Everwood s03e16 Episode Script
A Moment in Manhattan (a.k.a. A Mountain Town)
Previously on Everwood
I got the audition.
For Juilliard? OMIGOD! I thought you wanted to write.
You just don't seem to get it.
I didn't ask you for a damn thing but to go away with me and you couldn't do that.
You know what? you can take a long walk off a short cliff.
I'm done.
I think we need a break.
I don't want to wind up resenting you, Edna.
I went to see Madison the other day.
I got a flyer for her band on my car.
So did you see her? No.
She left the band.
You got her number? Yeah, Jay gave it to me.
Maybe Delia'll want to call her or something.
May be.
I have to tell you something.
Madison left Everwood when she found out that she was pregnant with Ephram's child.
All I know for certain is that Ephram he has no idea about any of it.
People came from far to the mountain town.
I came from the north to find purpose.
The doctor came a city to escape regret.
Fate had other plans for both of us.
You could argue it's better to be neglected by fate than well-attended.
When it marks you for favor, you can bet your life will with change rarely for the better though always deeper.
The most costly casualty is always the heart nothing hurts so much as that.
Like sacrificing your queen, you can still play only you can't help feel that the game is already lost.
But strangely, cruelly, a distraught heart keeps beating.
No matter how much you wish it would stop.
So you take another breath, another step, you wake again to the unsympathetic silence.
Amy, you wanna get up? Not really.
You go through the motions pretending for all the world to be a warm-blooded creature.
Hey, uh, Delia, make sure he packs right.
I know how to pack.
He means no flannel.
It's not allowed in New York.
Oh, right.
Well, maybe, I do need some help.
You'll feel better once you get there, Dad.
You won't think about Mrs.
Hayes so much.
The Doctor and I both knew a lot about that.
We both came a long ways only to find that purpose doesn't last and regret can burn a hole through any happiness and that just when you think fate is done kicking you around and maybe it's time to hope again, that's when the real surprises come.
"A Mountain Town" (A moment in Manhattan) Yeah.
-What's this? -A letter.
For me.
I'm right here.
This required some formality.
Your letter of resignation.
Your typewritten letter of resignation.
Well, this is very thoughtful, Harold, thank you.
I hate to be ungrateful, but why exactly are you resigning this morning? Because you're gonna wanna fire me in five minutes and I'd like to preserve some measure of dignity.
I've done something you will no doubt and rightly find upsetting.
Did you finish the Half-N-Half again? I already told you, Harold, you come in early, the milk grades are fair game.
I told Amy.
About Madison, about Ephram, the pregnancy all of it.
I know you told me in confidence.
I wasn't in a position to lie.
Actually, that's-that's not true.
I could have lied.
She deserved to know.
So I told her.
Knowing full well the consequences for you, thus my resignation tendered.
Did she tell him yet? No.
Is she planning to? She doesn't know what to do.
She's been lying in bed avoiding the decision.
I can't say I envy her.
On one hand, she's a girl in love with her boyfriend, who wants him to know the truth.
On the other hand, she's a girl in love with her boyfriend, who doesn't want to lose him or crush him just before the most important audition of his life.
Take it back, Harold.
Not accepted.
But I'm half the reason that you didn't tell Ephram when you had the chance.
I betrayed your trust.
Someone had to.
Go back to work.
I'm hardly in a position to offer advice, but you did want to tell Ephram yourself once.
Now may be the last chance to do so yourself.
I'm going to let him go to New York first and audition.
He's worked hard for that.
He deserves his chance at a future.
That's why I kept this from him in the first place.
Are you sure of this? Well, I've waited this long.
He can't hate me any more than he already will.
He may not hate you.
I would.
Hey.
Yes, I know we're only going for two days and I'm packing for like a month.
Hey, I was thinking right when we land tomorrow, we could go straight to H&H for a good bagel breakfast.
But first you have to make good on your promise to try lox.
You insult my people when you refuse our gross fish.
I have to tell you something.
What's up? I don't think that I can come to New York with you.
Is your dad freaking out again? Tell him you have your own hotel room, we can sign separate bed affidavits if we must.
No, it's not him exactly, it's more your dad.
My dad? What's wrong with my dad? I mean what specifically out of the many things wrong with him is the problem this time? Well, I've just been thinking about it, and, ummm, I don't really think that it's my place to go on this one.
I mean, we've had our time in New York, and you and your dad really worked hard to get you this audition, I think you should do this with him.
Look, if you're gonna cheat on me, you need to at least think of a better excuse.
Make up like, uh, sick relative or somethin'.
I'm serious.
Why can't I be serious about this? Uh, because you've been doing the good bagel countdown since we first talked about this.
-What's up? -Nothing.
Eph, my head just isn't in a very good space right now.
I don't want to bring you down with me.
Well, what's wrong with your head? We can deal with it when you get back, how 'bout that? I tell you everything.
I promise.
Look don't worry about it.
Go to New York, kick ass, get into Juilliard and bring me some pizza, okay.
Oh, sometimes I impress even myself.
Let it be known, I could easily do another 20 minutes, but choose not to out of respect for the time limit on these machines.
Arbitrary though it may be.
Irv? Harold? Keeping that clogged heart flowing freely.
Good for you.
I didn't know you worked out here.
Oh, sure, I'm here all the time.
Gotta stay in shape.
Oh, absolutely.
I'm here thrice weekly for my cardio plus a weight training session with Franco.
So how is it I never see you here? Oh, I prefer to work out at night.
Helps me sleep.
Really.
So what's your routine like? Stocky fellow like yourself I can see you as an old school free weights man, hmm? A little of this, a little of that.
I'm just here to shower up today.
What's wrong with the shower at home? Nothing, it's just that I'm not allowed to use it.
You and Mother have another spat? You could say that.
Well, what would be more accurate to say? Well, I guess you could say, we sort of split up.
Split up.
Oh, you don't mean.
I moved out a month ago.
She didn't tell ya? A month? Cry me.
Well, are you all right? Where have you been staying? I've been sleeping on the couch in my office.
Washing up here.
Working mostly.
I actually made some pretty good progress on Have you tried talking this through? Well, your Mother's not exactly the talking kind.
You know how she is.
I know how old she is both of ya.
Time has washed you clean of function.
Good Lord and butter, how many more times do you think you can fall in love? Maybe we don't get any more love in life maybe we do.
I just know I'm the one that walked out and she's not much of a forgiver.
Well, that's true.
She'd rather give a kidney to a stranger than grant a loved one a second chance, but still In your own way, you've been a good son-in-law to me.
-I should thank you for that.
-Don't talk like that.
Well, no other way to talk.
I screwed up.
I may spend the rest of my days paying for it, but there's nothing left to be done except maybe to try to find some way to move on.
Do you really think you can do that? I have to.
Hard to believe, isn't it.
We've been gone so long.
Weird finally to be back.
Can't tell yet.
Ask me after we've ordered room service.
I haven't been here since the summer.
I feel like I never left.
