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"BONAFIDE"
BY EMOTIONAL ORANGES PLAYING...
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*GOSSIP GIRL (2021)*
Season 01 Episode 04
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GOSSIP GIRL:
Good morning, followers.
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Gossip Girl here.
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Or should I say "still here"?
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GOSSIP GIRL:
You thought I was a person,
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but I never said I was.
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I'm... a revolution.
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(CELL PHONE CHIMES, VIBRATES)
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GOSSIP GIRL:
And today's act of rebellion?
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We know it isn't nice
to reveal a lady's age,
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but secret sources tell us
Zoya Lott is 15 today.
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(SIGHS)
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GOSSIP GIRL: Happy Birthday, Z!
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May you deserve
whatever you get.
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(CELL PHONE CHIMES)
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GOSSIP GIRL: In New York,
there are only two ways
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to celebrate a birthday.
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You either go big,
or you don't exist.
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But not to fear.
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- MAX WOLFE: If you're leaving a voicemail...
- (SIGHS)
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MAX: ...you obviously
do not know me.
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GOSSIP GIRL:
Something tells us...
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- (VOICEMAIL PROMPT BEEPS)
- GOSSIP GIRL: ...this Z-Day will live in infamy.
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Because if it doesn't,
then y'all ain't doing it right.
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Suit up, sweeties...
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and let's see who'll be
the last manqué standing.
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♪ We all need something
A little breakthrough ♪
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- ♪ I won't let you down, no ♪
- (SWITCH CLICKS)
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- ♪ I don't wanna leave you ♪
- (SWITCH CLICKS)
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♪ No matter what comes our way ♪
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(CELL PHONE BEEPS)
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♪ We gon' make do
When the river runs dry ♪
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Ever wake up in the morning
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and feel like
something needs to change?
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It can be pretty exhausting,
looking in the mirror each day
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and promising yourself,
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“Today I'm gonna look
the best I've ever looked.”
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What if who I am when I wake up
is me at my best?
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Starting here, starting now,
I'm going clean.
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Free. Effortlessly me.
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I encourage you to try the same.
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God! "Effortlessly me"?
What is this?
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The new girl's Pantene ad?
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Au naturel
is stage four terminal.
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- (SCOFFS)
- I almost can't look.
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You can needlepoint her pores!
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- Oh, Jesus.
- Is everything ready for today?
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Not a moment too soon.
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As soon as Jules is back on top,
we'll be too.
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♪ (SONG CONCLUDES) ♪
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DAVIS CALLOWAY: Gotta say,
it's nice to see you in the daytime.
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LOLA: And I gotta say,
it's nice to see...
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- (CELL PHONE CLICKS)
- LOLA: ...where you really live.
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- (CUTLERY CLATTERING)
- (LOLA CHUCKLING)
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- Are we expecting guests?
- Good morning, Julie!
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- Good Morning, Lola.
- LOLA: I saw your story.
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Filter-free is a new look
on you, and I like it.
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I have this great
nude foundation from Dior.
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No one would ever know
you were wearing,
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if you wanted to go that route.
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Thanks, but I think
that kind of contradicts
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the whole "transparency" thing.
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Right, right.
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I can't believe they send you
all this free stuff.
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I hope you don't mind. I
deep-dived your Insta last night.
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- Did you?
- LOLA: Well, I was so curious
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how you got so famous.
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I'm trying to do the same thing
with my music, and...
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(INHALES) Anyway,
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I totally forgot
you were the kid
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who interviewed
all those rock stars.
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You were so cute!
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(ALL CHUCKLE)
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I've gotta go. Um.
Wish I wasn't meeting my friends
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- at Locanda Verde before school.
- LOLA: Oh, no!
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- Your dad didn't say.
- Well, who can keep track?
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I'll take one for the road.
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Is this pumpkin?
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Seasonally appropriate.
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Hey.
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Is this okay?
If it's too weird, I can...
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Go back to hiding her
in your secret apartment
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- like Josef Fritzl?
- (CHUCKLES)
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- Point taken.
- We promised we'd try honesty.
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She clearly makes you happy.
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Hey, I'm thinking of you today.
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I'm thinking of you too.
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NICK LOTT: Hey, Z,
I can't find my briefcase.
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Can you check the table?
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Hold up, okay?
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I know the rule.
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We don't celebrate
until tomorrow.
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But that doesn't mean we
have to completely ignore...
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That's exactly what it means!
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- (SIGHS)
- Today is her day. Not mine.
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Well, this is yours.
Sadelle's, your favorite.
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Had to wait in line
and everything, like a tourist.
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Something tells me
you didn't make a wish.
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Well, how's this?
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I wish that today would go
completely unnoticed,
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so that I didn't have to,
yet again, be the girl
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whose immunocompromised mom
died having her.
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♪ (SULLEN MUSIC PLAYS) ♪ -
But Gossip Girl already ruined that.
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How sweet. People wanna
wish you a happy birthday.
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ZOYA LOTT: There are bigger
things going on in the world.
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Like, repost
some Sonya Renee Taylor
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instead of sending me
birthday memes?
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I don't even know Angelicah84,
or whatever a "Minka Kelly" is.
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- She's...
- Look, there's only one person
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to blame for this. Julien.
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I'm sure your sister
didn't send your birthday
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in to Gossip Girl.
Besides, people know. Big deal.
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ZOYA: It had to be Julien.
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Who else would know
it was my birthday?
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Let me guess.
That's something bad too?
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Bad stuff always happens
on my birthday.
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- (SIGHS)
- ZOYA: Remember that sleepover,
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when Bella didn't know
that she had bed bugs?
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This is just
a reminder to sign up
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for trick-or-treaters
on Halloween.
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Today is a good day.
This day brought me you.
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Best thing
that ever happened to me.
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Too bad it took
the worst thing to do it.
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(SIGHS) Z...
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Here's hoping for no surprises,
no celebrations,
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just a normal day.
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(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)
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- Shit, dude. Overkill much?
- It's her birthday.
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The only thing
she should be thinking about
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is whether she wants to start
her day with a croissant
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- or a crepe.
- (SCOFFS)
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Wish all problems
were that easily solved.
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You and Audrey?
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She still doesn't know
who the girl is, right?
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Kinda just been
avoiding each other recently.
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(SIGHS) Well, I hope
that you're not feeling guilty,
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'cause the only thing you did
is kiss some rando girl,
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and she, like, fucked someone
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that you know, so that's
not equitable at all. (SCOFFS)
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Well, I was just wondering if...
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it's the first time
she branched out.
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Well, have you talked to her?
Have you been direct?
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This is like a role reversal.
I'm giving you advice again.
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- Second time for everything.
- OBIE BERGMANN: I'm just saying,
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you're not gonna know
until you ask her. I'd just say
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don't kiss anybody
else until you talk to her.
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Yes.
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Seriously? Not even concealer?
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(GROANS) I hate you
for being so blessed.
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Sending a posthumous thank you
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to your mom on this day
of remembrance.
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Thank you, Aud.
You can talk about you now.
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(SIGHS) Okay, so, I know
that we agreed to pretend
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our mutual dalliances
with Max never happened,
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but I fear
it's irrevocably shifted
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the dynamic between Ak and me.
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Really? Sleeping with one
of your mutual,
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best friends did that?
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Fair, but for me,
it isn't about Max.
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Well, it is,
but not in that way.
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I slept with someone
of the opposite sex,
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which is unacceptable
but not abnormal.
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Aki kissed a member
of the same sex.
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- Not normal at all.
- (GASPS)
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Is it possible
that he's attracted to men...
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AUDREY HOPE: Obviously
he's attracted to men, Julien!
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JULIEN CALLOWAY:
...and never told you
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because you use words
like "normal."
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Fair again. But, like,
is he bi? Is he gay?
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I mean, what if all this time
that we've been together,
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he's been hiding
who he really is?
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Hiding inside me?
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Just ask him. If he's gay,
or bi, whatever it is,
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he's probably scared
of how you'll react.
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Just talk to him
without judgment
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and listen to his response.
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And maybe stay far away
from Max till you do.
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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
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- AUDREY: Are those crepes?
- (JULIEN CHUCKLES)
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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
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♪ (WHIMSICAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
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Good morning, babe.
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- Um. We love you.
- But we are appalled.
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Because he never did something
like this for me?
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No. Because no one wants
to see anyone without a filter.
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People do not click to see
how similar you are to them.
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They click precisely
for the perverse pleasure
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that comes
from worshipping someone
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they could never be or have.
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I need a break from all that.
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- Hmm?
- I wanna be more real,
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- more honest, more vulnerable.
- Vulnerability is the disease of the masses.
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Right? You're royalty. Strong,
indestructible, unattainable.
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Oh, I'm definitely that.
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JC, some news.
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A friend of mine at Condé says
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he heard
they're going to offer you
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a slot in one
of the spring Vogues,
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shot by Tyler Mitchell
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in a Bavarian palace
or something.
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- STUDENT: Yeah, let's grab something.
- I'm gonna get a crepe.
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Film me eating it?
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(GASPS)
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- Did she just turn down Vogue?
- There was no Vogue.
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I just wanted to see
how far gone she really was.
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I can almost forgive carbs
and a shiny forehead,
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but indifference
to a fashion spread?
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Okay, well, what do we...
what do we do now?
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All those years of work
for nothing,
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when it could have been Suri?
It could have been Zahara.
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I... I can't end up working
with my mom in biotech.
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- I just can't.
- Don't worry.
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The first missile's already
been launched.
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It may even have hit already.
And then we'll be on our way.
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(GROANS)
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- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- OBIE: Surprise!
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I didn't know what mood
you would be in,
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so I got
a lot of stuff going on.
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We got waffles,
we got tacos, we got crepes.
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- Happy birthday! (CHUCKLES)
- This... this is really sweet.
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Uh. Really, it's... it's just,
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I don't...
I don't celebrate my birthday.
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Or at least not today.
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Is that, like, a...
religious thing?
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I mean, I just realized
I never asked you.
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Oh, It's... it's not something
that I usually volunteer,
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but today
is not just my birthday.
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It's also
the anniversary of, um...
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- (EXHALES)
- ♪ (POIGNANT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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- Of course.
- It's just... just a weird day for me.
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Yeah, I'll just get all this
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- cleared out right now.
- No.
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I'm... I'm so sorry.
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Hey, happy birthday... - Did you
tell Gossip Girl today's my birthday?
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Why would I tell
Gossip Girl anything?
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I just wanted to tell you
happy birthday.
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Today is not
a happy day, Julien.
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00:09:59,529 --> 00:10:01,487
- Are you trying to fuck with me?
- What?
241
00:10:01,571 --> 00:10:02,742
No. Of course not.
242
00:10:02,904 --> 00:10:04,325
Sure.
243
00:10:11,904 --> 00:10:14,695
JORDAN GLASSBERG:
They're like pinballs this morning.
244
00:10:14,779 --> 00:10:19,070
- Clack, ding. Clack, ding.
- Pinballs I keep draining.
245
00:10:19,154 --> 00:10:21,320
You seem like
you could use an Ambien.
246
00:10:21,404 --> 00:10:22,070
Or an eight-ball.
247
00:10:22,154 --> 00:10:25,903
This has become a full-time job.
248
00:10:25,987 --> 00:10:29,278
Between the tips from the new
schools... - (GASPS) That Horace Mann!
249
00:10:29,362 --> 00:10:31,112
- They're still at it.
- And everyone here,
250
00:10:31,196 --> 00:10:32,778
constantly sending me stuff
on each other.
251
00:10:32,862 --> 00:10:35,070
Is that why you asked me
if second cousins was incest?
252
00:10:35,154 --> 00:10:37,195
It isn't. I hope.
253
00:10:37,279 --> 00:10:39,695
The only time I get to work
on my lesson plans
254
00:10:39,779 --> 00:10:42,278
or grade papers
is after they go to bed.
255
00:10:42,362 --> 00:10:44,320
Which is never.
And the worst thing
256
00:10:44,404 --> 00:10:46,445
is that something great
just fell into my lap.
257
00:10:46,529 --> 00:10:48,737
Something just for me. (INHALES)
258
00:10:48,821 --> 00:10:51,278
A friend of mine
from The Writers' Workshop
259
00:10:51,362 --> 00:10:53,528
is an editor
at The Paris Review,
260
00:10:53,612 --> 00:10:56,278
and they're doing an issue
on undiscovered writers
261
00:10:56,362 --> 00:10:58,820
and she wants me to submit.
But I... How? When?
262
00:10:58,904 --> 00:11:02,612
Why don't you let us help out,
take our share of the burden?
263
00:11:02,696 --> 00:11:03,695
We're all in this together,
264
00:11:03,779 --> 00:11:05,778
yet you never let us
take the wheel.
265
00:11:05,862 --> 00:11:06,778
Today is Zoya's birthday!
266
00:11:06,862 --> 00:11:09,653
I mean, something is
gonna happen, I can feel it.
267
00:11:09,737 --> 00:11:13,153
She and Julien are fine.
I mean, not friends, but fine.
268
00:11:13,237 --> 00:11:15,487
Besides, who would
cause drama on a birthday?
269
00:11:15,571 --> 00:11:18,403
And this was supposed to be
our thing too. Remember?
270
00:11:18,487 --> 00:11:20,112
Maybe if you let us help more,
it'll lessen your stress?
271
00:11:20,196 --> 00:11:22,195
What's more important?
272
00:11:22,279 --> 00:11:24,278
Crafting posts
on privileged brats,
273
00:11:24,362 --> 00:11:26,133
or getting published
in The Paris Review?
274
00:11:28,154 --> 00:11:30,445
That was a trick question.
You know that, right?
275
00:11:30,529 --> 00:11:32,283
You'll let me know
if anything changes?
