Parenthood s06e09 Episode Script

We're at Big Top Burger? I can't have you eating this stuff.
Excuse me.
Your grandmother's got me eating nothing but grass and twigs.
Yes, because you just had heart surgery.
Oh, please.
She sees me bonding with Ruby.
That's threatening to her.
She thinks I'm taking her place.
It's a bigger issue.
A year ago you asked me to fight for you.
I am fighting for you.
And I am fighting for our marriage.
I want you back.
He keeps asking me why I like Aaron, and I'm sorry, I'm never gonna like Max, like, in that way.
Okay, Ben.
We'll start with you.
Go for it.
With gusto.
Salve parentes.
Okay, that was so good.
But let's try that one more time.
Like, "Salve parentes!" You could even, like, almost sing it if you want.
Okay? Salve parentes! So good.
That was so good.
Okay.
Amy, give me what you got.
Today, we are going to take you on a tour and teach you about the Forum, the Colosseum and our famous aqueducts.
Okay, sweetheart, when you speak, Mrs.
B? I want you to look up and sort of have more eye contact with me.
Hey, Mrs.
B.
Hold on one sec.
Um Can I talk to you? We're prepping for open house.
No, no.
I know.
This is about that.
Now, just don't lose your train of thought.
Mrs.
B.
Yes.
This is really important.
Okay.
This is about the open house.
I really need to talk to you.
Okay, sweetheart.
With gusto.
And I'm gonna have to iron that toga, or steam it or something.
What is happening, babe? What is going on? I cannot be partners with Max anymore.
Okay, honey.
We talked about this.
Miss B.
You guys have to work on being friends like you should.
Miss B.
We're No, I wanna be friends with him.
We're doing it again.
Yes.
Crazy, and I just can't I understand that.
I have faith that you can do this.
I believe in you.
I know you can do this.
Miss B.
Can't you just switch us around just for this.
Okay.
Yes.
Okay.
Good job.
And we're gonna cycle through it again.
Hi, Dylan.
Where are you going now? Class.
All right.
Let me carry your books for you.
It's a traditional high school gesture that demonstrates chivalry and strength.
What class are you going to next? It's a kitchen gadget, starts with at "D".
Here we go.
Frothy and hot.
Ah! What did you call me? Yeah, it's good.
It looks very good.
I'm getting better.
Ah! Oh, my God! Oh, my God! What? What? Guys! Guys! What's up, you okay? Oh, my God.
No.
I'm so excited.
Savannah has the flu.
- Who's that? Who's that? - She has the flu now.
She's Uh, sorry In the play.
Is Savannah in the play? Yeah.
She's supposed to play Sandy in our production of Grease, but now it's gonna be me because she has the flu! Oh, my gosh! Savannah has the flu! The understudy goes on! Well, that's good! That's good, right? Oh, wow! Dad, you have to call Mom and, like, get her on speaker.
Okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You can get tickets and stuff.
Okay.
There's a performance tonight, and then there's one tomorrow night, too.
You're gonna do them both? Yeah! I think so! Hey, hey, hey.
Here's Ruby I can't believe the understudy goes on.
Hold on, hold on.
This is like Broadway tradition.
Here, talk to your mom.
Go.
Okay.
Hey, Mom! I'm playing Sandy tonight.
You have to come, please.
Please, please.
Of course I'll be there.
All right, awesome.
Who's gonna buy tickets? Should I I'll buy 'em, right? Ruby, I love you.
I'll see you tonight, honey.
Hank, can you please take me off speaker so that we can coordinate? Okay, I love you.
So, in The Pajama Game on Broadway, the lead broke her ankle.
And that's how Shirley MacLaine became a big star.
Mmm-hmm.
Okay.
Do you know who Shirley MacLaine is? Yeah.
Isn't she I'll tell you later.
Okay, all right.
Do you wanna run lines? Yes.
Yeah, I'm gonna go look them up.
Okay.
All right.
Okay.
Okay, okay, okay.
All right, bye.
All right, she's gonna get tickets.
