"You're here to find Frigg." "To turn her to your side." "Yes, we are." "The trouble with goddesses is you can't trust them." "Trust can be earned, Anders." "Usually when it gets too much" "I get wasted and go surfing." "I can't surf." "I can teach you." "No more sex with mortals until I say so." "Got it?" "!" "The next time we host a 21st, can it be for our own kid?" "I can handle that." "Let him go, Val!" "You can root him when he gets back!" "Shit." "Does this mean Rob's waking up?" "No one knows." "'Cause if Rob does wake up, I know one god with a lot of explaining to do." "Asleep for 15 years and you marry my fiance." "What's that all about?" "Isn't that incredible?" "There have been developments." "Sorry." "Sorry I'm late." "Ooh!" "What are we looking at?" "Why is your hair wet?" "Um..." "I've been in the sea." "Why?" "Some sort of swimming." "Some old bat won lotto, buys a lifestyle block in Onehunga, finds an old chest." "So?" "If you read to the end of the article, Michele, you will see that this old bat has found a sea chest which was onboard the Hafting." "Oh, this could be important." "The Hafting being the ship that brought the gods and goddesses of Asgard to..." "To New Zealand, yes." "Does this mean I have to go to Onehunga?" "I mean, I will if you want." "No, you won't have to go to Onehunga, Stacey." "You carry on working through the list that Ingrid has given you." "I've got a new one for you." "Where's this one?" "The Chatham Islands?" "No, this one's here in Auckland." "I'll check it out tomorrow." "If this chest was on the Hafting, shouldn't we be..." "The chest is horseshit, a lie." "But it's got a journalist's name on it." "And underpaid hack who recycles press releases for a living." "Don't you find it something of a coincidence that this unnamed lotto winner is looking for descendants of the Hafting at precisely the same time we are?" "She's not even looking." "They have to come to her." "Exactly." "Bragi." "God of poetry and PR." "It would seem our opposition has finally grown a brain cell." "Sneaky." "Bastards." "Thanks for Transcript honeybunny @ sub-talk.net" "You wanted a new plan that doesn't involve random sex?" "Behold my new plan in action." " Boy, sandwich." " Want one?" "Forget the sandwich, you moron." "How many hits have we had?" "Define hits." "As in like hits from the bong?" "As in responses on the computer." " That's a hit." " Ah!" "So how many this morning?" "I don't know." "I went for a surf." "Jesus, Olaf." "I told you to stay here." "Why?" "!" "The computer does what it's going to do whether I'm here or not." "And I'm not a slave to a machine." "Stop being a fucking hippie." "This is Axl's future." "You're advertising me on the net?" "Nope." "The punters are after the Hafting treasure." " Treasure?" " In the chest." "There's treasure in the chest?" "There is no chest." "There isn't?" "That seems wrong." "Okay, well, I'll find one eventually and stick some old tat in it or something." "Gold." "What?" "It should be gold in the chest." "I'm not made of money." "There should be treasure in the chest, Anders." "Okay, if they ask, tell them there's gold." "But only if they can prove they're female descendants of the Hafting passengers." "You see?" "This way the Frigg comes to us." "If you say so." "Liars never prosper, Anders." "Clearly you've never worked in PR." "Okay, I'm going to go." "This is a genius plan, Axl, trust me." "If you say so." "Hey, your suggestion that I give up on sex for a bit?" "It was more of an order." "Whatever." "It's like it's freed up my brain to focus on the quest." "How do you live without sex?" "You find ways." "Wanking?" "Thinking!" "About the quest." "So you kick back for a bit and let me do the work." "Okay." "And you stay here, do as you're told." "Slave to the machine." "And stop eating all my food." "You want another sandwich?" "Yes." "Bing." "Aren't you a clever wee boy." "I think of myself more as a well-hung warlord." "How's the Frigg hunt?" "Any leads?" "I'll show you mine if you show me yours." "We have our methods." "Nothing flash, nothing as underhand as bogus treasure chests." "Ah, you heard about that." "Given how venal and greedy gods are, it's not a bad idea." "High praise." "Pity you left your run a bit late." "You're close then?" "Pretty close." "Really?" "Gosh." "Then what?" "What when?" "When your marbled harridans find the Frigg." "What then?" "Then we win." "Do you?" "How?" "We have the Frigg and you don't." "Well, you might have the Frigg but what are you going to do with it?" "Are you going to keep her in a box?" "Are you going to lock her up for the rest