Party of Five s02e06 Episode Script
Analogies
[SIGHS.]
How would you describe that? Really, really Be honest.
Adequate.
Adequate.
Adequate's good, though.
Adequate gets the job done.
Adequate's right up there.
[DOORBELL CHIMES.]
- Who could that be? - It's probably the paperboy.
No, no, no.
Come back here.
Bay'll get it.
We've never gone Yeah, well, we've been busy.
We've been stressed.
I'm never that stressed.
Okay.
I'm gonna make up for a little lost time here.
Try to get that pleasure barometer back up over adequate.
Kirsten, could you come down here? In a minute! A minute.
Jeez, you know, I'm not 16.
Come on, Charlie.
Bailey's-- Bailey can wait.
Okay? [BOTH GIGGLE.]
Doesn't this worry you? The fact that we, like-- Lately, we-- God, werecycle more often than we make love.
That's not true.
Kirsten! Oh, Charlie Kirsten.
Bailey, I'm coming.
God, Bailey, what is it? Mom? Dad? [SIGHS.]
[THE BODEANS' "CLOSER TO FREE" PLAYING.]
Everybody wants to live Like they wanna live And everybody wants to love Like they wanna love And everybody wants to be Closer to free-ee-ee Closer to free [DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE.]
You couldn't have, like-- I don't know, like, maybe called.
DAD: Ha-ha, if we had, you would have pretended you weren't still mad at us and told us not to come.
And after that dreadful wedding gown debacle.
I don't know if Kirs told you, but she and I had a to-do about the dress.
Nope.
Didn't say a word.
Not a word.
Really.
We wanted to make sure that's water under the bridge so that when you walk down the aisle on your wedding day, you are not still angry at me for insisting that only a very small percentage of the female population can carry off flounce.
Decaf? Um, actually, no.
Oh, Gene, Gene! It's not decaf.
SoEllie, Gene, what's the plan? You guys gonna stay for a while? Or just the weekend? Well, we're certainly not gonna expect you to drop everything to entertain us.
In fact, if we could grab a few hours, I was kind of hoping to take your mother up to Napa on one of those winetasting tours.
Gene we talked on the plane about the winetasting.
The whole point of coming here was to spend time with you.
Now, I wanna hear every single detail about the wedding.
We could rent clubs, play a little golf.
Sure.
Oh.
And we're staying in a hotel.
Really.
We insist.
[BELL RINGS.]
Did you bring the shoes we're gonna wear to the wedding, so she can do our hems? Got 'em.
-Hey.
- What's he doing here? He's gonna drive us.
I thought you said we were gonna take the bus.
Yeah, well, the bus takes forever, and Griffin's got a car, so I thought he had a motorcycle.
So what did you do? Steal this? Claudia! GRIFFIN: No.
Actually, this is my dad's car.
You said it was just gonna be the two of us.
Oh, for crying out loud, Claud.
He's just trying to be nice.
Now, listen, the dressmaker is expecting us in 20 minutes.
So just get in the car.
No! I said get in the car, Claudia! I'm sorry about that.
[LAUGHS NERVOUSLY.]
It's all right.
Do it.
Do it.
Do it.
Do it.
Shut up, Will.
Listen, Bay, Claud's being a pain.
And someone's gotta take her to the dressmaker.
Oh, my God.
You got your SAT scores.
BOTH: Well? Nine hundred.
Yes.
Five bucks.
Come on.
WILL: Nine hundred flat? It's 900 flat? Yeah.
Damn! Eat my dust, McCorkle.
Fork it over.
I was positive you'd get 950.
What are you doing? Check the verbal, will you? Four forty-five.
Oh Yes! I can't believe you-- Come on! You bet on how bad I would do? BOTH: Yeah.
Wow.
It's no big deal, Bay.
All you need to get into S.
F.
is to sign your name.
You have a 500-point cushion.
You're scholarship material at S.
F.
You're lucky you don't have to sweat any of this college stuff.
Right.
Do you mind? I have to watch a documentary on our vanishing wilderness, and it starts in two minutes.
Socan you please? What's going on? He's interrupting.
Homework.
Well, why don't we watch it together.
Yeah, right.
Claudia! I'll watch upstairs.
Hey.
Hey! I, uh I got you something.
It's a-- It's a bracelet.
Well, it's a weird piece of metal I found.
And I don't know, I thought you would think it was kind of cool.
I don't wear bracelets.
Thanks.
Claudia! Oh, forget it.
I will not.
Claudia, get back here! Let go of me! What is your problem? He's trying to be nice to you.
Why can't you be nice to him? 'Cause I don't like him.
I like Justin.
And it's my house, so I can be nice to whoever I want.
I am sick of you being like this.
No one asked if you liked Griffin or Justin.
It's none of your business who I go out with.
Fine.
Claudia, you think you're grown up.
You think you're smarter than everyone else.
But you're not.
You're a brat.
You know that? You're a 12-year-old brat.
KIRSTEN: It's no bother at all.
Right, Charlie? No.
No bother at all.
Right, Jule? Not at all.
I love sleeping on the sofa.
Listen, we're so sorry about today.
But you know how impossible it is to agree on one thing to do.
Mother, please.
Charlie and I see each other all the time.
Anyway, it was fun splitting up and each taking one of you.
Right, Charlie? Fun.
Huh.
Oh, dear.
What? Ohnothing.
Ha-ha, I just didn't even think to ask.
CHARLIE: What's wrong? It's just that there'sonly one of them.
One bed? You guys sleep in--? You knew that.
Oh, well, it's the only way either one of us can get any sleep.
Your father just rolls around like he's on the deck of the Titanic.
Your mother's a very polite sleeper.
I guess one of you could stay in Jule's room.
Nonsense.
Nonsense.
We just won't make a fuss, Gene.
Fine.
This is fine.
Fine.
Separate beds.
My parents sleep in separate beds.
It's like some crummy sitcom from the '50s.
God, do you think they don't, you know, do it anymore? They must.
No one just stops doing it altogether.
I mean, they must still do it sometimes, don't you think, Charlie? I'm trying very hard not to think about it.
Charliestop.
I'm way too hot.
That's kind of the point.
Charliecan you turn around, please? You're breathing down my neck.
Yeah.
[KIRSTEN SIGHS.]
KIRSTEN: Separate beds.
Can you believe it? Starting to.
ELLIE: Oh, now, how about this one? Wang Ping's on Grant.
"Scallion pancakes to die for.
" Five stars.
Oh, no, the dim sum's on Saturday only.
Now that won't work.
Because Saturday, I thought we'd go to Sausalito, maybe drive to Mill Valley, do some shopping.
Then there's this restaurant I read about in Sonoma.
Which means, if we're gonna do Chinese, today is the day.
Aren't you coming? KIRSTEN: No, you guys go ahead.
Why don't we just find some great local joint that isn't overrun with tourists.
Sounds good to me.
Hey, remind me to send you all our Mexico guidebooks before you take your honeymoon.
