Thrown Out in Front of His New Woman… A Year Later He Came to Her Office Asking for Work — Transcript

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1. 0:05Your fertility tests came back, Mrs.
2. 0:07Mercer. Everything is normal.
3. 0:10>> Normal? All of it?
4. 0:12>> All of it. Has your husband been tested?
5. 0:14>> His mother says it's me.
6. 0:17>> His mother isn't a doctor. Bring him in.
7. 0:23>> Grant, [music] pick up.
8. 0:28Fine. I'll show you the test results
9. 0:30tonight at your birthday party.
10. 0:40>> I told you not to bring that out here.
11. 0:45>> It's Grant's birthday cake.
12. 0:47I made it for him.
13. 0:50>> Look at what the other wives are
14. 0:51wearing. Now, look at yourself.
15. 0:55>> Poor Nora, 6 years married and still no
16. 0:58children. And who's that at the bar
17. 1:00wearing the burgundy dress?
18. 1:01>> That's Brooke, Grant's new partner.
19. 1:03>> Hm, pretty girl.
20. 1:07Pour me another.
21. 1:09This party just got better.
22. 1:11Happy birthday, Grant.
23. 1:14>> Three days of work, you should have
24. 1:15asked me first.
25. 1:19>> Throw that in the trash. It's my son's
26. 1:21birthday, not a bake sale.
27. 1:29Grant, say something.
28. 1:32>> You embarrassed me, Nora.
29. 1:39Do you know who was at that party
30. 1:40tonight? My partners.
31. 1:42>> And their wives.
32. 1:44I baked you a cake, Grant. That's all I
33. 1:46did.
34. 1:49>> When we met,
35. 1:50I had one truck.
36. 1:52You had nothing.
37. 1:54We were the same.
38. 1:56Now I have 40 trucks and this house.
39. 2:00And my wife is still a baker. [music]
40. 2:03>> You're ashamed of me.
41. 2:06tion
42. 2:07>> I'm ashamed of where you come from.
43. 2:10And tonight you showed it to everyone.
44. 2:14>> Grant, wait. My tests came back today.
45. 2:18>> Not tonight, Nora. I've heard enough
46. 2:19from you today.
47. 2:25>> me
48. 2:26Too much salt.
49. 2:29I made it your way, Diane.
50. 2:31>> Then you heard me wrong.
51. 2:33>> Six years,
52. 2:35no child.
53. 2:36>> [music]
54. 2:36>> My son needs a family, not a baker.
55. 2:40Diane, my tests are normal. Yesterday
56. 2:43the doctor said the Hollis girl has
57. 2:45twins.
58. 2:46Grant?
59. 2:48>> Not now, Nora.
60. 2:55>> me
61. 2:57Don't listen to them.
62. 2:58You're a wonderful cook. You have a
63. 3:00gift.
64. 3:12>> Good evening. Grant invited me to dinner
65. 3:15to talk business away from the office.
66. 3:18>> Funny.
67. 3:19His business never needed a dress like
68. 3:21that.
69. 3:23>> Brooke, darling, come in. I'm so glad
70. 3:26you made it.
71. 3:28>> Mrs. Mercer, thank you for having me.
72. 3:30Your home is beautiful.
73. 3:32>> Rosa, please show Brooke to the guest
74. 3:34room.
75. 3:40>> You invited her, not Grant. She has what
76. 3:43you don't.
77. 3:45Money, a name, and nobody will ever
78. 3:47blame her for an empty nursery.
79. 3:50This morning you didn't let me finish.
80. 3:53Read it.
81. 3:54The doctor says I'm fine.
82. 4:01Grant has a guest tonight.
83. 4:03>> [music]
84. 4:03>> Go upstairs.
85. 4:09Your mother put your business partner in
86. 4:11our guest room.
87. 4:12>> She's here for work. [music] Don't
88. 4:14start.
89. 4:14>> In that dress?
90. 4:16At 9:00 at night?
91. 4:18>> Listen to yourself. You're jealous of my
92. 4:20partner.
93. 4:21>> I'm not jealous. I saw how she looks at
94. 4:24you.
