Track 3: Someone Saved My Life Tonight is the third episode of the Prime Video series Daisy Jones & The Six.
Premise[]
Official episode synopsis for Track 3: Someone Saved My Life Tonight from Prime Video:
A newly-sober Billy tries to balance his artistic calling with his familial responsibility as the rest of the band pick up the pieces in the wake of a disastrous tour. Meanwhile Daisy finds it far more difficult to write music when there are expectations. When Billy writes a new song, Teddy realizes that a collaboration between the two songwriters might just be the answer to all of their problems.
Plot summary[]
Daisy and Teddy listen to her new ballad Nobody Needs in his home. When it's over, he offers her a drink. After a long moment of silence, he asks how she's been. She just wants to know if he liked it or not. He's glad she stopped pretending not to care, which is progress. He likes it very much. He asks what he can do for her but she doesn't know. She wants to make a record. She wants people to listen to it over and over again until it breaks. Then she wants to make another one. She has one great song, so all they need now is ten more. She just needs a week. This is now the worst song on her album and she nods briskly before leaving.
Billy steps outside of his rehab facility in 1974 and Graham picks him up. The brothers hug and then start driving home as Graham fills Billy in on what he's missed. Eddie built his own bass, they tried a new backing session on "Look Me In The Eye" that he thinks he'll like, but Billy cuts him off. He just needs to meet his daughter. Graham smiles as he's gonna love her. The other day they were hanging in the yard and she looked up at him with those big eyes, and she smiled, not a smile from gas but a real, full human smile. Billy sobs in the passenger seat.
Graham and the band didn't really understand addiction back then. He thought Billy would just dry out. Things would go back to the way they used to be.
Billy arrives at the Laurel Canyon house and hugs Warren, who has a mustache now. Karen embraces him and notes that he looks good. Warren tries to do a "Pittsburgh on three" but no one follows his lead. Eddie wants to show off his new bass, but Graham stops him as Billy's got to meet his daughter. Billy nods that it's good to see them and walks inside while the band waits in the garage.
Camila is on the bed with Julia while Lucia folds laundry. Billy comes in and they timidly greet each other. Julia starts to cry so Billy doesn't walk over right away. He stands over his daughter and smiles, apologizing for being late. Camila offers to let Billy hold her, but he doesn't want to make her mad. Lucia, in Spanish, offers to take her for a walk, but Camila insists they're fine - Julia just needs a nap. He offers to help with that or pick something up from the store but they're fine. She sets Julia in her crib and leans against it. Billy awkwardly approaches and rests his forehead on hers; he missed her. Her mom has been staying there to help with the nightly feedings so he should stay in one of the other rooms for the first few nights.
Eddie, Warren, and Graham recount what happened while Billy was away. The label dropped the band a week after the tour was canceled. They made them pack their advance and everything. Graham kept them practicing as much as he could and got a job at a body shop. Warren got a job down at Malibu Harbor cleaning boats which he loved and doing a lot of mushrooms. Which he also loved. Eddie believes they were back where they started, worse, even. The interviewer asks if he's still upset about it, but he quickly insists he's not. Holding onto that shit will be the death of someone. But Billy really fucked them over.
Graham checks up on Billy, who he's sharing a room with. He strums the guitar and then offers it to Billy, who doesn't want to right now. He understands, offering maybe tomorrow or whenever he's ready. Billy can't do it - he's out, done. Graham tells him to get rest but Billy can't be like dad. He has to look after his family. Graham reminds him they're his family and he's his family. Everybody down there has been waiting for him. Billy wants Graham to tell them for him, but Graham refuses to. They were so, so close. He leaves the room upset.
Daisy tries to write in her room but can't quite get it right. She throws the journal across the room and flops on the bed, groaning. Simone asks what she's doing; she's writing. The phone rings so Daisy answers it, and it's Lee Parlin for Simone. Daisy initially thinks Simone isn't interested and says she's not here, but Simone rushes over to take the phone. Lee greets her and then gets to business. He's working with 32-20s and asks how fast she can be there.
