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Season 01: Episode 07 - His Visit: Day Six

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Early on the sixth day since John’s arrival, Butchie Yost is trying to get back in the game. With Kai looking on from a hiding spot on the beach, Butchie attacks a succession of waves, but some spectacular wipe-outs are showing his rust. Before long, though, the lapsed pro starts landing his tricks, and Kai slinks off to her friend Jane’s house to pick up his old boards.

Linc is also getting down to business. The Stinkweed executives have come to town to talk about the company’s withering profits and try pushing e-commerce on Linc. After a strategy discussion that ends in Linc mooning his vice president of sales, he strides out of the room, followed by his old friend and business partner, Jake. Obviously, Linc has other matters on his mind. Outside, he explains to Jake what happened to Shaun at Huntington. “A miracle, half our base runs the other way,” Jake responds. “Do we make that up selling at shrines?” Linc doesn’t have an answer for that one yet. But, Jake isn’t waiting for him to figure it out, either. Conspiring with the V.P. of sales, he approaches Tina to record an interview in which he asks whether she ever had sex or used drugs with Linc. “Are you asking me to fib,” she inquires. Jake replies, “Are you asking me to write another check? I will if you will.”

John leaves Cass sleeping in her hotel room, telling her he’s going to “be with his father.” Pointing to her heart, Cass mumbles from bed, “Work here.” When she wakes up, she takes another crack at the footage whose purpose continues to elude her, obviously frustrated.

As Cissy leaves her daily voicemail berating Mitch, a delirious Palaka stumbles into her shop. Rambling nonsense along with something about a new tattoo on his neck, he passes out at her feet. At the same time, the hospital’s attorney, Mark Lewinsky, stops by to get her signature on the last bit of paperwork needed to close Shaun’s case. “The merest formality,” he says. Besides having her hands full with Palaka, Cissy doesn’t like the vibe Lewinsky gives her and tells him to get out – she won’t sign anything until she talks to Dickstein. She drags Palaka back to Freddy at the Snug Harbor, where Dr. Smith tries to treat his infection with an ice bath and antibiotics. When she gets a chance to have Dickstein look over the hospital paperwork, he tells her they’re trying to make Dr. Smith the “sacrificial lamb” while absolving the hospital itself. “Tell him,” Cissy says.

Butchie cracks a beer after surfing, and Dwayne comes to tell him the website’s numbers have jumped again, suggesting Shaun should have his own site. Too self-conscious of his hair-lip to approach the boy on his own, Dwayne asks Butchie to come along. But, when they find Shaun smoking pot outside the locked surf shop, he shrugs them off. “He looks like a tool,” the youngest Yost says, nodding toward Dwayne, who’s out of earshot. Butchie slaps him on the back of the head, reprimanding him for being so rude to someone who’s trying to help him. “Just because I’m a f**kup doesn’t mean I’m not trying to give you good advice,” Butchie says. Shaun suggests his father find Tina and give her some advice – to stick around Imperial Beach.

After Butchie leaves, Shaun heads over to Bill’s house. He tells the retired cop he wishes Zippy hadn’t saved him and breaks into tears. Awkwardly, but effectively, Bill shows Shaun one of his grief-counseling books, explaining that sometimes you can be sad without even knowing it. Meanwhile, the primary source of Shaun’s gloom approaches Linc back at his hotel. “A really good friend of yours wants to pay me to ruin your life,” Tina tells him.

Freddy –looking worried despite every effort to the contrary – asks whether his henchman should be in the hospital. The doctor assures him they would only offer the same treatment, but when Palaka’s condition doesn’t improve the drug dealer hoists his associate out of the bathtub and toward the car. Riddled with guilt for breaking Palaka’s wrist, Freddy calms down when Dr. Smith explains the infection came from a dirty tattoo needle, not the injured hand. “Don’t try to force an outcome because you’re worried about your friend,” the doctor says.

Butchie, on his way home from arguing with Shaun, cops a bag of heroin, but when he gets back to his room, he calls Kai instead of shooting up. When she arrives, he tells her he doesn’t think he wants to use anymore. Upon receipt of the news she’s been waiting years to hear, Kai says, “I saw you in the water this morning. I’ve got your boards outside.” When Butchie goes out to the Jeep to see the sticks, his phone rings with a call from Shaun; Kai drives him to meet his son. Bill makes himself scarce in his own home so the two can talk, while Butchie invites Shaun to smack him and even the score. Instead, Shaun gently pats the back of his father’s head.

On the pier, Jake approaches Linc, trying to extort him into accepting a buy-out offer by playing the recording of Tina’s incriminating interview. But Linc has his own tape of the conversation and after playing it asks Jake, “Isn’t that a felony is this state – offering to pay someone to lie?” With the playing field suddenly pitched in the other direction, Linc asks how much the company was willing to pay to buy him out. Nearly doubling the figure to $65 million, Linc strikes a deal and hands over his recorder.

As the day winds down and Palaka rests easy, John begins to appear to everyone simultaneously: Standing behind Dickstein at the Snug Harbor as he carves a stick figure into wet cement, looking into Cissy’s window as she washes the dishes, hugging Cass after she finally receives her moment of inspiration for the drum circle footage. “Shaun will soon be gone,” he tells her. Back at the pier, Linc watches with Tina as Butchie, Shaun and John step into the surf with their boards. “The big money,” he tells her, “is in escrow for whoever can tell me what the f**k is going on.”

