Pete, a blunt and eccentric sandwich shop owner, shares a meal with Agnes, a young woman who is clearly struggling with past trauma. As Pete rambles about the local dump and his dislike for his son, Agnes tentatively opens up about a 'bad thing' that happened to her years ago. Pete offers a unique brand of comfort, shifting from cynical observations to a sincere offer of support through the medium he knows best: sandwiches.
PETE: I wanted to get tables here, so people weren’t, you know, sitting on the ground, the sandwich is good, you shouldn’t eat a good sandwich on the ground, where the pigeons shit, but they said, “You share the parking lot with the dump so you have to ask the guys at the dump,” no fucking way I’m a
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