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Mar 27, 2016 · The Panic in Central Park: Directed by Richard Shepard. With Lena Dunham, Allison Williams, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Jake Lacy. After she and Desi argue, an angry Marnie goes out, where she runs into her old boyfriend, Charlie, and spends the night with him.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Richard Shepard
- 2016-03-27
- Summary
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Marnie and Desi's are hanging out on the bed in their apartment, surrounded by partially finished walls. Marnie is ignoring Desi, and it's driving him totally nuts. They have been in a fight for hours, and she's icing him out; eventually she just can't take the proximity anymore and storms out.
She ends up walking down a street in Bushwick. While passing by a group of rough-looking dudes, she recognizes one of them as her ex, Charlie.
He's heavier-set these days, and definitely a lot rougher around the edges. But he's also weirdly cagey, and has inexplicably developed a heavy Brooklyn accent.
As they're talking, he finally explains to her what happened all those years ago. His father had actually committed suicide, which threw him for a loop and caused him to end their relationship. Since then, he's abandoned his former life completely and turned over a new, grittier, who-gives-a-fuck leaf.
He wants to know if Marnie will go to a party with him. She briefly resists before giving in. But first, he tells her, they need to get her a party dress. Charlie and Marnie duck into a resale shop and pick out a red, sparkly gown, and they go uptown to the Plaza Hotel. Marnie quickly realizes that Charlie is making his way these days by dealing cocaine; while he's making a drug deal, she scams an older guy at the bar who is trying to get her to come back to his room with a hooker.
Marnie and Charlie bail on the Plaza situation, have some delicious-looking Italian food, and ultimately end up walking through Central Park, where she confesses to him that her album is pretty much all about him leaving her. They stumble on a bunch of locked up boats and steal one, paddling out into the moonlight. They kiss; the boat tips over. Charlie has to drag Marnie up to the surface and reminds her that they can actually just stand up.
- Rumors started circulating that Charlie would make an appearance during the fifth season after Christopher Abbott was spotted on the set of Girls alongside Allison Williams.
- The inspiration for this episode came from The Panic in Needle Park, a 1971 film about two heroin addicts in love and running around New York City.
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The Panic In Central Park. TV-MA | 28 MIN. WATCH NOW. Written by Lena Dunham. Directed by Richard Shepard. After a fight with Desi, Marnie leaves their apartment to get some space. She walks past a group of guys who cat call her, and Marnie realizes that one of them is Charlie.
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