12x17 - Back and Forth

[bunniefuu]

[theme music playing]

[woman] Ow!

-[Arissa] This is the true story…
-[all] True story…

[Frank] Of seven strangers…

[Trishelle] Picked to live in a casino…

[Alton] Work together
and have their lives taped…

[Brynn] To find out what happens…

-[Steven] When people stop being polite…
-[Irulan] And start getting real.

[all] The Real World: Las Vegas.

-[Arissa] Baby, yeah!
-[all laughing]

-[car horn honking]
-[soft electronic music playing]

-[Jessica] Why did you get divorced?
-Uh, we just got married too young.

So, that's it?
That's your ambiguous reason?

-You just were too young?
-[Steven] With my ex-wife,

like, I drew everything
that I needed from her.

She was, like, my only real friend.

Now I'm learning to have lots of friends,
learning how to form relationships

with women over again.

Do you know something
that I don't know?

-[Brynn] Mm-mm.
-[Trishelle] Swear.

Just be careful.

From what I see, I think

that you might be a little bit more
into him than he is into you.

-Well, I mean, I'm going on tons of dates.
-[Brynn] Yeah.

-So…
-[Brynn] What I mean, like,

so he's trying to kinda, like,
show that he doesn't care either.

[Trishelle] I do think
that Steven has feelings for me.

I don't know if he's willing to admit it.
And, I mean, I can admit it.

I've told him, you know, that I like him,
and he's told me he likes me too,

and that he cares about me. I don't know.

We'd probably be together still
if we hadn't gotten married.

Oh, that's a frightening,
frightening thought.

[Steven] Marriage in my eyes is a finale.

I wish that Christy
and I just continued to be together

and live together
and never would've gotten married.

["A Special Morning" playing]

♪ I know what you're thinking
What you're thinking ♪

♪ What you're thinking
What you're thinking… ♪

[indistinct chatter]

[all cheer]

-[Steven] A hand grenade.
-Wrong answer.

-[Steven] Uh, patron?
-Wrong--

-[Steven] I want you.
-[Trishelle laughs]

-Will you stop?
-[Steven] You got a sexy new voice.

I'm just really drunk.
I'm really, really drunk.

[song continues]

-[Trishelle] Come here.
-[both chuckle]

[Trishelle] It's been so long.
It's been three days.

[Steven] I love you.

Steven tells me he loves me,
and my heart just drops.

And I've been wanting him to say it.

[song concludes]

-I think I did say that I loved her.
-[Frank] No, you did not.

[both laughing]

You told her you loved her? [chuckles]

-That's the worst thing I've ever heard.
-I know, listen…

[upbeat music playing]

[Arissa] Drunk person speaks
a sober mind, Trishelle.

-[Trishelle] I don't believe it.
-[Arissa] You don't believe that?

[Arissa] When you're drunk
you can say [bleep].

Then I asked him about it,

like, a little bit later,
and he was like, "I do."

And then a little bit later I asked again,

just to make sure,
and he was like, "I love being with you."

[Arissa] Trishelle just wants to be loved.

One of the reasons that her
and Steven tend to hook up so much

is because they're both looking
for the same thing.

They're looking for love.

I definitely have love for her.
Like, I have love for you.

-[Frank laughing]
-I have love for Arissa.

-[Frank] You have love for the sky.
-I do.

Trishelle was kind
of tricking me into dating.

We're always, like, hanging out and,

holding hands,
having little talks and stuff like that.

That's pretty much dating.

I'm just like, "Be--" I'm like, "Be real.
Like, if you do, you know…"

I might be totally,
totally, totally wrong by saying this,

but I think that maybe Steven
might see something with us,

and that that's why he's like,
pulling away.

But he's worried about--

He doesn't want to hurt
his ex-wife's feelings, I think.

Which is totally understandable.
He loves her.

I definitely felt
a great deal of pressure.

I feel like I'm being pressured into--

[Frank] Oh, well,
then that clears up everything.

It's okay then. Don't worry about it.
You're not a bad person. [chuckles]

[music continues]

[woman] One, two, three,
four, five, six, seven, eight.

One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight.

-[Jean] Alton, you're late.
-[Alton] I was asleep.

-I don't care.
-[woman] … five, six, seven, eight.

Jean is having my six roommates
do some sort of choreography to perform.

Bow, two, three,
four, walk, five, six, seven.

And down.

-Three…
-[both chuckle]

-[Brynn] Steven.
-[woman] Under!

I'm in charge of the technical aspects,
which is a really flattering way to say,

"You can't dance
and you'll bring down the performance

if you're involved in it."

-["Rippin Kittin" playing]
-[blows raspberry]

-[Brynn chuckles]
-[Irulan] I think they're okay.