of her life?" "What if she doesn't like that?" "And who would?" "Then what?" "Are you going to kill her?" "We'll make sure you don't find her." "That sounds so lame, Michele." "Because you don't know the answer to the most basic question." "How?" "You don't know 'cause you're not in charge, are you?" "Let's say you find the Frigg and you kill her and you win." " Where does all that leave you?" " Me?" "You'll still be a minor goddess with limited seductive powers and an overworked baby doctor." "Registrar." "Dog's body." "Nobody." "Nothing to write home about." "What a waste of your short goddess life, Michele." "Whereas if we find her, suddenly the minor becomes major." "And I plan on becoming very major." "Will it make you any taller?" "I'm all about the positive, Michele." "Odin meets Frigg, badaboom, powers all around." "And I most definitely would share the love with anyone who helped me." "You just think about it, eh?" "Nice chatting with you." "And I'm glad you're close." "I truly, truly am." "Finally!" "I got here as quick as I could." "What's wrong?" "Rob's gone!" "Gone where?" "No one knows." "The nurses came in an hour ago and he'd just gone." "How does a guy who can't walk just go?" "Well, he's got his walking frame now." "He's made an amazing recovery but his mental state isn't so good, apparently." "They're searching the grounds." "Okay." "I'll go see if I can find him." "How?" "Well, a guy on a walking frame can't get that far." "You stay here." "Oh, okay, but you'll call me if you find him." "Yeah." "Of course you bloody are." "Shit." "You did a runner, mate." "More of a shuffle, but yeah." "Want one?" "Sure." "Same, thanks." "You're on borrowed time." "I called Val." "Look at this place." "Can you believe it?" "Look at her." "They've all got the phones." "Why do people need to make so many phone calls these days?" "And the TV screens; they're enormous." "It might not seem like much to you, but everything's so different." "Yeah, well, I guess you got a fair bit to catch up on, eh?" "I should take you on." "Maybe you should." "Game of pool, I mean." "There you are." "What are you doing here?" "I felt like getting out, getting a beer." "Yeah." "You are very bad for making us worry like that." "I'm fine, really." "Some things don't change." "Hey!" "I'm allowed to worry." "It's what I'm good at." "Now, don't say no immediately." "But I've been thinking." " Yeah, about what?" " Rob." "And how he's stuck in that place." "It's not that bad." "It's full of old people, Mike." "Not that I've got anything against old people, but Rob isn't old." "And he's going mad being in there." "You saw that today." "Well, where else is there for him to go?" "Well, we've got a spare room." "We have?" "Axl's old room." "Olaf's using it." "Olaf can sleep anywhere." "What about Rob's rehab?" "Well, he can do that here." "I can help him." "I'm on leave from tomorrow." "For IVF." "Yeah, but I've already got the leave and I can use it to look after Rob." "He's doing so well with his physio but he needs to reintegrate, and we can help him with that." "It's not as if he's got family to help." "And I've talked to the clinic and they said I can rebook the IVF for the summer when I've got my holidays." "You called the clinic?" "Just the other day, just to see." "You've already cancelled?" "No!" "No!" "I wouldn't do that without talking to you first." "But the timing works." "And it just seems so wrong that we're so happy and have so much when Rob has so little." "Can I leave this in the garage, if there's room?" "Stop being so melodramatic." "Oh, I'm not bitter, even though I'm a grandfather thrown out on the street." "You could stay with Anders." "There's only so much Anders I can take." "What about Axl, hmm?" "Uh... we haven't got a spare room." "It's alright." "It's fate." "The circle's complete." "Which circle?" "I arrive, I get kicked out; circle." "Mike, he's here!" "I think it's real good of you." "Yeah, pin a medal on me." "Hey." "Here we are!" "Home sweet home." "Olaf's just leaving." "Hi, there." "This is real good of you." "Oh, nonsense!" "It's the least we can do." "Come on." "You know you can just print that out, right?" "I like pens." "I like the way they roll over the paper." "So how are we doing today?" "Many responses, a flood." "It seems the descendents of the Hafting bred prolifically and produced many female offspring." "Some have sent photos." "Can I just..." "Yeah, okay, I'd frigg her." "She lives in Zambia now." "Really?" "Girl of the world wide web." "What's that?" "That's the thing that you're... never mind." "Zambia, not a problem." "We have