276
00:11:32,654 --> 00:11:33,825
You have our word.
277
00:11:34,654 --> 00:11:37,033
(SCHOOL BELL RINGING)
278
00:11:37,904 --> 00:11:39,653
- LUNA LA: Hey, Z, got a sec?
- Um...
279
00:11:39,737 --> 00:11:42,445
I don't want to be the one
to ruin your day,
280
00:11:42,529 --> 00:11:43,570
but in light of the fact
281
00:11:43,654 --> 00:11:45,862
that I'm your closest
Constance confidante...
282
00:11:45,946 --> 00:11:47,528
You definitely are not that.
283
00:11:47,612 --> 00:11:49,195
(INHALES)
Julien doesn't want you here.
284
00:11:49,279 --> 00:11:51,528
She told us she's had enough
285
00:11:51,612 --> 00:11:54,028
of your "consistent,
disrespectful displays
286
00:11:54,112 --> 00:11:55,362
- for attention."
- I had nothing to do
287
00:11:55,446 --> 00:11:57,028
- with the food trucks.
- All I'm saying,
288
00:11:57,112 --> 00:11:58,237
she might seem fine,
but she wants things
289
00:11:58,321 --> 00:11:59,820
back the way they used to be.
290
00:11:59,904 --> 00:12:02,908
- Which means you gone.
- I doubt that's true, Luna.
291
00:12:04,446 --> 00:12:05,528
She's done something. (GASPS)
292
00:12:05,612 --> 00:12:09,278
Something
I'm somewhat responsible for.
293
00:12:09,362 --> 00:12:10,695
What are you talking about?
294
00:12:10,779 --> 00:12:12,117
I'm sorry, okay?
295
00:12:12,904 --> 00:12:14,450
I didn't know she would use it.
296
00:12:16,487 --> 00:12:18,112
Use what?
297
00:12:18,196 --> 00:12:19,908
♪ (SINISTER ORCHESTRAL
MUSIC PLAYS) ♪
298
00:12:22,029 --> 00:12:23,112
- (KEYPAD CLICKING)
- (CELL PHONE CHIMES)
299
00:12:23,196 --> 00:12:25,903
- (RINGING TONE)
- (GASPS)
300
00:12:25,987 --> 00:12:27,195
- Sorry.
- Oh, hey!
301
00:12:27,279 --> 00:12:27,862
I was just looking
for you, actually.
302
00:12:27,946 --> 00:12:30,195
AUDREY: Me too!
303
00:12:30,279 --> 00:12:31,903
- Who are you texting?
- Uh, my mom.
304
00:12:31,987 --> 00:12:32,987
- Oh. (CHUCKLES)
- (RINGING TONE)
305
00:12:33,071 --> 00:12:34,737
- Who are you calling?
- MAX: If you're leaving...
306
00:12:34,821 --> 00:12:36,237
- My mom.
- (CELL PHONE CLICKS)
307
00:12:36,321 --> 00:12:38,532
- Okay, bye. (NERVOUS CHUCKLING)
- AKI MENZIES: Bye.
308
00:12:47,154 --> 00:12:49,403
- RAFA CAPARROS: Ms. Keller.
- Mr. Caparros?
309
00:12:49,487 --> 00:12:51,070
You haven't received any tips
on Max Wolfe
310
00:12:51,154 --> 00:12:52,403
the past few days, have you?
311
00:12:52,487 --> 00:12:54,028
Relax.
312
00:12:54,112 --> 00:12:54,987
If I was gonna out
your pet project,
313
00:12:55,071 --> 00:12:57,362
I would've done it
when Black Cube was here.
314
00:12:57,446 --> 00:12:59,570
Just the usual girls and boys
complaining that he's gone
315
00:12:59,654 --> 00:13:01,908
from breadcrumbing
to outright ghosting. Why?
316
00:13:02,446 --> 00:13:04,445
He, um, owes me an essay,
317
00:13:04,529 --> 00:13:06,237
and he hasn't shown up
to class in a week.
318
00:13:06,321 --> 00:13:07,528
Let me know if you
hear anything?
319
00:13:07,612 --> 00:13:08,783
We will.
320
00:13:16,404 --> 00:13:18,320
Hey, look,
I... I really am sorry.
321
00:13:18,404 --> 00:13:20,570
I should've known better.
322
00:13:20,654 --> 00:13:22,028
(SCOFFS)
You don't have to apologize.
323
00:13:22,112 --> 00:13:25,112
I mean, to be honest, I prefer
to keep my birthday low-key.
324
00:13:25,196 --> 00:13:26,945
But I still wanna celebrate you.
325
00:13:27,029 --> 00:13:29,153
Maybe do a little get-together,
handful of our friends,
326
00:13:29,237 --> 00:13:30,278
some food, music.
327
00:13:30,362 --> 00:13:34,112
Your idea of a low-key solution
is a party? (CHUCKLES)
328
00:13:34,196 --> 00:13:36,403
Right, okay,
we can scratch that.
329
00:13:36,487 --> 00:13:38,612
- (CHUCKLES)
- Um. How about just dinner?
330
00:13:38,696 --> 00:13:41,612
Me, you, your dad.
I'll pretend I know how to cook,
331
00:13:41,696 --> 00:13:42,945
and you guys
can watch and laugh.
332
00:13:43,029 --> 00:13:45,600
- That sounds very acceptable.
- OBIE: Call your dad and ask?
333
00:13:46,571 --> 00:13:48,237
(CELL PHONE CLICKING)
334
00:13:48,321 --> 00:13:50,570
- (RINGING TONE)
- (CELL PHONE VIBRATES)
335
00:13:50,654 --> 00:13:52,737
Everything okay, Z?
And if so, can I call you back?
336
00:13:52,821 --> 00:13:54,070
Can't really talk right now.
337
00:13:54,154 --> 00:13:55,070
Dad, what's going on?
Where are you?
338
00:13:55,154 --> 00:13:57,987
Nothing. It's just,
like, a client thing.
339
00:13:58,071 --> 00:14:00,242
(SCOFFING)
I can tell when you're lying.
340
00:14:01,362 --> 00:14:05,320
Look, I really didn't want
to tell you this today, honey,
341
00:14:05,404 --> 00:14:07,362
but someone called in
an anonymous tip
342
00:14:07,446 --> 00:14:08,487
to the housing board,
saying we're
343
00:14:08,571 --> 00:14:10,702
living in Grandma's apartment
without her present.
344
00:14:13,112 --> 00:14:15,195
Boom! Direct hit.
345
00:14:15,279 --> 00:14:18,153
- Let World War Z commence.
- (CELL PHONE CHIMES)
346
00:14:18,237 --> 00:14:20,737
♪ (LIVELY PIANO MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
347
00:14:20,821 --> 00:14:21,992
(CELL PHONE VIBRATING)
348
00:14:25,571 --> 00:14:27,992
- Start composing.
- I'm already on my third line.
349
00:14:28,654 --> 00:14:31,320
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
350
00:14:31,404 --> 00:14:33,487
JORDAN: (HUSHED) If you post
Monet's tip and Kate sees it,
351
00:14:33,571 --> 00:14:35,945
- she'll take GG back.
- WENDY: She's not gonna see it.
352
00:14:36,029 --> 00:14:40,237
Not yet, at least.
Buys us and her some time.
353
00:14:40,321 --> 00:14:41,778
Okay, so...
(WHISPERING) "This just in..."
354
00:14:41,862 --> 00:14:44,987
- Say spotted, say spotted!
- I didn't spot it.
355
00:14:45,071 --> 00:14:45,862
- (KEYPAD CLICKING)
- GOSSIP GIRL: Hey, followers.
356
00:14:45,946 --> 00:14:48,028
We all know
there's no such thing
357
00:14:48,112 --> 00:14:49,950
- as a civil war.
- Hmm. That's good.
358
00:14:53,029 --> 00:14:55,112
- I'm out.
- Here, let me.
359
00:14:55,196 --> 00:14:57,695
♪ (DERANGED CHORAL
MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
360
00:14:57,779 --> 00:14:59,862
GOSSIP GIRL:
Spies tell us a certain someone
361
00:14:59,946 --> 00:15:02,070
has drawn her own
Mason-Dixon line...
362
00:15:02,154 --> 00:15:05,070
- (CAR HORN HONKING)
- GOSSIP GIRL: ...with herself on one side
363
00:15:05,154 --> 00:15:06,445
and her sister on the other.
364
00:15:07,862 --> 00:15:10,075
But everyone knows
a divide isn't enough.
365
00:15:11,446 --> 00:15:13,820
You have to conquer as well.
366
00:15:13,904 --> 00:15:15,325
- Whoo!
- (CHUCKLES)
367
00:15:15,779 --> 00:15:16,950
Thank you.
368
00:15:17,779 --> 00:15:20,070
GOSSIP GIRL:
And there's a cannon
369
00:15:20,154 --> 00:15:22,528
pointed in only one direction.
370
00:15:22,612 --> 00:15:23,945
- Ciao!
- GOSSIP GIRL: What's in it?
371
00:15:24,029 --> 00:15:25,403
(TIRES SCREECHING)
372
00:15:25,487 --> 00:15:28,075
GOSSIP GIRL: You'll find out
when you hear the sirens.
373
00:15:29,279 --> 00:15:33,200
Take cover, my pretties.
The glitzkrieg is coming!
374
00:15:34,404 --> 00:15:37,533
I'm so turned on right now
375
00:15:39,487 --> 00:15:40,612
(CELL PHONE BEEPING)
376
00:15:40,696 --> 00:15:45,237
(VARIOUS NOTIFICATION CHIMES)
377
00:15:45,321 --> 00:15:48,283
- (CHIMES CONTINUE)
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
378
00:15:49,196 --> 00:15:51,783
JULIEN: GG says Zoya's planning
an attack on me.
379
00:15:51,987 --> 00:15:52,903
But why?
380
00:15:52,987 --> 00:15:53,903
What could she possibly have
to use against me?
381
00:15:53,987 --> 00:15:56,987
And what've I ever done
that's so terrible?
382
00:15:57,071 --> 00:15:57,987
You were in the "Imagine" video.
383
00:15:58,071 --> 00:16:00,737
And what's this thing
about drawing a line?
384
00:16:00,821 --> 00:16:03,570
She actually thinks
I'm trying to get her evicted?
385
00:16:03,654 --> 00:16:05,778
I've only been nice
to Zoya on her day.
386
00:16:05,862 --> 00:16:07,695
Wished her happy birthday,
acted totally fine
387
00:16:07,779 --> 00:16:10,403
when my ex-boyfriend
filled Fifth Avenue
388
00:16:10,487 --> 00:16:11,528
with food trucks for her.
389
00:16:11,612 --> 00:16:13,112
This attack
is totally unwarranted.
390
00:16:13,196 --> 00:16:14,945
Thing is, it doesn't matter
what you did or didn't do.
391
00:16:15,029 --> 00:16:17,778
She's clearly been waiting
to take you down.
392
00:16:17,862 --> 00:16:19,945
She must've found something
to do it with.
393
00:16:20,029 --> 00:16:21,612
Come on. We've been civil.
394
00:16:21,696 --> 00:16:22,987
Things have been fine
between us.
395
00:16:23,071 --> 00:16:24,653
Really? Or did you
just roll over
396
00:16:24,737 --> 00:16:26,737
and accept
her stealing your man,
397
00:16:26,821 --> 00:16:29,112
your thunder, and your throne?
Julien, there can only be one.
398
00:16:29,196 --> 00:16:31,112
I mean, how many times
did that Mary person threaten
399
00:16:31,196 --> 00:16:33,778
to kill Queen Elizabeth before
she actually cut her head off?
400
00:16:33,862 --> 00:16:35,445
It's time for a show of force.
401
00:16:35,529 --> 00:16:37,445
You want me to murder my sister?
402
00:16:37,529 --> 00:16:39,695
Only socially.
Which is much worse.
403
00:16:39,779 --> 00:16:41,612
- You're going to throw a party.
- When?
404
00:16:41,696 --> 00:16:42,867
LUNA: Tonight.
405
00:16:43,612 --> 00:16:44,820
JULIEN: On Zoya's birthday?
406
00:16:44,904 --> 00:16:46,028
LUNA: JC, you've been lucky.
407
00:16:46,112 --> 00:16:47,487
You've never had
to be on defense,
408
00:16:47,571 --> 00:16:49,028
because no one's ever stood
in your way.
409
00:16:49,112 --> 00:16:50,653
But that changed the moment
that you brought her here.
410
00:16:50,737 --> 00:16:53,153
She started taking
what was yours day one,
411
00:16:53,237 --> 00:16:54,487
and she's not going to stop
till she has it all.
412
00:16:54,571 --> 00:16:56,778
Send her back. It's time.
413
00:16:56,862 --> 00:16:59,320
How does throwing a party
stop her from using
414
00:16:59,404 --> 00:17:01,653
- whatever she has on me?
- Julien, if your party is loud enough,
415
00:17:01,737 --> 00:17:02,612
no one's gonna even hear
the sound
416
00:17:02,696 --> 00:17:06,237
of the bomb
she's trying to explode.
417
00:17:06,321 --> 00:17:08,575
Now, call your dad. You're
gonna ask him for a favor.
418
00:17:09,071 --> 00:17:10,242
A big one.
419
00:17:11,321 --> 00:17:12,492
(CELL PHONE CLICKS)
420
00:17:15,654 --> 00:17:17,033
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
421
00:17:18,237 --> 00:17:19,820
- OBIE: Hey!
- Did you see this?
422
00:17:19,904 --> 00:17:21,737
OBIE: Yeah, it's ridiculous.
I'm... I'm sorry.
