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Chuck the body remover has a big heart but a talent for being late, getting lost or simply disappearing.
(Season 1, Episode 3)
(Season 1, Episode 3)
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00:00Emily, do you know where Chuck is?
00:15No, I don't.
00:16I need him badly.
00:18Hey!
00:19What's this?
00:21Chuck's been gone for like two or three hours.
00:23I don't know where the hell he is.
00:25I'm late, Bart.
00:26What would you do for a gun?
00:28You know, what part does he not understand about coming back here?
00:58Well, we walked in this morning and it was almost like walking in on a Monday.
01:12We get rid of three last night and gained four more that we got to see families for.
01:17So I got to give numbers to each one, make copies, and then call each family.
01:21Busy day.
01:23So now I got to try and figure out who's who and what's what.
01:28And somebody keeps putting a frigging permanent marker over here.
01:33People seem to die in spurts.
01:35I've never been able to figure it out.
01:37It just seems to be that way, you know?
01:39Maybe it's back to the old saying, you know, death's come in thrice.
01:43I mean, that's kind of how it is around here.
01:45It's either feast or famine.
01:48I really do not want people to die ever, but I do know that if a family calls us and entrusts
01:57their loved one with us, we're going to do the very best job that we can for them.
02:01We got slammed, Rick.
02:11If you want to start sealing his incision up there, that'd be great.
02:14He's got to be to the airport in about 40 minutes.
02:18If Chuck was at the ME at 8, he should be here by 9.
02:21I'm just going to let him get out of one van and get in the other one and go get the sun.
02:25My dad's down at the medical examiner's office.
02:27I'm hoping he got there on time.
02:29He knows that I don't have time to play games, or maybe he doesn't know, but I don't think
02:34he cares.
02:42Woke up late.
02:44I'm not a morning person.
02:46When I first started boxing, my dad, he'd get mad at me.
02:49You're lazy.
02:50You're bummed.
02:51He takes advantage of the fact that I'm his daughter, but especially when I'm busy, I
02:57don't have time for his shenanigans.
02:59Today is going to be another beautiful, wonderful, fantastic day.
03:07I can feel it in my bones.
03:11Today is going to be a fun day, I'll tell you that now.
03:15I'm waiting for Chuck to get here.
03:16I hope he was at the ME at 8 o'clock.
03:18I hope he was too.
03:19Shuggy.
03:19Daddy, daddy, see you later.
03:27She's been the most faithful woman I've had in years.
03:31Bye, sugar.
03:32When I first started doing this, picking up a body at the ME, the first thing in the morning
03:39was like, damn.
03:41Good thing I didn't eat breakfast.
03:43We're stressed for time here because this man has to make a flight.
03:46I missed my turn.
03:50Richard, I have a kitten, man.
03:51He's going, where the hell were you?
03:52Yeah.
03:54Just now the traffic is sucks.
03:56Sometimes it's hard working with my dad.
03:57He plays the stupid role and he really knows what he's supposed to do.
04:01He's kind of like an ill-performing child or ill-behaving child when he wants to be the
04:05center of attention.
04:06He gets like a screw you attitude and he doesn't want to, he decides he's going to
04:10be rebellious that day.
04:12Will you call down to the MEs and find out Chuck's left?
04:15Yeah, this is John from How We've Learned Mortuary.
04:18Is that him right there?
04:20Yeah.
04:20Okay.
04:21First six months I was in the funeral business, I quit every day.
04:25It's weird, you know?
04:28I've seen some things and sometimes it stays with you and that's the bad part.
04:32Okay, let's go.
04:33No.
04:34Yeah, we're here.
04:34I just lay down and do it, you know?
04:37You gotta do it.
04:39John is on the phone.
04:41Okay, tell him I'll be right there.
04:44Yeah.
04:45Go.
04:46He's out in the reefer now pulling.
04:48I don't understand why he wasn't there at 8 o'clock.
04:49Like I told him how important it was to be there at 8.
04:52Rick probably made him call.
