Thirtysomething (1987) s03e18 Episode Script

1 [theme.]
[water dripping.]
[child coughing.]
[vehicle approaching.]
[Elliot.]
Hey.
- Hey.
- What's the matter? Oh, I don't know.
I just couldn't stand being under the sheets all covered up.
- Nervous? - No, I'm not nervous.
I mean, it's not like the first time when I didn't know what to expect.
Now I'm a pro.
I know exactly how wretched I'm going to feel.
You'll feel lousy, but if you've got any more of those bum cells, they'll feel a lot worse.
What's this? - "Victory Partners"? - Oh.
Yeah, I got that from Verney's office.
It's a support group modeled after the Wellness Community.
Hey, maybe you and Ethan should start a new book.
I bet Uffington will give you an advance this time.
No.
I'd feel funny taking an advance.
- Why? - Well, suppose I took the money, and then I couldn't finish it? Uh, for some reason? Come on, honey.
Let's go back to bed.
We'll plan your birthday party.
It's gonna be light soon.
I think I'm just gonna stay up.
Nancy [Elliot.]
Britty, Britty, come on, honey.
[Brittany babbling.]
- Ew.
Is that grape jelly? - Yes.
- I wanted apple jelly.
- Well, you should've told me.
- I did.
I told you.
- Well, I'll make it for you tomorrow.
- I'm tired of grape jelly.
- Ethan Hey, you're making sandwiches? Make me one, will you? I'll eat lunch at my desk.
I'll look industrious.
Come on.
- You can have mine, Dad.
- Oh, shut up.
Come on.
You gotta get dressed.
They sent you a pool table? Us.
Both our names are on the card.
"Best regards, Robert Spano, CEO Minnesota Brands.
" - They must be happy.
- Of course they're happy.
New spot looks great.
Test markets are behaving better than we'd hoped for, right? Rack them up.
How's Nancy? She starts her second chemo today.
Yeah, I know.
Hope was going over there to help out.
How's that going the chemo? Well, it's a complete success in making her throw up.
Actually, they gotta go deeper in the series before they get an idea of how it's going, so - [balls clacking.]
- How you doing? I'm okay.
Well, actually, it's a little close to the surface right now.
Reserves a little low, but whatever I'm feeling, she's got a lot worse, so I just shut up, you know? You know, Mike, I don't feel like doing this right now.
Um - Okay.
- I think I'm gonna go call her.
- See how she's doing.
- Why don't you call from here? - That's okay.
- That's okay.
I'll leave you alone.
- It'll be more private.
- You don't have to do that.
It's okay.
I gotta go over tomorrow with Paige.
[door closes.]
[sighs.]
Maybe the philosophers were right.
Man is the center of the universe.
What are all those blobs? [Nancy retching.]
[toilet flushing.]
That was attractive.
- Can I help? - No, I'm okay.
Can I do something? [sniffles.]
Yeah.
Throw a brick through this thing.
[sighs.]
Don't worry.
It's not gonna all fall out at once.
They're giving me carboplatinum.
It might not even fall out at all.
I know.
I just Well, I expected Yeah.
Sorry to disappoint you.
No.
- [grunts.]
- Again? No, maybe not.
I'm just gonna ride this one out.
I could get a basin.
You wouldn't have to go all the way to the bathroom.
- All the way is 12 feet.
- [Ethan.]
Mom? - Are you okay? - Suppose there was this whole planet that got sick? Oh, honey, um In the news story, there'd be this whole planet that got sick, - and the prince would have to find a way to cure it.
- Ethan, your mom Ethan, I can't really do this right now, okay? Okay.
Ethan, would you shut the door, please? [door closes.]
Oh, it is tough being a modern mom.
You know, maybe that basin's not such a bad idea.
Okay.
[Woman.]
Open it before they get here! [Man.]
I can't till the hatch is flooded.
[Woman screaming.]
Pretty cool, huh? Yeah.
Pretty cool.
[TV off.]
The stuff inside the body looks like outer space, and it made me think, what if there's a planet that's sick? Mm-hmm.
Mom and I could write about how somebody cures a planet.
That's pretty smart, Eth.
Yeah.
That way, she'd be working on something instead of just waiting to get better.
