Liam really wanted to be there. It’s really such bad luck that everything with his phone and everything just went kaplooie when it did.

DAPHNA

It’s not “bad luck” but you know what? Let’s not go into it right now. Or ever. Ok? Thanks.

JONAH

(To MELODY.)

How was Aspen?

MELODY

Oh. Uhm, it was so much fun. I’m still learning. I mostly just stayed on the bunny hills, but these little munchkins kept showing me up! It was so embarrassing!

LIAM

She was great.

MELODY

He’s being generous. I fell down so many times I—

DAPHNA

Yeah there were more than four hundred people at the funeral. It was really packed.

MELODY

Four hundred! That’s—

DAPHNA

He touched a lot of people, and he was a hugely important figure in the—

LIAM

Who spoke?

DAPHNA

I did. I spoke. Your mother spoke. The rabbi. Abraham Foxman.

MELODY

Who’s he?

DAPHNA

Aunt Ruth.

MELODY

Whose aunt is that again?

DAPHNA

There were eight speakers. Maybe nine. Maybe ten. Ten, Jonah? It was a big deal. Nine. It was a big deal. A big deal.

LIAM

I really wanted to be there. We both did.

DAPHNA

Then you should have been.

Beat

LIAM

I’m just … I’m gonna see if we can pull out the couch in my parents’ place, cause—

DAPHNA

It’s already set up for shiva, you can’t—

LIAM

Well maybe we can find a spot to—

DAPHNA

There are no spots—

LIAM

Well maybe we can—

DAPHNA

You can’t. We had tables brought in. Lots of tables. And they’re all—

MELODY

This is fine—

LIAM

We can move a few tables and make a little—

DAPHNA

You can’t move tables everyone’s asleep do you know what time it is it’s really late and those tables are really heavy you can’t just move them they’re actually very heavy tables.

LIAM

We can at least give it a shot. Jonah.

DAPHNA

Please do not start moving everything around that some of us have spent hours and hours getting—

JONAH

(To MELODY.)

We’re just going right down the hall to my parents. We’ll be right back.

LIAM exits into the hallway. After a beat, JONAH follows. MELODY and DAPHNA are alone. MELODY removes her shoes, then goes into the bathroom. DAPHNA watches her, occasionally running a brush through her hair.

But our focus shifts to the hallway. JONAH closes the door. LIAM points at it.

LIAM

I can’t stay in there tonight.

JONAH

You can take the pull-out. I don’t mind—

LIAM

No, I will not— You’re not actually going to visit her at Vassar?

JONAH

I don’t know.

LIAM

Jonah.

JONAH

She asked me to.

LIAM

Just cause she asked doesn’t mean you have to go.

JONAH

I know.

LIAM

That’s not how things work.

JONAH

I know.

LIAM

Jonah.

JONAH

What?

LIAM

You’re not going.

JONAH

Uhm, ok.

LIAM

If she tries to—

JONAH

She—

LIAM

If she fucking does her fucking thing, in front of Melody? Fuck. No, we’re staying in the apartment.