Ellen's got a whole shelf.
All the good places circled.
I kind of wish we were going someplace a little further away.
We really wanna go to Europe one day.
Maybe when Owen's a little older.
Don't just talk about it.
You gotta set a date, Charlie.
Even if it's years away.
Otherwise, I don't know, it just kind of gets away from you.
March, '96.
That's my date.
[HITS GOLF BALL.]
Employees of the good old Severson Insurance Company are gonna give me a gold watch and a cake.
I'm gonna clean out my desk.
And then we are off.
Ha-ha.
Off where? You follow baseball, Charlie? I wanna see a game in every major-league park in America.
We're gonna do it.
Really? Yeah.
Ha-ha.
That sounds great.
Oh, we'll have a general plan, sure.
A vague sense of the route, absolutely, but no schedule.
W-we'll just see where the road takes us.
Absolutely.
Detours.
Detours are where it's at.
You're a man after my own heart, Charlie.
[CHUCKLES.]
You're away, kiddo.
Ms.
Beaton? Huh? E-I or I-E? Does that--? Doesn't that look wrong to you? I keep having this recurring nightmare where the Board of Education finds out I can't spell worth a damn and yanks my license.
BAILEY: Um I need your signature.
On? You're transferring? Into wood shop.
It was the only elective that had a few open spaces.
I got a 900.
Total.
Well, that'sdisappointing.
Yeah, butlet's be honest, not a total shock.
Probably about how well you'd expect me to do.
So I'm just gonna apply to State and get it over with.
Stop torturing myself applying to all these Eastern schools.
Okay, well, that'sgood to know.
What's good to know? That that's your thinking.
Because the worst thing is investing in someone who's gonna split at the first sign of trouble.
Lesson I took from my sordid love life.
Look, it's-- It's nothing personal or anything.
I meanyou're a really good teacher.
Oh, I know that.
No, I know I'm a good teacher.
I-I'm a great teacher.
I can just be a really bad judge of character sometimes.
I mean, a student laughs at some dumb joke of mine or does a "yes!" when they get a question right, and I think, "Aha, they're mine.
" And I thought I had you, Bailey, but you got away.
Maybe it was the wontons.
It wasn't the wontons.
Could have been the Peking duck.
It wasn't the Peking duck.
Maybe it was thatbeige stuff.
Oh, look, it wasn't the beige stuff, okay? The beige stuff is their specialty.
The beige stuff was delicious.
We all had four helpings of the beige stuff, and you don't see the three of us in the toilet for 30 minutes! You know what a sensitive stomach your mother has.
Come on, Dad! Let's not pretend we don't know what's happening.
This is her revenge for letting you pick the restaurant.
Well, I'm worried.
She's been in there too long.
Since you refuse to look in on her, I just hope she didn't faint.
You know what this means, don't you? We shouldn't bother taking the leftovers home? The Dee Young exhibit starts at 3.
We're never gonna make it in time.
And plus, she's not gonna wanna schlep all the way to Chez Panisse for dinner after this.
[SIGHS.]
Okay.
Okay, here's what we do.
We get a dinner reservation at Kuleto's for 9:00.
If we leave in 15, provided she's not dead, we hop a cable car down to the wharf, check out Ghirardelli, go back home, nap a couple of hours before we head out to dinner.
What do you think? What do I think? Feeling much better now.
I think you sound exactly like your mother.
[WHISPERS.]
What? GENE: She's fine.
Not to worry.
What's that mean? I am so sorry.
You know, they had the loveliest mural in that ladies' room.
[JULIA GIGGLING.]
JULIA: You know, we're not gonna be quiet.
So if that's what this is about, you should go work somewhere else.
Do you know anything about radios? No.
I mean Griffin.
We have this school project to do something scientific, so I bought one of those radio kits.
Yeah, I got that.
But I only have one good hand, and two hands are kind of the bare minimum you need for radio building.
So I was wondering Yup.
You got it hooked up all wrong.
What? Look, Justin and I were friends.
That's all.
I mean, that's-- That's the only reason You know Oh.
Okay.
I'm sort of an acquired taste anyway.
Oh, yeah? That's what people say about me too.
Is that right? [BANGING.]
I'm kicking my car.
[KICKS CAR.]
Better.
What? I was just thinking that I sort of know how that car feels right now.
I wasn't that hard on you.
Anyway, you completely deserved it.
Listen, can I ask you a huge favor? I have strategically locked my keys inside my car.
Can I get a lift? I have an extra set at home, and I'm just through the Presidio.
Hop in.
Thanks.
[.]
A jeep, huh? Maybe I should get one of these, change my image.
I guess.
I was thinking that maybe I should take the SATs again.
Maybe.
Bailey, that's great.
That's great! I had a feeling about you.
I had a feeling you'd come around.
Oh, yeah? Yeah.
We can start prepping tomorrow.
Why don't you come to my place? Your place? Yeah.
I'll make lunch.
We'll make it fun.
I'm really happy about this.
I think you're gonna do great.
I guarantee it.
Well, thanksMs.
Beaton.
Oh, it's Maggie on weekends.
Maggie.
Maggie.
I can't believe it! We did it! Let me tune it in for you.
Oh, this is so cool! [GIGGLES.]
She's cute.
Mm-hmm.
Um, it's been two hours.
Can we? Oh, right, right.
Hey, I gotta go.
Thanks.
You're welcome.
Come on.
Why don't we, uh Why don't we make it a threesome.
Maybe we'll get a pizza or something.
Really? Yeah.
Sure.
No! No.
We're not gonna do that.
GRIFFIN: Why not? JULIA: Because we're not.
Because we have to go to that club and see that band that you wanted to see, that are playing tonight, and you're too young.
Sorry.
Later? Yeah.
KIRSTEN: Okay.
How about that time we made love in the laundry room? I give up.
How about that time? Well, it was pretty spur of the moment, wasn't it? Yeah.
That waslast year.
And, I mean, deciding to get married.
For crying out loud, that's a huge thing! That's-- That's huge! I mean, it's not like we even debated about it.
Where are you going with this? I don't always make plans.
I mean, I was supposed to call about the wedding napkins today.
And you know what? I didn't.
What the hell? Kirsten-- And I listen to you.
I mean, I never roll my eyes when you're telling me something really important or talk about you like you're not even in the room.
Right? Right? Right.
You don't.
You don't ever do that.
And I And I touch you.
All the time, don't I? I mean, she never touches him.
She never looks at him like she really wants him.
And I want you.
I'm nothing like her.
Nothing.
MAGGIE: Okay, you see? You see how you keep wanting to go with the answer that uses the same kind of word? "Ocean, tide, wave, raft.
" Yeah, that's gonna almost always be wrong.
SolikeD? "Temperate is to stormy.
" He's got it.
By George, he's got it.
Okay, this is where we jump around singing "The Rain in Spain.
" My Fair Lady? God, I'm old.
You're not that old.
My guess would be 23, 24 Twenty-four, right? Twenty-five.
Twenty-five.