That's so exciting! I can't wait to see her.
Oh.
Uh Oh.
Hang on, let me call her back.
Uh Hey, grandson.
Keep the car running.
I am.
We've got no time for pleasantries, we're on a mission here.
Come on.
Zeek.
Hi! Hey, Zeek.
Wait a minute.
Dang it.
Where you going? Huh? Where you going? Yeah, oh, boy.
You.
You taking him for a hamburger again? Yeah, I know about that.
Ah, Grandma.
We're Wait.
Did you snitch about the Big Topper? No, I didn't snitch You did, didn't you? I don't know how she knows that.
He didn't snitch.
I smelled it all over you.
Come on, Zeek.
We're not going for burgers, Millie.
Well, where are you going then? He's got classes, you know.
Oh, please.
Classes! Pfft! Oh, it's fine.
Gosh, I mean, tell your grandmother how much you enjoy these outings, will you? Tell her.
Come on! I mean, obviously we can't See, he's speechless, Millie.
He can't even talk about it.
Look, I tell you, we're not gonna do anything.
We're just gonna take a little drive.
Okay? Be right back.
I love you.
I love you.
Step on the gas, let's go.
Come on.
Let's go.
Okay.
Gas it! Hey, you.
Hi.
Hi.
Hey, keep tomorrow open, 'cause you're having lunch with the boss.
Tomorrow I have a lunch.
All right, dinner.
Okay.
Hey, come here.
Hmm.
I just.
I wanna tell you something.
Hmm.
What? Shut the door.
Uh-oh.
No.
Just I wanted to tell you that I'm having lunch with Joel tomorrow.
Okay.
He's been pushing and I just feel like I owe him this much.
All right, well, you know, you don't, actually.
You don't owe him anything.
But you know, you're being the bigger person and I can respect that.
Yeah, I think it'll really help to give him closure, and then Mmm-hmm.
We can both finally sign these papers.
And move on.
He's been dragging his feet, and You? Chris, you're right.
It's time to stop treading water.
I will tell him tomorrow at lunch, we have to sign the papers.
Okay.
Grandpa, we're gonna have to have something more specific here, 'cause this is pretty broad.
Good golly.
You have, like, a name of something? If I could do that, then I wouldn't need your computer magic, grandson.
Come on.
It's over Drew, I'm just out of Vietnam, I've never been to Europe.
I'm like, 22 or something like that.
And I get to the south of France and there's this little village, right? And I I go in there.
And there's this rustic little inn, with the ivy and all of that.
And guess what? They served the best steak frites and red wine I've ever had in my entire life.
So all I wanna do is get back there with your grandmother.
I know.
And surprise her for our anniversary.
Right? Yeah.
That's all that I'm interested in.
Okay.
Did you talk to your doctor about it? Traveling or flying? What the hell are you talking about? If I was wondering if you're allowed to.
Allowed to? Yeah.
Well, of course I'm allowed to.
What do you mean, I'm allowed to? I'm an adult, for Pete's sake.
Okay.
I can go on the plane, I can fly.
Well, I don't know if you can be having red wine and steak frites, by the way.
Look, you shouldn't be worried about any of this.
I'm not worried about it.
What you should be doing is getting on the What do you got the whole map of France up for? 'Cause that's all you've given me.
It's in France.
I said the south of France, can't you It's There's a zoom in button? Oh, man, this is going nowhere.
Whole page of Wait! It just hit me.
I think it started with a Chez something, or a Chez? Yeah, like a Or Les.
Or maybe it was a woman's name.
An actual character named Doody? Doody.
Yeah? That's unfortunate.
You know what, it's short for something.
They should shorten it even more.
Gosh, I haven't seen this play in so long.
Hi.
Uh, hello.
Um, uh, I'm obviously not Mrs.
King.
As some of you are aware, the flu has been going around, so, uh I am the English teacher who knows absolutely nothing about drama.
But, uh Um But I do know that your, uh I know that your kids have worked incredibly hard to give you an amazing show tonight.
So, sit back, relax and enjoy.
