October Road (2007) s02e01 Episode Script

Previously on October Road I wanna see you.
Really see you.
Will you let me do that? Do you ever think that maybe you're my dad? I have no home.
My Alison and Ikey have been together.
How could you? He was your best friend? He grabbed a case of whiskey and then he left.
- Bring him back to me, Nick.
- I hear you're going after Owen.
- I'm coming with you - I want you guys in my life.
And it's not about whether I'm Sam's father.
What it comes down to-- we all fall in love sometimes.
Nick told you he wanted to be with you? That you were "the one"? After all these years? And what did you say? What did you say? Nothing.
You said nothing? Ten years later he tells you he wants to be with you, that you were "the one.
" You say nothing? - You're right.
- So what are you waiting for? Attagirl! Nick? What goes on, Hannah? Hannah? I think about you everything you said I've waited so long to hear you say it.
So we can try? I mean - for real this time? - Yes.
I just need to know one thing.
You have to promise me one thing, Nick.
What? That you'll stay.
You won't leave.
I can't handle it again.
Tell me.
Ma.
Ma.
Mom.
You should come inside.
It's getting cold out here.
Yeah, thanks, buddy.
Boy, did I conk out.
- I hope Nick's okay.
- What do you mean? He seemed pretty upset when he left here.
Oh, I'm sure he's fine.
He's gone, you know.
He's gone? Where? To New York.
I saw Ronnie before.
- Nick went to New York with Eddie.
- With Eddie? He said they went to get Owen.
New York.
Hey, Brett.
It's Nick Garrett again.
Uh, listen, your brother's still not picking up his cell, so can you just call us back on this number if you're with him? We're both really worried about Owen, all right, man? Good-bye.
Let's just go back to my place till we hear from them.
You don't really think that Owen would leave his kids and move here, do you? Although big boy Brett is very persuasive.
Is that why you stayed? What do you mean? Oh, nothing.
It's just that maybe being here, I'll find out why it is you didn't come home all these years just why it is you stayed in New York City.
- Is that why you stayed? - Still not funny.
You know, I-I gotta say, it doesn't surprise me that you knew all along that Ikey was sleeping with Alison, because that's what you do, Nicky.
- You meddle.
- I did the exact opposite of meddle.
- I stayed out of it.
- You stayed out of it? How? - How did you stay out of it? - I told Ikey not to say anything.
I just-- I told him to keep it in the Vault.
Oh, right.
That's your idea of staying out of it, huh? In a way.
I mean, you always did it, even in high school.
You really oughta learn to mind your own business, man.
Ikey told me about him and Alison, okay? - I was burdened with the information.
- You just gotta learn, Nicky.
Keep out of other people's kitchens.
Here's my building.
Just park.
You want some? You got some.
- Move along, Big Cat.
- Listen, Davy boy, I came to apologize for blowing up your spot.
All right? I did what I had to do.
Look, I never thought there'd be this much collateral damage.
What you did-- telling Owen about me and his wife just to get back at Nick Garrett-- you didn't just blow things up.
You scorched the earth.
A little overstated, don't you think? - Flare for the dramatic, do ya? - No, Big Cat.
No, I don't.
But let's look at the results.
You don't got Hannah.
Owen don't got his family.
I don't got no friends and no job.
All right, well, the job I can help you with.
How do you figure? Cataldo builders will pay you more in a week than you would've made in a month at Latekka Landscaping.
Oh not in a million years, dude! If we lived in a world where you could only do one of two things-- either work for you or eat meals marinated in maggots guess which I'd do? - Eat maggots? - Hell, no! What am I, a freak? I'd work for you.
The thing is, Big Cat, we don't live in that world.
Thanks for the beer.
Maybe I should write a book that takes a mp on all my old friends.
- Maybe you should read a book first.
- I read books.
Reprinted lyrics on Jethro Tull cds aren't books, Eddie.
I'm just saying, look at this place.
Getting into other people's kitchens has been good to you.
Speaking of kitchens, look at yours.
You could braise a brontosaurus in here.
Look at this island.
Nantucket is a smaller island.
How much longer you gonna resent me, Eddie? I don't resent you, Nick.
I just don't understand why you gotta make things so complicated all the time.
