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S03E08

Amor Fati

Full screenplay script and 1589-line transcript across 57 scenes for The White Lotus S03E08: Amor Fati.

57 Scenes1589 Lines

Scene 1:Scene 1

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("THE WHITE LOTUS" THEME MUSIC PLAYING)
(THEME MUSIC CONCLUDES)
- (SERENE MUSIC PLAYING)
- (BIRDS CHIRPING)
(ANIMALS CHITTERING)
LUANG POR TEERA:
Sometimes we wake with anxiety.
An edgy energy.
What will happen today?
What is in store for me?
So many questions.
We want resolution,
solid earth under our feet.
So, we take life into our own hands.
We take action, yeah?
Our solutions are temporary.
They are quick fix.
They create more anxiety,
more suffering.
There is no resolution
to life's questions.
It is easier to be patient
once we finally accept
there is no resolution.
(MUSIC FADES)
(THAI HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYING
OVER SPEAKER)
(PARTYER SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)

Scene 2:Scene 2

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Frank
No, it's right here.
(FRANK SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
(FRANK SHOUTING REPEATEDLY)
- (PARTYERS LAUGH)
- Frank
Yeah.
- Three minutes!
- (PARTYER EXCLAIMS)
- (GROANS)
- (FRANK SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)
(SIGHS)
(FRANK AND PARTYERS LAUGHING)
(LIVELY CHATTER)
(THAI HIP-HOP MUSIC GROWS LOUDER)
Dead! Carotid artery!
- Dead! Chest cavity!
- Frank!
Have you heard...
You heard of the black mamba?
- Frank!
- You heard of the black... Hey, man!
What are you doing?
You want... Hey, look, I'm just
showing off my moves, man.
- What are you doing?
- I gotta go.
We didn't even get into the ice yet.
I gotta catch a plane.
- (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

Scene 3:Scene 3

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- Wait a second. Wait a second.
- Wait.
- Ah, come on.
Hey, man, you gonna make me
chase you over... over here?
Come on.
Wait. Listen. (GRUNTS)
(GRUNTS)
Come on, man, what's happening?
Where you going?
You know what's happening,
you know? I... I gotta go.
- I gotta go, man.
- (GRUNTS)
Rick Hatchett
I told you, I have to go.
- You gotta go?
- Rick
Yeah.
We got... But the ladies are here, man.
What's the matter?
Stay, okay? I need you to...
Don't you like me anymore?
I just have to go. I have to go.
- Huh? You're my guy.
- Rick
Look.
- And you started it.
- (ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)
- You're gonna finish it. You finish it.
- I can't finish it without you.

Scene 4:Scene 4

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- Both
Sawatdee kha!
- Frank
That's not part of the deal.
- Hey, there they are.
- Both
Hi!
- Look at this. Ladies. Come on.
- Partyer
Come on, come on!
- He's saying no. Rick! Rick!
- Rick!
- Rick! (LAUGHS)
- Rick! Rick!
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- (QUIRKY MUSIC PLAYING)
- Frank
Oh, yeah. Whoo!
- (ENGINE SHUTS OFF)
- (MUSIC CONCLUDES)
Gaitok
(IN THAI)
(GRUNTS)
(CHUCKLES)
(PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
(GAITOK CHUCKLES)
(CHUCKLES)
Mm.
- (MUSIC CONCLUDES)
- (IN ENGLISH) Hi.
Oh, morning.
How'd you sleep?
I slept okay.
Have you seen Laurie?

Scene 5:Scene 5

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- Not yet.
- (SIGHS)
Should we see if she wants
to get some breakfast?
Yeah, I'll go ask her.
No. I'll do it.
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
Kate and I are gonna go get breakfast.
- You wanna come?
- (INHALES SHARPLY)
No. I think I'm gonna
keep sleeping, if that's okay.
Listen, I'm sorry about Valentin.
Honestly, I had no idea you'd even care.
(SCOFFS) Jac, please. I... (SIGHS)
I want to be your friend.
We can talk about it later
when you're not sleeping.
You want us to bring you back something?
No, thanks.
Okay.
(PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
(DOOR CLOSES)
(PENSIVE MUSIC CONTINUES)
- (BIRDS CHIRPING)
- (WATER RIPPLING)
Lochlan Ratliff
I think
I should wait till we're home,

Scene 6:Scene 6

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you know, before I tell mom. Like...
maybe wait till she's back on her meds.
Piper Ratliff
Tell mom what?
That I'm coming with you.
(MUSIC CONCLUDES)
What?
Lochlan, I don't want to be responsible
for fucking up your life, okay?
Just let me fuck up
my own life, all right?
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC CONTINUES)
They're back!
Victoria Ratliff
Hello! Hi!
How was it?
How did it go?
Um... It was, uh...
You know what, can we actually
talk about it later?
I just... I want to shower and...
Yeah, we'll talk about it at breakfast.
Okay.
Lochlan?
What?
Tell us.
I don't fucking know anything, okay?
(MUSIC INTENSIFIES)
(MONKEYS CHATTERING)

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(MONKEYS HOOTING, GROWLING)
(MUSIC CALMS)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- Belinda.
- (MUSIC CONCLUDES)
Hey!
- Pornchai
Sawatdee khrap.
- Sawatdee kha.
(BOTH CHUCKLE)
Um. This is my son, Zion.
- Sawatdee khrap, Zion.
- Sawatdee khrap.
Yeah. Yeah. We met, Mom.
Right. Oh, that's right. (LAUGHS)
- Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Pornchai
Yes. Yes, yes. (CHUCKLES)
- Right.
- Pornchai
Yeah.
Um. Do you want to join us?
It's okay. I just saw you
and just wanted to say... hello.
- (CHUCKLES)
- (GIGGLES) Hello.
- Hello. (LAUGHS, SIGHS)
- (BELINDA LINDSEY CHUCKLES)
- Bye.
- Bye.
(EXHALES) Shut up.