That's the English teacher? Hi! Hot.
I'm so glad you guys could make it.
Hey, Tom.
Hey, Liz.
Good to see you.
Good to see you.
Thanks for coming.
Noah is doing so well.
Hi, Kathy.
How are you? Nice to see you.
Zoe is loving it here.
She's just like a bright spot in our school.
So thank you so much.
Ah! I'm so glad you guys could come.
Have a seat and we'll get There are some munchies over there, too.
Mr.
And Mrs.
Jones.
Hello.
How are you? We juggled half a dozen meetings, but we're here.
I'm glad that you did, because Dylan is doing phenomenal.
She is just so spectacular.
She's the star student, so Hey, Max, we've been over this a million times.
Can you just stop? No, I am more hygienic than he is.
Max.
Max.
I am Please, Max, people are gonna come in here.
I am taller than he is.
Can you erase that? I am more attractive than he is.
Max, can you please erase that? So I have a proof up here of why you should like me, but Max, can you erase that? Unless you give me a logical reason why you like him more There's no logical reason.
That's not how it works, okay? I'm just not interested in you in that way.
Is it because I haven't demonstrated my physical affection, which means I am now in the friend zone? No, Max.
It wasn't that.
Okay? Demonstrating physical affection is a very difficult concept for me, but I can I can try.
Max! Max, please stop! Okay, Max! Okay.
So, here we have Max, you're harassing me! Please just stop! What? No! Okay? What is See? This is why I asked you to switch partners, okay? Oh.
Dylan.
Oh! I am so sorry.
That is There's a misunderstanding.
I'm Max? But she was really good.
Yeah, yeah.
I got a little nervous.
I mean, she's perfect for the part.
I don't know why She messed one line up.
But that didn't matter.
What? How did you even know that? But that didn't matter.
I'm just saying.
Don't mention that.
I'm so proud of her.
Some of those kids weren't that good.
But she was really good.
Oh, hey.
Hmm.
Oh.
Were you waving to the hottie English teacher? Yeah, she knows him.
She knows him.
Oh, Amber went here.
He was her teacher.
Yeah.
Oh! That's nice.
That's all.
Yeah, and they dated, too.
Yeah, we dated.
Oh, you.
You two dated? Yeah.
Yeah, they were engaged for a little bit.
Engaged.
Oh, my gosh.
Yeah.
It was a long time ago.
- Wasn't too long ago.
- Hey, guys! Hey! Hi! Oh! Oh! What'd you think? Oh, my gosh! You were so Great! Here, these are for you.
These are for you, you big star.
Oh, my gosh.
It's beautiful.
I didn't know you could sing like that! Was everyone good? Was it good? You were the best.
Amazing! Oh, thank you! Oh, my God.
Hi.
So, uh, Dylan filled us in on a few very interesting details.
Yes.
That somehow the school neglected to tell us.
Okay.
Like, your son's been harassing our daughter for over a week now.
No, no.
I think, just It's complicated.
Oh, it's complicated, is it? Which complication are you referring to? Are you referring when he distributed a bunch of malicious flyers No all over the school about one of the other students? No, no.
See.
Or the violence that he threatened the boy with? That wasn't true.
Or maybe was it one of the tons of unwanted gifts he's been publically bestowing on our daughter? Okay, here's what happened.
Dylan started dating Aaron.
Oh, my God.
I We don't care about school gossip.
No, no, but It's not gossip.
What we're interested in knowing is whether or not you chose to discipline your son for these things he's doing.
Or is he just allowed to just do whatever the hell he wants around here.
I did, I spoke with my son about this.
Yes.
When were you ever gonna speak to us about it? Okay, listen.
I get it.
She's uncomfortable.
Can everybody just stop talking for one second? Let's all just try and settle down.
Okay? I'm sorry that your daughter's uncomfortable, but I feel like you guys don't have a clear understanding of what's been happening.
Your son put his hands on my daughter.
Oh, come on.
KRISTINA: That's not true.
Did you see it? Did you not see it? That is a bunch of BS! He's not trying to do anything to her.