Nicholson? I thought you were never coming back.
Wait.
Don't tell me.
This is why you stayed.
Eddie, Amiquay.
Amiquay, Eddie.
Hello! So what's going on? Are you back for good? No, we're just here to rescue a friend from the clutches of his demented brother.
- What's with the sax? - I'm gonna take it up.
Remember that homeless guy on Wooster-- Mr.
Butch? - Yeah.
- He said I should.
Why? Well, he said the only thing missing from my life was a horn.
That's pretty good.
Amiquay is house-sitting.
She's my buddy Keith's girlfriend.
Keith's a photographer.
He's on assignment in South America? I don't think he's ever coming home.
Which is where the sax comes in.
What do you mean? Well, um how else are you supposed to play the blues? Eddie Okay, I'm gonna crash.
Tomorrow we find Owen Rowan.
Eddie, would you like me to show you to your room? I, uh, have to make a couple calls.
I'll, uh, I'll find it.
- Okay.
- Is anyone hungry? - Uh, no, we just ate.
- I am starvin'.
Well, I made paella with mussels, clams and calamari.
- I can heat it up.
- Oh, no, that's okay.
I actually, uh, I like my paella cold.
- You like your paella cold? - Yeah.
- Do you even know what paella is? - Not a clue.
But I know it has mussels, clams and calamari.
- That is my friend's girl.
- Lucky friend.
Thank you.
Wow! That looks great.
- I hope you're hungry.
- Oh, that smells good.
I got it fresh.
A little place I know in Chinatown.
Good night.
- Night, buddy.
- Night, Nick.
- Mmm, that looks good.
- Cheers.
It was just a dream.
I don't think you need to read that much into it.
It was just so real.
I once had a dream I was eating a 10-pound marshmallow, - and when I woke up - The pillow was gone.
Yeah.
How'd you know? I'm sure the dream was a result of Nick's dramatic proclamation on your porch.
And whether you want to admit it or not, lady, you've been waiting a long time to hear it.
I know, it was shocking and upsetting but also it was unbelievably exciting.
But you gotta love "unbelievably exciting," right? So says the girl who kissed Eddie Latekka.
So says.
And where's Eddie Latekka now? In New York city, no doubt meeting models and C.
I.
A.
operatives and beautiful animal rights activists with belly rings.
Maybe we're entering our reckless phase.
I, for one, am overdue for a phase change.
I vote either reckless, or we become gypsies.
- Gypsies? - Gypsies.
Bangles, pantaloons, tin spoons, tambourines.
Werewolves.
There's Alison.
We should say hi.
Poor thing.
Poor thing? She was sleeping with her husband's best friend.
Yeah-- Ikey, hence, poor thing.
Come on.
Hey, Alison.
- Hello.
- How's it goin'? Scarlet letter notwithstanding? - We heard.
- I'm sure you did.
Everyone has.
Mr.
Cheevers in the produce department just told me that the Dancy tangerines are in season and that I am an epic slut.
So I'll tell you, everything being a learning experience? There's nothing better than reliable.
The price of a little danger, a little excitement-- it's far too high, you know, and for what? A little heat and friction and getting to pretend you're someone you're not no way, girls.
Take it from me.
You wanna live dangerously? Go buy the "extra fuego" salsa instead of the mild.
Leave it at that.
So I'll see ya.
- Bye.
- See ya.
You know, I was thinking, maybe we should return this space to its former self.
Its former self as in Nick's bedroom? It'd be a nice gesture, when he gets back from New York.
Yeah, so's he doesn't have to sleep on the pullout couch off the kitchen, and, uh, have a sense of, um home.
I like the way you think.
- Yeah? - I like it a lot.
Hey, it's Eddie.
We're trying to track down Owen.
You got a cell number for his brother, Big Boy Brett? I had the best sleep of my life.
What's with those sheets? All right, well, just call me if you do, okay? He's in a bad way.
- Yeah, yeah, Syboy would know.
- Yeah, yeah, I know.
- Who wouldn't be? - All right.
- Egyptian cotton.
- Thank you.
High thread count.
- What do Egyptians know about cotton? - Hey, Jeremy, it's, uh, Nick Garrett.
