ARTIE BLAINE BRITTANY CHARLIE JUNE KURT MALE_ASSISTANT MALE_MODEL MARY MERCEDES RACHEL SAM BLAINE So here's what you missed on Glee. Rachel went to LA to audition for a TV show, but it was terrible and she missed her performance, but then she found out that the TV executives want to write a TV show around her. Sam's a male model and Mercedes' album's about to drop and they're still going out, except Mercedes definitely wants to save herself for marriage. Sassy heiress June Dolloway wants to put on a showcase for Blaine, but Blaine lied to Kurt and said he's in it, too. And that's what you missed on Glee! MERCEDES Uh, there. SAM Oh, no, huge audition this week for Treasure Trailz. They're kind of, like, on the forefront of the manscaping movement. I mean, they're going all out billboards, print, bus ads. Okay, my dream of being almost naked on a public bus is this close to coming true. MERCEDES Well, you know, I'm gonna be spray-painting "mine" SAM Ooh. MERCEDES over all those ads. Because if I'm gonna be out of town on this mall tour, I'm gonna need those 'rexy models you're working with to know that you have a girl, and she fights... SAM Dirty. MERCEDES dirty. RACHEL See? This is exactly what my show needs to be about. Old friends struggling to make it in this world. ARTIE Is it normal for a network to send a writer to hang out with the star to figure out the show? RACHEL Only when their star's incredibly interesting. Mary Halloran is a genius. She sold her first script when she was 14 years old. KURT Yeah, I just don't like the idea of someone crashing Monday night dinner. RACHEL No, but the point is for her to really see my life and understand my essence, and you guys are so much of that, besides my work, my talent and my ambition, so... (knocking on door) RACHEL Oh, here she is. Okay, you guys, be really nice, 'cause I don't want her to feel alienated. KURT We got to figure out a way to invite Mary to our showcase. I mean, Rachel shouldn't be the only one with a chance for small-screen stardom. BLAINE Oh. Totally. RACHEL (gasps) Oh, my God! Brittany, what's happening! BRITTANY What up, bitches? RACHEL What are you doing here? Oh, good. Look who's here. BRITTANY Hey! MERCEDES Brittany, I thought that you were on Lesbian Island. BRITTANY No... (scoffs) I lost my passport and I was trapped in the airport, like Tom Hanks in that movie. SAM Castaway? ARTIE Big? BLAINE The Money Pit? BRITTANY Okay, it was Castaway. So, where's Santana? MERCEDES Oh, uh, she's shooting a Yeast-I-Stat commercial in Iowa for a week. Apparently, they have the best wheat fields to slow-motion-run through. She didn't call and tell you? BRITTANY No. I gave up my cell phone after Kiki and I and broke up. The pain was too great. MARY Hello? Hello? I'm Mary Halloran. RACHEL Yes. MARY Oh, is that Chinese food? Just the smell of it gives me the Lady Di's. RACHEL Oh, I'm s... Hello. I am Rachel Berry. It is so nice to meet you. Let me introduce you to my friends... MARY Oh, no, no, don't bother. I have a thing about names. RACHEL Oh. MARY Jonathan says it's a form of narcissism, but I think it's related to my anxiety disorder. BLAINE Ooh, who's-who's Jonathan? MARY He's my Tuesday-Thursday shrink. At least I think that's his name. You know, that wonton smell's going straight to my tummy. (Rachel gasps) MARY Bathroom. Now. RACHEL It-It's right there. MARY Okay. Oh, I'm really excited to be working with you, by the way, Randy. It's gonna be a blast. MARY Okay, let's start writing! (Rachel chuckles) MARY "The Untitled Mary Halloran Project." RACHEL (quietly) Yes! MARY So... (sighs) tell me about yourself. RACHEL Well, let's see, uh, I-I have two gay dads. MARY Amazing! (laughs) We can use that! RACHEL Oh, good. Okay. MARY Do they work for NASA? RACHEL No, they don't. MARY Gay... NASA... dads. RACHEL N... Uh... MARY So, you're a singer? RACHEL Um, yes, I-I started out in my high school glee club, so... MARY (imitates buzzer) Irrelevant! We can't use that. RACHEL Oh. I'm so sorry. MARY The a capella thing is so over. But you're on Broadway. RACHEL Yeah! MARY Uh! What's that like? RACHEL It's amazing. Um, I-I do eight shows a week, so it's a little, you know, tiring, but... MARY Lazy. RACHEL I'm sorry? Is this, like, your