The Friend

600 00:45:08,577 --> 00:45:10,711 Well, I've heard. From Walter. 601 00:45:11,245 --> 00:45:13,648 You two would discuss the size of my apartment? 602 00:45:13,747 --> 00:45:15,749 We talked about a lot of things. 603 00:45:16,417 --> 00:45:18,953 It just seems cruel, Iris. 604 00:45:19,053 --> 00:45:21,889 Barbara, um, you were right. 605 00:45:22,323 --> 00:45:24,925 There's no space in any of the local rescues. 606 00:45:25,025 --> 00:45:27,127 You can't just re-home Walter's dog. 607 00:45:27,228 --> 00:45:28,663 I really wish you'd reconsider. 608 00:45:28,762 --> 00:45:29,863 I know it's what Walter wanted. 609 00:45:29,964 --> 00:45:31,765 Come on, did he actually say that? 610 00:45:31,865 --> 00:45:33,033 That's what he wanted? 611 00:45:37,672 --> 00:45:38,872 Iris. 612 00:45:38,973 --> 00:45:40,441 Thank you. 613 00:45:40,841 --> 00:45:42,476 Walk me to the train? 614 00:45:42,910 --> 00:45:44,745 Yeah. Come on, big guy. 615 00:45:49,049 --> 00:45:52,786 That dog, he's so Walter. 616 00:45:52,886 --> 00:45:54,556 You mean, the swinging balls? 617 00:45:54,656 --> 00:45:57,258 Walter would've hated today. 618 00:45:58,259 --> 00:46:01,962 The ashes. Flowers. Mournful poem. 619 00:46:02,062 --> 00:46:04,064 He'd have loved seeing his three wives 620 00:46:04,164 --> 00:46:06,767 stuck on a tiny boat together. 621 00:46:06,867 --> 00:46:08,269 We should've invited the girlfriends. 622 00:46:08,369 --> 00:46:10,672 "You're gonna need a bigger boat." 623 00:46:10,771 --> 00:46:13,240 God. 624 00:46:16,611 --> 00:46:18,479 I never told you that I... 625 00:46:19,013 --> 00:46:22,249 I knew about the two of you. That you'd been together. 626 00:46:24,552 --> 00:46:26,621 Did Walter tell you? 627 00:46:26,721 --> 00:46:31,058 I guessed. Then I asked him, and he, you know, owned it. 628 00:46:31,559 --> 00:46:34,928 He was so proud of himself that you'd remained friends. 629 00:46:35,029 --> 00:46:37,398 But he never really shared details. 630 00:46:40,535 --> 00:46:41,802 It was... 631 00:46:42,870 --> 00:46:44,271 that summer, 632 00:46:44,706 --> 00:46:47,274 that last class we took from him. 633 00:46:48,777 --> 00:46:50,712 We just kept hanging out. 634 00:46:51,178 --> 00:46:53,247 Going for walks. Coffees. 635 00:46:53,347 --> 00:46:57,151 One night, out of the blue... We'd been drinking. 636 00:46:57,985 --> 00:47:00,254 ...he just suddenly said to me, 637 00:47:01,589 --> 00:47:03,692 "We should fuck." 638 00:47:04,491 --> 00:47:09,963 And I didn't expect it with us. After so much time together. 639 00:47:10,064 --> 00:47:12,801 I'd seen it with other students, but... 640 00:47:13,367 --> 00:47:15,537 -Yeah. -So, I just stared at him 641 00:47:15,637 --> 00:47:17,706 and said, "Why?" 642 00:47:17,806 --> 00:47:20,407 - "Why?" - Yeah. He laughed too. 643 00:47:20,508 --> 00:47:24,978 And then he said, "We should find that out about each other." 644 00:47:25,079 --> 00:47:28,849 -He didn't. -He did. And then we did. 645 00:47:29,517 --> 00:47:33,755 Men like Walter and their beloved language. 646 00:47:33,854 --> 00:47:35,790 Isn't it disappointing that 647 00:47:36,223 --> 00:47:37,759 when it comes time to seduce, 648 00:47:37,858 --> 00:47:39,326 they all sound the same? 649 00:47:39,426 --> 00:47:40,595 Hm. 650 00:47:40,695 --> 00:47:42,096 I mean, at that point in my life, 651 00:47:42,196 --> 00:47:44,064 I was so intense about everything. 652 00:47:44,164 --> 00:47:46,934 I wanted every experience. And he... 653 00:47:47,501 --> 00:47:51,138 He was just so fucking sophisticated. 654 00:47:51,238 --> 00:47:52,640 And? 655 00:47:52,741 --> 00:47:54,308 And then that was it. 656 00:47:54,408 --> 00:47:57,044 The next day, he pronounced it a mistake for us 657 00:47:57,144 --> 00:47:59,681 to try and be more than friends. 658 00:47:59,781 --> 00:48:01,516 -What a cad. -Yeah. 659 00:48:01,616 --> 00:48:04,351 I was mortified. And angry. 660 00:48:04,451 --> 00:48:08,723 And I didn't think for a second we could ever be friends again. 661 00:48:08,823 --> 00:48:11,959 -And then my dad got sick. -I remember. 662 00:48:12,059 --> 00:48:14,529 Right, and he shows up at the funeral, 663 00:48:14,629 --> 00:48:15,896 and it was really nice. 664 00:48:15,996 --> 00:48:18,165 And weirdly okay. 665 00:48:18,733 --> 00:48:24,004 And then you two started up, and it was all normal again. 666 00:48:24,104 --> 00:48:27,040 Why didn't you ever say anything? 667 00:48:28,242 --> 00:48:30,377 I don't know. It didn't seem to matter. 668 00:48:30,477 --> 00:48:31,679 We were all friends. 669 00:48:33,213 --> 00:48:36,383 Yeah. I guess it didn't. 670 00:48:37,484 --> 00:48:39,721 But then Walter and I split. 671 00:48:39,821 --> 00:48:41,723 And I was jealous. 672 00:...