SurrealEstate - Season 3 Episode 4 -
A Family Thing
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A Family Thing
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00:00You
00:10Previously on surreal estate, thank you for shaming me into going to law school
00:15Who are you really most people know me by my non-legal death tag?
00:21Guinness is our new research associate
00:23Okay
00:26Luke Roman is no ordinary doofus. He has this link across the veil
00:30Just imagine if I could hop into his skin if you fail if you inspire scornful laughter
00:37Oblivion will not be punishment enough
00:42Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar
00:48For whoever does not love their brother and sister whom they have seen cannot love God whom they have not seen I
00:57Now invite Lisbeth's children to offer a handful of soil as she has returned to earth
01:06It's not a contest Barry
01:08Maybe I love mom twice as much as you two
01:11If you really wanna quibble I saw front-end loader park behind the shed stick it our alone
01:16Um, excuse me, she go first I'm the oldest rules are rules right boss
01:23There are no rules I know of but if we're having trouble with the Q system might I suggest on the count of three
01:36Three
01:39I
01:44Mom
01:46Love you. Always. See you on the other side ma. Take care of your beautiful self mom. Love you
01:52Oh, what do you know Barry hit the hole? Yeah
01:56Mom could hear you guys, you know, I'm pretty sure coffins are soundproof men from heaven dipshit and on that note
02:02We better beloved Lisbeth. Goodbye
02:05Until the day when we are all raised up
02:08Oh, man, I think Barry should be raised up first. He is the oldest you can both go to hell
02:22Why does death bring out the worst in people
02:24Hey
02:39To my beneficiaries I
02:42Lisbeth, you know give devise and bequeath all my possessions to be shared
02:48equally between my children right title and interest of the family home, however shall
02:54Not be named herein rather. My children shall convene upon the Eno home to unanimously name a beneficiary
03:03All children must be present for the duration of deliberations to be made within 96 hours
03:08Where the house shall be donated to charity
03:11Do what now mom's stiffing us on the house? No
03:16She just wants us to decide together
03:19like grown-ups
03:21over the next three days
03:24Or else it goes off to the goodwill like an old couch
03:31Is there a loophole here like is it legally binding if mom was suffering a bout of dementia during drafting
03:40Your mom was sharp as a tack up until the very last
03:45for what it's worth, I only knew Lisbeth a short while but
03:49She really was lovely
03:51And she loved you all very much and it made her so happy to think of you all coming together and closing this chapter
03:57On her life and entering a new one side by side like responsible
04:02adult
04:04siblings
04:06So in that spirit, can we please maybe hold our breath for the next 96 hours while we sort this out
04:13Oh
04:20When you're ready to jump back in I have a few tech upgrades I'd like to share just some digital applications that
04:27elegantly augment our rather analog devices
04:31Shall we set aside some time to review?
04:34Tomorrow all right 9 a.m
04:38Hey, sorry to interrupt there's no receptionist
04:43Hi
04:45Everybody this is a Tyler McNeil or that hunk of burning love on 712 Riverwalk that we just listed
04:52Tyler's my partner. This is an Ireland and our associates August Lomax
04:57Great to meet you all
04:59Guys good to finish without me
05:07I'm excited to run you through the plan. It's vice for your sale
05:11Nah, let's talk about where I'm going not where I've been I
05:15Just thought we'd get Riverwalk on the market first
05:18That's the past show me my future Luke
05:22Dazzle me. Okay, no problem. I got a long list of possibilities. Let's narrow it down. Give me specifics. Oh
05:29Hmm. Let's see, maybe
05:31Nine or ten thousand square feet five bedrooms seven. No eight baths home office oversized garage
05:38Nothing too big and ostentatious, you know, it's not my style
05:46You're laughing at me
05:49No, don't laugh at me look ever I mean it I will end
05:59Just don't
06:05It didn't mean anything by it
06:08I
06:14Go running before work, that's my blood moving your runner
06:20Depends on what's chasing me. Why don't you join me 7 a.m. My place?
