Shook (2021)
Daisye Tutor: Mia
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Mia : [on the phone] What if I just hang up? What if I just stop talking to you?
Kellan : That's not an option. But how about this? I'll meet you halfway. 'Yes, Kellan, tell me more'. Okay well since you asked, we both know you have a big choice coming up, but what if there was a way for you to not have to make that choice? Might that be appealing to you?
Mia : Yes.
Kellan : That's what I thought.
Mia : So?
Kellan : So all you have to do is answer three questions. That's it. If you get them right, then I'll stop this whole thing and let everybody go. But if you get one wrong, then you have to make a choice between Nicole and Santi.
Mia : Okay.
Kellan : Here we go. First question: When administering CPR, maintaining proper rhythm is crucial. What song is recommended for achieving the correct tempo?
Mia : Huh?
Kellan : You have one minute.
Mia : No wait! What? Can you repeat that?
Kellan : 57, 56, 55...
Mia : [can't get the internet on her phone] Dammit!
[runs to the laptop, gets a video message of Santi with a bag over his head begging for help]
Kellan : CPR might come in handy.
Mia : Asshole!
[searching]
Mia : I don't know, I don't know, I don't know any song!
Kellan : Here you are cheating and complaining about it, tsk tsk.
Mia : You didn't say I couldn't.
Kellan : 16, 15, 14... 10 Mississippi, 9 Mississippi.
Mia : Stayin' Alive! Stayin' Alive by the Bee Gees!
Kellan : Ding ding ding ding ding. Get that girl a toaster.
Mia : Is Santi okay?
Kellan : For now. Next question. At what temperature is someone considered to have a fever? No, no interwebs. 59, 58, 57-
[Mia rummages through her mother's medical equipment and printouts]
Kellan : 5, 4, 3...
Mia : 100.4! Hello? Was I right?
Kellan : Yes, that is correct.
Mia : Is Jade okay?
Kellan : So far.
Mia : Okay, what now?
Kellan : Oh, now you're into it now that you're winning.
Mia : Come on, let's finish this.
Kellan : Okay, final question: What were... your mother's last words?
Mia : How would you know what my mother's last words were?
Kellan : 59, 58, 57...
Mia : Why are you asking about my mother?
Kellan : Why not?
Mia : What does she have to do with this?
Kellan : I liked your mom.
Mia : I don't remember her ever speaking about you.
Kellan : Well she didn't speak much about you either.
Mia : Go to hell!
Kellan : She probably forgot you even existed. I mean how often did you come by to visit when she was getting sick? I mean when she was *really* sick. And I don't mean how often you promised to visit, because that's obviously a very different. answer.
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Mia : [answers phone] Where's the dog?
Lani : [whispering] Mia, Mia, get out of the house!
Mia : Just cut it out already, stop it!
Lani : Mia, you have to leave.
Mia : Stop it, just stop it!
Lani : Get out of there!
Mia : Where's the dog? Where's Chico?
Lani : Get out!
Mia : -or I swear to God...
Lani : Listen to me! I mean it!
Mia : Assholes!
[to Santi]
Mia : Where's the dog?
Santi : Mia, wait.
Santi : No, fuck you!
Santi : Mia, just listen.
Mia : No, you listen.
Santi : It wasn't my idea, I swear, but...
Mia : Do you want me to start counting down you sadistic fuck? What is wrong with you guys?
Santi : You don't understand!
Mia : No, you're right, I don't understand. I don't know what the hell has happened here tonight but I know that I hate you. I know that. I mean, that shit about my mom? What did I ever do to you?
Santi : It was Lani! It was all Lani.
Mia : You guys are supposed to be my friends. Why don't any of you come down here yet? You know that I can hear you walking around up there! The game is over!
Santi : It's not, mia. We had to do what they said or they were going to hurt you.
Mia : Oh give me a break.
Santi : They told me to go into your room and wait, and then it was locked.
Mia : You know what? Just give me my keys back and I'll leave.
Santi : I don't have your keys! You aren't listening!
Mia : I'm getting out of here.
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Jade : Mia! He says you have to choose. You have to choose between Lani and Chico, Mia!
Mia : What? Don't hurt her! This is crazy!
Kellan : Can't argue with that.
Mia : Why are you doing this?
Kellan : I promise to tell you, pinkie promise. But right now you have to make a choice. Who do you care about more? Chico or Lani?
Mia : Are you kidding?
Kellan : It's a simple question, your sick sister's dog, or the girl trying to sleep with your boyfriend?
Mia : You don't have to do this, you don't have to hurt anyone.