-I feel like too… Yeah.
-[Irulan] My big booty?

♪ I feel ♪

♪ I feel like taking a life… ♪

I am learning how to dance
on beat with other people.

[Brynn] Irulan and myself
will be in the background on our skis.

One, two, three,
four, five, six, seven…

For some reason,
I can dance my a*s off in a club,

but I can't seem to get this down.
I can't. I can't even find rhythm,

-which is freaking me out.
-[song concludes]

We have two days to practice really hard.

One thing that, you know,
I haven't told you guys yet,

who the client is.

We have to look good. It's something
that is very important to me

and is very important to the hotel.

So right now
I'm gonna give you the packages,

so this way you know who it is.

It explains the whole thing in there,
about where we're going to perform it,

who's gonna be at the performance,
and the whole thing.

-Is it a vacation?
-Irulan.

[Trishelle] A vacation? What?

-[Arissa] No, sir.
-Yeah!

Yeah!

[cheers]

[Jean] The client, where we do it,
actually, is Contiki Resort,

Great Keppel Island in Australia.

I have never left
the United States before.

Yeah!

I'm really excited to go to Australia.
I can't believe I only have,

like, two days to pack.

[Jean] Please, let's not understand,
we go there to have fun,

but at the same time,
we have to accomplish something.

We want to promote,
obviously, the Palms and the Rain

and maybe learn something
from there to bring over here.

[Irulan] We do a lot of slacking off
and it's hard for us to get organized,

but basically
when we have a deadline,

I think that things usually come together
pretty nicely in the end.

[gentle music playing]

There's so many things
I'd like to talk to you about right now.

Well, Steven and I talk
about all this stuff

-every day. Like, I mean, that's--
-What stuff?

Well, everything.

-About me and him?
-[Frank] Well, sort of, yeah.

Trishelle talks to me a lot about
how she does have feelings for Steven,

and though Steven says he doesn't,
she really believes that he does.

I'm just a big fan of open communications.

-I don't think you guys are like that.
-[Trishelle clears throat]

Everything he tells me,

-everything you tell me--
-It's just sex.

-He said it's just sex.
-Well, I'm not saying anything.

[Trishelle] When Steven and I are alone,
he's just more sensitive

and kind of more sincere
than whenever he--

Other people ask him,

he just kind of plays things off
like it's nothing.

It just makes me wanna be like,

"Why don't you just talk to her
about everything?"

"Why don't you tell her
how you feel about all this

-and tell her what you want?"
-Honest to God,

I think that he really has feelings
for me.

[Frank] I think
Steven's doing the wrong thing

by continuing to sleep with Trishelle
because she's developing feelings for him.

It just sounds to me like
Trishelle's gonna be hurt.

[mid-tempo music playing]

I mean, I've told you a lot of times
that I love having sex with you

and I don't want to date.

When Trishelle and I are in bed together,
there's, like, this romantic attachment,

and that's only natural.
I mean, love sleeping with her,

but to have, like,
a full-fledged relationship,

just all the aspects aren't there.

I know that that's, like,
not what you want to hear.

-[Trishelle] Totally.
-I know that.

[Trishelle] Why? Like,
you were totally different

-when you were drinking.
-I was [bleep]-faced.

I am a happy, [bleep]-faced drunk.

[Trishelle] I just think
Steven needs to be honest with himself.

Be like,
"Oh, I love you like I love Frank."

And I'm like,
"Would you crawl in bed with Frank

and tell you that--
Him that you love him?" [chuckles]

I don't know.

-You totally had me fooled.
-I didn't have you fooled.

I thought you… you really cared.

I care about you as a friend.

My relationship
with Trishelle definitely is not healthy.

I'm not reciprocating feelings
to the extent that Trishelle is,

and that's… that's not nice.

You can do way better than me.

There-- Every guy
in the whole world wants you.

There's still, like, this emotional void
that was filled by my ex-wife, Christy.

And right now
I'm supplementing it with Trishelle,

who is a sweet girl,
who is very beautiful,

but we don't have what Christy and I had.

I am divorced.
I'm really no good right now.

I'm just not in a place
where I can date anybody.

[mid-tempo electro music playing]

[dial tone ringing]

-[Steven's mother] Hello?
-Mother!

-[Steven's mother] Where have you been?
-Where have you been?

-[Steven's mother] You all right?
-Hold on.

We're on a little bit of a vacation.
We're leaving for Australia tomorrow.

[Steven's mother] Yeah,
what are y'all gonna do there?

We're gonna eat kangaroo babies,

and we're gonna sacrifice live koalas
on these--

[Steven's mother] No.
What are you really gonna do there?

-We have to put on a little bit of a show.
-[Steven's mother] Uh-huh.

