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[Siren wailing in distance]

[Horn honking]

- We are so excited to be working with Joe Joe's Coffee.

- She's not just saying that.

It took her less than a week

to fill up one of your loyalty cards.

- Actually, that is true.

I love coffee, and I love Joe Joe's Coffee.

- I am always happy to hear that.

- Great!

We'll touch base with mock-ups

for the marketing campaign.

- I can't wait to get started.

- Us too. - So, see you!

- Great! Bye! - Bye!

Mmm! Score! Yes!

- Ooh, nice!

- We did it!

- Only the biggest coffee chain in the country!

Not bad for the new kid!

- Well, it helps that I am working

with the senior accounts exec.

- Stop. You're making me blush.

Actually, don't stop.

- OK.

Uh, so I guess I'll set up a meeting

with the art department right before I leave.

- Well, Lara, you-- you gotta postpone.

- Joel, I can't.

I've already been putting it off for so long.

- Yeah, well, not to be disrespectful,

but your aunt isn't exactly in a hurry.

- No, she isn't. But her lawyer is.

And I'm her executor.

- And why do you have to do it?

- My dad is her closest relative.

He's in California. I'm in New York.

But honestly, it's gonna be so fine.

I'll go, I'll sign some papers,

and I'll be back before you even know it.

- Where does she live again?

- Kissing Falls, Connecticut.

You will be very interested to know

it is the hummingbird capital of New England.

- OK.

- I looked it up.

- Well, don't worry.

The Big Apple will be waiting for you.

- Good to know. - Catch you later!

- Bye!

[Clicks tongue]

- Oh! - Oh, gosh!

I'm so sorry!

[Laughing]

- I think they call that, uh, distracted walking.

- Yes, the office can wait.

But my coffee fix can't.

Sorry.

Oh, actually, question:

Um, do you happen to know

if there is a Joe Joe's Coffee in town?

- Not so far, thank heavens!

- "Thank heavens"?

- I know where you can get a cup of tea.

- Oh, no, that's OK.

I'm a java girl, all the way.

- Yeah, to each their own.

- Yeah.

- Hey! Take care on the sidewalks, Java.

- Oh! Hmm.

[Barking]

- Ah! Oh! Hi, cute dog!

Um, do you happen to know where Vivienne's Tea Shop is?

- Yeah, it's down that way off the main road.

- What's your dog's name? - Uh, Rufus.

- Oh! Hey, Rufus!

So cute! See you!

- Good boy! Come on!

[Man talking, indistinct]

[Birds chirping]

[Laughing]

- Hey! I'm Lara Thompson.

You must be Daphne.

- Oh, Lara, of course! Come here!

- Oh, oh! Ha! Hugger!

- Oh! I would have known you anywhere.

You have your aunt Vivienne's eyes.

- Do I?

- Mmm. No one's ever told you that before?

- No, I grew up in California.

I was young the last time I saw her.

- Mmm. You here for the reading of the will?

- Uh, yes. I organized with the lawyer to meet here.

- Well, can I get you a cup of tea?

We got dozens to choose from. - Oh, no thank you.

I've never really been a fan. - Really?

Well, that's where you and Vivienne part ways.

- Oh!

- Morning, Daphne!

- Hey! Oh, morning, Matt!

This is Lara, Vivienne's niece. She just drove up from the city.

And, Lara, meet Matt Slater.

- Yes, I've already had the pleasure.

- It's nice to see you again, Java.

- Matt was one of Vivienne's closest friends.

- Oh!

- Well, yeah, she was a young 80,

and I'm more like an old 36.

A bit of both.

You could say that we, uh, worked together.

I own the local garden center.

- Matt supplies all the botanicals for our herbal teas.

He and Vivienne had a standing date

for a cup every morning.

- Well, yeah.

Not quite, but it is a hard habit to break.

She was a great lady.

- Right. Yeah, um...

Well, I better check in with this.

Don't let me interrupt your tea, though.

- Oh, no, no. - No, no, no. Not, not...

- That's not why I'm here today.

- Lara? Elaine Schmidt. Nice to meet you in person.

- Oh, yes! Hi!

- And I see Matt's here already!

Shall we get started? - Yeah.

- Um...

[Chuckling]

I'm sorry.

No, I don't understand.

- Oh, I thought I explained. You and Matt are co-executors.

- Oh! Yeah, no, you didn't, so...

- Don't worry.

I won't slow you down...

much.

[Inhaling deeply]

- So, that's just about it!

The house and the tea shop are to be sold,

and the proceeds will go to Vivienne's favorite charity,

creating the Kissing Falls Bird Sanctuary.

- Ah, we've been trying to establish

that sanctuary for years.

My husband and I are on the board of directors.

Actually, now that Vivienne's gone,

I think we are the board of directors.

- Oh, well, Daphne, did you want to buy the tea shop?

I mean, I'm sure we could cut you a deal.

- Oh, no. No, no, no.

No, my husband and I are gonna be way too busy

starting the sanctuary.

- My brother is in real estate.

He's willing to help us find buyers

for the store and the house, if that's OK.

- Yeah, of course. - OK, great!

So, I'll just need your signatures.

- Oh, wow!

When I saw how thick the will was, I was like:

"Ah! This is gonna take forever!"

But it's actually been really quick.

[Phone ringing]

Oh.

- Let me guess, the office?

- Yeah, I did tell them that I was in a meeting.

- Mm-hmm. Seems they can't live without you.

- Oh! I'm in marketing.

Just started a new campaign.

Here you go! I am done!

- Oh, there's one more thing. - Mm-hmm.

[Clears throat]

- Who wants to do the honors?

- All yours.

- Oh, thank you.

[Chuckling]

OK...

Oh!

"Dear Matt and Lara, thank you for agreeing to be my executors.

"I'm sorry to be such a nuisance,

"but though I've lived such a wonderful life

"full of good friends and fine cups of tea,

"I've had no children of my own to take on the task.

"I don't regret being a single lady.

At least we're no longer called spinsters."

[Chuckling]

That's funny. Uh...

"But I would have loved to have had children.

"You, dear Matthew, have been like a son to me.

"And, Lara, I have such fond memories of you

"as a little girl.

You were exactly as I would have pictured a daughter of my own."

That's so sweet.

- That was Vivienne.

- I'm sad that I didn't get to know her.

- Yeah.

- Keep reading.