Yeah.
Waiting's tough, isn't it? Yeah.
Yeah.
Come here.
What do you think? It's a long way from the forest, huh? Mm-hmm.
I could help you write this one because I know about space and rockets.
Okay, well, let me look at it, and then we'll talk about it tonight, okay? Okay.
Hey, hey, come here.
[grunts.]
Grab your lunch.
Don't want you to be late.
- Okay.
- Okay.
Who invented the high heel, anyway? I don't know.
Some Chinese foot binder with the development of Frederick's of Hollywood.
- They're not very practical.
- How about a pair of rubber flip-flops? There's a whole bin of them down at the Rexall.
- Those aren't very sexy.
- Depends what else you're wearing.
Well, who says you have to wear anything else? My mother's right.
You are a bad influence.
Here we go.
Oh, what do you think? - They're beautiful.
- Extremely beautiful.
I like them.
How much are they? - $375? - Yes, ma'am.
I like them, but I'd never pay that much for a pair of boots.
I know it sounds like a great deal of money, but, ma'am and I mean this seriously you will have these boots for the rest of your life.
Well, that doesn't say a hell of a lot for your shoes.
[Nancy laughing.]
[laughing continues.]
Sorry.
Oh.
[mutters.]
[Woman.]
I'm bothered by the word survivor cancer survivor.
It makes me think of stunned people clinging to wreckage in the middle of the ocean.
I don't think of myself as someone who's survived cancer.
I'm someone who fights cancer.
Now, the idea behind these drop-in meetings is for newcomers to get an idea of what Victory Partners is and what we can offer.
There's group therapy, there are sessions to help you with guided imagery and visualizations, sessions for spouses and children, sessions about spouses and children.
Um, we are a community of resources, experiences, and strength.
Cancer is a part of our lives, but it is not our lives.
You caught me looking.
Sorry? Before.
You caught me looking at you.
- Oh, no, I was - Are you Nancy Krieger? - Yes.
- I thought I recognized you from your picture.
- Picture? - On your book.
Oh, it was wonderful.
- My name's Beatrice Holden.
- Oh, you read my book.
I work in a bookstore.
I try to read as much as I can.
- It helps me recommend things.
- Thank you.
What do you have? What? Oh, what kind of Uh, ovarian.
Hey, me, too.
Is this a small world, or what? [chuckles.]
Uh, is this your first time here? - Yeah.
- Me, too.
So, um, what did you think? Oh, well, I'm not very social.
I mean, I'm not very good at talking to new people.
Well, you're talking to me.
So I am.
So how's your family dealing with this? Are they okay, or are they just running around boiling water? No, they're fine.
Especially my husband.
We were having trouble Well, trouble.
We were separated, but we got back together before all this happened which is good.
- Why? - Why? Because Well, because now I know that he came back for me and not because I was sick.
- What about your family? - Oh, I'm single.
My parents are gone.
I've got a sister in Wyoming.
Every week or so, we have this rather clenched phone call.
So you're all alone? Oh, I'm not alone.
I've got friends.
Friends like us.
Well, you know.
You should join the gang.
Oh, that's very nice of you but But you've got friends already.
Oh, sure.
I'll bet they're really plugged in to what you're going through, too, huh? - Very supportive.
Yeah.
- Yes.
- Very understanding.
- Yeah.
Sort of dull.
They don't get the jokes, do they? [both chuckling.]
You know, you still got a birthday coming up.
I know.
I was thinking about that tonight.
Yeah.
You come up with any gift suggestions? - Yeah.
- What? A car.
- What? - A car.
A new car.
Like those big metal things that they give away on the game shows.
I'd like a sports car.
A red sports car.
Nance, I was thinking maybe some costume jewelry or I don't know.
Honey, I look at it this way you never know what's going to happen, and Christmas is a long way off and this may be your last opportunity to come across with those big-ticket durable goods.
Ooh, what time is it? Ooh, I'm late.
I got to change.
You're changing? I met this woman at Victory Partners.
We talked, and she called and asked me if I wanted to come over to her house and meet some of her friends.
- What? Tonight? - Yeah.
It's the first night I feel like doing something.
- I sort of figured - What? Nothing.