I don't know.
Maybe it's on account of the whole mummy thing.
Have you heard from Owen Rowan? Hey, what happened with you and Amiquay? - That's none of your business.
- Yeah, well, I think it is.
Did you do more than eat paella last night? Syboy.
Eddie Latekka.
Hey, you meddling again? Sorry.
Um, well, just, uh, call me back if you do.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a good idea.
Baggo might know.
Good thinking, Syboy.
Thank you.
God, I remember that winter.
God, it snowed.
Yeah, we plowed a lot of driveways, huh? You were good with a shovel, Nicky.
It's funny, huh? It it weren't for these mooks, you wouldn't be living here in this 5,000-square-foot loft with a beautiful girl, egyptian cotton sheets and not a care in the world.
Excuse me.
Hey, Baggo, it's Eddie Latekka.
Listen, man, you got a cell phone number for Big Boy Brett Rowan? Yeah, we just have a home number.
Oh, you--you do? Okay, hold--hold on.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Great, man.
Oh, wait.
Hey, Baggo, you know how many fancy writer boys it takes to screw in a lightbulb? Nope.
None.
'Cause they have their supermodel roommates do it for 'em.
Later.
We got it.
When are you gonna stop being such a tool? When you stop needing to be fixed.
That's funny.
Did you spend the whole drive here thinking up that one? Brett it's Eddie Latekka.
Is that him-- - the guy that you're looking for? - No, it's his insane brother.
All right.
Well? We're gonna see him tonigh at a place called Rhino Bar.
- Do you know it? - Yeah.
- Did he say how Owen was doin', or - He said Owen's fine and that he's never coming back to Knights Ridge.
What? That's crazy.
How could he not come back to the Ridge? - To his kids? - I have no idea.
Maybe because he's utterly humiliated? Come on.
Think about it.
Everywhere he goes in that small town of yours, people are gonna be pointing at him, talking about him, saying, "that's the guy whose best friend had an affair with his wife and whose other best friend knew about it and didn't say anything.
" I mean, come on.
Who's gonna wanna go back to that? Okay, what's left on the docket? Pharmacy, deli and dry cleaners.
Can I do that? Please, can I do the dry cleaning? Sure.
- Okay, meet me at the sub shop, okay? - All right.
Nick! Nick.
I am so so sorry.
I thought you were someone else.
You look lost, little girl.
You need directions home? How you doing, Ray? Better now.
It's always good to see you, Hannah Jane.
- What have you been up to? - Same old song.
Trying to bring more retail space to the Ridge.
This is my favorite part.
What's that? Oh, you know, uh, building the foundation.
- Ace-man.
- Rocket-man.
Whoa, you guys have a handshake? - Yeah.
- And nicknames.
Wanna put your mitts in the cement before it dries? What for? Uh, it's a custom.
Tradition.
Come on.
Let me show you.
You go right here next to me.
Best part is, once you're done, it's forever.
- For real? - Yeah, for real.
Ready? Go.
Get it, get it, get it.
So awesome.
I got my paw prints in foundations all over this town.
- Now sign it.
- Can we do it again? Best to my memory, that is exactly where he had it.
Good stuff.
So when we see Owen, you take the lead at first.
I'm just gonna lay back in the cut until we get a sense of justow enraged he is with me.
All right.
Sounds like a plan.
Yeah, we're on our way there now.
All right, is Cyrus still working the door? Okay, I'll tell him to keep an eye out for you.
Yes, he is.
Ciao.
Amiquay.
Which, despite her world travel and smoking frame, still doesn't make it right you saying "ciao.
" She made a point of asking if you were gonna be there, and she was real clucked when I told her that you would be.
Which leads us to the 800-pound gorilla riding sidesaddle on the elephant in the room.
Okay.
What exactly went on between you and my buddy's girlfriend? - Oh, you mean, uh, post-paella? - Yeah, I mean post-paella.
You're meddling again.
You tell that to her boyfriend when he finds out.
'Cause if we've learned one thing-- they always find out.
You know, I'm not saying anything to anyone, Nick.
Just living my life.
Look into it.
How do you want it, Eddie? - What? - How do you want it? 'Cause when I put my head down and I stay out of people's way, I'm a bad guy.
