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Can you remember that long ago? How could I ever forget? Tonight on Simon

Simon. She wants to get married. She wants to have a family. You are not to

mention the word marriage.

AJ, college is tough, man.

Supporting a wife's even tougher.

He'll never want you as much as I do.

I want you to go inside and bolt the door with that company.

Watchdog. Only barks at attractive women.

Rick Simon.

I know you.

It's been a long time.

I'll never forget the night we had together.

We never had a night together.

And I've never forgiven you.

Right here in San Diego.

The summer before you went away.

I need that.

Does AJ know you're in town? No, is he home? Come on inside. I can't wait to

the look on his face.

Hello, A .J.

I can't believe it.

Hadn't changed a bit, has she?

What are

you doing here?

Well, I just came back to close up the old house.

Mom passed away.

Oh, Anita, I'm sorry.

Well...

I grew up.

They said my brother was killed during the fighting at the concert.

But this... He could have gotten into Balboa Park.

Point is, it was 20 years ago.

Not for me, it isn't.

It's been with me every day of my life.

Look... Anita, now come on.

Don't do this to yourself.

Nothing in the world is going to bring Larry back.

You know, when it happened, I kept waiting for someone to explain it to me.

The police, my parents, God.

No one could change my life, A .J.

You of all people know how much I changed after Larry was killed.

Nothing was ever the same for me.

For us.

If there's any chance of finding out who killed my brother, I have to try.

First thing we'll do is go over the police reports, review any physical

they may have in the vaults after all these years.

Then we'll try and retrace the steps.

What are you laughing at?

You, I don't know.

I just feel like I'm meeting you for the first time all over again.

Yeah, I know.

Hey, you were supposed to grow up to be Perry Mason.

Yeah, instead I turned out to be, uh... Um... Oh, what's his name? You know, the

guy that always showed up in court at the end with the evidence?

Oh, Drake!

You remember when you were their age?

You wanted to be a lawyer so much, you wouldn't let anything stand in your way.

Not even me.

What are we doing here?

I don't know.

My parents won't be home.

Party for Tim's house.

Are they going to be gone all night?

They're in Germany.

And they left you all by yourself?

What are they, crazy?

They trust me.

They're crazy.

Hi,

uh, Dallas with the regular, please.

Oh, Anita, old boyfriend surfs in off the starboard bow.

I don't want to talk to you, Carl.

You really think so?

AJ,

stay in the car. Come on. Just stay in the car.

I'm talking to you. What'd you say?

Now,

come on, guys. Let's just talk this over, okay? Come on. That's what's

out. Come on, AJ. This is silly.

I didn't have anything to do with you, Rick.

You got a problem with my brother.

You know you got a problem with me.

Forget it.

Hey!

Apologize to the lady.

Sorry. I don't think she heard you.

Sorry.

Good, my man, what it is.

Hey. Kid, you are going to have to learn when and where to pick your fights.

Now, they were about to leave your brains on the pavement out here. I tried

tell him that, Rick. Looking for America.

Yeah? Wasn't there.

Thank you.

Well.

Maybe we'll get lucky this year.

I mean, you know, sometimes it takes days to find a lead, and when a case is

old... You might not find a lead at all. No, I mean, it's not that.

You know, it just sometimes takes longer than normal to do the digging.

You happen to be driving by. I thought you might be able to use some help, AJ.

Well, look who's here!

Ha -ha!

Hey!

Hello, Carl.

Damn, just like old times.

You live terrific.

Hey. Hey. Hey!

I'll see your names in the paper sometime.

You guys made it uptown, huh?

That's good.

It's been good to me, though.

Hey, can you believe it?

I own this place.

And I supply auto parts up and down the coast.

Nita, how long are you going to be around?

I... I know the best lobster in town.

I don't know yet, Carl. Can I call you?

Sure.

Hey, anytime you need gas.

What was that all about?

Well, I've known a couple of private eyes.

Been asking a lot of questions around the neighborhood.

Somebody looking for their stolen Mercedes?

No. Those guys are more dangerous than cops.

Keep an eye on them.

What about the girl?

Yeah. Keep track of her and the blonde guy.