06:27Sure
06:30It's the warning though, I'm pretty fast no problem cheat
06:38I
06:42Home semi-sweet home
06:45Okay, so anything you don't want. We'll just set aside for the estate sale and
06:51We will use these
06:54To mark the stuff that you do want little organizational hack I picked up from a lovely obsessive-compulsive. I used to work with
07:01dibs
07:08I
07:23I'm the youngest of my would be I have kids if anyone deserves it will be it's my
07:30How about we just put a pin in this for now, okay, you guys have bigger fish to fry look I get it
07:36Basic civility is hard work. So why don't we just call it a day and we can pick it back up tomorrow. I
07:43Am getting hungry. I could use some rest and space
07:47I could use space from all of you Edwin Hubble could not describe the amount of space I need from you, too
07:55Great so we agree look at you go team
08:06No
08:10You again no you again and your conscience dipshit
08:14No, I'm just curious
08:17You're gonna let them keep pushing you around like that. It's mom's dying wish we have to figure this out together
08:25Very very
08:27Shit the last thing they care about is togetherness
08:32Remember the time they they ratted you out for smoking weed
08:37I
08:38Remember
08:40You were grounded for a week you ended up missing prom one of the formative events of a healthy adolescence
08:47You don't just bounce back from that
08:50So you ended up dating Tiffany nice girl
08:53But Jesus on a jet ski Barry the marriage is imploding blowing up like Tunguska in
09:001908 now you're balding you're getting ear hair
09:05Who's responsible for that who's responsible trace it back to patient zero bear
09:14Harlow
09:16Sherry, so you're gonna let them get away with that bear
09:22ours
09:24Over my dead body
09:35So we I know I didn't have to but my firm gets a discount at this cute cafe
09:42Every Tuesday from 808 to 1022. Mm-hmm. Why so specific? I don't know. It was just really fun to negotiate
09:50Yeah, anyways, I just wanted to spend my morning with you guys instead of a bunch of suits. Yeah lawyers. Am I right?
09:57present company excluded
09:59So, how is it? Is it great?
10:02That is
10:03It's great. It's great. I just
10:07Just who knew starting over on the lowest rung up to my torts and paperwork could feel so, um
10:13debilitating
10:14But I guess sometimes I just miss this you guys. Oh, we miss you
10:21Especially when the phone rings for that sixth time
10:27Wait, so where's Luke? Oh
10:30Oh
10:32Looks like he's still with Tyler. Hmm. It's not like Luke to forget. I doubt he forgot
10:39Just wasn't important
10:48Well, I gotta get back to work regrouping gets back
10:51I
10:58Is everything okay
11:00Luke is being distracted by a walking shiny object
11:06There's something about this client I I don't trust him but you trust Luke, right
11:14under normal laboratory conditions
11:17It's awkward to say and price sounds even worse but the frail elderly and good business
11:22And these days kids start googling assisted living first time mom and dad misplaced their keys
11:27That's where I come in. I make sure there's dignity in the day crescendo
11:32What I build is a nursing homes
11:34Retirement villas white table linen dinners Cali King beds meds served on the half-shell. Yeah
11:42I said you were a runner
11:44Said you were a runner. I didn't say it was a marathoner. How long we've been at it now, huh? Two hours two hours
11:54I'll wait for work. Just tell me one strike at time hydration
11:58I
12:11Myself
12:20Look I got some meetings to get to so
12:23Won't be able to look over those listings you compile gonna reconnect after work
12:28Yeah, just text me where got a run
12:49Look at you girls. Oh
12:52Oh
12:54Hello alternative means really really mean
12:58what is it this time just occurred to me that there's a
13:02special kind of bond between a mother and her daughter
13:06Something that your loser brothers will never understand a couple of rock throwers with the emotional intelligence of dryer lint
13:12But we know don't we?
13:15Yeah
13:16We know
13:18It's like that time that your parents miss Thanksgiving
13:22You remember because of the storm
13:28No, you cooked everything the turkey the stuffing the potatoes the yams everything so it'd be ready in time for when they got there
13:35You know who took all the credit
13:38Barry the little tapeworm
13:40Barry's the worst
13:43Arlo broke your arm
13:45But no
13:47He did yeah, he threw you down the stairs to prevent you from telling mom the truth about the turkey
13:53You see they always hunted in pairs ganged up on you. You never had a chance
13:57You were always so alone
14:00It was always so alone, but this is where you draw the line with this house at this home
14:09My mother's home
14:11Yeah, I wonder what it's worth considering the current market value
14:16Probably a lot
14:18You need to know I
14:21Need to know
14:22Take it
14:24Take what's yours by any means necessary?