- Oh, yes. Uh...

[Clears throat]

"I have only one other regret:

that my tea never received a Golden Tea Cup from the..."

- [Both]: "International Council of Tea Sommeliers."

- What?

- Uh, she talked about it all the time.

- Until her health started to fail,

she sent them a new blend almost every year.

- Oh. Uh...

"I--I have a dream that one of you

might take over and keep trying."

That's a--that's a pretty big dream.

Um, where is the council based?

- London, England.

- Yeah, in the tea world,

I mean, getting the Golden Cup on your label

is like four Michelin stars.

- It's a jury process.

And tea producers from every country you can name

send in samples.

- I mean, I would love to help,

but I have a job in New York that I have to get back to.

Uh, Matt, do you have any interest

in taking over for Vivienne?

- Uh, my--my hands are pretty full

with the, um, garden center.

- Right.

- Well, she did say it was a dream.

- Yeah.

Well, and that's pretty much it.

And she gives us her love.

- Well, that's everything. Thanks.

- Well, I guess the next thing to do is sort out the house?

- Yeah. You wanna go take a look?

- Yeah, I--I would love to.

Um, I do need to just check in with work first.

- Sure.

[Sighing]

- Oh, hey! Joel, it's me.

- About time!

Hey, uh, when are you getting back?

The art department wants to run some preliminary ideas by us.

- Can't you do it, Joel?

- What about, "I'll be back before you know it"?

- Let me rephrase.

I will be back as soon as possible, I promise.

- I'm holding you to that.

Bye.

- OK, bye.

- All set? - Uh, you bet!

- Let's go. - OK.

[Phone ringing in distance]

[Birds chirping]

[Chuckling]

Oh!

When I used to visit from California when I was younger,

I used to follow these secret passages and pathways

and pretend like I was lost in the forest.

- Yeah, well, Vivienne loved her gardens.

Although they got a little too much for her in the later years.

I'd always offer to cut them back,

but she was adamant she liked them overgrown.

It's very English.

- My dad said that she spent some time in England

when she was younger.

- Mm-hmm. She went to the Royal Tea Academy.

- Hey, Bro!

- Hey, Steve!

Uh, this is Lara Thompson.

- Pleasure.

- Yeah, you too.

Local boys.

- Yeah, Kissing Falls, born and bred.

- But Matt lived in Brooklyn for a while.

- No way! I love Brooklyn.

- Yeah, Brooklyn is great, uh, for a long weekend.

- OK...

- No, it's just, uh, living there made me realize

I need, um, you know, more elbow room.

- Hope you don't mind.

The lawyer gave me a key to take a look.

- Of course. What do you think?

- Well, it's a little far out of the city

to make it a daily commute,

but that keeps the price affordable.

It's definitely got charm.

- That's real estate agent for: "It needs work."

- How much work?

That's executor for: "How much is this going to cost?"

- Hard to say.

Take care of the obvious things:

paint the porch, tame the flower beds.

This place would have real appeal to city folk

looking for a small-town getaway to make their own.

- Hmm. I'm gonna go take a look inside.

- Yeah, sure.

- Oh, thank you.

- She's nice.

- Don't start.

- What?

- She's big city.

I'm small town.

- It's me and my mom.

- Cute kid.

- It's so sad that Vivienne

didn't have any children of her own.

Did she ever say why she never married?

- Oh, it's not something she ever dwelled on.

Your aunt was always a firm believer

in playing the hand that she was dealt.

Although...

- Although?

- Ah, it's just something she said to me once

when she was telling me about her time in London.

- What did she say?

- Ah...

[Sighing]

She let out this huge sigh, and she said:

"Who knows what might have been."

- That's it?

- Yeah, when I asked her to explain,

she changed the subject.

- Mmm, Vivienne Thompson, woman of mystery.

She's pretty.

So, I'm guessing we should get an estimate

on what it's gonna cost to fix this place up?

- Oh, well, I was thinking

I could do most of the work myself.

- Well, that's not fair. We're co-executors.

- Ah, you're most welcome to help.

[Inhaling deeply]

- I'm expected back in the city.

- Oh. Who's expecting you?

- Just work. Look, we can just hire somebody.

- It's OK. I'll do it myself.

There will be more money for the bird sanctuary.

- Well, I mean, I guess I could stay a couple of days.

They do owe me for all of the weekends

that I've been working lately.

And I am pretty handy with a paintbrush.

- Wow! That is great, because I am terrible with a paintbrush.

- Hmm...

All right, Mr. Co-executor, I need to ask you something.

- Yeah, shoot.

- Would it be OK if I stayed here instead of in a motel?

- Yeah, that's a great idea!

That way, you can work on the house morning, noon and night!

- Nice one! It's not gonna happen.

Good morning, Daphne! - Good morning!

I am steeping some English breakfast tea,

which is a great way to start the day.

Can I pour you a cup?

- Oh, no thanks. I've got my coffee fix.

I was thinking I'd start

by clearing out Aunt Vivienne's office.

- Ugh! Be my guest.

Oh, sorry, hon! We're not open till 8:00.

- No, it's an emergency!

- A tea emergency?

- Please, you have to help me.

- Honey, what is wrong?

- It's my boyfriend. He's never gonna propose.

- OK, so maybe get a new boyfriend.

- No, but I love him!

- OK.

Oh, I'm sorry. I don't understand.

- Oh! - Why did you come here?

- Because when my mom was dating my dad,

she got this special tea, a love potion.

- Oh, no, I--I don't think we claim anything we sell here

is a love potion.

- Oh, no, that's just what my mom calls it.

But after my dad drank it, he asked her to marry him!

- Oh, wow!

- Yeah, here it is!

- Hmm.

- Moonglow?

Oh, we haven't made this in years,

I mean, maybe decades.

- Yeah, but you can make it again, though, right?

- I'm Lara. This is Daphne.

What is your name?

- Amy. - Amy!

That was a really beautiful story

about your mom and your dad.

And it was just so romantic.

- But we don't even know what went into this blend.

- Yeah, and, I mean, there's no way

that it could have actually have been a love potion.

- Right. Yeah.

Well, I mean, maybe not.

But something about it was so perfect

that it made my dad see how perfect my mom was too.

- I'm sorry. I don't think we can help you.

- Uh, but we will try.

- Ah! - Wait, what?

We will? - Yes, we will.

- Thank you! Thank you so much!

