Marietta storms into her office.
Amy: Marietta? What are you doing here?
Marietta: Me? It’s my office! What are you doing here?
Amy: Just burning the midnight oil.
Marietta: Why, though? It’s eight o’clock, the rest of us left work four hours ago.
Amy: Not everyone is as hard of a worker as me.
Marietta: No, seriously. What are you still doing here?
Amy: Because I’m a hard worker!
Marietta: Stop pulling my leg!
Amy: I enjoy working, it reduces stress. I was just finishing up with my l What are you doing here?
Marietta: My family.
Amy: Say no more.
Marietta: They’re just s-
Amy: I said say no more! I’m here to relieve stress, not stress about your family.
Marietta: So I finally find someone to vent to and she doesn’t want to hear it. Great.
Amy: You have five minutes, and then I’m leaving.
Marietta: All I need! So my mother, in her infinite wisdom, starts berating me at dinner.
Amy: What did you do?
Marietta: Nothing.
Amy: Are you being truthful with me?
Marietta: Yes!
Amy: I don’t think you are.
Marietta: You think my mother needs a reason to get upset with me?
Amy: I think you are minimizing what happened to make yourself look a little better.
Marietta: I don’t need to plead my case before you, you’re not Judge Judy.
Amy: If you’re gonna vent, do it honestly.
Marietta: Okay, I may have not done something that mom asked, and then I may have told her she was being stupid for getting upset that I didn’t do it, and then she called me disrespectful.
Amy: Are you sixty or sixteen?
Marietta: Are you insinuating that I’m childish?
Amy: Yes!
Marietta: That was uncalled for.
Amy: What was it that she asked you to do?
Marietta: Pick up a ham from the store.
Amy: So you ignored her request to get her food to make and then insulted her? Yeah, I see why she’s mad.
Marietta: I said I’d get it tomorrow morning, I just forgot to get it because it was a long day. I also may have insinuated that she should get it herself because she didn’t have anywhere to be all day.
Amy: Oh, geez. You’re done for.
Marietta: Sarah sure seemed to think so, she sided with mom.
Amy: That would make sense. Your mother was clearly in the right.
Marietta: You’re my friend, you’re supposed to take my side.
Amy: This is such a dumb thing to argue about at all. How are you even still mad about this?
Marietta: You weren’t there, there was lots of yelling.
Amy: Surely my five minutes have to be up.
Marietta: You don’t have any suggestions for how I can fix this?
Amy: No.
Marietta: I appreciate the bluntness.
Amy: I think you should call Tammy.
Marietta: She’s having a date night with Mitch.
Amy: Then I hope you can figure it out yourself. Goodnight.
Marietta: Wait! Is there anything I can work on to pass the time?
Amy: There are papers on the desk, you can look over them, make sure you like how everything is worded.
Marietta: Sounds like a plan.
Amy: I don’t know how long you plan on being here, but make sure you turn the lights off before you go.
Marietta: Oh, I’m sleeping here tonight.
Amy: What? Why?
Marietta: In case Sarah goes home. I don’t want to see her.
Amy: You are a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
Marietta: Thank you!
Two hours later…
Marietta: All right, Marietta, it’s time for you to lay down. I don’t know why I’m talking to myself. I guess I’m just used to having someone to talk to! Either way, it’s time to get some shuteye, Tammy and Amy will be here to annoy me before I know it!
Thirty minutes later…
Milton: Marietta!
Marietta: What?
Milton: My god, I thought I’d never reach you.
Marietta: What do you mean?
Milton: On the phone.
Marietta: Oh, right. I didn’t even notice I was on the phone.
Milton: Are you okay?
Marietta: Just a little tired, or drunk, I don’t know.
Milton: I have bad news.
Marietta: When don’t you?
Milton: I’m being serious.
Marietta: So am I
Milton: Something’s wrong with mom.
Marietta: I’d say there’s a lot wrong with mom. What specifically do you mean, though?
Milton: Dad and aunt Kathleen found her in the living room, she wasn’t breathing. They called an ambulance but we don’t know what’s up.
Marietta: Excuse me?
Milton: Did you not hear me?
Marietta: I’m just in disbelief.
Milton: I know. It’s a lot to take in. Just come to the hospital, we’ll hopefully find something out soon.
Marietta: I’ll be right there.
Marietta rushes to the hospital.
Marietta: Wow, that felt really quick.
Milton: Finally, you’re here!
Marietta: What do you mean “finally?” I practically clicked my hears and appeared here!
Milton: You said you were coming two hours ago!
Marietta: That’s just not true.
Martin: Oh, my god!
Kathleen: Don’t hug her! She did this!
Martin: She did not.
Kathleen: She stressed her out, got her panicked every day, now look at her.
Martin: She wouldn’t want finger-pointing.
Marietta: Someone fill me in here!
Milton: I already told you.
Marietta: You said she was being taken to the hospital, I said I’d come, and I’m here. I know nothing else, you all seem to know more than me.
Milton: We spoke an hour ago, when you said you were in traffic. Mom died, Marietta.
Marietta: You’re lying!
Kathleen: Don’t make a scene!
Marietta: I just found out my mother is dead! I’ll make a scene if I want!
Kathleen: You’ve known for an hour, why are you acting like you didn’t know?
Marietta: I did not know!
Kathleen: I’ll pretend I believe that.