04:56He controls everybody else.
04:57He ain't controlling me.
04:59He can fire me, but so what?
05:04The worst thing that could happen is that we missed the flight and I can't answer that
05:08phone.
05:09You still haven't heard anything from Chuck?
05:10No, Dad has not called.
05:12Everyone's asking me where he's at and I don't have any idea.
05:14When he calls, I will put him through to somebody.
05:16Okay.
05:16Okay.
05:16I just hate being under pressure like this.
05:20I hate it.
05:25Type everything out.
05:27Bring it back to me.
05:28This goes up front.
05:29This goes up front.
05:31And we need to move in the next 10 minutes or less.
05:34Where's Rick?
05:35He's running a death certificate.
05:37Oh.
05:38Because he was waiting for you to get back.
05:39Yes.
05:40Were you there at 8?
05:41Just answer me that.
05:42Yes.
05:43Yes.
05:43That's all I care about.
05:45I was stressed because they've been waiting to take this decedent to the airport.
05:50Rick asked why it took you so long to get here.
05:53Let me finish.
05:54Don't lie to him because he's going to call down there and find out what time you got there.
05:58I hope you were there at 8.
06:00I don't remember.
06:01You better have a good reason why you were 12.
06:03I don't remember.
06:03Well, then you're going to have to deal with him.
06:05That's fine.
06:06Excuse me.
06:07John, we need your assistance.
06:08Why the hell does he lock this?
06:10Where does he think we are?
06:11Oakland?
06:13You know, I so don't need this right now.
06:16You know, what is this?
06:17A carnival?
06:19Go, go, go.
06:20Ready?
06:21Go.
06:22Up.
06:24He's got to get on the road right now.
06:25We've got to be to the airport in 30 minutes.
06:29Going to Northwest, you need to roll in there as fast as you can without getting in an accident.
06:34Don't forget it's Northwest.
06:38Wunderlay.
06:39Wunderlay.
06:39Wunderlay.
06:40Another damn hall-ass day, you know?
06:46I'm concerned if he's going to make it to the airport on time because if he's late, they will refuse to accept the case.
06:53Well, working with my daughters has been a real experience, to say the least.
07:01With Shana, I have to really bite my tongue sometimes.
07:05He gets really irritated with me because he knows I'll stand right up to him, no problem.
07:10They weren't my daughters that, you know, I'm telling them to get bent.
07:20Who do you want me to do first?
07:21Betancourt, Zaladek, or Finlayson?
07:23I have no idea.
07:24What I do know is that there's four criminal remains sitting back there.
07:27The check left two permits at Fort Rose-Currence.
07:30I need to go get them.
07:31He can't ship out those permits.
07:32He left them there.
07:32David's a little bent out of shape this morning because he does have a lot on his plate today.
07:37A funeral director has the same kind of job as the waiting coordinator, except I don't have all the time.
07:41I don't have the time.
07:42David to David.
07:43You know, David's one of those type A personalities.
07:45He's a nervous wreck all the time and makes everybody else crazy.
07:49I got to do a lot in bing, bang, boom time.
07:51Very compulsive, anal retentive.
07:54He craves authority.
07:57I don't really want to be a boss because no one would like me at all.
08:00No one would like me at all.
08:02Everybody calls him Rain Man because he's always talking to him.
08:04He's walking around saying, well, I got to do this, I got to do this, I got to do this.
08:07You know, when, how, how, you know?
08:09When and how?
08:12When and how?
08:12When I'm standing right here, I'm looking at the door, trying to look out the window to see if someone's pulled up and if someone's coming.
08:20He's wearing a hole in the floor up front, pacing back in the floor.
08:24If I stand over here, it's not the same view because I might miss the people parking, which I usually park over here.
08:30Neurotic.
08:31Neurotic.
08:33I'm secretly a lot like David because I just don't make anything to go wrong.
08:38You've got to give it a chance to go wrong first, you know?
08:41Barbara?
08:41Barbara.
08:42Hi.
08:42Nice to meet you.
