Brothers & Sisters s01e08 Episode Script

Previously on Brothers and Sisters: - Am I crazy, or? - You're not crazy.
Let's not jump the gun when we managed to find out where Dad put the money.
Finding password-protected accounts is not the same thing as finding the money.
when we can't crack the password.
What's up? You look like you just saw a ghost.
- Does Holly have a child? - Yes.
Holly has a daughter.
Justin is who he is.
I didn't convince him to enlist more than you convinced him to raid your medicine at 16.
He never wanted to be a soldier.
You throw your life around like it was worthless! Don't you understand? I wish I'd died over there, Mom! Justin, this word has too many letters.
- Is that a "Q"? - A "Q"? You suck at this.
No, I don't.
That That is an "A," I know that.
- Is the word "California"? - Nope.
- "Carpenter"? - I'm spelling "carpenter" on your back with my tongue because it's such a sexy freaking word.
You are the worst "Guess the Lick-Word" player I've played with.
No, I'm good.
It's just that your tongue has bad penmanship.
OK, this is your last chance.
You ready? Now, close your eyes and concentrate.
Now, it's something in the room right now.
- Can you eat it? - Uh-huh.
OK, that's enough, Tommy Lee.
Cooper, come eat breakfast.
Don't make us late for school again! I'm wailing on my skins.
- Did your dad teach him that phrase? - No, I did.
And I regret it.
How come I have to stay here? Can't stay home when your Mom's away and Dad's out of town.
So let's not have that conversation again, OK? Last time I checked, your little brother - and your sister and I like to see you.
- Half-brother and half-sister.
- Hi! - Hey.
There's frittata, if you want.
It's the only thing Cooper will eat.
No, I'm OK, thanks.
You guys love it when your big brother comes to stay, don't you? Half-brother.
I made my own plate.
Paige did too.
Those are cool.
- So how are things with Scotty? - We haven't spoken since Ojai.
- Well, call him.
- I have, Kitty.
He won't call me back.
He's either still mad at me or on an Arctic expedition.
My guess is he's mad, given the way you told him to shut his face - in front of the entire family.
- Don't get like that with me.
- Like what? - As if you're some relationship genius.
- You're the lying whore.
- You're the stuck-up bitch.
- I am so not a snob.
- Yes, Kevin, your outburst was the tip of the iceberg.
You talked to him like he was the help.
- I did? - Yes, you did.
And at the hospital benefit, you tried to pay him to be your escort.
Come on! I just wanted to see him.
So you offered to purchase him? Oh, Kevin, you don't want a boyfriend.
- You want a blender.
- A blender? Well, some something that can be bought.
Well, you know what I mean.
No.
He's coming into the office today.
We won the case and the plaintiffs are giving him a reward for being a whistle-blower.
So? - What do I do? - Oh, I You know, I am no genius when it comes to relationships, remember? But if I were you, I would beg him on bended knee to take you back.
Bended knee? - Cool.
Whore.
- Bitch.
I am sorry.
Holly, thank you for coming into the office.
Of course.
What can I do for you? Well, it's about Dad and the company.
- I'm listening.
- When my father died, he left this company in a bit of a financial predicament.
OK.
A substantial amount of money is missing.
- How much? - Fifteen million.
We managed to track the money to a brokerage account in Nevada, but the account needs an access password and nothing we've tried works.
Nothing having anything to do with this family as we know it has worked.
And we're at the end of our rope.
Well, I'm sorry, but I don't know what I can do to help.
You were a big part of my father's life, Holly.
Can I ask you is this a picture of your daughter, Rebecca? - Yes.
- Is Rebecca Dad's daughter? No.
No.
The future of this company depends on it.
Truly, Sarah, she's not.
I'm sorry that I can't be of more help, but she's not.
Well, uh, just in case my father misunderstood, would you mind staying and helping our forensic accountant? Provide him with details pertaining to Rebecca: Social Security numbers, pet names, things like that.
I appreciate This is very awkward.
