Chesapeake Shores (2016) s03e09 Episode Script

1 NARRATOR: Previously on Chesapeake Shores You didn't come home.
- You had your life here.
- But all we wanted was you.
It's a miracle the entire house hasn't collapsed.
- It's pretty much a teardown.
- I can't believe it.
You can't publish this.
- Why? - It's your truth.
Not the family's.
You can't do that with your career.
I won't let you give up.
What if I don't wanna give you up? It's our Bridge contract.
You don't have operational control.
- You don't wanna do this.
- It's just business.
MAN: Avoiding certain death The trucker went across the line My dad was there to make sure That I swerved in time You look nervous.
Worried your parents aren't gonna like me? No.
No, I'm nervous you're not gonna like my family.
My dad can be pretty intimidating.
I'm sure I will survive.
- Used to be a Navy Seal.
- I'm pretty sure I will survive.
If the seafood's from the bay, you got a fifty-fifty shot.
- SARAH: [CHUCKLES.]
- What? It's a steel-mill case I've been working on.
I've been finding lots of benzene, chromium, zinc Tied together in an amazing sauce.
You should try it.
- [CHUCKLES.]
- Oh, my God.
This food is amazing.
You've definitely ate too much benzene.
Good luck, Bree.
The lucky one is you.
Getting to leave after Mom and Dad read my manuscript.
- You think it's gonna get worse? - Take me with you.
KEVIN: So much worse.
David, I have missed your food since you closed the B and B.
Come to Sally's, we're taking over while she visits her sister.
I thought you hated working at Sally's.
We get to run it.
He gets his own kitchen.
It's just basic diner food, but it's gonna be fun.
Super fun.
- I'm gonna grab a beer.
- Okay.
[BREE LAUGHS.]
Does, um ? Does he seem bored to you? No.
I feel like since we lost the inn, he's itching to keep busy.
So? So he loves to cook, he should be cooking.
I can't offer him that anymore.
What if someone else gives him an offer he can't refuse? Those offers don't usually revolve around food.
- I'm asking you to stay out of this.
- How? You're talking about filing a lawsuit against my father.
He didn't give me a choice.
Maybe not, but considering everything that's going on with Bree - and with Sarah leaving - So what? I take a number before I cause drama? It'd be 20 years before I get heard.
Look, Abby, your dad is wrong.
And before the Bridge gets turned into a Waffle House - It is his club too.
- Oh.
He's made me aware.
Maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to have a more corporate structure - until you get back.
- Siding with your dad? No, I'm looking at it from a business perspective.
Abby, please.
I'm asking you not to get involved.
SARAH: I'd like to propose a toast.
[.]
So they say that you never truly say goodbye to the people that you love.
So I want you all to know that I mean this from the bottom of my heart, that this is goodbye.
[ALL LAUGHING.]
Seriously, thank you, everyone.
Thank you to Jess and David for the food.
And to Kevin, for everything.
To never saying goodbye.
Cheers.
ALL: Cheers.
JESS: Whoo-hoo! Aw, we'll miss you, Sarah.
Whoo! Plane ticket already paid I'm gone But it don't mean nothing I'm close even though I'm far away That's how I remember you Stuck here on the red-eye special I can't wait to see you again So don't think of me Not being around Just listen for the sweet, sweet sound Of the taxi pulling up the driveway I'm coming home soon I'm coming home soon Da-da, da-da-da Da-da-da-da Da-da, da-da-da Da-da-da Da-da, da-da-da [.]
Wow.
What's on the menu? We've got a walnut-eggplant frittata some arugula-pistachio-pesto quiches and freshly-baked chocolate eclairs - if you dare.
- Don't do this to me.
That's amazing.
I did not understand half of that.
We are disappointed you won't be making breakfast anymore.
- You know you don't live here, right? - Hm.
Connor, I don't think I've ever seen you make breakfast.
- No.
I make cereal.
- Oh, that doesn't count.
- How's it working with Danielle? - It's, uh, surprisingly easy.
Which is kind of weird.
- I'd think that would be nice.
- It is, but it's, uh, still weird.
- KEVIN: Hey, Dad.
- Hey.
You're not on the road yet? No.
My fridge is empty, so we figured we'd grab some food for the road.