Marietta: Why does no one believe me? I’m not lying about this! Why would I lie? Can you all just let me grieve?
Milton: You need to breathe, you’re drawing attention.
Marietta: I don’t care! Why am I the only one upset?
Martin: We’re all upset.
Marietta: You all seem more interested with dragging me down! I suppose you all grieved in those two hours I took to arrive and now you’ve moved on?
Milton: We all process things differently.
Marietta: I’ll say! Where is she, can I see her?
Martin: It was over an hour ago, they took her to the morgue.
Marietta: The morgue? She’ll be furious!
Milton: Not a good time to be quoting Death Becomes Her.
Marietta: We all process things differently!
Kathleen: Martin, she’s unhinged. I know she has to feel guilt, but this is ridiculous.
Marietta: My mother died! I get to be unhinged!
Martin: Marietta, let’s just sit down, breathe, relax, it’ll all be okay.
Marietta: Indeed time to spiral, okay?
Marietta wakes up.
Marietta: What the hell was that? And what time is it? Not even midnight? Are you kidding? I gotta stop talking to myself, too. I’m too used to having someone around to yell at.
One hour later…
Tammy: Marietta!
Marietta: My god, what? Is it morning already?
Tammy: There’s been, uh, an accident.
Marietta: What happened? Is it my mom?
Tammy: No!
Henrietta: There was an explosion at the waterfront during a community outreach event, we don’t know how many people were killed or what caused it.
Marietta: Are you serious?
Henrietta: Unfortunately.
Marietta: Where’s Amy?
Tammy: Amy?
Marietta: Amy.
Tammy: Who is Amy?
Marietta: You’re pulling my leg.
Tammy: Do you mean Amy Applewhite? The woman that ran against you in 2019?
Marietta: Uh, yeah,
Tammy: She moved away after she lost. She took that loss hard. Then again, I don’t know how you couldn’t after such a landslide loss. Why are you asking for her, though?
Marietta: No reason. Do we have a speech prepared?
Tammy: Henrietta has it handled. We need to do that and then get to the scene immediately, the victims have to know they have our support.
Marietta: I can’t believe this is happening. It doesn’t feel real.
Marietta wakes up.
Marietta: I guess it wasn’t real. That was a weird one. Why was Amy gone, that’s not something I fear? I’d love that! Okay, I gotta stop talking to myself and get some shuteye, it’s not even one in the morning yet I have a lot of sleep to cram in.
Two hours later…
Milton: Finally I reached you!
Marietta: What’s going on?
Milton: I need your divorce attorney’s number.
Marietta: What?
Milton: Yeah, it’s not working out. We gave it a good run.
Marietta: Are you kidding me?
Milton: Why would I lie about getting a divorce?
Marietta: I don’t know! You have a weird mind!
Milton: Please don’t insult me in this troublesome time.
Marietta: What happened?
Milton: She got tired of me, she left me.
Marietta: Oh my god! I’ll give her a piece of my mind when I see her!
Milton: Don’t. Don’t embarrass yourself.
Marietta: Embarrass myself? I’m so well-spoken, I’d wipe the floor with her.
Milton: Don’t talk about her like that.
Marietta: Why are you protecting her? She broke your heart!
Milton: I can still make this work.
Marietta: My god, get real.
Milton: Mom says so!
Marietta: Mom says a lot.
Marietta wakes up.
Tammy: My god! Marietta! It’s eight o’clock!
Marietta: Are you real?
Tammy: Huh?
Henrietta: She’s sleepy, give her some time.
Tammy: She’s overslept so as it is, it’s time to get to work. Did you come in early just to nape? And what are you doing wearing your clothes from yesterday?
Amy: She came here last night to hide out from her family and work a little to get their fight off her mind. I told her it was dumb.
Tammy: I don’t really care about that, we have a meeting at nine!
Marietta: I have to go talk to my mom! Side note, Amy, I’m so glad you didn’t move away!
Amy: Huh?
Marietta: I’ll explain later. Tammy, I don’t know who the meeting is with, but you guys stall them until I get back.
Henrietta: I just learned how to do the Wednesday dance, I can distract them with that.
Amy: I beg of you not to.
Henrietta: I’m doing it.
Amy: Ah, no one’s ever gonna take us seriously.
At Martin and Patty Lynn’s…
Martin: Wow, honey, it’s early! Kathleen’s not even up yet.
Sarah: I am! Grandma made me go to bed before Big Brother was even on last night, because you left me here and I don’t have a key to the house! I don’t even know who went home! And I woke ups at six! Six!
Martin: Felicia got eliminated. It was horrible.
Sarah: Thanks for ruining that, grandpa.
Marietta: Okay, we gotta get you a key. But I have to talk to mom.
Patty Lynn: I’m right here.
Marietta: I’m so sorry, mom! I can’t let you die before I apologize.
Patty Lynn: What?
Marietta: I had several nightmares last night. Two of them unrelated to anything, just really weird. One of them was about you dying, it was terrible. I don’t want to be mad at you anymore. I brought ham!
Patty Lynn: Aww, that’s sweet! I’m still confused about… all of this, but I accept the apology. It was a dumb argument, I know you do respect me and love me, and I am glad you brought ham.
Kathleen: Oh, not first thing in the morning. I’m going back to bed.
Patty Lynn: We’re not arguing anymore.
Kathleen: Thank god. That was annoying.
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