I'm sorry, I'm I'm just trying to save our company.
I'll give you all the information that I can.
- Thank you.
- Sure.
Thank you.
If you hate it, you can tell me.
No, no, no.
No, I love it.
Um I'm just not so sure I can afford it.
Turns out I don't have as much money as I thought I did.
Is that true or is it something else? Other than the fact that we've kissed and I would find it wildly complicated to go on kissing the contractor who comes here every day and builds things.
- Are you OK? - Yes, yes.
I'm I'm fine.
I'm just sorry.
All your work No, no.
I love designing things.
It's OK, Nora.
Seeing as how I'm not going to build things, maybe we could actually go on a date.
All right.
Good.
God, you forget how good fruit tastes when you're loaded all the time.
This is good.
Who's that? Are you expecting someone? - No.
- At 8 a.
M? God! Thank you.
Oh, my God.
If you could just sign this, son, I'll go.
Yeah.
Thanks.
What did you get? Publishers Clearing House? No, it's just some bureaucratic government stuff.
Yeah? Put him through.
Hey, stupid, what's up? I just got a letter from the Army.
What does it say? Saying what? What does it say, Justin? They want me back.
Hola, Justin.
Sure, you got it.
Wednesday in Baghdad when their unit was attacked by gunfire.
Since Monday, 14 U.
S.
Soldiers have been killed in Iraq, mostly in and around Baghdad.
to cover their colleagues if necessary.
Across 500 square miles from the northern fringes of Baghdad, the U.
S.
Army You're up early, kiddo.
I saw on Surfline there's a break at Zuma.
Want to come? Actually, I've got this thing I've got to do called work.
Dad, they're six foot swells.
You could show up to the office all windswept and salty.
It'll be great.
I mean, chicks dig it.
- Quite a picture.
- Go surfing with him, William.
You haven't been out in a long time and chicks dig it.
- See, chicks dig it.
- Thank you very much.
Look at this! The Hollywood Bowl has Gershwin tonight.
We should all go.
- That sounds great.
- Come on, Dad, you say, "Today's the first day of the rest of my life.
" Let's freaking surf.
Oh - You - What? What are you looking at me like that for? 'Cause you remind me of me when I was younger.
- Like all handsome and good-looking? - Yeah, something like that.
Yeah, come on, let's do it.
Let's go out there and do it.
Wait, wait.
Look at this.
between the eightieth and eighty-fifth floor of the tower.
- Turn it up.
what seemed a very ordinary day in New York.
As you can imagine, the Trade Center is - Kitty lives six blocks from there.
- Call.
flying low, but didn't appear - What the hell do you think happened? - I don't I don't have any idea.
- The circuits are all down.
- Just a moment.
Word of a second - Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Oh, my God! - Sunni Muslim insurgency.
- If you can sign here, Mr.
Wandell.
- There you go.
- And there you go.
- Great.
Thanks, Carly.
- Anytime, Mr.
Walker.
- So do you have any plans for lunch? - Lunch? Us? I thought we could celebrate.
You could even buy, since you're so flush.
Since we're sort of equals.
- Me having money makes us equals? - Only in terms of I thought what made us equals is we're human beings.
Right, you're not a human being.
- I remember.
You're a Martian.
- Come on.
I was I don't like to admit this, but I was completely wrong about you.
- What are you doing? - Give the plaintiffs regards, but tell them I don't want their reward.
- Come on - It took a long time to figure out how much I'm worth.
And how it has nothing to do with money or anything people can point to.
It's taken you, let's see two months, to make me feel worthless.
Congratulations.
No luck in cracking the code? - Nothing worked.
- Can I ask what you tried? Everything Ms.
Harper told me.
Rebecca's birthday, Social Security number, her favorite color, her blood type.
All those things mixed up and smashed together 50,000 ways using the best password-cracking programs available.
Nothing having to do with Rebecca seems to be the key to opening this account.
I'm sorry.
Yeah.
