"Mastery of French." Tape 2, side A.
Chapter 4. Conversational French.
Excuse me. Where are the nearest bathrooms?
My compliments to your father.
Hello. Are these oysters fresh?
Excuse me. My spoon is dirty.
What is the exchange policy on this dress?
Woo!
Carol!
Elena!
What?
"Where is the downtown metro station"?
Yeah!
Okay, great!
Are you holding on?
I hope it's comfortable.
I've slept on it a couple times and it wasn't too...
- What? - Nothing. I missed you.
Do you have an extra toothbrush?
I heard one of the scientists studying Keppler joined a folk trio.
You hear their stuff?
Go to bed!
No. Say it in French.
Go. To. Bed.
I can't believe you thought you had to learn French to talk to me!
Dying with dignity is an absolute must.
And it starts with a fresh-pressed shirt and a stylish hat.
Hi, Mom and Dad! Guess where I am!
Um, hi.
We're about to visit Hidden Falls in Sabino Canyon forest!
It's a day-and-a-half hike. I am so excited.
What about you, Carol?
Yeah, me too.
I'm also excited.
Hello, Mom and Dad.
You got it?
You can move! It's not a photo.
Careful!
These aren't the right...
shoes.
Carol!
Let's find another way up.
Beautiful, right?
The water shoots out into this big pool underneath.
It's beautiful.
And crystal-clear too.
It's 87 on the 100 places you need to see before you die.
What...
What number is sitting down?
What is your name?
What?
What is your name?
Why?
For the camera.
- Carol. - Carol what?
- Kohl. - But say your whole name.
Carol Kohl?
Great! Now say it like it's not a trick question.
What?
Say it like you know your own name.
I don't understand.
Why are...
Why are you taping this?
I want to remember it forever.
I feel like you're making fun of me.
It's good B-roll. Keep eating.
Carol Kohl.
No, faster. Do it all in one shot.
Can we...
It's too much direction.
So, how is it having me as a sister?
It's nice.
Come on. Give me more than that.
I don't know. It's good.
Okay. What about your favorite memory of me?
Um, when you got your perm.
That's your favorite memory? That's so embarrassing!
You looked nice.
I looked like a Chia Pet, and I cried for, like, a week.
I don't know. I thought you looked like Whitney Houston.
I think it's deer.
Think it's poisonous?
Probably.
I wonder where everyone else is.
After college,
did you hate living with me?
- What? - Come on. You can be honest.
We didn't even hang out.
No, it was fun.
You moved back home.
Yeah, because Cookie had fleas.
I got rid of them.
They were still there.
Plus, he got stuck in the crawl space.
Okay, yeah. I admit it. That place was a dump.
I just thought living together would...
Is this right?
Um...
- Do you have any questions for me? - Maybe.
Oh, this is so exciting! What?
Why do you like to record everything?
I thought you liked the videos.
I do. I'm just curious.
Well, I like sharing what I'm doing.
Is there something wrong with that?
No.
It's just, you do a lot.
You know?
Uh-huh.
She's amazing and beautiful,
and she gets in everything,
the air, the spaces between.
And because of her, because of what she does,
I think I know what love is...
This is Carol Kohl, former middle school secretary,
talking about Whitney Houston.
Elena, turn that off!
Ugh.
I'm so sorry!
It just sort of slipped out.
Oh my God!
Oh! Oh!
Carol, can I ask you something?
What?
Why did you tell Mom and Dad you surf?
I know you don't.
Well...
Why even lie?
I just didn't want them to worry.
Worry about what?
Can we please not? Please?
So, wait.
What did you do with the board?
Some kid named Lucas has it.
- Oh! Your "Carol" board? - Yeah.
He said he'd smoke me out for it, but I wasn't sure what that meant,
so I just gave it to him for free.
Oh, no.
How do you...
Shit! Can someone...
Carol Kohl.
Good!
Finally.
I think there are ants on this.
I just wish they were all locked up.
I'm sorry, but I don't trust them.
Elena, they act like criminals, and they're everywhere.
It's scary. One can just pick you up and take you away.
Carol Daphne Kohl talks about her fear of large birds. Let's listen in.
Elena, it's not a joke. They can take your eyes out.
Four more miles to go.
My shoulders are starting to hurt.
I told you not to over-pack.
I just like to be prepared.
You brought a harness and a rope.
I don't know, just in case.
Okay, just in case what?
Is that a shrug?
Carol, are you shrugging?
Oh, Carol!
It's hard with the backpack on.
Okay. What is your earliest childhood memory?
Um, you remember that dog?
What dog? Cookie?
No.
It was like a black dog.
A black dog? When was this?
I was around seven.
Okay, but what about it?
I don't know. It's fuzzy.
The dog was fuzzy?
No, the memory.
Sorry. Forget it.
What?
Tell me!
Okay.
I remember it not growling at me.
What?
It didn't growl.
Your earliest childhood memory is a dog you can't remember not growling at you?
I think so.
That's not a memory, Carol.
Might have been a dream.
Okay. We're taping over this.
Isn't it weird?
What?
How we're all gonna die soon?