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Wow! You... You like this guy.
I don't know.
Well... (SCOFFS) ...he likes you.
You know, he wants to go
into business together.
- Really?
- Belinda
Mm-hmm.
What? The spa you always talked about.
(SCOFFS)
Where would we even do it,
right? (SLURPS)
Wherever you want. Hawaii. Here?
He ain't got no money and neither do I.
I don't even know where I would get it.
I don't know investors like that.
Hello? Do I have to say it?
- Z.
- Zion
What?
I already told you.
I'm not taking that blood money, okay?
Mom...
Listen, 100,000 dollars
isn't enough anyway.
We would need more than that,
so drop it.
Zion
What if it were
a million dollars?
- But it's not.

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- Okay, no,
you told him you would get back to him.
Why don't you just see
how much you can get?
You don't have to go
through with it. Just see.
See how much you can get.
I mean, you're always gonna wonder.
If I go up there and negotiate with him,
then I don't do it?
It'll piss him off,
and then he'll fuck me up.
No, no. He won't do anything to you.
He's done it before.
'Cause I'll be there.
I mean, plus, you'll need a professional
to help you negotiate
this deal anyway, so...
(INHALES SHARPLY)
(CONTEMPLATIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
(MUSIC FADES)
(CLEARS THROAT)
So, you liked it, the center?
Yeah, it's a really cool place.
Great.
Yeah. It's not a cult.
Well, I think it's great that...
that you've proved to yourself

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that you can live
a simple life like that.
We'd all be fine with a lot less, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
What?
(SIGHS)
Like, the f... the food.
(SWALLOWS) I mean, it was...
it was vegetarian, but it...
You know, you could tell it,
like, wasn't organic, and...
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
it was just kind of bland and...
I don't know, it was kind of like,
"Could I, like, really eat this
for a whole year?"
And then... Oh, my God.
And then I went back to my room
and it was this, like,
tiny little box with, like,
a mattress with stains on it
and no air conditioning, and...
- (SIGHS)
- (GASPS)
I... I... I know... I know...
I... I know I'm not supposed
to be attached

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to this kind of stuff,
and I don't want to think
that I am, but, like...
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
I don't know, I think I am. (SOBS)
Oh.
(INHALES)
I know I am. (EXHALES)
Like, the idea that I'm like...
that I'm, like, this princess
who needs things to be a certain way,
it's just so pathetic.
(SIGHS)
It's not pathetic.
No, Mom, it is. It is pathetic.
And, like... (SNIFFLES)
I don't know, like, I guess
I am spoiled, 'cause, like...
'cause, like, I can't live like that.
Victoria
Oh, sweetie.
You don't have to prove anything.
(BREATHES SHAKILY)
There's so much suffering in the world,
and we have it so easy, and, like,
other people have it so hard,
and I just... (SOBBING)
I feel like it's really unfair.
(CLICKS TONGUE) Oh.

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And I just feel really bad.
We're lucky. It's true.
(SNIFFLES, BREATHES SHAKILY)
No one in the history of the world
has lived better than we have.
Even the old kings and queens.
(CONTEMPLATIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
The least we can do is enjoy it.
(PIPER SNIFFLES)
If we don't, it's offensive.
It's an offense
to all the billions of people
who can only dream
that one day they could live like we do.
- Yeah. (SNIFFLES, CHUCKLES)
- Victoria
Oh, baby, come here.
I'm really sorry I
brought you guys here.
Victoria
Oh, baby. Oh, baby.
(MUSIC TURNS EERIE)
- (PIPER GRUNTS)
- (WHISPERS) I love you so much.
(CONTINUES SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
(SIGHS, CHUCKLES)
- Hey.
- Saxon Ratliff
Hey.
- (MUSIC CONCLUDES)
- (BIRDS CHIRPING)

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If you, uh...
If you made one of your shakes,
I'd drink it.
Saxon
Nah, I already had one earlier.
Stuff's on the counter
if you want to make one though.
No one's gonna make you a man.
Okay? You gotta do it yourself.
All right, I'll see you later.
Where are you going?
Just... down to the beach.
You want me to come?
I'm just gonna go read for a little bit.
All right, see ya.
Are you mad or something?
Okay, it... (SIGHS) Look, Loch,
it... it's okay for you
to, like, worship me,
but don't like...
"worship" me.
You know what I mean?
Look, all you care about
is getting off, and...
I saw you lying there
and I thought you looked
a little left out,
and I'm, you know, a pleaser.
I just wanna give everyone

Scene 14:Scene 14

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what they want,
and I'm in a family
full of narcissists...
Okay, dude.
Dude, dude, dude, dude, dude.
Let's just drop this,
like, forever, please.
(CONTEMPLATIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
Okay?
(CONTEMPLATIVE MUSIC CONTINUES)
(INDISTINCT DISTANT CHATTER)
(CHATTER CONTINUES)
- I don't know how to do this.
- (SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)
- (KATE LAUGHS)
- (JACLYN SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)
- (CHUCKLES)
- Come on, let's do it.
- Okay.
- Ready?
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(MUSIC TURNS OMINOUS)
- (MUSIC CONCLUDES)
- (IN THAI)
Valentin
(IN ENGLISH)
How are you, my friend?
Did you like the fights?
I looked for you after.