these things called telephones and aeroplanes." "So I'm not hearing any negatives." "You keep at it." "Bing." "Hello?" "Oh, hi." "It's me." "Oh!" "I thought you might be Zambia." "No." "you know how we were meant to have a surfing lesson?" "Well, I can't get away." "Oh!" "Me neither." "I'm chained to the machine." "What machine?" "Computer." "Oh, me too." "I hate them." "Oh, me too." "Hey, I better go." "I'll see you later." "Bye." "How are we going?" "Uh, I've made up 20 so far." "All young and gorgeous living in Oslo?" "I've mixed them up a bit geographically otherwise it wouldn't be logical." "As long as it keeps them distracted." "Um, I feel a bit bad about this." "Bragi deserves it." "He hasn't put it hearts to hearts." "It feels like we're tampering." "Yes." "That's the point, Ingrid." "With fate." "And, well, something this big is... well, fated." "It will be." "And if you push fate, fate doesn't like to be pushed, and it will push you back." "Can I help you?" "Take these." "They'll help with the nausea." "Thanks for coming." "I knew you'd have something." "I feel like I've been punched in the gut." "How do you know she's the one?" "I just do." "I know it's her." "How, Stacey?" "How do you know?" "I've only experienced this feeling once before, the first time I met Agnetha." "You know the feeling I'm talking about?" "The feeling when you know you're in the presence of some kick-ass goddess power." "You sure you weren't having some sort of vegan reaction to all that meat?" "No." "She is Frigg." "I'll stake my life on it." "Take me to her." "No." "Not back there." "Not around all those dead things." "Harden up." "No wonder you're not a real goddess." "You can find her here." "It was on the wall outside the shop." "She's a singer/songwriter." "What's wrong with that?" "Noodling on a guitar to bad poetry?" "I bet she's really good." "Of course you'd be into that sort of thing." "I'll go tell Agnetha." "No." "Don't." "Why not?" "Because she'll be a bitch to us if we're wrong." "No." "Just you and me." "We'll check this out first." " Hello." " Hi, sweetheart." "Anders' car's out front." "Yeah." "He's in with Rob." "Why?" "He called earlier today." "I think Olaf told him Rob was here." "Apparently Rob's been getting a lot of interest from media people and Anders thinks he can get him TV coverage, magazine stories, maybe even a book." "This is Anders we're talking about." "Yeah, I know." "I'm not wild about him." "But if it helps Rob..." "Check out this guy." " Stop it." " No, you stop it." "Amazing!" "Talk about zero to hero." "I should dig out some photos from the old days!" " You got them?" " Yeah, I'm a bit of a hoarder." "No, you're a marvel, Val." "That's what I always say." "She certainly is." "I'll be in touch." "I'll walk you out." "You'd think after all that time lying in a bed Rob would look all withered and gross." "But it's amazing how good he looks." "Miraculous, even." "Yeah." "Definite bonus for the mags and TV." "Why are you doing this?" "For Rob, of course; help him get his life back together, maybe a little money off the book deal." "Rob can't write a bloody book." "I'll get a ghostwriter." "But nothing's happened to him for 15 years." "You're being very negative about your old mate, Mike." "Are there one or two issues here?" "Only your presence in my home life." "I'm all about family, Mike." "Always have been, even when my family can't appreciate my concern." "Oh, hey, thanks for sending Olaf to sleep on my couch." "I love you for that." "But now I have a Frigg hunt to run." "You boys have a fun night." "You think they ever wash the glasses in this place?" "This place is cool." "You would say that." "Why?" "The whole tryout grunge thing you've got going on." "Maybe it's just the décor." "Why are you always such a bitch to me?" "We've worked together all this time and you've never asked me a single thing about myself." "You're a handmaiden." "What else do I need to know?" "For a love goddess you are really fucking cold." " I think you're insecure." " Oh, spare me." "No, it's like the only way you can make yourself feel more important... hut up, Stacey." "I'm Eva." "Thanks for coming." "Am I right or am I right?" "So, yeah, I'm going to play a few songs tonight." "This first one is one I wrote about a year ago." "When did you get this place?" "When I moved up." "You and Val..." "You moved together." "She came after, when we moved you up." "Better facilities." "That's when you got married." "Oh, that was later, a year or so." "Val was a really big help with the kids." "My brothers." "She's almost like a mother to Axl really." "I found