You okay? I'm not sure.
Well, I know what it is.
It's your first time back since Mom died.
It's gonna be a lot of memories - like all at once.
It'll be all right.
Hey, we're here.
Well, look who's here.
Hello, Thomas.
Welcome back, Dr.
Brown.
Good to see ya.
Good to see you too.
Oh my God, look at this.
This is just Just traffic.
I mean there's noise, crowds, spit on the ground, the pizza guy's name is Ray, the grocery guy's Korean life as it should be.
I mean, 5th Avenue.
How'd we ever leave this place? Well, you put us in a car and forced us.
Hey, slow down.
No.
No.
You keep up.
I think Everwood's making you too slow.
I can't believe we stayed away this long.
Hey, if I get a pretzel does that make me a tourist? Only if you pay more than a dollar.
No, don't get me wrong, I mean, I love Everwood, but I mean this this is my natural habitat.
It's as though I I evolved just to survive in this place.
Feet made for walking out on pavement.
Lungs for filtering out cab fumes.
Listen, there is no other place like this in the whole world.
None whatsoever.
HEY, I'M WALKING HERE.
Okay.
God, it's great to be back home.
What you think I'm manic? No, it's good.
You've been stuck on depressed for way too long.
I've been depressed.
That your girlfriend's boyfriend just came out of a coma, trust me I'm like the one guy on earth who can totally relate.
Well, I've forgotten all that.
You know what, husbands, girlfriends, neighbors' wives, I've given all that up till we get back to Everwood, which I may never wanna do.
Hey, you wanna catch a matinee.
I bet my name's still good for house seats.
Relax, we don't have to do everything in the first hour.
Well, I wanna make up for lost time.
We lived here for 15 years and we never did anything together.
Yeah, good times.
No, I mean it, I mean it, this is the first time we've ever been to New York together and actually liked each other.
I can't believe I never took you ice skating at Rockefeller Center or -or at Wolman.
Hey, let's go ice skating, you wanna go.
Dad.
Okay, well, then let's check out the Kristo exhibit in the park.
No, I can't.
I gotta go check in for my audition at Juilliard.
Okay, well, then what about dinner afterwards.
We can go to the 2nd Avenue Deli - you, me and a couple of pounds of corned beef.
-You're gonna be all right until then? -I'm gonna be great.
Told ya.
Something is seriously wrong here.
Not now, Bright.
No, I mean it.
This is important.
Important as in I'm on fire important or like I just beat my Snood high score important.
Both.
Get this.
I feel great.
I seriously can't deal with you right now.
Think about it.
I've got no reason to feel good.
My life sucks.
I just got fired.
It's too cold outside to do anything fun.
Mom and Dad think I'm a joke.
-You are a joke.
-See? Exactly, I have no reason to be happy.
But I am.
So I was thinking about, how come? I don't know you prayed.
No, wait, porn.
Nope.
Because of Jillian.
I'm sorry, umm, you feel great because of the girl who almost filed a sexual harassment suit against you and got you fired.
Because I apologized to her for getting bored with her after three days and treating her like crap.
Like I dumped her ass, but then I said I was sorry and I meant it.
And now I feel great.
Wow, must be nice to be you.
So simple.
So you know what I'm going to do? I don't know find a new job.
Well, since I have so much time, I'm going to apologize to every girl that I've not called back or dumped or just dicked over.
How great is that? Seriously, Bright, can't you just volunteer at a hospital? I made a list.
Please tell me you didn't.
I thought I would go in chronological order starting, y'know, from 6th grade in school.
Laura Lewis she was the first who developed in my class.
She let me touch 'em.
But then I frenched Patricia You hooked up with Kayla.
Oh, right, I don't think you were supposed to know that.
The funny thing is that I keep coming up with more names to put on the list like just out of nowhere.
Like Taco Bell chick with the clock tattoo.
Or was it Taco Time chick with a bell tattoo.
Anyways, how do you spell Cassandra? How on earth did it come to this? And why didn't you tell us sooner? There's nothing to tell.
There was a man here, now there isn't.
Well, I can understand why you're mad.
The son of a bitch walked out on me after five years, how should I be? You should be angry fuming.
If it were me, I might even consider violence.
Don't think I've ruled it out.
I got a squad full of old army buddies.
As soon as I can have the man cornered in a parking lot and beaten with a sack of nickels.
Well, so long as you found your peace with it.
Oh, don't worry about me.
I'm a decorated war veteran.
I've tied tunicates on blown off legs with blood squirting clear across a tent.
One time my hand cramped, I had to use my teeth.
I can handle some git who can't even tie his own shoes.
Taking a powder and leaving me with the dishes.
Oh, there's no shame in it, Edna.
You still have unresolved feelings for Irv.
Well, I shouldn't.
That's not how I work.
When Hal, Sr.
kicked, it hurt like hell, but it made sense in the grand scheme of things and my heart could do its repair work.
With this one, it's weeks later, I'm still in it.
When something's over, it should be over.
Why should I care, if his smell is leaving the pillow.
Because you're still in love.
It's like poison in the blood.
Well, then get it out.
Give me a pill and I'll take it.
I'm too old to feel this way.
Well, maybe if you told Irv how you feel.
Oh, no.
He left.
I thought we could fix things.
I had a broom ready to sweep the whole nonsense under the rug and he walked out.
Sat right out there on that bench and told me we needed a break that goes on forever.
I don't go crawling back after that.
That's just pride talking.
No place for that in marriage.
Do you even know what I had to do to keep Harold from running off and going the seminary three days before we go married? I don't want to.
The point is you wouldn't still feel this way if this marriage wasn't worth saving.
I would rather spend the rest of my life cooking for one than be with someone who can do without me.
Well, at least now we know.
We can take better care of you.
Oh, I fine, Rose.
I know you like to pretend that nothing gets to you and sometimes you mean it too.
Today however is another matter.
Here.
Take your coat.
You're coming with me.
Thanks.
Whoa, take it easy, buddy.
You think he's gonna take me out before my audition? Watch out for dark alleys.
Um, I'm Ephram Brown.
I have a four o'clock on Sunday.
Yes you do.
And you're all set, Sunday at four.
Great, what do I do until then? How do you get to Carnegie Hall? -Rick? -Yeah.
Andy? Hey, Man, I almost didn't catch you under all that beard.
-You still here? -I'm still here yeah, it's still nuts.
I'm about to go in on a double aneurism.
How are you doing? Are you still out in that place in, uh - Neverland? -Everwood.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
How's that going? -Things are good.
-Good.
Good.
Just checking in with the past? -Yeah.
something like that.
-Right.
-How's Tess? -Oh, she's great Y'know, she's nine now.
No, is it? threw her a birthday party for her.
-Well, how was it? -Oh, y'know, it was, uh, It was fine.
It was I couldn't really make it.
You know Umm, listen, it's good seeing ya.
I really gotta get in there.
-Good luck in there.
-Thanks.
Hey, umm, do you mind if I borrow that for a second? You any good? I'm okay.