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I was on a date.
And you were busy with two men?
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
They your friends?
Maybe some guys I know from the gym?
What their names?
Why do you want to know their names?
I think I've seen them before.
I don't know.
Some good fights though, huh?
I'll see you soon.
(MUSIC CONCLUDES)
(WATER RIPPLING)
- Saxon
Hey.
- (BOOK THUDS)
Hey.
(GROANS)
You brought my book.
Yep.
Read it. It'll change your life.
I'm almost finished.
You've read the whole thing already?
(CHUCKLES)
I went to Duke.
Okay, genius. What do you think?
Yeah, I mean,
I thought that the sex stuff
- was pretty interesting.

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- Mm-hmm.
You should read the other ones
I gave you as well.
She's amazing. They're not about sex,
but the laws of the universe,
how we're all connected.
- Mm.
- Chelsea
She has this theory
that there are different groups,
and we're in these groups
with people we know
and people we don't know.
And these groups are working together
to fulfill this divine plan.
And sometimes you don't even know
you're in the same group
as someone else.
So, you and I,
we could be in the same group
and not even know it.
(CHUCKLES)
(SERENE MUSIC PLAYING)
(RUNNING FOOTSTEPS)
- Chelsea
Hi!
- Hi. (GROANS)
- Hey. (CHUCKLES) Hey.
- (KISSES, GIGGLES)
How did it go?

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Well, I didn't kill anyone.
- Oh, that's good.
- Yeah.
Yeah, I said what I had to say.
Mm-hmm.
Got the monkey off my back.
I missed you.
Yeah.
Yeah. (CHUCKLES)
Yeah.
(SIGHS)
Hey.
Sorry I couldn't help you out
last night.
It's fine. I'll find someone else.
It won't be hard.
(MUSIC TURNS SINISTER)
(SCOFFS)
Well, if it makes you happy, get 'em.
(PIPER SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
Victoria
You know what you should get?
Highlights. Just right here...
(CONTINUES SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
(SINISTER MUSIC CONTINUES)
(MUSIC CONCLUDES)
- Hey, Dad.
- Oh, hi.
(EXHALES HEAVILY)

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(BREATHES DEEPLY)
Hey, Lochy.
Yeah?
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
Do you think you could live
with no money?
I mean, no money, no house, nothing.
Yeah. Yeah, I think I could.
- Yeah. I think you could.
- (EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)
Hey, uh, it's your last day.
Don't just sit in here.
(HESITATES) Go... Go do something.
All right? Go swim or...
Go.
All right. (GRUNTS)
- Later, Dad.
- Yeah.
(FOOTSTEPS DEPARTING)
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
(CLICKS TONGUE)
(MUSIC INTENSIFIES)
- (INSECTS CHIRPING)
- (MUSIC FADES)
- (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
- (BIRDS CHIRPING)
(OMINOUS MUSIC CONTINUES)
(MUSIC BUILDS)

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(MUSIC CALMS)
I know you know.
Please don't say anything.
If you do, I'm dead.
They will deport me.
I go back to my country, I'm dead.
My friends, all of us, are dead.
They can't work.
They have no way to make money here.
If you say something, you're killing me.
- You're killing me...
- Fabian
Valentin.
(MUSIC FADES)
Um. Not sure if you've heard,
but the Hollingers
are coming back tomorrow morning.
They are hoping to say hello
to Ms. Lemon
and take a photo with her
before she leaves.
I'll let them know.
Can you find out
if she's okay with a photo?
We might post it on the hotel's website.
It's very important to Khun Sritala.
Mm-hmm.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
(GRUNTS)

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- Pam
Ah! Sawatdee kha!
- (SOFTLY) Fuck.
- (CHUCKLES) Good morning. Um...
- Timothy Ratliff
Hey.
I was just gonna put these on the table.
They're your phones and things.
- Saxon asked for his back.
- No, don't.
- Don't do that, please.
- So, I just... No?
Yeah, we... we don't want them.
- We don't... don't need them.
- Okay.
Are you enjoying having a break
from your phone?
Yeah.
Do you know what I could do?
I could put these
on the hotel boat that takes you
to the airport tomorrow,
and that way you can detox
till the very last minute.
- Yeah, sure. Let's do that.
- Okay.
Yeah. Pam, uh, when we got here,
you said something about this fruit.
Remind me what you said about it.
Uh, yes. Uh, the seeds

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of the fruit are poison.
- Oh, right. Yeah.
- Pam
Yeah, the locals
actually call it the suicide tree
because people grind up
the seeds and eat them
when they want to kill themselves, so...
Don't eat it.
I don't think you'd want to anyway.
It doesn't taste very nice. (CHUCKLES)
Have a wonderful last day.
Thanks.
Sawatdee kha.
(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
(TIMOTHY GRUNTS)
(GRUNTS)
(OMINOUS MUSIC CONTINUES)
(MUSIC CONCLUDES)
Can I get you any drinks?
- No, we're okay...
- Zion
Uh, two whiskeys.
- Rocks, please.
- Certainly, sir.
Yeah. Thank you.
Trust me. We're gonna need it.
(EXHALES SHARPLY)
Mom, you know how you always say
you always gotta be prepared