Excerpt taken from HBO.com's John From Cincinnati Site

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Season 01: Episode 02 - His Visit: Day Two

By admin | January 20, 2007

Mitch rides out another sunrise on his long board at Imperial Beach, but Kai, coasting in from farther north, interrupts his private ritual as he exits the water. Trying to mask his irritation, Mitch offers Kai a ride back. A young woman named Cass approaches Mitch, explaining that she wants to shoot him for a film she’s making. “I like vintage,” she tells him when he notices her classic Porsche next to his wagon. Kai is not impressed.

Butchie wakes up at the Snug Harbor, surprised that heroin withdrawal hasn’t started gnawing at him. Giving John first crack at the bathroom, Butchie notes, “I haven’t seen you dump or take a leak since you got here.” Later, on the pier, Butchie and John come across Vietnam Joe, who tells Butchie the kid makes him uneasy. Muttering to himself, Butchie starts to add up John’s arrival, Mitch’s levitation and his own lack of dope-sickness, but he pushes the mystery aside to go test-drive John’s platinum card at the liquor store. Loaded down with Chivas Regal and cardboard cutouts of bikini girls, the pair head back to the hotel, where Butchie’s angry dealer, Freddy, has already started looking for him.

At home with Cissy, Shaun follows his friend’s progress at Huntington on a laptop. Sniffing for the kill, Linc appears at the screen door, asking Cissy for two minutes to explain “what I can do.” She lets him in and, when Mitch comes home, tells her husband, “You need to hear him.” Linc says he re-entered Shaun at Huntington, which only sends Mitch on a tirade about string-pulling money men. Linc turns to Shaun, launching into a speech about bringing the rush of surfing to the masses while apologizing for letting his lust for a marketable icon suck Butchie down the drain. “I’d like to compete,” Shaun says. “I like it.” Mitch finally gives in, glaring at Linc. “No image,” he tells the promoter.

Ramon and Dickstein wait for Barry to arrive at the Snug Harbor, curious to see how the new owner will follow up the previous day’s life-threatening performance. Plopping bags of lunch down on the counter, Barry announces he’s had a vision: He’ll renovate the hotel, learn to surf and face his fear of Room 24, for which he immediately embarks. Opening the ominous door, Barry lasts a few seconds before high-tailing it back to the office and declaring, “Room 24 is haunted. This morning I woke up happy. I mistook that freedom for power …” He squeezes out a prayer, forgiving the ghost of Gilbert Rollins along with the childhood transgressions of Butchie Yost. Ramon and Dickstein add an uncomfortable “Amen.”

Kai calls to tell Butchie about Shaun’s heat in the afternoon but ends up leaving a rambling voicemail. As she hangs up, Cass - on Linc’s orders - makes an unwelcome visit to the surf shop, hoping to convince Kai of her honorable intentions with Mitch. The surfer chick’s not buying it. When Cass adds that she might go watch Shaun, Kai replies, “Maybe I’ll go up too. That family’s got their own problems, but can’t we all still do our little parts to make them worse?”

Shaun, Cissy and Mitch stop by Bill’s house on their way to Huntington, but Bill declines their invitation, saying he has no business on a family outing. At the contest, Shaun ducks through a pipeline to blow the other surfers away. But, on his second run, a tremor strikes, distracting the judges and giving Shaun the wave of the day. Killing that one just as easily, Shaun bails on an impossible move at the end. While spectators glance around following the brief quake, Kai waits a few painful moments before running toward the surf yelling, “He never came up!”

Butchie and John return to the Snug Harbor to find Freddy waiting, and he promptly belts Butchie in the face, asking, “You gonna ‘drown me in a cop tsunami?’” Butchie tries to talk his way out of the voicemail he left after Freddy’s subordinate rolled him on a dope deal, but Ramon interrupts the exchange with a phone call for Butchie. “Shaun broke his neck,” Mitch tells his son. When Butchie asks why no one came to tell him about the competition, Mitch slaps him with the answer: “When you’ve never been anywhere for anybody? Why waste the gas?” Butchie shares the news with Freddy, who forces him and John into his car at gunpoint. Instead of killing them, he drives them to the hospital.

The doctor tells Cissy and Mitch that lack of oxygen has rendered Shaun brain-dead, and the couple’s reactions, predictably, differ. Mitch wants Shaun immediately removed from machines, and Cissy refuses to let her grandson go. “Take Shaunie off that machine Mitch, you’d better not get in our bed again,” she says. “I’ll murder you in your sleep.” As Mitch leaves, he passes Butchie in the hall and says Cissy will explain Shaun’s injuries. She tells Butchie how the water sucked out at the end of the wave, leaving Shaun to snap his neck on the bare ocean floor. “They asked about donating his organs,” she says.

Butchie stands at the bedside, holding his son’s hand and lamenting that they never had a chance to “square things,” while Bill, having heard about the accident on the news, enters the room. Butchie pats Bill on the shoulder and leaves him alone with the boy. Anxiety-ridden, Bill reaches into his jacket and pulls out Zippy, his miraculously healed bird. Lowering the creature to Shaun’s slack face, he repeats his words from the previous day to Zippy, “And kiss Shaunie too, as long as we’re being stupid …” As the bird’s beak touches his cheek, Shaun opens his eyes.

Excerpt taken from HBO.com’s John From Cincinnati Site

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