Yeah.
And we heard David's cooking.
- Where's everyone else? - ABBY: Uh Bree didn't come because of, uh, Mom.
Mom didn't come because of Bree.
With Jess and David cooking Gran left early to pick up some burnt sienna and yellow ocher.
- Burnt sienna? - Sounds like Gran is painting again.
- How's Trace doing? - Still upset.
MICK: I imagine he would be.
[ABBY CLEARS THROAT.]
[SIGHS.]
- So you're not gonna back down? - Would you? Abby, you can't run a business and not focus on it.
It gets away from you, you know that.
Mmm.
Yes, unfortunately, I told him that.
I taught you well.
[.]
So, what comes next? It's not for me to say.
[DOOR CLOSES.]
Trace.
Hey, Bert.
How'd it go? - Nowhere.
- Mick's attorney didn't respond? He did.
He acknowledged that the contract you have with Mick - might have weaknesses.
- Great.
So, what's next? You know as well as I do that contracts aren't worth anything - unless you'll fight for them.
- Okay.
Then let's fight.
Trace, I gotta be honest.
If you file suit, it's gonna be costly.
And it might take six to eight months.
So what? I just back away? It's up to you.
Unfortunately, this is how Mick O'Brien does business.
Yeah, well, maybe so, but this feels pretty personal to me.
DANIELLE: Thanks.
Okay.
Preliminary tests indicate levels of heavy metals, benzene, phenol acids, sulfides, sulfates, cyanides, thiocyanates, thiosulfates - Ah, ah.
No, no, no.
You gotta stop.
- Why? I had fish for dinner, and now I'm afraid there's an arm growing out of my head.
You could pull it off.
It's nice when billable hours include fresh air.
Yeah.
- It is, isn't it? - Yeah.
[.]
You know Jess is only running Sally's for a week? I know, but since Gran wanted fresh flowers I thought that Jess and David would love some for their first day.
And these are Margarets, for patience.
Well, she's definitely gonna need some of that.
Think we all do.
I think we all do.
- There's a lot going on right now.
- You think? When I first moved back, your dad asked me why I was doing this.
Was it for me? Was it for everyone else? I never answered because, honestly, I didn't know.
- Oh - Well, maybe it was for both.
Maybe.
I guess I was thinking I could just help everyone heal.
Maybe I was just hoping that by coming home, we could all just move on.
Oh, I don't know.
And then you read Bree's book.
[SIGHS.]
What happened was more complicated than Bree made it out to be.
I'm guessing Dad feels the same way? - Has he read it? - Bree told me she gave it to him.
- Really? - Mm-hm.
I can't imagine he's gonna be any happier than I was.
Knowing your dad, he does not like to rehash the past.
He's all about "tough it out.
" Right.
Well, that makes two of us.
I was talking to Trace about the club, and I think I channeled Dad.
Ah, Abby, no.
Don't imagine that went over very well? No, it didn't.
Hmm.
Well, then.
Purple delphiniums.
Forgiveness.
[.]
Okay, cleaning supplies are still in the second closet.
Schedule and receipts are still under the cash register.
Okay.
Can you believe we both waited tables at Sally's ? And now we're running the place.
I know.
- And you get to run your own kitchen.
- Yeah, for a few days.
You get to make lunch and dinner.
You get to make recipes without eggs.
That's true.
You're right, it's gonna be fun.
And the best part is, I get to work with you.
Perfect answer.
Okay, get to work.
There's a food delivery box by the door.
[.]
- Okay.
- Ahem.
- Uh-oh.
- "Uh-oh," what? Truffles, saffron, camembert Kobe beef.
This isn't right.
We got a different restaurant's order.
Okay.
I'm calling now.
[KEYPAD BEEPING.]
Wait, wait, wait.
If they don't want it, I could I mean, there are so many things I could do with this.
Really? [BOTH CHUCKLING.]
You were serious about growing up on a farm.
Yup.
And tomorrow we're up at 4, milking cows.
Oh.
Uh - Cool.
I guess.
Oh.
- [CHUCKLES.]
I'm kidding.
WOMAN: Sarah! - Oh.
- Hey, Mom.
[BOTH CHUCKLE.]