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because you never know
when you're gonna get your moment?
This could be it, Mom.
Don't miss your moment.
- He killed the bitch.
- Zion
I know.
Look, maybe this is the one good thing
that's meant to come out of all of it.
I mean, think about it.
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
This place is killer, man.
You're, uh... You are balling.
Thank you.
I thought we'd be talking privately.
Sorry. Zion.
Yeah.
Uh. I'm her only son.
We're a team.
It's just how it's always been.
But don't trip.
You know, cone of silence.
Uh, business major, U of H.
I don't care about what you did,
what you're gonna do.
All I care about is business
and the bottom line.
MBA, baby. Hey.
(HANDS CLAP)

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My mom brought me up to speed,
uh, on your initial offer.
Unfortunately, it's gonna be a pass.
Oh, is that right?
Zion
She's just caught up
in the ethics of it all.
She just doesn't think the guilt
and the emotional stress
would be worth it, so...
And she wants to focus
on starting her own business,
'cause that's her dream.
That was the point of the money.
Zion
Yeah, but...
that amount of money
isn't gonna get it done,
you know?
I mean, for her to take on
this kind of risk with you,
you know, she would need
to feel like her dream
- is coming true, like, full on.
- Mm-hmm.
Zion
I mean,
you got your dream here.
She's gotta get hers, right?
I mean, what happens
to a dream deferred?

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You know? Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Hers has been deferred a long time.
Might explode.
The point is...
is there enough money here
for everyone to get their happy ending?
I think so.
So, how much would it take
for her to get her happy ending?
Well, we crunched the numbers, Greg,
and if we're being realistic,
all in, soup to nuts...
- five million.
- (COUGHS)
(CONTINUES COUGHING)
(GULPS)
That's not happening.
Look, I know that's a big ask,
but I did do a little research,
and according to the internet,
uh, your wife...
late wife... ex-wife... uh, former wife,
rest in peace, was worth
at least half a billion dollars.
Don't believe everything you read.
Oh, I know. I... I found
some very public records

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where that number
pretty much checks out.
So, what we're asking for
is a mere one percent
of your total haul.
We get that, and we are ride or die
till the day we die. We are Team Gary.
I mean, peace of mind
is worth one percent.
Don't you think?
- I mean, and you won't miss it.
- (BREATHES DEEPLY)
Zion
I mean, what?
You're gonna...
You're gonna spend through
all 500 mil here?
Come on, man, how many years
you got left anyway? Right?
I'm not doing this.
He's not giving us any money,
and this is a waste of time.
Okay? Now let's go.
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
- Zion!
- Look, Mom,
why don't you just give
us businessmen a minute alone?
No. I mean it.

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Hey! Hey! Hey, hey! What...
What are you doing?
I was just making my big pitch.
- (MUSIC FADES)
- You go back in there
and you tell him your mother
takes things very personal.
She doesn't trust him, okay?
And if we don't make a deal
and we don't get the money,
who knows what I'll do.
Look at you playing hardball. Yes, Mom!
(SHUSHES) Just tell him
that your mother's
a very honest lady, okay?
But he better come through.
He wants us to be scared,
but we gotta make him scared. Okay?
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
Now go close it.
Yeah. (BREATHES HEAVILY)
(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
(MUSIC TURNS SINISTER)
(MUSIC CONCLUDES)
Mook
(IN THAI)
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
GAITOK:

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(HESITATES, SIGHS)
(SCOFFS)
GAITOK:
(SIGHS)
(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)
- (EERIE MUSIC CONTINUES)
- Victoria
(IN ENGLISH) Boys!
It's time to go to dinner! Let's go!
- (BREATHES HEAVILY)
- (MUSIC FADES)
(LIVELY INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(MUSIC FADES)
(VICTORIA SIGHS)
Hey, uh, miss, excuse me.
Uh, w... It's our last night,
and I thought it might be, uh,
fun if we made cocktails
in the room later.
Um. Piña coladas?
Uh, if you could bring some rum
and mixers to the villa,
get them sent there.
- We have a blender.
- Yes, I'll let them know.
Great.

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Piña coladas?
Yeah. It's our last night, so...
(LAUGHS)
I've never had a piña colada.
Are they good?
You're not gonna have one
tonight either. You're not 21.
- Sucks.
- (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
(OMINOUS MUSIC CONTINUES)
(MUSIC BUILDS)
(MUSIC STOPS ABRUPTLY)
- Hi!
- Jaclyn
Aw!
- Hi.
- Kate
You made it.
- Yeah.
- Kate
So pretty.
- Laurie
Aw. (CHUCKLES)
- (CHUCKLES)
I thought you were gonna miss
our last dinner.
(EXHALES) I just had a late night.
How was it? Was it fun? What'd you do?
Uh... (SIGHS)
I went to the fight thing,
which was whatever.
And then I went back

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with Aleksei to his apartment.
Ah. Okay, Aleksei.
Valentin
Ladies.
How was your last day?
- It was nice.
- Kate
Yeah.
- Laurie
Relaxing.
- Kate
Yeah.
I wanted to remind you
about your morning massages,
and tell you, um,
the owners are arriving tomorrow,
Khun Sritala and her husband,
and they were hoping
to take a photo with you.
- Would that be all right?
- Yeah, of course.
Yes, ladies, um, enjoy your dinner.
(INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING)
Jaclyn
(CLEARS THROAT) Okay.
Too nervous to eat.
You were supposed to close it.
Well, he said he was gonna
think about it.
But I gave him your account number
and the routing number, and...
Look, he could wire the money tonight.
There's a line between positive thinking

