Episode 5

**"*Episode 5*"** is the fifth episode of Season 1 of Pieces of Her, and the fifth episode overall.

## Synopsis

*Andy uncovers more details about her family's history and reaches out to Mike, while Laura begins her new life and tries to track down her daughter.*

## Plot Summary

Michael tells his boss that Andy knows more than she is saying and would open up about her mother's past. He is told that Laura had signed out of the program, which meant that Andy was out as well and he needs to go back to Atlanta now. He works on his report and picks up Andy's phone. Laura asks for Andy, but he reveals who he is, telling her that she left her phone with him. Laura asks if Andy is okay, but he says that Andy was now with Jasper. Laura asks if Andy had simply left her things, which makes Michael asks what those were. After the call with Laura, Michael deletes his report and grabs the suitcase Andy had with her, leaving the department.

Mrs. Barfield approaches Andy, telling her that Mr. Queller was busy. Andy thanks her for everything and goes downstairs for breakfast. She sees a piano and Jasper tells her that her mother had a lot of talent, which was all recorded. He asks her how growing up in Belle Isle was, which she describes as similar to there. Jasper describes his sister as a perfectionist and private. Andy asks if he had ever heard of a woman called Paula Kunde, to which he responds that he does since she was an acolyte of Nick Harp. He says that their brother Andrew had met Nick at Stanford and they were going to change the world, but then Nick Harp handed a gun to a woman who killed his father. Jasper says that after Andrew died, his sister disappeared because they were very close. Jasper says that Andrew was with Nick when he died and knows that they have been through a lot, but she is safe now.

Andy looks up Martin Queller and finds out about him and how he was killed, seeing it all on video. In the video, she sees her mother rushing to help her father.

Gordon is seated and sees Laura sit at the bar. He excuses himself from his company and goes to Laura, who tells him that she knows he was the one who called the Marshals. She tells him that she signed out of witness protection, which he does not think is a good idea. He asks about Andy and she says that she would visit her with her brother in San Francisco, which Gordon did not know about. She asks if he could draw up a new will for her since Laura Oliver no longer existed, but he says that he has no idea who she really is. Laura hands him a folder and tells him that everything he needs to know is in there. She asks him to hurry with it in case something happened to her, telling him to call her by her real name and kisses him on the cheek before leaving.

In the past, Martin has dinner with all his children where Nick was invited. Jane tells Andrew that she wants to see him more often, but the latter complains that she is always on tour. The brothers all fight as Nick tells Martin that he is studying economics and is interested in finance and how it corrupts people. When Martin asks about his father, he says that he was a drunk who beat up his mother, which made him see that he would have to fight for things on his own.

As Jane plays the piano, she is approached by Nick, who tells her not to stop. He sees a small journal where Jane says that Martin would keep track of her mistakes, which he finds a bit extreme. He sits next to her and says that he was surprised by the family dinner. They talk about their mothers, and Jane says that she feels her mother with her when she plays, which Nick says is lonely. That night, Jane lies awake and gets up, walking towards her window and sees Nick swimming nude.

Andy is brought to where she could see the tapes that Jasper had offered to play for her. She plays one where her mother was playing the piano with a large symphony and stares in awe, wondering how her mother could ever stop playing the piano. She remembers when she told her mother she wanted to go to art school in San Francisco and she doubted her, wondering what she would know about being an artist.

After her concert, Nick approaches Jane and asks if she wants a ride. However, she says that a car had been sent for her. He asks if she would really just go home after playing like that, saying that he knows she tries not to feel things so she would not get hurt, which he gets, but says it is not how it needs to be. The car gets there for her, but she tells Nick to take her somewhere. They go to a club full of people and they start dancing as they take a drug together. They start making out with each other after that.

Andy keeps watching videos of her mother playing the piano, but then sees a video of her mother taken by Nick, where she says that she is into him and he says that she is worth the risk. She asks if he likes her because she is off-limits and says that she is more than one thing. She turns the camera around and asks him to tell the camera about himself. He says that he wants a ban on ballistic missiles, Congress to impeach the President and wants to have sex with her on the bed she is on.

Michael counts Jane's money, seeing it was over half a million dollars. Andy calls him and asks what he knows about Nick Harp since he was with her mother. He says that they should not discuss that over the phone.

Andy joins Jasper downstairs with his book, saying that she is skimming it and does not want to be a bother for him. He says that she is not a bother and does not want her to be so hard on her mother. Jasper says that whenever he walks onstage, he is the man whose father was killed. He reminisces about when his father died and Andy offers to show him something. She hands him a picture of her father and wonders if he ever met him, but Jasper says that he had not since both he and his sister had a lot of catching up to do. Andy asks about Nick, but Jasper says that he only met him once at a family dinner. He says Nick was a monster and his sister wanted nothing to do with him.