95. 4:25>> You see things that aren't there.
96. 4:26You always have.
97. 4:29>> Don't do that. Don't make me crazy.
98. 4:32>> What is all this shouting? We have a
99. 4:34guest. [music]
100. 4:35>> She thinks Brooke is after me.
101. 4:38>> Oh, Nora.
102. 4:39>> [music]
103. 4:39>> Again? First the waiter, then the
104. 4:42neighbor, now Brooke? She's been like
105. 4:44this [music] for months, Grant. I told
106. 4:47you.
107. 4:49My tests are normal, Grant.
108. 4:50>> [music]
109. 4:50>> Maybe it was never me.
110. 4:53I saw her paper. She's lying.
111. 4:58>> Enough!
112. 4:59YOU WANT TO ACCUSE ME?
113. 5:02DO IT SOMEWHERE ELSE.
114. 5:11GET OUT.
115. 5:13TONIGHT.
116. 5:37>> [groaning]
117. 5:42>> JULIE, can you come get me? I'm at the
118. 5:45gate.
119. 5:50You baked these this morning.
120. 5:53Take them.
121. 5:55Thank you, Rosa.
122. 5:57For everything.
123. 6:14>> Sit. I'll make tea.
124. 6:15He threw you out over a cake?
125. 6:18Over 6 years.
126. 6:20The cake was just [music] the last day.
127. 6:22Did he hit you?
128. 6:25No.
129. 6:26He threw my [music] suitcase down the
130. 6:27stairs.
131. 6:29And Diane?
132. 6:32She read my text, [music] Julie.
133. 6:34Then she told him I was lying.
134. 6:36So, it's not you.
135. 6:39It was never me.
136. 6:42Start over [music] with what?
137. 6:44I have a suitcase and a bag of pies.
138. 6:46You have me.
139. 6:48And my couch.
140. 6:50That's a start.
141. 6:52Cry tonight.
142. 6:53Tomorrow we start over.
143. 7:02Which room is mine?
144. 7:05The guest room. Until there's a ring.
145. 7:08>> She takes our bedroom, Mom.
146. 7:11>> All this flour. She lived in this
147. 7:13kitchen. Leave her jars. Rosa uses them.
148. 7:17Rosa can buy new ones with Grant's
149. 7:19money.
150. 7:20It's not your money, Brooke.
151. 7:22In this house, we don't sit with phones
152. 7:24at dinner. Grant, tell your mother it's
153. 7:26work.
154. 7:27>> Mom, let it go. She's my partner.
155. 7:36>> I heard crying through the wall last
156. 7:38night.
157. 7:39>> Mrs. Ruth, this is my sister, Nora.
158. 7:42>> Soup first. Then you tell me who made
159. 7:45you cry.
160. 7:45>> My husband.
161. 7:47>> And his mother. [music]
162. 7:49Then they don't deserve your tears.
163. 7:54>> [snorts]
164. 7:54>> Who made these?
165. 7:55>> She did. Every [music] morning for 6
166. 7:57years.
167. 7:58>> You bake like this and you sit here
168. 8:00crying?
169. 8:01>> Who would buy them for me?
170. 8:03>> The men on 34th. The construction
171. 8:04[music]
172. 8:05site. 7:00 a.m. They're starving. Bake.
173. 8:09Sell to people who work for a living.
174. 8:18Hand pies, $2, still warm.
175. 8:20>> lady.
176. 8:22Smells good. Lemon? Give me one.
177. 8:24>> Thank you. Lemon and apple baked at 4:00
178. 8:26this morning.
179. 8:28Three.
180. 8:29Three in an hour.
181. 8:30>> How many left?
182. 8:32>> 17.
183. 8:34>> I'll take them all. If they're good, I
184. 8:35want 40 tomorrow.
185. 8:37>> 40? You haven't even tried one.
186. 8:40>> Then let me try. Real butter?
187. 8:4340, 7:00 a.m. Right here.
188. 8:46>> I'll be here.
189. 8:50Sign here.
190. 8:51I need access to the company account.