- MAN: Hey, pumpkin.
- Hey, Dad.
- This is Kevin.
- Aw.
- It's so nice to finally meet you, Kevin.
- Nice to meet you too, ma'am.
- Laura, please.
And this is Wil.
- Hi.
Heard about your offer from N.
Y.
F.
D.
Very impressive.
Thank you, sir.
Yeah.
I mean, Wil.
[CHUCKLES.]
So your dad likes to shake hands firmly.
Yeah.
He does it to test you, see how you react.
And how'd I do? - You're doing great.
- Good.
- Because I think he broke two bones.
- [CHUCKLES.]
[.]
- Enjoy Pride & Prejudice.
- Thank you.
- I love that book.
- Jane Austen fan? Oh, a huge one.
[CHUCKLES.]
I did my dissertation on Victorian literature at Oxford.
- I focused on Austen's later works.
- Oxford? Impressive.
- I'm not sure my students think so.
- [CHUCKLES.]
- Where do you teach? - U-Dub, Seattle.
But I'm in Maryland to interview at Johns Hopkins.
Which starts tomorrow, so today I get to do my favorite thing - which is check out small bookstores.
- Hmm.
There aren't many of us left.
Especially ones that do podcasts.
I heard the podcast the bookstore did with Simon Atwater.
Oh, uh, and me.
- I'm Bree O'Brien.
- You're Bree O'Brien? I taught your play, Meditations from the Second Floor in my Modern American Playwright class last year.
- You what? Wow.
- Yeah.
[CHUCKLES.]
It is such a pleasure to meet you.
I am such a huge fan.
I'm Caroline? [.]
- Simon.
- Simon? - Caroline? - Uh, hi, Bree.
[CHUCKLES.]
TRACE: Come here, Axel.
You thirsty? Here you go, boy.
[CHUCKLES.]
Hey, Mark.
What are you doing here? Hope you don't mind me popping by.
Thought you and I could have a talk.
Yeah.
Yeah, sure.
- You, uh You want a beer? - Yeah.
That'd be great.
Hey, buddy.
Oh, nice place you got here.
Yeah, thanks.
We like it.
[CHUCKLES.]
- Here you go.
- Ah.
- Cheers.
- Cheers.
Nice flowers.
That your work? [CHUCKLES.]
[CHUCKLES.]
You didn't come all this way to talk about my flowers, did you? No, I came all this way to give you some good news.
Knowing you won't necessarily see it that way.
Donovan's tour has been extended six more months.
Europe and Asia.
With your band getting a full hour to open the show.
Wow.
Then I got studio time down in Muscle Shoals to cut a second album.
[.]
Sounds like quite a run.
Eight months, give or take.
[CHUCKLES.]
Now, ordinarily, at this point in the conversation people usually thank me and start packing.
But it's never that simple with you, is it, Trace? So you're not gonna try to convince me to go? Tell me this is my ticket? That my life's gonna change forever? Would it make a difference? Not really.
Then I'll leave it to you and the band to figure out what you wanna do.
You got one week.
- Thanks for the beer.
- Yeah.
[.]
Your new office? It was too late to drive into Baltimore, so I thought I'd work here.
How'd you find me? Mom spilled the beans.
Ah.
Our own Benedict Arnold.
Hm.
You know, I could say the same about you.
I thought we'd already gone over the club.
I'm not, uh, talking about the club.
I was talking about Bree's book.
I just don't get why she wrote it.
She's trying to understand what happened.
Well, all she had to do was ask.
Dad, in a family where no one talks, it's not that easy.
Maybe it shouldn't be talked about.
Maybe what happened should be left behind.
- So we should just tough it out? Hm.
- That's what you and I would do.
But not everyone.
No.
Mmm.
LEIGH: Six months of touring Europe? And two months' studio time to record another album.
I know this'll be hard on you with Abby and taking you away from the club Not exactly the best timing.
Okay.
French fries three ways.
Plain, one with caciocavallo podolico cheese and one with a truffle drizzle.
TRACE: Jess, what are you doing here? Oh, David and I are watching Sally's this week.
- Ah.
- And it's perfect because David can finally do what he loves.
- Right? - Right.
People should always follow their dreams.
No matter what.
Because in the end, that's all that matters.
