This is the penultimate Wellness Check, which feels like a good time to say: all of these people are about as well as a rotting dolphin carcass. Let’s do this. Rick is so relaxed! His girlfriend, who asks annoying questions like, “Are you OK?” is in another city.
His enlightened and sober friend Frank is now doing lines with topless women in a hotel room, meaning Rick doesn’t feel pressured to pretend to be a good person (i.e. a person who drinks tea and doesn’t kill people)! He finally has closure on his dad’s death.
Despite neglecting to do even two to three minutes of preparation, Rick and Frank manage to make it into Sritala and Jim’s house. “What movies have you directed?” Sritala asks Frank. “What haven’t I directed?” Frank replies.
Rick then asks the old man to have a private chat in another room and leave his wife with Frank, which is suss in a few ways including that Frank has been playing a man named Steve. The confrontation is fairly one-sided, with Rick shouting things like “HAPPY CHILDHOODS ARE IMPORTANT, AREN’T THEY?” and “HAVE YOU BEEN GOOD TO THAILAND?” – which is a bit rich coming from a man who . Jim can’t even remember Rick’s dad mum.
Rick, embarrassed, pushes him off his chair. How cathartic! Back at the hotel, Chelsea is miserable. Rick isn’t picking up and she’s so lonely she tries to teach Saxon to meditate, though freaks out when he tries to hold her hand.
“HERE ARE SOME BOOKS, OFF YOU GO!” she says, in d.