My brother's 25.
Yikes, you're not gonna try and fix me up with him, are you? With Charlie? No.
No, no, no, no, no.
Anyway he's getting married.
And, besides he's not nearly good enough for you.
[LAUGHS.]
Okay, let's talk sentence completion.
Sentence completion.
Sentence completion.
I'm kind of fried.
Nope.
Nope? Nope.
You're not fried.
We've only been at this three hours.
You're not allowed to even approach fried.
Bailey, you can do this.
It's not impossible.
It's not even very difficult.
It is for me.
No.
You-- You You can't think like that.
See, it's a question of coming at a problem from a new direction.
The key is to not rule anything out because sometimes the last answer in the world you'd expect turns out to be the right one.
[SIGHS.]
Griffin? Yeah.
I got us tickets to the car show at the Cow Palace.
The car show? That sounds right up your alley.
Mm-hmm.
Ha, ha.
This is for him, huh? Yep.
That's cool.
Thanks.
I've never had an ice cream for lunch.
I've never been on a motorcycle, either.
Yeah, well, there's a first time for everything.
After this, I'll take you to the shooting range.
Shooting range? I'm kidding.
Jeez.
Oh.
Hey, you see that guy up there? The one with the racing forms? CLAUDIA: Yeah.
He just got out of jail.
CLAUDIA: What? Ten years in San Quentin.
Killed a man with his bare hands.
You know him? He did, really? He did not.
You were making that up.
Hey, that chick over there with the bad dye job.
She's, uh-- She's breaking up with her boyfriend because Well, see, last night they were doing it, right? And, uh, he called her Sheryl.
Her name's Edith.
[LAUGHS.]
All right.
You try.
Um That guy over there with the gloves.
CLAUDIA: Okay.
Okay, okay, let's see.
He's wearing gloves because Because Well, because he-- Because Tick, tick, tick Because he doesn't want his date to know that he lost his, uh, pointer finger, trying to dig, um a paper clip out of the garbage disposal while it was running.
Excellent.
You get extra points for seriously gruesome.
I'm wearing my bracelet.
Did you see? GRIFFIN: First one to the rock rules.
CLAUDIA: No fair.
You got a head start.
So for the ceremony, we'll just set up chairs in the back yard and we'll put the flowers over the arbor Gene, I gotta show you something.
It's, uh-- It's my dad.
And his dad.
At Ebbets Field.
He was just a kid.
You know, before the Dodgers left.
Ebbets Field.
How about that? Yeah, it just made me think that before they tear down all the great parks, you gotta make that trip of yours.
Oh, what's this? Nothing.
Gene was just telling me about your plan.
You know, to visit every park in the majors.
Every park in the majors? Sounds like fun, Dad.
Doesn't it? Oh, please! [CHUCKLES.]
What? I haven't heard this one yet, dear.
At least it doesn't require us selling the house.
Let's change the subject.
ELLIE: Have you told Charlie about that scheme to buy golf course shares? Your daddy was gonna retire early and become a golf course landlord.
We would have lost thousands if I had not stepped in.
Would you please stop? Why? It's adorable.
I married the original Innocent Man.
[SLAMS COUNTER.]
[.]
[SIGHS.]
I, uh, apologize.
I don't know what's gotten into your father.
I can't stand it.
I can't stand the way you talk to him, the way you criticize and nitpick and belittle! How dare you? How dare you? I love your father.
How? By embarrassing him? Oh, please.
Please! Do you know how many times a year I walk in on a conversation like that? Where your father has told someone that we're gonna sell the house and set out on some new adventure? We're gonna go to Africa or Alaska or visit every battlefield of the Civil War.
And everybody is always onboard, because there's just something about a dreamer.
And then it's my turn to come in and say, "No, dear.
"We are not selling the house.
"We are not going to Alaska, "because you don't make the kind of money to retire like that.
"And besides, you've never been able to make a decision for more than a day ahead.
" So that makes him the good guy and me the bad guy, even with you and your sister.
That's not true.
Always said yes to you.
Yes to the dress.
Yes to the car.
Even when you had too many dresses and we couldn't afford the car.
So he got your love.
But I'm the one who made you responsible.
I I'm sorry, Mom.
About what? That's who we are, your father and I.
That's the bargain we made with each other.
He dreams, and I pull him back down to earth.
I make sure that he has a house to come home to and that there's food on the table and the same program on the television.
Because that is what really makes him happy.
And you know what? I have a feeling it's the same with you and Charlie.
GRIFFIN: Hold on, you little monkey.
There's a few more steps to go.
CLAUDIA: Sixty-nine, 70, 71.
Oh, one more! Seventy-two! GRIFFIN: Oh! You weight a ton.
You were out with her? Oh, Julia, we were playing this game-- Shut up, Claudia.
Do you know what time it is? Do you have any idea how long I've been waiting for you? We had tickets to that stupid car show.
Remember? Oh, man! Right.
Get out of here, Claud.
But he-- Get out of here! See you.
God.
I'm like I am doing somersaults to get your attention.
But it's like everything is more important to you than me.
I mean, you're doing all this stuff to make Claudia happy.
Why can't you do that for me? I mean, why can't you do something for me? I Look, I'm sorry.
Just Can you leave? I want you to leave.
CLAUDIA: Why are you being like this? I mean, at first you wanted me to be nice to him, and now you get so angry any time he wants to do something with me.
What, are? Are you jealous or something? What? That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard, Claudia! Why would I be jealous of you and Griffin? Because.
What, do you have, like, a little crush on him or something? That is so-- Shut up, Jule.
I promise you, he is not interested.
Okay.
The reason he's hanging around with you is because he feels sorry for you, because you have a broken arm, and you have hardly any friends.
That is not a date, Claudia, it's called baby-sitting.
Nine hundred? That's exactly the same.
But if you look, you'll see you did much better on the verbal.
I thought what happened was you got tired-- It's exactly the same.
Bailey-- You see, I-- You should have listened to me.
I can't do this stuff, okay? I'm just not good at it.
I'm Kind of stupid is what I am.
You're not stupid.
You're having trouble with the test.
We've worked on it for one day.
Would you cut it out? You are part of the problem here.
You don't have to lie to me.
I can handle it.
I'll just apply to State, and And that's that.
I wonder what things are like for you at home.
What? I know things have changed.
Things are fine, thanks.
Yeah, I'm sure they are.
You come to school every day.
You're healthy.
You're taken care of.
But nobody holds you accountable, do they, Bailey? I mean, if you screw up, or you fail, or you quit does anyone mind? Does anyone tell you that you can do better? Hi, Gene.
Getting some tips on bathroom placement.
Ellie and I are adding on to the house.
Space for the grandkids.
That's great.
After you get back from all those ballparks, huh? Uh I don't think that's gonna happen.
It's a good idea.
You gotta do it.
Come on! You've been working for what, Charlie, listen.
Every month, National Geographic comes.
I sit in my chair, and I read.
And there's some article about, I don't know, state fairs in America, or floating down the Mekong River.