Hey, maybe I could go along with you.
I could get a sitter.
I could go, too.
No, no, not tonight.
It's strictly for members only.
What do you have to do to join the club? Get cancer.
[Man.]
I figured I used up all the luck I had coming to me.
When I was in the service, I spent two years in a North Korean prison or a war camp.
The doctors haven't come up with anything to top that yet.
Give them time.
You got to be philosophical.
Some people win lotteries, some people get carcinomas.
When do you stop blaming yourself? That's what I want to know.
- Blaming yourself? - Did I do something? Did I forget to do something? I mean, I used to love jelly beans.
Bright red jelly beans.
I had a big bowl of them on my desk just like the president.
When I woke up after the mastectomy, everybody looked like Ronald Reagan.
[groans.]
You play the cards they deal you.
I just hope when it happens, I get a really classy exit like Jimmy Cagney in White Heat.
[both.]
"Top o' the world, Ma!" Or Bogart in High Sierra.
Or one of those multiple-Kleenex MGM tearjerkers.
Garbo.
Camille.
Oh, you know, something operatic.
Oh, lots of good deaths in opera.
People dropping like flies.
- Please.
- What? No Well, this was really embarrassing.
Well, in that case, have some more wine and tell us all about it.
All right.
Well, it was my 13th No, it was my 12th birthday, and my mom and dad had taken me to Columbus, Indiana to see La bohème.
Oh.
Oh, Mimi fading fast in the garret.
Right.
I mean, she's dying practically the whole fourth act.
Well, it was really sad, and I was crying.
My mom was crying.
I mean, everybody was crying.
And finally, this guy from the opera decides to sell his coat to get her some medicine.
"Well, great," I think.
But then he stood there for what seemed like hour after hour singing farewell to his coat.
I couldn't take it anymore, you know, so I stood up, and I said, "Stop.
Stop singing, and go get this girl some penicillin.
" [all laugh.]
I am convinced that if he hadn't taken so long to sing farewell to that stupid coat, the girl would still be alive today.
[Elliot imitates car.]
Hey, how come a good-looking boy like you is still awake, huh? I'm working on this drawing for Mom.
Yeah? Well, you can work on it tomorrow.
Come on.
It's time to go to bed.
- Okay.
- Come on.
All right.
I thought she'd be home by now.
Yeah.
Me, too.
But she's probably out having a really good time.
I think she's got that coming to her, don't you? I suppose.
[mimics.]
I suppose.
Can you show this to her when she gets in? Yep.
Sure.
Go to sleep.
I'll give it to her.
[Nancy.]
Oh, I've gotta go.
You have to help me finish this first.
[chuckles.]
You had a good time.
Admit it.
It's fun to whistle past the graveyard.
Not just whistle.
We're cruising by with a steam calliope and six acts of vaudeville.
[glasses clink.]
Aren't you afraid you're going to tempt the Fates? The Fates already gave me cancer.
What else can they do? Cite me for jaywalking? What? Do you Has this changed the way that you think about life? God? Hmm.
I have what my mother had, and I've already lived longer than she did.
When she died, it was a bad night.
A priest came in, listened to her confession, as if she had something to confess, gave her communion, last rites, and she died.
That priest looked at me.
He was a boy, you know? Maybe 27, 28.
And he said, "Remember, God doesn't give us more than we can bear.
" So I asked him, "Well, does that mean if I was the weaker person, my mother would still be alive?" - Hi.
- [Nancy.]
Hi.
When did you get in? Just a few minutes ago.
Aren't you tired? Yeah, I'm dead on my feet, but I got to get this while it's fresh.
Are you coming to bed soon? Yeah, soon.
- Okay.
- Okay.
And it's spreading from planet to planet, and the prince has got to find something special to save the galaxy.
So he saves the galaxy, but do they find out what causes the plague? I don't know We don't know yet.
You could talk about carcinogens in everyday life.
It'd be a great way to radicalize kids.
I never thought about that.
Well, think about it.
I mean, look what you could talk about.
You could talk about asbestos, radon, tanning salons, excessive X-rays, benzene, pesticides.
Saccharin, cyclamates, radiation levels, and commercial airliners, cigarette smoking, passive smoking, cross-country transmission lines, all sorts of low-level magnetic fields.
