Speaker 1: I'm going out. Where are my keys?
Speaker 2: I'm in the study working.
Speaker 1: Evany Gina, Where are my keys?
Speaker 2: I have no idea call a car.
Speaker 1: You are so useless.
Speaker 2: Sometimes always good to see you.
Speaker 1: Jj, I'm still working on a Friday night. It's kind
of sad. Oh found him?
Speaker 2: Are you going to a bar now?
Speaker 1: The boathouse has a live band tonight.
Speaker 2: And a full cocktail bar.
Speaker 1: Why does this feel like your mom asking me where
I'm going on a Friday night? Next year, you're going
to tell me to make good choices.
Speaker 2: Mom never cared. I do honestly, JJ, I'd close my
computer and go to an AA meeting with you if
you wanted me to.
Speaker 1: You can sit in a room full of alkis, but
I'll pass.
Speaker 2: It'll be good for you.
Speaker 1: Like you know what's good for me. Knowing you. I'll
wake up tomorrow morning and you'll be long gone off
to Dublin to see your husband or something. I drink
you vanish. It's what we do.
Speaker 3: JJ.
Speaker 1: I don't need or want your fake concern.
Speaker 2: My concern for you is real, jj I just I
just want us to find a way to move forward
as siblings and the owners of Eagleton.
Speaker 1: That's what you want. It is well, I don't want that.
I'm the CEO of Eagleton. I know it's hard for
you to accept, but I've managed fine until now while
you've been off doing whatever it is you do these days.
I don't want or need your help. I pay people
to help me. I'm good. Besides, we're all set with
that big SBWC project SBWC. Ah. You want to be
in charge, but you don't even know our slate of projects.
Speaker 2: You're making this up.
Speaker 1: Check the share drive. Everyone knows that we're bidding on
the Santa Barbara War for Revitalization project.
Speaker 3: I haven't seen a bid a deck.
Speaker 1: M Yeah, Mina and I worked on it.
Speaker 2: That woman can barely write her name.
Speaker 1: You are so arrogant, Bethany Gina. Mina and I submitted
the best bid that anyone's going to submit. It's in
the bank, done and we don't need your help. You know,
if you really want to help me, Bethany Gina.
Speaker 4: I'd love to help and.
Speaker 1: See if you can resist getting involved in company matters
that don't concern you. Enjoy being alone tonight.
Speaker 5: This is Manacito.
Speaker 4: You've been ten since dinner. Chio.
Speaker 6: Is there anything I can do to help. I'm running
out of clothes.
Speaker 7: I can have some outfits dropped off in the morning.
Buy whatever you want my treat. That's very kind if you, Deacon,
But I didn't. I didn't think i'd be away from
the Hoya for this long.
Speaker 6: It's not so bad up here. I didn't say it was.
It's just I don't know what to do.
Speaker 7: Ge If this is about your place in the Joya
or clothes, let's just expedite your move to Monacito. Now
that we've agreed to stay here together, it's a perfect time.
Speaker 6: To Deacon, it's not about the clothes.
Speaker 7: I don't understand. I thought we were having a good time.
I thought we were reconnecting. Is this all in my head?
And what's happening?
Speaker 4: Geo?
Speaker 6: I think I'm coming back down to reality.
Speaker 4: Okay, look, if you're gonna leave me, just do it.
It's kind of heard less than the long run, Geo.
Speaker 6: I didn't say I wanted to leave you.
Speaker 7: Well, you've been acting stand off for since you talked
to Mina. I know what Mina is like, Geo. Just
ignore her, pretend she doesn't exist. She's like Claudia is
trying to pour poison into your ear for sport.
Speaker 6: This has nothing to do with Mina. I just tonight
made me realize we're moving at super sonic speed.
Speaker 4: But I don't feel that way.
Speaker 7: We said we were going to do what we wanted, just,
you know, put ourselves first for.
Speaker 4: Once, Deacon.
Speaker 6: We haven't seen each other in thirteen years, no Christmas
cards or birthday text. But we're in this gorgeous bungalow
overlooking the ocean, acting as if time stood still all
the while. You're married to that woman. They're not sleeping
with a married man. I barely recognize myself right now,
and no matter what happens with you, I'll I'll always
be the odd man out. It's not fair, Deacon.
Speaker 4: Mina got to you, didn't she.
Speaker 6: Says, nothing to do with Mina Geyah.
Speaker 4: Please don't push me away.
Speaker 6: I'm not if I am. It's not my intention, Deacon.
I just I wonder if for in different places than
we were thirteen.
Speaker 4: Years ago, that's behind us.
Speaker 6: Part of me still wonders if we're not deluding ourselves
by living in this bubble of blissful ignorance. There's a
universe out there with real problems and real consequences.
Speaker 4: You don't think I know that.
Speaker 6: I think your money, your family, your choice have stopped
you from seeing the world as it really is. Deacon.