them." "And... this." "Our engagement party." "On DVD?" "Yeah, well, I got all the old stuff transferred." "Remember?" "Otherwise it just deteriorates." "Oh, unless you're too tired." "If this is too much, you just have to say." "No, I'd love to see it." "Oh, good." "Oh, look at my hair!" "That's Mum." "Yeah." "I'll show you how it's..." "I can't believe she's gone." "It's just so weird." "I know." "But she had a great life." "And the funeral was lovely." "You went?" "Of course!" "I even have the order of services somewhere." "You kept it?" "Yeah, well, we always hoped you'd get better." "Actually, I got some stuff that I need to finish off." "Oh, okay." "Oh, look!" "There's Mr. Thurber who you used to work for." "Oh, he had a stroke a couple years ago, the poor thing." "To Rob and Val." "I shouldn't be in here." "No, you shouldn't." "We're being very naughty." "But there is vodka here." "I love the room." " I love the wood." " Ta-da!" "No one will miss it?" "The woman I work for, she owns the company." "Wow." "When you say woman you mean goddess, right?" "Can we not talk of that?" "Thank you for dinner." "You eat a lot, don't you?" "That's because I'm Balder and I have to be reborn every day." "Who's that?" "That's my son." "Haven't seen him for awhile... 10 years." "That's terrible." "I split up with his father when he was young." "Things went bad after he had me sectioned." "Ah." "What for?" "Oh, I was having the odd vision including the one about him having an affair, which actually did turn out to be true." "But he thought that I was schizophrenic and when I told the doctors that I really did hear things, it didn't seem to help." "Have you got kids?" "I don't see them." "It's hard, isn't it?" "Surfing, that's the way." "Well, yes it is good to keep busy." "How's your search going?" "I don't know, really." "This is all my research on the Hafting." "Agnetha said we need to take a rational approach, and I do love history;" "all those people with the incredible turbulent lives." " They all gods?" " Oh, gosh, no." "These are all the descendents of the passengers." "So trying to pick who is and who isn't..." "I know we need to be rational, but sometimes I think stabbing the pack with a knife might be just as much use." "What if we sharpened our insight?" "As long as it's not too strong." "I was off my nut for days last time." "No." "It's cabbage." "Oh, okay." "Oh, shit." "Oh, dear!" "Oh, dear!" "Oh my goodness." "That was strange." "It was, wasn't it?" "If I were an oracle, I would say very." "We are oracles." "Then it probably means something." "Colin Gundersen." "It's a sign." "It is." "It's your sign." "You should have it." "I wouldn't have come up with it without you." "No, ladies first." "Are you sure?" "Of course." "Oh." "If only all gods were true gentlemen like you." "Want to have sex on your boss's desk?" "Okay." "Thank you." "Thank you so much." "Beat it, tosser." "You heard me." "Hi." " You were great." " Thanks." "Could we buy you a drink?" "We'd like to hear about the inspiration for your songs." "Yes." "They were fantastic." "Okay." "Sure." "It was love, you know?" "And we were so great together but then I turned 21 and things just kind of fell apart." "In what way?" "I turned 21 and I felt different almost overnight." "What did your parents say to you about turning 21?" "My mother's dead and my dad doesn't talk to me about anything." "I was having these dark thoughts and my dad wanted me to go on medication." "Parents can be such bastards." "You don't get on with yours?" "I don't really have a father and I don't speak to my mother." "Why?" "When I turned 21, I didn't really live up to her expectations." "She's pretty much ignored me since then." "Geez." "Why don't you go and get us some more drinks or something?" "It's okay." "I'll get one for you." "Oh, this is weird." "I've never even met you guys but" "I feel like there's this kind of force between us." "Maybe it's just my symptoms again." "No." "We felt it too." " You did?" " Totally." "Are you, like, dykes or something?" "Only sometimes." "For fun." "I hate labels." "It doesn't worry me if you are even though I'm not gay." "Of course you're not." "How do you know?" "I think you are someone special even if no one else can see it." "Because of my music?" "Well... that too." "Hi there." "How was your walk down memory lane?" "Pretty emotional." "But it was good, you know?" "Coming to terms with the past." "Yeah." "Mike, something's come up and don't say no right away." "Yeah?" "It's just..." "Anders called." "When?" "Just before and the news people want to do a whole piece on Rob and