Food dyes.
I mean, the list is endless.
It certainly is.
Yeah, I know about this from working on the incinerator project.
Oh, yeah, sure.
I mean, obvious things like that, but there's subtle ways, too.
I mean, take Elliot.
What does he love to do in the summertime? Barbecue.
Big, fat, well-done, juicy slabs of red meat.
I mean, it makes you think, doesn't it? For something as innocent as this little dinkus.
I mean, it cost a half a cent to make, it made some guy a fortune, and we're happy because it keeps the cheese off the top of the pizza box.
But it is plastic plastic made of petrochemicals.
I mean, God knows what it gives off when you burn it, and we stick it right in the middle of our food.
I don't know whether to throw it, bury it, or call the D.
A.
Toss it.
We'll cover for you.
What's her problem? Well, I mean, all of a sudden, she's so manic.
I don't know.
She's been through a lot, and she's bouncing back.
I think it's pretty neat.
I guess so.
[Elliot.]
Tired? Not really.
That's quite a lecture you gave there.
- What? - Just now.
I wasn't lecturing.
Nobody could get a word in.
I was not lecturing.
All right, whatever you say.
Look, just ask them if they thought I was lecturing.
- Let's just drop it, okay? - No.
You brought it up.
Let's get some definitive answers.
Did you guys think that I was lecturing right now? Gosh.
Just now? About the pizza? What do you mean, lecturing? Yeah.
I mean, I guess that depends how you define the word.
No.
I don't think you were lecturing.
See there? Michael did not think that I was lecturing.
And he probably knows what I was talking about better than anybody else in this room.
I do? Yeah, because of your father.
My father? Well, if we had known more about cancer and its causes, it's possible that your father wouldn't have even gotten sick.
I mean, have you thought about that? - Yeah.
- Nance Unless he was genetically predisposed to cancer, which makes it even more reason why you should stay open to this because that means that Michael Melissa, even Janey, and even the baby that Hope is carry [Elliot.]
Nancy.
I'm sorry, you guys.
- Why are you apologizing? - Nancy You don't have to apologize for me.
Nance, maybe you could just I Oh, hell.
I'm I'm I'm going to go home, fire up the grill and make myself a bacon cheeseburger.
- Good night, you guys.
- Bye.
- [Michael.]
Good night.
- It's been real.
What's her problem? These are really good, Melissa.
- Thanks.
- No, I mean it.
You're dangerously close to developing a style.
I've always wanted to be an adjective.
"Steadmanesque.
" Listen, I'm sorry about the other night.
There's nothing for you to apologize for.
Yeah, well, I'm sorry anyway.
Well, we were having such a nice time.
I could've handled it better.
Hey, wait a minute.
Don't you start apologizing.
Well, I was just thinking, you know, under the circumstances I mean, she's been going through a lot.
So have I.
We all have.
I mean, not what she's been going through, nowhere near what she's been going through, but I mean, it's been something.
We're going through it now, aren't we? Yeah.
We are.
Yeah.
Right.
Right.
Do you think she's mad at us? Who, Nancy? Mad at us? Why? Because we're not listening to her, or else she's mad because we didn't get sick and she did.
I just wish I had had some advance warning, you know? Like a form letter, one of those computer-generated junk calls, you know? "Please hang on for an important message.
Your wife will be getting cancer real soon.
" I mean, it's not fair.
I almost lose her, and then I get her back.
Now I think I'm going to lose her again.
Yeah, but the surgery and the chemo.
Her chances are pretty good.
I'm not talking about her dying.
I'm talking about losing her.
Hello.
Hi.
- [Woman.]
Oh, hi.
- Hi.
"Who are all these strange people in my house?" he's asking himself.
This is Arthur.
That's Gloria.
I'm Beatrice.
We've come for your wife.
Where are you going, exactly? [Nancy.]
Oh, I don't know.
Beatrice won't say.
She says it's a secret.
What did you think of her? She's different.
Yeah, isn't she? I already fed the kids, so don't let them fool you.
Nance.
Nance, do you think you should go out? Aren't you tired? You know, maybe you should stay in, work on the new book.
I did that today.
