • - You never did AP classes, did you?

  • - Can we not have that discussion again, please?

  • - Well, there's something that they tell you

  • when you take AP classes.

  • "Before the big test never cram."

  • - Really?

  • - Oh, really.

  • Yeah, those tests were pretty big

  • so if you didn't know the material the night before,

  • one long night of cramming wouldn't help one bit.

  • And you, June, just put together one heck of a project.

  • A really big one.

  • - Okay, so if you didn't cram before the big test,

  • then what'd you do?

  • - Put it outta your mind.

  • Let it go for one night.

  • Go out somewhere.

  • - Go out like, like where?

  • - You might need some warmer clothes.

  • (gentle music)

  • (gentle music continues)

  • (gentle music continues)

  • (gentle music continues)

  • (gentle music continues)

  • (gentle music continues)

  • (gentle music continues)

  • (gentle music continues)

  • - So there's a human being under that awful mustache.

  • Who'd have thought?

  • - It doesn't bother you?

  • I mean, there he is, being all friendly with her.

  • Doesn't seem he was ever really that friendly with you.

  • - If he wants to be friendly with her, he can go for it.

  • I, on the other hand,

  • am nowhere near ready to be friendly with him yet.

  • - Is it too much to hope

  • that maybe she's just leading him on,

  • you know, get a big pledge out of him?

  • - You've been working for Cary Leech too long. (laughs)

  • Camera's on, check's signed. Easy peasy.

  • Well, not my dad.

  • He always gets something for his money.

  • - Well, that was the Outsider they were in.

  • Definitely not fast food.

  • - For a nice evening,

  • he'd call that a good price.

  • - Has he ever paid for something and not gotten it?

  • Like ever?

  • - Hmm. He paid $3 million for me.

  • (chuckles) Yeah. Yeah, you heard that right.

  • $3 million to avoid joint custody.

  • - Well, what in the world did he not get from that?

  • (tender music) - Um, I don't know.

  • All I've ever brought him is disappointment,

  • distraction, annoyance, the list goes on.

  • - Well, he's a fool.

  • You hear me?

  • He got the bargain of a century.

  • Okay?

  • $3 million for another 10 years with you.

  • Gosh, I would've paid so much more than that.

  • - (chuckles) Shut up. - I mean it.

  • I've watched you and you are amazing.

  • Simply amazing.

  • - Just stop.

  • - What?

  • Hasn't anyone ever told you that?

  • Anyone at all?

  • Because got news for ya: it's true.

  • I would've paid that much for 10 more days with you.

  • 10 minutes. Literally anytime at all.

  • I'd take that deal.

  • - Declan.

  • - Okay! Uh!

  • It's getting really late.

  • We, we gotta go.

  • - Uh, g- go where?

  • - Final exam's tomorrow. Remember?

  • We gotta gotta get lots of rest.

  • Come on, let's go. Here we go.

  • Let's go. - I'm coming. Okay.

  • (gentle music)

  • Aubur-general-music-director.

  • Not conductor, director. Yes, we have to get it right.

  • - June, first violin says that the sanctuary

  • is three degrees too cold.

  • - Tell him we're heating it up.

  • - Can't heat a building this big that fast.

  • - So just tell him that

  • and by the time he thinks of it again,

  • he'll have adjusted.

  • What? No.

  • Nuns do not get priority seating.

  • (sighs) Hey, hey! Red lights on the woodwinds not purple.

  • It's Christmas. Remember?

  • I do not care how scary they are.

  • Nuns do not get priority seating.

  • Just bring him around during intermission.

  • We'll do an extra meet and greet.

  • Trust me. He'll agree to it.

  • - [Claire] Circuit panels.

  • - Geez, Claire.

  • What now?

  • - Well, the church caretaker's a little concerned

  • about everything we're plugging into his circuit panels.

  • - For the last time, we have run the numbers.

  • Everything is fine as long as nobody plugs in anything else.

  • - Caretaker says those cords are running pretty warm.