191. 8:53[music]
192. 8:53>> Dad never let anyone near the books.
193. 8:55>> I'm your partner.
194. 8:57Or am I just your guest? [music]
195. 9:00Six new trucks, white. Put it on Mercer
196. 9:02Freight.
197. 9:03>> Grant, you gave her the company card?
198. 9:06>> She's growing the business, Mom.
199. 9:10>> Your father [music] worked 30 years for
200. 9:12that company.
201. 9:13>> Dad is dead, Mom. I run it now.
202. 9:16>> You run nothing. She runs you.
203. 9:21Empty basket? Who bought them? A
204. 9:24foreman. All 17. He didn't even blink.
205. 9:2617? Nora, that's $34.
206. 9:29>> wants 40 tomorrow, 7:00 a.m.
207. 9:31>> 40? We have flour for 20.
208. 9:35>> Then I buy flour tonight. And butter.
209. 9:37I'm off tomorrow. I'll roll, you fill.
210. 9:39Like Mom's kitchen.
211. 9:42That's 32. Eight more.
212. 9:44Your wrist! Let me see.
213. 9:47It's fine. Put the next tray in.
214. 9:5040. Go to sleep.
215. 9:52>> Is this the pie lady?
216. 9:53Two, lady. Lemon.
217. 9:55Told you. Line up, guys. No cutting.
218. 9:59You burned yourself for my guys.
219. 10:01>> It's nothing. The oven door.
220. 10:03>> My guys finished 17 by 9.
221. 10:07At lunch I called three other foremen.
222. 10:09They want you every morning.
223. 10:12>> Every morning?
224. 10:13I have one oven in my sister's kitchen.
225. 10:15>> Then get two.
226. 10:17I'm Sam, by the way.
227. 10:18>> Nora.
228. 10:20>> See you tomorrow, Nora.
229. 10:22Straight now? Straight.
230. 10:24>> 6 months ago she sold pies at your
231. 10:26fence. Now I have a line to the corner.
232. 10:29>> Then open up, boss.
233. 10:31>> My savings are in that oven. Don't burn
234. 10:34it. The bank's money, [music] too. I
235. 10:36won't.
236. 10:38>> Finally!
237. 10:39Two lemon, lady. Like always.
238. 10:42>> Next, please. What can I get you? Nora?
239. 10:44Nora Mercer from [music] Westchester?
240. 10:46It's Hayes now. Lemon or apple? Lemon.
241. 10:49I'm sorry about the cake.
242. 10:52>> Six new trucks, Grant.
243. 10:55We can't fill the old ones.
244. 10:57Brooke says a big company needs a big
245. 10:58fleet.
246. 10:59>> [music]
247. 10:59>> Brooke has never been to this yard.
248. 11:01Hill Farms pulled their contract this
249. 11:03morning.
250. 11:04Hill Farms is half our money.
251. 11:07You missed three meetings [music] with
252. 11:08them. You were in Miami.
253. 11:11And the drivers haven't been paid in 2
254. 11:13weeks.
255. 11:14Brooke does the payroll now.
256. 11:17Then ask Brooke where the money went.
257. 11:21Sold out by two.
258. 11:23Every single tray.
259. 11:24>> Your guys ate half of it.
260. 11:26>> Then let me buy you dinner to make up
261. 11:28for it.
262. 11:31>> 6 months ago I didn't have a home, Sam.
263. 11:34>> I know.
264. 11:35I'm not in a hurry.
265. 11:37>> Not yet.
266. 11:38Ask me again.
267. 11:40>> I will.
268. 11:41>> Diane?
269. 11:44It's Carol. You won't believe whose
270. 11:46bakery I'm standing in.
271. 11:48Nora's. And there's a line to the
272. 11:50corner.
273. 11:53Grant won't notice the shoes.
274. 11:56Carol called. Nora has a bakery [music]
275. 11:58now.
276. 11:59When I'm Mrs. Mercer, this kitchen goes
277. 12:01first.
278. 12:04Your team, Mrs. Mercer.
279. 12:06Wrong cups. [music] I told you twice.