He is harassing her, he intimidated her.
All right, you know what? I think this is a case of a couple of absentee parents trying to blame somebody else for their own Wow.
Now this is about because you haven't been home and you haven't been watching your daughter! Maybe if you were home, you'd know what was going on! You know what? Thanks a lot.
Oh, my God.
This has been really eye-opening for us.
Yeah, it's eye-opening for me, too.
You can only see through the lens of your son, obviously.
That's not true.
Thanks a lot.
That is not true.
We're here for all the kids, okay? Well, not for our daughter anymore.
Come on, Dylan.
No.
No, you're going.
We're outta here.
Hi, Drew.
Hey.
Zeek's still getting ready.
Okay, it's fine.
Why don't you come in a sec? Um, I think he told me to wait in the car if he wasn't ready yet, so I made some cookies.
Oh, I'm fine.
Come on, have some cookies.
Okay.
Can he have cookies? Look.
There are no cookies.
There's What? Game's over, boy.
I need to know what's going on.
What are you? Nothing's going on.
Ah, Drew.
What? You gotta come clean.
Look, if he's sneaking around doing stuff that's not good for his health, I have to know about it.
Okay.
Can he fly? Oh, come on.
Is that bad? Where does he think he's going? It's nothing.
It's not booked or anything.
Oh, well good.
It's not gonna be booked.
I can't talk about it.
Hey, Drew! Is that you? Yeah! Please, um, just don't tell him.
Okay? I'll figure it out.
Okay.
Just make sure that the credit card doesn't come out.
Okay? Okay.
Okay, just you can't tell him.
He's not planning any secret trips to Mexico or anything like that.
Hey, grandson.
I thought it was you.
Okay, come on.
We gotta hit the road.
Okay.
Millie, I do not need you to worry so much.
Everything will be explained in good time.
Come on.
Bye-bye.
Got 'em.
Oh, good.
These are ready to go.
Yeah, hold on.
I'll be right there with these.
Hey, so I was thinking maybe just you guys go to the show tonight, you know? What do you mean? No.
Well, I just feel like it's, you know.
It's a family thing.
And I know Sandy felt uncomfortable, and I don't want Ruby to feel, you know, it's like Mom, Dad, Dad's girlfriend, and Well, it's No, first of all, you're not just my girlfriend.
All right? I'm not? I mean I'm What am I then? No, you're not.
You're the best thing that ever happened to me, so So you know, if I want you to go, you should be able to go.
And I do want you to go.
I like you in Ruby's life.
What, is it about, uh Is it Johnny Rocket? Is it about Mark? No.
'Cause I get that.
I mean, I I'm asking a lot, I know, first of all, just going to this thing.
It's a kid's high school thing.
It's Oh.
Let's be honest, some of those kids, though.
Right? Come on, now Ruby's good.
But look, here's the thing.
I'm, I'm learning to communicate, right? When things are important to me.
And That's this.
It's one of these It's one of those things.
It's not about Mark.
It's uncomfortable to see him, but it's not like I wish for things to be different.
It just brings up a lot of Yeah.
But listen, you're telling me that it's important to you, and I really appreciate that.
And so I'd like to go.
For real? Hmm? For real.
Okay, good.
It really had to be Vitelli's? I was gonna pick that table over there.
You know, that's where we had our first date, but the old couple took it, so I had to settle for Where we ate when we first found out you were pregnant with Syd.
Joel, I remember.
You remember we used to come here when you were in law school all the time, and we All right.
I don't have time for this.
Is it too subtle? We both have things that we wanna say.
Yeah Yeah.
So.
There's Here's the man.
You two! Hey, Chino! Chino! Great to see you.
Long time I haven't seen you.
Where've you been? Uh.
Busy.
Busy, yeah.
Busy.
Chicken parm, two iced teas? Oh, that sounds great.
You know, I'm just gonna go for a coffee.
Thank you.
Coming right up.
Thanks, Chino.
You know, I was sitting in here thinking about all the All the dreams I had back in those days.