With Ethan? No, before he got home.
[Beatrice.]
We got to go.
Five seconds.
She really moves in and takes charge, doesn't she? Meaning what? Meaning she really moves in and takes charge.
So? It's an observation.
Based on what? First impression.
That was my mistake.
At the Victory Partners, you know, I was sitting there trying to be a chair or a potted plant, anything not to look like a cancer patient.
And then I looked up and I see this woman trailing scarves with a cloud of patchouli, and I thought, "This is a nut.
" But it turns out that I was wrong.
I mean, it turns out that she is the sanest person that I have met in a long time.
I mean, she understands what it is like.
She has felt the things that I'm feeling.
I know.
No, you do not.
You can't.
I mean, you can understand and you can support and you can sympathize, but you can't know.
I mean, it's as simple as that.
[Female singer.]
Left a good job in the city Working for the man every night and day And I never lost a minute of sleepin' Worryin' about the way things might have been Big wheel keep on turnin' [audience hooting.]
Proud Mary keep on burnin' Rollin' [backup singers.]
Ooh-ooh-ooh Rollin' Ooh-ooh-ooh Rollin' on the river - [vocalizing.]
- [audience members whistling.]
Made a lot of plates in Memphis And pumped a lot of gas down in New Orleans - But I never saw - Work it, girl.
Work it! The good part of the city Until I hitched a ride On the Riverboat Queen You think it takes guts to dress up like Dolly Thornton in Big Panama? Now, what takes real courage is to dress like that.
Now, that's what takes guts.
And they're rollin' Ooh-ooh-ooh - Rollin' - Ooh-ooh-ooh Rollin' on the river Oh, he's better than the real thing.
[applause.]
Well, I left a good job in the city Working for the man every night and day And I never lost one minute of sleep Worrying 'bout the way things might have been Big wheels keep on turning - Proud Mary keep on burning - Burning Rollin', rollin' Rollin' on the river Rollin', rolling Rollin' on the river I'll tell you we're rollin' Rollin' Rollin' on the river Rollin', rollin' What's up? She finished it? What? The new book, Mom finished it.
What do you mean? She finished it without me.
Oh, come on, pal.
She wouldn't have done that.
No, these are just sketches, Eth.
That's That's These are just sketches.
[Marilyn Monroe.]
A kiss on the hand May be quite continental But diamonds are a girl's best friend A kiss may be grand But it won't pay the rental On your humble flat Or help you at the Automat Men grow cold as girls grow old And we all lose our charms in the end But square cut or pear-shape These rocks don't lose their shape Diamonds are a girl's best friend [applause, whistling.]
But stiff back or stiff knees You stand straight at Tiffany's [wolf whistle.]
Diamonds Are a girl's best Best friend [applause, whistling.]
[Woman.]
That's it for me.
[Man.]
You need a ride? Hey, now, you guys aren't fading on me, are you? It's late.
It's 12:00.
This is the shank of the evening.
- Me.
- Me, too.
What a couple of wimps.
Now, Nancy Nancy isn't going to run out on me, is she? Well Aw, come on, Nance.
Come on.
Where's that famous pluck, huh? Come on, there's a whole dark night out there to explore.
You don't want to miss anything, do you? In for a penny, in for a pound.
- Now? - Almost.
- Now? - Now! [airplane flying over.]
[screaming.]
[both laugh.]
[Beatrice.]
Oh, God, that was good.
[Nancy.]
It was great.
[both laugh.]
Wait, wait, are you ready? There's another one.
- Okay.
- Okay, there's one.
There's one filled with old boyfriends and bad blind dates and gym instructors and 16-year-old girls with clear skin and budding breasts.
[screaming.]
Oh, wow.
Oh, my throat is killing me.
Ah.
Ta-da.
Oh, you got this down to a science.
Yeah.
Okay, okay, this one's yours.
Okay.
Okay, it is packed with Ooh, it is packed with Come on.
Come on, it's almost here.
Okay, I got it.
It's packed with doctors and nurses and people with lab coats and well-meaning friends who expect you to tell them what it feels like when it's really none of their damn business because because Aah! Because? Because it is me that is doing the feeling! I mean, they can take away most of your body and your pride, but at least the disease is mine! I mean, the cancer belongs to me! It is myself that I miss, and the thing belongs to me! And it is big! And it is loud! And it blots out the whole sky, but it is mine! And it is the most important thing that has ever happened to me! Morning.