423
00:17:21,821 --> 00:17:23,862
ZOYA:
She's trying to get us evicted,
424
00:17:23,946 --> 00:17:25,403
and now she's throwing a party.
425
00:17:25,487 --> 00:17:27,362
I can't believe she'd stoop
so low to hurt me.
426
00:17:27,446 --> 00:17:29,028
Well, let's not let her,
all right?
427
00:17:29,112 --> 00:17:30,195
How about a phone-free lunch?
428
00:17:30,279 --> 00:17:30,987
And did you see
the follow-up post?
429
00:17:31,071 --> 00:17:33,112
“Special guest to be announced”?
430
00:17:33,196 --> 00:17:35,648
Who's the special guest, the
exhumed corpse of our mother?
431
00:17:36,279 --> 00:17:37,492
Jesus, Zoya.
432
00:17:38,404 --> 00:17:39,862
- (OBIE CHUCKLES)
- I take... I take it back.
433
00:17:39,946 --> 00:17:41,445
- Good. (CHUCKLES)
- Let's have that party.
434
00:17:41,529 --> 00:17:42,737
A big one.
435
00:17:42,821 --> 00:17:44,403
- You don't really mean that. I...
- Yes, I do.
436
00:17:44,487 --> 00:17:45,903
The only reason
I didn't want to before
437
00:17:45,987 --> 00:17:47,195
was out of respect to our mom.
438
00:17:47,279 --> 00:17:48,695
So, if she doesn't care
about that, why should I?
439
00:17:48,779 --> 00:17:50,903
Hey, where should we have it?
440
00:17:50,987 --> 00:17:53,112
- Radio City? Governors Island?
- Zoya!
441
00:17:53,196 --> 00:17:54,727
We could have people
to your house.
442
00:17:57,279 --> 00:17:58,320
I'll figure something out,
443
00:17:58,404 --> 00:18:00,175
- I guess.
- (SKATEBOARD WHEELS SCRAPING)
444
00:18:03,321 --> 00:18:05,403
Hey, Aki,
445
00:18:05,487 --> 00:18:07,403
Obie's throwing me
a party tonight.
446
00:18:07,487 --> 00:18:08,362
- You should come.
- He can't.
447
00:18:08,446 --> 00:18:10,820
He's going
to Julien's party with me.
448
00:18:10,904 --> 00:18:12,403
I can go to both.
449
00:18:12,487 --> 00:18:15,445
No, you cannot go to both.
You have to choose one.
450
00:18:15,529 --> 00:18:16,903
So, which party is it gonna be?
451
00:18:16,987 --> 00:18:18,737
Obie's party or the girls party?
452
00:18:18,821 --> 00:18:21,075
I don't have to choose.
Maybe you should choose.
453
00:18:21,654 --> 00:18:22,403
Coming somewhere with me,
454
00:18:22,487 --> 00:18:24,070
or going somewhere
with someone else.
455
00:18:24,154 --> 00:18:25,028
- (JULIEN CHUCKLING)
- MONET DE HAAN: I'm so funny.
456
00:18:25,112 --> 00:18:27,700
- JULIEN: Oh, my God.
- (LAUGHTER, SHRIEKING)
457
00:18:29,279 --> 00:18:31,028
ZOYA: What just happened?
458
00:18:31,112 --> 00:18:33,778
Oh, Princess Nokia
is playing Julien's party.
459
00:18:33,862 --> 00:18:36,158
You can watch it
on YouTube tomorrow.
460
00:18:36,696 --> 00:18:37,867
I guess you can too.
461
00:18:41,112 --> 00:18:42,570
She got Princess Nokia?
462
00:18:42,654 --> 00:18:43,737
How am I supposed
to compete with that?
463
00:18:43,821 --> 00:18:44,987
- You don't... you don't have to.
- Easy for you to say.
464
00:18:45,071 --> 00:18:47,867
Someone like you
can afford a war. I can't.
465
00:18:48,696 --> 00:18:50,237
Who can we get
to play our party?
466
00:18:50,321 --> 00:18:51,612
Uh, Rihanna?
467
00:18:51,696 --> 00:18:53,325
SZA? Kamala Harris?
468
00:18:55,987 --> 00:18:57,798
I'm gonna see you
after school, all right?
469
00:18:58,737 --> 00:19:01,487
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
470
00:19:01,571 --> 00:19:03,408
(CAR HORNS HONKING)
471
00:19:07,946 --> 00:19:10,778
- Hello?
- Forgive me for eavesdropping.
472
00:19:10,862 --> 00:19:12,653
Sounds like
you've got a problem.
473
00:19:12,737 --> 00:19:14,945
I'm a great problem solver.
474
00:19:15,029 --> 00:19:17,612
Um, no thank you,
strange child.
475
00:19:17,696 --> 00:19:20,778
I'm Milo, and I'm not a child.
I'm in eighth grade.
476
00:19:20,862 --> 00:19:22,325
- Aren't you, like, seven?
- Ten.
477
00:19:23,654 --> 00:19:24,945
Meet me after school?
478
00:19:25,029 --> 00:19:26,945
Ew, no!
479
00:19:27,029 --> 00:19:30,653
Clearly you don't know who I am.
My last name is Sparks.
480
00:19:30,737 --> 00:19:33,153
Really Ivanov,
but in this day and age,
481
00:19:33,237 --> 00:19:35,862
- it's best to leave that out.
- Yeah, I don't know who you are,
482
00:19:35,946 --> 00:19:37,570
but I would like to end
this conversation.
483
00:19:37,654 --> 00:19:39,742
Google is your friend.
484
00:19:40,612 --> 00:19:42,992
Once you use it,
I will be too.
485
00:20:05,404 --> 00:20:07,117
(WATER RUNNING)
486
00:20:11,446 --> 00:20:13,492
(RAFA SIGHS)
487
00:20:27,529 --> 00:20:29,695
- Max, you shouldn't be in here.
- MAX: Why not?
488
00:20:29,779 --> 00:20:30,987
- It's the school gym...
- (FAUCET TURNING)
489
00:20:31,071 --> 00:20:32,282
...and I go to the school.
490
00:20:35,196 --> 00:20:37,028
Wow. You look like shit.
491
00:20:37,112 --> 00:20:38,820
Oh, you should see
the other guys.
492
00:20:38,904 --> 00:20:40,487
You know,
I tried to reach you all week.
493
00:20:40,571 --> 00:20:41,820
I'm sure your friends did too.
494
00:20:41,904 --> 00:20:43,367
Oh, I lost my phone at The Cock.
495
00:20:45,362 --> 00:20:47,867
Just slid out of my hand
in the dark room and, uh...
496
00:20:48,779 --> 00:20:49,612
You're not okay, are you?
497
00:20:49,696 --> 00:20:52,112
That depends on where
the baseline starts.
498
00:20:52,196 --> 00:20:53,528
All this is 'cause
of what happened
499
00:20:53,612 --> 00:20:55,237
- with your dads?
- What happened with my dads?
500
00:20:55,321 --> 00:20:57,612
You need to lay off the drugs
and deal with your shit.
501
00:20:57,737 --> 00:20:58,945
(CLICKS TONGUE)
502
00:20:59,029 --> 00:21:03,487
Why don't we deal
with it together?
503
00:21:03,571 --> 00:21:06,445
Oh, I am so overdressed
for this occasion.
504
00:21:06,529 --> 00:21:08,737
(CHUCKLES) Oh, okay,
that's how you like it?
505
00:21:08,821 --> 00:21:11,117
- That makes sense.
- Max, stop!
506
00:21:14,154 --> 00:21:17,450
Stop screwing around
and just fuck me already!
507
00:21:19,654 --> 00:21:21,742
I know you want to.
508
00:21:23,029 --> 00:21:24,487
If you don't,
I'll just tell everyone
509
00:21:24,571 --> 00:21:26,422
- you did anyway.
- Are you threatening me?
510
00:21:26,696 --> 00:21:28,778
I don't know.
511
00:21:28,862 --> 00:21:31,113
Tell you what. Let's ask
Gossip Girl what she thinks.
512
00:21:32,821 --> 00:21:34,112
Shit. I don't have my phone!
513
00:21:34,196 --> 00:21:36,867
- Go fuck yourself, Max, okay?
- Get off me.
514
00:21:38,196 --> 00:21:39,367
(DOOR OPENING)
515
00:21:40,529 --> 00:21:42,070
(DOOR SLAMMING)
516
00:21:42,154 --> 00:21:45,695
- (SCHOOL BELL RINGS)
- (LOCKER OPENING)
517
00:21:45,779 --> 00:21:48,158
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
518
00:21:50,654 --> 00:21:52,320
Heard through the grapevine
that today's your birthday.
519
00:21:52,404 --> 00:21:55,945
- You... you read Gossip Girl?
- Guilty as charged.
520
00:21:56,029 --> 00:21:58,695
You don't seem
too happy about it.
521
00:21:58,779 --> 00:22:01,612
No, it's just been a long day
and it's only 3:00.
522
00:22:01,696 --> 00:22:02,947
Do you wanna talk about it?
523
00:22:03,362 --> 00:22:05,362
It's just my sister.
524
00:22:05,446 --> 00:22:07,903
You know, since I got here,
it's been this unending battle.
525
00:22:07,987 --> 00:22:08,945
But I thought things
were getting better?
526
00:22:09,029 --> 00:22:11,367
I guess you haven't been
on Instagram.
527
00:22:12,279 --> 00:22:15,117
My phone died. May I?
528
00:22:15,862 --> 00:22:17,487
(CELL PHONE CLICKING)
529
00:22:17,571 --> 00:22:19,778
As you can see,
no more cold war.
530
00:22:19,862 --> 00:22:21,070
It's a full-on offensive.
531
00:22:21,154 --> 00:22:22,153
And... (SIGHS)
532
00:22:22,237 --> 00:22:24,237
...there's nothing
I can really do to fight back,
533
00:22:24,321 --> 00:22:25,945
'cause I'm outmanned.
534
00:22:26,029 --> 00:22:28,987
It doesn't matter
how big your battalion is.
535
00:22:29,071 --> 00:22:31,487
It's what you do with it
that counts.
536
00:22:31,571 --> 00:22:33,445
(SIGHS)
The sad thing about this world
537
00:22:33,529 --> 00:22:34,653
is that people like us
538
00:22:34,737 --> 00:22:36,987
have to constantly prove
we belong.
539
00:22:37,071 --> 00:22:39,987
Honestly, I think
it could be really helpful
540
00:22:40,071 --> 00:22:43,492
for the 99 percent of the world
to see you stand your ground.
541
00:22:44,612 --> 00:22:48,158
Thank you, Kate.
I'm really glad I know you.
542
00:22:56,529 --> 00:22:57,700
(CELL PHONE CLICKING)
543
00:23:05,362 --> 00:23:06,945
You blocked me!
544
00:23:07,029 --> 00:23:08,695
How many pages
of your story have you written?
545
00:23:08,779 --> 00:23:10,195
You said nothing
would happen today.
546
00:23:10,279 --> 00:23:13,403
That nobody causes drama
on someone's birthday.
547
00:23:13,487 --> 00:23:16,528
- Have you watched Bravo?
- When you send me your story,
548
00:23:16,612 --> 00:23:18,903
I'll unblock you.
And not a minute sooner.
549
00:23:18,987 --> 00:23:20,158
I'm doing you a favor.
550
00:23:24,696 --> 00:23:26,528
- (KEYSTROKES TAPPING)
- (MOUSE CLICKING)
551
00:23:26,612 --> 00:23:27,862
MILO: My mom taught me early on
552
00:23:27,946 --> 00:23:28,987
that it isn't enough
to go to war.
553
00:23:29,071 --> 00:23:32,237
♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
554
00:23:32,321 --> 00:23:34,903
- MILO: Wars never end.
- (KEYSTROKES TAPPING)
555
00:23:34,987 --> 00:23:37,195
MILO: What you need is a coup.
556
00:23:37,279 --> 00:23:40,070
- (FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
- (MOUSE CLICKING)
557
00:23:40,154 --> 00:23:42,658
- SHIGA: Here you go, sir.
- MILO: I told you, Shiga.
558
00:23:43,529 --> 00:23:45,242
Only Hawaiian papaya.
559
00:23:47,987 --> 00:23:51,278
- We got her from Ivanka.
- (SPEAKING JAPANESE)
560
00:23:51,362 --> 00:23:52,575
MILO: She's fairly new.
561
00:23:53,821 --> 00:23:55,653
Uh, you were saying?
About a coup?
562
00:23:55,737 --> 00:23:57,903
MILO: Coups are the only way
to really gain control.
563
00:23:57,987 --> 00:23:59,403
- You assassinate the leader...
- (MOUSE CLICKING)
564
00:23:59,487 --> 00:24:01,737
MILO: ...which throws everything
into chaos,
565
00:24:01,821 --> 00:24:03,903
and during the melee,
you install yourself
566
00:24:03,987 --> 00:24:06,653
and restore order
like the savior you are.
567
00:24:06,737 --> 00:24:08,588
I'm praying
you're speaking metaphorically.
568
00:24:09,071 --> 00:24:10,237
I can be.
569
00:24:10,321 --> 00:24:13,028
What's, like, a step
or ten below that?
570
00:24:13,112 --> 00:24:16,237
Fine. We can try what I like
to call the "Succession."
571
00:24:16,321 --> 00:24:18,195
It's got simpler steps.
572
00:24:18,279 --> 00:24:20,112
First, you weaken the brand
you want to buy,
573
00:24:20,196 --> 00:24:22,070
making it ripe for takeover.
574
00:24:22,154 --> 00:24:23,737
No better way
to weaken an influencer
575
00:24:23,821 --> 00:24:25,112
than to cancel them.