280. 12:09These are the cups Mrs. Mercer likes.
281. 12:11Soon that's me.
282. 12:14I run this house now. Pack your things.
283. 12:16[music]
284. 12:17Mrs. Mercer?
285. 12:1911 years I've worked here. Do as she
286. 12:22says, Rosa.
287. 12:26Nora? They said you'd be here.
288. 12:29Rosa, what happened?
289. 12:31Brooke threw me out. Same words he used
290. 12:34on you.
291. 12:3611 years you fed that family.
292. 12:39And you fed me. Every morning for 5
293. 12:41years. Can you work a register?
294. 12:44I can learn.
295. 12:47You start at the new place.
296. 12:49Thank you, Nora. I won't let you down.
297. 12:52>> [music]
298. 12:52>> Another mouth for my savings? Another
299. 12:54pair of hands.
300. 12:58The bank wrote.
301. 13:00Final notice on the trucks.
302. 13:02You read Grant's mail now?
303. 13:04Somebody in this house has to.
304. 13:06>> Mom, give me that.
305. 13:08>> She spent the company on shoes and a
306. 13:10kitchen.
307. 13:12Grant, are you going to let her talk to
308. 13:13me like that?
309. 13:14>> Mom, stay out of my business.
310. 13:18>> I chose her for you.
311. 13:20I was wrong.
312. 13:21>> You chose her because she had money.
313. 13:24>> She never had a dollar. She had our
314. 13:26name.
315. 13:27>> [laughter]
316. 13:28>> I'm out tonight. Don't wait up.
317. 13:31Grant is working late again. Third
318. 13:33night. Then eat with the TV, Diane.
319. 13:38Noodles in a box. On my mother's table.
320. 13:41Even Nora set a better table than this.
321. 13:45Grant, it's Mom. Call me back, please.
322. 13:48Grant? [music]
323. 13:49Is that you?
324. 13:51Diane?
325. 14:03>> They need to operate on her hip.
326. 14:05Tomorrow.
327. 14:06>> She's your mother, not mine. Handle it.
328. 14:09>> Brooke, I need you here.
329. 14:11>> I need a life, Grant.
330. 14:13>> What do you mean zero?
331. 14:16>> The account was emptied on Friday, Mr.
332. 14:18Mercer. [music]
333. 14:20>> Brooke had the second card.
334. 14:23Brooke emptied the company account. The
335. 14:25hospital was the last bill I could pay.
336. 14:27>> And the house?
337. 14:29>> The house is sold, Mom.
338. 14:33I threw out the one woman who never
339. 14:35asked me for money.
340. 14:37>> I'm tired, Grant.
341. 14:40>> Then sleep. I'll be here.
342. 14:46>> The buyers want it empty by Friday.
343. 14:48>> Friday?
344. 14:50Fine.
345. 14:51>> And these photos?
346. 14:55>> Keep this one. Throw the rest in the
347. 14:57trash.
348. 14:59>> All of it?
349. 15:01The portraits, too?
350. 15:02>> All of it.
351. 15:05>> Your father built that company with his
352. 15:07hands.
353. 15:08>> And I lost it with mine.
354. 15:11>> Brooke took it, not you.
355. 15:14>> I let her.
356. 15:15I have no choice, Mom. Your pills cost
357. 15:17more than our rent.
358. 15:18>> Then wear a clean shirt.
359. 15:22All of it.
360. 15:24And the bag.
361. 15:25Declined, [music] Ms. Sterling.
362. 15:28Try the other one.
363. 15:30Also declined.
364. 15:32>> Two bakeries, both in profit in a year.
365. 15:35>> I want a [music] third, on Steinway
366. 15:37Street.
367. 15:38>> Your numbers say yes, Ms. Hayes.
368. 15:40>> Breathe, Nora.
369. 15:45A year ago, you had 20 pies in a basket.
370. 15:49And a sister who didn't let me quit.
371. 15:55Three bakeries in a year, Nora.
372. 15:58Four, if the bank says yes again.
373. 16:00Everyone, this is Rosa. She starts here
374. 16:02today. Lemon or apple?