You know, uh For us.
Creating a life together and starting a family, and how we were gonna be this just incredible team.
And we did that.
I mean Julia, we did that.
And then when things derailed last year I was so confused and hurt about whatever happened with Ed.
And don't think that I don't beat myself up about that.
I'm fully aware that I It doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter what happened.
I'm in the wrong.
It doesn't matter what happened with Ed.
Because I am the one who walked out.
I walked out on you.
And I walked out on our kids.
You know, I took a vow to you.
I made a vow when we got married that I would That I would uphold our marriage.
Good times and bad, and all that.
And I failed.
I failed you.
And I felt such shame, Julia.
I mean, I felt like I didn't even deserve to be in your life anymore.
But so long as you're my wife, so long as we're still married, I am gonna do everything in my power to uphold those vows.
I love you so much.
I have never stopped loving you.
And I am gonna honor you for the rest of my days, if you'll have me.
I'm gonna go.
Hey, honey.
Hi.
You can have a seat.
Okay.
Listen, I just wanna say to you that I am so, so sorry for not addressing Max's behavior.
No.
No.
It was totally my fault.
I didn't protect you.
And as headmaster I take full responsibility, honey.
But, I Okay? And I just want you to know that moving forward, that that will never happen again.
Okay? I understand that Max can't help it.
I know, I just I wanna make sure that you feel protected and feel secure.
Okay? Dylan.
What's wrong? What What is What, is there something else? My parents wanna switch schools.
Okay, um I know.
I think maybe what can happen is I can talk to them, and I can tell them that that's not a good idea.
No, you can't because they won't listen.
They never listen to me.
They don't get that this is the first place in five years that's actually helped me.
Okay.
I know that I can talk to them.
And I want you here.
I believe in you.
And I know that this is the right school for you.
Okay? I know.
And I will do whatever it takes to keep you here.
I will, okay? Thank you so much.
You're so welcome.
It's okay.
We're gonna fix this, okay? Okay.
Okay, so, I come across this matchbox, and it's got a picture of a thorny rose on it.
It's called Cafe Fleur, and all of a sudden it hits me.
I'm transported back in time, I'm sitting at this cafe, and guess what? Right across the street is our It's the place.
B&B.
Well, this is it? Yeah.
We just Google this.
Yeah, well do that.
Fire it up.
We can turn around and see what's across the street.
Let's go, grandson.
We got no time to waste.
Get in there and let's find this place.
That's it.
Oh, yeah.
That's it.
That's the Okay.
Okay, turn it around.
Look.
Is that it? That's it.
It hasn't changed.
Yep.
Chez Marie.
Chez Marie? See! I knew it was a woman's name.
This mind is like a steel trap, grandson.
Well, that's it.
Okay, here, this is it.
Let's do it.
Let's book it.
Grandpa, I can't book it.
Why can't you book it? Because, um, Grandma knows, Grandpa.
I'm sorry.
Okay? But I don't know what I'm supposed to do, and she's asking me questions about you.
Because she's worried about your health.
So you told her? I didn't tell her everything.
No, I I asked her if it was okay for you to fly because she's asking me what we're doing.
And I'm trying not to tell her because you don't want me to tell her.
Ah, man.
But then in turn I have to lie to her.
So what am I supposed to do there? You know, you're putting me in a really weird position.
And so I told her that you were gonna, you were trying to fly somewhere, that's it.
Yeah, yeah.
God, you know, I This is gonna be a special trip.
Drew.
You know, it's I know.
Me and your grandmother.
Maybe for the last Oh, God.
I chose you because I trusted you.
Do you understand? I trusted you.
Yeah.
You let me down.
Do you understand? Just take me home.
Okay.
Oh.
Hi.
Hey.
How'd it go? Fine.
It was fine, Chris.
It was fine.
It was harder than I thought, so I didn't bring up the papers.
Doesn't mean I'm not It doesn't mean I'm having second thoughts.
Okay? I don't wanna talk about it, though.
Okay.
Jules, where does, um, where does that leave us? In the same place.