Yeah.
Okay. Biggest regret.
Okay, from now on, say "shrug" if you're shrugging.
Shrug.
What about you?
I don't know. I have like a million.
All the projects I never finished,
not going to Cancun in college, my marriage,
all the people I wish I kept in touch with,
all the dresses I didn't buy,
not appreciating being young when I was,
not seeing Grandma.
But I am where I am because of it, so...
Me, I guess...
I wish I had said no to more things.
Jesus, Carol.
What?
- It's a planet! - A planet?
- Oh God! - What does it weigh?
First sexual experience?
- No way. - Come on!
- No. - How wild was it?
Come on!
You know Mom and Dad would love to hear this.
Oh! You're such a prude!
- I'm not. - Then why don't you tell me?
Okay, look, I'll even turn off the...
Horace Zielinski in college.
Missionary, on a bed, bra still on.
Roommate walks in.
No!
- You want to know mine? - No, not really.
I gave a handjob to Travis Michaels in the tenth grade.
Great.
Ugh. What is the big deal?
I'm just trying to get to know you.
Carol. What are you doing back there?
I don't want to be on tape anymore!
Is this about Horace Zielinski?
Look, I'm sorry. I'll stop recording.
Elena!
- Do you see them? - No.
Straight ahead.
This feels longer than four miles.
What do you wish you had more time for?
- What? - I don't know. Sleep?
Okay, then, what's something you wish you knew when you were younger?
Elena, please. Can we...
- How much longer is it? - We're almost there.
- But shouldn't we be hearing it? - Wait, what?
The falls?
We will. Don't worry.
{n8}On your last day, what will you be doing?
- Shrug. - Come on!
Shrug.
Oh, you're no fun, you know that?
We're lost.
We're not lost.
So, if you haven't been surfing, what have you been doing?
Elena. I don't like this.
- I'm tired. - You're trying to get out of the question.
I'm not!
Come on. What have you been doing?
I'm just trying to get you to open up.
I am.
How? I can barely get more than one sentence out of you.
You always do this.
What does that mean?
Carol, you're going to rip your bag like that!
Carol!
- Is it going to fall out? - No, just put something flat...
- We're lost. - We're not lost.
We are.
Okay, we're lost.
Whoopsies.
This is Carol Kohl, age 42, giving her sister the silent treatment.
Anything to add?
No comment.
Will you please...
I can't find the stakes.
I put them in...
Where did you go?
Nowhere.
Can you not right now?
- Stop. - What?
Stop!
- Talk to me! What's... - I said, "Stop."
Ow!
I'm just trying to talk to you.
No, you're not. You're playing with the camera.
Yeah. Because you won't talk to me.
Why do you think I'm even interviewing you?
Because you don't talk.
I always have to pry it out of you. Otherwise you won't tell me anything.
- You always put up a wall. - You're the one behind the camera.
Yeah, because we're going to die, and I don't even know you.
You've always been like this. It's like we're not even sisters.
I never get to be part of your world.
I mean, I had to drag you out to the middle of nowhere
to try to get close to you.
Do you have any idea how upsetting that is?
I don't even know what you're doing, for Christ's sake!
Anything to say?
No. Of course not.
{n8}Do it! Do it! Do it!
{n8}Yeah!
Wow!
Bravo! Bravo!
Hey.
Can we talk?
It must have been around here.
Hi.
Did you get it?
Yeah.
Well, here it is.
The Hidden Falls in Sabino Canyon forest.
The highest above-ground fall in the Northern Hemisphere.
It's the journey, I guess.
It's still really beautiful.
Yeah. Not bad for a bunch of old, eroded rocks.
You know what I read?
I read that the negative ions in waterfalls
can increase serotonin levels.
Um, Elena?
Yeah?
I just wanted to say...
Whenever you're ready.
I am Carol Kohl!
Oh, that's the best one yet.
So?
- What? - Come on, you know what.
Seriously? You're not going to tell me?
Come on.
Okay.
Here goes.
Um...
I go to an empty office building and work.
I'm an administrative assistant for an accounting department.
I don't know how it works or why it's even there.
Sometimes I think I'm making it all up.
But I like it, and it makes me happy.
I love you, Carol.
I don't know. It's hard to explain.
Try.
I've never met anyone so sure of what they can and can't do.
She always did her own thing.
Do you know how hard that is?
That's just so cool to me.
I always do what everyone else does.
What's her name?
Carol.
I just regret not knowing her better.
Does she know how you feel?
Sounds like you should be there with her instead of here with us.
Yeah, maybe.
You holding on?
Yeah.
I got you!
♪ This sounds kinda strange ♪
♪ I thought I saw you at a party ♪
♪ But I finally got close ♪
♪ It wasn't you ♪
♪ I know we don't talk right now ♪
♪ But if I saw you, I'd sit down ♪
♪ And ask about your afternoon ♪
♪ You made it clear that it's over now ♪
♪ But you're all that I think about ♪
♪ So now I don't know What the hell to do ♪
♪ 'Cause I've got ♪
♪ A soft spot ♪
♪ I've got ♪
♪ It for you ♪