I think.
Enjoy your fries.
Dude, these fries are awesome.
- Better than Paulie's in Philly for sure.
- [CHUCKLES.]
Trace, I mean, this is seriously a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Yeah, yeah.
I hear you.
[.]
MEGAN: Nell.
This look good to pot here? Megan, it's beautiful.
The lavender's perfect.
Thank you.
Oh - Nell, why are you doing this? - Uh-huh.
Oh, darling, I have always loved painting.
Even when Rome is going up in flames? Oh, well, unfortunately, I can't put out this fire.
Only you can do that.
Because I lit the match? No.
No.
Because even a match, it needs kindling to burn.
But the fire cannot be put out unless everybody grabs a bucket.
[MEGAN SIGHS.]
So Caroline remembers you.
- Apparently so.
- Hm.
We were in a lot of the same classes, same study groups.
We went to the same pubs, places, so Sounds like you guys spent an awful lot of time together.
Well, yes.
I mean, it was always in a sort of group context.
- It was very little one-on-one.
- So you guys never dated? No.
No.
She was always going out with the president of some club or other.
And although we were often in the same place her eyes were always elsewhere.
Hmm.
So if the Caroline books are just a series of "what ifs" and "could bes" why did you call her by her real name? [.]
Because, you know, I Well, I didn't think she knew that I existed.
Well, she knows.
[GRUNTS.]
Okay, so, whatever I do, don't agree to arm wrestle Joe and make sure to compliment Paulie on his cooking.
- I got it.
- Yeah.
That's about it.
If you try to tell me or my dad that the New York Fire Department is better than Philly's, you and your two broken fingers will be heading home early.
Ouch.
That hurts.
[CHUCKLES.]
[.]
SARAH: This used to be my favorite place, growing up.
I haven't been here in four years.
It's beautiful.
Yeah.
It is.
I kind of wish it wasn't.
It's where I got married.
Feels like a million years ago and yesterday.
I'm sorry.
No, I'm glad you're here with me.
Feels different.
New.
[SARAH SIGHS.]
So back to the office and we'll check these reports - against the ones from the steel mill? - Yeah.
Want some food first? Yeah, sure.
As long as it's not fish.
It's chicken.
Which pollutes the Potomac because processed chicken creates roxarsone which turns into inorganic arsenic and flows into the bay.
It's on rye.
Oh.
Makes all the difference.
Hey, you know what this reminds me of? - That diner in Brooklyn.
- Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, where we used to study? - And all the show tunes.
- Oh, right.
I mean, they did have good chicken sandwiches.
That is true.
And incredibly bad music.
- You're not gonna sing, are you? - Depends how nicely you ask me to stop.
Ah.
[CHUCKLES.]
What? Nothing.
Thank you for the sandwich.
You're welcome.
[.]
Uh, these are for you.
Uh [CHUCKLES.]
I don't think anyone's bought me flowers before.
Not just flowers, these are delphiniums for forgiveness.
I talked to my dad, and I just I wanted to apologize.
Abby, it's It's fine.
In fact, there was something I wanted to talk to you about.
Me first.
I brought you flowers.
- Is that how this works? - Yeah.
I didn't make the rules.
Um I wanted to apologize for suggesting that you should be okay with my dad running the club.
I get it.
Your dad was just looking out for his interests.
Well, yeah.
But it's not just that.
It's also about realizing that the club isn't just business for you.
It's your heart and your soul.
You shouldn't have to give up what you love.
And I'm sorry that I lost sight of that - and I didn't defend you.
- Abby, it's okay.
I love you.
I love you too.
And when you're finally home, the club should be there for you.
[.]
CAROLINE: You were the one that convinced everyone to take a midnight swim in the Cherwell River.
Yes.
Yes.
An all-around ill-advised decision, I think.
You swam in a river at night? You did? - Yeah.
- CAROLINE: We all did.
Ah, we got into so much trouble.
I am I'm just shocked.
[CHUCKLES.]
Two soda waters with lime.
And one soda water with two lemon slices.
Chapter 13: "Caroline loved soda water with lemon slices.
" - I'm a big fan of the books.
- CAROLINE: Thanks.
I can't believe you're real, that you're here.
Not that you shouldn't be.