- Yeah, uh, maybe give us just a couple of days.

- OK. Well, OK, um... - And I'll get back to you.

- OK, well, here's where you can reach me.

Thank you so much! Bye!

- Whoa! - Oh!

- There goes a happy customer.

- Yeah, I think she's gonna be an unsatisfied customer.

Lara, why did you tell her we could make this tea?

- Well, don't you see?

This could be our chance

to get Aunt Vivienne her Golden Tea Cup!

- I'm sorry, what?

- "A tea so perfect, it will make him want to propose."

- [Scoffing]: OK!

What kind of romantic nonsense is that?

- Well, a great product needs a great story.

This is a great story!

- And if by story, you mean complete fiction, then yeah.

- Come on, Matt.

What, you don't believe in love stories?

- Well, I don't believe that a tea

can make two people stay together forever.

- Perfect!

Then that's what we'll call it: Together Forever Tea.

- Yeah, just one problem. - What's that?

- We don't know what's in it.

- I'm sure Vivienne has recipes.

- Yeah, there's an old file box I can check.

- What do you say? Come on!

This could be our chance

to make Vivienne's dream come true.

- OK, I'm game.

But even if we find this tea, it's a long shot.

- It's never just about the product.

It's also about the marketing.

And that's where I come in.

- Huh. - Hmm.

- Apricot?

- Apricot? - Yeah.

- No, it's peppermint!

- No luck, I'm afraid.

Vivienne kept all her tea recipes in this box.

- And no Moonglow?

- Sorry.

- Well, maybe it was misfiled.

- Well, it wouldn't be under M anyway.

Vivienne filed teas according to what they did, so, um...

Like, lavender tea would be under R for "relaxing."

- OK, so what would Moonglow be under?

- I don't know. I checked "love," "romance."

- Oh! Well, there's a section called "true love."

- Looked there too.

- Ew! These ones are stuck together.

Gross!

- Vivienne did love her crumpets and jam.

- Yes.

- Oh!

Moonglow, voila!

- Oh!

- Well done, detective!

Here, let me see.

OK, so the first ingredient is passion fruit.

- Yum.

- Ah, here is a problem.

The blend calls for the petals of the Kissing Falls rose.

- Oh, well, there's the reason Vivienne stopped making it.

- It got wiped out by this fungus,

probably about 20 years ago.

- OK, why is it so important?

- Herbal teas have to be very carefully balanced, OK?

So, first, there's the basic placeholder flavor.

Here, it's the-- the dried nettle.

- So, Aunt Vivienne wasn't the only tea expert, I see.

- Well, everything I know, I pretty much learned from her.

- Hmm.

- Then there's the fruity note, which is the passion fruit.

Uh, the most important note is the floral note.

- Mm-hmm.

- So, the petals were what made this tea so special.

- Couldn't you just use another rose?

- I'm guessing if it was that easy,

Vivienne would have already done it.

But, hey, we could always try!

- But you have tasted it, though, right?

- Yes, a long time ago.

- Great! You will be our guide.

- [Laughing]: Oh!

[Insects chirring, birds chirping]

- So, where do we start?

- Well, I have a few thoughts,

but they are literally dozens of varieties.

- Yeah, well, so much for: "A rose is a rose is a rose."

- A Gertrude Stein fan, huh?

- I did my undergrad in 20th century American literature

before I went to business school.

- Nice! Soul of a poet.

- Mind of a marketer.

But I'm not--I'm not just about selling stuff, so...

- I never would have thought that.

- OK, good.

Yeah, my plan is to, uh, work for nonprofits.

The marketing job was a stepping stone

to get to Manhattan.

- Hmm, bright lights do attract starry eyes.

- Whoa!

Why do I get a feeling

there was a cautionary tale in that remark,

something about moths and flames?

- Oh, OK, so you don't like the bright lights?

- No! I love them.

You know, just as the song goes,

if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.

Oh! This is pretty!

Can we try this one?

- Well, we could,

but I'm thinking maybe we need to find

something resembling the Kissing Falls rose.

- Oh! - My mom used to grow them.

She was the expert gardener.

Her and Dad started this place up.

- Oh, and now you run it?

- Mm-hmm. When they retired to Florida.

You know, Mom and your Aunt Vivienne

were pretty close friends.

- Oh! Really?

- Yeah.

- Uh, just like you and Aunt Vivienne.

- Uh, yeah, I know that may seem a bit odd.

- Not at all!

- [Laughing]: Come on!

She was just, you know, really easy to talk to.

Great listener, very wise.

- Sounds like you're speaking from personal experience.

- Yeah.

I went through a bit of a bad breakup a couple of years back,

and Vivienne's advice was spot on.

- I always remember her as being a really caring lady.

When I visited,

she showed me these photos of this injured owl

that she had nursed back to health.

- Mr. Magoo?

- Yeah, it was Mr. Magoo. How did you know that?

- Wow, Steve and I found him one time

when we were hiking up in the woods way back.

We asked Mom what to do with him,

and she said if anyone could save him,

it would be Vivienne.

She was right.

- Huh.

- Huh! - Huh.

- Hey, how about a cherry parfait?

- Yes! That sounds delicious!

Uh, but I--I do think

that we should probably focus on--on finding this rose.

- That is a rose.

The cherry parfait.

- Mmm, it's not what I remember it tasting like. Sorry.

- That's OK! Um, we can keep trying.

You did say that there are dozens

of different varieties of roses, right?

- True enough.

- There's something not quite right about the base note.

I think it's... - The nettles?

- Quick study, huh?

- Well, maybe it's in my blood.

- Well, nowadays, we buy them in bulk from a distributor,

but Vivienne used to just pick them by hand locally.

- Yeah, well, I know where a patch is right up by the falls.

- Uh, the actual Kissing Falls?

- Mm-hmm.

- Oh, I went up there as a kid!

- That's where we'll put the bird sanctuary.

- Oh, that's so nice!

- You wanna head up there with me?

[Phone dinging]

- Yeah, sure.

- Let's do it!

You know, nothing was more important to your aunt Vivienne

than keeping this place the way it is.

She actually lobbied for years

to set this whole place up as a protected area.

[Sighing]

- Wow! It's so beautiful and unspoiled.

- Here we go!

- Sorry. Fine.

Um, hey...

Should you be doing that?

You know what they say:

"Take only photos. Leave only footprints."