576
00:24:25,196 --> 00:24:28,070
Okay, but I don't wanna
make anything up or... or lie.
577
00:24:28,154 --> 00:24:30,612
The good thing about the
internet is that you never have to.
578
00:24:30,696 --> 00:24:33,408
Most people cancel themselves
if you dig back far enough.
579
00:24:33,696 --> 00:24:34,908
(MOUSE CLICKING)
580
00:24:36,279 --> 00:24:37,362
(CHUCKLES)
581
00:24:37,446 --> 00:24:38,945
MILO:
My mom would be so mad at me
582
00:24:39,029 --> 00:24:41,695
for taking on
something this easy.
583
00:24:41,779 --> 00:24:44,153
- ♪ (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
- What about that Dries jumpsuit
584
00:24:44,237 --> 00:24:46,112
you wore
to the Palais de Tokyo show?
585
00:24:46,196 --> 00:24:48,153
Mm-mmm. Hailey Bieber
wore it to Erewhon.
586
00:24:48,237 --> 00:24:48,987
(GROANS) Dead to me.
587
00:24:49,071 --> 00:24:53,408
Oh! What about this one?
588
00:24:54,779 --> 00:24:56,430
- (CHUCKLES)
- That's cute. I love it.
589
00:24:56,862 --> 00:24:58,862
- Any progress with Ak?
- (CELL PHONE CHIMES)
590
00:24:58,946 --> 00:25:00,695
AUDREY: Mm, no.
591
00:25:00,779 --> 00:25:03,112
He honestly thinks I'm the one
who has to make a choice,
592
00:25:03,196 --> 00:25:06,403
- which makes zero sense to me.
- (MULTIPLE RAPID CHIMES)
593
00:25:06,487 --> 00:25:08,278
That's weird. I just got
a bunch of cancellations
594
00:25:08,362 --> 00:25:09,487
for tonight.
595
00:25:09,571 --> 00:25:10,278
- AUDREY: Something about Twitter?
- (PHONE CHIMES, VIBRATES)
596
00:25:10,362 --> 00:25:11,445
- (INHALES)
- (CELLPHONE CLICKING)
597
00:25:11,529 --> 00:25:13,737
What's "Calloway Cancel Party"
and why is it trending?
598
00:25:13,821 --> 00:25:18,153
AUDREY: “There is a difference
between thick and fat people.”
599
00:25:18,237 --> 00:25:19,362
- That tweet did not age well.
- (SIGHS) I was 13!
600
00:25:19,446 --> 00:25:22,778
It gets worse.
Jameela Jamil just defended you.
601
00:25:22,862 --> 00:25:24,820
- (CELL PHONE CHIMES, VIBRATES)
- Princess Nokia just cancelled!
602
00:25:24,904 --> 00:25:25,987
- What?
- "There's a difference
603
00:25:26,071 --> 00:25:28,487
between kind and cruel too."
604
00:25:28,571 --> 00:25:29,820
Zoya! Who else?
605
00:25:29,904 --> 00:25:31,112
You really think
she'd go that far?
606
00:25:31,196 --> 00:25:34,403
I told you she's a catalyst
of chaos. What are you gonna do?
607
00:25:34,487 --> 00:25:36,362
You cannot let her
Kim and Kanye you
608
00:25:36,446 --> 00:25:37,657
and then get away with it.
609
00:25:38,071 --> 00:25:40,028
You're right. I'm done playing.
610
00:25:40,112 --> 00:25:42,403
This is not just her birthday.
We both lost our mom today,
611
00:25:42,487 --> 00:25:44,278
and now, we're fighting
over who knows what.
612
00:25:44,362 --> 00:25:47,362
I should be the bigger person
in all of this.
613
00:25:47,446 --> 00:25:49,028
And you know what
the bigger person does?
614
00:25:49,112 --> 00:25:52,362
- What?
- She makes it not just about her.
615
00:25:52,446 --> 00:25:55,403
- If only Aki would do the same.
- Do it for him.
616
00:25:55,487 --> 00:25:56,612
Princess Nokia is playing
my party tonight,
617
00:25:56,696 --> 00:25:58,278
and you are getting an answer
from your boyfriend
618
00:25:58,362 --> 00:26:01,028
by showing him
that you have options.
619
00:26:01,112 --> 00:26:02,323
And very hot ones at that.
620
00:26:09,071 --> 00:26:10,028
(CELL PHONE BEEPING, VIBRATING)
621
00:26:10,112 --> 00:26:12,445
JULIEN: This is a photo
of my late mother, Marion,
622
00:26:12,529 --> 00:26:13,992
wearing her favorite dress.
623
00:26:14,487 --> 00:26:15,278
This dress and this photo
624
00:26:15,362 --> 00:26:17,528
are my most treasured
possessions.
625
00:26:17,612 --> 00:26:20,195
She died 15 years ago today,
in childbirth...
626
00:26:20,279 --> 00:26:22,403
You gotta be fucking kidding me.
627
00:26:22,487 --> 00:26:24,403
Tonight's party was conceived
to be a charitable affair
628
00:26:24,487 --> 00:26:27,362
to both honor her legacy
and raise funds
629
00:26:27,446 --> 00:26:29,362
for the Lupus Foundation
of America.
630
00:26:29,446 --> 00:26:30,945
She's using our dead mom
to get people
631
00:26:31,029 --> 00:26:32,367
to go to her party?
632
00:26:33,071 --> 00:26:35,237
Look, Julien can be selfish.
633
00:26:35,321 --> 00:26:37,903
I mean, she has
her selfish moments, but...
634
00:26:37,987 --> 00:26:40,195
that is her mom too, you know?
I mean, you ever think
635
00:26:40,279 --> 00:26:42,070
that maybe
that's how she really feels?
636
00:26:42,154 --> 00:26:43,362
It's a PR stunt.
637
00:26:43,446 --> 00:26:45,158
One you're falling for,
of course.
638
00:26:49,279 --> 00:26:51,778
All right, I get that
your emotions are high today,
639
00:26:51,862 --> 00:26:54,028
but you don't have to let this
get to you, all right?
640
00:26:54,112 --> 00:26:57,033
You're Zoya.
You are cool, you are calm.
641
00:26:57,904 --> 00:26:58,695
And you don't care
about petty stuff
642
00:26:58,779 --> 00:27:00,862
- like that.
- You don't get it, Obie.
643
00:27:00,946 --> 00:27:02,528
Look, if my dad
and I get evicted,
644
00:27:02,612 --> 00:27:03,903
we have nowhere to go.
645
00:27:03,987 --> 00:27:05,403
You know? No stockpile
of money to save us.
646
00:27:05,487 --> 00:27:08,492
And I don't know
if we can go back to Buffalo.
647
00:27:10,071 --> 00:27:11,528
Why not?
648
00:27:11,612 --> 00:27:13,242
I'm not letting her
destroy this.
649
00:27:14,154 --> 00:27:15,195
Milo, go to phase two.
650
00:27:15,279 --> 00:27:17,028
I'm ready to do
whatever it takes.
651
00:27:17,112 --> 00:27:18,445
- (CELL PHONE CHIMING)
- (DOOR OPENING)
652
00:27:18,529 --> 00:27:18,987
♪ (CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
653
00:27:19,071 --> 00:27:21,200
(CAR DOOR OPENING)
654
00:27:27,696 --> 00:27:30,612
Please explain why
we're learning about a war
655
00:27:30,696 --> 00:27:33,362
between our daughters
from assistants in our offices?
656
00:27:33,446 --> 00:27:35,612
- Ask Julien.
- What? Zoya started it.
657
00:27:35,696 --> 00:27:38,362
Did Zoya put one of my friends
in the awkward position
658
00:27:38,446 --> 00:27:41,278
of having to play
a party she denounced
659
00:27:41,362 --> 00:27:43,612
because it is suddenly
for charity?
660
00:27:43,696 --> 00:27:46,278
- Nokia's still coming?
- Yes, but that is not the point.
661
00:27:46,362 --> 00:27:47,737
And you, young lady.
I don't even know
662
00:27:47,821 --> 00:27:49,945
- what to do with you.
- Why aren't you more mad at her?
663
00:27:50,029 --> 00:27:51,570
She's the one trying
to get us evicted.
664
00:27:51,654 --> 00:27:52,653
No, I'm not.
665
00:27:52,737 --> 00:27:54,903
NICK: I don't care
about what's going on here,
666
00:27:54,987 --> 00:27:56,862
I just want it to end.
667
00:27:56,946 --> 00:27:59,153
Between work and appealing
to the housing board,
668
00:27:59,237 --> 00:28:00,445
this is the last thing I need.
669
00:28:00,529 --> 00:28:01,987
I'm sure you feel
the same way, Davis.
670
00:28:02,071 --> 00:28:03,653
Completely.
This fighting is not what
671
00:28:03,737 --> 00:28:05,028
your mother would've wanted.
672
00:28:05,862 --> 00:28:07,033
Especially not today.
673
00:28:07,862 --> 00:28:09,320
Which is why
we have both decided
674
00:28:09,404 --> 00:28:11,487
that since
it's too late to cancel,
675
00:28:11,571 --> 00:28:12,487
this will be a joint party.
676
00:28:12,571 --> 00:28:14,112
Yeah, two young women
coming together
677
00:28:14,196 --> 00:28:16,325
to celebrate their mother.
678
00:28:17,237 --> 00:28:18,403
Hey, either you do it together
679
00:28:18,487 --> 00:28:20,298
or you don't do it at all.
It's up to you.
680
00:28:22,196 --> 00:28:23,195
- Fine.
- Fine.
681
00:28:23,279 --> 00:28:25,408
I will see you tonight, Nick.
682
00:28:28,696 --> 00:28:30,075
And happy birthday, Zoya.
683
00:28:31,987 --> 00:28:34,195
NICK: I really thought we left this
kind of trouble behind in Buffalo, Z.
684
00:28:34,279 --> 00:28:35,575
ZOYA: So did I.
685
00:28:37,237 --> 00:28:38,528
♪ (MENACING ELECTRONIC
MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
686
00:28:38,612 --> 00:28:39,908
GOSSIP GIRL: This just in.
687
00:28:41,446 --> 00:28:43,028
- We hear a tale...
- (CELL PHONE CHIMES)
688
00:28:43,112 --> 00:28:44,487
GOSSIP GIRL:
...of two sisters may have
689
00:28:44,571 --> 00:28:46,367
a happy ending after all.
690
00:28:46,904 --> 00:28:49,362
Word is their fathers forced
691
00:28:49,446 --> 00:28:51,862
- a sisterly cease-fire.
- (CELL PHONE CHIMES)
692
00:28:51,946 --> 00:28:55,112
GOSSIP GIRL: But does tonight's
newly-conjoined celebration
693
00:28:55,196 --> 00:28:58,700
signal a signed treaty,
or a Trojan Horse?
694
00:28:59,279 --> 00:29:02,987
Time to play truce or dare.
695
00:29:03,071 --> 00:29:05,195
- ♪ (RAP MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
- (SHUTTERS CLICKING)
696
00:29:05,279 --> 00:29:06,487
Oh, my God.
697
00:29:06,571 --> 00:29:10,278
- She spon-conned you.
- (SHUTTERS CLICKING)
698
00:29:10,362 --> 00:29:11,237
She's learning,
I'll give her that.
699
00:29:11,321 --> 00:29:14,070
Julien, we simply must get
700
00:29:14,154 --> 00:29:15,195
- a photo together on the step...
- (CHUCKLES)
701
00:29:15,279 --> 00:29:18,570
...and repeat that your sponsors
so generously provided.
702
00:29:18,654 --> 00:29:20,112
- (SHUTTERS CLICKING)
- (JULIEN SIGHS)
703
00:29:20,196 --> 00:29:21,362
ZOYA: Oh, and the teachers.
704
00:29:21,446 --> 00:29:22,737
- So nice of you to invite them.
- (CHUCKLES)
705
00:29:22,821 --> 00:29:23,903
- PHOTOGRAPHER 1: Nice, now get together.
- (JULIEN SIGHS)
706
00:29:23,987 --> 00:29:26,737
- PHOTOGRAPHER 2: Big smile.
- PHOTOGRAPHER 3: Oh, love it.
707
00:29:26,821 --> 00:29:29,153
-Nice stunt
-Only the best for you, sis.
708
00:29:29,237 --> 00:29:32,570
(SHUTTERS CLICKING)
709
00:29:32,654 --> 00:29:33,237
(SIGHS)
710
00:29:33,321 --> 00:29:36,825
♪ (DANCE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
711
00:29:40,071 --> 00:29:43,117
Three, two, one.
712
00:29:43,904 --> 00:29:45,408
What are you counting down to?
713
00:29:46,946 --> 00:29:48,237
(CELL PHONE BEEPS, VIBRATES)
714
00:29:50,987 --> 00:29:53,112
- What is it?
- ZOYA: They set up a GoFundMe.
715
00:29:53,196 --> 00:29:55,403
"For our dear,
destitute classmate,
716
00:29:55,487 --> 00:29:57,570
Zoya Lott's housing crisis.”
If my dad sees this,
717
00:29:57,654 --> 00:29:59,112
- he's gonna be humiliated.
- Look at me.
718
00:29:59,196 --> 00:30:00,653
It's just noise.
Don't pay attention to it.
719
00:30:00,737 --> 00:30:02,112
- You wanna go dance?
- Good thing
720
00:30:02,196 --> 00:30:02,903
I'm already
one step ahead of her.
721
00:30:02,987 --> 00:30:04,825
- (CELL PHONE CHIMES)
- A step ahead?
722
00:30:05,571 --> 00:30:07,362
- (CELL PHONE CHIMES, VIBRATES)
- Ugh!