You've been practicing.
I don't even know what to say.
How-How are you? Uh, what are you doing here? I live here now.
Ephram, I work nearby.
Forget about me though, wh-what are you doing here? Uh, I'm just I'm-I'm applying to schools.
Uh, yeah, I mean, I came in to do that.
Juilliard.
You got an audition.
Yeah, my dad and I came in for that so it's kinda cool.
-Your dad's here with you.
-Yeah.
Yeah.
I was supposed to meet him like 10 minutes ago.
But you should totally come with me, because he would love to see you.
Oh, I can't.
I'm working.
Oh, there he is right now.
DAD! Ho-How random is this? Right? She lives here now, can you believe that? It's good to see you, Dr.
Brown.
So, c'mon, blow off work - - come with us.
I- I can't.
Really.
All right, okay, so, uh, breakfast tomorrow? Sound good.
There's so much I wanna catch up on.
Yeah.
Me too.
Okay.
Call me.
Will do.
Bright Abbott? Hey, Sara.
I wasn't sure you'd even remember me.
Are you kidding? I still have bite marks.
Whoa - - are you pregnant or did you just go nuts with the carbs? It's a girl.
Girl bun in the oven, sweet.
Oh, is that why you got uh No.
No.
We got married almost a year ago.
We planned this.
Man, I haven't even planned what I'm wearing tomorrow.
Uh, you're a grown-up.
What about you? What are you up to? Well, y'know, not much.
Y'know, just, uh, sorta hanging out, wondering where it all went wrong - the usual.
I really just came by to say that that I'm sorry.
For what? Well, the way that it ended with us, y'know I kinda built it up and then I pulled the plug out of nowhere and I mean, you were really cool, and y'know, and it was awesome the way you took my virginity like that and all and I Y'know, I just You don't deserve to be treated like that.
Bright, I'm not really looking to get back together.
Oh, no.
No.
No.
That's not what this is about.
I'm just I'm just trying to make it right.
That's really sweet of you.
Yeah, y'know, I was upset for a while, the way you said you needed time to yourself and then like a day after you hooked up with Janet Miller.
Oh, right, Janet Miller.
Yeah.
That-That was an ass.
But it turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to me.
Remember Milo Kornwallace? Oh yeah, that nerdy kid from Math that used to stare down your shirt all the time? Yeah, well, he was really there for me when I was upset about you.
After a few weeks we stopped talking about you and started talking about us.
Now he's my husband.
Hey, cool, so I get like an RBI.
Well, hey, y'know, you look really, uh, real happy.
I never thought of you as the settle-down type.
Oh, I always wanted to settle down.
Really? You never said anything like that.
I just didn't want to settle down with you.
No offense, you're a great guy, and a lotta fun.
But you're not the type of guy a girl thinks of building a home with.
Oh, listen, do you wanna hang out Milo's got the game on the big screen.
Oh, no, y'know, uh, I gotta whole list of apologies to go through, so uh But tell Milo I say hey.
And, umm, good luck with that bun.
Madison? This is Andy Brown.
I know you have no reason to say yes but I'd like to see you.
I don't know why you bother.
Well, because a home spun Hollandaise can say I love you as much as, well, saying "I love you" especially over your asparagus.
I should call your mother down.
She's still here? But-But she was here for brunch, I assumed her usual one meal limit.
Rose! Edna! These are not usual days, Harold She needs us now - - is there a problem? Oh, I think we're soon to eclipse "problem" and move right into "catastrophe".
I bumped into Irv living like a refugee at the gym, apparently I invited him to supper and well, I think you can sense our predicament.
Mmm, smells good, Rose.
I don't know how much I can eat though.
Yes, well, uh, perhaps you should go then.
You're depressed, that can take a toll on the appetite.
With-with ancillary benefits to the waistline - nature's way of slimming you down to attract the next mate I imagine.
God's wonders - can't be fought or perhaps how about a nice nap instead? Easy there, I'm the one who's bereft, how come you look like you just sat on a landmine? Oh, no reason.
I forgot I need to make a phone call.
Very quickly.
Ah.
Well too late.
Yes.
Ah I didn't know you'd be here.
Well I am.
Glad to see it.
I'd like to introduce you to a friend You brought a "friend?" He brought a friend.
Wonderful.
This is Gretta.
Uh I hope you don't mind I brought her along.
Isn't that just rich.
Egg yolks on ice.
You sure didn't waste any time.
Couple weeks alone and he's already found himself a chippy.
-Excuse me.
-All right, hussy, then.
That hair, make-up like she's ready to do Kabuki she's trolling for a fourth husband and you bit on that worm like it was made of sunshine.
-Now you just wait -Fine, if that's what you want.
A pair of cheap shoes, some store bought knockers.
Go ahead, have a nice life.
You're not gonna let me get a word in here are you? I wasted enough time listening to you when I had to Mouth like yours -no wonder I left -More power to you.
Better luck with the next one.
He farts like a bull in his sleep.
Good luck.
Irv, you said you were going to try to move on.
You move quickly.
Guess what I just did? Umm, played the crap out of Haydn.
That too.
But I was gonna tell you about the package I just sent you.
You're not gonna tell me what's in it, are you? Uh, no, but you should get it tomorrow morning so you won't have to wait too long.
That's still mean.
So how's New York? New York's great.
I managed to score one of the hotel's stray cocktail hour pianos so I've been practicing like nonstop.
This is my first break in like three Powerbars.
Ooh, sounds like I'm really missing out.
So, listen, I, uh, I bumped into Madison today.
Wow, umm Madison, really, uh How is she? She's good.
She's real good.
Y'know, she was fine.
We didn't really get a chance to talk long, but, uh, we were gonna maybe meet up again tomorrow.
-But she seemed okay? -Yeah.
Yeah, that was the thing.
It was totally weird.
It was like I used to have all these feelings and everything but I'm totally over it.
It's like running into my cousin.
Anyway, I-I just want you to know.
Reaction? Uh, just surprised.
Uh, are you gonna see her again? Yeah, I mean, unless if you have a problem with that.
But she knows it's your audition, right? Yeah.
I just wouldn't want anything to throw you off.
It-It won't.
We're just catchin' up.
She gets all clingy, I'll just walk out of the diner.
Well, then tell her I say hi.
Thank you.
Well, uh, you should, uh, probably get some sleep, you got a big day coming up.
Yeah, I don't know, I feel pretty ready though.
What? I was just trying to find something better to say than I love you.
Well, I'll take it.
Then I love you.
I'll call you first thing after my audition.
Okay.
Bye.
Where is he? He went to practice for a few hours.
Listen, I know you're gonna see Ephram tomorrow and Save it.
Really.
I listened to you once and it was a mistake.
I spent the last year regretting the fact that I didn't tell Ephram the truth.
I'm not gonna make that mistake again.
I know.
I want you to tell him.
For a year now, there hasn't been a day that's gone by that I haven't thought about what's happened to you.