You've been in the same bubble for thirteen years.
Speaker 7: Okay, that's fair, yes, but don't close me out, Jeo.
Speaker 4: Stay here with me. We can work on our relationship.
Speaker 6: How long will we have to keep our relationship a secret?
Two months? The rest of our lives? How will Mina
react to me as your partner? What about your son?
Are you ever going to come out to Diego? Will
Mina make you choose between me and Diego? Is that
a choice that you are willing to make again and again?
All these choices, all these decisions come back to you.
Speaker 4: And that's why you're breaking up with me.
Speaker 6: We were never to gather, Teacon. I feel bad enough
coming into your life again and dredging up the past to.
Speaker 7: Whatever story you're telling yourself, it's wrong. I swear we
are solid. We're taking this at our own pace.
Speaker 6: What I'm trying to say is I don't want to
hurt you, Deacon, but I think it would be best
if I left.
Speaker 1: I'll take a whiskey, Neat.
Speaker 3: Give me another glass of Blanc de blanc.
Speaker 1: Hey, you give me a kiss.
Speaker 3: No, not after you kept me waiting. We should be
celebrating my accession to the Board of Directors at Wrigalton Worldwide.
Speaker 1: Well, then to you, cheers.
Speaker 3: It was my finest moment and now you're safe thanks
to me. How do you feel safe?
Speaker 1: Is a good word? I feel good like nothing will change?
Speaker 3: Is that what you think?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm still sheeo.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's just well, I've tried so hard to find
common ground with your sister because we have to work together.
I've been patient with her. I tried to bond with
her as two strong girl bosses. But she just has
no respect for me. Jj she hates me.
Speaker 1: I doubt that. Yeah, she's overbearing, but she's not hateful, Bethany.
Speaker 3: Gina is threatened by me.
Speaker 6: No, she isn't.
Speaker 3: Yes she is. She's threatened by us. She knows what
our combined power means for her. She knows that as
long as I'm the director of Leadership on the board
of Directors, my loyalty lies with you.
Speaker 1: Oh is that right?
Speaker 3: Yes, I have the power to steer the board to
whichever person I think is right to lead the company,
and that person is you. JJ, I'm the only person
with the power to protect you.
Speaker 1: You're turning me on, Mina. Keep it up and I
won't be able to stand up from this stool.
Speaker 3: M We can do whatever we want. It's time that
Bethany Gina shows us respect.
Speaker 1: I don't want to talk about my sister.
Speaker 6: Or the board.
Speaker 3: All I'm saying is, if Bethany Gina doesn't play nice
with us, we can kick her to the curb.
Speaker 1: Easy there, Mina, she's my sister. We may not agree
most of the time, but it's her company too.
Speaker 3: But I'm in charge same as you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I just think that we can.
Speaker 3: JJ go pay the bill and have the valley get
my car.
Speaker 1: Fine, but you're coming back to my house and no
more work talk, that is, unless we're role playing boss
intern or boss secretary. Who's the boss you are?
Speaker 3: Then get my car and let's get out of here.
Speaker 1: Yes, Boss, I couldn't have.
Speaker 3: Planned it any better. I've got everyone just where I want.
Speaker 8: Them, So let's set you.
Speaker 7: You're leaving Monocito and what life just goes back to
what it was before we reconnected. We both know that
we are stronger together than we are apart. Even after
all this time, I feel like you're my person. You're
my person, Geo. I don't want to let you go,
not again, not after we found our way back to
each other.
Speaker 6: Hey a ticket. I don't know what to make of
all of this. I need time.
Speaker 4: How much time?
Speaker 6: As much as I need?
Speaker 7: Fine, fine, but just don't leave. Just stay here in
the bungalow. I'll go back to the manor.
Speaker 6: But you'll have to live with Mina. I can't ask
you to do that for me. I'm doing this for us.
Don't go back to La Joya.
Speaker 7: Please stay here. You came back for a reason. I
don't want to mess this up. Maybe we can't pick
up where we left off thirteen years ago, but we
can still work on building a life together. This doesn't
need to end again.
Speaker 6: It's too much, too soon.
Speaker 4: I know, you know what.
Speaker 7: Let's just let's start fresh today. We can have a
wonderful life together. I just I want to be with you, Geo.
I still love you. I always have and I know
that might sound crazy, but I am finding my voice
and I am using it and I do.
Speaker 4: Not want you to go.
Speaker 6: I respect you so much and have a special place
for you in my heart. But I'm overwhelmed right now.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry. I understand. I don't want to push you away.
Speaker 6: I just.
Speaker 4: I don't understand what changed.
Speaker 6: We've both changed, Dcon. Life has changed us over the years.
Speaker 4: You're right, yes, I have changed. I see that now.