723
00:30:07,446 --> 00:30:09,612
I'm being attacked
by Russian bots!
724
00:30:09,696 --> 00:30:11,028
(RAPID CHIMES, VIBRATIONS)
725
00:30:11,112 --> 00:30:15,653
You're being Venmoed
for BJs, HJs, poppers, urine,
726
00:30:15,737 --> 00:30:19,070
your celebrity fleshlight,
and "seven grams of better coke
727
00:30:19,154 --> 00:30:19,903
- than the last batch."
- What?
728
00:30:19,987 --> 00:30:21,445
MONET:
It's not the Russian bots,
729
00:30:21,529 --> 00:30:22,778
it's that regional bitch.
730
00:30:22,862 --> 00:30:24,445
♪ ("BODY" BY MEGAN THEE
STALLION PLAYING) ♪ - I'm so glad
731
00:30:24,529 --> 00:30:26,060
you're scorching
her earth tonight.
732
00:30:26,946 --> 00:30:28,695
- Yeah, me too.
- ♪ Body-ody-ody-ody-ody... ♪
733
00:30:28,779 --> 00:30:31,487
What's going on?
The way that you're acting is...
734
00:30:31,571 --> 00:30:33,570
I'm not acting. I'm reacting.
And why aren't you mad at her?
735
00:30:33,654 --> 00:30:34,737
Why isn't anyone?
736
00:30:34,821 --> 00:30:36,278
God, where's Milo?
I need to find him.
737
00:30:36,362 --> 00:30:38,195
♪ Body crazy, curvy, wavy
Big titties, lil' waist ♪
738
00:30:38,279 --> 00:30:39,153
- ♪ Body-ody-ody... ♪
- AKI: Yo!
739
00:30:39,237 --> 00:30:41,070
- (OBIE SIGHS)
- You don't look very happy.
740
00:30:41,154 --> 00:30:42,725
You must have tried
a vegan cupcake.
741
00:30:42,862 --> 00:30:43,862
(CHUCKLES)
742
00:30:43,946 --> 00:30:45,528
No. Zoya has,
literally overnight,
743
00:30:45,612 --> 00:30:46,653
become somebody
I don't even recognize.
744
00:30:46,737 --> 00:30:50,487
So... I just want this night
to be over.
745
00:30:50,571 --> 00:30:51,987
Seems like you do too.
What's up?
746
00:30:52,071 --> 00:30:53,362
You have that talk
with Audrey yet?
747
00:30:53,446 --> 00:30:54,653
I'm just waiting
for the right time. Why?
748
00:30:54,737 --> 00:30:55,195
♪ Three, two, one
You know I'm the hottest... ♪
749
00:30:55,279 --> 00:30:57,278
Might be the right time.
750
00:30:57,362 --> 00:30:59,320
♪ Ain't ever gotta heat me up
I'm present when I'm absent ♪
751
00:30:59,404 --> 00:31:01,153
- ♪ Speaking when I'm not there ♪
- What are you doing?
752
00:31:01,237 --> 00:31:03,362
Aki, have you met Ravi Solis?
753
00:31:03,446 --> 00:31:05,237
He goes to Andover,
but is down for the weekend
754
00:31:05,321 --> 00:31:09,070
to interview for an internship
at The Criterion Collection.
755
00:31:09,154 --> 00:31:11,737
Akeno Menzies!
I've stalked you on Instagram.
756
00:31:11,821 --> 00:31:13,153
Our mums met
at the last TEDSummit.
757
00:31:13,237 --> 00:31:14,617
It's a pleasure.
758
00:31:14,987 --> 00:31:15,987
Strong grip.
759
00:31:16,071 --> 00:31:18,070
Ravi, didn't you say
that your dance crew finaled
760
00:31:18,154 --> 00:31:22,695
on Britain's Got Talent?
Oh, I'd love to see some moves.
761
00:31:22,779 --> 00:31:25,695
Aki, I trust you have
something else you've chosen
762
00:31:25,779 --> 00:31:27,070
to occupy
your time with tonight?
763
00:31:27,154 --> 00:31:28,945
♪ Been gettin' these niggas
Through the quarantine ♪
764
00:31:29,029 --> 00:31:30,195
♪ Bitch, I'm very well... ♪
765
00:31:30,279 --> 00:31:32,570
I'm starving. Thank God
my dad took care of the food.
766
00:31:32,654 --> 00:31:35,278
At least we know
it's not Pret.
767
00:31:35,362 --> 00:31:37,528
- LUNA: But it is buffet.
- I lost track of Zoya,
768
00:31:37,612 --> 00:31:38,987
which means
she's up to something.
769
00:31:39,071 --> 00:31:40,612
Hey, when are you gonna give
the birthday girl
770
00:31:40,696 --> 00:31:42,237
her birthday gift?
771
00:31:42,321 --> 00:31:43,278
- When the time is right.
- MONET: Okay, well,
772
00:31:43,362 --> 00:31:44,528
here's our gift to you.
773
00:31:44,612 --> 00:31:47,570
We contacted
the videographer herself,
774
00:31:47,654 --> 00:31:50,028
and turns out,
there's a director's cut.
775
00:31:50,112 --> 00:31:51,903
- Hmm.
- MONET: And unlike most of them,
776
00:31:51,987 --> 00:31:53,617
this one's better.
777
00:31:54,321 --> 00:31:55,445
- Amazing.
- MONET: Mm-hmm.
778
00:31:55,529 --> 00:31:57,403
♪ Curvy, wavy Big
titties, lil' waist... ♪ - Waiter?
779
00:31:57,487 --> 00:31:58,903
♪ Body crazy, curvy, wavy
Big titties, lil' waist ♪
780
00:31:58,987 --> 00:32:02,695
♪ Body-ody-ody-ody-ody
Ody-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody... ♪
781
00:32:02,779 --> 00:32:03,820
(MOUTH FULL) Thank you.
782
00:32:03,904 --> 00:32:05,820
♪ Ody-ody-ody-ody
The category is body ♪
783
00:32:05,904 --> 00:32:06,445
♪ Look at the way it's sittin' ♪
784
00:32:06,529 --> 00:32:09,278
Hey, you can head on inside.
785
00:32:09,362 --> 00:32:10,987
- (BOUNCER WHISTLES)
- GREETER: Hold on. Name.
786
00:32:11,071 --> 00:32:12,242
Uh, Max Wolfe.
787
00:32:14,029 --> 00:32:18,362
- You're not on the list.
- Cute. I am the list, okay?
788
00:32:18,446 --> 00:32:20,070
So, I'm just gonna squeeze in.
789
00:32:20,154 --> 00:32:21,403
- Whoa, whoa, whoa! There must have been a mistake.
- (CROWD EXCLAIMING)
790
00:32:21,487 --> 00:32:22,612
- What the...
- No mistake.
791
00:32:22,696 --> 00:32:25,695
- (GROANS) Fuck!
- I called Julien's dad...
792
00:32:25,779 --> 00:32:27,278
(GROANS) - ...and told
him to take your name off
793
00:32:27,362 --> 00:32:28,737
since you'd most likely
be holding.
794
00:32:28,821 --> 00:32:30,612
Oh, holding?
(CHUCKLES) Holding?
795
00:32:30,696 --> 00:32:31,403
- Who says “holding”?
- (CONTENTS RATTLING)
796
00:32:31,487 --> 00:32:33,737
MAX: Wanna check my breath? Huh?
797
00:32:33,821 --> 00:32:34,570
How many of these
are you on right now?
798
00:32:34,654 --> 00:32:37,528
It's not for me, okay?
It's for inside.
799
00:32:37,612 --> 00:32:39,903
I'm macro-dosing some acid.
800
00:32:39,987 --> 00:32:43,237
Okay, I'm on a Nemo,
and I'm on a Dory, and honestly,
801
00:32:43,321 --> 00:32:44,862
right now you kinda...
(CHUCKLES)
802
00:32:44,946 --> 00:32:46,320
...you kind of
look like both of them.
803
00:32:46,404 --> 00:32:48,112
- I thought your thing was very clear boundaries.
- (MAX CHUCKLES)
804
00:32:48,196 --> 00:32:49,278
And here you are
with all of them broken.
805
00:32:49,362 --> 00:32:52,528
- Or is it just you that's broken?
- (MAX GROANS)
806
00:32:52,612 --> 00:32:56,700
You used to be so hot. And now,
now you're just a bad trip.
807
00:32:56,946 --> 00:32:58,117
(SNIFFLES)
808
00:32:58,362 --> 00:33:00,408
(PILLS RATTLING)
809
00:33:01,446 --> 00:33:02,992
MAX: (GROANS) Look at that.
810
00:33:04,904 --> 00:33:08,033
More than your year's salary
on the sidewalk.
811
00:33:08,862 --> 00:33:10,945
Two second rule I guess.
(CHUCKLES, GAGS)
812
00:33:11,029 --> 00:33:13,778
- We're getting you out of here.
- Finally, some action!
813
00:33:13,862 --> 00:33:16,200
- ♪ (UPBEAT POP MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
814
00:33:16,737 --> 00:33:18,367
Seems like a safe space.
815
00:33:18,696 --> 00:33:19,867
May I?
816
00:33:20,946 --> 00:33:22,195
I'll join you. Seltzer?
817
00:33:22,279 --> 00:33:26,237
You know, if you wanna go hard,
I can be your designated driver.
818
00:33:26,321 --> 00:33:27,487
I've been doing it
for seven years.
819
00:33:27,571 --> 00:33:31,112
Well, I've never really been
a "go hard" kind of guy anyway.
820
00:33:31,196 --> 00:33:32,653
Also, I understand
it must've been
821
00:33:32,737 --> 00:33:34,075
really difficult for you.
822
00:33:34,612 --> 00:33:35,783
It was essential.
823
00:33:37,029 --> 00:33:38,920
- Are you really getting evicted?
- (SCOFFS)
824
00:33:39,654 --> 00:33:40,820
The board's trying.
825
00:33:40,904 --> 00:33:42,487
Most of the units
in the building
826
00:33:42,571 --> 00:33:44,612
have gone co-op
in the past decade.
827
00:33:44,696 --> 00:33:46,320
My mom held out,
but didn't tell anybody
828
00:33:46,404 --> 00:33:47,653
when she was hospitalized.
829
00:33:47,737 --> 00:33:50,195
It sucks, but it's not entirely
without cause.
830
00:33:50,279 --> 00:33:51,820
We did lie about living there
without my mom.
831
00:33:51,904 --> 00:33:55,237
- How's she doing?
- Assisted living.
832
00:33:55,321 --> 00:33:58,292
If there's ever anything I can do
to help... - Thank you. We're good.
833
00:34:02,821 --> 00:34:04,945
You think
they'll behave tonight?
834
00:34:05,029 --> 00:34:09,028
(CHUCKLES) Uh...
No chance. (CLICKS TONGUE)
835
00:34:09,112 --> 00:34:13,033
You know, I can't say
we've led by great example.
836
00:34:16,279 --> 00:34:17,930
You know, I know
this is crazy, but...
837
00:34:19,946 --> 00:34:22,487
maybe them fighting
isn't such a bad thing.
838
00:34:22,571 --> 00:34:25,658
Maybe it's Marion
giving us a chance to...
839
00:34:26,571 --> 00:34:27,742
work our own shit out.
840
00:34:28,987 --> 00:34:30,112
♪ ("LEVITATING"
BY DUA LIPA PLAYING) ♪
841
00:34:30,196 --> 00:34:31,528
♪ If you wanna run away with me
I know a galaxy ♪
842
00:34:31,612 --> 00:34:33,820
- ♪ And I can take you For a ride
♪ - ZOYA: Where have you been?
843
00:34:33,904 --> 00:34:36,237
And most importantly,
what've you been doing?
844
00:34:36,321 --> 00:34:37,695
Lying in wait, of course.
845
00:34:37,779 --> 00:34:38,862
My plan is time-released.
846
00:34:38,946 --> 00:34:39,945
What exactly is your plan?
You never told me.
847
00:34:40,029 --> 00:34:43,320
You just said to stay out
of the splash zone.
848
00:34:43,404 --> 00:34:44,992
She's halfway to wasted.
849
00:34:45,737 --> 00:34:46,987
ZOYA:
She's not drinking anything.
850
00:34:47,071 --> 00:34:47,862
She's underage.
Also, our dads are here.
851
00:34:47,946 --> 00:34:51,778
She's not drinking.
She's eating.
852
00:34:51,862 --> 00:34:53,820
An alcosynth that my friend,
Sami, is making sure to get
853
00:34:53,904 --> 00:34:56,158
into everything
she puts into her mouth.
854
00:34:56,821 --> 00:34:59,528
Hope you don't have emetophobia,
855
00:34:59,612 --> 00:35:02,570
because things are gonna get
pretty wet pretty soon.
856
00:35:02,654 --> 00:35:06,778
♪ I need you all night
Come on, dance with me ♪
857
00:35:06,862 --> 00:35:08,820
OBIE: Hey, can I talk to you
for a second?
858
00:35:08,904 --> 00:35:10,737
Do I need a retraining order?
859
00:35:10,821 --> 00:35:13,403
- Are you drunk?
- On Dirty Lemon?
860
00:35:13,487 --> 00:35:15,903
Yeah, yeah, so much.
861
00:35:15,987 --> 00:35:18,028
I just thought that I could
appeal to you, all right?
862
00:35:18,112 --> 00:35:20,070
- Old friend to old friend.
- If you think
863
00:35:20,154 --> 00:35:23,445
- we're old friends...
- Julien, come on. (CHUCKLES)
864
00:35:23,529 --> 00:35:25,908
Okay? I know you.