Wondering how I could've done that, what you decided to do with the baby.
I'm not gonna tell you what I did.
Good.
Don't.
I don't deserve it.
You don't even get it.
I was broke and pregnant and I didn't know what to do.
I didn't have anyone I could trust except for you, and you you sent me away, thinking that your money would make it all better.
Yes, I did.
I made a terrible mistake with you, Madison, and I am so sorry.
I thought I was protecting Ephram, but I was just putting more lies between us.
When I left it was hard.
And there were times when I didn't know if I had the strength to make it.
Turns out that I did.
I came here tonight to tell you that.
That was all.
Y'know, I've never been a big believer in fate.
I lived in this city for a very long time and I only saw a world that could be controlled by my own hands and since then everything I've done, everything that's happened to me has had a current of its own.
Now of all times, and I have to find meaning in that, and the only meaning that I can find is that all of my instincts all of my intentions are wrong.
I hope yours are better.
Tell him everything.
I plan to.
The dude's been in New York like a half an hour and he's already sent you a care package.
Does he ever run out of ways to be your bitch? Ooh, bagels.
You promised Lox.
Score.
Yep, those are all yours.
So like shouldn't you be out, uh, apologizing or something? I'm done.
Cleared the whole list.
Told them all I suck, I'm sorry.
So how were they? Umm, they're pretty much fine.
Couple of girls got married already, some are at school.
Two are modeling thank you very much.
And only one girl really porked out.
Jodi Marie, huh? Saw that coming huh? Mmm, hmm.
Most women dug the apology thing though.
Yeah.
One girl even told me I should call her.
You think they'd learn.
Well, good job in your own really shallow.
You've actually taken your first step towards respecting women.
It was kinda weird seeing 'em all like that, y'know.
They used to all be such a big deal to me and I was to them, but now they're like fine without me.
You expected weeping? It was more like they all moved on, but they didn't see me as someone that they would want to move on with, y'know.
Right.
Well, you'll settle down when the time is right.
When's that? When it doesn't feel like settling any more.
Right.
When's that? If you're a normal person, I would say Okay, how 'bout this, when you saw those girls did you wish that you were with any of them still? -No.
-Okay.
Ever miss them while they're gone? Sometimes in the shower, but mostly no.
So there you go.
You'll know who you're supposed to end up with when you actually miss them.
Do all chicks believe that crap or -or just you 'cause you're like Super Chick? I'm gonna take these in the kitchen before you inhale them all.
Oh, and, uh, by the way, what are you and Hannah doing tonight? Because, uh, this girl that I apologized to, she works at this like art film place and they're doing some really killer Hong Kong film festival thing, thought it'd be kinda nice to take her down and show her where she said her parents were.
Plus sword fighting.
Yeah, she's not here, actually.
She's, uh, way the hell up in Minnesota with her family finally.
Really.
Till when? Umm, next week I think.
That long.
That sucks.
I know.
Tell me about it.
Umm.
but I could still go with you if you want.
Naa, Hannah's the only one that let's me talk during the movies.
It wouldn't be as much fun without 'er.
Eight a.
m.
with your coffee mug looking for the newspaper.
Like clockwork.
That's not cute.
That's stalking.
I don't have anything to say and even less to hear so get whatever it is you came for and get out.
Will you a problem, lady, 'cause I came for you.
You're doing just fine without me.
No hold on, that wasn't just some date back there.
That Oh, save it, bub Whatever you have to say, -I don't care.
-Yes, you do.
You care big time.
I saw you about to tear my head off there.
I still might.
That's right, because you're flaming jealous.
You're jealous because you still love me.
I do not.
You know you had me there believing that you were all done with me.
No way you would've gone off like a tub of napalm unless you still loved me.
And if you give me half a second with your cake whole shut -Oh stop it.
-I'd tell you that I still love you.
I do.
Goodness, there's so much I-I want to tell you.
Here.
What's this? A page from my book.
Your book? You started it? I finished it.
It was a long time comin'.
Good job, Harper.
There's more.
I've got interest in it.
That woman I brought over wasn't just some date, you twit, she was my editor friend from back in Annapolis.
Editor? She liked it? She said it broke her heart.
Said she wanted to print it.
That is if she'll forgive that bit about her knockers.
So, she wasn't just some hussy? Even if she was, there's only one hussy, that I'm interested in.
I left this house because I thought the world was calling me to a journey.
I couldn't step a foot away.
You.
You, Edna, you're my journey.
Wherever you are that's the adventure.
I know that now.
Read it.
It's my last page.
The last page? I woke up this morning and I wrote you a new one.
I made my mistakes now I have my regret to keep me company.
Voices and books for friends.
I walked away from my life's work and she doesn't even know it.
Go on.
I know I should move on, let it end there with loss accepted.
I know I should go something keeps me still.
There isn't so much a cure for regret as a remedy.
You can sit and mourn all you did wrong, writhe in the empty fantasy of how you'd do it better if only you could go back or you can do better now.
You know we lived in this building with this view for fifteen years and I never brought you up here either.
Hey, you're making up for a lot this week.
You're seeing Madison today.
Yeah, all the way downtown.
How long you think it'll take me to get there from here? Well, traffic's pretty heavy, you should probably leave soon.
So I don't know what's gonna happen with my audition? -I do.
-No, don't-don't jinx it.
But Yeah, I was thinkin' that if they do make a mistake and decide to take me, I-I get to live here again, that yeah, maybe y'know, What? Well, maybe y'know, maybe you and Delia would want to come too.
Move back here with me.
I mean come on, you love it here and you've been a mess ever since you and Amanda broke up.
It's not like your dating options are going to improve living in a microscopic town.
I mean, here you have an entire city full of women like 10 years older than me that actually think you're a viable dating option.
Perfect.
You're serious, aren't you? I- I-I'm not saying that I'm gonna live with you.
I mean you-you could go back to surgery or not.
Y'know, people here need free clinics as well and -and also Delia's gonna be 12 soon.
Good luck finding a bat mitzvah tutor in Everwood.
I don't know what to say.
It's just, y'know, you dragged us to Everwood so that we could find a way to become a family and I thought you were insane at the time.
You-You were insane at the time.
I don't know somehow it worked.
Everything you took us there to find, we-we got.
I never thought I'd actually be saying this, but it was the right thing to do.
And you're right, we've-we've missed too much already, y'know.
Let's keep it together.
Thank you, Ephram.
All right, but if you get all sentimental on me, deal's off.
Okay? No, I just I never thought we'd get here.
Well, the odds were against it.
Well, I promise you, if you feel this way when the time comes, I will be right here with you.
All right, I gotta go meet Madison.
I know.
This is good, Dad.
It's good.
Maybe that's why of all the people in the mountain town, I keep thinking about the doctor.
He gave life to so many only to have his own torn out of his chest.
Yet somehow, he managed to set aside his grief and his regret and looked ahead to new memories and new mistakes.
I think of him and I remember there's always a reason to try again.