they want him to go home so that they can record his thoughts on the last 15 years." "Okay." "That could be quite a short piece." "And about coming home again." "To Danniverke?" "Sure." "Good idea." "Yeah, I think it'll be good for Rob as long as he's got the right support." "You're going?" "Yeah, well, he needs help and I'm on leave anyway." "You'd put off IVF treatment to go on some publicity jaunt." "It's to help Rob and you said it was okay to put it off." "I didn't say bugger off to Danniverke." "So you get to say what I do?" "I don't get to say obviously." "You do things on your own, things you don't even tell me about like paying for other people's houses and staying out all night doing god knows what." "And if, if you really must know, this isn't just about Rob." "This is about me." "I could do with a holiday break." "Five minutes that isn't about hormone levels or having a baby." "Yeah." "Fine." "Go then." "I was going to go anyway." "Eva is definitely a goddess." "She definitely drinks like a goddess." "She's Frigg." "We don't know that." "No, look, I hate the idea of being a handmaiden." "It makes me want to hurl." "No, that's all the drink." "But I would be so happy to serve her and why would I think that if she wasn't Frigg?" "You fancy her and you like her gloomy music?" "No." "Well, that's not the only reason." "Well, even if she is the Frigg, you're not going to be doing any serving." "Why not?" "The whole point of this is to keep her and Odin apart forever." "But he could go to one of her gigs or he could go into the butcher's to buy sausages." " I bet you he eats sausages." " If Eva is still around to sell them." "What are you talking about?" "The forever bit of keeping them apart." "Agnetha would hurt Eva?" "No." "She'd get you to do it." "Or me." "But I wouldn't." "Tell me that you wouldn't." "Please don't tell Agnetha." "Please." "I won't if you won't." "It's a sign." "I'm sure of it." "It burst into flame of its own accord." "Well, nearly." "Who is this Colin Gundersen?" "He's a lawyer." "Lives in Auckland." "He's hardly going to be the goddess of marriage." "I checked it this morning." "He has a daughter." "She doesn't use his last name but she's the one that I sent Stacey to check out." "How are we going with that?" "Now, the thing is..." "I wasn't the only person to see it." "The sign." "Who else saw it?" "Um, a sort of friend." "A male friend actually." "Because not all gods are bad and I really think that if we all just try to get along..." "Which god, Ingrid?" "It's come to my attention that one of our number has been fraternizing... with the enemy." "He's not an enemy." "He's a god." "But he's lovely." "And I never would have had the sign if he hadn't been there." "What sign?" "How are you going with your inquiries?" " Slowly." " Christ." "How useless are you?" "And now we have a sign about this..." "What's her name again?" " Eva." " Do they know?" "Olaf's not a they." "He's a gentleman." "Get it through your thick head." "He's a god which is like a man only worse." "Do you want to go back to the dark ages, a life of servitude?" "Isn't that what we've got now?" "I beg your pardon?" "You tell us what to do." "You order us around and you're not even very polite about it." "Think about where you were when I found you, Ingrid." "Your failed business, all those debts." "You're still not very nice to me." "Nice doesn't cut it in the world of gods." "Nice sees women playing second fiddle, being fucked over." "Yeah, we get it, Agnetha." "I don't think you do." "I don't play second fiddle to anyone." "And actually, she's right." "Working for you is as bad as any god." "Is that right, Michele?" "I've been more than generous to you with your student loan." "I don't give a shit!" "I'll pay you back." "I can take care of myself." "And this is how you all feel, is it?" "I see." " Now you've gone and done it." " It needed to be said." " You gave it away." "If she finds Eva..." " Eva Bjorn?" "You found her?" " Yes." " Is she the one?" " I think so." " We don't know so." " Oh, my goodness." " Ingrid, calm down." " No, no." "I'm just excited." " Does Agnetha know who she is?" " No, she doesn't." " We need to move fast." "Hey, bro." "Val says you're not happy about this little road trip." "Piss off." "Look, I get how it might seem like a bad idea on the face of it, but if you look at it the right..." "Fuck off, Anders." "Well, if you're so worried, why don't you go with them?" "You're jealous." "That's fair enough." "Seeing Rob and Val together like a couple of excited little puppy dogs, it's just like old times really." "Oh, you're fucking