Danny and Amy’s loneliness grips them no matter how hard they try to twist away.
’s first theme, loneliness is its secondary theme; the ways that our lives and the pretenses we keep isolate us, keeping us an arm’s length from the people we love. When we tell lies to cover up our inner ugliness, we also build a wall so people can’t get to know us genuinely. Soon you’re in a marriage or a family relationship with someone who has ever only known the palatable, watered-down version of you.
While they wait for Michael and Bobby to get the supplies and arrive, Danny wanders around the Lau house and comments on the art. He’s buttering George up until he sees George’s vases. After complimenting them on a surface level, George asks him to open up about how the vases make him feel. Danny answers the question sincerely; they give him a sad feeling. His description of the sorrow he feels from the vases profoundly moves George, who tells Danny that he’s a good person.
Amy is less lonely these days, though. That picture Fumi caught her taking was for George, but George doesn’t respond. She complains about this to Paul, sending the picture to him instead. Paul asks if he can come over because Amy is home alone, getting ready to meet George and June at an AirBnB so work can be done on their “leaking” bathroom while they’re gone. Amy acquiesces, and when she meets Paul at the door, she tells him what she told him in Vegas: they can’t do anything physical.
Naomi’s been busy. Actually busy! She’s interviewed the man who caught Amy and Danny’s road rage on tape and is starting to put the pieces together. When the facade of friendliness falls, Naomi confronts Amy with her version of events: Amy and Danny are the people in the cars, and they’re having an affair. This curveball of a misread causes Amy to break down in hysterics, which pisses Naomi off.
Not only is Danny reconciling with Paul, but he gets a text from Amy asking him to meet her — she wants to end their feud. Finally, we see Ali Wong and Steve Yeung play off each other in earnest, sniping, quarreling, and jabbing from their car windows. Eventually, the two come to a truce. Amy will pay Danny $25,000 if Danny calls the neighborhood tip line and say he was the truck driver in the road rage video, but the white SUV wasn’t her.
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