And in my mind, I sell the house, I cash in my jumbo CD and I'm gone.
[SIGHS.]
A few weeks of daydreaming.
That's That's good enough.
Why? Why does that have to be good enough? I mean, it's not inevitable that you're gonna have to give up on every idea.
So it's a little crazy.
So what? And this one is possible, Gene.
This one you could really do.
This is better.
This is what Ellie wants.
She's right.
Charlie, there are worse things than growing old in the house where your children were born.
Why does it matter to you so much? I don't know.
It just does.
Hey.
You hiding down here? I'm looking for the waffle iron.
Ellie woke up with a craving, bless her heart.
So, um So I was thinking that I don't think I'm gonna take the SATs over again.
How did you do? Nine hundred.
Combined.
I think that's about what I did.
Yeah, so you took it.
Don't put yourself through that stress again, man.
Who needs it? So So that's it? You're not gonna You're not gonna give me a hard time? Nah.
Hey, Char.
When you dropped out of school, did anyone, like, try and talk you out of it? Are you kidding, man? You could hear Dad yelling from across the bridge.
Yeah, I do kind of remember that.
It was like he was He was expecting me to disappoint him.
And dropping out was just one more item on the checklist.
But, Mom, she She knew the Berkeley thing was just about me running scared.
She left me alone for a couple of months.
I don't know how she did it.
Did what? I was gonna re-enroll for the spring semester when the accident happened.
But you knew that, right? Yeah, Mom, she She had that "complete faith" thing going.
Well, you remember.
So, what is this, an apology? No.
It's a necklace.
Man, you're really into this say-it-with-jewelry thing, huh? First Claud, and now me.
It was Jill's.
Oh.
Are you sure you wanna? Yeah.
Yeah, I'm sure.
You know, this was, uh This was, like, the first thing I bought her that wasn't, like, a tambourine or a doll or something.
Put it on? She was, uh She was always following me around when we were kids.
Like, everywhere.
Drove me nuts.
But, uh Then one day I just got used to it.
Like, her being one step behind me all the time.
It was nice.
Like, this one time when I was, like, 14 um, I wore these different-colored socks.
Totally by mistake.
And then she started doing it too.
Like it was cool.
Like Like I was cool.
Go figure, right? [CHUCKLES.]
And at the breakfast table, we, uh We used to play this game called Make Me Laugh.
Claud and I play that.
See it's different with a girlfriend.
That-- That's all I'm saying.
[SNIFFS.]
It's-- With a girlfriend, it's It's just different.
She was my little sister, you know.
So if we push this wall out-- Mm-hm.
--it gives us a family room.
Plus the extra bedroom.
That sounds great.
Yeah.
That's great.
GENE: Yeah, except now we need to find space for another bathroom.
KIRSTEN: Right.
Okay, well, what about here? GENE: Well, we thought of that, but I think that's a bearing wall.
KIRSTEN: Oh.
GENE: Remember bearing walls? KIRSTEN: Yes.
ELLIE: So, what do you think? Can we pull this off for under $50,000? I wouldn't know.
You don't like me much, do you? Come on, Ellie.
You're angry with me.
That's pretty clear.
Think I took something away from him, huh? I promise you, Charlie, he's not giving up half as much as he's getting.
Maybe.
You know, for what it's worth, I completely understand why Kirsten loves you.
It's the same quality I fell in love with in her father.
That feeling of always being just a little bit lost and constantly restless.
Yeah, well, I don't think you understand me at all.
I don't know if Kirsten's told you about my plans-- Charlie.
I know about the restaurant and the house-building and the furniture business.
I'm not lost, okay? I'm justlooking.
It's not the same thing.
I'm just not finished looking yet.
And-- And Kirsten understands that.
I mean, she's looking too.
And when I figure out what I want-- What we want.
--it's gonna be exactly what we want.
It's not gonna have anything to do with settling.
So, I mean you and Gene, you do whatever you need to do.
I just I shouldn't have gotten involved, 'cause it really has nothing to do with me.
[METAL JANGLING.]
What ya doin'? Uh nothing.
I'm just gonna drop my stuff in my tent.
Where are you going? I'm leaving.
I won't bug you, I promise.
You should stay.
Stay.
I'm gonna go.
I've gotta do some homework.
I really don't get it.
Oh, come on, Claud.
Give me a break.
I'm trying to say I'm sorry.
I guess I can get kind of mean when I get jealous.
And I wish I could take back everything I said, but I can't.
So you two should do something together.
You don't have to baby-sit me, you know.
What are you talking about? I just got dumped here.
I'm lucky to have the date.
[EXHALES.]
So, what do you say? You wanna hit the park again? Been there, done that.
Mmm.
Yeah, right.
[DRUMS FINGERS.]
You got a piano.
One hand.
Makes two.
[GRIFFIN PLAYING BASS PART OF "HEART AND SOUL".]
No way! You have the easy part.
Yeah.
Did you have a piano growing up? Yeah.
Yeah, I used to do this all the time.
A long time ago.
[PLAYING BASS PART OF "HEART AND SOUL".]
[PLAYING MELODY PART OF "HEART AND SOUL".]
She's got it.
[LAUGHING.]
Oh, she's got it.
GENE: I'm sure you'll be relieved to know for the wedding weekend, Ellie and I have already booked a room at the Fairmont.
Really, Gene, are you sure? Can I, uh, confirm that reservation for you? [LAUGHS.]
WOMAN [OVER PA.]
: Flight 97 direct to O'Hare is now boarding-- That's you.
What happened to, uh? [SNIFFS.]
Mom, what are you doing? We're gonna see each other in a couple of weeks.
I know.
Now, look, I know we don't always see things the same way, and, uh I am not the easiest person in the world to get along with.
That's okay.
Mom, it's okay.
I love you too.
[SOBS.]
Daddy.
Sweetheart.
We'll call and let you know we got home safe and sound.
Collect.
Only don't-- Accept the charges.
I know, I know.
See? I taught her very well.
Goodbye, Charlie.
Safe flight, Ellie.
[WOMAN MAKING FLIGHT ANNOUNCEMENTS OVER PA.]
[SIGHING.]
Well, that wasn't so bad, was it? Um, hello? Where have you been the last four days? Well, okay.
For the most part, yes, it sucked.
But there were moments.
They're actually happy.
I mean, they don't need anything else.
Just each other.
And I understand that.
I know how that feels.
'Cause everything I want in the world I have right now.
Let's just stay until they take off, okay? Sure.
BAILEY: When someone is gone from your life for a really long time, you start to forget stuff about them.
Like, you forget what their voice sounded like.
Or how they loved you so much and how everything you did was completely okay with them.
And how that meant, in a weird way, that you could actually do amazing things.
I'm not a very good student, and applying to college isn't so easy for me.
So right now, what I am doing is I'm trying very hard to remember my mother's voice.
Because I really need to hear it now.
I'm listening for her to say to me what she always used to say: "Anything is possible, Bailey.