Nothing has changed, Chris.
Exactly, nothing has changed.
Yeah, we're fine.
You know, actually, we're not.
We're not fine.
I, um, I need something.
I need something to change, Jules.
I need something more than this.
I want something more than this.
And if this isn't gonna move forward, I don't know.
It is moving forward.
I just I need more time to figure things out.
You gotta tell me what more time looks like.
I don't know what it looks like, I'm not gonna Is it a week? Is it a day? Is it a month? Is it a year? I can't calendar it for you.
Get out of my face, Chris.
Look, I I don't wanna talk about it right now.
No, you know what? Actually, we do need to talk about this right now.
I have been more than patient with you.
I have done everything I possibly can.
And I don't think that it's a matter of time, Julia.
I don't think that it matters how much time I give you, because I think you're still in love with your husband.
I have kids with the man, yes, I have feelings for him.
It's not that simple.
Stop pressuring me.
Pressuring you.
Okay, Julia.
All right, pressure's off.
Chris.
Chris! - Hey, buds.
- Hi, buddy.
We wanna talk to you about what happened with Dylan.
Because I feel like we owe you an apology.
I don't feel like we really gave you the full picture about what can happen in, uh, relationships.
Remember when we talked about the number scale and how things can change? Well, sometimes they don't.
Sometimes they're just stuck, because the two people want different things.
That's confusing.
It is confusing.
Very confusing.
How are you supposed to tell when the scale is fluid and when it isn't? That's exactly what we wanna talk to you about.
Sometimes it's just difficult, you know, and you can't.
Um, you just sort of gauge it on how the person responds, you know.
And what they're telling you.
And you also have to respect their wishes.
Like, with Dylan, you know, um You might wanna be closer to her than she wants to be to you.
It's kind of like when you get a hug from someone.
Even me, sometimes I'll try and hug you and you don't want that.
So I'll respect that boundary and I won't keep hugging you.
And Dylan may have felt overwhelmed by what you were doing.
And she just interpreted it differently than how you were giving it.
Dylan said I was harassing her.
Okay, well, you weren't harassing her.
Do you Okay, Max Harassment is defined as aggressive or intimidating pressure.
I was only trying to do nice things.
Yes, and you were doing nice things.
You were, it was just too much for Dylan.
We're just suggesting that you pay a little more attention to the feedback you're getting from other people so you can figure out what their boundaries are.
Does that make sense? Am I the reason Dylan's leaving the school? I was just backstage with Ruby.
How's she doing? She doing okay? She's in absolute heaven.
She's polite.
Good! She's engaged.
She's gracious.
Yeah.
It's like somebody took our teenage daughter and replaced her with Sandy from Grease.
Yeah, yeah.
Hey.
Hi! Hi.
Hey, Mark.
Hi.
Hi, Hank.
I'm Sandy.
Hi, I'm I'm Ruby's mom.
Mark.
Oh, yes.
Yes.
Yeah.
She plays Sandy, I'm Sandy.
Yeah, yeah.
So, if you guys You wanna catch up, or I didn't know you were gonna be here.
No, I know.
I'm I'm actually just here on, um, official substitute drama teacher business.
Um, Savannah is feeling better.
And she's decided last minute that she wants to go on as Sandy.
- Ah.
- Well, okay, that's Last minute.
Yeah.
They can They can do that? Well, I mean that's That's not fair to Ruby.
I know, I know.
I just found out.
And I I already told Ruby and she's Wow.
Really upset.
She says she doesn't wanna go on tonight if she's just gonna be part of the chorus.
So I just wanted to tell you guys.
No, I'm I'm gonna go in and talk to her.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Hank? Come on.
Yeah.
Oh, I gotta Okay.
Um.
You wanna I don't think I should be part of that.
No, no.
It was nice to meet you.
Hank? Nice to meet you, too.
Hi.
Well.
Subbing as the drama teacher.
Yes.
Did not expect that.
Neither did I.
Twist.
This flu.
I just keep screwing up my life.
Well, yeah.