Daisy and Simone go to a house party after she meets with Lee Parlin. She was just supposed to do the chorus but it went so well that he asked her to do the whole song. He said she had a one-of-a-kind sound, which Daisy agrees with. He wants to do big-big-big things together. Daisy knew it would happen and so did Teddy. She reminds Simone that Teddy said it would be only a matter of time. She notices Simone looking past her at a woman across the party and smiles coyly, encouraging her friend to go talk to the woman. Later that night, Daisy dances with the crowd and spots Simone talking it up with the woman, looking happy.
The woman introduces herself as Bernice, though it's Bernie to most people. She heard Simone and Daisy talking earlier, and knows she's a singer, asking about her sound. Simone's still figuring that out. Bernie gives her a paper with the name of the club she works at in New York, offering to show her around if she ever comes to town. This takes Simone off-guard, and Bernie worries that she read this wrong. Simone assures her she didn't, she's just not used to people being so forward. Bernie smirks and asks if this is forward to her.
Simone takes a deep breath. It's a powerful thing when someone comes along and just sees right through you.
Daisy is dancing when she sees Wyatt Stone with his new girlfriend. She stalks over and Wyatt compliments her, asking how long it's been. She introduces herself as Daisy Jones to his girlfriend. Back when he knew her, her name was Margaret. He also never had a number one record, which he could at least say thank you for. He asks for what and she starts to walk away when she shoves him into the pool. She belts out the first few lines of Stumbled on Sublime over the pool.
Now, Daisy nods that a normal person probably would have let that go. She merely shrugs at the camera with a smirk on her face.
Billy gathers everyone in the living room to tell them he's leaving the band. Graham tries to keep everyone calm, but Eddie lashes out at Billy as he's pissed. Billy's not sure why they're upset as they don't even need him; they've got the songs and the fan base. Before he can offer up a solution, Eddie shouts at him and then tells him that if he's going, to go. Billy walks out of the room and Warren asks what they do now.
Karen knows that bands fall apart, that's rock and roll. She just thought this one was different.
Billy wakes up in the morning with Camila by his side. He starts fixing things around the house and going for runs. Teddy drops by to see Billy and they sit outside. Billy correctly guesses they asked him to come to change his mind, but Teddy isn't going to. He thinks he's doing the right thing. He came because he missed him. Billy looks away - he knows he never said thank you for what he did. Teddy stops him. He's just glad that it seems to have taken because it doesn't always. It's never ever gonna get easier, which Billy knows.
For Graham, this time was all about moving forward.
Graham and Karen try to scout for a new lead man while at a party but come up short. Guys like his brother don't exactly grow on trees. He's going to put an ad in the paper and talk to the guys at the Troub. The guy they need is out there somewhere, he got to be. Right now, she just wants to get drunk.
A man talks to Warren and Eddie. He asks if they're still going to be called The Six now that there are four of them. Warren laughs that of course, they are. It makes it even funnier now. Eddie, drunk, tells the man that if he doesn't get the joke then he can't help him.
Karen and Graham start talking about sex. She's not a nun, obviously, she likes sex, loves it actually. It's just the mess that she doesn't like. The attachments and the expectations. He wonders if that means she would never want a life, like what Camila and Billy have. She wants this life. She wants to travel and see the world and play music with her friends until she drops dead on stage. She is quite horny, though. He is too and she thinks they should just go for it, and he agrees. She gets up to flirt with a guy several feet away from them. Graham sighs and looks away.
Warren says it was a confusing time back then. For everyone.
Karen, Eddie, Warren, and Graham listen to auditioners sing "Look Me In The Eye" trying to find their new lead man, but everyone is dreadful.
Warren laughs at the memories of listening to the people audition, merely shrugging in lostness.
Karen feels like she's seen every frontman in the whole of California. Eddie, positioned by the mic, mentions they haven't seen everyone. He can do it. Graham starts to speak but Eddie cuts him off. He's a better guitarist than Billy and can sing almost as well. He asks them to give him a chance. Warren shrugs as he's already up there. Eddie picks up his bass and steps to the mic, singing Flip The Switch. Warren, Karen, and Graham listen and exchange surprised looks.