process? MARY (like a robot) Mm! What is Mary-bot's process? Does not compute. (imitates alarm) Meh! Meh! Meh! Meh! RACHEL Okay. Um... so, how-how did you... start writing? MARY (sighs) Well, my freshman year at Princeton, I wrote a version of The Diary of Anne Frank, where Anne was played by an upright Oreck vacuum cleaner. It transferred to New York, where I won an Obie, and then I got a MacArthur Genius Grant. RACHEL Oh, wow. MARY Oh! I'm so bored! Too much work! Can I use your bathroom? I'm not gonna pee. I'm just gonna snoop through the cabinets. But before you say anything, remember that it's Opposite Day. RACHEL Yes? MARY Thank you. ARTIE Miss Jones, here we are with the launch of your nationwide tour of shopping malls. As you look ahead to a summer of autograph signings and mall appearances and glamorous events at Marriott Hotels across our great, great country, how do you feel? MERCEDES You know, I feel absolutely amazing. We're gonna meet up with Santana in Reno, and I even got the label to bring along my girl Brittany as my star backup dancer. We're gonna be like Charlie's Angels! I get to be Farrah-- no arguments. BRITTANY I'm the Angel that torches stuff with her laser eyes. (rock intro plays) JUNE Blaine. Come. I brought BabyCakes. BLAINE Oh. JUNE What were you doing up there? BLAINE Oh, I like to measure the stage to see how many paces I have in each direction-- that way if I decide to freestyle, I won't fall on my ass into the crowd. JUNE (chuckles) You know, success depends on three things. It depends on talent, hard work and... luck, and if you have the first two, you won't have to worry about the third. BLAINE Oh. Who said that? JUNE Me. Just now. (chuckles) All right. Should I seat Michael Bay next to Walter Cronkite? BLAINE Uh, I'm pretty sure Walter Cronkite died. JUNE Oh. That's sad. It's okay, don't worry about Walter-- he had a fantastic life. And he made great Manhattans. BLAINE It's not Walter. It's... it's Kurt. I've... been carrying around this lie that he's gonna be in the showcase. Can we just give him one song? JUNE That's enough. Blaine, I am putting the most valuable currency I have into this event, and that currency is my reputation. All the people come here because I am their taste-maker. And my palate... is undeniable when it comes to talent, and I cannot jeopardize my track record because your friend doesn't like to hear bad news. BLAINE Kurt is amazing. He's incredible. JUNE vYou take my lead, and the world will greet you like Venus in a clamshell. You cross me, and you'll be driftwood. Hm. (John Legend's "All of Me" begins) KURT Well, I brought you lunch, but it looks like you already had dessert. That was nice. Are you gonna put that in the showcase? BLAINE June doesn't want you in the showcase. And she never did. KURT So, you've been lying to me this whole time? BLAINE I thought I could convince her, and then they wouldn't be lies anymore. I love you. KURT How am I supposed to believe that you love me if I can't even trust you? BLAINE I did it because I love you. KURT You lied to me! We had long conversations about this. BLAINE I didn't know what else to do. I didn't want to hurt your feelings. I... I am... I am so, so sorry. KURT Yeah, I bet you are. Too bad I can't believe in anything else you say. MALE MODEL What is with the rubber band? SAM Um... (clears throat) Just, it's been a while since I've been intimate with a girl, so, I do it to kind of keep from popping a rogue chubber. MALE MODEL Oh, I know what you mean. It's been, like, nine hours since got laid. I'm going nuts. CHARLIE All right, cattle kids. Listen up. I'm Charlie Darling, and you're all here on zero notice because there's an advertising crisis over at the... Treasure Trailz campaign. Their big model got sent to prison for running an underground teacup dog-fighting ring in Miami. They have billboards set to launch in a few days, so it's time for a new Treasure Trailz coverboy. We're going to do this fast, and we're gonna do it dirty. Walk. If you can't get into my jeans with your walk, then you don't have it. I brought some girls to help set the mood. For the love of God, please, someone just turn me on. (camera shutter clicking) (Duran Duran's "Girls on Film" begins) CHARLIE