Well I'll go get your food.
[CAROLINE CHUCKLES.]
So, Caroline, I thought you didn't remember Simon? I actually did, but when Simon came to find me in Washington I was in a relationship, and I didn't want to make it awkward for you.
So I That's when he started writing about who we were.
Caroline, you do realize that you're not actually my Caroline? Who is more an archetype of many possible Carolines.
And yet you got the two lemon slices right.
Hardly definitive proof.
[CELL PHONE BUZZES.]
You know what, I'm so sorry.
I have to check in on my next interview.
- Thank you.
- Yeah.
Bye.
So, um Still nothing from your parents about the book? - Nope.
- Oh.
It's like I don't even exist.
It's weird, you know? My family is so able to talk about everything and anything - except what really matters.
- Well, you know, maybe it's for the best.
Sometimes a book can spark a real conversation.
Sometimes you need a bit of fiction to make things real.
Interesting.
You know what else is interesting? We talk a lot, you and I but with Caroline, it seemed like you did a lot.
- Well, it was a long time ago.
- Wasn't that long ago.
I mean, I don't know, is there a chance that that Simon is still here, just trapped inside the pages of his book? Still hoping to romance Caroline? [.]
Bree.
[LAUGHING.]
- PAULIE: What do you think? - KEVIN: It's delicious, thanks.
SARAH: Paulie's diner is considered one of the best diners in the state.
Better than your mac and cheese and meatballs? [LAUGHING.]
Okay, those were a huge hit at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds.
Were they? Okay, they hated it too.
I can't believe you told them.
- I might've let it slip.
- JOE: We know about everything.
Even the eggplant, and how you asked her out.
No, she asked me out.
- Kevin.
- No, I was down at the beach with my sister and we had just started a fire.
Illegally.
Yes, illegally.
We had just started a fire and who is to show up but Sarah to give me a ticket and her number written on the back.
- BOTH: Ooh! - SARAH: I only put it there to help.
- Right.
- Sure, yeah.
- Come on.
- Okay, fine.
- Yeah, I asked you out.
- Yeah.
[ALL LAUGHING.]
And we get to tour Amsterdam.
I know you have a million reasons why you think you should say no Actually, just one.
I have a million reasons why you should say yes.
Okay, Paris, Budapest, Prague.
I mean, Trace, we get to play the Paradiso.
I heard the acoustics are unreal.
I get it.
I don't think you do.
This is something we've been talking about since Nashville.
Before the band.
Just you and me - dreaming of something like this.
- Leigh.
I called Mark.
Okay? And I wanted to make sure that you guys would be okay.
He said, no matter what, he'd have a spot for you and the band - on Donovan's tour.
- So you're just gonna walk away? Look, I'm not gonna stop playing music.
I get it, you can play music anywhere.
But what we have you and me, our band you're never gonna find that again.
Trust me, I know that.
I don't know.
It sounds like you might've forgotten.
[.]
Do you ever think about where we're gonna be in 10 years? DAVID: Uh, I don't know.
I'm just trying to figure out what we should serve tomorrow.
Lobster quiche.
[CHUCKLING.]
I like that.
- Thank you.
- Welcome.
In 10 years if every day was just like today I wouldn't complain.
Because I get to be with you.
Me too.
But I'm still scared, David.
Without the inn, I don't know who I am.
It was the one thing I had that we could share.
So without it, I'm not sure that you or your truffles or your Camembert needs me.
Every day, I just keep waiting for you to figure that out.
Ratatouille.
Ahem.
- What? - Ratatouille.
We should serve ratatouille tomorrow.
- Good idea.
- Mm.
[STRUMMING.]
I always thought we had something special, Trace.
With your voice, Leigh's hair, my face.
- [CHUCKLES.]
- John, just stick to playing bass.
All joking aside I just don't understand.
You can't buy our sound.
What we have is special.
And that's why I went with you.
And you don't just walk away.
[STRUMMING.]
They love to tell us We'll never make it ALL: They're throwing stones Against the glass just to break it But they don't live here They don't know this kind of love We're not afraid to go the distance We'll never take that worn out path Of least resistance We got it in us And there's more Where that came from [.]
We're not saying goodbye.