375. 16:05>> Everybody here eats her pies.
376. 16:07I want you all to hear this. Nora, I'm
377. 16:09asking again. Dinner.
378. 16:12Friday.
379. 16:15>> Friday, 7:00. Don't be late.
380. 16:18>> About time, boss.
381. 16:20>> Don't keep him waiting, girl.
382. 16:23>> [laughter]
383. 16:25>> 6 months he waited.
384. 16:27I waited 40 years for my Harold.
385. 16:30>> Ruth, you married him at 19.
386. 16:33>> It felt like 40.
387. 16:34>> I almost wore the hard hat.
388. 16:37>> I'd still say yes.
389. 16:40>> Why did you say not yet back then?
390. 16:42>> Fair question.
391. 16:44I had to stand on my own first.
392. 16:48>> You stood.
393. 16:50I watched you do it.
394. 16:52>> Then sit with [music] me a while.
395. 16:54>> Same time next Friday?
396. 16:57>> Every Friday.
397. 17:00>> Good night, boss.
398. 17:02>> Good night, Sam.
399. 17:07The next driver is Grant Mercer. Should
400. 17:09I send him away?
401. 17:10>> No. [music]
402. 17:11Send him in.
403. 17:12>> Good morning. I'm here about the driver
404. 17:14job.
405. 17:17Nobody hires a man who lost his own
406. 17:19company.
407. 17:20We rent two rooms in Jamaica now.
408. 17:22And I owed you an apology to your face.
409. 17:27>> You start Monday at 5:00. Bakers start
410. 17:29early.
411. 17:30>> After everything I did, you're the one
412. 17:32giving me a chance.
413. 17:37Here are the papers for the insurance.
414. 17:40>> What is this?
415. 17:42>> Mom's pills. Every month, I'll manage
416. 17:44somehow.
417. 17:47>> I'll pay for your mother's medicine. She
418. 17:49shouldn't suffer because you lost
419. 17:50everything.
420. 17:51>> Nora,
421. 17:52I can't take that.
422. 17:54>> You're not taking it. She is.
423. 17:58>> You're the new driver.
424. 18:00Grant.
425. 18:02I know who you are.
426. 18:07She gave you a job.
427. 18:09Don't make her sorry.
428. 18:10I already made her sorry once.
429. 18:13Then drive careful.
430. 18:16>> Where's the pie lady?
431. 18:19>> She sent me. 40 lemon and apple.
432. 18:2240 lemon and apple. Tell her the guys
433. 18:25say thank you.
434. 18:30>> Diane, [music] don't.
435. 18:34It was never you.
436. 18:36The doctor warned me when Grant had with
437. 18:37mumps [music] at 16.
438. 18:40At 25, I had him tested and never told
439. 18:42him.
440. 18:46I let you carry it for 5 years.
441. 18:50Get up.
442. 18:52You made me believe something was wrong
443. 18:53with me.
444. 18:55I forgive [music] you.
445. 18:57But you'll tell him yourself.
446. 19:00>> Tell me what, Mom?
447. 19:02>> Grant.
448. 19:04Mumps.
449. 19:05>> At 16, you knew.
450. 19:09>> 5 years you let me think it.
451. 19:12>> Why didn't you leave sooner?
452. 19:16>> Because I loved you.
453. 19:18That part is over.
454. 19:20>> Sam's a lucky man.
455. 19:23>> Be at 5, Grant. The pies won't wait.
456. 19:29>> Who pushed the tables together?
457. 19:32Nobody asked me.
458. 19:34>> You'd have bossed us all, Ruth.
459. 19:37>> She still will.
460. 19:39>> Should I ask him in?
461. 19:42>> Not today. [music] Maybe one day.
462. 19:47It's the same cake. [music]
463. 19:49>> Yes. This time somebody's going to eat
464. 19:51it.
465. 19:52>> Cut it, Nora. People are hungry.
466. 19:54>> And I want the top tier.
467. 19:56>> [laughter]
468. 20:02>> Morning, you two.
469. 20:07>> Say hi to Daddy.