Kellan : Time's up.
Jade : Mia! You're out of time! He says you're out of time! You have to pick, he's got a knife!
Mia : Lani! Are you there? I pick Lani!
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Lani : [video call] Dude, you just killed your sister.
Mia : What?
Lani : [laughs] I love you too, bitch.
Mia : I don't understand.
Lani : I know.
[laughs]
Mia : Fucking cut it out, Lani! Tell me what's happening!
Lani : It's okay, it's okay, everyone's okay.
Mia : How?
Lani : It was all fake. Well here we are just fucking with you. I am in your attic right now.
[pounds on the ceiling]
Mia : Lani, where's Nicole?
Lani : Oh, um, probably in San Fransisco, I don't know.
Mia : I don't understand.
Lani : Okay, so the videos were from after your mom's funeral, you know, back at the house.
Mia : What?
Lani : Okay, so I wasn't sure if it was going to work, I was going to ask Nicole to help us out, but then Jade and Santi was like "No, there's no way she'd do this", and well, you know, she hates us, so I thought I'd improvise.
Mia : What about Kellan?
Lani : What about him? He's probably jerking off over there, ew.
Mia : He was on the phone!
Lani : No, it wasn't him. It was a voice changer app and a fake phone number. Oh, hang on.
[deep voice]
Lani : Hey babe.
Mia : Where are you?
Lani : We're in the house next door, the one that's for sale.
Santi : [entering chat] We've been going back and forth all night.
Mia : How?
Jade : [entering chat] The balconies are so close together in the burbs so we can just jump from the balcony of the master bedroom over there to the one over here. We recorded all the live video last night. Did you know there's an app that lets you upload pre-recorded stuff?
Mia : Why are you doing this?
Lani : You know, you have a lot of followers.
Mia : So?
Lani : So we live-streamed everything. Okay, well not everything, but most of it.
Mia : And you two just went along with it?
Jade : Okay, just let me explain.
Santi : I'm sorry.
Jade : I thought it would be fun.
Mia : Fun? What the FUCK is wrong with you guys? Fucking followers?
[disconnects call]
Mia : Ugh!
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Mia : Why are you doing this to me?
Kellan : What were you supposed to do tonight?
Mia : What do you mean?
Kellan : What was the only thing your sister asked you to do?
Mia : Take care of the dog.
Kellan : It's an important thing, you know. to be a caretaker.
Mia : What are you talking about?
Kellan : I'm saying you're supposed to be taking care of a dog and look what happened.
Mia : I tried.
Kellan : You tried? You mean by spending all of your time texting your worthless friends?
Mia : No, he was with me on the couch.
Kellan : For how long?
Mia : I don't know, he was there.
Kellan : You don't even know. Terrible.
Mia : I'm sorry!
Kellan : That's not good enough, Mia.
Mia : What are you doing to him?
Kellan : It's not me, Mia, it's you.
Mia : Why are you doing this?
Kellan : You'll see. But first, I need you to make a choice.
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Mia : Who told you what my mother's last words were?
Kellan : How do you know I wasn't there?
Mia : You weren't.
Kellan : How do you know?
Mia : Nicole would have told me.
Kellan : Did she tell you what your mother's last words were? No? Why weren't you there, Mia?
Mia : ...I had school...
Kellan : Didn't Nicole tell you that she had only a few hours left?
Mia : Yes, but...
Kellan : 14, 13, 12. You're running out of time.
Mia : This isn't fair!
Kellan : 6, 5...
Mia : No!
Kellan : 2...
Mia : Please! Please don't hurt her!
Kellan : 1. Don't hurt who? Lani or Nicole? That's right, looks like we went through all that and we're right back where we started. Time to make a choice.
Mia : This isn't fair! You don't know the answer!
Kellan : I do know the answer, and you do too.
Mia : What do you mean?
Kellan : Your mom had a breathing tube for the last two weeks of her life, she couldn't say anything.
Mia : [cries] I...
Kellan : You forgot. Well that's behind us now. We have more pressing matters to deal with.
Mia : I can't do this!
Kellan : Sure you can, in fact you've done it once.
Mia : But that was a dog!
Kellan : A *beloved* dog.
Mia : Just leave us alone!
Kellan : Who'll it be, Mia? You've got one minute. 59, 58, 57, 56, 55, 54...
Mia : This is crazy, fuck you!
Kellan : You know what'll happen if you don't, right? They both die.
Mia : I can't choose! I can't! You must want something. There must be a reason why you're doing all of this, you must want something.
