Living with Yourself – Soul Mate

By: Ellie Dolan-Yates

In a flashback to the end of Kate’s (Aisling Bea) party, Kate and Clone Miles (Paul Rudd) are waving off the guests. Kate tells Clone Miles to get into bed. After Miles (Paul Rudd) has swapped with him, Clone Miles is left in his bed listening to Kate and Miles making love. He gets out of bed, angry, and opens up Miles’ screenplay and changes it. We then see the argument after Miles finds out with Clone Miles clearly winding him up.

After the title screen Clone Miles is tiptoeing around the house looking at the pictures of Kate and Miles on the wall. He walks around the house a bit longer before lying on Miles and Kate’s bed smelling and hugging Kate’s pillow. Kate asks him what he’s doing and if she should be jealous of the pillow. Clone Miles asks why she’s home so early and she says that his office called and invited her to his (well Miles’) promotion party. Clone Miles is shocked so Kate thinks she’s ruined a surprise. Clone Miles says that he did know, but he just wanted to surprise her. She asks where the car is and Clone Miles says it’s in the shop, so Kate says they can go together. He tries to get her to go ahead of him, but she says he deserves to enjoy the night.

Clone Miles is telling Miles’ story to his coworkers when Miles comes in with the punchline. Dan (Desmin Borges) asks Clone Miles if he has a twin and Pool (Karen Pittman) tells Clone Miles to introduce him. Clone Miles, clearly shocked, says Miles is his brother from out of town and when Pool asks what his name is Miles replies with “Miles.” Kate looks upset and leaves. Miles tells the group that they have a history and follows Clone Miles and Kate. Dan finds the whole thing funny.

At home Kate has both Miles’ sat on the sofa with her stood over them, hands on hips. She tells them not to say a word. She leaves the room and when she comes back she asks them “just to be clear” if they really skipped work one day to go to a “massage parlor” in a strip club and let two strangers sedate [them], resulting in this. Miles confirms by saying it was a strip mall. She yells at them and when Clone Miles asks if he can say something, she yells that she doesn’t even know who he is! They say that they share the same memories and both say they remember their first kiss and wedding night. Although, Clone Miles is more convincing than Miles. Kate says it’s a violation when they both say they know what she looks like naked. Kate says she’s not arguing with the two of them as one of them is bad enough. They both sit like they’re in detention as Kate asks about who made the “lovely squash thingy.” She’s realized that all the fantastic bits were Clone Miles, but Miles says it was him she had sex with and not Clone Miles. Miles then makes the biiiig mistake of telling his wife that it’s not all about her. She calls him unbelievable and as he’s telling her that he needed help and got it, she points at Clone Miles confused. Miles says that he still needs Clone Miles until the Hillston thing is over, -that is if Clone Miles is willing to help. Clone Miles says it’s up to Kate, but she’s lost for words. Although, she does say that she wants Clone Miles out of the house.

Miles is helping Clone Miles move into an apartment. Miles says it’s just for a couple of weeks until the Hillston campaign is done. Clone Miles says not to worry about him. Miles tells him that he can keep the phone and they’ll get him a few more things in the week. Miles thanks Clone Miles for his help with work and Kate. He says even she can see that Clone Miles is better, but he doesn’t know what he’d do if she left him.

A montage of Clone Miles being at work and getting himself off to photos of Kate plays. He resists at the one of her and (presumably) her grandpa though. It gets to the weekend and Clone Miles goes to see Miles’ sister. He’s upset because he feels like he’s married, but he’s not. Henry (Jon Glaser) tells Clone Miles of a Judeo-Christian notion that marriage is a union of two halves of the same soul, separated at birth. We’re incomplete without the union of our half soul forming with our soulmate. Miles’ sister (Alia Shawkat) tells Clone Miles that there’s plenty of people other than Kate.

Clone Miles is leaving the office when Kaylyn (Zoe Chao), who has been flirting with him, says goodbye. Clone Miles takes a second before inviting her out for a drink. It turns out to be more than a drink. After having sex, Kaylyn asks if clone Miles wants to go dancing…at 3am, but he declines. He leaves her asleep in his bed and heads to Miles and Kate’s house. He creeps through their bedroom into their bathroom and picks up a pair of scissors. He creeps round to Kate’s side of the bed and cuts off a lock of her hair!

Clone Miles pulls up at Top Happy Spa to find a child dressed like a unicorn, like the unicorn that was the last thing Miles saw before he went under. He asks if there’s a grownup around and she shouts for her dad. Youngsu (Rob Yang) appears also dressed as a unicorn. It turns out that Clone Miles is there because he wants Kate cloning from the hair sample he got! The other owner (James Seol) tells Clone Miles that they’ve had to shut down because of him. He tells him to leave and that he should be ashamed. Youngsu sees him out and locks the door behind him. Back at his apartment Clone Miles signs up to a dating website to find his soulmate. It finds one match. Of course, its’s Kate! Clone Miles is obviously happy, but what is she doing there?!