I know that, I just I don't wanna leave here.
You.
Kevin, may I talk to you for a moment? Just wanted to wish you a safe drive back to Maryland.
- Well, thank you, sir.
Wil.
- Ah.
Yeah.
You know, um the hardest thing about being a parent is seeing your children unhappy and knowing there's nothing you can do about it.
And, uh, ahem while we don't know one another that well seeing Sarah with you [.]
[CLEARS THROAT.]
Thanks for bringing her back.
The truth is, she did the same for me.
Yeah.
[KEVIN GRUNTS.]
- Got a heck of a handshake there.
- Just trying to keep up with you.
[GROANS.]
So? Your dad cracked my C6 vertebra and I think he broke my thumb.
[SARAH CHUCKLES.]
[SIGHS.]
Hey.
Shouldn't we be at the office? We have a series of briefs due in two weeks.
Yeah.
I was thinking we could check some of the data here first.
Oh.
Sure.
Nothing like hanging out in a carcinogenic minefield for fun and billable hours.
[.]
Connor.
Uh Yeah? I'm I'm really sorry.
- That wasn't fair.
- No, Danielle, hey.
It's - It's okay.
- No, it's not.
Because I've also been thinking Wondering if, um maybe you wanted to spend some time together off the clock.
Like, uh pro bono? Something like that.
But I couldn't impress you with my ability to say aliphatic hydrocarbons and chloride with complete authority.
- Well, as impressive as that is - [CHUCKLES.]
We're definitely off the clock.
[CHUCKLING.]
JESS: It's the silence that kills me.
No yelling, no screaming, just quiet.
It's like we traveled back in time to when Mom left.
That was the worst.
We need to unplug the volcano.
Or crack the thin ice that masks the turbulent waters underneath.
Oh, that's really good.
You should write that down.
Not to mention, it's a good idea.
Or a really bad one.
Or a really bad one.
- What? I'm undecided.
- [CHUCKLES.]
- Bree.
- Yeah? Caroline.
Hi.
Uh, what are you still doing here? Oh.
I forgot to get it signed by the author.
Oh.
You could always wait for the next one.
I hear it might be his last.
CAROLINE: Yeah, Rest in Peace, Caroline.
[LAUGHS.]
I've heard that joke.
- Me too.
- I do wanna apologize.
When I heard that podcast, I could hear in Simon's voice that he was over everything so I figured it would be okay to talk about the past.
I'm glad you got to chat before you go back to Washington.
Actually, Johns Hopkins wants to observe my teaching so I'm gonna be in Baltimore for another week.
If it's okay with you, I would love to talk about your play.
I'm dying to know about the ending.
Oh, yeah, I would love that.
CAROLINE: Great.
Okay, well, ha-ha, it was good to see you.
Okay.
I'll see you soon, Caroline.
Okay, bye.
[.]
See You Soon, Caroline also sounds like a good title.
- Of course it does.
- Oh! [BAND PLAYING COUNTRY MUSIC.]
Mick.
I know, you don't like the band.
I have nothing against the band.
I have everything against their music.
And their name.
Country Jukebox? [CHUCKLES.]
Okay, I don't like the band.
Listen you went to your attorney, and he came to mine.
So unless you're gonna file a lawsuit, there's nothing more to talk about.
I gotta prep business meetings for next week, so we'll have to Mick, I didn't come here to fight about the club.
I actually came to tell you that I'm not gonna contest our contract.
I'm surprised.
Yeah, so am I.
What changed? Tour got extended for a while.
That's it? You said this was your heart and soul.
Now you're just gonna walk away? You know it's not that simple.
- Does Abby know? - Not yet.
I'm gonna give you some advice.
If you really care about something you don't walk away from it.
[.]
[.]
I think a tasting menu is a great idea.
What about "Moonlight at Sally's"? We light the whole place with candles.
Wouldn't that be "Candlelight at Sally's"? Yeah, but "moonlight" is so much more romantic.
You've got "Moonlight Serenade," "Moonlight Becomes You.
" Jess, you okay? - You seem even more you than you.
- What? Yes.
I'm totally fine.
Are you good? Jess.
Okay.
I'm scared.
I don't know what's happening with us, or you.
- Or us.
- Why? Jess, we're great.