Simone records Up to You in a recording studio. When she's done, she wants to give it another try, but Lee thinks they've got it and tells her to come out and hear it back. She hears it through and grins as it's great. He offers her a seat and she tries to walk past him to the chair next to him, but he pulls her into his lap. He compliments her voice sounding like honey, all while his hand slides further up her thigh. She abruptly stands up and he asks if she's doing okay. She can hear herself better from here.
She comes home and Daisy is singing inside the apartment, surrounded by papers and a bottle of liquor. Simone looks at Daisy and insists she's okay, so Daisy keeps playing.
Camila plays with Julia on the floor of their bedroom when Billy comes in. He thinks they should go home to Pittsburgh. They'd be closer to her parents, to his mom. He'll get a construction job as he likes building things, and she could get a job at the paper, taking pictures. She sits up and asks if he thinks she moved here for him. Because she didn't, she moved here with him. For them and the life they wanted. He's just trying to be practical because if they stay here, he doesn't know if he can handle it here anymore. She doesn't think that's the problem but he doesn't feel that she's listening to him, admitting that he's weak. She snaps at him to pick up his kid. When he doesn't, she asks what he's so afraid of. She was scared when she held Julia for the first time and he wasn't even there. She was so hurt when he left. But she stayed. She faced it and she didn't leave. She asks again what he's afraid of. He thinks he's afraid that she's going to love him and he's going to fuck it all up. She welcomes him to the club. He slowly gets off the bed and picks her up from the floor for the first time, holding her in his arms and offering her a rattle.
He holds her in a rocking chair outside, humming softly. He then stands up and vocalizes as he bounces her. During the day, Camila bounces Julia on her lap. He kisses Julia's feet on the couch and holds her as he plays with her, vocalizing softly. By night, Camila wakes Billy by holding his face, then leaning against him. She kisses him and they make out.
In the morning, Eddie sits outside with Camila and Julia. She tells him he doesn't have to stay out here, he can go back inside if he wants. He wants to stay as he loves hanging out with the little troublemaker. Camila smiles that she's the best and they play for a moment. Billy walks by and stops to look at the trio, and Camila smiles up at him, and he walks past. Eddie asks if things are just back to normal with them, just like that. He's sorry but he just doesn't know how she can do it. She asks if he's ever been in love and he looks at her, then looks away. She doesn't stop being in love with someone because things get hard. At least she doesn't.
Christmas, 1974. Camila rushes to get her camera and records Warren hanging stockings and Billy holding Julia while Graham and Karen entertain her with tinsel. Billy turns to the camera and has Julia wave to her mama. Camila records the evening as everyone laughs and has fun, hugging each other over gifts being exchanged. At the end of the night, Billy puts Julia to sleep and everyone cheers for him. He wants to play something for them if they're open to it. He understands if they're not and Eddie scoffs they're not, then asks the band if he's right. He doesn't think Billy can just walk back in as if nothing happened. He apologizes and leaves to check on Julia. Eddie calls the asshole back to play the damn song.
The interviewer asks Eddie why he stayed. He asks himself that all the time.
Billy plays his new song Honeycomb for Teddy in his office. He turns it off mid-song. Billy knows it's a new direction but still thinks it's a good song, and Teddy agrees. But he burned a lot of bridges and a lot of money when he canceled that tour. Money that wasn't his and yeah, the song is good, but there are a lot more people with his sound now. Talking to the label won't help, and neither will Teddy talking to them because Billy's fuckup is his fuckup. He thought Billy's record would be the one to fix things but it didn't. He'll play it for them and they'll see what they say. Billy thanks him.
Teddy plays the demo for the producers but they just aren't hearing it. He tries to convince Don to give them another shot, to let him get in a room and work with them, but Don is firm that it's a no on this one. He turns to the rest of the producers for new pitches.
Daisy and Teddy talk on his couch about the progress of her album. She has fifteen pieces of different songs, but nothing she thinks he'll like. He doesn't want her to bother bringing him anything she doesn't think is great. She wouldn't do that but worries it'll take a long time. The songs show up when they show up. He can wait. She hears Honeycomb playing. He thought it was something but it was not. She listens intently and he asks what she would do with it.
The next thing Karen knew, they were booked in the studio.
Daisy plays the song over and over again through her headphones, humming along as she writes lyrics in her journal.