You scared me.
Sorry.
What are you doing up? Are the kids okay? The kids are fine.
Thanks for asking.
I'm beat.
I'm going to bed.
You waited up? I want to ask you something.
Did you finish this without him? It's far from finished.
It's got a beginning, a middle, and an end.
How far from finished is that? You know, I'm really upset by you looking at this without even asking me.
That's not the point.
It is the point as far as I'm concerned.
Yeah, well, right now I'm not interested in what concerns you.
I'm talking about somebody else.
You went ahead without him.
You left him in the dust.
You should've seen his face when he saw these.
Don't you think you're exaggerating just a little bit? No, I don't think I'm exaggerating.
I know what I saw.
I was here to see it.
You know, I think I have a pretty good idea how my children think.
I have spent a lot more time with them than you have, so why don't you give me some credit here? This is just how we worked on Whose Forest.
Ethan and I would talk about it, and then I would do the sketches.
The whole book? You did the whole book? Is that how it was before? No, it's different now.
There is something I'm trying to do with this piece.
It's very personal.
Nancy, that's great.
You want to do a personal piece, that's important, but not this one.
You can't do that to him.
I don't know if it's going to be a children's book.
Are you listening to me? He needs to help you, and this is the only way he can do it.
You have got to let him help you.
I don't even know if I need his help.
You're right, Nancy.
You're absolutely right.
It was an idiotic suggestion.
There's nothing he can contribute.
- Elliot - No, I'm agreeing with you.
He doesn't know.
He hasn't had the experience.
He hasn't been cut open and scooped out and filled full of drugs, but his mother has.
He knows all about that.
Maybe you don't need his help or anybody else's, but he needs to give it to you.
And it's your job, your responsibility to take that help so later he'll know at least he'll know he did something.
At least he'll have that.
Who am I talking to? Who the hell am I talking to? - Hey.
- Hey, Mikey, it's Saturday.
What are you doing here? That's funny.
I was going to ask you the same thing.
Extra credit work.
Take a look.
- Hi, Ethan.
- Hi.
Yeah, this is from Minnesota Brands consumer electronics.
If they ever let us handle anything that retails for over 50 cents.
You know, just between you and me, we got the electronics account.
We do? Yeah, I just found out.
That's why I came in.
Miles is going to announce it on Monday.
- Well, that's great.
- Yeah, it is.
- That's great.
- Yeah.
By the way, you look like hell.
[Ethan.]
Ready or not, here we come.
[Brittany.]
Hide and seek.
Here we come.
[Elliot.]
I keep thinking about how a lot of the moon astronauts came back so screwed up and they'd had this experience that no one else had ever had, and it sort of removed them from what the rest of us call life.
I mean, I want her to be ordinary again, Mike, but how can she be? She's been to the moon.
But now she's back.
She is? That's what I'm saying, Mike.
She's still somewhere else.
Well, then do something, El.
Go out and get her.
What if I do the wrong thing? Yeah, like you've never done that before in your life.
That was easy.
- Hi.
- Hi.
Come on in.
I was on the phone.
I'll just be a second.
I'm sorry if I'm interrupting.
Oh, no.
It's not important.
I'm back.
So where were we? Oh, yes, of course.
You were telling me how incredibly busy you are.
Well, then you're hearing something in the tone of my voice that isn't there.
So when do you think you'll be less busy? Uh-huh, right.
Hey, all I said was "Uh-huh," and I said it without the slightest b Look, we'll talk later.
When your schedule clears up.
How is that? [chuckles.]
Well, it's the way I talk to my sister.
Goodbye, Libby.
How are you? Okay.
You kept me up too late last night.
The others don't know what they missed.
No.
Are you okay? What's all this stuff? You going on a trip? Oh, not just me.
All of us.
Where are we going? Lourdes? [chuckles.]
Very funny.
Hawaii.
Hawaii? Mm-hmm.
I think we'll have a ceremony.
Something very symbolic.
Like maybe throw an oncologist into a volcano.