You know, I haven't seen her in a long time.

Makes you realize how much things have changed.

Yeah, you're not poor anymore.

I thought you had your bowling league dinner dance tonight. Chuck has the flu

bug, and I need an escort.

Oh, I can't. I'm sorry.

I have a date. Rick have any plans?

Facts?

Anita. You remember her?

Oh, yes.

After she ran away, I got to know her mother.

I heard Anita's had a terrible time of it. She had a drug problem, you know.

A lot of people have had drug problems in this country, Mom. It doesn't mean a

thing. Well, I'm only saying she's not particularly stable.

Oh, come on, Mom.

Give me a break.

Isn't her brother the one who organized the sit -in at the naval base that

commissioned the Polaris submarine?

But Anita's not like her brother.

She's normal. She wants to get married. She wants to have a family. You are not

to mention the word marriage in this house until you're 24 and a graduate of

school. Oh.

Where'd you get it? I won it in the crab game, Missoula, Montana.

Nice of you to let us know where you were.

Looks better on you.

Well, you can't put a man's head on a boy's head, Pilgrim.

Hey, watch yourself. Watch yourself now.

What's for dinner? Liver.

Yet. Thought something died in the kitchen.

Oh, what is that wonderful scent from the kitchen?

A laugh.

Liver and onion.

Oh, my favorite. You remembered.

Oh, this is just fabulous. Thank you.

I love cooking.

You know, when I have the time.

Well, go on. You were telling me about San Francisco.

Oh, yeah.

It got old in a hurry in Haight -Ashbury.

None of us stayed in one place too long.

I was in Chicago in 68.

Oh, that was something.

And when Simon had a secret wish to turn hippie?

Well, I just remember thinking, feeling that I was on the

outside looking in.

I was missing something important and exciting.

Compromised by going sideburns down to here.

I ended up wandering through every lost cause that jumped up in the last 20

years.

Ban the bomb, the McCarthy and McGovern campaigns.

But you made a difference.

I mean, the struggles of people like you helped change this country.

Not once was I ever as happy as I was with you.

You're not going out that door. Do you understand?

Do you understand? You're not going out that door!

Are you listening to me?

Hi, Tim. Hey, look at you guys.

How are you?

Give me a hug.

Margo's dying to see you, you know. Oh, great, great.

Oh, you saw my kid, huh?

What can you think about these kids? I don't know what the hell's gotten into

them these days. Come on back and see Margo, okay?

Really quick. Our group therapist said he'll outgrow the stage.

Oh, yeah.

We're just not sure that I'm going to survive it, though.

That's for the day. I mean, you know that you might remember.

We asked him about going to the concert.

He was in a hurry. He didn't have much to say. Wait a minute. There was

something about a newspaper.

Larry had a friend who published an underground paper, Mike Webb.

Was this a guy with long, stringy hair, wore granny glasses, went to jail for

wearing the American flag on his rear end?

I'm still worried about this country. This country is falling apart.

That's why I got into the fitness game.

That's Betty Blake.

Does she work for you?

She's my wife.

Didn't she just set some kind of sales record for those video cassettes?

And our book is in its eighth printing. Our Betty Blake health buzzer in 32

states. And we've got a new hot tub design coming out in the fall.

Harry, would you check the lighting?

Betty keeps moving out of her key on her pelvic thrust.

Incredible, isn't she?

Met her at the March on Washington in 69.

Mike, tell me.

Can you think of anything else Larry might have said or done that could give

some kind of a lead? Just picked up some copies of the newspaper.

We're going to hand him out at the concert. I don't think he was feeling

well. Why? Why do you say that?

The way he was acting.

In fact, I think he even said he'd just come from the doctor.

Would his doctor still be around?

Dr. Ables, he treated the whole family.

That shouldn't be too hard to check.

Only one other guy might have known where Larry was going.

A black kid named Paz.

Paz?

Go to Harley?

Yeah. Yeah, that's him.

How does he figure into this? Well, he was looking to publish some of the

he'd written about on the road. I printed some of his articles.

He was there same time Larry was.

He talked a little.

Wait a minute. I was on the road with him. I didn't know he was a writer.