- I'm certified to collect wild plants.

I got a greenhouse dedicated to them at the garden center.

Although, I'm very impressed

a city girl knows the campers' code.

- I've been camping...

once.

It was for my bachelorette party.

[Laughing]

- You're married?

- Oh! No, no, no, no. It didn't work out, no.

We met in business school.

And, well, I realized in the nick of time

we were like oil and water.

He wanted to guzzle oil into yachts and luxury cars,

and I wanted to save the ocean.

[Chuckling]

- Well, his loss.

- Oh, no, no. We would have been miserable together.

All we had in common was how much

we both wanted to move to New York.

- Hey, isn't there, um, some story

about how the Kissing Falls got its name?

- Legend has it that, uh, a couple had a fight

on their wedding day.

- Oh.

- So, it looked like the wedding was off.

And then the families tricked each of them

into coming up here.

- Oh, wait, let me guess.

They kissed and fell back in love?

- Yeah, something like that.

- Hmm! So romantic. Do you believe it's true?

- Well, they were my ancestors,

so yeah.

- Oh!

[Chuckling]

Oh! Wait, wait, wait!

[Grunting]

- Well, I better get this back to the greenhouse,

and then get to work on the dehydrating more rose petals.

Hopefully, one of them is gonna work.

- Do you think you could drop me at Aunt Vivienne's house?

- Sure.

- While you look for a magic rose,

I'll work my charms on the tea sommeliers.

- They won't know what's hit them.

[Laughing]

[Insects chirring]

[Line ringing]

[Man talking on phone, indistinct]

- Hey! Is this the International Council of the Tea Sommeliers?

[Man talking, indistinct]

Great!

I represent Vivienne's Tea Shop in Kissing Falls, Connecticut,

and I'm calling to invite the Council

to sample a very exciting new tea we're about to--

[Dial tone]

Well, there is nothing worse than a tea snob.

- I've got a couple interested in looking at Vivienne's house.

- Already?

- That's what you wanted, right?

- Sure, but I just wasn't expecting it to happen so fast.

- When could you get it ready to show?

- Well, I'd have to talk to Lara about it,

but right now, we're kind of in the middle of something else.

- A rose parade?

- No, we're making a new tea blend,

trying to get the Golden Cup for Vivienne.

- Nice! - Mmm.

- Can't help but notice you're saying "we" a lot.

- I can't help but notice

you sticking your nose where it shouldn't be.

- I just want my brother to be happy.

- Well, I appreciate it, man, but I am happy.

- Are you?

- Get out of here.

- Catch you later!

- Love you, Bro! - Love you.

- Hmm.

Hmm!

- You ready to start fixing this place up?

- Sure!

Are you ready to solve a mystery?

- It's never been opened?

- Weird, isn't it?

- Huh. And no return address.

- I think she knew who they were from.

Why else would she keep them all these years?

- Huh.

There's only one way to find out.

[Sighing]

- Oh, no, no, no, no. Whoa!

You can't open them.

- Why not?

- Because they're private!

- How else are we gonna find out if it's important or not, huh?

- Fine, you can open one. But we're not gonna read it.

We're just gonna open it to--to see who sent it.

- OK.

Actually, maybe you should open it.

You are really related to her.

- Fine.

- It just says "N." Any idea who N might be?

- No, not a clue.

- I don't understand why she wouldn't open them.

- Must be someone she had very strong feelings for.

- She didn't open them, but she didn't throw them away either.

- Very strong feelings.

- You mentioned that you thought

she had some kind of romance in London, right?

- Yeah, but it's just an impression I had.

- It's a good place to start.

- But first, we gotta paint the porch.

Come on!

[Sighing]

[Laughing]

♪♪ You're the only girl got a hold on me♪

♪ Take me by the hand Never let me leave ♪

[Both chuckling awkwardly]

♪ All I want to be is all you need ♪

♪ There's so much more to see

- Oh!

[Both laughing]

Your edging skills were surprisingly impressive!

- Well, a lot of practice

coloring in between the lines, I guess.

- Not just a pretty face.

- Thanks, I think.

So, uh, I--I put a bunch of different rose petals

in the dehydrator.

I should...

- Mm-hmm.

- ...probably go check on those.

- Yeah, that's great. And we could get, uh, Daphne.

She can, you know, taste the blends tomorrow.

Maybe one of them will work.

- I hope so.

- Mm-hmm, yeah! Me too.

- All right, I'll see you at the tea shop?

- Yeah, you bet.

- OK.

- What?

- Uh, I said: "See you!"

- Oh, see you! Bye!

Thank you!

Bye! Bye! See you.

♪ We could wake up to the burning sun ♪

♪ Take me by the hand Always on the run ♪

[Breathing heavily]

♪ I just want to be forever young ♪

♪ This love won't come undone

♪ This love won't come undone ♪

[Exhaling sharply]

♪ All that I want is to be anywhere you are ♪

♪ All that I want is to be anywhere you are♪

♪ All that I want is to be anywhere you are♪♪

[Breathing heavily]

The red ribbon...

[Birds chirping]

"With Nigel in Norfolk, 1965."

"N" has to be for Nigel.

He's the one who wrote the love letters.

I am certain of it. And, look!

That red ribbon is the same ribbon

that Aunt Vivienne had wrapped around the love letters.

- I don't know. I never remember Vivienne mentioning a Nigel.

[Sighing]

- Well, Daphne, do you?

- No, I...

I mean, unless it...

No, no, it couldn't be.

- [Both]: What?

- Well, the only Nigel Vivienne ever talked about

was Sir Nigel Newberry.

- And he is...

- The head of the International Council of Tea Sommeliers.

But he was no friend of Vivienne's.

- Doesn't sound right. Everybody loved her!

- She was sure he was the reason

her tea never got the recognition it deserved.

- Doesn't really sound like someone

who would have sent all those love letters.

- Well, I don't know about that. - What do you mean?

- Well, when love ends, people can become bitter.

- But then it wasn't true love from the beginning.

Look, there's only one way to find out

if Sir Nigel Newberry is theNigel.

- How?

- Ask him.

- And if he is?

- Well then, Aunt Vivienne may finally get her Golden Tea Cup.

[Chuckling]

Yeah? - Yeah.

[Birds chirping]

[Dog barking in distance]

Oh, that's tasty!

But not it.

- Ah! OK, well, that's it, then.