Anything.
" [Music.]
How would you describe that? Really, really Be honest.
Adequate.
Adequate.
Adequate's good, though.
Adequate gets the job done.
Adequate's right up there.
[DOORBELL CHIMES.]
- Who could that be? - It's probably the paperboy.
No, no, no.
Come back here.
Bay'll get it.
We've never gone Yeah, well, we've been busy.
We've been stressed.
I'm never that stressed.
Okay.
I'm gonna make up for a little lost time here.
Try to get that pleasure barometer back up over adequate.
Kirsten, could you come down here? In a minute! A minute.
Jeez, you know, I'm not 16.
Come on, Charlie.
Bailey's-- Bailey can wait.
Okay? [BOTH GIGGLE.]
Doesn't this worry you? The fact that we, like-- Lately, we-- God, werecycle more often than we make love.
That's not true.
Kirsten! Oh, Charlie Kirsten.
Bailey, I'm coming.
God, Bailey, what is it? Mom? Dad? [SIGHS.]
[THE BODEANS' "CLOSER TO FREE" PLAYING.]
Everybody wants to live Like they wanna live And everybody wants to love Like they wanna love And everybody wants to be Closer to free-ee-ee Closer to free [DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE.]
You couldn't have, like-- I don't know, like, maybe called.
DAD: Ha-ha, if we had, you would have pretended you weren't still mad at us and told us not to come.
And after that dreadful wedding gown debacle.
I don't know if Kirs told you, but she and I had a to-do about the dress.
Nope.
Didn't say a word.
Not a word.
Really.
We wanted to make sure that's water under the bridge so that when you walk down the aisle on your wedding day, you are not still angry at me for insisting that only a very small percentage of the female population can carry off flounce.
Decaf? Um, actually, no.
Oh, Gene, Gene! It's not decaf.
SoEllie, Gene, what's the plan? You guys gonna stay for a while? Or just the weekend? Well, we're certainly not gonna expect you to drop everything to entertain us.
In fact, if we could grab a few hours, I was kind of hoping to take your mother up to Napa on one of those winetasting tours.
Gene we talked on the plane about the winetasting.
The whole point of coming here was to spend time with you.
Now, I wanna hear every single detail about the wedding.
We could rent clubs, play a little golf.
Sure.
Oh.
And we're staying in a hotel.
Really.
We insist.
[BELL RINGS.]
Did you bring the shoes we're gonna wear to the wedding, so she can do our hems? Got 'em.
-Hey.
- What's he doing here? He's gonna drive us.
I thought you said we were gonna take the bus.
Yeah, well, the bus takes forever, and Griffin's got a car, so I thought he had a motorcycle.
So what did you do? Steal this? Claudia! GRIFFIN: No.
Actually, this is my dad's car.
You said it was just gonna be the two of us.
Oh, for crying out loud, Claud.
He's just trying to be nice.
Now, listen, the dressmaker is expecting us in 20 minutes.
So just get in the car.
No! I said get in the car, Claudia! I'm sorry about that.
[LAUGHS NERVOUSLY.]
It's all right.
Do it.
Do it.
Do it.
Do it.
Shut up, Will.
Listen, Bay, Claud's being a pain.
And someone's gotta take her to the dressmaker.
Oh, my God.
You got your SAT scores.
BOTH: Well? Nine hundred.
Yes.
Five bucks.
Come on.
WILL: Nine hundred flat? It's 900 flat? Yeah.
Damn! Eat my dust, McCorkle.
Fork it over.
I was positive you'd get 950.
What are you doing? Check the verbal, will you? Four forty-five.
Oh Yes! I can't believe you-- Come on! You bet on how bad I would do? BOTH: Yeah.
Wow.
It's no big deal, Bay.
All you need to get into S.
F.
is to sign your name.
You have a 500-point cushion.
You're scholarship material at S.
F.
You're lucky you don't have to sweat any of this college stuff.
Right.
Do you mind? I have to watch a documentary on our vanishing wilderness, and it starts in two minutes.
Socan you please? What's going on? He's interrupting.
Homework.
Well, why don't we watch it together.
Yeah, right.
Claudia! I'll watch upstairs.
Hey.
Hey! I, uh I got you something.
It's a-- It's a bracelet.
Well, it's a weird piece of metal I found.
And I don't know, I thought you would think it was kind of cool.
I don't wear bracelets.
Thanks.
Claudia! Oh, forget it.
I will not.
Claudia, get back here! Let go of me! What is your problem? He's trying to be nice to you.
Why can't you be nice to him? 'Cause I don't like him.
I like Justin.
And it's my house, so I can be nice to whoever I want.
I am sick of you being like this.
No one asked if you liked Griffin or Justin.
It's none of your business who I go out with.
Fine.
Claudia, you think you're grown up.
You think you're smarter than everyone else.
But you're not.
You're a brat.
You know that? You're a 12-year-old brat.
KIRSTEN: It's no bother at all.
Right, Charlie? No.
No bother at all.
Right, Jule? Not at all.
I love sleeping on the sofa.
Listen, we're so sorry about today.
But you know how impossible it is to agree on one thing to do.
Mother, please.
Charlie and I see each other all the time.
Anyway, it was fun splitting up and each taking one of you.
Right, Charlie? Fun.
Huh.
Oh, dear.
What? Ohnothing.
Ha-ha, I just didn't even think to ask.
CHARLIE: What's wrong? It's just that there'sonly one of them.
One bed? You guys sleep in--? You knew that.
Oh, well, it's the only way either one of us can get any sleep.
Your father just rolls around like he's on the deck of the Titanic.
Your mother's a very polite sleeper.
I guess one of you could stay in Jule's room.
Nonsense.
Nonsense.
We just won't make a fuss, Gene.
Fine.
This is fine.
Fine.
Separate beds.
My parents sleep in separate beds.
It's like some crummy sitcom from the '50s.
God, do you think they don't, you know, do it anymore? They must.
No one just stops doing it altogether.
I mean, they must still do it sometimes, don't you think, Charlie? I'm trying very hard not to think about it.
Charliestop.
I'm way too hot.
That's kind of the point.
Charliecan you turn around, please? You're breathing down my neck.
Yeah.
[KIRSTEN SIGHS.]
KIRSTEN: Separate beds.
Can you believe it? Starting to.
ELLIE: Oh, now, how about this one? Wang Ping's on Grant.
"Scallion pancakes to die for.
" Five stars.
Oh, no, the dim sum's on Saturday only.
Now that won't work.
Because Saturday, I thought we'd go to Sausalito, maybe drive to Mill Valley, do some shopping.
Then there's this restaurant I read about in Sonoma.
Which means, if we're gonna do Chinese, today is the day.
Aren't you coming? KIRSTEN: No, you guys go ahead.
Why don't we just find some great local joint that isn't overrun with tourists.
Sounds good to me.
Hey, remind me to send you all our Mexico guidebooks before you take your honeymoon.
Ellen's got a whole shelf.
All the good places circled.