How do you keep doing that? Well, I just ruined a really good thing with a really good guy.
That guy Chris? From the barbeque? Mmm-hmm.
What happened? What'd you do? I just I I couldn't cut the cord with Joel.
He's making this so hard.
It's How? Well, he wants to get back together.
That's a good thing.
I know, I know.
I know you would think that.
It's just that I have taken so long to get to be okay without him.
And so he chooses now.
That's You're just talking about timing.
Sometimes timing sucks.
And it's No, it's not just timing.
He bailed on me.
Yeah, he screwed up.
Haven't you ever screwed up? No, I screwed up huge.
Obviously.
That's what got us here.
I mean, I know that.
But I never gave up the fight.
This is the first time we were really tested, and I really needed him.
And he was weak.
You know what marriage is, sweetie? You know what it's about? Forgiveness.
I don't think I can.
Drew is at Berkeley, he's doing well.
Oh, yeah? He doesn't call me enough.
Uh And, uh, how's Amber? Amber is pregnant.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
With It It's, uh, was a situation with a boyfriend who might not be in the picture.
Oh.
But she's handling it really well.
And Yeah, she can do that.
It's just about six weeks away.
Wow.
Big changes.
That is So you're gonna be a, uh Ah-ta-duh! A thing.
No, no, no.
No? Mmm-mmm.
We don't say that.
No.
That word? No.
Maybe there's a There's gotta be some cool, hip new word for it.
I've been trying to find it.
Yeah? It has eluded me.
Yeah? And I'm not sure it's gonna catch on.
Yeah, that's right.
There's been a word for it for a while now.
Oh, it's traumatic.
But Oh.
That's exciting, wow.
Yeah.
That is just ahead of my wife.
No, really? Yeah.
You're gonna be a dad? Yeah! Oh, wow.
Yeah.
Oh, that's great.
Yeah, it's exciting.
You're gonna be so great.
Thanks.
Um, I hope so.
Oh, that makes me happy.
Yeah, um That's great.
Yeah.
Uh Yeah, it's surreal.
But, um, I'm looking forward to it, I guess.
This is gonna sound weird, but I'm I'm glad I knew you.
I'm glad I knew you, too.
I'm really glad I knew you.
Hey.
How is she? Oh, you know, a lot of drama.
A lot of crying.
Sandy's taking her back now.
Okay, let's go.
Yeah.
If you wanna hang No, no.
Well, it was It was really nice to see you and, uh Good luck being a Whatever word you come up with.
And I'm sorry about Ruby.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
She's okay.
Yeah.
Thanks.
Okay, bye.
You still sore about the trip? Yeah, you're damn right I'm sore about the trip.
God.
I I mean, I can't even drive my own damn car.
I got Everybody's treating me like an invalid.
I can't even spend my own money when I wanna spend it for what I wanna do with it.
No, you can't.
No.
Not when you're planning on sneaking around doing things that are bad for your health.
Where were you gonna fly off to anyway? France.
France? Yeah, gonna go to France.
Yeah? What were you gonna do in France? Okay.
Well, do you remember when I wrote you after I got out of the service and I was in this little village of Eze? And they had this wonderful B&B there, with the best food and wine I've ever had.
Yeah, I remember that.
You remember that? Okay.
Yeah.
Uh-huh.
Well I was Yeah? I was gonna surprise you on our anniversary, and I was gonna take you there, back to the B&B.
And, uh, I figured you could paint all you wanted to.
I mean, hell, you painted all over Italy and fiddled around with those statues and God knows what else.
But the point is, just you and me, spending some Oh, Zeek.
Really? Yeah.
Well, we could still go.
Can't we? I mean, after you see Leland, he okays you for travel? We'll just go.
I like it better this way, that it's not a surprise, 'cause we can look forward to it together.
Really? Yeah.
You You think it's changed? No.
No.
No, no, no.
It hasn't changed.
Here.
You look it up.
It's a village called Eze, and the B&B is called Chez Marie.
Oh! Oh! Oh-ho! Oh, Zeek.