loving this, aren't you?" "I am because you finally have the chance to be free." " Free?" " Get Valerie off your plate." "I love Valerie." "Come on." "It was never love." "It was guilt." "I know you get off on it." "All that angst and sacrifice you two went through over coma Rob's sickbed." "I know you think I'm being an asshole..." "Oh, I don't think." "I know." "But I did try to warn you about Valerie all those years ago." "Sorry?" "Warn me?" "Why else do you think I slept with her?" "Now, that was you being a 21-year-old dickhead trying to get one over me, trying to prove you could talk any one into bed." "Valerie didn't take much talking to." "Fuck you." "You need to know that Valerie is not some saint." "She's just a girl." "Okay, one with a healthy sex drive, I'll grant you but..." "You fucking!" "I was." "I was trying to save you." "No, you weren't!" "I was!" "I was." "Mainly." "I mean, sure, I wanted to try out my cool new powers but mostly, it was for you." "Unfortunately, yeah, it did backfire a little." "I'm sorry." "I'm so sorry." "I don't even know why I did it." "I watched you two sitting across from each other, across Rob's corpse thinking you'd fallen in love." "I meant to stop you making the biggest mistake of your life not be the thing that brought you together." "I was young." "If only I'd known my powers wear off." "Yeah." "Well, now you've perfected the art of being an asshole." "Yeah, you can keep singing that song, Mike, and, okay, I don't wring my hands and angst about shit," "but if Rob and Val get together and live happily ever after, you can finally give up on all this pain and guilt and be the god that you were meant to be and maybe be happy for a change." "And that would be my gift to you because I do care... about you." "Can I help you?" "Yeah." "I'll have 500 grams of your beef..." "What the hell is she doing?" "She said she was going to buy sausages." "Well, how long is that meant to take?" "I don't know." "I don't buy sausages." "Ah, shit." "Hey there." "Val's at the supermarket getting in supplies for you." "Yeah." "She's good like that." "When did you last go back there?" "Danniverke?" "I haven't been back." "Why not?" "No." "No need really." "Val usually goes there on her own to visit her sister." "I've been pretty pissed off with you." "Okay." "Pretty damn angry actually." "Fair enough." "But there's no point in that, is there?" "Can't turn things back so there's only one way." "Forward." "Oh, hello." "What happened in there?" "Uh, I had a bit of a turn, quite a bit of a turn." "It's her?" "I think so." "Where did those come from?" "Ah... them." "Ingrid." "How the hell did she know?" "She's my ICE number on my phone in case of emergency." "Agnetha is?" "I like to be prudent and" "I really don't have anyone else." "And actually, she was quite lovely." "I'm sorry you think I don't care." "Well, you don't." "I admit I do find it hard to trust." "My marriage break-up nearly destroyed me." "Oh really?" "You should have said." "When you get better, we can talk about it." "But what happened to you, Ingrid?" "What happened in that shop?" "You told her about Eva?" "Yeah." "I don't really see any reason not to and she was being so nice..." "Ah, my favourite minor goddess." "No time for your usual crap." "Inferior in status but never in hotness." "Are you serious about helping me if I help you?" "Of course I am." "Then swear it." "I swear on the grave of my mother." "I'm going to need better than that." "Okay, you don't need to get all aggro about whatever this is." "I just want you to swear." "I have no problem with swearing." "Then cut yourself." "Moggy your blood with mine." "Is the cutting absolutely necessary?" "I want it to be binding as gods." "It's just I'm not so great with the sight of blood..." "If you don't, it will be too fucking late." "What will be too fucking late?" "I can give you Frigg." "Bullshit." "No crap." "Straight up, which is why I need you to swear we'll be equals in the new order and no more minor goddess crap because I am worth way more than that." "Yes or no?" "Yes." "Hey." "Well, we're ready." "Right." "You look beautiful." "Dawn made me put make-up on for the TV people." "They're here?" "Part of Rob's story, you know?" "They're filming it." "Right." "Well, you have a good trip, eh." "I know this is difficult but I do love you." " Yeah, I know." " No." "No, Mike, listen." "The whole time we've been together, it's like every time I felt really, really happy, and then I'd think about Rob and I'd feel bad." "Yeah." "But now I don't feel like that any more." "I feel like a weight has been lifted