I think of him and I can hope to hope.
Script: Rosemary Srt: Juanfran
For Juilliard? OMIGOD! I thought you wanted to write.
You just don't seem to get it.
I didn't ask you for a damn thing but to go away with me and you couldn't do that.
You know what? you can take a long walk off a short cliff.
I'm done.
I think we need a break.
I don't want to wind up resenting you, Edna.
I went to see Madison the other day.
I got a flyer for her band on my car.
So did you see her? No.
She left the band.
You got her number? Yeah, Jay gave it to me.
Maybe Delia'll want to call her or something.
May be.
I have to tell you something.
Madison left Everwood when she found out that she was pregnant with Ephram's child.
All I know for certain is that Ephram he has no idea about any of it.
People came from far to the mountain town.
I came from the north to find purpose.
The doctor came a city to escape regret.
Fate had other plans for both of us.
You could argue it's better to be neglected by fate than well-attended.
When it marks you for favor, you can bet your life will with change rarely for the better though always deeper.
The most costly casualty is always the heart nothing hurts so much as that.
Like sacrificing your queen, you can still play only you can't help feel that the game is already lost.
But strangely, cruelly, a distraught heart keeps beating.
No matter how much you wish it would stop.
So you take another breath, another step, you wake again to the unsympathetic silence.
Amy, you wanna get up? Not really.
You go through the motions pretending for all the world to be a warm-blooded creature.
Hey, uh, Delia, make sure he packs right.
I know how to pack.
He means no flannel.
It's not allowed in New York.
Oh, right.
Well, maybe, I do need some help.
You'll feel better once you get there, Dad.
You won't think about Mrs.
Hayes so much.
The Doctor and I both knew a lot about that.
We both came a long ways only to find that purpose doesn't last and regret can burn a hole through any happiness and that just when you think fate is done kicking you around and maybe it's time to hope again, that's when the real surprises come.
"A Mountain Town" (A moment in Manhattan) Yeah.
-What's this? -A letter.
For me.
I'm right here.
This required some formality.
Your letter of resignation.
Your typewritten letter of resignation.
Well, this is very thoughtful, Harold, thank you.
I hate to be ungrateful, but why exactly are you resigning this morning? Because you're gonna wanna fire me in five minutes and I'd like to preserve some measure of dignity.
I've done something you will no doubt and rightly find upsetting.
Did you finish the Half-N-Half again? I already told you, Harold, you come in early, the milk grades are fair game.
I told Amy.
About Madison, about Ephram, the pregnancy all of it.
I know you told me in confidence.
I wasn't in a position to lie.
Actually, that's-that's not true.
I could have lied.
She deserved to know.
So I told her.
Knowing full well the consequences for you, thus my resignation tendered.
Did she tell him yet? No.
Is she planning to? She doesn't know what to do.
She's been lying in bed avoiding the decision.
I can't say I envy her.
On one hand, she's a girl in love with her boyfriend, who wants him to know the truth.
On the other hand, she's a girl in love with her boyfriend, who doesn't want to lose him or crush him just before the most important audition of his life.
Take it back, Harold.
Not accepted.
But I'm half the reason that you didn't tell Ephram when you had the chance.
I betrayed your trust.
Someone had to.
Go back to work.
I'm hardly in a position to offer advice, but you did want to tell Ephram yourself once.
Now may be the last chance to do so yourself.
I'm going to let him go to New York first and audition.
He's worked hard for that.
He deserves his chance at a future.
That's why I kept this from him in the first place.
Are you sure of this? Well, I've waited this long.
He can't hate me any more than he already will.
He may not hate you.
I would.
Hey.
Yes, I know we're only going for two days and I'm packing for like a month.
Hey, I was thinking right when we land tomorrow, we could go straight to H&H for a good bagel breakfast.
But first you have to make good on your promise to try lox.
You insult my people when you refuse our gross fish.
I have to tell you something.
What's up? I don't think that I can come to New York with you.
Is your dad freaking out again? Tell him you have your own hotel room, we can sign separate bed affidavits if we must.
No, it's not him exactly, it's more your dad.
My dad? What's wrong with my dad? I mean what specifically out of the many things wrong with him is the problem this time? Well, I've just been thinking about it, and, ummm, I don't really think that it's my place to go on this one.
I mean, we've had our time in New York, and you and your dad really worked hard to get you this audition, I think you should do this with him.
Look, if you're gonna cheat on me, you need to at least think of a better excuse.
Make up like, uh, sick relative or somethin'.
I'm serious.
Why can't I be serious about this? Uh, because you've been doing the good bagel countdown since we first talked about this.
-What's up? -Nothing.
Eph, my head just isn't in a very good space right now.
I don't want to bring you down with me.
Well, what's wrong with your head? We can deal with it when you get back, how 'bout that? I tell you everything.
I promise.
Look don't worry about it.
Go to New York, kick ass, get into Juilliard and bring me some pizza, okay.
Oh, sometimes I impress even myself.
Let it be known, I could easily do another 20 minutes, but choose not to out of respect for the time limit on these machines.
Arbitrary though it may be.
Irv? Harold? Keeping that clogged heart flowing freely.
Good for you.
I didn't know you worked out here.
Oh, sure, I'm here all the time.
Gotta stay in shape.
Oh, absolutely.
I'm here thrice weekly for my cardio plus a weight training session with Franco.
So how is it I never see you here? Oh, I prefer to work out at night.
Helps me sleep.
Really.
So what's your routine like? Stocky fellow like yourself I can see you as an old school free weights man, hmm? A little of this, a little of that.
I'm just here to shower up today.
What's wrong with the shower at home? Nothing, it's just that I'm not allowed to use it.
You and Mother have another spat? You could say that.
Well, what would be more accurate to say? Well, I guess you could say, we sort of split up.
Split up.
Oh, you don't mean.
I moved out a month ago.
She didn't tell ya? A month? Cry me.
Well, are you all right? Where have you been staying? I've been sleeping on the couch in my office.
Washing up here.
Working mostly.
I actually made some pretty good progress on Have you tried talking this through? Well, your Mother's not exactly the talking kind.
You know how she is.
I know how old she is both of ya.
Time has washed you clean of function.
Good Lord and butter, how many more times do you think you can fall in love? Maybe we don't get any more love in life maybe we do.
I just know I'm the one that walked out and she's not much of a forgiver.
Well, that's true.
She'd rather give a kidney to a stranger than grant a loved one a second chance, but still In your own way, you've been a good son-in-law to me.
-I should thank you for that.
-Don't talk like that.
Well, no other way to talk.
I screwed up.
I may spend the rest of my days paying for it, but there's nothing left to be done except maybe to try to find some way to move on.
Do you really think you can do that? I have to.
Hard to believe, isn't it.
We've been gone so long.
Weird finally to be back.
Can't tell yet.
Ask me after we've ordered room service.
I haven't been here since the summer.
I feel like I never left.
You okay? I'm not sure.
Well, I know what it is.
It's your first time back since Mom died.