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and delusional.
You're crossing the line, babe.
Go big or go home, right?
In a goddamn body bag.
Okay, that's enough.
- Hey, what are you doing?
- What do you think I'm doing?
I'm checking my account
is what I'm doing.
- Over there getting my hopes up.
- (CHUCKLES) All right.
(EXHALES DEEPLY)
You're free.
- It's a new day.
- (MUSIC CONCLUDES)
Told you
you have nothing to worry about.
Of course I was worried. I love you.
But you know, I was never too worried.
Because amor fati.
Do you know what that means?
(CLICKS TONGUE)
I don't know what that means.
It means you have to embrace
your fate, good or bad.
Whatever will be, will be.
Yeah. And at this point, we're linked,
so if a bad thing happens

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to you, it happens to me.
Mm.
I think we're gonna be
together forever, don't you?
(SMACKS LIPS) That's the plan.
(GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING)
Is it?
Yeah.
(MUSIC CONCLUDES)
I'm so glad we did this.
(SIGHS) Me too.
Thank you for organizing, Jac,
and paying for the villa.
Are you sure we can't help pay?
(SMACKS LIPS) No, no.
It was my total pleasure.
Um, well, our pastor at our church
talks about how there's a time in life
after years of, you know,
watering and weeding
and nurturing your soil,
and then one day, you look around...
and your garden is in bloom.
And that's how I feel right now.
Everything is in bloom.
All our flowers are in bloom.
I've just been in the best mood
all week. I really have.

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I mean, I can do yoga and meditate
and whatever, but nothing,
you know, for me, makes me feel
more grounded than...
you know, being with friends,
real friends.
(SIGHS SOFTLY) It's a lonely world.
It can be, you know?
People judge you
for your superficial defects.
(CHUCKLES) You guys judge me
for my profound defects.
- No!
- Jaclyn
You know what I mean.
- Yeah.
- Jaclyn
And, uh,
I've just been on cloud nine all week,
and I really needed it, so thank you.
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
That's funny,
'cause if I'm being honest,
all week, I've just been so sad.
What?
I just f... feel like my expectations
were too high, or...
I just feel like, as you get older,
you have to justify your life, you know?
And your choices. And...

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when I'm with you guys,
it's just so, like...
like, transparent what my choices were,
and my mistakes.
I have no belief system. And I...
(VOICE QUAVERING) Well, I mean,
I've had a lot of them, but...
I mean, work was my religion
for forever,
but I definitely lost my belief there.
And then... (SNIFFLES)
And then I tried love,
and... and that was
just a painful religion,
just made everything worse.
And then, even for me,
just, like, being a mother,
that didn't save me either.
But... (BREATHES HEAVILY)
I had this epiphany today.
I don't need religion or God
to give my life meaning...
because time gives it meaning.
(CONTEMPLATIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
We... (SIGHS)
We started this life together.
I mean, we're...
we're going through it apart,

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but we're still together, and I...
I look at you guys
and it feels meaningful.
And... And I can't explain it,
but even when we're just
sitting around the pool
talking about whatever inane shit,
it still feels very fucking deep.
I'm glad you have a beautiful face.
And I'm glad that you have
a beautiful life.
And I'm just happy
to be at the table. (SNIFFLES)
- (SIGHS)
- (LAURIE SNIFFLES)
(CLICKS TONGUE)
(WHISPERS) I love you.
I love you. (CHUCKLES)
I love you.
- I love you. (CHUCKLES)
- (JACLYN LAUGHS)
(ALL LAUGH)
(SERENE MUSIC PLAYING)
(INAUDIBLE)
- (CHIMES CLINKING)
- (MUSIC TURNS SINISTER)
(ECHOING SINGING IN THAI)
(SINGING FADES)

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(EERIE VOCALIZING)
(INAUDIBLE)
- (MUSIC STOPS ABRUPTLY)
- I can't even just have,
like, one glass?
You...
You need to get a Coke.
(SIGHS) Come on.
Okay. Lochy, come on.
- Yeah, I'm coming.
- Timothy
Come on.
Um... (CLICKS TONGUE)
I... I couldn't ask
for a more perfect family.
We've had a perfect life, haven't we?
No privations, no suffering,
no trauma.
And... And my job
is to keep all that from you,
to... to keep you safe.
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
'Cause I love you.
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
- I love you so much.
- Victoria
We love you too.
- Timothy
I do.
- Piper
Yeah.
- Love you, Dad.

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- Love you, Dad.
- Timothy
So...
- Love you too.
I'd like to make a toast to Thailand.
And... I just can't wait
to get back home.
But to Thailand, thank you.
- (MISPRONOUNCING THAI)
- Lochlan
Yeah.
- Piper
Khop khun kha.
- Saxon
Mm-hmm.
(MISPRONOUNCING THAI)
Okay.
- Piña colada?
- Timothy
Hmm?
(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
- Smells weird.
- No... It's... No. Mm.
It's strong. It's fine. It's fine.
Drink it, drink it. It's good. Drink it.
(MUSIC FADES)
- No! No.
- (PIPER SHRIEKS)
- Dad!
- Dude! Dude!
- (OVERLAPPING CHATTER)
- No, it's, uh... the...
- No, the coconut milk's off.