You-- what's your name? SAM Uh, Sam Evans. CHARLIE Sam, you are seriously buzzing with sex. SAM Uh, maybe it's just 'cause I'm a little backed up. My, uh, girlfriend and I-- we're waiting till we get married. CHARLIE Whatever it is, it's working. Come back tonight for the shoot. Everything about you just screams Treasure Trailz. MERCEDES What's this? RACHEL We need to have a little girl talk. KURT It's about Sam. Are you gonna break up with him before you go on tour? BLAINE Sam, I think you need to break it off with Mercedes. It's just the gentlemanly thing to do. (whirring) SAM We love each other. RACHEL You're going to be traveling all over the country, meeting tons of people. Guys are gonna be, like, throwing themselves at you. MERCEDES Listen, I've got my posse and my Jesus. I can resist temptation! KURT But Sam can't. MERCEDES Sam is cool with the whole waiting until marriage thing. He barely even thinks about it anymore. SAM It's all I think about. Like today, there were all these boobs all around me, and I almost passed out... but I didn't. I controlled it. MERCEDES Okay, I'm not gonna lie. It is scary, worrying about what the person you love is doing while you're a million miles away, but it's worth the risk. And Sam respects me. And if that makes me a romantic and not a realist, well, that's the way that I'm choosing to live my life. SAM Look, guys, I'm committed to Mercedes, okay? She's the one. I'm not gonna screw it up. RACHEL Look, being in love is amazing, and when you have it, it's terrifying to let it go, but sometimes the best chance you have of staying together is by being apart for a while. MARY Ow. ARTIE Rachel's one of those people that, when she sets a goal, she doesn't stop until she gets it. I've never met anyone... Did you just put a donut in your bra? MARY Maybe? (laughs) Did you want this one? (typing slowly) BLAINE So, are we gonna begin, or...? MARY I love your attitude, and I'm okay with your loafers. We're gonna have to change your name, though. Do you prefer Slaine or Fane? BLAINE I'm sorry. Are you an actual writer from a real-life television network? MARY Shoop shoop! Shoop shoop da-doop! BRITTANY Can I just say that you are a breath of fresh air, and I love your pajamas? MARY Don't steal my pajamas! Little mousies live in the pockets! BRITTANY Amazing. (Mary laughs) BRITTANY What? MARY And a kitty lives in my pants. (Brittany laughs) KURT Rachel, that chick is insane. BRITTANY I think she's amazing. When Mary and I spoke telepathically, I told her I'd watch any show she created. KURT If you go out for that TV show, you're going to have to burn a lot of bridges. Sidney Greene even said he's gonna blackball you if you missed another performance. What is he gonna do when he finds out that you're quitting on him? RACHEL Shh! Look, if I do this TV show, then I can, like, come back to New York afterwards and do any show I want for, like, ten times the amount of money. KURT Understood, but if you're making that bet, I wish you'd bet on your voice, not some crazy psychopath who eats couch cushions. BRITTANY The armrest is the sweetest meat. KURT Look, you're the star of the show, but you have to trust your instincts, not hers. RACHEL Okay, you guys, welcome to the first informal read-through of the Untitled Mary Halloran Project. So, I will be playing the role of Rachel. Blaine, you'll be playing Slaine, and Brittany, you'll be playing Nittany. (Brittany whoops) SAM I'm guessing I'm Jam? ARTIE Blartie? RACHEL Yes. KURT Cert? I'm Cert, like the breath mint. RACHEL Let's start with scene one. Interior Cert and Rachel's apartment. "Rachel eats a full sheet cake in a bathtub, thinking about her gay dads who work for NASA." Um... KURT Hey. RACHEL Hey, where did you get that dinosaur suit? KURT I found it in a Dumpster in the Bronx, so I put it on, but then I was afraid it might have lice, so I took it off, but then I missed having it on, so I put it back on. RACHEL O-M-G-R-O-F-L-W-T-H. My stupid gay NASA dads forgot that today was my birthday, and I know that they're in the International Space Station, but I, like, never even forget their anniversary. Hashtag D-B-E-Y-R. KURT Hashtag D-I-L-L-I-G-A-S. RACHEL Hashtag, hashtag... KURT & RACHEL ...hashtag, hashtag. Hashtag, hashtag... "...hashtag, hashtag, hashtag... hashtag, hashtag." RACHEL Why don't we move to, uh, scene 12? BLAINE (exhales loudly) That was weird. BRITTANY That was uber weird. BLAINE It is so wrong that we just slept together. BRITTANY Uber wrong. BLAINE I'm gay, and you're mostly lesbian, but here's what I'm thinking. BRITTANY I know what you're going to say. BLAINE Okay, let's just say it at the same time at the count of three. One, two, three. BRITTANY & BLAINE Let's keep sleeping together and start an art gallery in the performance space downstairs! BRITTANY Oh. Mmm. BLAINE Mmm. RACHEL Um... Okay, well, why... why don't we, uh, move onto... Rachel's impromptu birthday rave? (dance music playing) KURT What's going on? ARTIE It's a rave. Coffee rave! KURT What? ARTIE It's a coffee rave! Everybody's drinking coffee. KURT Why coffee? ARTIE I don't know. KURT No one's here. It's the worst coffee rave ever. ARTIE It's for Rachel! Her gay astronaut dads forgot her birthday. She sort of has an issue with people forgetting birthdays. For a while, she went to therapy about it. I'm-I'm sorry. Can we stop? The speech goes on for, like, six more pages. I don't even see any punctuation. BRITTANY Everyone keeps stopping just when I start getting into it. SAM This doesn't make any sense. KURT Yeah, I sort of called that. ARTIE Girl, you're gonna have to do something. RACHEL You're right, and Kurt was right, too. If I'm going to do this, it's going to be my show, or no show at all. (pigeons cooing) KURT They're full of diseases. Pretty hard to dance at your showcase with bumblefoot. BLAINE Humans can't get bumblefoot. And I don't want to do the showcase anymore. You are more important to me than anything. KURT What do you think it's like to fly for the first time? I mean, here you are up in this nest, which is the only home you've ever known, and even though your DNA and millions of years of evolution are telling you that if you jump, you won't hit the ground like a stone, you can never really know. Relationships are like that. You give someone your heart to look after, and you tell yourself that you're safe, but... you never know if today or tomorrow is going to be the day that they drop it like a stone. BLAINE Kurt, I'm really, really, really sorry. KURT I get what happened. The way that I was talking about the showcase-- there's no way that I would have been cool with not being in it. I would have lied to me, too. BLAINE I don't understand. If you're not mad at me, then where are you going with all this flying stuff? KURT Oh, no, I-I was mad. Then I realized that trust is a choice. You know, every day, we're going to roll out of bed, and send each other into the world, just trusting that we have each other's backs. And we will slip up, and-and we will be scared, but I choose to trust and to love you through everything. BLAINE Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Uh, I love you so much. I-I mean what I said about the showcase. Either we fly together, or we don't fly at all. KURT I am very happy for you. And I'm very excited the world gets to see you spread your wings. Now it's your turn to fly. BLAINE Thank you. I don't know if it's all this bird talk, but... I'm getting a little turned on. KURT Let's go inside. BLAINE Hey, hey, hey. I'm the luckiest guy in the world. KURT Yeah, pretty much. RACHEL You know, we have, uh, plain donuts here. MARY I prefer the misery of doing it this way, earning it. RACHEL Yeah, see, that's sort of what I mean about the show. You know, which is genius, by the way. MARY (chuckling) Thank you. RACHEL I just think the character of Rachel doesn't really sound like me. She... sounds like you. MARY I know TV. People want antiheroes. They want chubby girls who can't keep men and men who kill people. RACHEL And that's great. I just... I thought that Mr. Paulblatt wanted to make a show that was about me. MARY I know the kinds of shows he greenlights-- they all have the one thing you lack irony. RACHEL When I was in the glee club and I had to explain something, it always helped me to do it through song. MARY Oh... God, no. RACHEL I just want to show you my essence. I don't know how to write a script, but I know how I want it to feel. (Pink's "Glitter in the