It's gonna be a lot of memories - like all at once.
It'll be all right.
Hey, we're here.
Well, look who's here.
Hello, Thomas.
Welcome back, Dr.
Brown.
Good to see ya.
Good to see you too.
Oh my God, look at this.
This is just Just traffic.
I mean there's noise, crowds, spit on the ground, the pizza guy's name is Ray, the grocery guy's Korean life as it should be.
I mean, 5th Avenue.
How'd we ever leave this place? Well, you put us in a car and forced us.
Hey, slow down.
No.
No.
You keep up.
I think Everwood's making you too slow.
I can't believe we stayed away this long.
Hey, if I get a pretzel does that make me a tourist? Only if you pay more than a dollar.
No, don't get me wrong, I mean, I love Everwood, but I mean this this is my natural habitat.
It's as though I I evolved just to survive in this place.
Feet made for walking out on pavement.
Lungs for filtering out cab fumes.
Listen, there is no other place like this in the whole world.
None whatsoever.
HEY, I'M WALKING HERE.
Okay.
God, it's great to be back home.
What you think I'm manic? No, it's good.
You've been stuck on depressed for way too long.
I've been depressed.
That your girlfriend's boyfriend just came out of a coma, trust me I'm like the one guy on earth who can totally relate.
Well, I've forgotten all that.
You know what, husbands, girlfriends, neighbors' wives, I've given all that up till we get back to Everwood, which I may never wanna do.
Hey, you wanna catch a matinee.
I bet my name's still good for house seats.
Relax, we don't have to do everything in the first hour.
Well, I wanna make up for lost time.
We lived here for 15 years and we never did anything together.
Yeah, good times.
No, I mean it, I mean it, this is the first time we've ever been to New York together and actually liked each other.
I can't believe I never took you ice skating at Rockefeller Center or -or at Wolman.
Hey, let's go ice skating, you wanna go.
Dad.
Okay, well, then let's check out the Kristo exhibit in the park.
No, I can't.
I gotta go check in for my audition at Juilliard.
Okay, well, then what about dinner afterwards.
We can go to the 2nd Avenue Deli - you, me and a couple of pounds of corned beef.
-You're gonna be all right until then? -I'm gonna be great.
Told ya.
Something is seriously wrong here.
Not now, Bright.
No, I mean it.
This is important.
Important as in I'm on fire important or like I just beat my Snood high score important.
Both.
Get this.
I feel great.
I seriously can't deal with you right now.
Think about it.
I've got no reason to feel good.
My life sucks.
I just got fired.
It's too cold outside to do anything fun.
Mom and Dad think I'm a joke.
-You are a joke.
-See? Exactly, I have no reason to be happy.
But I am.
So I was thinking about, how come? I don't know you prayed.
No, wait, porn.
Nope.
Because of Jillian.
I'm sorry, umm, you feel great because of the girl who almost filed a sexual harassment suit against you and got you fired.
Because I apologized to her for getting bored with her after three days and treating her like crap.
Like I dumped her ass, but then I said I was sorry and I meant it.
And now I feel great.
Wow, must be nice to be you.
So simple.
So you know what I'm going to do? I don't know find a new job.
Well, since I have so much time, I'm going to apologize to every girl that I've not called back or dumped or just dicked over.
How great is that? Seriously, Bright, can't you just volunteer at a hospital? I made a list.
Please tell me you didn't.
I thought I would go in chronological order starting, y'know, from 6th grade in school.
Laura Lewis she was the first who developed in my class.
She let me touch 'em.
But then I frenched Patricia You hooked up with Kayla.
Oh, right, I don't think you were supposed to know that.
The funny thing is that I keep coming up with more names to put on the list like just out of nowhere.
Like Taco Bell chick with the clock tattoo.
Or was it Taco Time chick with a bell tattoo.
Anyways, how do you spell Cassandra? How on earth did it come to this? And why didn't you tell us sooner? There's nothing to tell.
There was a man here, now there isn't.
Well, I can understand why you're mad.
The son of a bitch walked out on me after five years, how should I be? You should be angry fuming.
If it were me, I might even consider violence.
Don't think I've ruled it out.
I got a squad full of old army buddies.
As soon as I can have the man cornered in a parking lot and beaten with a sack of nickels.
Well, so long as you found your peace with it.
Oh, don't worry about me.
I'm a decorated war veteran.
I've tied tunicates on blown off legs with blood squirting clear across a tent.
One time my hand cramped, I had to use my teeth.
I can handle some git who can't even tie his own shoes.
Taking a powder and leaving me with the dishes.
Oh, there's no shame in it, Edna.
You still have unresolved feelings for Irv.
Well, I shouldn't.
That's not how I work.
When Hal, Sr.
kicked, it hurt like hell, but it made sense in the grand scheme of things and my heart could do its repair work.
With this one, it's weeks later, I'm still in it.
When something's over, it should be over.
Why should I care, if his smell is leaving the pillow.
Because you're still in love.
It's like poison in the blood.
Well, then get it out.
Give me a pill and I'll take it.
I'm too old to feel this way.
Well, maybe if you told Irv how you feel.
Oh, no.
He left.
I thought we could fix things.
I had a broom ready to sweep the whole nonsense under the rug and he walked out.
Sat right out there on that bench and told me we needed a break that goes on forever.
I don't go crawling back after that.
That's just pride talking.
No place for that in marriage.
Do you even know what I had to do to keep Harold from running off and going the seminary three days before we go married? I don't want to.
The point is you wouldn't still feel this way if this marriage wasn't worth saving.
I would rather spend the rest of my life cooking for one than be with someone who can do without me.
Well, at least now we know.
We can take better care of you.
Oh, I fine, Rose.
I know you like to pretend that nothing gets to you and sometimes you mean it too.
Today however is another matter.
Here.
Take your coat.
You're coming with me.
Thanks.
Whoa, take it easy, buddy.
You think he's gonna take me out before my audition? Watch out for dark alleys.
Um, I'm Ephram Brown.
I have a four o'clock on Sunday.
Yes you do.
And you're all set, Sunday at four.
Great, what do I do until then? How do you get to Carnegie Hall? -Rick? -Yeah.
Andy? Hey, Man, I almost didn't catch you under all that beard.
-You still here? -I'm still here yeah, it's still nuts.
I'm about to go in on a double aneurism.
How are you doing? Are you still out in that place in, uh - Neverland? -Everwood.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
How's that going? -Things are good.
-Good.
Good.
Just checking in with the past? -Yeah.
something like that.
-Right.
-How's Tess? -Oh, she's great Y'know, she's nine now.
No, is it? threw her a birthday party for her.
-Well, how was it? -Oh, y'know, it was, uh, It was fine.
It was I couldn't really make it.
You know Umm, listen, it's good seeing ya.
I really gotta get in there.
-Good luck in there.
-Thanks.
Hey, umm, do you mind if I borrow that for a second? You any good? I'm okay.
You've been practicing.
I don't even know what to say.