14:27You mean rip it from their greedy little hands. Maybe those bloody stumps spewing tendons and blood into their life force drains out
14:40Hey, hey you
14:43How go the negotiations
14:46you know, I
14:48Think we need to find out what the house is worth
14:52Decision that's huge. We do require all the facts. Okay. Actually, I know a guy I
15:02Understand you're on a time crunch so I threw together a quick market valuation based on comps I had available. I
15:10Think you're gonna like it. Well, I think this is a matter for the executor
15:17Worst Avenger ever you're just jealous that mom chose me instead of you losers lose. I'm a doctor
15:26You are a podiatrist
15:28That's a doctor. That's a reach is what it is. What the hell of a step up from a master's degree in counseling
15:35Hey watch it foot boy. It's a good thing. You're a lawyer
15:37You're trained for this shit, yeah, I think I was sick that day
15:42Those are the top contenders adjusted to your specs best of best I'm impressed
15:50start making those appointments and
15:53Get looking
15:57Another round here. Oh, I don't know. Hey something's gonna kill you, right?
16:08So
16:11It's real estate always the dream
16:14Yeah, sure, I mean boyhood dreams aside
16:20This is what I always wanted to do
16:25Boyhood dreams
16:32Go into business with me
16:38These houses you're looking into they gave me an idea
16:42I'm diversifying my portfolio as an offshoot to the villas. My vision is to
16:48Buy residential homes rent them out at the highest price the market can bear. Yeah, I heard some corporations are doing that
16:56Look I
16:59Got relationships with banks that are just dying to finance me
17:03But I don't know the residential side, which is your wheelhouse
17:07Think about it
17:10Together
17:18But first there's that beer
17:37Oh
17:46That
17:48Huh, we just about lost you there bud I
17:52Think you've been over served. I've ordered mr. Roman an uber
18:07Tomorrow
18:10No skipping lunch no matter how busy we are
18:15Low blood sugar is not our friend
18:24Harlow please pass the salt
18:34Now
18:37So you don't like my cooking if I meant that I would have said it
18:44I'll say it
18:47Your food sucks
18:53You really are a renaissance man Arlo
18:57That
19:07You
19:22Wouldn't kill you to cook your own damn dinners
19:24Oh
19:34Their immaturity is the problem and their greed and their pettiness and their weakness
19:41They've been like this forever
19:42This one Thanksgiving my parents were gonna be late and I slaved away in that kitchen all day
19:47It was supposed to be a surprise
19:51Instead it ended in a fistfight me breaking my arm
19:55Okay, but you guys were kids then what about now, what do you want now I
20:03Want them dead
20:09You know sometimes for our
20:19You
20:21Yeah, what is that Barry Arlo
20:51Oh
20:56Barry
20:59Who's brave mom's perfume around
21:02This isn't funny. If you are messing with me, you're gonna have to pay Barry to remove my foot from your ass
21:06What are you talking about?
21:08Spray mom's perfume in here make it feel like her presence is in this house
21:12You sick. You're sick. I think take both your asses. Oh the foot doctor got brave runaway in terror
21:19Not for this pesky plantar fasciitis
21:34Okay, great great everything's been tagged and sorted and ready for tomorrow's estate sale not quite
21:41Okay
21:46Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay everybody back to neutral corners we can start fresh tomorrow, okay
21:55Go go go
22:12I'm sorry. I was doing the client thing last night lost track of time. Yes. Well
22:23Despite a rather draconian non-compete I've managed to apply as new knowledge to our own modest technology
22:31for example
22:32Now equipped with a retractable monocle allowing the sorting of entities into genus
22:39Demon Brody
22:41poltergeist easy
22:44Plus monocles are super dashing. I'm sure the monopoly guy is to fight them off with a shovel
22:50our basic PKT device
22:53Our old standby now has the utility to carbon date energy fields so we can measure how long an entity has been extent
23:00Oh and the on button is now red
23:04Nothing says urgency like a red button and there's the gopher this remote device can now detect and identify
23:12TREs wait, I should know this
23:16temporarily resonant edifices
23:18Buildings that once stood but have been torn down
23:21I'm also in the process of installing an agency breach alarm like the one in our old office the one that could detect erodes
23:28Yeah, exactly. I think it's important to know if anything or
23:32Anyone has followed us home. I
23:35Worry that something
23:38Unwholesome might embed itself amongst us
23:45Well, I for one feel safer Susan really great stuff Bobby, thanks
23:51I
24:07Give you a little well-meaning constructive advice
24:15I guess
24:18Stop being a wussy bitch
24:21Huh, can't you see it coming?