  • - Call it free heating.

  • What is all this?

  • - This: fan mail from nuns.

  • - Claire. Ugh.

  • - Oh, is that more for me to sign?

  • - No, not now. We're on in three.

  • Declan, camera three is getting the closeups. Not two.

  • Come on. Get 'em sorted.

  • Oh, I can't wait till this is over.

  • - Well, June, if you weren't doing this,

  • what would you be doing?

  • - Probably having a nice quiet night before Christmas Eve.

  • - (chuckles) Where's the fun in that?

  • I know, I, I can see you're stressed out.

  • But June, do you really think you'd be happy

  • if somehow you were being prevented from doing this?

  • If you never even had the choice.

  • You'd be miserable, wouldn't you?

  • Wouldn't you?

  • You'd be miserable if you never even had the chance.

  • Yeah?

  • - We're on in two. We gotta go.

  • Also, you're doing a meet and greet during remission.

  • - Meet and greet? That means pictures.

  • I- I better- - Come on!

  • Just come on. Come on.

  • - June, where's our star?

  • - Uh, he's right behind me.

  • He's right behind... Cary!

  • - Coming. Coming.

  • I just had to make sure that-

  • - No more taking care of.

  • On your mark first position. - I didn't know

  • there was a meet and greet.

  • I had to make sure that my phone was ready-

  • - On your mark. (Cary groans)

  • Okay, quiet everyone.

  • Hold for countdown.

  • Everybody good? Okay.

  • Live on air in 10.

  • - What? No, it's fine.

  • - Nine.

  • - No, no.

  • Everything's calibrated. It's fine.

  • - Eight. - Electrical meter.

  • What electrical meter?

  • - Seven.

  • - No, there's, it's not possible.

  • There's nothing else on that circuit.

  • - Six.

  • - I- I said there's nothing else on that circuit.

  • (electricity buzzes)

  • Check all the circuits.

  • Ch- check all the circuits now.

  • (stressful music)

  • (electricity zapping)

  • - No!

  • (dramatic music)

  • (electricity crackling)

  • (workers screaming and rambling)

  • - Hello?

  • Anyone?

  • Anyone at all?

  • Anyone?

  • (tense music) Anyone at-

  • Oh! Ugh!

  • - You just had to plug in your phone.

  • - Oh my gosh. Is it okay?

  • I have so many pictures on that.

  • Um, I guess it's not that important.

  • Reset for take two?

  • - (sighs) There is no take two.

  • - What? Uh...

  • Oh, um,

  • so anything I can do?

  • - Kids, uh, I don't want this

  • to be the last thing the station ever does.

  • Can't we think of something?

  • (tender music)

  • (tender music continues)

  • (radio chattering)

  • (tender music continues)

  • - Live on air in three, two...

  • - Ah.

  • Hello, friends of KPRP.

  • I'm afraid I bring news of disappointment tonight.

  • Our Christmas concert cannot go on

  • as scheduled and planned. (sighs)

  • We're very sorry to have let you down.

  • Um,

  • since there won't be a broadcast,

  • there won't be any pledge drive either.

  • Anyone who wants to contribute can do so on our website.

  • But we expect that this will be

  • KPRP's last broadcast.

  • We want to thank you for supporting us for 47 years.

  • For half a century we have brought you our best.

  • And (chokes)

  • I guess we all knew it couldn't last forever.

  • So I'm Cary Leech,

  • on behalf of everyone here from KPRP, signing off.

  • It has been our privilege.

  • (gentle wholesome music)

  • ♪ Lo' how a rose e'er blooming ♪

  • ♪ From tender stem hath sprung ♪

  • ♪ Of Jesse's lineage coming ♪

  • ♪ As men of old have sung ♪

  • ♪ It came, a flower bright ♪

  • ♪ Amid the cold of winter ♪

  • ♪ When half spend was the night ♪

  • (gentle wholesome music continues)

  • (gentle wholesome music fades)

  • (phone beeping)

  • (phone ringing)

  • (phone continues ringing)

  • - June?