08:43Nice to meet you.
08:44A little delay, but not too bad.
08:46I'm sorry.
08:47Not too bad.
08:52Emily, do you know where Chuck is?
08:54No, I don't.
08:57Well, let me check with Emily, see if everything's okay.
09:01So, what's going on?
09:02Anything?
09:03She's taking a first call right now.
09:06Oh, really?
09:07Okay.
09:08Tell me what's going on.
09:09Is this an eminent, or has death already occurred?
09:12Death already occurred.
09:13Is the family going to be there?
09:14So, no.
09:15I'm going to go talk to Rick, and he'll let you know whether or not you're going to pick it up.
09:20Okay.
09:21Make a copy of that and give it to Chuck.
09:23Okay.
09:23I will.
09:25I just got a first call.
09:27It is a deceased at a rest home.
09:30She passed away from pneumonia.
09:32And let's say 1909.
09:35She was, you know, 94.
09:37They gave authorization for release.
09:39All right.
09:39This is the daughter.
09:41All right.
09:42Okay?
09:42And that's all I need, right?
09:44Well, I don't understand why it takes all this conversation in 15, 20 minutes.
09:48It's starting to piss me off.
09:49You're going to take 163.
09:51East, yeah?
09:52No, it's west, Dad.
09:53It's west.
09:54To my...
09:54You're going away from the corner.
09:55Oh, I know where it's at.
09:57Yeah.
09:57Okay.
09:57I told him 20 minutes ago, and we're still talking about it.
10:01Why are we talking about it?
10:02Well, that was my fault, because I didn't know that you gave him the approval to go ahead and get it.
10:08That's all.
10:13It's frustrating as hell.
10:15I don't understand why everything has to be a major production.
10:18You'd think it was the first time anybody ever took a first call or made a removal.
10:23Rick's management style is intimidation.
10:25And he still is that way with other people, but he doesn't do that to me anymore.
10:30Chuck doesn't like authority.
10:32He doesn't do well with authority.
10:34And so I'm real careful what I say to him and how I say it, because it can ruin everybody's day in this building if he goes off.
10:42So if I have anything to say, I follow it through Shauna.
10:45My feeling is, you know, Chuck's a pain in the ass and he's this and that.
10:48But you know what, the last guys that Rick fired were stealing from him and doing things on duty in the company van that shouldn't be done.
10:57And my dad will never do that to Rick.
10:59Ah, shoot, I screwed up.
11:03Oh, man, what the hell was wrong with me?
11:05All I had to do was go down that other little road.
11:08Since I've gotten older, if I don't concentrate, I'm thinking, like, about something and then I think about something else.
11:16My dad is 63 years old and he's a former fighter.
11:19So that, in my mind, has a lot to do with his deteriorating memory.
11:24Everything has to be explained to him.
11:26Where he's going, what way he's going.
11:28Chuck would get lost in his own backyard.
11:32It might be back the other way.
11:33Let the family know and let everybody know that we should be there probably within 60 minutes or so.
11:38Thank you so much, Eileen.
11:39I appreciate it.
11:40Bye-bye.
11:41I got a first call.
11:42I got to get picked up right now.
11:43Dad was picking up a body and he has another one that he has to turn around and hurry up and get back here.
11:48From Palomar Hospital.
11:50What is this?
11:51Bar-bar-bar-brior-leaf?
11:53A scooter.
11:54Okay.
11:55So I make a left on...
11:57Whoops.
11:58All right.
12:01Shonda, do you know where Chuck is?
12:02Don't know.
12:03I don't know why in the hell he can't just go to the hospital, make a removal, and come back.
12:08Hey!
12:09What's this?
12:14Look how far we had to go just to do a U-turn.
12:17Rick is getting pissed off because we have the two first calls that Dad is supposed to be taken care of.
12:25Hello?
12:26Anybody home?
12:29Hello?
12:31Well, thank you.
12:33We're supposed to come in and receive...
12:35No!
12:36They're over there.