How-How are you? Uh, what are you doing here? I live here now.
Ephram, I work nearby.
Forget about me though, wh-what are you doing here? Uh, I'm just I'm-I'm applying to schools.
Uh, yeah, I mean, I came in to do that.
Juilliard.
You got an audition.
Yeah, my dad and I came in for that so it's kinda cool.
-Your dad's here with you.
-Yeah.
Yeah.
I was supposed to meet him like 10 minutes ago.
But you should totally come with me, because he would love to see you.
Oh, I can't.
I'm working.
Oh, there he is right now.
DAD! Ho-How random is this? Right? She lives here now, can you believe that? It's good to see you, Dr.
Brown.
So, c'mon, blow off work - - come with us.
I- I can't.
Really.
All right, okay, so, uh, breakfast tomorrow? Sound good.
There's so much I wanna catch up on.
Yeah.
Me too.
Okay.
Call me.
Will do.
Bright Abbott? Hey, Sara.
I wasn't sure you'd even remember me.
Are you kidding? I still have bite marks.
Whoa - - are you pregnant or did you just go nuts with the carbs? It's a girl.
Girl bun in the oven, sweet.
Oh, is that why you got uh No.
No.
We got married almost a year ago.
We planned this.
Man, I haven't even planned what I'm wearing tomorrow.
Uh, you're a grown-up.
What about you? What are you up to? Well, y'know, not much.
Y'know, just, uh, sorta hanging out, wondering where it all went wrong - the usual.
I really just came by to say that that I'm sorry.
For what? Well, the way that it ended with us, y'know I kinda built it up and then I pulled the plug out of nowhere and I mean, you were really cool, and y'know, and it was awesome the way you took my virginity like that and all and I Y'know, I just You don't deserve to be treated like that.
Bright, I'm not really looking to get back together.
Oh, no.
No.
No.
That's not what this is about.
I'm just I'm just trying to make it right.
That's really sweet of you.
Yeah, y'know, I was upset for a while, the way you said you needed time to yourself and then like a day after you hooked up with Janet Miller.
Oh, right, Janet Miller.
Yeah.
That-That was an ass.
But it turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to me.
Remember Milo Kornwallace? Oh yeah, that nerdy kid from Math that used to stare down your shirt all the time? Yeah, well, he was really there for me when I was upset about you.
After a few weeks we stopped talking about you and started talking about us.
Now he's my husband.
Hey, cool, so I get like an RBI.
Well, hey, y'know, you look really, uh, real happy.
I never thought of you as the settle-down type.
Oh, I always wanted to settle down.
Really? You never said anything like that.
I just didn't want to settle down with you.
No offense, you're a great guy, and a lotta fun.
But you're not the type of guy a girl thinks of building a home with.
Oh, listen, do you wanna hang out Milo's got the game on the big screen.
Oh, no, y'know, uh, I gotta whole list of apologies to go through, so uh But tell Milo I say hey.
And, umm, good luck with that bun.
Madison? This is Andy Brown.
I know you have no reason to say yes but I'd like to see you.
I don't know why you bother.
Well, because a home spun Hollandaise can say I love you as much as, well, saying "I love you" especially over your asparagus.
I should call your mother down.
She's still here? But-But she was here for brunch, I assumed her usual one meal limit.
Rose! Edna! These are not usual days, Harold She needs us now - - is there a problem? Oh, I think we're soon to eclipse "problem" and move right into "catastrophe".
I bumped into Irv living like a refugee at the gym, apparently I invited him to supper and well, I think you can sense our predicament.
Mmm, smells good, Rose.
I don't know how much I can eat though.
Yes, well, uh, perhaps you should go then.
You're depressed, that can take a toll on the appetite.
With-with ancillary benefits to the waistline - nature's way of slimming you down to attract the next mate I imagine.
God's wonders - can't be fought or perhaps how about a nice nap instead? Easy there, I'm the one who's bereft, how come you look like you just sat on a landmine? Oh, no reason.
I forgot I need to make a phone call.
Very quickly.
Ah.
Well too late.
Yes.
Ah I didn't know you'd be here.
Well I am.
Glad to see it.
I'd like to introduce you to a friend You brought a "friend?" He brought a friend.
Wonderful.
This is Gretta.
Uh I hope you don't mind I brought her along.
Isn't that just rich.
Egg yolks on ice.
You sure didn't waste any time.
Couple weeks alone and he's already found himself a chippy.
-Excuse me.
-All right, hussy, then.
That hair, make-up like she's ready to do Kabuki she's trolling for a fourth husband and you bit on that worm like it was made of sunshine.
-Now you just wait -Fine, if that's what you want.
A pair of cheap shoes, some store bought knockers.
Go ahead, have a nice life.
You're not gonna let me get a word in here are you? I wasted enough time listening to you when I had to Mouth like yours -no wonder I left -More power to you.
Better luck with the next one.
He farts like a bull in his sleep.
Good luck.
Irv, you said you were going to try to move on.
You move quickly.
Guess what I just did? Umm, played the crap out of Haydn.
That too.
But I was gonna tell you about the package I just sent you.
You're not gonna tell me what's in it, are you? Uh, no, but you should get it tomorrow morning so you won't have to wait too long.
That's still mean.
So how's New York? New York's great.
I managed to score one of the hotel's stray cocktail hour pianos so I've been practicing like nonstop.
This is my first break in like three Powerbars.
Ooh, sounds like I'm really missing out.
So, listen, I, uh, I bumped into Madison today.
Wow, umm Madison, really, uh How is she? She's good.
She's real good.
Y'know, she was fine.
We didn't really get a chance to talk long, but, uh, we were gonna maybe meet up again tomorrow.
-But she seemed okay? -Yeah.
Yeah, that was the thing.
It was totally weird.
It was like I used to have all these feelings and everything but I'm totally over it.
It's like running into my cousin.
Anyway, I-I just want you to know.
Reaction? Uh, just surprised.
Uh, are you gonna see her again? Yeah, I mean, unless if you have a problem with that.
But she knows it's your audition, right? Yeah.
I just wouldn't want anything to throw you off.
It-It won't.
We're just catchin' up.
She gets all clingy, I'll just walk out of the diner.
Well, then tell her I say hi.
Thank you.
Well, uh, you should, uh, probably get some sleep, you got a big day coming up.
Yeah, I don't know, I feel pretty ready though.
What? I was just trying to find something better to say than I love you.
Well, I'll take it.
Then I love you.
I'll call you first thing after my audition.
Okay.
Bye.
Where is he? He went to practice for a few hours.
Listen, I know you're gonna see Ephram tomorrow and Save it.
Really.
I listened to you once and it was a mistake.
I spent the last year regretting the fact that I didn't tell Ephram the truth.
I'm not gonna make that mistake again.
I know.
I want you to tell him.
For a year now, there hasn't been a day that's gone by that I haven't thought about what's happened to you.
Wondering how I could've done that, what you decided to do with the baby.