I've tried petals from every single rose

I got at the garden center.

- Nothing comes close to the Kissing Falls rose.

- Yeah, so it seems.

- OK... How does this sound?

[Clears throat]

"Dear Sir Nigel, I have exciting news about a new tea blend

"from Vivienne's Tea Shop

unlike anything you've ever tasted before."

"I believe you may be acquainted with the proprietor,

Vivienne Thompson."

- You gonna let him know Vivienne passed?

- Well, I thought about it,

but then I thought if he is the right Nigel, then...

- It might come as a terrible shock

for him to find out in an email.

- Yeah, better to let him down gently.

- You know what? Here's a problem.

- What?

- Even if it's the right Nigel,

we don't have a tea blend to send him.

- Well, maybe we will by the time he responds.

I mean, all we can do is try.

- OK. All right, I'm gonna head over

to the Hansenville Garden Center and check out the roses there.

You want to come with?

- Sure!

[Phone ringing]

- Your office?

- Give me one minute!

Hey, Joel! What's up?

- Great news!

The art department has terrific mock-ups

for the Joe Joe's Coffee campaign.

- Oh, that's awesome! Um, can you email them over to me?

- Aren't you coming back to the office?

- Actually, I am still in Kissing Falls.

Something came up.

- I expected you to be back by now.

- It's just a little bit more complicated than I expected.

- How complicated?

- Medium complicated.

Um, but, look, I just need a little bit more time, OK?

So I can do all my work from here, though. It's fine.

- It's not the same, Lara. We need you back in the office.

Look, don't make me pull seniority.

- I'm sorry? What was that?

- Nothing, sorry.

- I am owed days off, Joel.

- Yeah, it's just, you know, the timing couldn't be worse.

- Look, I will be back as soon as possible, OK?

Bye. - Bye.

- Everything OK?

- Honestly, I don't know.

- Well, it seems like this Joel guy

is being a little unreasonable.

- He's a good guy, really.

But, um, we should get going.

The sooner we get the perfect blend,

the sooner I can go back to the city.

Is this tea?

- What do you think?

- That it's delicious.

- Yes! And that is not even Moonglow.

- We're gonna make a tea drinker out of you yet!

- Well, never say never! Hmm!

- Uh... - Miriam, is everything OK?

- Uh, the--the wind blew my gate open, and Rufus got out.

I'm afraid he's lost.

You guys haven't seen him anywhere, have you?

- Uh, no. But we will help you look for him.

- Oh, thank you! - Yeah.

- I last saw him, he was, um... - Matt!

- Yeah. I'll be back.

- Rufus! - Rufus!

Where are you, boy?

- Ah, she must be so stressed and so worried!

- Yeah.

Rufus is a rescue dog, so he's already on the nervous side.

Miriam's only had him for a couple of months.

- Oh. So it is true.

[Laughing]

- What's true?

- Well, just that everyone knows everything about everyone

in a small town.

- I like to think of it

more as people being concerned for each other, but...

Rufus!

- Oh, hey, sorry if that came across as being judgmental.

- No, I... I--I'm sorry.

I mean, I guess I have my preconceptions

about the big city too.

- Oh, do you think?

Rufus!

[Whistling]

You a dog lover, Matt?

- Ah, pretty much. I mean, I don't have my own, but...

- Oh, why not?

- Well, I got pretty close to my ex's Labradoodle, Eloise.

- I'm sorry.

Was it just as hard to break up with her as it was with your ex?

- Ha! Yeah, not quite.

I think about getting a dog sometimes.

But I don't know. What about you?

- Well, we used to have beagles growing up, but I don't know.

Just with my work schedule and stuff,

it wouldn't really be fair to get a dog.

- Right.

- Rufus!

[Dog whimpering]

Rufu-- Oh, oh! - Hey.

[Dog whimpering]

- Oh! - Rufus!

- Rufus! - There he is!

- Hi! - Come here, boy!

- Come here, baby! - Come on, buddy!

- Come here! - It's OK! Good boy!

You're all right!

- It's OK! - You're safe now, buddy.

- Ah! Thank you guys so much for finding him!

Come on! Good boy! See you!

- See you! - Bye! Take care!

- Bye, Rufus! - Bye, Rufus!

- You know, I have to admit,

it is pretty exciting being able to save the day.

- Huh.

- What?

- I'm just surprised you can find such excitement

in a small town like this.

- Me too!

[Chuckling]

- Come on.

Let's go smell some roses.

So, Joel is your boss.

- No, he's a senior executive at the marketing firm I work for.

We're partners on this account.

Well, at least I--I thought we were partners.

But, yes, he is beginning to sound

a little bit more like my boss.

- Mm-hmm! And now he's pressuring you to go back?

- We're developing a campaign for Joe Joe's Coffee.

- What, the coffee chain?

[Chuckling]

- Yes.

Let me guess, you've never been inside of one!

- No, I've been in one.

I ordered a tea. It was terrible.

- How can you go wrong with hot water and a tea bag?

- Oh! Lara, you have so much to learn.

- Well then, teach me, oh wise one!

- OK, well, tea is about ritual, all right?

First, you gotta warm the pot.

Then you gotta measure out the loose tea.

- They certainly have a variety of roses here.

- Yeah, they do.

Just probably not the one we need.

- Hmm. Oh, look!

- Cheryl.

- Matt! What are you doing in Hansenville?

You checking out the competition?

- Yeah, you know, just gotta keep on my toes.

Cheryl, this is, uh, Lara.

- Oh. It's, uh, nice to meet you.

- Yeah, you too.

- How's Megan?

- Oh, she's fabulous!

She just got back from a business trip to Singapore.

Before that, she was in Geneva.

- Oh! - Great!

Good for her.

And--and, uh, how's Eloise?

- Eloise is fine.

- Ah, tell her I said hi.

- Eloise or Megan?

- Uh, Megan.

- Sure.

It's nice seeing you.

- You too.

[Exhaling sharply]

- Well, that was awkward.

- Yeah, Cheryl is my ex's sister.

- Yes, no, I figured it was something like that.

- Hmm. I'm guessing Megan is still holding a bit of a grudge.

- Well, when love ends, people can get bitter.

- Yeah.

- You know, uh, maybe it wasn't true love.

- You really believe what you said the other day about love?

- Well, I believe that if two people really love each other,

then they care more about each other's well-being

than they do about their own.