Yeah. Damn good one, too.

You know, I haven't seen him since that summer.

Wait. Folks moved out of town while I was away.

I had no idea where we could find him.

I do.

Um, you guys mind? I'd kind of like to leave him alone for a...

Anita? Mm -hmm? I want you to go inside and bolt the door. We've got company.

Spotted the same car behind us on the way to Tim and Margo's.

Wanting you to get inside.

You'll call and let me know you're okay? Yeah. Of course. Yeah, yeah. You got

it.

See? Let's pull a little double reverse and follow him home, see where he takes

us. You got it. See if we can catch the license plate as we go by.

All right, she's in.

You recognize him?

No, but I got a good look at him.

where we started.

No, not really. I mean, at least we know we've triggered some special interest

somewhere along the way. We just didn't notice when.

Tomorrow, Rick and I will go back and we'll go over the territory we've

covered, see if we can figure out what it was we missed.

Turn off the motor.

Let's just sit here a while.

This is not the kind of place where I normally bring a client for a business

meeting.

Can you remember that long ago?

AJ?

AJ.

Yes. I think I'm in love with you.

But I don't want to be.

Why?

You know how I feel about you.

But you're leaving.

Anita, it's just college.

I'll be home on the holidays and I'll write you every day.

But I want to be with you all the time, AJ.

I've never felt like this before.

Take me with you.

You don't have to marry me.

I wouldn't do that.

I respect you.

I want you to be close.

Well, I wish I could be more help, fellas.

Told you everything I can remember.

Bye. Thanks, anyway.

Uh, you don't suppose that Tim might... Is Tim here? No, he's not here. No.

Our son left us a note last night.

Said he's going off to join the circus.

See, somehow this family survives.

Hasn't always been easy, but... I wouldn't change anything I've done in my

Oh, listen, Margo, would you by any chance know somebody who could have been

driving a silver 300ZX yesterday?

Doesn't matter.

Hey, I hope everything turns out all right for you and Tim and the boy.

It's funny how things turn out sometimes, isn't it, AJ?

Yeah. I had the same choice to make that Anita did. I just couldn't bring myself

to do it.

So, Tim and I got married.

I'm sorry, what choice?

Abortion.

It was still illegal then, and I was... I was... You know, I...

They didn't know.

I just assumed Anita told you. After all, you were the father.

Not to ruin your future by forcing the issue.

Besides, I'd already made my plans to go to San Francisco.

I would have wanted that baby.

It's a long time ago.

It's just... What?

I can't help thinking how it might have been.

I wonder how it could be now.

I love her, Rick.

She isn't that serious, huh?

Yeah.

Hey, Rick?

Mm -hmm.

Lots of people go to college while they're married, don't they?

College is tough, man.

Supporting a wife's even tougher. How do you figure on doing both?

You don't think mom would help pay for any of it?

No.

You can always ask her once she's regained consciousness.

If it's real, Anita will wait for you. Yeah, but I wonder to know how serious I

am about her.

Well, getting married might accomplish that.

Hey, look.

Tell you what.

And ask her to wait for you a couple of years so you can get a good run and

start at college, okay?

Unless she ought to love you enough to do that.

Especially if you got her a nice present.

An engagement ring would fill a house.

That's why I took off.

I wanted to get up north, see what was happening.

I sat with him, listened to him.

Somehow all I could hear was Dad's voice.

That time he told us about all those faded World War II medals in that old

footlocker in the attic.

I figure if I'm going to go to a foreign country, it'll be in a uniform.

Might as well be in one that fits.

Hitched up with the Corps.

Gonna be a Marine.

I'll be back, kid.

Yes, I'll be back.

Sure, Carl.

Larry.

No, not much.

Well, I'd like to help in any way if I could.

I appreciate that, Carl.

But I don't think we're going to pursue it much longer anyway.

Okay.

Look, Anita, um...

I'd like to see you sometime if I could.

I can't, Carl. I'm sorry.

No, look.

I believe you, Carl.

And under any other circumstances, I'd take you up on it.

KJ again, isn't it?

Yeah, well, okay.