I'm not gonna tell you what I did.
Good.
Don't.
I don't deserve it.
You don't even get it.
I was broke and pregnant and I didn't know what to do.
I didn't have anyone I could trust except for you, and you you sent me away, thinking that your money would make it all better.
Yes, I did.
I made a terrible mistake with you, Madison, and I am so sorry.
I thought I was protecting Ephram, but I was just putting more lies between us.
When I left it was hard.
And there were times when I didn't know if I had the strength to make it.
Turns out that I did.
I came here tonight to tell you that.
That was all.
Y'know, I've never been a big believer in fate.
I lived in this city for a very long time and I only saw a world that could be controlled by my own hands and since then everything I've done, everything that's happened to me has had a current of its own.
Now of all times, and I have to find meaning in that, and the only meaning that I can find is that all of my instincts all of my intentions are wrong.
I hope yours are better.
Tell him everything.
I plan to.
The dude's been in New York like a half an hour and he's already sent you a care package.
Does he ever run out of ways to be your bitch? Ooh, bagels.
You promised Lox.
Score.
Yep, those are all yours.
So like shouldn't you be out, uh, apologizing or something? I'm done.
Cleared the whole list.
Told them all I suck, I'm sorry.
So how were they? Umm, they're pretty much fine.
Couple of girls got married already, some are at school.
Two are modeling thank you very much.
And only one girl really porked out.
Jodi Marie, huh? Saw that coming huh? Mmm, hmm.
Most women dug the apology thing though.
Yeah.
One girl even told me I should call her.
You think they'd learn.
Well, good job in your own really shallow.
You've actually taken your first step towards respecting women.
It was kinda weird seeing 'em all like that, y'know.
They used to all be such a big deal to me and I was to them, but now they're like fine without me.
You expected weeping? It was more like they all moved on, but they didn't see me as someone that they would want to move on with, y'know.
Right.
Well, you'll settle down when the time is right.
When's that? When it doesn't feel like settling any more.
Right.
When's that? If you're a normal person, I would say Okay, how 'bout this, when you saw those girls did you wish that you were with any of them still? -No.
-Okay.
Ever miss them while they're gone? Sometimes in the shower, but mostly no.
So there you go.
You'll know who you're supposed to end up with when you actually miss them.
Do all chicks believe that crap or -or just you 'cause you're like Super Chick? I'm gonna take these in the kitchen before you inhale them all.
Oh, and, uh, by the way, what are you and Hannah doing tonight? Because, uh, this girl that I apologized to, she works at this like art film place and they're doing some really killer Hong Kong film festival thing, thought it'd be kinda nice to take her down and show her where she said her parents were.
Plus sword fighting.
Yeah, she's not here, actually.
She's, uh, way the hell up in Minnesota with her family finally.
Really.
Till when? Umm, next week I think.
That long.
That sucks.
I know.
Tell me about it.
Umm.
but I could still go with you if you want.
Naa, Hannah's the only one that let's me talk during the movies.
It wouldn't be as much fun without 'er.
Eight a.
m.
with your coffee mug looking for the newspaper.
Like clockwork.
That's not cute.
That's stalking.
I don't have anything to say and even less to hear so get whatever it is you came for and get out.
Will you a problem, lady, 'cause I came for you.
You're doing just fine without me.
No hold on, that wasn't just some date back there.
That Oh, save it, bub Whatever you have to say, -I don't care.
-Yes, you do.
You care big time.
I saw you about to tear my head off there.
I still might.
That's right, because you're flaming jealous.
You're jealous because you still love me.
I do not.
You know you had me there believing that you were all done with me.
No way you would've gone off like a tub of napalm unless you still loved me.
And if you give me half a second with your cake whole shut -Oh stop it.
-I'd tell you that I still love you.
I do.
Goodness, there's so much I-I want to tell you.
Here.
What's this? A page from my book.
Your book? You started it? I finished it.
It was a long time comin'.
Good job, Harper.
There's more.
I've got interest in it.
That woman I brought over wasn't just some date, you twit, she was my editor friend from back in Annapolis.
Editor? She liked it? She said it broke her heart.
Said she wanted to print it.
That is if she'll forgive that bit about her knockers.
So, she wasn't just some hussy? Even if she was, there's only one hussy, that I'm interested in.
I left this house because I thought the world was calling me to a journey.
I couldn't step a foot away.
You.
You, Edna, you're my journey.
Wherever you are that's the adventure.
I know that now.
Read it.
It's my last page.
The last page? I woke up this morning and I wrote you a new one.
I made my mistakes now I have my regret to keep me company.
Voices and books for friends.
I walked away from my life's work and she doesn't even know it.
Go on.
I know I should move on, let it end there with loss accepted.
I know I should go something keeps me still.
There isn't so much a cure for regret as a remedy.
You can sit and mourn all you did wrong, writhe in the empty fantasy of how you'd do it better if only you could go back or you can do better now.
You know we lived in this building with this view for fifteen years and I never brought you up here either.
Hey, you're making up for a lot this week.
You're seeing Madison today.
Yeah, all the way downtown.
How long you think it'll take me to get there from here? Well, traffic's pretty heavy, you should probably leave soon.
So I don't know what's gonna happen with my audition? -I do.
-No, don't-don't jinx it.
But Yeah, I was thinkin' that if they do make a mistake and decide to take me, I-I get to live here again, that yeah, maybe y'know, What? Well, maybe y'know, maybe you and Delia would want to come too.
Move back here with me.
I mean come on, you love it here and you've been a mess ever since you and Amanda broke up.
It's not like your dating options are going to improve living in a microscopic town.
I mean, here you have an entire city full of women like 10 years older than me that actually think you're a viable dating option.
Perfect.
You're serious, aren't you? I- I-I'm not saying that I'm gonna live with you.
I mean you-you could go back to surgery or not.
Y'know, people here need free clinics as well and -and also Delia's gonna be 12 soon.
Good luck finding a bat mitzvah tutor in Everwood.
I don't know what to say.
It's just, y'know, you dragged us to Everwood so that we could find a way to become a family and I thought you were insane at the time.
You-You were insane at the time.
I don't know somehow it worked.
Everything you took us there to find, we-we got.
I never thought I'd actually be saying this, but it was the right thing to do.
And you're right, we've-we've missed too much already, y'know.
Let's keep it together.
Thank you, Ephram.
All right, but if you get all sentimental on me, deal's off.
Okay? No, I just I never thought we'd get here.
Well, the odds were against it.
Well, I promise you, if you feel this way when the time comes, I will be right here with you.
All right, I gotta go meet Madison.
I know.
This is good, Dad.
It's good.
Maybe that's why of all the people in the mountain town, I keep thinking about the doctor.
He gave life to so many only to have his own torn out of his chest.
Yet somehow, he managed to set aside his grief and his regret and looked ahead to new memories and new mistakes.
I think of him and I remember there's always a reason to try again.
I think of him and I can hope to hope.
Script: Rosemary Srt: Juanfran