I kind of wish we were going someplace a little further away.
We really wanna go to Europe one day.
Maybe when Owen's a little older.
Don't just talk about it.
You gotta set a date, Charlie.
Even if it's years away.
Otherwise, I don't know, it just kind of gets away from you.
March, '96.
That's my date.
[HITS GOLF BALL.]
Employees of the good old Severson Insurance Company are gonna give me a gold watch and a cake.
I'm gonna clean out my desk.
And then we are off.
Ha-ha.
Off where? You follow baseball, Charlie? I wanna see a game in every major-league park in America.
We're gonna do it.
Really? Yeah.
Ha-ha.
That sounds great.
Oh, we'll have a general plan, sure.
A vague sense of the route, absolutely, but no schedule.
W-we'll just see where the road takes us.
Absolutely.
Detours.
Detours are where it's at.
You're a man after my own heart, Charlie.
[CHUCKLES.]
You're away, kiddo.
Ms.
Beaton? Huh? E-I or I-E? Does that--? Doesn't that look wrong to you? I keep having this recurring nightmare where the Board of Education finds out I can't spell worth a damn and yanks my license.
BAILEY: Um I need your signature.
On? You're transferring? Into wood shop.
It was the only elective that had a few open spaces.
I got a 900.
Total.
Well, that'sdisappointing.
Yeah, butlet's be honest, not a total shock.
Probably about how well you'd expect me to do.
So I'm just gonna apply to State and get it over with.
Stop torturing myself applying to all these Eastern schools.
Okay, well, that'sgood to know.
What's good to know? That that's your thinking.
Because the worst thing is investing in someone who's gonna split at the first sign of trouble.
Lesson I took from my sordid love life.
Look, it's-- It's nothing personal or anything.
I meanyou're a really good teacher.
Oh, I know that.
No, I know I'm a good teacher.
I-I'm a great teacher.
I can just be a really bad judge of character sometimes.
I mean, a student laughs at some dumb joke of mine or does a "yes!" when they get a question right, and I think, "Aha, they're mine.
" And I thought I had you, Bailey, but you got away.
Maybe it was the wontons.
It wasn't the wontons.
Could have been the Peking duck.
It wasn't the Peking duck.
Maybe it was thatbeige stuff.
Oh, look, it wasn't the beige stuff, okay? The beige stuff is their specialty.
The beige stuff was delicious.
We all had four helpings of the beige stuff, and you don't see the three of us in the toilet for 30 minutes! You know what a sensitive stomach your mother has.
Come on, Dad! Let's not pretend we don't know what's happening.
This is her revenge for letting you pick the restaurant.
Well, I'm worried.
She's been in there too long.
Since you refuse to look in on her, I just hope she didn't faint.
You know what this means, don't you? We shouldn't bother taking the leftovers home? The Dee Young exhibit starts at 3.
We're never gonna make it in time.
And plus, she's not gonna wanna schlep all the way to Chez Panisse for dinner after this.
[SIGHS.]
Okay.
Okay, here's what we do.
We get a dinner reservation at Kuleto's for 9:00.
If we leave in 15, provided she's not dead, we hop a cable car down to the wharf, check out Ghirardelli, go back home, nap a couple of hours before we head out to dinner.
What do you think? What do I think? Feeling much better now.
I think you sound exactly like your mother.
[WHISPERS.]
What? GENE: She's fine.
Not to worry.
What's that mean? I am so sorry.
You know, they had the loveliest mural in that ladies' room.
[JULIA GIGGLING.]
JULIA: You know, we're not gonna be quiet.
So if that's what this is about, you should go work somewhere else.
Do you know anything about radios? No.
I mean Griffin.
We have this school project to do something scientific, so I bought one of those radio kits.
Yeah, I got that.
But I only have one good hand, and two hands are kind of the bare minimum you need for radio building.
So I was wondering Yup.
You got it hooked up all wrong.
What? Look, Justin and I were friends.
That's all.
I mean, that's-- That's the only reason You know Oh.
Okay.
I'm sort of an acquired taste anyway.
Oh, yeah? That's what people say about me too.
Is that right? [BANGING.]
I'm kicking my car.
[KICKS CAR.]
Better.
What? I was just thinking that I sort of know how that car feels right now.
I wasn't that hard on you.
Anyway, you completely deserved it.
Listen, can I ask you a huge favor? I have strategically locked my keys inside my car.
Can I get a lift? I have an extra set at home, and I'm just through the Presidio.
Hop in.
Thanks.
[.]
A jeep, huh? Maybe I should get one of these, change my image.
I guess.
I was thinking that maybe I should take the SATs again.
Maybe.
Bailey, that's great.
That's great! I had a feeling about you.
I had a feeling you'd come around.
Oh, yeah? Yeah.
We can start prepping tomorrow.
Why don't you come to my place? Your place? Yeah.
I'll make lunch.
We'll make it fun.
I'm really happy about this.
I think you're gonna do great.
I guarantee it.
Well, thanksMs.
Beaton.
Oh, it's Maggie on weekends.
Maggie.
Maggie.
I can't believe it! We did it! Let me tune it in for you.
Oh, this is so cool! [GIGGLES.]
She's cute.
Mm-hmm.
Um, it's been two hours.
Can we? Oh, right, right.
Hey, I gotta go.
Thanks.
You're welcome.
Come on.
Why don't we, uh Why don't we make it a threesome.
Maybe we'll get a pizza or something.
Really? Yeah.
Sure.
No! No.
We're not gonna do that.
GRIFFIN: Why not? JULIA: Because we're not.
Because we have to go to that club and see that band that you wanted to see, that are playing tonight, and you're too young.
Sorry.
Later? Yeah.
KIRSTEN: Okay.
How about that time we made love in the laundry room? I give up.
How about that time? Well, it was pretty spur of the moment, wasn't it? Yeah.
That waslast year.
And, I mean, deciding to get married.
For crying out loud, that's a huge thing! That's-- That's huge! I mean, it's not like we even debated about it.
Where are you going with this? I don't always make plans.
I mean, I was supposed to call about the wedding napkins today.
And you know what? I didn't.
What the hell? Kirsten-- And I listen to you.
I mean, I never roll my eyes when you're telling me something really important or talk about you like you're not even in the room.
Right? Right? Right.
You don't.
You don't ever do that.
And I And I touch you.
All the time, don't I? I mean, she never touches him.
She never looks at him like she really wants him.
And I want you.
I'm nothing like her.
Nothing.
MAGGIE: Okay, you see? You see how you keep wanting to go with the answer that uses the same kind of word? "Ocean, tide, wave, raft.
" Yeah, that's gonna almost always be wrong.
SolikeD? "Temperate is to stormy.
" He's got it.
By George, he's got it.
Okay, this is where we jump around singing "The Rain in Spain.
" My Fair Lady? God, I'm old.
You're not that old.
My guess would be 23, 24 Twenty-four, right? Twenty-five.
Twenty-five.
My brother's 25.