12:37The other side.
12:38You still haven't heard anything from Clarence?
12:43I have not.
12:44Okay, thanks, Bob.
12:47Because he didn't get back, I had to pull John off another job, so it kind of complicated things this afternoon.
12:53Thank you very much, sir.
13:07Okay.
13:08All right.
13:10All right, here's what we'll do.
13:12We'll close the devil a little bit.
13:14We'll close the devil a little bit.
13:16In there.
13:21Shauna says I wear gloves for everything, so I take her word for it.
13:27Okay, let's see.
13:31Okay, that's a full sheet.
13:32I just was thinking that, out loud, that she was probably a very pretty woman at one time.
13:43You know.
13:45Okay.
13:53I would want somebody to be gentle like this with my mother.
13:59Just like my own mother.
14:01Okay.
14:02This was a beautiful lady at one time, and she's, you know, the four cycles of life, you know.
14:12Born, you go through childhood and become an adult.
14:17Then you pass.
14:19Okay, there.
14:23When I remove someone who's still warm, I kind of get a funny feeling.
14:29It's almost like the spirit is standing there looking at you, you know, standing over you and just, I mean, I feel a presence, anyway, myself.
14:38I'm used to, you know, I'm not, you know, I'm not immune, to put it that way.
14:44It's not spooky, it's just disheartening, kind of, has a tendency to bring me down a little bit, you know.
14:57My feelings get hurt easily.
14:59That's also a trait of being an alcoholic, is that, you know, we're thin-skinned.
15:04You still haven't heard anything from Chuck?
15:05No, he's not called here.
15:06He didn't even say when he was coming back.
15:07Okay.
15:08When he calls, I'll send him through to you.
15:09All right, thanks.
15:10Bye.
15:11Chuck is on his way now with the decedent's body.
15:25There's a daughter coming in to make the arrangements.
15:28I have to do this gently as I can and walk them through it.
15:31Everybody has different personalities.
15:33There are people who come here and are trying to be professional and brave or whatever, and some people come in mad because it's an actual reaction to death.
15:40So, everybody's different, but every time I'm with people, I have to see.
15:45Hello.
15:46Hi.
15:47Hi.
15:48I'm David.
15:49I saw you just a year ago.
15:50Yes, I know.
15:51It was supposed to be my mother last year.
15:54And didn't work out there.
15:55And then Romaine.
15:56It just reversed.
15:57Just reversed, yeah.
15:58Let me ask you about the memorial service.
16:01How do you want that conducted?
16:02I mean, what do you want?
16:03There won't be very many of us.
16:05Oh, really?
16:06Because she lived in San Leandro so long, all her friends are left, right?
16:09Or left, right there.
16:10We can have a memorial here in our chapel.
16:12Yeah, it's a little smaller here than the church.
16:15Maybe we feel more comfortable.
16:16Goddammit, this is really pissing me off.
16:19He's been gone for like two hours.
16:21The family's there.
16:22The hospice is there.
16:23This is ridiculous.
16:24Here's what I do when I know I'm going to walk into a bad situation.
16:28As I say, God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change.
16:33The courage to change the things that I can.
16:35And the wisdom to know the difference.
16:37He's the darkest of things that I do on the phone every day.
17:02Any time I pick up an elderly lady like that, I think of my mother.
17:09I feel compassion and sadness for that.
17:12There was a time when it wasn't all that.
17:15Now it is, partially because I'm in business,
17:18and the other part is because I've gotten older.
17:23Prayers, we've got to choose a prayer for the prayer cards.
17:28Some of them are about how we are going to miss our loved one,
17:33and some are about their perspective, how they viewed life
17:36and how they think you should view it now.
17:38Right.
17:39You know your mom the best.
17:49I don't know if you should choose one that makes you cry the most.
17:53This one sounds like my mother.
17:58Is it when I must leave?
17:59Yes.
18:00I can't even get through it yet.
18:02Please take your time.
18:07I always think of, you know, how sad it is for people.
18:14You know, other people.