Which is a little part of it.
We're probably gonna mess that up.

[Steven's mother]
You still sleeping with that girl?

No, no, we stopped sleeping together.

[Steven's mother]
You friends, though, right?

Yeah, well, she's having trouble with it.

[Steven's mother] You can be friends
with a girl without having sex.

[Steven] You're-- I know that.
I totally agree with that.

[Steven's mother] Yeah.
That's what you got your hands for.

[chuckles] No, I wish.

My mom thinks that I should stop messing
with girls in the house

and start masturbating more.
My mom gets funnier the older she gets.

[Steven's mother]
Are you still talking to your ex-wife?

Yeah, yeah. I love Christy.
We're always gonna be friends.

[Steven’s mother] Oh, good.
You think you'll get back together?

I don't know, I don't know. She's pretty--
I mean, nobody's better than her.

Ten years down the road
or something like that,

we might get back together.
I seriously see that.

She's like the perfect woman.

It's just being drilled into my head
since I've been here.

It's just, like,
nobody really compares to her.

[Steven's mother]
Yeah, she's really taught you a lot.

[melancholic music playing]

-There are no tissues.
-[Trishelle sobs]

-You'll have to deal with TP instead.
-[chuckles]

[Frank] Steven and Trishelle
have stopped sleeping together,

and they're kind of at odds
against each other.

[Trishelle] I just want to, like,
fall in love and just be with one person.

Is that bad?

No, that's exactly
what most people in the world want.

-I was just like, a good girl, like--
-I know you're a good girl.

Do you think anyone in this house
thinks you're a bad girl?

I genuinely believe you when you say that.

-I really do.
-Do you?

[Frank] Yes, I promise you, I do.

'Cause, totally, I was so bad,
like, the first month I was here.

I was kissing boys and stuff like that.

[Frank] You did not do anything wrong.

You're upset 'cause you like a guy
and it's not working out.

That's unfortunate,
but that's a part of life.

You are going
to make someone really happy someday.

And someday, you will absolutely find
that perfect person.

And you'll live the rest
of your days out just happy.

I guarantee it.

[upbeat rock music playing]

[Jean] Guys, six is not 6:30,
it's not 6:20, okay?

-Where is your costume?
-It's in here, in the bag next to Steven.

[Jean] When are we gonna start
being on time for once?

-Why is it so difficult?
-[Irulan] Jean is a little frustrated

because he was under the impression
that we would have more time to practice.

Being late is definitely showing a lack
of respect.

It's 6:25.
We were supposed to be six o'clock ready.

It's the last day today.

This is totally unacceptable,
'cause you guys don't do nothing.

You're not on time,
you don't take it seriously.

And believe me, I don't have to do that.

I don't know if you know, but if I said

that some of you is not doing the job,
you know you're getting fired

from the show.
If you're gonna have a regular job,

you're gonna be fired
a ton of times by now.

-I apologize.
-[Jean] It's not a question of apology.

This is not the first time.

I don't know what kind of work ethics
you guys have, but this one sucks.

Let's go.

[Arissa]
Hopefully the performance will go well.

I have a ton of doubts.

I hate my roommates.
I'll see you down under!

[woman laughing]

[heavy rock song playing]

♪ I can't stand still
Without you moving, moving on ♪

♪ You won't see me
I've got you moving, moving on… ♪

I hate flying, and I will see you
when I get back from Australia.

Wish me luck.
And if this-- If I don't make it back,

send this to my mom
and my family and every one of my friends.

I love all y'all. Thank you. Peace.

♪ I can't stand still
I've got you moving, moving… ♪

-Get the hell out of Vegas.
-[yawns]

♪ On ♪

[song concludes]

["Hey Hey" playing]

Oh, my god.

♪ Yeah, hey, hey, I should've tried ♪

♪ Tried this sooner ♪

♪ If you think that you got it
You can't ever take it or fake it ♪

♪ Hey, hey, hey… ♪

[Trishelle] I love Steven
and I care about him so much,

and I want to spend Australia with him,
you know, and Frank.

[song concludes]

It's just awkward and weird.

[upbeat rock music playing]

[Brynn] Whoo!

[both scream in excitement]

Well, guys, we're gonna be seeing
some koalas, kangaroos.

[Irulan] Reuben is our tour guide,
and he resembles a koala.

["Isle Of Summer" playing]

-♪ Come as you are, in your tin can car… ♪
-[gasps]

Oh, the fur's the other direction.

♪ From your old jam jar ♪

♪ Come if you dare
We will take you there ♪

-♪ To the lovely Isle of Summer ♪
-[song concludes]

-I hope that this apple…
-I want to talk to her too.

-…fills me up.
-You have another one?

Break it in half.
Like, bite it in half or something.

How the hell do you bite an apple in half?