Well, tell me, is Ms.
Harper still in the office? No, she left as soon as we were finished.
She wasn't happy.
Excuse me.
Hello? No, it's his step-mom.
Who is this? Uh, yeah, I'll come and pick him up.
Thank you.
- Look, tell me what to do.
- OK, drink some water and breathe.
- Breathe? Get me out of this.
- I'm not sure I can, Justin.
It's called a "stop-loss.
" It's a back-door draft.
- Get me out.
- You signed a clause when you enlisted saying they could do this.
You agreed to it.
- I'll say I never got the orders.
- You've signed for the letter.
You can't do anything? There's nothing you can do? That's not the case at all.
We can apply for exemption, but they're giving them to people in school or supporting families.
I'm a bellboy, I go to Baghdad? No.
I'd rather take my chances in Mexico or Canada! No! First of all, the Canadians will turn you around at the border.
Second, Mexico? You're looking at 25 years in jail.
If they come after! If they find me.
They will.
They're going after people.
- I'll take my chances.
- Please don't Don't what? Don't what? I can't watch any more people die! - I'm not going back! - I un I totally understand, but I'm saying this as your lawyer: Not going back is a felony.
I don't care.
I'm going to Mexico.
Justin! - This is so healthy! - What exactly is in there? Wheatgrass, psyllium, flaxseed oil, protein powder.
I asked for a banana smoothie and you're brewing some swamp creature.
- It's chunky.
- You're gonna thank me when you're my age and you have all your faculties intact! Why are you so peppy this morning? Can I ask you something? - It's a dating question.
- Aha.
Aha.
I see.
I see the light.
OK, go for it, Yogini.
All right.
I have a date tonight with David Morton.
Yes, he is a date.
And I was wondering if you thought it was too soon.
- Too soon for what, exactly? - I don't know.
Lf If If we were to become attached or a regular thing.
I know the recent revelations have not left much of your father's memory to be careful about, but there might be a few husks around.
Well, if there were, I'm sure that they're in the smoothie.
Don't have sex with him the first time out.
Just my advice.
Kitty, I do not require a lesson in sexual propriety from someone who conducts her personal life as if she were a French game show.
I I just don't want to shock my children too much.
Mother, if you were to meet someone, anyone If you, um met someone, you know, anyone, even a street person, even, upon whom you could regularly, uh, unleash your enthusiasm and your poopy-emerald smoothies, I think there is nobody in this family who's going to complain.
Here, drink this.
It might make you nice.
- Just leave me alone.
- Gabe, what did he say? - None of your business! - It is.
I had to leave work to get you out of school.
Tell me what set you off.
People don't just punch each other in the face - in the middle of a soccer game.
- Nothing! It was stupid! OK, fine, so it's stupid.
Tell me what he said.
- Why do you even want to know? - Because you're part of this family.
I'm not part of anyone's family.
There, see? That was easy.
Busy schedule just opened up.
Damn it! I don't think you get it! I don't want to ever see you again! You or any member of William's family! - It's not what you think! - You don't know what I think.
How could you? You're so focused on your family and your precious money.
Well, I don't know where your money is! - I know! - Why did I have to sit through all that humiliation? God, I feel like an idiot.
- Why? - Because here you are, sniffing around, looking for clues.
And I was actually beginning to fall for you.
- I've already fallen for you.
- No.
No, see, no more lies! This is not a lie, Holly.
Please, listen.
It started way before the money went missing, before William died.
And believe me when I say this: I'm on your side.
- No, I - Holly.
I am.
- Does Mom know yet? - No.
I haven't told her yet because - There might be a way to get him out? - No, no.
Because I don't know how to tell her yet.
I don't want to tell anyone yet.
Kitty, you have to talk to him.
Tell him what? Tell him to go away and fight in a war where he'll probably die or come back in pieces? If he goes through with this Mexico idea of his, - he'll go to jail! - I'm not sure that wouldn't be better.
- Safer, at least.