  • - Hey, Dad.

  • - What is it?

  • It must be almost midnight.

  • - This won't take long.

  • (sighs) You've won.

  • - I've what?

  • - You've won.

  • You were right.

  • So just do what you do best.

  • Sign a check.

  • I'll be at a desk working for you by morning.

  • - What are you talking about?

  • - [June] KPRP. They're still taking pledges.

  • - So?

  • - So make one. And I'm yours again.

  • Just make it a big one.

  • - You want me to what now?

  • - Go to the website, make a pledge.

  • Just get it done already.

  • - But, but you...

  • - But what? You have trouble taking yes for an answer now?

  • - [John] But?

  • - Well spit it out. What's the problem?

  • - But I don't think that's really what you want.

  • - Don't even try to tell me what I want.

  • You've never had a clue what I want

  • so there's no reason to think you can start now.

  • You care about what I want,

  • then listen to me.

  • I just told you.

  • - I- I'll get the accountants

  • to do that first thing tomorrow.

  • - I'll be in first thing tomorrow.

  • - Merry Christmas, I guess.

  • - Yeah.

  • Merry Christmas.

  • (phone beeps)

  • (John exhales sharply)

  • - You didn't.

  • - That's a heck of a way to say thank you.

  • - June, I didn't want this.

  • - I don't recall asking you.

  • - Look, we, we can figure something else out.

  • - Declan, we're out of time.

  • Outta luck and outta favors.

  • At least now I don't have to find 500 PS5s.

  • - What is it you've been telling me this whole time then?

  • You've been acting like this is a fate worse than death.

  • But whenever things get hard,

  • you just pull the rip cord on the golden parachute, huh?

  • - You know what? Sure.

  • Go ahead and think that.

  • Talk yourself into it.

  • We're so clever. We can have it all.

  • - What was this to you? Huh?

  • What was this job to you?

  • Just another play thing.

  • Just another toy plane

  • that happens to be someone else's grade.

  • - Do not go there. We're not playing anymore.

  • This wasn't just a show!

  • - Yeah, you're right. It's not.

  • Look, if you have faith in the team,

  • then you stick with the team.

  • So do you believe in this or not?

  • - Declan, grow up.

  • - I grew up when I was four, June.

  • I had to.

  • - Yeah. Well I wasn't far behind.

  • - June,

  • stick with us.

  • Please. Come on.

  • We can do this.

  • - You don't have a clue.

  • - So

  • you gonna clean out your office or should I?

  • - You won't find anything worth coming back for.

  • (car starter whirs) (engine hums)

  • - Anything I need to know about?

  • - Yeah, we'll be shutting down

  • the servers ourselves tonight.

  • (tender music)

  • (tender music continues)

  • (tender music continues)

  • (tender music continues)

  • (gentle music)

  • (gentle music continues)

  • - Um, ahem.

  • I never did do much with the IT people.

  • I don't even know where to start.

  • - It's okay.

  • Order of operations.

  • First we're gonna start with the graphic station

  • that is overlays and lower-thirds.

  • And then we're gonna move on to the secondary stations.

  • - What's with this one?

  • - Uh, that's for the website.

  • It looks like it might be overloaded.

  • - Overloaded? As in too many people are trying to access it?

  • - Yeah, but it, it'll redirect through a different server.

  • It's okay.

  • - Why is everybody and their cousin

  • logging onto us right now?

  • Isn't this how we get pledges now? Through the website?

  • (soft cheerful music)

  • - Oh-

  • - My.

  • We are, we're saved.

  • Declan! Look at those numbers.

  • We're set for years. (laughs)

  • You beautiful man, you.

  • (both laugh)

  • Oh, Merry Christmas. - Merry Christmas.

  • (clock ticking)

  • (door clatters)

  • (elevator dings)

  • - Welcome back, sweetie.