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- What?
- Victoria
Tim! Take a nap!
- The co... coconut milk's off!
- The coconut milk is off!
- Victoria
Relax! Okay.
- The coconut milk is off!
- Not good. No. No, no. No. No.
- Don't drink it. Here.
- Victoria
It's all good.
- Piper
Come on!
- Timothy
Come on.
(SAXON SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
- (MUSIC CONCLUDES)
- (BREATHES HEAVILY)
Uh...
(EXHALES) Okay.
I... I'll see you...
I'll see you in the morning.
Is that it, Tim?
Have you ever heard of wine?
- What?
- There are several bottles
of wine in the cabinet right behind you.
- Yeah. Yeah.
- Victoria
You know?
Victoria
Lochlan,
why don't you get an opener

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- and get some glasses out?
- Get some towels.
Victoria
A few glasses of wine.
Who wants to try some chardonnay?
- Piper, can you get the glasses?
- Piper
Yeah.
- Victoria
Yeah.
- (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
(INSECTS CHIRPING)
(MUSIC FADES)
- (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)
- (GRUNTS SOFTLY)
(MUSIC CONCLUDES)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
- (SINGING IN THAI)
- (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
(MUSIC BUILDS)
- (MUSIC STOPS ABRUPTLY)
- (BIRD CALLING)
(EXHALES DEEPLY)
(KEYBOARD CLACKING)
(KEYBOARD KEY CLACKS)
(ANIMALS CHITTERING)
(HAUNTING SCREECH)
- (BIRDS CHIRPING)
- (EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)
(FUMIGATOR HISSING)
(INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING)

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(IN THAI)
Uh...
BODYGUARD:
(SPEAKS THAI)
(MUSIC CONCLUDES)
LEK:
(SIGHS)
(LEK RESPONDS IN THAI)
(CONTEMPLATIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
(EXHALES DEEPLY)
LEK:
(MUSIC TURNS DRAMATIC)
(DOOR CLOSES)
(MUSIC FADES)
Zion
(IN ENGLISH) Holy shit, Ma.
- I called the bank. It's real.
- Zion
Are you kidding?
- And then Greg called...
- Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
What did... What did... What did he say?
He said he gave it to Tanya
as much as he gave it to me.
It's... It's what she would have wanted.
- (INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING)
- Belinda
And he said
he wanted to make sure I lived up
to my end of the bargain.
And then what... what'd you say?

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(LAUGHS)
- I said that I would!
- Yes, Mom! Yes!
- Yes!
- Wait, wait, wait. I'm nervous.
But I just gotta wrap up
some things today,
and then we're gonna be outta here.
- Wha... Get outta where?
- Thailand!
I don't wanna be down the road from him
when he changes his mind!
No, the money's already
in the bank, bruh!
But still! I wanna be hard to find.
You know what I'm saying?
Okay. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Um, um...
What about your man?
You two were gonna start
a business together?
Don't you wanna start your own spa?
Can't I just be rich
for five fucking minutes?
- (GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING)
- (CHUCKLES)
Yes. (CHUCKLES) Yes, you can.
- I can?

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- Zion
Yes, you can.
- Yeah? (LAUGHS)
- Yes, we can! Yeah! (LAUGHS)
(BOTH LAUGH)
- Zion
Oh, my God. Yeah.
- Okay, look, listen. Um...
Why don't you go get ready, okay?
- Zion
All right.
- I booked a treatment for you,
stress management,
and you're gonna need it.
What? No, no, no, no, no!
I don't need that, Ma.
We're too blessed to be stressed!
Look, it's too late to cancel,
and if I'm paying, you're going, so...
- Okay. (GIGGLES)
- go get ready. (CHUCKLES)
- (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
- (CHUCKLES)
Mom?
(OMINOUS MUSIC CONTINUES)
(MUSIC BUILDS)
- (BLENDER ECHOING)
- (OMINOUS MUSIC CONTINUES)
Chelsea
She's a Cancer Venus,
so it's very intense,
- and he's an Aquarius Moon.

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- (MUSIC CONCLUDES)
It's, like, "Babe,
it's never gonna happen."
- Rick
Right. No.
- He's never gonna give you what you need.
- He's gonna withhold forever.
- No. Hey.
Can we pick up
this story in just a second?
I'm still really hungry.
- Ooh, can you get me a donut?
- You got it. Donut.
Jim Hollinger
Well, look who it is.
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
You come into my house, lie to my wife.
Get the fuck outta here.
We're on the first boat.
I don't want anything to do with you.
I remember your mother.
Yeah.
I knew she was a drunk and a slut.
Didn't know she was a liar too.
Wanted you to think your father
was some kind of great man.
She told you a fairy tale, kid.
Your father was no saint.
You didn't miss out on much.
And that's the fucking truth.

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(INSECTS CHIRPING)
What?
You're gonna try to kill me now?
I don't think so.
- (EXHALES)
- (MUSIC CONCLUDES)
- What is it?
- He's here.
- (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
- Who?
Just insulted my fucking mother.
(SIGHS)
Forget about him. Okay?
You're free. Remember?
- You're over it.
- How can...
How can I get over
everything he's taken from me?
He took my whole fucking life.
Stop worrying about the love
you didn't get.
Think about the love you have.
I love you.
I'm right here.
I couldn't even get
a goddamn breakfast up there.
Are you all blind or what?
(BREATHES DEEPLY)

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(WHISPERS) Please don't do
something stupid.
(INHALES DEEPLY)
Uh...
I'm... I'm fine. I gotta... I gotta go.
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
- You're really freaking me out.
- I'm just gonna go see my lady.
- What lady?
- The Indian lady.
- It's...
- (JIM SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)
(SPEAKS THAI)
I'm gonna be okay.
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
(MUSIC INTENSIFIES)
(GASPS SOFTLY) Shit.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC CONTINUES)
(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)
(EERIE VOCALIZING)
(MUSIC BUILDS)
- Hey.
- (MUSIC FADES)
Yo.
- What book are you reading?
- What book?
- (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
- The one in your hand.