865
00:35:26,487 --> 00:35:27,528
This is not you, all right?
866
00:35:27,612 --> 00:35:28,945
Things between you and Zoya
were getting better,
867
00:35:29,029 --> 00:35:31,278
- were they not?
- (GROANS) God, stop.
868
00:35:31,362 --> 00:35:34,612
- I already have a dad.
- She's gonna lose her home.
869
00:35:34,696 --> 00:35:38,362
I don't think that you did it,
but I know you can stop it.
870
00:35:38,446 --> 00:35:39,657
We're not gonna do this...
871
00:35:40,737 --> 00:35:42,403
because you made your choice,
872
00:35:42,487 --> 00:35:43,820
and now
you have to live with it.
873
00:35:43,904 --> 00:35:47,737
Which is too bad,
because in about ten minutes,
874
00:35:47,821 --> 00:35:49,445
you're gonna wish
you made a different one.
875
00:35:49,529 --> 00:35:53,445
♪ I need you all night
Come on, dance with me ♪
876
00:35:53,529 --> 00:35:55,200
♪ I'm levitating, you ♪
877
00:35:55,737 --> 00:35:57,908
Hey, can I get a, uh,
878
00:35:58,279 --> 00:35:59,570
Mint Ju-lien?
879
00:35:59,654 --> 00:36:02,153
- Told you she would show.
- KATE KELLER: And I'm glad I did.
880
00:36:02,237 --> 00:36:03,362
It's been five minutes,
881
00:36:03,446 --> 00:36:05,403
and I've seen ten
post-worthy things.
882
00:36:05,487 --> 00:36:08,362
Julien and Zoya are clearly
planning something big.
883
00:36:08,446 --> 00:36:09,987
And is any of it on Gossip Girl?
884
00:36:10,071 --> 00:36:12,653
No! Guest of a Guest
has more inside info
885
00:36:12,737 --> 00:36:15,487
- and they're not even inside.
- Jesus, Kate.
886
00:36:15,571 --> 00:36:17,528
This Gossip Girl thing
is just, uh,
887
00:36:17,612 --> 00:36:18,528
a social experiment, right?
888
00:36:18,612 --> 00:36:20,737
It's not our lives.
889
00:36:20,821 --> 00:36:23,070
What you're supposed
to be doing at home right now,
890
00:36:23,154 --> 00:36:25,070
that's your future, your career.
891
00:36:25,154 --> 00:36:25,612
I don't know
what's wrong with me.
892
00:36:25,696 --> 00:36:28,112
I was at home, working,
893
00:36:28,196 --> 00:36:30,112
but then as soon
as the party started,
894
00:36:30,196 --> 00:36:31,487
it's all I could think about.
895
00:36:31,571 --> 00:36:33,237
Next thing I knew,
I was out the door
896
00:36:33,321 --> 00:36:35,487
and on the train,
and now I'm here.
897
00:36:35,571 --> 00:36:39,612
- What are you so scared of?
- Maybe her story is bad.
898
00:36:39,696 --> 00:36:41,778
♪ ("IMPACT" BY SG LEWIS, ROBYN,
CHANNEL TRES PLAYING) ♪
899
00:36:41,862 --> 00:36:42,487
KATE:
If Gossip Girl reported on me,
900
00:36:42,571 --> 00:36:44,945
you know what she'd say?
901
00:36:45,029 --> 00:36:49,528
"Keller dropped out of Iowa,
six months shy of her MFA."
902
00:36:49,612 --> 00:36:52,820
(SIGHS) "Like literary,
great Hannah Horvath before her,
903
00:36:52,904 --> 00:36:55,028
she just wasn't good enough."
904
00:36:55,112 --> 00:36:56,487
This, I'm good at.
905
00:36:56,571 --> 00:36:58,195
This is where
I'm not just read, but heard.
906
00:36:58,279 --> 00:37:02,408
What if, in the end, Gossip Girl
is all I'm good for?
907
00:37:10,446 --> 00:37:13,825
- You're scared.
- I am. Very. The most.
908
00:37:14,612 --> 00:37:16,200
Let's go face those fears then.
909
00:37:17,779 --> 00:37:19,200
“Spotted. Wendy's got this.”
910
00:37:21,821 --> 00:37:24,320
♪ So put your guard up on me
You know I'm with the shits ♪
911
00:37:24,404 --> 00:37:29,445
♪ I put my guard up on you
Girl you better quit ♪
912
00:37:29,529 --> 00:37:31,028
♪ I put my guard up on you
Hit you with the stick ♪
913
00:37:31,112 --> 00:37:34,987
Didn't you say Princess Nokia
was performing?
914
00:37:35,071 --> 00:37:37,153
I didn't realize that was
the main selling point for you.
915
00:37:37,237 --> 00:37:38,862
(CHUCKLES) I like her.
916
00:37:38,946 --> 00:37:40,117
- Huh?
- RAVI: Don't you?
917
00:37:41,196 --> 00:37:43,695
It's okay, it's okay.
You have my consent.
918
00:37:43,779 --> 00:37:44,862
- RAVI: Okay.
- (AUDREY CHUCKLES)
919
00:37:44,946 --> 00:37:46,200
RAVI: Cool.
920
00:37:46,737 --> 00:37:48,695
So, what's Aki's deal?
921
00:37:48,779 --> 00:37:50,403
You don't have to worry
about him. (CHUCKLES)
922
00:37:50,487 --> 00:37:51,658
We're open.
923
00:37:51,821 --> 00:37:53,117
He's not gay?
924
00:37:54,654 --> 00:37:56,075
Wait. Are you gay?
925
00:37:57,237 --> 00:37:58,820
Why didn't you tell me?
926
00:37:58,904 --> 00:38:01,283
I go to boarding school,
and I'm on a dance crew.
927
00:38:02,321 --> 00:38:03,403
But...
928
00:38:03,487 --> 00:38:06,737
Look, it... it's not like
you asked and... and I said no.
929
00:38:06,821 --> 00:38:09,075
Really, I... I just thought
he was one of us.
930
00:38:11,654 --> 00:38:16,117
Maybe he is. I guess
I have not asked him either.
931
00:38:17,071 --> 00:38:21,028
♪ So I'm misunderstood
The chopper go echo ♪
932
00:38:21,112 --> 00:38:22,867
♪ I miss the sounds
From the hood ♪
933
00:38:23,196 --> 00:38:24,367
AKI: Hey.
934
00:38:25,029 --> 00:38:26,242
Hi.
935
00:38:27,862 --> 00:38:29,242
Are you gay?
936
00:38:30,196 --> 00:38:32,533
- What?
- Are you gay?
937
00:38:33,654 --> 00:38:36,487
It's okay.
Look, you can tell me.
938
00:38:36,571 --> 00:38:38,112
(SIGHS) I know
I'm your girlfriend,
939
00:38:38,196 --> 00:38:40,237
so it might make it difficult,
but I'm also
940
00:38:40,321 --> 00:38:41,528
the closest person to you
941
00:38:41,612 --> 00:38:44,492
and... I know I haven't been
the most sensitive about this.
942
00:38:46,071 --> 00:38:47,695
I've just been afraid
of the answer, I guess,
943
00:38:47,779 --> 00:38:49,367
but it's... it's not about me.
944
00:38:50,112 --> 00:38:52,325
And I've been
making it about me.
945
00:38:54,154 --> 00:38:55,325
Are you gay?
946
00:38:56,696 --> 00:38:59,653
♪ I put my guard up on you
You know that I'm the shit ♪
947
00:38:59,737 --> 00:39:00,992
I don't know.
948
00:39:02,654 --> 00:39:04,570
- Julien, it's so nice to meet you!
- (GASPS)
949
00:39:04,654 --> 00:39:07,320
Thank you so much
for performing, Nokia.
950
00:39:07,404 --> 00:39:09,487
- I am your fannist big.
- (NOKIA CHUCKLES)
951
00:39:09,571 --> 00:39:10,778
Oh, baby, I love to party,
952
00:39:10,862 --> 00:39:12,278
but I want you
to drink some water, okay?
953
00:39:12,362 --> 00:39:13,820
- (CHUCKLES)
- NOKIA: My manager told me
954
00:39:13,904 --> 00:39:14,653
you're gonna do a speech,
955
00:39:14,737 --> 00:39:16,445
and then you're
gonna bring me on stage?
956
00:39:16,529 --> 00:39:19,070
- Yes, doing that right now.
- Thank you, baby.
957
00:39:19,154 --> 00:39:20,325
JULIEN: Luna?
958
00:39:23,279 --> 00:39:25,487
MILO SPARKS:
What's got you so excited?
959
00:39:25,571 --> 00:39:26,403
Milo Sparks,
960
00:39:26,487 --> 00:39:28,653
you're not tall enough
to ride this ride.
961
00:39:28,737 --> 00:39:31,950
You owe me for that time
I gave Lily Rose Depp E. coli.
962
00:39:32,487 --> 00:39:33,487
What gives?
963
00:39:33,571 --> 00:39:35,487
Fine. Just a little
AV sitch, okay?
964
00:39:35,571 --> 00:39:38,487
Julien's about to show the world
Zoya's true colors,
965
00:39:38,571 --> 00:39:40,362
a whole rainbow of crazy.
966
00:39:40,446 --> 00:39:41,653
Give me a hint?
967
00:39:41,737 --> 00:39:43,695
The reason Zoya
had to leave Buffalo,
968
00:39:43,779 --> 00:39:45,325
from Gossip Girl herself.
969
00:39:46,446 --> 00:39:50,862
♪ 'Cause when we on that
Other side, baby ♪
970
00:39:50,946 --> 00:39:52,320
ZOYA: Milo, I changed...
I changed my mind.
971
00:39:52,404 --> 00:39:53,820
I didn't know you had it in you.
972
00:39:53,904 --> 00:39:55,778
- What are you talking about?
- Your sister's associates
973
00:39:55,862 --> 00:39:58,153
have a video.
974
00:39:58,237 --> 00:39:59,820
Something about why
you didn't invite
975
00:39:59,904 --> 00:40:01,362
your old friends
from Buffalo tonight?
976
00:40:01,446 --> 00:40:03,445
- Oh, my God. I have to stop her.
- Where have you been?
977
00:40:03,529 --> 00:40:04,153
I can't talk right now.
Your ex-girlfriend
978
00:40:04,237 --> 00:40:06,237
is about to ruin
my fucking life!
979
00:40:06,321 --> 00:40:08,695
Huh. Look, I thought
that a one-party solution
980
00:40:08,779 --> 00:40:09,945
was gonna bring
you guys together,
981
00:40:10,029 --> 00:40:13,195
but instead, you've been trying
to, like, destroy her all night.
982
00:40:13,279 --> 00:40:15,403
Maybe her destroying you
is what you get in that bargain.
983
00:40:15,487 --> 00:40:17,778
So, you expect me to wave
the white flag and let her win?
984
00:40:17,862 --> 00:40:19,862
Let her humiliate me
985
00:40:19,946 --> 00:40:20,862
- in front of everybody that I know?
- Why do you care
986
00:40:20,946 --> 00:40:23,028
what anybody thinks?
987
00:40:23,112 --> 00:40:24,443
Well, you didn't a month ago.
988
00:40:25,612 --> 00:40:27,528
Something's changed. You've...
989
00:40:27,612 --> 00:40:29,737
you've changed. It's... You're
not even... -Obie, can this wait?
990
00:40:29,821 --> 00:40:31,570
- (CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
- Please?
991
00:40:31,654 --> 00:40:32,825
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
992
00:40:43,654 --> 00:40:45,903
Thank you!
993
00:40:45,987 --> 00:40:50,403
In honor of my... (SIGHS)
...sis's 15th birthday,
994
00:40:50,487 --> 00:40:52,862
I wanted to talk
a little bit about... (SIGHS)
995
00:40:52,946 --> 00:40:56,987
...the woman who really
made all of this happen.
996
00:40:57,071 --> 00:40:57,903
- Our mother...
- GUEST: Aww!
997
00:40:57,987 --> 00:41:01,903
- ...Calloway Marion.
- Oh, shit.
998
00:41:01,987 --> 00:41:03,653
JULIEN:
There's a lot Zoya and I
999
00:41:03,737 --> 00:41:04,778
never got to learn from her,
1000
00:41:04,862 --> 00:41:09,778
but we know, from our dads
and deep inside our hearts,
1001
00:41:09,862 --> 00:41:11,325
that she was amazing.
1002
00:41:12,029 --> 00:41:13,320
But... (CHUCKLES)
1003
00:41:13,404 --> 00:41:17,320
...like every person,
she had two sides to her.
1004
00:41:17,404 --> 00:41:21,028
She was brave,
brilliant, beautiful,
1005
00:41:21,112 --> 00:41:23,278
but she wasn't always honest.
1006
00:41:23,362 --> 00:41:26,445
She wasn't... always good.
1007
00:41:26,529 --> 00:41:31,653
(INHALES) I mean, she left
her own baby, me,
1008
00:41:31,737 --> 00:41:34,200
to run off with another man.
(CHUCKLES)
1009
00:41:35,029 --> 00:41:39,612
Now, that reckless,
irresponsible,
1010
00:41:39,696 --> 00:41:43,528
unreliable part of my mom,
I didn't inherit,
1011
00:41:43,612 --> 00:41:45,533
thankfully. But someone did.
1012
00:41:45,779 --> 00:41:47,278
And now,
1013
00:41:47,362 --> 00:41:51,320
thanks to this video,
we all get to see
1014
00:41:51,404 --> 00:41:55,533
just how much of my mom
the supposedly upstanding,
1015
00:41:57,071 --> 00:41:59,320
righteous Zoya really got.