And when I get involved-- I'm sorry-- meddle, right? That doesn't fly with you, either, so I'm just gonna pass the baton to you.
Build a better Nick Garrett.
- You have all the answers, right? - I never said that.
You didn't have to.
Well, that wouldn't be the first time you put words in my mouth, would it, Nick? So go on.
Keep going.
What would my altergo, Freddy Venetta, say at a moment like this? I'm not gonna apologize for that stupid book anymore.
No, of course you're not.
What you already did enough of that on your little apology parade coming back to the Ridge, which, I gotta say, was good for no one-- not for me, not for Owen, and, you know, I can't even begin to understand what you're doing to Hannah and Sam.
What do you know about that? Oh, just what we've all known since ten years back-- that you're not the kid's dad.
Gavin goddard is the father.
And you're just hanging around the Ridge, hoping that one day that fact will change.
But it ain't gonna, and let me tell you one more thing I do know, and it sucks to say, Nick, considering where we were ten years ago, but maybe we can't do this.
Maybe too much time has passed.
You got your stuff, and I got what I got.
There's no me and you anymore, man.
We're doing a thing here-- going to bring Owen back, but that is the extent of it.
This isn't a reunion tour.
You copy? Nicholson Garrett-- back in the unbreakable N.
Y.
C.
Where you been, playa? - How you doing, man? - You know, C.
J.
Got back from Croatia.
Edward Albert Latekka! - What's happening, Brett? - Oh, you know.
Burglars always work at night, chacho.
Come here, come here.
Gentlemen, allow me to introduce you to the coolest kid in school.
This is Edward James Latekka.
Eddie, this is Trip.
- How you doing? - This over here is Sonja And, uh, I'm pretty sure this is another Sonja And over there we got Vinnie Scallopini.
- Excuse me.
- Yeah, yeah.
What the hell happened? Elton John throw up on you? I can't believe you came all the way down here.
How you holding up, O.
? It's hard, but you know, my brother always has a way of making things right.
Yeah, I-I can see that.
You know, we're forging a new world order with baby bro.
Owen 2.
0 is ready to go to prototype and move on to mass production.
Yeah, you know, Brett, I I just wanna bring him back home to his kids.
Yeah, well, you know, I want an 11-inch-- oh, nose.
Thank you, sweetheart.
Here you go.
Owen is letting go of the past, and when I'm done with b-bro, he's gonna forget that the words "Knights" and "Ridge" ever went together.
Okay? Cheers.
Somethin' wrong, pop? Well I can't help thinkin', uh, that's a delicate thing, what Nick's done-- moving back home after all these years.
Yeah? So? Well, I only hope that he doesn't think what we've done-- moving his bedroom back and all-- as presumptuous.
What, you think it might scare him off? There's something about home that kept him away.
So what are you thinkin'? I'm thinking let's change it back to a tv room again.
We're fine.
Here, O.
Get that.
Hey, hammer time.
- You doin' all right? - That wasn't luncheon meat.
We washed his mouth out with vodka.
Hit that! Hit that! It's sambuca.
It's herbal.
Nicholson, how's the search and rescue mission going? - Not so good.
- Where's flannel boy? - What goes on with you two? - Why? What did you hear? so did Carl.
Oh, he's fine.
He's wearing that leather coat.
Hi, Eddie.
I really thought it was Nick.
I really did.
I even called out his name.
"Nick?" I was that girl-- the girl calling out the name of the guy who wasn't even there.
I am always that girl when it comes to him.
I get that knot in my stomach.
That sick feeling? Phantom Nicks-- haunting the Ridge.
He wanders back into town ten years later and declares his eternal love, it is so - Much? - Exactly.
- How do I respond to that? - A party.
Noisemakers and funny hats and a banner that reads, "at long last.
" No way.
Because here's the thing-- I didn't order any of this.
The questions and the knots and the sick feeling? Do you know how relieved I was when I realized that I wasn't Nick that I saw in the street? How calming it was to remember that he was most likely in New York looking for Owen? And then when Ray popped out of nowhere, it just it just reminded me of what it felt like.
Of what felt like? - A Nick-Garrett-free Knights Ridge.