  • (elevator chimes)

  • (June sighs lightly)

  • (chair creaks)

  • (June sighs lightly)

  • (motor buzzing faintly)

  • (motor buzzing loudly)

  • (June chuckles)

  • - Yes?

  • - [Declan] Geez, where you been, land of no phones?

  • - Is that your plane?

  • - Yeah. Yeah.

  • It's my first one.

  • A hobby shop gouged me pretty good,

  • day before Christmas and all.

  • - You should not be buying things like that.

  • My dad isn't gonna give $1 more than he absolutely has to.

  • - (laughs) We don't need it.

  • We are not taking his money.

  • - What do you mean?

  • - Pledges, June. We got pledges.

  • Thousands and thousands of pledges.

  • So many, we don't even know how many there are.

  • It'll take us that long to get 'em off the backup servers.

  • - But the concert was a bust.

  • - And they came through anyway.

  • You hear me, June Schroeder?

  • We asked and they gave.

  • The whole city wants us to stick around.

  • And all because one clever girl

  • said, "Let's not pack it in.

  • Let's go up to the bell tower

  • and let's at least have the decency to say goodbye."

  • - Uh, Declan, have you ever flown one of these before?

  • - What's up? - Because if not,

  • you probably don't know how

  • to handle updraft between city buildings.

  • - Honestly, I'm just surprised I got this off the ground

  • without getting arrested.

  • - Okay, well you should probably land it quickly.

  • Declan.

  • Declan, go starboard.

  • - Starboard? D- d- d-

  • - Go starboard right now!

  • - 'Cause, I- I- I don't really know how-

  • - Pull up. Pull up before you...

  • (glass shatters)

  • - Nice going, Declan.

  • (glass tinkling)

  • (gentle music)

  • (June laughs)

  • (gentle music continues)

  • (gentle music continues)

  • June, I am so sorry. It's just the updraft out there.

  • I don't really know.

  • And plus it, it's your dad's building anyway and he-

  • (cheerful music)

  • (elevator dings) (June laughs)

  • - We will not be needing that. (chuckles)

  • - Claire, honey. Spill it.

  • What are you not telling me?

  • No joke.

  • - Now darling, let me pitch you this.

  • Reverend Woking in America.

  • - We are miles from making any of those decisions.

  • - Gotta get 'em in quick, right?

  • So what happens is, Woking is called out of retirement

  • to chase down the dastardly Flower Pot Killer.

  • He kills entirely with flower pots.

  • - (chuckles) (clears throat) Hmm.

  • - Producers!

  • I've just had the most wonderful idea for a revival.

  • - How about ideas for rebuilding the studio?

  • That's what we're supposed to be working on, right?

  • - (laughs) Projects like this,

  • you've gotta get a good lead time.

  • - Uh-huh, and how about the lead time on those contractors?

  • You're perfect for that. You're a star.

  • You can marker, right?

  • (June laughs)

  • - Funny thing, nobody bothered to clean out your desk.

  • (traffic honking)

  • - [Driver] What are you thinking?

  • Get out of the road!

  • Hey, buddy. Get out of here.

  • Bro!

  • (traffic continues honking)

  • (festive party music) (partygoers chattering)

  • - Wow. (laughs)

  • Someone's getting in the spirit.

  • - (chuckles) Yeah.

  • Claire insisted on the hat.

  • - Ah.

  • - What do you think?

  • - Oh, never looked better.

  • - Okay, yeah. (tender music)

  • - (chuckles) Here.

  • - Oh, thank you. - Mm-hmm.

  • - You know, for putting this on last minute,

  • it is not a bad Christmas party.

  • - It's better than not bad.

  • It's better than great.

  • It's amazing. (June chuckles)

  • And you need to learn to take some credit

  • because you're the one who put this whole thing together.

  • - We have a lot of work to do, don't we?

  • - Yeah, but forget about that.

  • For now, it's Merry Christmas, darling.

  • - Let's fly.

  • (upbeat cheerful music)

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