“Oh, I love quiet! Reminds me of my second husband’s silent treatment. Very romantic until the divorce papers.”

“You mean they’ll murder us?”

Interior, Party Down van. RAIN PATTERS on the roof. RON DONALD (Ken Marino) grips the wheel, squinting through the wipers.

During the sacred playback of the Beach Boys track (a haunting, unreleased ballad called “Coconut Lagoon”), Roman breaks out of the penalty box. He storms to the turntable, shouting: “This vinyl is 24-bit 96kHz upsampled from an old 128kbps MP3! I analyzed the harmonics! YOU’VE BEEN SCAMMED, JASPER!”