Yikes, you're not gonna try and fix me up with him, are you? With Charlie? No.
No, no, no, no, no.
Anyway he's getting married.
And, besides he's not nearly good enough for you.
[LAUGHS.]
Okay, let's talk sentence completion.
Sentence completion.
Sentence completion.
I'm kind of fried.
Nope.
Nope? Nope.
You're not fried.
We've only been at this three hours.
You're not allowed to even approach fried.
Bailey, you can do this.
It's not impossible.
It's not even very difficult.
It is for me.
No.
You-- You You can't think like that.
See, it's a question of coming at a problem from a new direction.
The key is to not rule anything out because sometimes the last answer in the world you'd expect turns out to be the right one.
[SIGHS.]
Griffin? Yeah.
I got us tickets to the car show at the Cow Palace.
The car show? That sounds right up your alley.
Mm-hmm.
Ha, ha.
This is for him, huh? Yep.
That's cool.
Thanks.
I've never had an ice cream for lunch.
I've never been on a motorcycle, either.
Yeah, well, there's a first time for everything.
After this, I'll take you to the shooting range.
Shooting range? I'm kidding.
Jeez.
Oh.
Hey, you see that guy up there? The one with the racing forms? CLAUDIA: Yeah.
He just got out of jail.
CLAUDIA: What? Ten years in San Quentin.
Killed a man with his bare hands.
You know him? He did, really? He did not.
You were making that up.
Hey, that chick over there with the bad dye job.
She's, uh-- She's breaking up with her boyfriend because Well, see, last night they were doing it, right? And, uh, he called her Sheryl.
Her name's Edith.
[LAUGHS.]
All right.
You try.
Um That guy over there with the gloves.
CLAUDIA: Okay.
Okay, okay, let's see.
He's wearing gloves because Because Well, because he-- Because Tick, tick, tick Because he doesn't want his date to know that he lost his, uh, pointer finger, trying to dig, um a paper clip out of the garbage disposal while it was running.
Excellent.
You get extra points for seriously gruesome.
I'm wearing my bracelet.
Did you see? GRIFFIN: First one to the rock rules.
CLAUDIA: No fair.
You got a head start.
So for the ceremony, we'll just set up chairs in the back yard and we'll put the flowers over the arbor Gene, I gotta show you something.
It's, uh-- It's my dad.
And his dad.
At Ebbets Field.
He was just a kid.
You know, before the Dodgers left.
Ebbets Field.
How about that? Yeah, it just made me think that before they tear down all the great parks, you gotta make that trip of yours.
Oh, what's this? Nothing.
Gene was just telling me about your plan.
You know, to visit every park in the majors.
Every park in the majors? Sounds like fun, Dad.
Doesn't it? Oh, please! [CHUCKLES.]
What? I haven't heard this one yet, dear.
At least it doesn't require us selling the house.
Let's change the subject.
ELLIE: Have you told Charlie about that scheme to buy golf course shares? Your daddy was gonna retire early and become a golf course landlord.
We would have lost thousands if I had not stepped in.
Would you please stop? Why? It's adorable.
I married the original Innocent Man.
[SLAMS COUNTER.]
[.]
[SIGHS.]
I, uh, apologize.
I don't know what's gotten into your father.
I can't stand it.
I can't stand the way you talk to him, the way you criticize and nitpick and belittle! How dare you? How dare you? I love your father.
How? By embarrassing him? Oh, please.
Please! Do you know how many times a year I walk in on a conversation like that? Where your father has told someone that we're gonna sell the house and set out on some new adventure? We're gonna go to Africa or Alaska or visit every battlefield of the Civil War.
And everybody is always onboard, because there's just something about a dreamer.
And then it's my turn to come in and say, "No, dear.
"We are not selling the house.
"We are not going to Alaska, "because you don't make the kind of money to retire like that.
"And besides, you've never been able to make a decision for more than a day ahead.
" So that makes him the good guy and me the bad guy, even with you and your sister.
That's not true.
Always said yes to you.
Yes to the dress.
Yes to the car.
Even when you had too many dresses and we couldn't afford the car.
So he got your love.
But I'm the one who made you responsible.
I I'm sorry, Mom.
About what? That's who we are, your father and I.
That's the bargain we made with each other.
He dreams, and I pull him back down to earth.
I make sure that he has a house to come home to and that there's food on the table and the same program on the television.
Because that is what really makes him happy.
And you know what? I have a feeling it's the same with you and Charlie.
GRIFFIN: Hold on, you little monkey.
There's a few more steps to go.
CLAUDIA: Sixty-nine, 70, 71.
Oh, one more! Seventy-two! GRIFFIN: Oh! You weight a ton.
You were out with her? Oh, Julia, we were playing this game-- Shut up, Claudia.
Do you know what time it is? Do you have any idea how long I've been waiting for you? We had tickets to that stupid car show.
Remember? Oh, man! Right.
Get out of here, Claud.
But he-- Get out of here! See you.
God.
I'm like I am doing somersaults to get your attention.
But it's like everything is more important to you than me.
I mean, you're doing all this stuff to make Claudia happy.
Why can't you do that for me? I mean, why can't you do something for me? I Look, I'm sorry.
Just Can you leave? I want you to leave.
CLAUDIA: Why are you being like this? I mean, at first you wanted me to be nice to him, and now you get so angry any time he wants to do something with me.
What, are? Are you jealous or something? What? That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard, Claudia! Why would I be jealous of you and Griffin? Because.
What, do you have, like, a little crush on him or something? That is so-- Shut up, Jule.
I promise you, he is not interested.
Okay.
The reason he's hanging around with you is because he feels sorry for you, because you have a broken arm, and you have hardly any friends.
That is not a date, Claudia, it's called baby-sitting.
Nine hundred? That's exactly the same.
But if you look, you'll see you did much better on the verbal.
I thought what happened was you got tired-- It's exactly the same.
Bailey-- You see, I-- You should have listened to me.
I can't do this stuff, okay? I'm just not good at it.
I'm Kind of stupid is what I am.
You're not stupid.
You're having trouble with the test.
We've worked on it for one day.
Would you cut it out? You are part of the problem here.
You don't have to lie to me.
I can handle it.
I'll just apply to State, and And that's that.
I wonder what things are like for you at home.
What? I know things have changed.
Things are fine, thanks.
Yeah, I'm sure they are.
You come to school every day.
You're healthy.
You're taken care of.
But nobody holds you accountable, do they, Bailey? I mean, if you screw up, or you fail, or you quit does anyone mind? Does anyone tell you that you can do better? Hi, Gene.
Getting some tips on bathroom placement.
Ellie and I are adding on to the house.
Space for the grandkids.
That's great.
After you get back from all those ballparks, huh? Uh I don't think that's gonna happen.
It's a good idea.
You gotta do it.
Come on! You've been working for what, Charlie, listen.
Every month, National Geographic comes.
I sit in my chair, and I read.
And there's some article about, I don't know, state fairs in America, or floating down the Mekong River.