Speaker 7: I remember who I was when my father approached us
at the boat house earlier. I had a wave of
shame come over me when he asked us what we
were doing. It felt like he was accusing me of
doing something disgusting, like I wasn't allowed. But I didn't lie.
I told him we were on a date because we were.
I'm tired of feeling like I'm not allowed, not allowed
to be happy, not allowed to be a good parent,
not allowed to be with you.
Speaker 6: You deserve it all, Deacon, everything, that version of myself
is still here, Geo.
Speaker 4: Why A'm still that man? So what do you say? Jeo?
You put the bag down.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, Deacon, I have to get out of here.
I'm gonna stay at my cousin Laylah's beach house. Why
are you acting like this?
Speaker 5: Stay with me?
Speaker 4: Running won't help either of us.
Speaker 6: I can't let you go.
Speaker 4: Please don't leave.
Speaker 6: Geo, Deacon, move, Please let me go.
Speaker 5: Don't leave Montecito. Just promise me that.
Speaker 6: I won't. I promise this. Putting distance between us, it's
the right thing to do for both of us. Waste
it time.
Speaker 1: My still on the line.
Speaker 3: I am still, how.
Speaker 1: Ever, be love for you like me?
Speaker 8: So please stop.
Speaker 6: Me.
Speaker 2: Oh it's you, Oh Mina, you scared me. I didn't
hear you and JJ come in.
Speaker 3: It's a good thing, betany Gina. You'd probably taste both
of us if you do.
Speaker 2: I had install an electric fence around my house if
it would keep you out.
Speaker 3: Women your age think they're so witty. It must be
a side effect of menopause.
Speaker 2: I have a lot of work to do, so please
get out of my study and close your robe.
Speaker 3: Whenever I spend the night, JJ demands that I walk
around naked. It's a requirement.
Speaker 2: One man's trash.
Speaker 3: Did you know that your brother is the most aggressive
lover I've ever had. He always knows where to touch
me inside and out.
Speaker 2: Why are you here?
Speaker 3: We need a stapler?
Speaker 9: I don't want to know.
Speaker 3: Can you please be quiet and trying to work on
what your sad woman's manifesto?
Speaker 2: I have to revise the deck's climate reports for the
Santa Barbara warfe Vitalization Project found it.
Speaker 3: We all know your type A. What do you want
an award? It's late? Stop working.
Speaker 2: Have you even read the three hundred and fifty page
brief from the Santa Barbara Waterfront Commission.
Speaker 3: We pay people to understand that it's a waste of
my time.
Speaker 2: At least you can admit your dereliction of duty. You
work for and represent a leading real estate developer, Mina.
Speaker 4: This is a big job.
Speaker 2: You can't just breeze in and out whenever you feel
like playing games with the board of directors. You have
to know about water rights, the environmental impact of building
on the coast, coastal erosion, state and federal regulations, tax credits,
tax rebates. I could go on and on.
Speaker 3: You are going on and on.
Speaker 2: I don't see anybody working.
Speaker 3: You need to back off. JJ's the CEO. I have
faith in him, so mind your business.
Speaker 2: JJ needs support.
Speaker 3: Oh, like the kind of support you give him when
you leak stories to the press in order to replace
him as CEO.
Speaker 2: I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 3: I'm going back to JJ's room. If you do feel
the urge to interfere or share any water rights findings.
Knock before you come in. I never wear a robe
when I'm around your brother.
Speaker 6: What do you want, Mina?
Speaker 3: I hope you're in Tijuana.
Speaker 6: I left Deacon's Bangalore. We're not together.
Speaker 3: Good.
Speaker 6: I'm not leaving Montecito.
Speaker 3: Oh you're not leaving like I told you to.
Speaker 6: No, I'm going to stay. I won't do that to Deacon.
I've put him through enough.
Speaker 3: That wasn't ordeal Jio. I told you to get away
from Deacon and leave Montecito. You don't. I will play
the Marco's Medici card, and once I do that, Deacon
will want nothing to do with you ever again.
Speaker 5: Next on Montecito. Love her or Hate her, Mina is harmless.
Mina gets what she wants.
Speaker 6: I've given up on Deacon. Isn't that enough?
Speaker 5: And she holds all the cards.
Speaker 3: You're being unreasonable between you, Deacon and my hag mother
in law. There is always a hypocrite wagging their finger
in my face.
Speaker 5: But her house of cards could come tumbling down.
Speaker 9: I need your help with something, Mina. Geo's coming for you.
This has been Montecito created and executive produced by Grant Runner.
Executive story editor is Andrew Pemberton Fowler. Supervising sound editor
is Trey Body. This episode featured performances by Mike Manning
as JJ Roman, Peter Porte as Deacon Grandville, Chelsea Rendon
as Mina rast Granville, m Ryland as Bethany, Gina Roman Quinn,
and Mark Anthony Samuel as Geo Carreri. This episode was
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by Epidemic Sound. Original theme music composed by Patrick Emil,
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