18:16I just go through my sadness on my own.
18:18I don't want anybody to go home and talk to about it, you know,
18:21like a wife or a girlfriend or anything.
18:23So the only people I can talk to are my daughters.
18:25And I hate to do that with Sean because she gets upset with me
18:28because, you know, her attitude is, well, it shouldn't bother you.
18:37Sean?
18:38Hi.
18:39Yeah.
18:40Well, I got the one in there, and John just came here.
18:43What happened?
18:44I had to go to another exit.
18:47Who's, who's this?
18:48Do we know?
18:50Sean?
18:51She's not in the mood to hear a sad story.
18:54When I'm in a hurry, I just only have time for niceties.
18:59It turned out to be a very busy day.
19:02Thank you so much.
19:03You're welcome.
19:05You're welcome.
19:06I appreciate it.
19:07It's good seeing you again, even, under these.
19:08It's good seeing you.
19:09I think I've seen you three times now.
19:10Bye-bye.
19:11Bye-bye.
19:12Bye-bye now.
19:13Once in a while, I'll hug a family.
19:15We're all human, and I want them to know I'm here to help them out,
19:18which I am.
19:19So sometimes a hug is a very appropriate thing to do to someone.
19:23Sana, are you in a hurry?
19:24Yeah, I am, yeah.
19:25I got to meet, throw him, pick up Sana.
19:27He's got to go to his other job.
19:29All right.
19:34I'm going home.
19:35Hasta luego.
19:36Hasta.
19:37There's a funeral director.
19:38As a funeral director, I see people grieving all the time.
19:42How does it affect me?
19:44It's not negative.
19:45If anything's positive, it reminds me that each day that we're here, each day,
19:51that we wake up, man, it's a gift.
19:54It's a gift that you woke up.
19:55You know what?
19:59I'm going to get rich and take my kids and go live in St. Croix or something.
20:06No communication or contact with anybody.
20:09You need to update your time card.
20:12Give it to me.
20:13Give it to me.
20:14Please.
20:15You're welcome.
20:16All right.
20:17Are you going to say goodbye?
20:18Bye.
20:19Love you.
20:20Love you.
20:21Love you.
20:23Sana probably feels bad that she didn't need me and ignoring me, so, you know, just give
20:27me a kiss.
20:30Instead of, you know, whatever.
20:33Yeah, I'm done being the mediator for the day between several different parties here,
20:38I might add.
20:39She's probably more like me than anybody in the whole damn family.
20:43There's my babies right there.
20:45All four of them.
20:48Sugar.
20:49Daddy's home.
20:52Hi, baby.
20:53You kitty cat, you know?
20:55I tell my problems to my kitty.
20:57She looks at me like, what the hell are you talking about?
21:10Okay, last time.
21:11You guys don't know where Chuck is, right?
21:13This is what I like, not doing a damn thing.
21:16David, where the hell is Chuck?
21:17Where's Chuck?
21:18Okay, wasn't he supposed to be back on an hour bell?
21:20No, I do not know where Chuck is right now.
21:22Yeah, it was good to sit in the sun.
21:24All right, where is Chuck?
21:25Okay, because this is getting a little ridiculous.
21:27This is perfect.
21:43This is for you who they are.
21:44This is for Mitch.
21:45Venture, this is good to yea...
21:46I'm looking forward to meet with him.
21:47Let me get your eyes off.
21:48This'll be fine again.
21:49We're lucky to get removed from the twin too.
21:51And that won't let me.
21:52Conversely, it's gonna open, he's looking right and running out.
21:53Everyone's looking forward.
21:54I think he's going to make membership version
21:55in a minute or not.
21:57I don't use him already.
21:58Remember?
21:59Nick.
22:00He can.
22:01Luckily, he doesn't want thisミ raus until he's alright.
22:02We can get my husband's Styles.
22:04He is good at that mid to them,
22:06and I know he's going to have a seat or not ignore her.
22:07Knock out that he's a damn thing.
22:08You need to stay
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