Yeah, for now.
Today.
But I What about tomorrow or the next day? Don't think about the future.
Really? Termites ate my last future.
Then we'll make a new future.
For us? Or you? [DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES.]
Thank you.
I still can't believe we live in a place so beautiful.
TRACE [SIGHING.]
: Yeah.
[ABBY SIGHS.]
It's nice to take a break from the O'Brien family saga.
With Bree's book and my parents I think everything is ready to explode and I am in the middle.
- That's where you've always been.
- [CHUCKLES.]
With everyone.
Yeah, except this time, I might have called a family meeting.
TRACE: Wow.
All the O'Briens in one room, talking? [LAUGHS.]
- You sure that's a good idea? - No.
No, but it would be a first.
Abby, um we were offered a tour extension.
Six months in Europe.
[.]
Okay, so you would be gone again.
Well Are you gonna do it? I don't know.
- Oh, hey.
- Where's Dad? I don't know.
I was looking for him too.
How'd it go in Philly? Oh.
Wanna have a drink? So does Dad always have spare beers onboard? Yeah.
He once told me that a good captain always makes sure there are ample rations in case he has to pick up shipwrecked sailors.
- So I guess that makes us lost at sea? - Something like that.
So, uh, Danielle and I might've got back together.
Might've? Okay, we did.
[CHUCKLES.]
Huh.
- We're just taking it slow.
- Mm, mm.
[BOTH CHUCKLE.]
Gonna tell me what's in the envelope? Uh, it's an offer of employment to the Chesapeake Shores Fire Department.
As a paramedic.
Congratulations.
And Sarah just signed up with Philly.
[SIGHS.]
To being lost at sea.
If you start singing the Titanic theme song, I'm tossing you overboard.
[CONNOR CHUCKLES.]
BREE: Fine, the book has everything to do with us.
And maybe it's not who we are today but it is what happened.
Okay? At least from what I remember.
And what happened can't be undone, but we can take responsibility for it.
And for me, that means not hiding behind my book anymore and not waiting for somebody to bless it so that I can publish it.
I'm going to publish it, it's the truth.
It's my truth.
There's a lot you don't know.
I know.
We've been through it.
I still don't know anything.
Jess.
I wasn't well, so I left to get help.
But, honey I tried to take you, and you, and all of you with me.
Megan, you left.
It didn't give you the right to take the kids.
Not to mention it would've been illegal.
She was trying to keep the family together.
- By leaving us? - Okay, we're all here now.
Yeah.
Held together by Band-Aids.
MEGAN: Guys.
I came home to heal us.
Yeah, we wouldn't need to be healed if you didn't leave.
You know what, Connor, no offense but you don't remember how things were in the house.
"No offense"? I remember.
I was a kid.
The only people that could explain it left.
That includes you.
- Connor, I was drowning.
- What ? - I had no choice.
- So you just walked out? It's not always that simple.
And it was hard for all of us.
- CONNOR: Oh, is that right? - We were 6 and 8 years old.
- I tried to get you to stay.
- I couldn't stay the way it was.
I needed you, Mick, and you weren't there.
- And you didn't care how I felt.
- Yes, I did care.
I did care.
But you had a responsibility to be here You both did.
You were supposed to be our parents and it is ridiculous that you've waited this long to own up to it.
I don't deny we could've handled things a better way.
You see, at least someone is admitting it.
Look.
I'm sorry.
And I will never forgive myself.
[.]
But that doesn't mean I want the whole world to know.
If somebody had been here to explain, I wouldn't have had to write about it.
Everybody gets to know everything we did right and wrong? BREE: Dad, I'm so sorry, you are such a hypocrite.
The truth only matters if it doesn't include you? No, honey.
The truth only matters to the people in this room.
Okay.
Okay.
[EXHALES.]
Once again, the O'Brien family sits in silence.
NARRATOR: Next time on Chesapeake Shores: We'd like to buy you a new bed and breakfast in Tanglewood.
I applied to the Philadelphia F.
D - as a paramedic.
- What are you gonna do? - He hasn't made his decision.
- Doesn't mean you can't make yours.
Abby was the one who pushed you to get back out.
Are we a go? We can make this work.
We have before.
We're doing it now.