So it's not possible to feel bitter.

- Oh, and that's how you felt about your ex?

[Inhaling deeply]

- I thought so, but turns out I was wrong.

Haven't given up hope, though.

[Birds chirping]

[Car door closing]

- Matt? Is everything OK?

- Yeah, um, I forgot to tell you something.

- Oh yeah? What's that?

- Friday night, it's, uh, movie night in Kissing Falls.

- They have a theater?

- Well, you could call it that.

It's more like a patchy piece of grass under the stars.

- Mmm! Who could resist?

- And don't worry. I packed the bug spray.

[Insects chirring]

- Oh, It Happened One Night! This is my favorite!

- Yeah, it's a classic! - The original rom-com.

- Yeah, poor boy meets rich girl.

- They butt heads. - Banter ensues.

- She almost marries the wrong guy.

- Ha! But then, in the nick of time,

they realize they are meant for each other.

- Hmm.

So, you do believe in love stories.

- I never said I didn't.

Popcorn?

[Chicken clucking]

- Oh, Matt, Matt! He responded!

- What did he say?

- Uh, oh, no, actually, it's from his assistant.

Thank you.

"Sir Nigel Newberry asks that you desist

"from making further inquiries

on the matter of Vivienne Thompson."

- And that's it?

- Yeah, that's it!

- Aw, I guess it was the wrong Sir Nigel.

- Oh no, it's the right Nigel.

- You're right. He sounds bitter.

- Wild guess, it didn't end well.

- In that case, he won't be much help

with that Golden Tea Cup.

- Well, if it turns out that he's been

blocking Aunt Vivienne from getting one

because she broke up with him,

then that's completely unfair.

- You're right.

Maybe we could put in a complaint

to the sommeliers on the council.

- Yes. - I don't think that'll work.

Sir Nigel Newberry holds a lot of sway.

- Well, he looks the part.

- Well, then there's only one thing to do.

- Oh, I can already tell this is gonna be good.

- Mmm.

Oh, it's ringing. It's ringing, it's ringing.

- [Man on phone]: Yes?

- [With British accent]: Hello!

Is this Sir Nigel Newberry's assistant?

- Yes, this is he.

- Good! Uh, well, I'm calling from the Royal Tea Academy.

I have some business of the utmost importance

with Sir Nigel Newberry.

- I'm afraid Sir Nigel is away from London at the moment.

May I ask what sort of business?

- Yes, you may.

We--I'm calling about his speech

to the graduating class.

- Oh, but graduation is 10 months away.

I fail to see the urgency.

- OK! Well, I don't, and I need to speak with...

We need to know... He's going to stretch.

We'd love--we'd love to tell the time--

We'd love to know, how long is his speech going to be?

- Well, the usual length, I imagine.

- Well, that's not very helpful.

I'd love to speak with him in more detail, personally.

- In that case, you can try to reach him in New York.

He's staying at the Willingdon.

- Oh, is he? Great!

[Man clears throat]

- I don't believe I caught your name.

- I didn't give it to you. Ta-ta!

[All laughing]

Wait, well, I could head to New York City,

and I can corner him at the Willingdon.

- Oh, we don't actually have a blend ready for him yet.

- Well, the one that you gave me yesterday tasted pretty good!

- Um, pretty good is not good enough!

- We got one shot at this. It's gotta be perfect.

- OK, well, keep trying.

And meanwhile, I will try and soften up Sir Nigel.

- OK!

[Laughing]

[Horns honking, sirens wailing]

[Men and woman chatting, indistinct]

[♪ Classical playing on PA ]

- Sir Nigel Newberry?

- Yes.

- I'm Lara Thompson.

I--I believe you knew my aunt, Vivienne Thompson.

- I thought my assistant made it clear.

I have no wish to make contact with Vivienne.

- Yes, but--

- Good day, young lady!

Perhaps I didn't make myself clear.

- Crystal, but you don't understand.

- Oh, I understand perfectly well.

If, in her dotage,

Vivienne has had some crisis of conscience over how we parted,

that is of no concern to me.

You may tell her it is too little, too late.

- Sir Nigel...

- What is it?

- I'm so sorry to be the one to have to tell you this,

but, um...

Aunt Vivienne passed away last month.

I'm so sorry.

- How regrettable.

May I offer my condolences to you and your family.

Is there anything else, Ms. Thompson?

- Yes, actually.

Um, look, I don't know what happened with you and my aunt,

but I do know that it was her greatest wish

to receive a Golden Tea Cup from the Council of Tea Sommeliers.

- Yes.

She submitted samples several times.

- Wait, so, you knew?

- Yes. What of it?

- Well, did you ever block her from getting a Golden Tea Cup?

- Why would I do such a thing?

- I don't know.

I mean, maybe out of bitterness?

- Your aunt chose to live a little life

in a small, insignificant town.

- No, you know nothing about Kissing Falls or her life there.

- Nobody gets a Golden Tea Cup

by living small.

- I thought you might want these back.

And now I can see why she never opened them.

- And we can sort all the paperwork straight away.

All right, you let me know.

- Thank you. - Thank you.

- Thank you. - Thanks for coming out.

Call me if you have any questions!

- Hey! Any bites?

- Still on the fence, I'm afraid.

Speaking of which, that one's falling down.

- Well, we're still fixing the place up.

Is Lara here?

- I haven't seen her.

- Hey, Steve...

Was I a complete jerk to Megan?

- Where did that come from?

- I ran into her sister the other day.

Man, if she'd been any frostier,

I would have lost a couple of toes.

- Ah, you and Megan just wanted different things.

- But I could have been more flexible.

- Matt, you tried living in the city. You hated it.

- Yeah, I know, but maybe I was just being closed-minded.

- Is this about you and Lara?

- No. We want different things.

That would never work.

- Now that's just being plain defeatist, Bro.

- Yeah. Thanks, man.

[Sighing]

[Birds chirping]

[Chuckling]

Vivienne, what are you up to?

- Hey, you're back! How did it go with Sir Nigel?

- Not great.

- What happened?

- Well, it was the right Nigel.

And, boy, can that man hold a grudge.

- So, he's not gonna help us?

- No, not only that, I think that Aunt Vivienne was right.

- He's been standing in her way all these years?

- Yeah, I'm afraid so.

- Oh, that is just wrong!

- Mm-hmm. - Hey!

Matt came by this afternoon.