Warren remembers Teddy thought a vocal vocalist might give them an edge. Karen knew it was someone he was working with. Eddie had never heard of her then, no one had. Graham smirks since Billy wasn't thrilled with the idea.
Billy argues with Teddy in the studio over adding a female vocalist to the mix. It's not a duet. Daisy arrives and Teddy introduces Daisy Jones to Billy Dunne. She smiles at him - she likes his song.
Billy chuckles and looks down. Daisy merely smiles and looks around the room then back to the camera.
Daisy gets set up in the booth, asking for a glass of milk and whiskey. Or one if they don't have the other. The band talks in the booth while Billy, on the other side of the glass, asks Teddy why he's smiling. He's just generally delighted. Billy enters the recording studio as Eddie, Warren, Karen, and Graham leave. He picks up his headset and Daisy mimics his movements. He offers to talk through the song first but he's fine unless he had something that he wanted to talk about, but he's fine. Tobias shows Daisy where her volume is and that Billy is on channel two. She tests the volume a few times. Graham wonders if she's never recorded before, and Warren smirks that she's about to. Eddie asks where her pants are, but Eddie doesn't care. Karen tells them to shut up. Teddy has Billy and Daisy test their levels. They do the first take of "Honeycomb".
Billy starts them off but Daisy notices the band staring at her. She taps on his shoulder, interrupting him. She asks if they need the audience, and he asks if she means the band. Eddie scoffs over her talking about them, and Warren agrees as it's their song. Karen thinks they should give her some space, offering to talk to Deb instead. The boys hurry out of the room to talk to her. Karen closes the door behind them and stays to watch. Teddy starts off with "Honeycomb", takes two. Billy sings the first few lines as Daisy watches him, then joins him in singing. Their voices meld together perfectly and Karen leans on the table with a fixed look on her face, before looking incredulously at Teddy, who just stares at the singers. It isn't long until Billy stops her as those aren't the lyrics. He calls for someone to bring him a pen so he can write down the lyrics, but she knows the words. She's singing them. She offers her journal as proof. He asks what the hell this is, and she's annoyed he didn't get the revised version. Teddy wants to give her a version a go and just see how it sings. Billy argues with him as her version's like a completely different song. Daisy interrupts to ask what he thinks his song is about. Taken aback, he repeats the question - what does he think the song that he wrote is about. It's about starting a new life, it's about redemptions from letting people down. She surmises it's about guilt, but he rebuffs that. She apologizes as she's not trying to pry or anything, she's just trying to get them on the same page and understand the story better so she can help, which is why she's there. She assumes it's about him letting somebody down. Now he's saying everything's fine, look at us now, everything's in the past. The problem with that is she doesn't believe it, it doesn't sound honest. It sounds simple. She doesn't know him very well but he doesn't seem simple. She asks why he called it Honeycomb when that's a Ricky Nelson song.
Karen asks Teddy if she's always like this, while the leads continue to bicker. Daisy insists she loves the song and that it's beautiful. But he wrote a speech when, at the very least, she thinks it can be a conversation. He takes off his headset and storms out of the session.
Eddie, Deb, Warren, and Graham watch TV when Billy storms into the room. Karen and Teddy enter shortly after, and Billy demands answers from Teddy. Billy's either going to kill her, Teddy or himself, asking where he should start. Daisy walks over and Billy dismisses her as they need a minute. He asks Teddy to come and talk to him. Daisy asks Teddy if this is the part where the men figure out the solution, but he highly doubts it.
Billy walks into a closet and Teddy comes in, turning on the light and closing the door. He asks why they're in a closet, but Billy, pacing, thought it was just another room. He's mad Teddy had her rewrite the song. Teddy asks what he thought of the sound, and it sounded to him like she ruined the great song he wrote. Teddy disagrees as he wrote a good song, not a great song. She's right - his version is simple, he's holding back and he gets it. He wouldn't want to go to those places either if he were Billy. Billy is confused because if the label loved the song then why is she here. But the label didn't love it, they said no, which confuses Billy, who asks who's paying for the session. Teddy is quiet for a moment. He loves Billy and asks if he knows that. Billy leans against the wall and Teddy leaves the room, closing the door behind him. Billy stays inside to think.