- Five minutes! Fine, but you'll go up there and say it's a good war, right? I have never I have never once in my entire life said that this war is good! Kevin, no war is good, but some wars are necessary.
And when this one started, it was.
I believe that.
And whether it's necessary now or even moral, I don't know.
But at this point, it's world history and it's happening.
Mom already blames me for sending him away to die once before and that fight nearly cost me my entire family, and I won't do it again.
Not to me and I won't do it to him.
- I have to go.
- OK, Kitty, I understand, - but will you please just talk to him? - Well, yeah.
Yeah, I'll talk to him.
But I'm not gonna tell him what to do.
It's been a while, Mr.
Walker.
Yeah.
Yeah.
- How's Fawn? - Uh, we, uh we actually broke up.
Oh That sucks.
What do you need? Uh, the usual.
Thank you.
- Yeah.
Shawn? - Yeah.
If I wanted to get, like, a, uh - If I wanted to get a passport - You go to the Post Office.
No, I mean, like, a a fake one.
All I got to do is get into Mexico and not be me.
I can get you one.
The money's gonna be, uh money.
I'm not worried.
Get me a freaking passport.
- OK.
- All right? Thanks.
I'll be in touch.
I really like this place.
Yeah.
It's a little stuffy, but, uh, the people are nice and they can cook.
- That's what matters.
- Yep.
- You're missing your husband.
- Yes.
- Do you ever miss, um? - Cheryl.
- Cheryl.
- Yeah, sometimes.
- What happened? - Tell you the truth, I'm not really sure.
I waited a long time to get married because - I'm not sure of that.
- You were playing the field.
Not much, actually.
I just never met the right person.
That person who makes you feel like you'd better hurry up.
Like there's never gonna be enough time.
William made me feel like that.
It's been its own perfect hell finding out about all his betrayals, but when it was good he made me feel like this whole world, like this whole big beautiful world was lucky to have me.
Little me.
- Some trick, huh? - Not at all.
Sometimes it hurts so much to remember.
I think it would hurt even worse to forget.
Oh, it's been the longest four days of my life.
Mom, hi! I'm home.
Hi! - You're all home.
Thank God.
Thank God.
- It's OK.
It's OK.
It's OK.
- Hi, Daddy! - Hello.
- Thank God you're home.
- Oh.
Yeah.
Do you know how much I love you? Oh, babe! - Do you know? - I do, I do.
I love you too.
- Hi, honey.
- Hi.
I'm good.
How was it.
The flight? Nobody got up, nobody said anything, not a word for six hours.
Silence across America.
- That's hard to imagine.
- Hey! Yeah, the plane was really very empty and the I don't know, maybe there were, like, six of us or And somebody said to the flight attendant, "We're here for you," and she started crying.
It was weird.
Just all It flew right over my building.
I was having coffee.
A roar.
I look up, a shadow passes.
And not even two seconds later, the sound when it hit.
You want a drink? I don't even remember much when it actually happened.
A few hours after, I I was trying to get off the phone with Mom and Dad and I kept saying, "Oh, please.
Please just let me go.
" They wouldn't let me and they kept saying, "You're safer inside," and I kept saying, "Please, just let me go.
People are jumping.
" Because I could see them, you know, from my window.
And Mom, Mom said, "No.
It's paper not people.
" You know, 'cause, of course, she couldn't see it.
You know, because they weren't showing that on TV.
It'll be OK.
There's these three hours, these three hours that I just I've just I've lost I And to walk uptown, to walk up Hudson Street.
And Oh.
Oh.
Everybody is covered in ash, and I'm thinking to myself, "My God, what is that? Why Why are they all covered in white?" I just I didn't I couldn't get it.
And then, you know, you see these people, they're crying like kids, and and they're all The people just They're going downtown.
They're going against the crowd.
They're going downtown because, you know, they're going downtown because someone they know is missing.
And And I I'm thinking to myself, "My God.
My God, I'm so lucky.
- I'm so I'm fine.