He was looking for you.

- Oh yeah? What did he want?

- Mmm, he wouldn't say.

But he was awfully excited.

Mind you, he has been that way a lot since you've come to town.

- Come on!

Really?

So, did you ever, like, meet that Megan girl or...

- Yeah. She was a local girl.

But Kissing Falls was never good enough for her.

- Hmm. You have to wonder why she'd give up a guy like Matt.

- Between us, Vivienne never thought she was right for him.

- Hey!

[Breathing heavily]

There you are!

- Hey!

- Wait, did you find Sir Nigel?

- Uh, yes, I did find him.

And, honestly, it's pretty hard to imagine

him and Aunt Vivienne ever being in love.

Although, when I did say that she was gone,

he did look like he was maybe gonna cry.

- Oh, well then, he must have really loved her.

- Yeah, I guess, in his own kind of way.

I mean, two seconds later,

he was pretending like she meant nothing to him, so...

- Well then, obviously, she meant everything to him.

- I mean, you should have heard him dissing Kissing Falls.

Like, the nerve!

- You're defending Kissing Falls?

- Yes, well, I feel like defending Kissing Falls

and defending Aunt Vivienne

are actually the same thing.

Daphne said that you were looking for me?

- Uh, yes!

You are not gonna believe what I found.

[Birds chirping]

Behold, the Kissing Falls rose.

[Sighing]

- It's no use, Matt.

Sir Nigel is never going to give

Together Forever Tea a Golden Cup.

- I know, but maybe we could still make the tea

for Ms. Lonelyhearts?

- For Amy?

- Yeah, who knows?

Maybe her guy will finally propose.

At least someone will get a happy ending.

- I'm sorry, I thought that you didn't believe

in "romantic nonsense."

- Did I say that?

- Yes.

- Huh.

Well, that was before.

- Before what?

- Do you want to maybe get some dinner with me?

[Horn honking]

[Chuckling]

- Whoo! Lara, there you are!

- Joel, what are you doing here?

- Uh, lady at the tea shop gave me directions.

- Oh, no, I mean, what are you doing in Kissing Falls?

- Well, you wouldn't come to me,

so I figured I'd better come to you.

I've got the, uh, art department mock-ups with me.

- Great! Um...

Matt and I,

we were just gonna get some dinner, I think?

- Yeah.

- Yeah. Um, maybe Joel can come too?

- Sure, yeah. - Yeah?

- Yeah, the more the merrier.

- Great! - Mmm!

- Mmm, I was beginning to worry

you were never coming back to New York.

- No!

- But then I got a-- a look at Kissing Falls

and realized, no way.

- What is that supposed to mean?

- Well, come on!

I mean, the place is cute,

but what do you do for fun on a Saturday night?

Watch the weeds grow?

- [Chuckling]: Funny!

No, actually, Matt runs the garden center, so no!

- Yeah, this time of year,

I'm watching the chrysanthemums grow.

[Laughing]

- Hot times.

- Actually, you'd be really surprised.

There's a lot to do here in Kissing Falls.

- Yeah? Like--like what?

- Well, you can visit the falls.

You can...

go for a run.

- Mm-hmm. - Um...

- Bird watching. - Bird watching.

- Bird watching? - Mm-hmm.

- Yeah, uh, nowhere on that list

do I hear films, concerts, theater...

- Oh, no, actually, there... There is a theater.

Yeah. Well, kind of.

It's... Excuse me, hi!

Could I please order some tea?

- Whoa, whoa, whoa! Did you just order tea?

- Mm-hmm.

- You, the Lara Thompson,

who just about single-handedly

keeps Joe Joe's Coffee in business?

- Oh! Well, it's not just any tea.

- Vivienne supplies the teas for the restaurants.

Yeah, Lara is becoming quite the convert.

- Well, don't let the word get out.

Coffee stocks would tumble!

- Well, we should pitch Joe Joe's Coffee on serving tea.

- Uh, proper tea.

- Yeah, I mean, they could start a whole new chain: Tea for Two.

- Yeah, I'd go there.

- I would go there too.

- I'll, uh, show you those mock-ups real quick.

- Oh, yes! Of course! - Yeah.

- OK...

So, been working real hard last week.

- Oh, wow! That's cool.

- Yeah! - Yes!

- Right? - These are good.

Good morning!

- Good morning!

- How's your baby?

- Uh, I think she's adjusting nicely to her new home.

- She?

- Yeah, classic beauty always seems feminine to me.

So, where's your friend, Josh?

- Well, his name is Joel.

And he has gone back to the city.

Said he had some research to do.

- Huh.

- Look, I'm sorry for the way

that he was making fun of Kissing Falls.

- Thanks for sticking up for us.

- Well, it's a special place.

I can see why Aunt Vivienne loved it so much.

- Wow! We might make a small-town girl out of you yet!

[Laughing]

- I don't know about that.

[Birds calling in distance]

- What? - Hmm?

Nothing.

- What is it? Come on.

- Just something that Sir Nigel said to me,

that no one would ever get a Golden Tea Cup for living small.

- Well, it depends on what you mean by living small.

- And how much getting the gold means to you.

It's just a--it's just a shame that there's only one flower.

- Well, we'll just have to treat it like gold, huh?

At least until I can coax the plant to bloom again.

Care to do the honors?

- Oh, no! I will leave that to the professional.

[Chuckling]

- All right, here it goes!

- It smells like love!

[Chuckling]

- Well, that right there in that bag

is all the Together Forever Tea there is in the world.

- Until we can grow more roses. - Yes.

- Ah, are you sure you guys can spare it?

- Well, we did have other plans for it,

but they kind of fell through.

- Yeah, and at least, this way,

we know that somebody is getting some happiness out of it.

- Thank you so much, all of you!

- Good luck. - Let us know how it goes.

- I will. We're going on a romantic getaway this weekend!

- Oh! - This could be it!

[Sighing]

- I hope she's not setting herself up for disappointment.

- Well, maybe she'll prove

that tea can really bring two people together...

forever.

Fix the porch.

Did you fix the hallway light?

- Yeah.

- OK, well, so much for the Golden Tea Cup.

I feel really bad giving up on Aunt Vivienne's dream.

- Hey, we tried.

Maybe it just wasn't meant to be, huh?

- Well, not so long as Sir Nigel

is in charge of the tea sommeliers, no.