In the past, Jane tells Andrew that their father now knew about Nick and the relationship they had together. Andrew says that he and Nick also had a thing as a van pulls up. In the van are both Nick and Paula who say they brought everything they needed. They get in the van and Paula starts driving them, but Jane says that she does not think she can go through with what they were going to do. They make it to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where Nick tells Jane to flash a light three times if she saw a car.

The next day, Martin is watching the news, where it is said that the Laboratory had been bombed. Martin asks Jane to come in, asking her where she had been and wondering if she had driven down to see Andrew or Nick. She tells him that he does not need to worry about her. He says that he is hosting a little gathering in the spring and wants her to play Chopin.

Andy knocks on Mrs. Barfield's door, but hears a recording of her phone call with Michael in another room. After that, Andy rushes to her room, gathers her bag and runs out of the house. However, security says that she could be let go since they knew where she was headed.

Playing pool, Martin asks Nick how school is going. He says that he is getting by and would be finishing in May, so Martin asks what his plans were because there might be a place for him at his company. As Jane hands him a whiskey, he says that he knows he was from Detroit, his father worked at a factory and that Nick Harp is dead, having died from an overdose four years ago. He asks Nick who he really is, which he says is ridiculous, but Martin asks if he really thought he was just going to waltz out with his daughter and her trust fund. Nick says that he is very serious about Jane, which Martin says does not surprise him since everybody would want to marry a Queller. Nick tells Martin that he does not want anything from him because he is a gangster and everything he owns has blood on it. He leaves and asks Jane if she would go with him. Jane follows him and tells Nick that her father was being protective, asking if what he said was real. Nick ignores the question and asks if what they have is real; Jane says it is, so Nick says that she should have his back and they should get out of there. He asks her to choose between him or her father so that she could live life on her own terms or she would never see him again.

Andy and Michael meet and the former says that she needed to get out of the house. She says that she thinks Nick is her father because she saw a video of him with her mother. She tells him that their call was recorded and Michael says that he believes her uncle has a contact in WITSEC, somebody feeding him information. He wonders if Jasper wanted the suitcase because it could be evidence, and Michael says that it was now in his hotel room. A woman bumps into him and Michael says that they should leave, telling Andy to leave, but he falls down, telling Andy to leave once again. An ambulance reaches Michael and paramedics start helping him out.

Jane calls Jasper's house and says that she wanted to talk to Andrea, but is told that she had already left. Jane thanks Mrs. Barfield and says that she missed her voice.

In the past, Jane tells Mrs. Barfield that she misses Nick and wonders if her mother would have liked him. However, she is told that all that was over. Martin reaches Jane and gives her a necklace which used to be her mother. He says that since she was less busy, they could now add more places to her tour because they do not need anyone else. Jane reaches the piano and starts playing. Once she finishes, Martin hugs her and says that nights like that one are all he wants. After that, Jane walks away to a car. She opens the door and crushes her hand with it.

After hurting her hand, Jane walks to Nick's house and they start having sex. The next morning, Nick is telling a group of people that the choice they had made was not an easy one. He introduces her to Grace Juno, whose husband and three children were dead thanks to her father.

## Cast

### Main

* Toni Collette as Laura Oliver
* Bella Heathcote as Andy Oliver
* David Wenham as Jasper Queller
* Jessica Barden - Jane
* Joe Dempsie - Nicholas Harp
* Omari Hardwick - Gordon Oliver
* Jacob Scipio - Michael Vargas
* Terry O'Quinn - Martin Queller
* Calum Worthy - Young Jasper Queller
* Nicholas Burton - Andrew Queller
* Mia Artemis - Young Paula Kunde
* Ewen Leslie - Arthur Gibson
* Catherine McClements - Grace Juno
* Abhilash Kaimal - Quarter
* Fiona Press - Mrs. Barfield
* Bridie Connell - Young Mrs. Barfield
* Jeremy Waters - Norwegian Moderator
* Gregory Matchett - Male Panelist #2
* Daniel Czura - Male Panelist #3
* Melissa Bonne - Cynthia
* Ling Cooper Tang - US Marshal Supervisor
* Vaishnavi Suryaprakash - Maid
* Hester van der Vyver - Lean Woman / Jogger
* Ghio Balbuena - Paramedic #1
* Ama Sam - Paramedic #2
* Hamilton Matebwe - Corporate Client #1
* Bakari Blouin - Corporate Client #2
* Paul Ryden - CNN News Anchor
* Tanaka Machisa - Queller Security Guard
* Mark Duncan - Town Car Driver
* Zuzana Lenartova - Jane Piano Hand Double