- A Nick-Garrett-free Knights Ridge? Yep.
No more sick feeling in my stomach.
Did you ever consider what the source of that sick feeling - in your stomach was, Hannah? - Of course I have.
- Rage.
- Mm-hmm.
Anger fury.
Okay.
- But how about love? - Dude I just paint what I see, kiddo.
Hey, Physical Phil.
What you up to? Just replacing the coaxial with the composite cable to see if I can shake some snow out of the picture.
- Any luck? - Sadly no.
Maybe it's the dish? You want, I should go up roof and fix it for ya? I don't know what to say.
I've been trying to make sense of things-- what I did.
- It's bad, Ikey.
- I know.
No, what you gotta see, Ikey, is this-- my world inside these four walls is pretty small to begin with.
And what you did and what I now have to do-- it only makes my world exponentially smaller.
I'm sorry for all of us.
- But, Phys-- - No, Ikey.
I'd love to be Switzerland here.
But you disregarded the sanctity of the pack.
You violated the code.
And for that, there is no absolution.
Hannah.
Why don't you guys get another round of shots, okay? Thanks.
How you doing, Angel? Good.
Remember when we watched "the deer hunter" on dvd? And you explained how it was about so much more than the Vietnam war? Yeah, of course I do.
And during the pool table scene, we sang along to "can't take my eyes off of you.
" I'd like to watch it with you again some night.
I don't understand.
What's there to understand, Ray? I would like to watch it with you again some night.
How do you wanna live with that guy? No, I'm kidding.
He's got nice hair, though.
So, uh, what goes on with your photographer? Well, Keith and I are on a break.
It was his call, not mine.
Yeah, I don't think that Nick is aware of that the break.
Nick's been on a break of his own lately.
Well, maybe we should get outta here.
Owen! Owen Rowan! Whoa, whoa, where you think you're going, ding-dong daddy? Come on, Brett, I just wanna talk to your brother.
You got nothing to say to him.
No.
Why are you doing this, man? This isn't Owen.
He's not that guy.
He's not you.
You wanna hold this for a second, sweetheart? Judas Iscariot.
You know what that is? Yeah, that's you.
You knew all along, right? And you turned a blind eye.
You know, by my rules, you may as well have been in on the action.
- Oh, don't be ridiculous.
- You know, you were a selfish little turd when you were a kid, Garrett.
And you're a selfish, little turd now! At least I'm consistent.
What say you and I break outta here? I know this little joint down on avenue C where they play dirty sax all night long.
You.
Me.
- Dirty sax all night long? - Yep.
Listen I-I'm gonna do something a bit unexpected right now.
I'm gonna go call a friend.
Excuse me.
Hey.
It's me.
Um we're in N.
Y.
C.
We-- we found Owen, - and we'll be coming back soon.
- So you know what happens now? Yeah.
I'm going back to Knights Ridge and - taking Owen with me.
- No.
Wrong 'em, boyo.
No.
Now is the part where I rear back my fist - Oh, great.
- And I break your nose And security drags us out, and the whole thing gets written up in "page six," and then next saturday night, I come in here and I get my pick of the waitresses in the joint, 'cause I'm the guy that knocked out that jerk that wrote the trendy book.
Now what do you thinkof that, Garrett? I think I pity the waitress.
- What do you say we ease up, Brett? - Hey, Edward Thomas Latekka! You're gonna stick up for this recreant? After all the crap he wrote about you? Need I remind you, dude? - Not really.
- Oh, uh, and I quote-- buh-buh-buh-buh, "Freddy Venetta"-- - That's you-- yeah.
- Yeah.
"Liked to smash things.
He was an animal.
- A blunt instrument.
" - Yeah.
See, the thing of it is, Brett there hasn't been a day go by in the last ten years I didn't wanna punch Nick Garrett square in the face.
But that doesn't mean I'm gonna stand here and let you do it.
What's the matter with you, huh? How come everybody's so forgiving of this kid? I don't know, man.
Maybe it's 'cause he's a hell of a shoveler.
Oh, that's sweet.
Well, you know what? That doesn't work for me.
- Get your hands off of me! - And by the way, he was right.
Freddy Venetta does like to smash things.