And in my mind, I sell the house, I cash in my jumbo CD and I'm gone.
[SIGHS.]
A few weeks of daydreaming.
That's That's good enough.
Why? Why does that have to be good enough? I mean, it's not inevitable that you're gonna have to give up on every idea.
So it's a little crazy.
So what? And this one is possible, Gene.
This one you could really do.
This is better.
This is what Ellie wants.
She's right.
Charlie, there are worse things than growing old in the house where your children were born.
Why does it matter to you so much? I don't know.
It just does.
Hey.
You hiding down here? I'm looking for the waffle iron.
Ellie woke up with a craving, bless her heart.
So, um So I was thinking that I don't think I'm gonna take the SATs over again.
How did you do? Nine hundred.
Combined.
I think that's about what I did.
Yeah, so you took it.
Don't put yourself through that stress again, man.
Who needs it? So So that's it? You're not gonna You're not gonna give me a hard time? Nah.
Hey, Char.
When you dropped out of school, did anyone, like, try and talk you out of it? Are you kidding, man? You could hear Dad yelling from across the bridge.
Yeah, I do kind of remember that.
It was like he was He was expecting me to disappoint him.
And dropping out was just one more item on the checklist.
But, Mom, she She knew the Berkeley thing was just about me running scared.
She left me alone for a couple of months.
I don't know how she did it.
Did what? I was gonna re-enroll for the spring semester when the accident happened.
But you knew that, right? Yeah, Mom, she She had that "complete faith" thing going.
Well, you remember.
So, what is this, an apology? No.
It's a necklace.
Man, you're really into this say-it-with-jewelry thing, huh? First Claud, and now me.
It was Jill's.
Oh.
Are you sure you wanna? Yeah.
Yeah, I'm sure.
You know, this was, uh This was, like, the first thing I bought her that wasn't, like, a tambourine or a doll or something.
Put it on? She was, uh She was always following me around when we were kids.
Like, everywhere.
Drove me nuts.
But, uh Then one day I just got used to it.
Like, her being one step behind me all the time.
It was nice.
Like, this one time when I was, like, 14 um, I wore these different-colored socks.
Totally by mistake.
And then she started doing it too.
Like it was cool.
Like Like I was cool.
Go figure, right? [CHUCKLES.]
And at the breakfast table, we, uh We used to play this game called Make Me Laugh.
Claud and I play that.
See it's different with a girlfriend.
That-- That's all I'm saying.
[SNIFFS.]
It's-- With a girlfriend, it's It's just different.
She was my little sister, you know.
So if we push this wall out-- Mm-hm.
--it gives us a family room.
Plus the extra bedroom.
That sounds great.
Yeah.
That's great.
GENE: Yeah, except now we need to find space for another bathroom.
KIRSTEN: Right.
Okay, well, what about here? GENE: Well, we thought of that, but I think that's a bearing wall.
KIRSTEN: Oh.
GENE: Remember bearing walls? KIRSTEN: Yes.
ELLIE: So, what do you think? Can we pull this off for under $50,000? I wouldn't know.
You don't like me much, do you? Come on, Ellie.
You're angry with me.
That's pretty clear.
Think I took something away from him, huh? I promise you, Charlie, he's not giving up half as much as he's getting.
Maybe.
You know, for what it's worth, I completely understand why Kirsten loves you.
It's the same quality I fell in love with in her father.
That feeling of always being just a little bit lost and constantly restless.
Yeah, well, I don't think you understand me at all.
I don't know if Kirsten's told you about my plans-- Charlie.
I know about the restaurant and the house-building and the furniture business.
I'm not lost, okay? I'm justlooking.
It's not the same thing.
I'm just not finished looking yet.
And-- And Kirsten understands that.
I mean, she's looking too.
And when I figure out what I want-- What we want.
--it's gonna be exactly what we want.
It's not gonna have anything to do with settling.
So, I mean you and Gene, you do whatever you need to do.
I just I shouldn't have gotten involved, 'cause it really has nothing to do with me.
[METAL JANGLING.]
What ya doin'? Uh nothing.
I'm just gonna drop my stuff in my tent.
Where are you going? I'm leaving.
I won't bug you, I promise.
You should stay.
Stay.
I'm gonna go.
I've gotta do some homework.
I really don't get it.
Oh, come on, Claud.
Give me a break.
I'm trying to say I'm sorry.
I guess I can get kind of mean when I get jealous.
And I wish I could take back everything I said, but I can't.
So you two should do something together.
You don't have to baby-sit me, you know.
What are you talking about? I just got dumped here.
I'm lucky to have the date.
[EXHALES.]
So, what do you say? You wanna hit the park again? Been there, done that.
Mmm.
Yeah, right.
[DRUMS FINGERS.]
You got a piano.
One hand.
Makes two.
[GRIFFIN PLAYING BASS PART OF "HEART AND SOUL".]
No way! You have the easy part.
Yeah.
Did you have a piano growing up? Yeah.
Yeah, I used to do this all the time.
A long time ago.
[PLAYING BASS PART OF "HEART AND SOUL".]
[PLAYING MELODY PART OF "HEART AND SOUL".]
She's got it.
[LAUGHING.]
Oh, she's got it.
GENE: I'm sure you'll be relieved to know for the wedding weekend, Ellie and I have already booked a room at the Fairmont.
Really, Gene, are you sure? Can I, uh, confirm that reservation for you? [LAUGHS.]
WOMAN [OVER PA.]
: Flight 97 direct to O'Hare is now boarding-- That's you.
What happened to, uh? [SNIFFS.]
Mom, what are you doing? We're gonna see each other in a couple of weeks.
I know.
Now, look, I know we don't always see things the same way, and, uh I am not the easiest person in the world to get along with.
That's okay.
Mom, it's okay.
I love you too.
[SOBS.]
Daddy.
Sweetheart.
We'll call and let you know we got home safe and sound.
Collect.
Only don't-- Accept the charges.
I know, I know.
See? I taught her very well.
Goodbye, Charlie.
Safe flight, Ellie.
[WOMAN MAKING FLIGHT ANNOUNCEMENTS OVER PA.]
[SIGHING.]
Well, that wasn't so bad, was it? Um, hello? Where have you been the last four days? Well, okay.
For the most part, yes, it sucked.
But there were moments.
They're actually happy.
I mean, they don't need anything else.
Just each other.
And I understand that.
I know how that feels.
'Cause everything I want in the world I have right now.
Let's just stay until they take off, okay? Sure.
BAILEY: When someone is gone from your life for a really long time, you start to forget stuff about them.
Like, you forget what their voice sounded like.
Or how they loved you so much and how everything you did was completely okay with them.
And how that meant, in a weird way, that you could actually do amazing things.
I'm not a very good student, and applying to college isn't so easy for me.
So right now, what I am doing is I'm trying very hard to remember my mother's voice.
Because I really need to hear it now.
I'm listening for her to say to me what she always used to say: "Anything is possible, Bailey.
Anything.
" [Music.]