and I know that when we try for IVF again in the summer, it will work." "I truly believe that." "That's good." "I do love you." "And I love you." " You drive safely." " I will." " And call me when you get there." " I will." "Okay." "Everyone ready?" "Don't worry." "I'll take good care of them." "Yeah." "Great." "Okay, it's ready." "Wow." "This almost looks healthy." "It's got meat in it." "Is that all right with you, Jacob?" "I have no problem with that." "That's good to know." "Good evening." "You." "We need to go." "Now." "Where?" "It doesn't matter." "It's my cooking night and I cooked." "It's a stir fry." "They'll save you some." "We need to go." "Important family business, huh?" "As it happens, yes." " Can I come?" " No." "See ya." "Found her." "You're kidding?" "Your stupid plan actually worked?" "Kind of." "Thank goodness." "I went to your work and they said you'd gone home." "I went to your place..." "I'm here." "You have to leave now." "But I'm eating." "I get this free." "Look, this might sound crazy but there are people who want to harm you." "You sound like me before the medication." "Maybe I do but there's a reason for that." "Look, I love you and I would do anything to protect you." "You have to come with me now." "Okay, I like you and we had a few drinks but that doesn't..." "This is real." "You have to come with me now." "Is this person bothering you?" "Fans." "They can be so hard to cope with sometimes." "I'm fine." "So, you're Eva Gundersen?" "I use my mother's name." "Bjorn." "Fair enough." "I was wondering if we could have a word in private." "Don't." "She's dangerous." "I'm not here to cause trouble." "Quite the opposite." "It's about your music." "She's never even heard it." "I'll be fine, Stacey." "Through here." "I've been hearing good things about your talent." "Too big for this place." "I am hoping to play the King's Arms." "I meant the country." "If you could go anywhere, where would that be?" "Seattle, maybe." "Austin." "Well, that can happen." "How much do you need?" "What are you doing?" "To have the career you dream of?" "Sorry..." "Agnetha." "You don't look like someone who's in the music business." "I'm in the investment business." "I'm investing in your potential." "I will want a contract." "But you've never heard me play." "I know talent when I learn of it." "Surely you want more than this." "Gold records or whatever they have these days." "Not gold records." "I don't want that sort of shit!" "Maybe platinum is more your style." "Hah." "You think life is all about money." "It certainly helps." "I think it's bullshit and I got enough of that kind of crap when I lived at home." "Oh dear." "Issues." "I'm doing things myself now, my own way and no one tells me what to do or tries to buy me off." "Fine." "But if you change your mind..." "I won't." "Well, you certainly are a force to be reckoned with." " Are you okay?" " Fine." "Where's Agnetha?" "Gone." "She went out the back way." "Good." "For now." "Can I get you anything?" "No." "I need to get set up." "I know I'm coming off like some kind of a nutbar, but there are things you need to know about who Agnetha is and who you are and trust me, you're not nuts." "And this is all your father's fault for not telling you in the first place." "Telling me what?" "Eva, you're a goddess." "And I don't mean that in any lezzy-hippy kind of a way." "You're an actual true goddess." "Your name is Frigg." "Yeah." "Colin Gundersen?" "Who wants to know?" "Someone who has a common interest." "It's quite a blaze you've got going there, Colin." "Yes." "Thank you." "You're a lawyer." "Insurance." "Other people's bad news is your good news." "Hm, justice." "Fearness." "It's putting right that counts." "I'm here about your daughter." "What about her?" "I think she's rather special." "Yes, she is." "So, you're sure she's the Frigg?" "Yeah, I'm sure." "How can you be sure?" "Would I bring you to a dive like this to listen to a bloody singer/songwriter if I wasn't?" "This better not be some girl you want me to screw." "She's not." "Go away." "Stay away from her." "I'm sorry." "Do we know you?" "I remember you." "We pashed once." "You leave her alone." "Oh my god." "You're one of them." "I'm Fulla, handmaiden of the goddess Frigg." "Yeah, well, handmaiden, you're standing in the way of destiny so buzz off." "If you hurt her, if you treat her bad in any way, this time I will kill you." "Hurt who?" "Hey, everyone." "Thanks for coming." "It's been kind of a weird day but I'd like to play a few songs." "Oh." "Well, that was freaky." "I told you it's been a weird day." "Yes?" " Fuck." " Oh, halleluiah!"