Air" begins) MARY This is so weird. I was watching you and I was like, "What is this feeling?" Right? It's so unfamiliar. RACHEL What was it? MARY I think it was happy. That's never happened to me before. (sighs) I think you're right. Maybe there is a show in making people not hate themselves. RACHEL You mean it? A-And, you know, you'll make her sound like me? MARY Well, they'll never make it, but I'll give your version a shot. RACHEL Oh, my God. Thank you so much. Okay, I'm gonna give you a hug now. MARY Oh. Wow. Now can you leave? I need to shame-eat. RACHEL Oh. Yeah. Okay. Sure! (Mary shudders) CHARLIE Okay, good. Yeah, just... Yeah. Give me a little more sex, a little more sex. A little more heat. Come on. Chocolate. Banana. Give it to me, give it to me. Just tighten the abs a little bit. There you go. Just look over this way. No, not all the way. I don't like that. I don't like that. SAM Ass? CHARLIE Can you just give me more sex? You know? Feel it. Yeah. This isn't working. No, I hate everything. I hate everything. (sighs) Sam, where's my sex buzz? You didn't get laid today, did you? SAM No, it's-it's... your... your assistant is... looking at me kind of funny. MALE ASSISTANT Is one of your nipples higher than the other? It's... weirding me out. CHARLIE Okay. Enough, enough. Everybody out. Out. (sighs) (sniffs) Okay. Do you want a beer? SAM I'm-I'm... I'm nine-nineteen. CHARLIE I won't tell your mom. What are you feeling? SAM Um... well, if I was a soup, I would probably be minestrone. CHARLIE Keep talking. I like your honesty. So does the camera. SAM Uh... Well... you're really hot, so there's that. CHARLIE There's definitely that. SAM But I... I love my girlfriend. CHARLIE The one who doesn't have sex with you? SAM Um... y... I-I'm also feeling kind of scared. CHARLIE Of me? SAM Well, it's just that this job is really important to me. (stammers) It's a dream come true. I'm just worried that if I don't give you what you want I-I might lose it. CHARLIE What do you think I want? Hmm? I'm gonna tell you something to leave out of your minestrone of emotions guilt. There's nobody here. We can do whatever we want. And nobody has to know. MERCEDES Hey, my sexy working man. Look. I got us a bunch of binge foods to celebrate. Babe, what's wrong? SAM (sighs) I'm so sorry. I cheated on you. I was at my shoot and this photographer was all over me and it was so intense. It was like that scene in Fame, and she just... kissed me. MERCEDES And... and then what happened? SAM I got so upset I started crying and then she took some photos of me crying in my underwear and then I just left. MERCEDES Sam, you didn't cheat on me. It's not like you kissed her back. SAM Well, like, I kind of sort of did but it was just, like, one of those reflex reactions that you have when someone kisses you. Like, kind of, you know, like... See? Like that. MERCEDES Ugh. I can't do this to you anymore. Sam, I-I love you so much. But I'm looking at my life, and... I don't think I'm gonna be ready until I'm, like, 30. And asking you to wait that long is like asking a cheetah not to run. SAM It's okay. I'm okay with it. I... Yeah, it's-it's hard, but... I just have this feeling that we're meant to be together. MERCEDES Yeah, who's to say that we're not? SAM Y-You think I'm gonna cheat on you? MERCEDES No, actually, I think you won't. And I think you'll resent me for it. And I think that we're holding on way too tight and we're not believing in our love and we're gonna break it. It's gonna burn me to see you with other girls. But I know this is the right thing. SAM Just know that... whoever I'm with or whatever I'm doing, I'd rather be doing it with you. Hey. Hey. Just... MERCEDES Let's make a deal. If I... if I do decide to change my mind and not wait, I'll give you a call. SAM (chuckles) Deal. (sighs quietly) BLAINE That was fun. JUNE You were wonderful. BLAINE Oh, thank you. JUNE They loved you! BLAINE Oh, thank you. KURT That was great. They're demanding an encore. JUNE If they do, go. Don't drink it now, drink it later. BLAINE Sorry. JUNE Or drink it while you sing. You're such a good friend to come, um, rise above everything and be here to support him, really. KURT A friend wouldn't stand any of this. I'm here because he is