24:24Those two I'm gonna take the house away from you steal it out from under your wussy bitch nose. Just like they did your bike
24:32Right, she's damn Carlo the hot 10 speed with the yellow bolt
24:38eighth grade
24:40They traded it in for a skateboard and a CD player. You spent the summer alone. Haven't had a best friend since
24:46I
24:49Have good news
24:51You do
24:53Finally ready to fight. I saw your little stabby fantasy. It was awesome. I
24:59Laughed I cried I stood up and cheered
25:02He did. Yeah
25:04Time to make it a reality are low
25:07Step up and kill them and their lives then take what's yours
25:16You
25:27This is exactly what our flipping house needs
25:30Check out these gorgeous old bricks. They came from some ruin outside of town
25:37I know this guy Victor. It's kind of sketch. He runs a salvage operation. He sold them to me cheaper than new
25:43They're the answer to that
25:47My mom would have loved these
25:50Rustic but with the history, you know, I know
25:54Losing a relief but like losing home. I
25:57Think that's why it feels so good to do this now. It connects me with her
26:04Take up this emblem here
26:06Did
26:11Victor say what this ruin used to be. Mm-hmm
26:14Send this to tag. Maybe there's a story
26:18Nothing sells a house like a story
26:21Thanks for stopping by. He's here getting really weird. Well, that phrase should be on our business card
26:28Excuse me. Hi. Hey, I live down the street. I saw a lot of cars here
26:34It's just wondering everything was
26:37Okay. Yeah, we're just helping the anal kids settle up Lisbeth's affairs
26:41Kids are all here. Oh, yeah, it's like Ragnarok in there
26:45Mercy, they still don't get along
26:48So all that stuff is true
26:51Sherry's broken arm the time Lisbeth miss Thanksgiving miss Thanksgiving
26:56Not a chance the angels never spend a holiday apart
26:59Well beyond that stuff, is there anything else you can remember
27:04Well
27:06Actually, there was one thing
27:08They used to talk to themselves a lot and it was
27:14disturbing
27:15fighting words
27:18Hmm yeah, I'll stop by later. I'd love to see them
27:22I'd love to see them
27:26Caduceus is a medical symbol
27:27But it's also the staff of mercury patron of thieves and outlaws the key crest makes this exceptionally curious
27:34But I have to dig deeper before I can make any solid identification
27:37Thanks, no rush. Just you know curious
27:40Sometimes the brick companies would have a little stamp like this to identify bricks intended for a big institutional job. Great. Thanks
27:48So what I'm saying Susan is that it was probably like a like a big institutional job
27:56Okay, super I'll get back to you Susan yeah get back to me to tag I
28:08Think tag is crushing on you
28:10This
28:12Is the new Susan Ireland the one who doesn't date
28:1520-year-olds or colleagues or direct reports or bipeds or anyone remember?
28:30Why are you selling this because it was in your cell pile? No, it wasn't Sherry Arlo who planted this
28:38Jackass planted these cards are collectors items. Hey, everybody just needs to settle down and there they are
28:45But you know kids
28:47Rachel
28:49She
28:51You still live down the road. I haven't seen you three in years
28:55Sherry
28:58And Arlo
29:03Rachel why do you moms quilt? I was wondering how you could possibly sell it
29:07Special but not it's mine. There is my junior choir rope. This is my graduation gown
29:15Well, this piece is for my t-shirt. Yeah. Well, that's my flannel shirt my jeans
29:21What that's just not true
29:24Your mother made this from her own clothes and your father's she finished it when she was expecting you Gary
29:29And you're you're sure
29:31positive
29:33I'm sorry
29:35You're all remembering it wrong
29:38Oh
30:04My
30:06Quilt why would you wait wait, hold it think about it
30:12The perfume the quilt. I heard a woman laughing just now
30:19So what is it
30:24Mom
30:27Is she here
30:29Do you think that she's mad at us?
30:33I'm never gonna sell a haunted house. Who do we even call about that?