" - Well, you are.
You're home now.
- I don't know if I can go back.
- To New York? To anywhere.
To all of it.
To life.
I just don't think that I could live in a world where that could happen again every day, Justin.
I'm so scared! I I'm so scared! I thought I was never gonna see you guys again.
- I really thought that I was never - Shh.
Shh.
You're home now.
- Justin.
- Hang on a second.
- Justin! - Hang on a second! Hey! I'm fine.
I'm fine.
I didn't ask how you were.
Uh How was work? You look beat.
I thought you weren't gonna do this.
Everybody who stops thinks that.
It's just what you say.
I'm all good.
Hey.
Uh, that's Fawn.
Um She was just having a bad day.
Yeah.
It's been going around.
- Look, Tyler.
- I never want to see you again.
- Well, I guess that means I'm fired.
- Yeah, that means you're fired.
Who's that? Just some girl.
You guys were a thing? Get out.
- What did I do? - You didn't do anything.
- What about Acapulco? - Are you deaf? I said get out! Look, please just get out.
OK.
Gabe? - Can I have a word? - Sure.
It's your house.
Listen, I've been thinking a lot about what you said about not feeling like you're part of anyone's family, especially this one.
- Yeah? - We haven't done a good job lately of including you in stuff.
For that I am really sorry.
- It's all right.
- No, it's not.
But the point is, and I mean this with all my heart, I might not be your mom, Gabe, but you are my son.
When I look back, at the end of my life, at all the things I've done, all the good and all the bad, I know I will be able to say, "At least I had three great kids.
" - Yeah? - Yeah.
That kid called me a fag.
I think he just wanted me to get tossed out, but I don't know.
- I guess I shouldn't have hit him.
- No.
He wasn't worth it.
But I'm glad you told me.
- Hey, Sarah? - Hmm? Um What's the deal with those, uh, plates that Cooper and Paige have? - The ones with their initials on them? - Oh.
That was my dad's thing.
When we were little, my brothers and sisters and I, Dad got tired of he and Mom having to do so many dishes after every meal, not that he was ever home to do the dishes.
So he wanted our plates to be our responsibility.
So he had us make some and write our initials on them.
He did Paige and Cooper's with them last year.
Oh.
Damn.
You lying bitch.
Oh, my God.
Ow.
Ow! Ow.
Ow.
What the hell? Ouch.
- Hello.
- Hi.
- Just getting in from your date? - Oh, no, no, no.
I was out doing some early morning shopping.
- Really? - Yes, I We needed eggs and rice - and stuff like that.
- Staples.
That's nice.
Where are they? I really don't feel like being interrogated right now.
Just back from your date.
The one that wasn't supposed to shock your children? Ugh, I'm shocked.
All right, it happened.
I slept with him.
You want me to feel ashamed? Is that my only choice? - What's wrong with your foot? - Ouch.
I don't know.
I stepped on some little piece of glass, I guess.
Did somebody break something last night? I've always told you kids, glass jumps.
It could be from years ago or all the way across the house.
- Ouch.
- It's impossible stuff.
And what are you doing up so early? It's barely dawn.
Justin got a notice from the Army.
Yesterday.
He has to go back into active duty.
They want him to report in two weeks.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Is he all right? Where is he? I'm assuming he's at his place.
I'm going there.
To tell him to go get himself killed in this war? No! I'm just gonna tell him I'm here for him, and I'm just gonna tell him that we're all here for him.
Don't He's got some crazy idea.
He told Kevin if he goes to Mexico I don't know.
- He'll go to jail.
- If they catch him, he will go to jail.
- I'm going with you.
- Good, I wish you would.
- I want to know what you're hiding.
- I am not hiding anything.
And you cannot come in here to my house and talk like that.
But you can condemn my family to bankruptcy and worse to stop the truth about your life, but I can't call you names? - Are you kidding me? - What do you know or think you know I know that Rebecca is my father's daughter.
She's not.