Doesn't work out, you know where I am.

Carl.

Did you... Did you ever tell anyone you got me pregnant?

No.

No, that's the last thing I'd want anybody to know.

Why, did you?

Bye, Anita.

Anita, I just, I hate to give it up right in the middle.

Yeah, I... Yes, I understand.

Let me talk it over with Rick, all right?

He wants to drop the case.

He wants to let go of the past.

Nothing wrong with that.

No.

You know, A .J., we don't have much to go on.

I mean, I game a tag with a ZX.

Unanswered question about a doctor's appointment.

Of course, I'm with you if you want to play it out.

I don't know.

I wish you just let the poor kid rest in peace.

Hi, Julie.

What's happening?

Please, everyone.

Please go home.

My parents and I appreciate that you've come to offer your sympathies, but

please go now.

I'm

sorry.

AJ, can I talk to you later?

Sure. I'm so tired.

I understand.

I just need to be alone. Oh, yeah.

Gonna give that through this morning. And accept it that soon you'll be

to the bone.

If your time to you is worth saving, then you better

start swimming or you'll sink like a stone.

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I don't know.

I'm not prepared to handle all this.

Sexy.

Everything I want in a girl.

It's only a lot more interesting than Liz.

Let's just leave Liz out of this, all right?

Jeez.

You've gotten conservative in your old age.

What do you mean, my old age?

I'm young.

Well, you know, maybe somewhere between young and middle age, but... I never

trust anyone over 30.

Why don't you loosen up?

You're always so uptight.

Take off the jacket and the tie.

I happen to like wearing a jacket and tie, thank you very much.

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Let's go.

I take it we're still on the case?

How many kinds of doctors besides our family doctor do we see every year?

This is Carl.

Yeah, well, are they off the case?

Doctors.

What kind of doctors?

No, no, no, no. Listen to me.

You've got to let me know right away.

If they go anywhere near a woman gynecologist on Claremont Avenue,

name is Hackett.

Laura Hackett.

So we've been checking with all the specialists that Dr. Ables referred

family to.

I realize she only treated Larry's mother. No, I was Anita's gynecologist,

Matter of fact, that is the reason her brother Larry came to see me that day.

He was here?

Apparently, he'd accidentally seen some kind of report that we had sent to

Anita.

He was very upset.

I told him that I could not discuss the patient's personal case, even though she

was his sister. He hadn't told her that he was coming.

Well, seeing as how it was so long ago, Anita was already pregnant. That's true,

isn't it?

Doctor, you don't know how important this is to me.

If Larry came here the day that he was killed, then I couldn't possibly be the

father. There wasn't time.

I'm sorry.

You'll have to ask her.

Look.

I was serious when I told you how much I cared for you.

But I don't have any choice.

What are you talking about, Carl?

Rick and AJ.

They found your gynecologist.

Now she's going to tell them that your brother Larry was there on the day he

died. That's impossible.

Larry didn't know I was pregnant.

Yes, he did.

He talked to your doctor. He told me so.

He came to the station and he told me he knew I had to be the father. What was I

going to do about it?

He picked up a wrench. He swung at me. I grabbed the wrench. I hit him.

I hit him too high.

You killed him?

Dr. Hackett never knew you were the father. She can't tell them anything.

I know.

You're the only one who can.

I think we gotta figure that Larry was upset enough to confront whoever got her

pregnant.

Carl.

Well, only Aunt Nita will know that for sure. You think she'll tell us the truth

this time?

She'll tell me the truth.

She said she'd wait for me here.

Wait up. Easy.

I don't want her to suffer.

There's Carl.

AJ to BMW. That's the guy that was tailing us.

Sorry, AJ.

Why did you lie to me about getting you pregnant?

I wanted it to be you.

After all these years, I'd almost come to believe it was you.

And when I came back and I saw that the feeling between us was growing again,

and when you found out about the pregnancy, it just seemed to bring us

together. Everything was just the way it used to be.

Nothing can ever be the way it used to be.

We're not the same people.

The vault changed too much.

I'm staying 17. I'm never going to grow up.

Yeah, you will.

I won't.

You will.

Nope. That's a promise.