All right, Eddie, just let it go, okay? Let's get Owen.
Let's get outta here.
Owen's gone.
I hooked him up with the magic blonde.
They went to her place to start a new life.
Let's go.
Hey, Cyrus, have you seen a big guy? Really ugly shirt? - End of the block.
- All right, thanks, man.
- You have a good night now.
- You, too.
Thank you.
- Oh, there he is.
- Dead man walkin'.
All right.
Guess I'm gonna handle this.
Huh.
Have at it, chief.
What happened to the magic blonde? I put her in a cab.
She was scary.
- Owen? - No, Nick.
No.
Me and you-- no.
So what's the plan, buddy? Well, right now the plan is to eat 25 of these babies.
Alison keeps me on a low sodium diet.
Kept me.
Which makes no sense, 'cause I never put salt on my hot dogs.
How many is that? - 22.
- Look, Owen, I know you think it's gonna be hard coming back home, having to face your problems, people talking about you, but take it from me, the Ridge takes care of its own.
And also take it from me that time spent away from your friends and your family-- that's time you don't get back.
- Owen? - 23.
I was wrong, okay? You know what? I was really, really wrong not to meddle.
'Cause I should've known-- I should've known.
You should've known what? Known that a friend is someone who gets into your kitchen, no matter what.
One more to go.
That's why we're here right now.
Owen Rowan, to meddle is to give a damn.
All done.
What do you wanna do now, pal? I wanna go home and see my babies.
- Hungry ? - Starvin'.
All right, guys, I'll be right back.
- We're staying.
- He'll be back.
Are you leaving? Well, we got what we came for.
What is with him anyway? What? It's just been a long time since I couldn't - seduce a boy.
- Really? - Nothing went on with you two? - Nothing.
So please tell me he's either gay, married or blind.
Oh, he's actually gay, married and blind.
- So don't worry.
- Thank you for that.
So you're going back to Massachusetts? Yeah.
It's for a girl, isn't it? I think so.
Come back when you're ready.
Manhattan and I will leave the light on for you.
- All right.
- Ciao.
I'll do it for him.
Good.
Now take a bite of that.
You got the spicy relish? Hey, how come you had no interest in Amiquay? - Who? - My ridiculously hot friend who wanted Eddie.
But he spurned her.
Come on, Nick.
I wasn't gonna sleep with your buddy's girlfriend.
What, so all this was just to teach me a lesson? Somethin' like that.
He's a complicated kid-- that Eddie Latekka.
Yes, he is.
You have one new message.
Hey, it's me.
We're in N.
Y.
C.
We found Owen, and we'll be back soon.
Anyway, this is your, uh, secret admirer.
Looking forward to picking up where we left off.
See you soon, Janet.
I'll see you soon.
Thanks for bringing me back, guys.
Good luck, chief.
Come on, man.
Come on.
Come on! Thanks, man.
What are you gonna do today? I'm gonna crash and then, um I think I'm gonna go see Hannah.
You should leave 'em alone, Nicky.
What do you mean? Hannah and Sam-- they got a life.
You coming back here, blowing things up.
You should leave 'em alone.
Except for the fact that I think I'm in love with her all over again.
Man, that is good for no one, Nicky.
- It's good for no one at all.
- Yeah, I know, but there it is.
- There it is.
- I'll give you a buzz? I'm around.
- Hey.
- There he is! - So how was your trip? - It was good.
- Did you find Owen? - Yeah, we did.
We did.
But I'm just so beat.
I gotta crash.
Oh, and you know what I was thinking? And, you know, I don't mean to impose, but, you know, since I'm gonna be around, I was thinking maybe it'd be nice if we could put this room back to the way it was.
Maybe? Just thinking out loud.
No, uh no, I, um it's not a bad idea.
Huh, Ronnie? - Not a bad idea.
- Back the way it was? - It's not a bad idea at all.
- Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
Cool.
- Okay, what's going on, guys? - Nothing.
Nothing.
It's just back to the way was.
You I'm not gonna ask.
Good night.
Hey.
Hey, Eddie.
Um, what are you doing here? I just spent the last two days with Nick.
And I know I might be meddling but we have to tell him, Hannah.
You have to.
He deserves to know.