Yeah.
You want a beer? Oh, no.
No, no, no, no.
No, no.
I'm okay, yeah.
Are you okay? Yeah.
You haven't said a word since we left school.
You're happy, right? I mean, in general.
You're You're good? 'Cause I 'Cause I got a lot of baggage.
I know I got I got a lot of stuff.
But, uh I mean, I got a daughter who's Sometimes she's an angel, sometimes she She's not.
I got an ex-wife who's very volatile, and I'm weird.
And A lot of stuff.
Lot of stuff And Do you think that you Like, your life would be better, or just simpler if If you'd chosen him? I know you're not going back to him.
I know that.
Not now.
That's not what this is about.
I'm just wondering.
I guess I'm asking Is this really where you wanna be? I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
My God! No! Sorry to barge in, I just Everything I say is wrong.
You don't understand what I'm going through! Ruby, what do you mean I don't? No, you don't.
I am trying to! No! Oh, my God! She is impossible.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I just I didn't know where to go.
I'm I'm sorry.
I love The place is great.
Sort of a country modern.
It's just modern.
It's beautiful.
I love the tile work here, too.
Thank you.
Thanks.
It's Guatemalan? I'll get you my designer's number if you want.
Mmm-hmm.
Hey, listen.
We're really sorry.
I'm sorry, uh, about coming over unannounced so late.
I just, um, we wanted to apologize.
Um For not addressing your daughter's needs sooner and really taking them to heart.
Well, thank you for that.
It's nice to hear.
Mmm-hmm.
But we're actually most concerned about this situation with your son.
We'd like to know what you're gonna do about that.
Well, actually he would like to apologize to Dylan, if Only if she wants to meet me out of her own free will.
If not, then I can just apologize to the two of you.
Maybe you should go I'll go get her.
Yeah, we've been out of town traveling a lot, for work.
So Thank you for those occasions when you hosted Dylan.
Oh, well.
Thanks.
We loved having her.
No problem.
It's a pleasure.
We watched movies, we cooked, we baked.
We hung out.
You baked? That's funny.
We baked.
Yeah, chocolate chip.
Well, that's I hope you, you know.
You didn't go crazy with the sugar.
We really try to limit that.
- No.
No, no.
- Oh, yeah.
We kept a good eye on that.
Yeah.
So.
Hey.
Hi.
Hello, Dylan.
I want you to know that I am deeply repentant of my actions.
I understand now that when you say you don't reciprocate my feelings, it means that I need to give you space.
Also, if you do decide to come back to Chambers Academy, I promise to never come near you again in any capacity.
We're hoping that you guys will reconsider and stay at Chambers.
Well, we're not exactly crazy about the idea of changing schools in the middle of the school year.
It's so Disruptive.
Mmm-hmm.
Yeah, so we'll, uh I guess we'll just re-evaluate at the end of the year.
Yeah? Yeah.
See you at school tomorrow, Asperger's.
What? Dylan.
I've never even heard her say that before.
It's okay.
It's fine.
Although some may take offense to that, in her case it is a term of endearment, and so I understand.
I take no offense.
Oh, hey.
All right.
She finally stopped.
Thirty minutes of, uh Some crying, a little bit of bribery, and, uh Oh, God.
By the way, she's got like, posters all over her room.
I don't know where she's getting them from.
She's got like, a half-naked guy from that werewolf show.
What is that about? I didn't have that.
I had like, a poster of I had the robot from the Lost In Space thing.
I don't know.
I don't know if that's healthy.
I don't know, if I should do something about it or not.
You know, a lot of One girl with flames for hair.
I mean, what is that? Hey.
You asked me if I'm happy.
I'm happy.
There's nowhere else I wanna be.
Hey.
Um, the The kids are asleep.
We need to sign the papers, Joel.
We made a decision, we need to follow through with it.
Julia.
Enough second guessing.
I'm signing the papers.
Is this what you want? Camille Camille.
Camille.
Camille.
Call Camille.
Call an ambulance.
I can't move.
Oh, God.