I don't know. I don't know.

Yeah, don't think you can have it
without any favors.

I'll throw it in the pool. [chuckles]

-I'ma dunk you in the pool.
-[Trishelle] No. Don't, you're drunk.

Oh, my God.
I'm like, "You are drunk."

[Frank] Trishelle is going
to make someone really happy someday.

I think she's one of the sweetest girls
I've ever met in my life.

Maybe it means that someday,
I'll marry a person who loves me.

-[scoffs]
-Be it male or female.

[Trishelle laughs]

Wait. [imitates Australian accent]
There's the evil croc.

-[in normal voice] That was pretty bad.
-[women laughing]

[Trishelle] Oh! [chuckles]
Carry me to Salt.

Frank is so funny,
hilarious, and he's so genuine.

He is the kind of guy
who I'd date back at college.

["Lara's Theme" playing]

[Steven]
There's a sneaky side to Trishelle.

Like, she's always got a lot of guys
on the back burner.

I don't know
what you want me to say and…

[laughs]

[Frank] Trishelle says
that I'm the sort of person

who she'd really like to date,
and she has a crush on me.

Are you okay?

Yeah, totally. Like, seriously, yeah.

Okay.

[Frank] I would be lying

if I said I wasn't physically attracted
to Trishelle.

["Burned By The Sun" playing]

Wind.

[Trishelle chuckling] Yeah.

Can we just make it,
like, those two and us two?

-[man] Yeah.
-[Frank] If Trishelle never did anything

with Steven,
then I would hook up with Trishelle.

♪ High above the border town ♪

♪ I can see the golden ground ♪

-♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
-♪ If I wasn't looking down ♪

♪ I might have lost you in the miles… ♪

I don't know if Steven
and I are gonna start hanging out again,

or if we're ever gonna be close again,
and it kinda scares me, it worries me.

There is just kind of,
like, this bitterness between him and I.

♪ Ocean blue and foaming white ♪

-♪ Surround the body of my flight ♪
-♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪

♪ As I flew out of sight ♪

-♪ You were turning into stars ♪
-[song fading]

I want him submerged.

-[laughs]
-I want him dead.

[Alton] Should've given you
the score today.

I want his family dead.

["Smells Good" playing]

[indistinct chatter]

[Brynn] I'm sure they're gonna hook up.

It's not like that. At least not for him.

[Frank] Alton was saying everything
about last night.

He's like, "Are you hooking up
with Trishelle?"

-And I go, "What?"
-[laughs]

Alton told Steven
that I had kissed Trishelle.

He's like, "Alton said
he saw you two making out last night."

-[Trishelle gasps] Oh, my God.
-[Frank] I was like, "That's just a lie."

[Frank] I was like, "That's just a lie."

What a douchey thing--
Did Steven believe you?

-Oh, yeah, yeah.
-Was he just, like, laughing about it?

Steven wasn't happy, and I was just like,
"Well, I didn't even notice that."

I'm just wondering why Steven even asked.

[heavy rock music playing]

[Steven] They'll never recognize me!

-You're gonna do the counting, right?
-Okay.

[Trishelle] Salt is a nightclub
that's located on Keppel Island.

We're gonna be performing
our dance at Salt.

-It's gonna be so much fun!
-[Arissa laughing]

Yay!

[all cheer]

Half the people got drunk
before we had to do our performance.

DJ Ducky turns the music on,
and Alton's too drunk to start dancing.

[music continues]

[Steven] If Jean were watching this,
he would have his head down,

like, cursing in Bulgarian.

[Trishelle] I think that if--
Even if the people do laugh at us,

we won't care,

just because it's us in this,
and we're doing it together.

[soft guitar music playing]

You're being really negative to me,
and every time I am around,

like, you say things to me

or when you do even talk to me,
you say, like, negative things.

I go up to Trishelle, and I'm like,
"I think you're acting this way,

and it's making me uncomfortable."

You're acting, like,
weird as [bleep] around me, like--

[Trishelle] You know why?
I'll tell you why.

Okay, why?

'Cause I don't want
to make you uncomfortable.

He's, like, telling me
that I'm treating him differently.

I'm like, "No,
you're not gonna blame this on me."

"You know,
you're treating me differently too."

We're done like that.
I know that we're done like that.

And I was like, "I love you,
and I don't want there

to be hard feelings between us,
and I just want us to be friends."

I hope now we're cool, for real this time.

I'm so glad we had that conversation.
Trishelle and I are just gonna be friends.

There's gonna be no hooking up.
Of course, I'm a big dumbass

-so I could be completely wrong.
-["Come Around" playing]

♪ I'm gonna be lonely
For the rest of my life ♪

-♪ Unless you come around ♪
-[song concludes]