Daisy Jones & The Six – Track 3: Someone Saved My Life Tonight

After the prior episode, Teddy (Tom Wright) and Daisy (Riley Keough) are in Teddy’s house listening to the demo she left for him. While Teddy is still thinking about everything with Billy (Sam Claflin), Daisy is eager to learn what Teddy thinks of her new song. Teddy ends up liking the song and encourages her to write more for a potential new album. Daisy is eager to get to work. 

By 1974, Billy is leaving rehab after getting clean for his wife Camila (Camila Morrone) and new daughter. Graham (Will Harrison) is there to pick Billy up and bring him back to the band house. However, upon arrival Eddie (Josh Whitehouse), Warren (Sebastian Chacon), and Karen (Suki Waterhouse) are ready to get back to work on the music. But Billy is focused on one thing only: getting to meet his daughter. Upon entering his home, Billy sees Camila and his mother-in-law Lucia (Jacqueline Obradors) who has come to help Camila with the baby. It’s clear when Lucia leaves the room that Camila is still not ready to let Billy back in and forces him to bunk with Graham in the main house.  

Inside the house at Laurel Canyon, the band had to take on regular jobs to keep the dream alive as they were dropped from their label after the abrupt end of the tour. When Billy goes to bunk with Graham, he admits that he needs to take on the role of being a better husband and father. As to his place in The Six, he feels embarrassed and downtrodden….ready to take a step away from the spotlight and try a more domestic approach. Graham is angered by Billy’s reluctance to be the leader and insists that he tells the band himself.  

For Daisy, the creativity to write more songs for a potential new album is fraught with writer’s block. Simone (Nabiyah Be) comes in to check on her progress and senses the frustration. However, the phone rings in their apartment and the writer’s block is forgotten for the time being when they are invited to an industry party. As Daisy and Simone are chatting away, Simone catches the eye of a woman named Bernie (Ayesha Harris). While Simone finds herself in a flirtatious tryst with Bernie, Daisy spots Wyatt Stone (Jake Etheridge) across the room…the man who stole one of her songs for his own. As she confronts him, Daisy only asks Wyatt to thank her for the song he stole before promptly pushing him into the pool.  

Billy finally decides to rip off the band-aid and tells the rest of the band that he is quitting, only to be met with anger and outrage. However, Eddie seems more than fine with his decision. Over time, Billy instead turns into a better husband and father as he works hard at maintaining sobriety and the chores around the house. Teddy even comes to check up on him under the guise that the rest of the band asked him to convince Billy to come back, but sees that the sobriety was the best decision for him. Billy even thanks Teddy for his help. 

But for the band, finding a new lead singer proves difficult. At a local industry party, Graham and Karen try to spot potential leads for their band while also discussing how starved they are of intimacy. Graham hopes to score a chance with Karen, but she is more interested in the rock & roll life for herself and instead goes to find someone to hook up with. But their search for a new lead singer turns disastrous once auditioning starts in the following days. With one bad audition after another, The Six is convinced they won’t find someone to replace Billy. But Eddie decides to throw his name into the ring and is quickly accepted as the new frontman.  

Meanwhile, Simone is hard at work on her new album, yet finding the struggle to keep her sexuality under wraps when one of the sound engineers tries to make a pass at her. She manages to elude his clutches and once she gets home, Daisy notices that something is not right. But Simone is not ready to share what happened. 

Camila and Billy begin to try mending their relationship when Billy suggests that the three of them return to Pittsburgh and try a more domestic life back home. This enrages Camila and she tells Billy that they are staying where they are, also questioning why he has not held his daughter yet. Billy explains that he is scared of loving her and screwing her up, but Camila assures him that he needs to work through his fear. Finally, Billy picks up his daughter and the relationship between him and Camila begins to improve….much to Eddie’s dismay. 

Around Christmas, Billy, Graham, Karen, Warren, Eddie, and Camila celebrate. As the celebrations begin to die down once Billy puts his daughter to bed, he asks the band to listen to something he wrote. Still on his high-horse as the lead of the band, Eddie initially refuses to hear it until looks from the rest of the band members convince him otherwise. And Eddie gives up the lead singer position back to Billy. 

Later, Billy brings his new song to Teddy Price in hopes that the band can get back to where they were. Teddy likes the song, but Billy has burned a lot of bridges in the process of getting back to sober. Against his better judgement, Teddy brings the song to the execs, and they pass. But when Daisy later comes to see Teddy at his house, she hears the song and Teddy asks her to work on making it a hit. Seeing the potential, Teddy also books the studio for recording. 

With The Six finally back in a studio and Billy’s song “Honeycomb” on the recording docket, Teddy explains to the band that he is bringing in Daisy to work on the song with them. Billy is against the whole idea of bringing in Daisy, but it is too late as Daisy Jones finally enters the studio and life of Billy Dunne. The recording gets off to a rocky start as Daisy’s inexperience in a studio has her requesting that the other band members not be in the same room. Karen shoos them out and they go for a second take. During that second take, both Billy and Daisy realize that they are singing different lyrics.  

The change in lyrics upsets Billy as he wrote that song for Camila. However, Daisy points out that Billy’s vision for the song doesn’t make sense and that he needs to change the narrative and be real about the reality of what “Honeycomb” represents. Not liking the discussion, Billy storms out and asks to speak with Teddy alone. It is there Teddy explains that the execs passed on Billy’s song and the studio time is on Teddy’s dime. With this information, Billy returns to the studio and he agrees to do Daisy’s version of the song as long as they can also do his version afterwards. But before they can record, Teddy tells Billy to share a mic with Daisy on this take and what they create is pure magic.  

Later, Billy calls Camila and tells her that the recording was a nightmare, despite a cut to him in the studio listening to the track and turning up Daisy’s voice on the track. Yet for Daisy, her view is quite different. As she walks into the apartment and see Simone, she gushes how this was the best day of her life.