Kellan : 22 Mississippi, 21 Mississippi...
Mia : What do you want?
Kellan : 20 Mississippi...
Mia : Tell me what it is!
Kellan : 15 Mississippi...
Mia : Stop!
Kellan : 14 Mississippi, 13 Mississippi...
Mia : Just stop this! Stop! I don't know! Nicole's sick, Lani! I pick Lani!
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Nicole : [video message] Feel free to help with the packing, the realtor's coming to take pictures next week. And second, I know I've been kind of hard lately...
Mia : [walks into room] Diana, turn on the lights in Mom's room.
[sees her mother's bed, medication bottles, walker, etc]
Nicole : I just think when I was taking care of Mom and all her different medications, all these different ones had to be different times an a schedule, and it just, not that I'm trying to make you feel bad or anything, really. I totally signed up to take care of her, and I was happy to, I really was. And um... you're not off the hook, it'll be your turn to take care of me soon. So there's that. Love you.
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Kellan : Back inside, the sooner you go back inside, the sooner this will all be over. Oh I see, you're scared. It looks like you need some extra encouragement.
[sends a video of Nicole]
Mia : That's not possible! She's on a plane right now.
Kellan : No, I don't think so.
Mia : How are you doing this?
Kellan : Round 2, come inside, Mia. I think you know what will happen if you don't.
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Nicole : I don't know if you noticed, but there's been a bit of a theme to all this tonight.
Mia : I know.
Nicole : You could have been the one to take care of Mom.
Mia : I know.
Nicole : You could have been the sick one.
Mia : I know.
Nicole : I have to have injections every day! I have the personality changes, the mood swings, fever, trouble breathing, walking! You know it's funny, but that's the one that really pisses me off, walking, it's such a simple thing.
Mia : I saw you earlier, you walked fine.
Nicole : Yes, earlier, now, not so much. Tomorrow fine, next week not at all! So here's the theme, I'll give you five minutes on this one, because it's a doozy. Break your leg in five minutes, or Jade dies. I don't care how you do it but you have to do it in five minutes.
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Mia : Hi guys, I'm shook, seriously, Genelle was a makeup legend. So because of what happened, I've made a decision. I'm not going to do the live-stream with my friends tomorrow, instead I'm going to go to my sister Nicole's house to babysit her amazing dog, Chico. I just really feel like it's necessary to be selfless at this time.
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Nicole : I had to.
Mia : I don't understand!
Nicole : She wasn't her anymore. She was becoming less her every day.
Mia : But N...
Nicole : And now, now she's still her. I know, I know it's crazy.
Mia : If you know it's crazy, then why are you doing this?
Nicole : How can you pick Lani over me?
Mia : Nicole!
Nicole : I'm your sister, Mia!
Mia : Yes but, you're sick. Nicole, I...
Nicole : I didn't plan this part. I only planned the first part, the fake part. But then, after all of this, you still went ahead and you lied to me about Chico. You still couldn't tell me the truth. Still covering up for your friends. I just couldn't take it.
Mia : This is just Livingston's, this isn't you.
Nicole : Most of the time it isn't. But sometimes it is.
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Mia : So you paid them?
Nicole : Are they pieces of shit or what?
Mia : Nicole...
Nicole : Put Mom's pension money to good use at least.
Mia : Nicole!
Nicole : Do you know how many dogs I killed to set this thing up? What? It was way worse than Lani. She slept with Santi last night by the way, after we were finished recording everything.
Mia : That's not true.
Nicole : How do you know?
Mia : Santi was a virgin, super Catholic, so... I don't know, I doubt it.
Nicole : [scoffs] People are so different online. Lani's rich, Santi's a player, you're sweet as an angel. That's your brand, right?
Mia : I guess.
Nicole : Makeupbymia. I don't know why you couldn't use your real name.
Mia : Mia is my real name.
Nicole : *Middle* name.
Mia : It sounded nicer.
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Nicole : I really thought you were gonna pick me in the end, but you didn't. And if you didn't pick me now you're not gonna pick me later, not when I can't walk, or feed myself or go to the bathroom by myself.
Mia : I promised I would take care of you.
Nicole : Yeah, you did, you promised, but that's just words, it's not real. Just like so much of tonight wasn't real. Nothing about you is real. It's all just carefully curated for online consumption.
Mia : I'm not like that.
Nicole : You can't handle me, or sickness, or complicated feelings, so you just bail and live in your fantasy world putting on makeup for your legions of fans.
Mia : But I did it! I did ALL of your tests!
Nicole : But for *them*!