I don't know if I'm going to be able to go.
Why not? I've been neglecting things.
Like what? Laundry? People.
Oh, let me guess.
Hubby didn't like you staying out so late.
No, see, that's not what it is.
- I bet he was waiting up for you.
- Yes, he was.
You want me to call him? Because I will.
I'll get him off your case.
No, he's not on my case.
He just pointed out a few things.
That's all.
About your responsibilities as a wife.
I do have responsibilities.
I mean, the cancer doesn't change that.
No, but the cancer definitely shuffles the list.
Don't let them steal your time.
You have a life, you know.
You decide what to do with it.
I've been living this life for 36 years, and I have decided what to do with it.
You can't hide from this, you know.
It'll find you.
I mean, even if you try to hide behind your husband and your kids, it'll find you.
No, see, you just don't understand.
Maybe you would if If what? If I had a husband like yours? See, now, I wasn't going to say that.
Oh, the guy who walked out on you for what? More than a year? And then he almost snuffs it on an airplane and back he comes.
No, that's not why he came back.
If he hadn't almost died, would you have taken him back? That's just not a fair question.
[Beatrice chuckles.]
The guy peeks over the edge, and it scares him so much, he comes running back.
And you were stupid enough to take it.
No, no, I was not stupid.
And I resent you for saying that I was stupid.
Try to comprehend your luck here.
My luck? Yes, you've been given a tremendous gift.
A gift? I have cancer.
- And it's changed you.
- Yes.
It's changed the whole way you look at the world.
Yes.
It set you apart, you know.
It authorizes you.
It empowers you.
You can see it in the way that people look at us.
It doesn't empower me to neglect my children.
It doesn't authorize me to abuse my friends.
Hey, you want to know who your real friend is? It was that first cancer cell.
Now don't you walk away from me.
I am finished with people walking away.
- No, I want to go.
- No.
No, I can't talk to you right now.
Now's all I've got left.
So what are you going to do? You going to run back to those those pep rallies at the Victory Partners? Yes.
And you should come with me.
I mean, they are about life, about recovery.
I don't know what you're about.
I'm about power.
"It's the most important thing," you said.
Don't give that up.
I mean, what are you going to have if you give it up? Beatrice, I'm sorry, but I want to be done with this.
I want it gone.
I want it out of my body.
You're afraid.
You're damn right I'm afraid.
And the day that I stop being afraid the day that I look at this curse as if it's some kind of sacrament, that is the day that I'm going to die.
Nancy you're already dead.
Enjoy your volcano.
[door opens.]
[Nancy.]
Hello.
Hi.
Where's Britty? I dropped her off at your mom's so Ethan and I could have lunch.
Oh, just the Weston men, hmm? Yeah, something like that.
Working away? Yeah, I'm working.
Hey, Ethan? Could you do me a favor, please? Okay.
Can you empty this for me? Okay.
Maybe later we could work on our book.
I thought I could do it by myself, but I need some help.
I'll help you.
Thanks.
All right.
I'm coming.
Here we go.
Okay, we're on the porch.
So now, I can't see anything.
- Okay, here's a step.
- Where? - Ooh, okay.
- There we go.
You know, I have a very bad feeling about this.
- Come on.
Come on.
Here we go.
- All right.
Okay, right here.
Hold still.
Hold still.
Oh, Elliot.
You like it? Oh, Elliot, you shouldn't have.
I didn't.
It's a rental.
Mmm.
Are you ready? Yep.
- I hope I can drive it.
- All right.
Love never lasts You just can't hurry up Keep moving fast I turn off the highway Pulled into town Fancy free, darling And I've traveled 'round Sometimes I'm up Sometimes I'm down Tell me where can I run to Tell me how have I sinned When you cry like a rainstorm Okay, come on.
And howl like the wind Stay here.
Don't move.
I'll be right back.
Where are you going? Don't worry.
Just stay there! Elliot? Elliot? Happy Birthday.
[chuckles.]
It was either this or Isotoner gloves.
Do you know how I feel? How do you feel? Lucky.
Sometimes I'm up Sometimes I'm down Tell me where can I run to? Tell me how to begin When you cry like a rainstorm And howl like the wind Closed-Captioned By J.
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