the love of my life and nothing and no one is gonna come between us. JUNE (laughs) Sweet. BLAINE Thank you. Thank you all so very much. Um, before we end tonight, I would like to give a very, very special thank you to my benefactor, June Dolloway. The woman that taught me that talent is worthless unless you can really back it up with passion. And so I'd like to use that passion to pick my last song. Because there is nothing I am more passionate about... than my fiancé. So, um, Kurt... would you like to sing this last duet with me? KURT Oh... BLAINE If you all came here to get to know me tonight, there's no better way than seeing me with my one true love. (applause) (Estelle's "American Boy" begins) BLAINE June, I-I'm so sorry, I-I just had to. JUNE No, no, no. You two were terrific. They loved you. And I'm gonna take credit for all of this. It's been a long time since anybody's proven me wrong. BLAINE June, thank you so much. Thank you, really. Thank you for all of this. JUNE Never let anyone-- even me-- make you doubt what you're sure of. BLAINE Okay. JUNE You. Come. Stand. KURT Okay. JUNE You remind me of my third marriage. My husband was gay, too. (all chuckle) JUNE True love. (June & Kurt laugh) JUNE Okay, let's have a party. RACHEL Yeah. KURT Oh. BLAINE Party! (all cheering) RACHEL "The thing about love is that it's not a scarce resource. The more you give, the more you have to give." Aw. MERCEDES Yay. RACHEL Yay, I love it. Do you guys like it? ARTIE I cried, and it wasn't just because I can walk in the script. RACHEL Well, she's handing it in to the network, so... we should hear soon. BRITTANY The other one was better. RACHEL You know, I always thought that Fanny was the role that I was born to play, but then I read this. This is it. This is my dream role, you guys, and thank you so much for pushing me to get it right. KURT A toast. To two glorious years in the greatest city on earth. RACHEL Cheers to that. ARTIE & BLAINE Cheers. RACHEL Cheers to that. So very much. SAM Holy crap. MERCEDES What...? Oh, my God. RACHEL Oh, my God. MERCEDES (gasps) Oh, my God, Sam, I am so proud of you. SAM I did it. I made my dream come true. Look at this. Ah. The abs, the... the nipples are even. Oh, my gosh, this is great. ARTIE It is the start of a great career. SAM Nope. It's the finish. I came out here to get my junk on the side of a bus, and I did it. Going out on top, or on the side, really. RACHEL What are you gonna do now? SAM I think I'm gonna go back home. I just want to be in a space where, you know, the only sounds I hear at night are the crickets and the rendering plant. My mind just works better when everything's a little slower. Plus, everybody here is just scattering, anyway, so... BLAINE It's the end of another era for us Glee kids. KURT Yeah. RACHEL Yeah. It's been quite a year, you guys. Finn and the Glee Club... I don't think I can really handle losing anything else. MERCEDES Who said that you have to lose anything? RACHEL No, he's right. It's like the end of an era. Sam said it-- we're all gonna be scattered all over the place soon. I mean, you do realize that if I get this TV show, it'll be the first time that we're apart in five years. KURT Well, I think if we can get through that, our friendship can survive anything. (Rachel coos) KURT Oh. ARTIE Kurt's right. I'm in this with you guys for the long haul. RACHEL Okay, then, you know what, you guys? (sighs) Let's make a deal. Six months from now, we all come back, right here, to this place, because I'm gonna need something to look forward to. If I've learned anything this year, it's that you guys are my life. ARTIE Let's hug it out. Come on. SAM Yes, yes, yes. MERCEDES Let's do it. Bring it in! KURT Oh, guys, I would kill to break out in song right now. (Bastille's "Pompeii" begins) RACHEL Hello? Yes. Oh. No, yeah, th-thank you very much. Thank you. Okay. That was the network. They, uh... they loved the script, and they want to make it into a pilot. I'm going to L.A. BLAINE What? RACHEL I'm going to L.A.! This is amazing! Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Is this really happening? Oh, my God, am I gonna be on TV? Oh, my God! Oh, my God! (all shouting excitedly) RACHEL I can't believe it! Oh, my God! Oh, my God