1016
00:41:59,404 --> 00:42:02,820
(GIRLS IN VIDEO SHOUTING
INDISTINCTLY)
1017
00:42:02,904 --> 00:42:05,445
(GIRL 1 LAUGHING)
1018
00:42:05,529 --> 00:42:10,153
(GIRLS IN VIDEO
CHEERING, LAUGHING)
1019
00:42:10,237 --> 00:42:11,653
- GIRL 1: This school sucks!
- (INDISTINCT CLAMORING)
1020
00:42:11,737 --> 00:42:14,737
- GIRL 2: Oh! Oh! Tag the chem lab! Yeah!
- (GIRLS CHUCKLING)
1021
00:42:14,821 --> 00:42:16,320
ZOYA: This school sucks!
1022
00:42:16,404 --> 00:42:19,487
- Here comes the director's cut.
- (CHUCKLES) -(GIRLS CACKLING)
1023
00:42:19,571 --> 00:42:21,403
- (DOOR LOCKING)
- GIRL 2: Okay.
1024
00:42:21,487 --> 00:42:23,278
Oh, come on, Emma.
This isn't funny.
1025
00:42:23,362 --> 00:42:25,070
- GIRL 1: Mother killer!
- ZOYA: Let me out, guys.
1026
00:42:25,154 --> 00:42:28,362
- This isn't funny. Let me out.
- GIRL 3: Hey, are you upset, mother killer?
1027
00:42:28,446 --> 00:42:30,820
- Are you upset?
- GIRL 1: Hey, Bella...
1028
00:42:30,904 --> 00:42:33,237
- ZOYA: Open the door.
- GIRL 1: She's gonna cry.
1029
00:42:33,321 --> 00:42:36,195
- GIRL 2: Mother killer.
- GIRL 1: What are you gonna do, mother killer? You gonna cry?
1030
00:42:36,279 --> 00:42:37,528
- ZOYA: Let me out!
- (INDISTINCT TAUNTING)
1031
00:42:37,612 --> 00:42:40,153
- ZOYA: (SCREAMING) Let me out!
- (GLASS SHATTERING)
1032
00:42:40,237 --> 00:42:41,195
- JULIEN: What is this?
- (TAUNTING CONTINUES)
1033
00:42:41,279 --> 00:42:41,862
- I didn't see this part.
- Let me out!
1034
00:42:41,946 --> 00:42:43,903
Of course she goes soft.
1035
00:42:43,987 --> 00:42:44,903
- What is this?
- GIRL 2 IN VIDEO: Aww!
1036
00:42:44,987 --> 00:42:46,862
ZOYA: This isn't funny anymore!
Let me out!
1037
00:42:46,946 --> 00:42:48,445
- Let me out!
- I didn't see this part.
1038
00:42:48,529 --> 00:42:51,153
- (GIRLS LAUGHING, JEERING)
- ZOYA: Let me out!
1039
00:42:51,237 --> 00:42:53,575
GIRL 2: Mother killer! Killer!
1040
00:42:54,946 --> 00:42:56,528
GIRL 2: Okay, mother killer!
GIRL 1: Fire!
1041
00:42:56,612 --> 00:42:59,612
- Turn it off! Turn it off now!
- GIRL 2: Oh, shit!
1042
00:42:59,696 --> 00:43:01,862
- (FIRE ALARM BEEPING IN VIDEO)
- (INDISTINCT TAUNTING, YELLING)
1043
00:43:01,946 --> 00:43:04,070
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
1044
00:43:04,154 --> 00:43:05,028
- (CHAOTIC YELLING)
- (FIRE ALARM CONTINUES)
1045
00:43:05,112 --> 00:43:08,028
- Stop!
- (CELL PHONE CLICKS)
1046
00:43:08,112 --> 00:43:09,070
(VIDEO CLIP AUDIO ENDS ABRUPTLY)
1047
00:43:09,154 --> 00:43:12,575
- (CROWD MURMURING ANXIOUSLY)
- What the fuck, Julien.
1048
00:43:16,112 --> 00:43:18,533
- (MURMURING CONTINUES)
- (JULIEN INHALES SHARPLY)
1049
00:43:20,237 --> 00:43:21,408
Hey, everyone.
1050
00:43:22,154 --> 00:43:25,992
I know that video was traumatic.
1051
00:43:27,487 --> 00:43:29,617
You're probably wondering
why I played it.
1052
00:43:30,237 --> 00:43:32,737
I'm wondering that too.
1053
00:43:32,821 --> 00:43:34,320
(CROWD MURMURING)
1054
00:43:34,404 --> 00:43:38,070
(SIGHS)
I hadn't seen the whole thing,
1055
00:43:38,154 --> 00:43:40,325
but... that's no excuse.
1056
00:43:40,987 --> 00:43:42,617
I just...
thought that she was...
1057
00:43:45,446 --> 00:43:47,658
I didn't know
she was being bullied, but...
1058
00:43:50,362 --> 00:43:52,278
I guess
when you're a bully yourself,
1059
00:43:52,362 --> 00:43:53,153
you don't see that.
1060
00:43:53,237 --> 00:43:56,492
♪ (HEARTFELT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1061
00:43:57,404 --> 00:43:58,945
(SIGHS)
1062
00:43:59,029 --> 00:44:00,487
Since I can't
turn back the clock,
1063
00:44:00,571 --> 00:44:02,783
the very least
I can do is tell the truth.
1064
00:44:06,279 --> 00:44:07,492
I'm a bully.
1065
00:44:08,362 --> 00:44:10,283
And whether I do it
to your face...
1066
00:44:11,362 --> 00:44:13,367
or through your phone
without you realizing...
1067
00:44:14,529 --> 00:44:15,700
it's the same thing.
1068
00:44:16,821 --> 00:44:18,487
I expect you
to want what I have,
1069
00:44:18,571 --> 00:44:19,825
but not be able to get it.
1070
00:44:20,862 --> 00:44:22,570
So, if you try to,
1071
00:44:22,654 --> 00:44:24,658
I'll do everything in my power
to stop you.
1072
00:44:25,529 --> 00:44:28,492
And because I have
considerable power...
1073
00:44:28,737 --> 00:44:29,862
I can.
1074
00:44:29,946 --> 00:44:32,117
(SNIFFLES)
1075
00:44:33,737 --> 00:44:34,908
But never again.
1076
00:44:37,154 --> 00:44:39,158
Take out your phones.
1077
00:44:39,862 --> 00:44:41,278
(SIGHS) Do it. Hit record.
1078
00:44:41,362 --> 00:44:43,653
("RECORDING"
NOTIFICATIONS SOUND)
1079
00:44:43,737 --> 00:44:44,908
I am a bully.
1080
00:44:46,571 --> 00:44:47,487
I bully my sister.
1081
00:44:47,571 --> 00:44:51,700
(INHALES)
I bully my friends, my fans.
1082
00:44:53,904 --> 00:44:56,112
And I'm never gonna do it
again, so long as I live.
1083
00:44:56,196 --> 00:44:58,653
(INHALES) You have this video.
1084
00:44:58,737 --> 00:44:59,908
Dubsmash it, DeuxMoi it.
1085
00:45:00,487 --> 00:45:03,075
Gossip Girl it
for all it's worth.
1086
00:45:04,154 --> 00:45:07,987
Now... (SIGHS)
1087
00:45:08,071 --> 00:45:10,153
...how about we put
this pain behind us
1088
00:45:10,237 --> 00:45:12,195
and bow down to the Princess?
1089
00:45:12,279 --> 00:45:13,908
She's why you're all here.
1090
00:45:15,279 --> 00:45:17,195
Z, I love you.
1091
00:45:17,279 --> 00:45:19,195
This is what your birthday
was supposed to be.
1092
00:45:19,279 --> 00:45:22,783
- Nokia.
- (CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
1093
00:45:27,196 --> 00:45:31,117
How you doing?
1094
00:45:31,612 --> 00:45:32,862
(CHUCKLES)
1095
00:45:32,946 --> 00:45:34,820
Well, this is a safe space,
1096
00:45:34,904 --> 00:45:37,153
- and I don't care what's going on in your school.
- (CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
1097
00:45:37,237 --> 00:45:38,768
NOKIA:
We're here to have some fun.
1098
00:45:40,279 --> 00:45:42,028
♪ ("IT'S NOT MY FAULT"
BY PRINCESS NOKIA PLAYING) ♪
1099
00:45:42,112 --> 00:45:44,028
NOKIA: ♪ Yes
I'm God's favorite flavor ♪
1100
00:45:44,112 --> 00:45:45,778
♪ I'm blessed
And highly favored ♪
1101
00:45:45,862 --> 00:45:46,695
♪ He give me
All the blessings ♪
1102
00:45:46,779 --> 00:45:49,320
♪ And them blessings
Turn to paper ♪
1103
00:45:49,404 --> 00:45:51,320
- ♪ Money ♪
- ♪ That paper turn to money ♪
1104
00:45:51,404 --> 00:45:53,028
♪ Got hands
That's stuck in honey ♪
1105
00:45:53,112 --> 00:45:54,820
- ♪ I'm sexy, Playboy bunny ♪
- (CROWD CHEERS)
1106
00:45:54,904 --> 00:45:57,570
♪ I'm shining, yes, I'm sunny
You don't have a fan for... ♪
1107
00:45:57,654 --> 00:45:59,903
- (CROWD CHEERING)
- ♪ (DISTANT MUSIC THROBS) ♪
1108
00:45:59,987 --> 00:46:01,612
Is this the best place to talk?
1109
00:46:01,696 --> 00:46:03,820
You've been avoiding this
long enough. Here's good.
1110
00:46:03,904 --> 00:46:05,695
- You've been avoiding it too.
- Avoiding what?
1111
00:46:05,779 --> 00:46:08,403
Was Max the only one,
or have you been cheating
1112
00:46:08,487 --> 00:46:10,617
- on me this whole time?
- What?
1113
00:46:11,154 --> 00:46:12,700
Of course he's the only one.
1114
00:46:13,279 --> 00:46:14,112
What? You really thought that...
1115
00:46:14,196 --> 00:46:16,783
No, definitely not.
1116
00:46:17,654 --> 00:46:18,825
Now you go.
1117
00:46:19,321 --> 00:46:20,987
I'm not gay!
1118
00:46:21,071 --> 00:46:25,950
I don't... Maybe... Sometimes...
I think I'm into both.
1119
00:46:27,196 --> 00:46:28,570
But I'm into you,
1120
00:46:28,654 --> 00:46:30,575
and I love you,
and I'm attracted to you.
1121
00:46:32,571 --> 00:46:35,195
I'm sorry that I slept with Max.
1122
00:46:35,279 --> 00:46:37,242
(CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
1123
00:46:38,571 --> 00:46:40,382
- I'm not sorry I kissed him.
- (CHUCKLES)
1124
00:46:41,529 --> 00:46:43,783
Guess that's a start. (CHUCKLES)
1125
00:46:46,029 --> 00:46:48,450
(DOG BARKING)
1126
00:46:49,196 --> 00:46:50,403
(CHUCKLES) You said you were
1127
00:46:50,487 --> 00:46:52,362
gonna take me somewhere
to ride out my trip.
1128
00:46:52,446 --> 00:46:55,570
- This is why I am tripping.
- RAFA: I called your dads.
1129
00:46:55,654 --> 00:46:57,570
Roy said you haven't been home
in days.
1130
00:46:57,654 --> 00:47:00,070
- He's worried about you.
- Roy's only my father on paper.
1131
00:47:00,154 --> 00:47:01,445
- That's not true.
- MAX: No.
1132
00:47:01,529 --> 00:47:02,862
Gideon is my biological dad.
1133
00:47:02,946 --> 00:47:05,653
You know, the guy that
Roy screwed over, along with me?
1134
00:47:05,737 --> 00:47:07,445
So, you getting fucked up
is supposed to, what,
1135
00:47:07,529 --> 00:47:10,362
teach him some kind of lesson?
1136
00:47:10,446 --> 00:47:12,112
That you don't care?
'Cause it's obvious
1137
00:47:12,196 --> 00:47:14,403
- you care a whole lot.
- Why do you care?
1138
00:47:14,487 --> 00:47:16,278
Because some of us don't have
one dad who loves us,
1139
00:47:16,362 --> 00:47:17,617
let alone two.
1140
00:47:20,612 --> 00:47:23,820
(MAX SIGHS)
1141
00:47:23,904 --> 00:47:25,362
I'm sorry, I... I, uh...
1142
00:47:25,446 --> 00:47:27,070
(CLEARS THROAT)
...I didn't know.
1143
00:47:27,154 --> 00:47:29,153
Roy made a mistake,
but he loves you
1144
00:47:29,237 --> 00:47:30,617
and he's trying to fix it...
1145
00:47:31,571 --> 00:47:34,070
because that's what
real dads do.
1146
00:47:34,154 --> 00:47:35,528
Don't push him away.
Let him in.
1147
00:47:35,612 --> 00:47:36,825
He needs you right now.
1148
00:47:38,279 --> 00:47:39,658
Yeah, and what do you need?
1149
00:47:40,779 --> 00:47:41,950
Hmm?
1150
00:47:42,571 --> 00:47:44,320
(SIREN WAILING IN DISTANCE)
1151
00:47:44,404 --> 00:47:45,195
For you to get
your shit together
1152
00:47:45,279 --> 00:47:47,575
before I find someone else
to care about.