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Oh. I don't know. Here, it's like a...
- Victoria
Morning.
- It's a book, whatever.
- Okay.
- (SIGHS)
I'm gonna let your father sleep.
He needs it. Okay, let's go.
Lochlan, sweetheart, breakfast!
Saxon
Lochy, come on.
All right, just meet us up there!
(MUSIC INTENSIFIES)
(RETCHES, COUGHS)
(COUGHS)
(RETCHES, COUGHS)
(MUSIC TURNS EERIE)
(EERIE MUSIC CONTINUES)
(MUSIC CONCLUDES)
The treatment center, uh...
room is over there
- by the big Buddha...
- All right, Mom. Breathe.
- (CHUCKLES)
- Okay? We did that shit.
- Belinda
Yeah. (GIGGLES)
- We did that shit!
Yeah, we did. (LAUGHS)
And you worked so hard, Ma.
Good things happen to good people.

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You're right. I love you.
I love you too.
Now, go on,
find your center or some shit.
(BOTH CHUCKLE)
- (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
- (SIGHS)
Belinda
Sawatdee kha!
Zion?
Yes, ma'am.
Amrita
I will be sitting
with you this morning.
- Sawatdee kha.
- Sawatdee khrap.
Right this way.
- How are you?
- I'm very well, thank you.
How are you doing?
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Rick
Hey. Hey.
Hi.
Ah, I will... I will be right with you.
- Rick
Hey.
- Hey.
I... I really... I... I... I...
I need to talk to you.
I have a session.
(SIGHS) This is urgent. Okay, please?

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I just need a few minutes of your time.
- I...
- I can meet you after.
- (SIGHS) No, no.
- Look, just sit on this bench.
I'll have them bring you a key, and...
I need to talk to you now.
Please.
Look. You'll be all right. Okay?
- (SIGHS)
- Amrita
I'll come find you.
(GULPS)
I promise. Just give me one hour.
One hour. Sorry. I'll come find you.
- (BREATHES HEAVILY)
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Uh... (SWALLOWS)
(OMINOUS MUSIC CONTINUES)
(MUTTERS SHAKILY)
(SWALLOWS)
(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)
(CHIMES CLINKING)
(SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES)
- (SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES)
- (INHALES SHARPLY)
(GRUNTS SOFTLY, INHALES)
(GRUNTS)
(SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES)

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Lochy?
Lochy!
Son! Wake up! Hey!
Wake up! Son! Son!
Come on, come on!
Come... Come on! Come on now!
Come on! Help!
Come on, baby.
Come on. Pl... Help!
Help! Somebody help!
(INAUDIBLE)
- (WATER BURBLING)
- (MUSIC CONCLUDES)
- (MUSIC CONCLUDES)
- How were the massages?
Oh, fantastic.
We had to sneak one last in
before we leave.
(BOTH CHUCKLE)
Thank you for agreeing to a photo.
- Oh! Khun Sritala.
- Kate
Oh!
- (ALL EXCLAIM)
- Sritala
Sawatdee kha.
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
Sritala
Sawatdee kha.
Sawatdee kha.
May I introduce you

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to my husband, Khun Jim?
- We love your show.
- Jaclyn
Aw!
(CHUCKLING) Well, we love your hotel!
- (JIM CHUCKLES)
- (SRITALA CHUCKLES)
We hope you had a nice stay.
Kate
Oh, my gosh.
We had the best time.
(INSECTS CHIRPING)
(MUSIC CONCLUDES)
Oh, Belinda.
- (CHUCKLES) Sawatdee khrap.
- Sawatdee kha.
Pornchai
How are you today?
Good, yeah. Um. How are you?
I'm good, as usual.
- (LAUGHS)
- (CHUCKLES) Pornchai, um...
I've really loved getting to know you.
But... (CHUCKLES NERVOUSLY)
some things have changed for me, and...
I'm gonna be leaving Thailand tomorrow.
Uh. Lea... Leaving... tomorrow?
(SOFT PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
What about, um...
starting a business?
You, me.

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Maybe. But...
circumstances have changed for me,
and I just can't commit
to anything right now.
I'm so sorry.
Uh. Would you mind very much
- if we took a picture together?
- Jaclyn
No, of course!
- Great.
- Okay!
- Kate
Okay!
- Sritala
Jim, you stay here.
- I'll go over here.
- Okay.
- Kate
Okay.
- Yes. Come, come. Come.
Fabian
One...
Beautiful! (CHUCKLES)
- Wow. Such beautiful ladies!
- (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
(GROUP LAUGHS)
Fabian
Okay, maybe one more.
One more.
- Kate
Okay.
- Jaclyn
Okay.
Fabian
Maybe one with just...
- Kate
Oh, yes.
- Yeah?

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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Fabian
Wow. Beautiful.
Khun Jim, in the camera.
- Yeah. Thank you so much.
- (JACLYN LAUGHS)
(GROUP EXCLAIMS, LAUGHS)
- Kate
Surprise!
- Cheese!
- Fabian
Oh, yeah. That's good!
- Oh!
Fabian
That's good,
Khun Jim. Yeah.
- (MUSIC INTENSIFIES)
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(MUSIC BUILDS)
- (MUSIC CALMS)
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Chelsea
Rick?
Get outta here.
Why? What are you doing?
Get the fuck out of here.
(TENSE MUSIC CONTINUES)
Fabian
Smile! (LAUGHS)
- (GROUP GASPS, EXCLAIMS)
- Jaclyn
Oh, my God!
- (MUSIC CONCLUDES)
- Kate
(GASPS) Oh, my God!
Fuck you.