Eddie rants to Warren over letting Billy back into the band like it's nothing, and now he's got them singing songs with some chick. Karen asks who he's calling chick when she's a chick. Eddie scoffs that she's not really. Teddy stops Tweedledee and Tweedledum, then compliments them for being the heartbeat of the track which is good work. Eddie's glad he digs it and both he and Warren are glad to know someone's listening.
Billy walks into the sound booth and Graham asks if he's okay and he is. Daisy picks up her headset and asks if they want to record something or fight more because she's fine either way. Teddy tells her to hold on as they'll be right in. Billy smokes a cigarette and Daisy talks into her mic to greet Tobias, testing out her mic. Billy asks what the fuck is a Tobias, and the sound technician looks up; he's Tobias. Billy trusts Teddy but he doesn't think he's right about this. Teddy thinks they'll just have to wait and find out. Daisy speaks German to Tobias and vocalizes until Billy arrives. Tobias looks at Teddy; she has a perverse sense of humor, which makes him chuckle. He then tells Billy there's a rattle in his mic so they're just going to put the two of them together. Tobias, only to Teddy, tells him there's no rattle, but he knows. Tobias smirks - he has a perverse sense of humor too.
Billy and Daisy stand by the mic. She wants to tell him something but he cuts her off. They'll try her version and then they'll get the original. There's no need to argue. She simply smiles. She was just going to say that she loves the sound of his voice. Teddy clears the room for Honeycomb take three.
Billy chuckles as, come to think of it, they never did record his version. He smiles off to the side.
Daisy and Billy start singing Honeycomb and lock eyes the entire time. Their movements are in sync as they sing through the verses. Teddy stares at them, mouth open, a cigarette in his hand.
Billy calls Camila to tell her about the session. She asks how it went. He remembers sitting in the studio listening back to Daisy's voice. He tells Camila it was a nightmare. The whole thing was a total wash. He turns up Daisy's vocals and closes his eyes, listening.
Daisy comes home to Simone, who asks how it was. It was probably the best day of her life.
Cast[]
Starring[]
- Riley Keough as Daisy Jones
- Sam Claflin as Billy Dunne
- Camila Morrone as Camila Alvarez
- Will Harrison as Graham Dunne
- Suki Waterhouse as Karen Sirko
- Josh Whitehouse as Eddie Roundtree
- Sebastian Chacon as Warren Rojas
- Nabiyah Be as Simone Jackson
- Tom Wright as Teddy Price
- Timothy Olyphant as Rod Reyes
Guest Starring[]
- Ayesha Harris as Bernie
- Chris Diamantopoulos as Lee Parlin
- Seychelle Gabriel as Interviewer
- Jacqueline Obradors as Lucia Alvarez
- Ross Patridge as Don Midelton
- Jake Etheridge as Wyatt Stone
Co Starring[]
- Jonathan D'Ambrosio as Tobias
- Nick Chapman as Danny
- Emily Kimball as Debbie
- Sam Rubinek as Brian
- Sloan Roberts as Mike
- Evan D'Angeles as Rob
- Kevin Martinez as Nate
- Herbert Russell as Adam
- Christopher Corbin as Josh
- Neal Honda as Industry Type
- Eric Satterberg as Miles
- Ryan Hommel as Guy with Medium Charisma
- Erin Ruth Walker as Wyatt's Girlfriend
- Alexander Pobutsky as Hot Wannabe Actor
Music[]
| Song title | Originally performed by | Released | Show appearances |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nobody Needs | Daisy Jones/Riley Keough | 2023 | Daisy and Teddy listen to the song in his house. |
| Mama Told Me to Watch Out | Freddi / Henchi and the Soul Sitter | TBA | Billy leaves rehab in 1975. |
| Will It Go Round In Circles | Billy Preston | 1972 | Billy starts his new life after leaving the band. |
| Up to You | Simone Jackson/Nabiyah Be | 2023 | Simone records for Lee Parlin in his studio, and is sexually harassed by him. |
| One Happy Christmas | Tammy Wynette | 1970 | Camila, Billy, Julia, Karen, Graham, Eddie, and Warren celebrate Christmas at the Laurel Canyon house. |
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