1153
00:47:51,612 --> 00:47:53,992
- (RAFA CLEARS THROAT, SIGHS)
- (DOG BARKING)
1154
00:47:57,779 --> 00:47:59,230
♪ ("IT'S NOT MY FAULT"
PLAYING) ♪
1155
00:48:00,946 --> 00:48:02,862
♪ I'm a pretty bitch
On some petty shit ♪
1156
00:48:02,946 --> 00:48:04,903
♪ So, don't try me I'm always hungry
♪ - (CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
1157
00:48:04,987 --> 00:48:05,778
♪ Curvy when I get
That munchie ♪
1158
00:48:05,862 --> 00:48:08,237
♪ Thick thighs
On my money, hustle ♪
1159
00:48:08,321 --> 00:48:09,487
- ♪ It's not my fault ♪
- ♪ It's not my fault ♪
1160
00:48:09,571 --> 00:48:11,653
- ♪ That I'm that bitch ♪
- ♪ That I'm that bitch ♪
1161
00:48:11,737 --> 00:48:13,362
- ♪ So, talk that shit ♪
- ♪ So, talk that shit ♪
1162
00:48:13,446 --> 00:48:15,237
- ♪ 'Cause I'm still rich ♪
- ♪ 'Cause I'm still rich ♪
1163
00:48:15,321 --> 00:48:16,487
- ♪ It's not my fault ♪
- ♪ It's not my fault ♪
1164
00:48:16,571 --> 00:48:18,653
- ♪ That I'm that bitch ♪
- ♪ That I'm that bitch ♪
1165
00:48:18,737 --> 00:48:20,695
- ♪ So, talk that shit ♪
- ♪ So, talk that shit ♪
1166
00:48:20,779 --> 00:48:22,737
- ♪ 'Cause I'm still rich ♪
- ♪ 'Cause I'm still rich ♪
1167
00:48:22,821 --> 00:48:25,320
Last year, my best friend
started hanging out
1168
00:48:25,404 --> 00:48:26,195
with some other kids.
1169
00:48:26,279 --> 00:48:28,075
Guess I was no longer cool
or something.
1170
00:48:30,612 --> 00:48:34,112
On my birthday, she told me
she was sorry,
1171
00:48:34,196 --> 00:48:36,028
to come hang out at the school.
1172
00:48:36,112 --> 00:48:38,528
At first, it was fun.
They just kept daring me
1173
00:48:38,612 --> 00:48:41,737
to do stuff.
Steal a trophy, tag the walls.
1174
00:48:41,821 --> 00:48:43,867
I was desperate to fit in, so...
1175
00:48:44,654 --> 00:48:46,783
Anyway, they were just waiting
to get me.
1176
00:48:47,612 --> 00:48:48,737
(ANXIOUS BREATH)
1177
00:48:48,821 --> 00:48:50,737
Bella had told them
how our mom died.
1178
00:48:50,821 --> 00:48:54,908
And so, they... put me
in that room.
1179
00:48:56,654 --> 00:48:58,903
You know the rest. (SIGHS)
1180
00:48:58,987 --> 00:49:00,903
And when I realized
what was happening,
1181
00:49:00,987 --> 00:49:02,283
I started to panic.
1182
00:49:02,946 --> 00:49:04,070
Like, really... (SOBS) ...panic.
1183
00:49:04,154 --> 00:49:07,950
And all I could think of was
to set off the fire alarm.
1184
00:49:10,071 --> 00:49:12,278
You know, I don't
even think I cared
1185
00:49:12,362 --> 00:49:14,283
about if I got out of there
alive or not.
1186
00:49:15,446 --> 00:49:18,528
(SNIFFLES)
'Cause they weren't wrong.
1187
00:49:18,612 --> 00:49:20,658
(SOBS) I killed our mom.
1188
00:49:21,571 --> 00:49:24,945
She had an illness.
Lupus killed her, not you.
1189
00:49:25,029 --> 00:49:27,987
(SOBS) No, you say that,
but you don't have to live...
1190
00:49:28,071 --> 00:49:30,445
(SOBS) ...with knowing that
the only reason you're alive
1191
00:49:30,529 --> 00:49:32,695
is because she's dead.
1192
00:49:32,779 --> 00:49:34,987
You're alive
because she wanted you to be.
1193
00:49:35,071 --> 00:49:36,237
♪ (SONG CONCLUDES) ♪
1194
00:49:36,321 --> 00:49:37,945
- (SNIFFLES)
- JULIEN: Because she wanted you.
1195
00:49:38,029 --> 00:49:39,487
(CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
1196
00:49:39,571 --> 00:49:42,945
I'm sorry I never thought about
how much pain you were in.
1197
00:49:43,029 --> 00:49:47,237
I'm sorry for a lot of things,
and I'll always be sorry.
1198
00:49:47,321 --> 00:49:51,112
(SNIFFLES) Oh, well,
um, I hope you'll stop soon,
1199
00:49:51,196 --> 00:49:53,195
'cause it's really nice
1200
00:49:53,279 --> 00:49:54,778
to have somebody who knows
what I'm going through.
1201
00:49:54,862 --> 00:49:57,737
That's what sisters
are for, I guess.
1202
00:49:57,821 --> 00:50:00,117
- (ZOYA SNIFFLING)
- JULIEN: From now on,
1203
00:50:00,696 --> 00:50:02,737
this day is your birthday first.
1204
00:50:02,821 --> 00:50:04,312
That's what
she would've wanted...
1205
00:50:05,279 --> 00:50:06,987
and that's what I want too.
1206
00:50:07,071 --> 00:50:09,075
I'm glad you were born,
Zoya Jane.
1207
00:50:10,404 --> 00:50:11,487
(SNIFFLES) Julien Elizabeth.
1208
00:50:11,571 --> 00:50:13,862
♪ ("DIONNE" BY THE JAPANESE
HOUSE PLAYING) ♪ - Here.
1209
00:50:15,071 --> 00:50:17,242
(BOTH SNIFFLING)
1210
00:50:21,654 --> 00:50:23,945
It's not too late
to turn this party around.
1211
00:50:24,029 --> 00:50:25,445
(CHUCKLES)
1212
00:50:25,529 --> 00:50:28,320
God, I think I really
fucked things up with Obie.
1213
00:50:28,404 --> 00:50:32,075
- Can I tell you stuff like that?
- Yes. Because it's true...
1214
00:50:33,071 --> 00:50:35,200
and we don't hide
from stuff like that anymore.
1215
00:50:36,737 --> 00:50:38,528
♪ Wishing that someone
Would film the way ♪
1216
00:50:38,612 --> 00:50:41,570
♪ I'm looking at you right now ♪
1217
00:50:41,654 --> 00:50:44,825
♪ I wanna watch it back ♪
1218
00:50:45,612 --> 00:50:48,033
♪ And then kill myself ♪
1219
00:50:49,571 --> 00:50:52,362
♪ And I know
It's not very sexy ♪
1220
00:50:52,446 --> 00:50:54,695
♪ When somebody loves you
This much ♪
1221
00:50:54,779 --> 00:50:56,270
GOSSIP GIRL:
All right, followers.
1222
00:50:56,779 --> 00:50:58,862
Time to face the music.
1223
00:50:58,946 --> 00:51:01,778
Looks like the war
is finally over.
1224
00:51:01,862 --> 00:51:04,278
I think your girlfriend
wants to dance.
1225
00:51:04,362 --> 00:51:06,195
If you'll excuse me,
I'll go tell Luna
1226
00:51:06,279 --> 00:51:07,987
and Monet to put
their weapons down. (CHUCKLES)
1227
00:51:08,071 --> 00:51:10,242
♪ Diggin' up old ground ♪
1228
00:51:10,987 --> 00:51:12,158
You didn't leave.
1229
00:51:13,446 --> 00:51:15,945
Well, how could I?
I'm dating the birthday girl.
1230
00:51:16,029 --> 00:51:19,987
- For... at least another hour.
- (CHUCKLES)
1231
00:51:20,071 --> 00:51:22,450
I will be very glad
when this day is behind me.
1232
00:51:25,612 --> 00:51:27,403
I'm sorry
that that happened to you.
1233
00:51:27,487 --> 00:51:30,612
ZOYA: I'm sorry too.
For how I treated you.
1234
00:51:30,696 --> 00:51:31,612
You only wanted to make
this day special for me,
1235
00:51:31,696 --> 00:51:33,908
and I pushed you aside.
1236
00:51:34,362 --> 00:51:36,695
I wasn't myself, and...
1237
00:51:36,779 --> 00:51:38,112
I'm grateful that I have
someone like you
1238
00:51:38,196 --> 00:51:39,367
who knows the real me.
1239
00:51:40,654 --> 00:51:42,265
- Apology accepted.
- (ZOYA CHUCKLES)
1240
00:51:43,487 --> 00:51:44,987
And starting now,
1241
00:51:45,071 --> 00:51:47,070
you're gonna get
the birthday you deserve.
1242
00:51:47,154 --> 00:51:49,862
How about I call and get you
a suite at the Greenwich Hotel
1243
00:51:49,946 --> 00:51:51,070
- for a relaxing night alone?
- (CHUCKLES)
1244
00:51:51,154 --> 00:51:54,695
Twelve-hour massage,
room service, whatever you want.
1245
00:51:54,779 --> 00:51:56,737
I've never ordered room service
in my life.
1246
00:51:56,821 --> 00:51:58,862
Well, tonight
could be the night.
1247
00:51:58,946 --> 00:52:00,117
(ZOYA CHUCKLES)
1248
00:52:02,029 --> 00:52:03,200
♪ Step on up ♪
1249
00:52:04,571 --> 00:52:07,242
♪ Pay them no mind ♪
1250
00:52:08,654 --> 00:52:11,278
♪ You're alone with this one ♪
1251
00:52:11,362 --> 00:52:16,325
♪ And they're angry
Well, it won't do no good ♪
1252
00:52:17,446 --> 00:52:18,617
Thank you.
1253
00:52:19,862 --> 00:52:22,278
But would you mind
if I took a rain check?
1254
00:52:22,362 --> 00:52:25,903
There's someone I really want
to spend tonight with.
1255
00:52:25,987 --> 00:52:27,998
GOSSIP GIRL: But the thing
about when wars end?
1256
00:52:28,946 --> 00:52:31,570
Nobody is ever the same again.
1257
00:52:31,654 --> 00:52:34,195
When the dust has settled
and the smoke clears,
1258
00:52:34,279 --> 00:52:37,570
only then can we finally face
what we've done.
1259
00:52:37,654 --> 00:52:40,278
MAX: I did what you said.
1260
00:52:40,362 --> 00:52:41,533
And? How'd it go?
1261
00:52:42,946 --> 00:52:44,070
He blamed me for everything.
1262
00:52:44,154 --> 00:52:47,195
Like it's my fault
that their marriage fell apart,
1263
00:52:47,279 --> 00:52:48,945
it's my fault
he fell out of love.
1264
00:52:49,029 --> 00:52:50,350
None of this is your fault.
1265
00:52:50,435 --> 00:52:52,950
What the fuck
is wrong with me? (SOBS)
1266
00:52:53,770 --> 00:52:55,528
- Nothing is wrong with you.
- MAX: Yeah? Well,
1267
00:52:55,612 --> 00:52:58,325
you're probably the only person
who thinks that right now.
1268
00:53:00,946 --> 00:53:02,117
You should go.
1269
00:53:03,571 --> 00:53:04,742
(EXHALES) Yeah. (INHALES)
1270
00:53:06,654 --> 00:53:08,117
I really should.
1271
00:53:08,904 --> 00:53:12,987
- Max, I can't...
- Stop? Me neither.
1272
00:53:13,071 --> 00:53:14,367
(BOTH BREATHE HEAVILY)
1273
00:53:15,654 --> 00:53:19,237
- Fuck it.
- (BOTH PANTING)
1274
00:53:19,321 --> 00:53:25,653
♪ Step on up
Pay them no mind ♪
1275
00:53:25,737 --> 00:53:28,742
GOSSIP GIRL: No one returns
from war unchanged.
1276
00:53:29,446 --> 00:53:31,945
We come back strangers.
1277
00:53:32,029 --> 00:53:34,612
Not only to those around us,
but to ourselves.
1278
00:53:34,696 --> 00:53:36,950
So, what happens now?
1279
00:53:38,279 --> 00:53:40,410
I don't know, but...
we'll figure it out together.
1280
00:53:42,404 --> 00:53:45,778
GOSSIP GIRL:
And slowly, little by little,
1281
00:53:45,862 --> 00:53:48,237
we either remember
who we used to be,
1282
00:53:48,321 --> 00:53:52,070
or we allow ourselves
to become someone new.
1283
00:53:52,154 --> 00:53:55,195
Hey, can I give you a ride?
1284
00:53:55,279 --> 00:53:56,783
I live, like,
60 blocks from here.
1285
00:53:57,268 --> 00:53:58,731
I don't mind.
1286
00:54:03,229 --> 00:54:04,943
GOSSIP GIRL: Who will you be,
1287
00:54:05,028 --> 00:54:06,907
now that this is over?
1288
00:54:14,009 --> 00:54:15,455
GOSSIP GIRL:
I don't know about you,
1289
00:54:15,540 --> 00:54:18,598
but... since it wasn't
the end of the world...
1290
00:54:19,414 --> 00:54:20,985
- I feel fine.
- (CELL PHONE CLICKS)
1291
00:54:24,571 --> 00:54:26,658
Scratch that.
1292
00:54:27,654 --> 00:54:30,033
Better than fine.
1293
00:54:31,279 --> 00:54:32,825
Finally free.
1294
00:54:33,529 --> 00:54:34,700
Effortlessly yours...
1295
00:54:36,029 --> 00:54:37,283
XOXO...
1296
00:54:38,362 --> 00:54:40,450
- Gossip Girl.
- ♪ (SONG CONCLUDES) ♪
1297
00:54:43,821 --> 00:54:45,408
THEME MUSIC PLAYING...
1298
00:56:20,904 --> 00:56:22,992
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