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- (SHRIEKS)
- (GROUP SCREAMS)
Jim!
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
- Belinda
Pornchai! (WHIMPERS)
- You okay? You okay? Go, go, go! Go!
(DISTANT SCREAMING)
(GRUNTS, WHIMPERS)
(SOBS) Why?
He killed my father.
He's your father.
(MUSIC TURNS SOMBER)
He's your father! He told me.
He's your father!
(SOBS)
(EERIE MUSICAL STING)
(GUNSHOT)
(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
- Rick, what the fuck?
- (RICK GRUNTS)
(GUNSHOTS)
(GONG CLANGS)
- (SHRIEKS) Wait!
- Pornchai
Go, go, go, go!
(MONKEYS SCREECHING)
(DISTANT GUNSHOTS)
(MUSIC BUILDS)
- (GUNSHOTS)

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- (GONG CLANGS)
- (GUNSHOTS)
- (GRUNTS)
- (MUSIC STOPS)
- (BODY THUDS)
(PANTS)
(ANIMALS CHATTERING)
(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)
No.
No, no, no, no, no, no!
No, no, no! No, no.
- (WHIMPERS)
- Rick
Hey, hey, hey. Hey, no.
Hey, you're... you're okay, all right?
You... You... You're gonna be okay.
You hear me? You hear me?
- (BREATHES HEAVILY)
- You can't die on me, okay?
Chelsea.
(BREATHES HEAVILY, SOBS)
No.
No. No!
(SOBBING) Hey! Hey!
Help me, please!
(SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES)
(EERIE VOCALIZING)
(MUSIC TURNS TENSE)
Rick
I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.

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We're gonna be together forever, okay?
(PANTS) Just like you said.
(SRITALA SOBS)
(IN THAI)
(IN ENGLISH) Hey! Stop!
(MUSIC BUILDS)
(IN THAI)
(YELLING IN THAI)
(RICK GROANS)
(GUNSHOT)
- (BREATHES HEAVILY)
- (MUSIC FADES)
- (EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)
- (CHIMES CLINKING)
(CONTEMPLATIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
(CONTEMPLATIVE MUSIC CONTINUES)
- (PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
- (SOBS)
(RETCHES, COUGHS)
(IN ENGLISH) Hey. (BREATHES SHAKILY)
(SNIFFLES, EXHALES HEAVILY)
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
I think I just saw God.
(LAUGHS)
Come on.
(SNIFFLES) Oh, God.
(SERENE MUSIC PLAYING)
(SERENE MUSIC CONTINUES)

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Kids! Look what I have!
(INHALES SHARPLY)
Hey, guys. Wait.
(MUSIC CONCLUDES)
Things are about to change.
We'll get through it as a family.
'Cause we're...
we're a strong family, and... and...
you know, nothing's
more important than family,
right?
(GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING)
("LO, HOW A ROSE E'ER BLOOMING" BY
THE CATHEDRAL SINGERS PLAYING)
♪ Lo, how a rose e'er blooming ♪
♪ From tender stem ♪
♪ Hath sprung ♪
- ♪ Of Jesse's lineage coming ♪
- (INAUDIBLE CHATTER)
♪ As those of old ♪
♪ Have sung ♪
♪ It came, a blossom bright ♪
♪ Amid the cold of winter ♪
♪ When half spent ♪
♪ Was the night ♪
♪ Isaiah 'twas foretold it ♪
♪ The rose ♪
♪ I have in mind ♪

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♪ With Mary, we behold it ♪
♪ The Virgin Mother kind ♪
♪ To show God's love aright ♪
♪ She bore to us a Savior ♪
♪ When half spent ♪
♪ Was the night ♪
♪ This flower's fragrance
Tender ♪
♪ With sweetness ♪
♪ Fills the air ♪
♪ Dispels
With glorious splendor ♪
♪ The darkness everywhere ♪
♪ It came, a blossom bright ♪
♪ Amid the cold of winter ♪
♪ When half spent ♪
♪ Was the night ♪
(MUSIC CONCLUDES)
(KISSES)
(LAUGHS) Whoo!
("NOTHING FROM NOTHING"
BY BILLY PRESTON PLAYING)
♪ Nothin' from nothin'
Leaves nothin' ♪
♪ You gotta have somethin'
If you wanna be with me ♪
♪ Nothin' from nothin'
Leaves nothin' ♪

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♪ You gotta have somethin'
If you wanna be with me ♪
♪ I'm not tryin'
To be your hero ♪
♪ 'Cause that zero
Is too cold for me ♪
♪ Brr! ♪
♪ I'm not tryin' to be
Your highness ♪
♪ 'Cause that minus
Is too low to see ♪
♪ Uh-huh! Hey! ♪
♪ Nothin' from nothin'
Leaves nothin' ♪
♪ And I'm not stuffin'
Believe you me ♪
♪ Don't you remember I told ya ♪
♪ I'm a soldier
In the war on poverty? ♪
♪ Yeah, yes, I am ♪
(SONG CONCLUDES)

The White Lotus Season 3 Scripts

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All The White Lotus Seasons (21 Episodes)
S03E01
Same Spirits, New Forms
S03E02
Special Treatments
S03E03
The Meaning of Dreams
S03E04
Hide or Seek
S03E05
Full-Moon Party
S03E06
Denials
S03E07
Killer Instincts
S03E08
Amor Fati