Then why did adding her initials to ours unlock the accounts I have been trying to open for months? - Your father was mistaken.
- No, he wasn't.
You know why? I figured it out.
The only reason that you would work so hard at keeping this from coming out when the stakes are so high is that you haven't told her either.
Sarah? - Oh.
- Sarah.
Don't say a word.
I got pregnant.
We had always been really careful.
I still don't even know how it happened.
I knew your father well enough to know that if he knew I was having his child, he he would be compelled to leave you all and I couldn't have that.
I told him it was someone else's.
A director on a movie.
A one-night stand.
But I never asked him for anything.
Not a cent, not a favor.
And Rebecca had to live her whole life thinking her father was a nobody, a mistake.
But it kept you from losing him.
And it kept me with a man who still thought, in his own way, that he was a hero.
Because he never would've forgiven himself for leaving you.
Or deserting his daughter.
And I don't know how I'm going to tell her that I've been lying all these years.
I can't.
I don't care what you do.
Just stay the hell away from my family.
You've got a decision to make, old man.
Hi, uh, Scotty.
It's, um It's Kevin, your your least favorite Martian.
Look, I've been on your planet for 34 years, and I still get a lot of things wrong.
Like about, um, money and work and people and life and love Everything.
Anyway, I just wanted you to know I think you're amazing and funny and cute as hell, and I just hope that someday, maybe, I don't know, three Martian years from now Our years are longer than yours.
Maybe I could be worthy of your human love and respect, whether we're together or not.
That's all.
- Hi.
- Hi.
Please tell me this is the part where you let me off the hook.
It's not.
OK.
This is the part where I say thank you.
And, um could you please send me the check? I already did.
OK, then.
Bye.
- Jus? - Justin? - Justin? - Hey.
He's sleeping.
Hey.
Hey, Jus, wake up.
Come on.
Justin.
- Justin, wake up! - Justin? - Kitty, call 911.
- I'm doing it.
- Justin, wake up! - This is all my fault.
- It's his own fault, Mom.
- No, it's my fault.
- What does that mean? - Tommy, I just know it.
- We need an ambulance right away.
- Justin? Justin! Oh! Justin, please! Wake up, wake up, wake up, Justin! Oh, Justin! Just like that, we bomb them.
Now.
Back to the Stone Age.
- It's not that simple.
- Stop! No, Tommy's making his point.
Millions in Afghanistan are not terrorists.
They're innocent people.
Every human in the towers was innocent.
Carl Letteier's son is in one of those buildings.
We know people.
Yes, I know, William.
I know.
I don't think we should launch an out-and-out war.
We're at war! We just haven't started fighting back.
You know, I would like some wine.
Please? Sure.
Thanks.
You know, it's just that And, you know, to eat Just five minutes without Yeah, yeah, she's right.
Let's just, uh, stop.
The world outside this house, we can't control.
Not with bombs, not with diplomacy, and not even with love.
We know that now.
Best thing we can possibly do now is just appreciate one another.
Right here, right now.
Together, like this.
Family is the only sure thing in life.
Always was, always will be.
Could we maybe pray? Yes, we should.
Certainly is the circumstances for it.
Thank you.
Thank you, God, for bringing us together tonight in very difficult circumstances.
Please don't die.
Thank you for the blessings we have, our family, our friends.
And Lord, if you're up there, please look after and comfort the souls that perished in those planes and in those buildings and their families tonight.
We're in your hands, Lord.
- Help us.
Amen.
- Amen.
- Eat something.
- OK.
Guys? What? You want to say something? I do, um Look, I love you guys more than anything in the whole world.
And I've been doing a lot of thinking over the past few days.
I can't just sit here and let these people tear apart my family like this.
I mean, God, Kitty, they almost killed you.
No.
Justin, I'm fine.
I'm here now.
It's OK.
I know.
OK? But the same thing could happen tomorrow, or they could do something even worse.
It's just not right.
Justin, what's the matter? Nothing's the matter.
I enlisted today.