30:49Zoe sent us here the spook wranglers. We are real estate specialists
30:54We could really use your help. Sure. Just if it's mom be nice. Okay, you're always nice
31:00Shall we I'll prove Oh
31:07Something it's pissed off the data shows something old yet younger than Lisbeth
31:15It's a handy device. It's just a start
31:19Cross-referencing I can confirm. There's no maternal link to the enoch
31:24Doesn't make any sense
31:32No fancy takeout coffee this time I miss the company motor oil I used to make you're too young for nostalgia
31:37It's not nostalgia. It's just
31:41Okay, I'm just gonna go to the bathroom and I'll be right back
31:43Okay, I'm just gonna go to the bathroom and I'll be right back
31:46Okay, I'm just gonna go to the bathroom and I'll be right back
31:48You're too young for nostalgia it's not nostalgia it's just
31:53Okay, I didn't want to say this earlier in front of everybody else but
31:57I'm actually having a really hard time at work. I
32:01Guess I'm just feeling really out of place
32:03You know the fancy cappuccino makers the high-powered suits the business lunches sounds rough. I
32:12just I
32:14Just mean it's not
32:16Here, you know, it doesn't feel like home it takes time. I felt the same way when I first came here
32:24Hey, you know lobsters
32:26not personally
32:29so lobsters they molt and
32:32When they shed their hard well-worn exoskeleton
32:37The shell beneath is super soft
32:39They spend weeks in hiding before it's safe to emerge. I
32:43can relate
32:44You're just getting accustomed to the newness of it all a
32:48Three-year fast-tracked law degree starting at a firm before finishing the bar
32:53That's a lot
32:57You are exceptional Zoe, but you're also human
33:02Apparently percrustation
33:05Give yourself some time
33:08live and breathe
33:11Before being trapped and boiled alive
33:14Thank you for that
33:19God it's that you know, I gotta go. See you around
33:25Zoe you got a second
33:32I've been looking through the late mrs
33:34Eno's records and there was a huge chunk missing being me
33:37I tried a couple of back doors into the data and found this when she was 16 Elizabeth Duvall
33:43That's her maiden name gave birth to a baby girl at st. Gertrude's Hospital. She never told me about another daughter
33:49Well, here's why the little girl was named summer which is kind of ironic because she had anything but a sunny life
33:55Summer was snatched away as they tended to do with babies born in such circumstances then bounced across 13 foster homes
34:01I almost lost her during this period then she turned up once more in a shitty place the
34:07obituaries
34:08Murdered at 15 by a foster brother who stabbed her in her throat and well, yeah, very sad
34:15Lily link half-sister
34:18Yeah, bitter half-sister
34:20It's hard to blame her a little lost girl watching your privileged brothers and sisters living their charmed lives
34:28Sucks, I'd be mad too
34:30So what summer was the one putting all these false memories into the kids heads
34:36Wait Rachel did mention that they used to always a talk to themselves
34:43It was summer
34:46Whispering bad things
34:48Making them all hate each other
34:51She wants the kids to do to each other what happened to her
34:57She I just left them alone
35:06Oh
35:23You help Zoe I'm gonna try something
35:25What in the world when it comes to somebody losing their mother is only one solution. I need you to trust me on this one
35:31thing
35:32always
35:35I
35:43Had nothing you should have all I had your throat cut out see how you like it
35:51Mom
36:05I
36:20Took you away
36:25Tried to find you
36:35I
36:47Never forgot you summer
36:55This piece of your baby blanket
36:59It's part of the quilt
37:01die
37:04Family a happy family
37:08All of my children
37:33It's time to go honey, let's go together
38:03You
38:23Okay
38:25So we've come up with a plan and we have decided to sell
38:31Okay and split the profit four ways
38:35Four well, we'll never know summer, but maybe we can do something for her for her memory
38:45Something not selfish and shitty
38:50Okay
38:51Sounds noble so far
38:54so a quarter of the sale should be directed to the Children's Aid Society and
39:00summer's memory
39:02And you all agree
39:08Yes
39:10Nice well, I think your mom would be super happy and
39:16Look at that what time is fair? I knew you guys would do it you did
39:23God, no
39:24Literally a miracle
39:30Thanks
39:33Hey Susan, it's me
39:35Just wanted to let you know that I witnessed some moltings today, but you know
39:43Old pre-lobster me what I thought it was, you know corny or emo, but I guess I have a new appreciation. I
39:51mean still feel out of place at the firm, but
39:54My shell got a little tougher today and that's because of you. So
39:59Thank you, okay. Bye Oh
40:05Judy did you send that box? Like I told you to?
40:09Good
40:10No, just a little inside joke to an old friend
40:14right
40:18I'll send for the rest. Oh
40:22Right you're leaving
40:24You don't even care I'm trying
40:36No can't get there
40:39You scared me Tyler
40:42You still have together all the time
40:45Now every time I laugh you get mad
40:49You get this look like you
40:52Like you hate me
40:57I don't even know you anymore
41:00What a shame I'm quite extraordinary
41:05Especially deep down
41:08Oh
41:17You're still here
41:18So are you on my way out promise?
41:21My mom no more desk dinners, which has been the easiest to keep so far. Anyway, this just came for you
41:31No return address
41:37I
41:44What the heck is that
42:07I have no idea
42:37You