- Well, at least to Aunt Vivienne's garden,

we revived the Kissing Falls rose.

That's huge.

- That's true.

How long until it will bloom again?

- Well, the bush I dug up

should hopefully bloom again in the spring.

In the meantime, I've harvested more seeds.

And I can always graft other branches onto other rose bushes,

but, you know, realistically,

it's gonna years before it's commercially viable.

- Such a shame.

Together Forever Tea could have been a huge hit.

- Yeah. Well...

It doesn't really matter now.

- What do you mean?

- Steve texted me before.

He's got a buyer for the shop.

- Wait, what?

Uh, how is that even possible?

We haven't even listed it for sale yet.

- I know, but around here, it's probably word of mouth.

Whoever the buyer is,

they might turn Vivienne's into something completely different.

- True.

- Now, there's something you don't see every day.

[Chuckling]

[Car door closing]

- Sir Nigel, what are you doing here?

- Never let it be said

I let personal bias influence my decisions.

- Oh, wait, you're here to taste Aunt Vivienne's tea?

- Correct! And you are?

- Uh, Matt Slater. A family friend.

- Well, presumably, you've been pestering me

because you have a tea sample ready for me.

[Chuckling nervously]

Let's have it.

- Uh...

- I--I don't know. What are we gonna do?

We gave all of the Together Forever Tea to Amy.

- Uh, maybe we could serve him something else.

- No, Vivienne already sent him all of our best tea blends.

He rejected every one of them.

- OK. Well, OK, Daphne, go and call Amy.

I mean, maybe she hasn't even used it yet.

- She said she was going on a romantic weekend.

What if she doesn't have phone service?

- We can at least try.

- OK. - Thank you.

- OK, what do we do in the meantime?

- Uh, stall? - What?

- I fail to see why I am being kept waiting.

- I am so sorry.

OK, so what happened-- funny story--

we are actually fresh out of one of the ingredients

for the tea that we want to make you to taste.

Matt is going to go to his garden center to get some.

- I am?

I mean, yes, I'll be right back.

- And while he is doing that,

um, how would you like to go and see where Vivienne lived?

So, Aunt Vivienne lived here for over 40 years.

- Somehow, it reminds me of her.

- Yeah, you're right.

I think that's why I wanted to stay here,

you know, while I'm in town.

- People must tell you how much you look like her

when she was young.

- Oh!

No, not really.

[Laughing]

- I suppose there are so few of us left

from back then to remember.

[Inhaling deeply]

- How come you came here?

Really?

- I read the letters you left with me.

I really was insufferable.

- How so?

- I expected her to do all the compromising,

to give up everything for me.

No wonder she refused to open the letters.

- She kept them.

I mean, that means something.

Should we go inside?

You took this picture, didn't you?

- Oh, we'd gone to my family estate in Norfolk.

That was the weekend I introduced her to birding.

- So, that's how she got interested.

- What do you mean?

- Oh, in her will,

she's giving everything to create a bird sanctuary.

- Ah...

[Chuckling]

- You were in love.

- Yes, very much so.

- What happened?

- I asked her to stay in London and marry me.

Oh, she agreed to the marriage,

but only if we split our time between London

and the small town where she grew up.

[Laughing]

We wound up parting ways over it.

- You never forgave her?

- No, I don't suppose I did.

[Phone ringing]

- Sorry. Just one...

Hey. - Hey.

I found Amy. She's on her way.

- I am so glad to hear that.

Um, can you let Matt know?

- Yep! Sure! No problem.

- Thanks, Daphne.

Guess what?

Turns out we do have some Together Forever Tea after all.

- Fancy that!

[Clinking]

- Isn't it beautiful?

- It's lovely. - Congratulations!

- I can't stay long.

My fiancee is waiting in the car.

- But is there any tea left?

- Oh, yeah! We didn't even use it.

It turns out Jerome was planning to propose all along.

I was really glad to have it as backup.

- Yes, backup is good. - Thank you.

- Mmm, yeah.

I wonder if this is how my mom felt when my dad proposed.

- Oh! If I could just...

- Oh! Sure! - Thank you!

Bye, thank you!

- Bye!

- And before you taste the tea,

there is a story behind Together Forever Tea.

- I enjoy a good yarn.

- Well, this one begins 50 years ago,

when a young woman's love for tea

took her all the way from Kissing Falls, Connecticut,

to London, England.

When she returned home from the tea academy,

she had but one regret.

- Yes, that she left behind the man she loved.

- So she set out to make a tea so perfect

that it would warm the soul the way love does.

And she called it Moonglow.

- For years, it was our most popular blend.

- But there was one problem.

You see, one unusually wet spring,

a fungus wiped out the key ingredient,

the Kissing Falls rose.

- But then, by some miracle...

- ...we found the rose again, right here in Vivienne's garden.

- As if she left it there for us to find

at exactly the perfect moment in time.

- To warm the heart.

- The way love does.

And that is the full story.

- Yeah.

- Are you sure about that?

- The, um, tea is getting cold.

- Oh yes. The tea.

- Oh.

- Thank you, no. I always travel with my own.

Well, the color palate is pleasing to the eye.

The aroma...

inviting.

A robust blend, by the look of it.

Finely balanced.

Now for the true test.

Uh, a little more elbow room, if you please.

- Oh, yes. - I'm sorry.

- Of course, sorry.

So, what do you think?

- This tea...

- Yes?

- ...is utterly delightful.

- Oh! - Oh!

- Sprightly, yet substantial.

- Yes. - Mmm!

- Joyful, but at the same time, warming and reassuring.

It tastes like...

- Like love?

- Yes, it tastes like love.

- [Laughing]: All right!

So, what--what do you say?

- Yeah, is it worthy of a Golden Tea Cup?

- That is the recommendation

I will forward to the Council of Sommeliers,

and the Council of Sommeliers always agrees with me.

- Yes!

[All laughing]

- Oh my goodness!

[Insects chirring]

- What better way to celebrate

than with the last of the Together Forever Tea.

- Well, the last until Matt grows more roses.

- Oh, hey, I couldn't have done it without you.

- You're the one who found the rose.

Oh, wait, Daphne, what about you?

- Oh no, I've already tasted it. I'm going home.

See you guys tomorrow.

- Bye! Bye! - Thanks, Daphne! Good night!

- See you!

- OK.

To Aunt Vivienne.

- To Vivienne.

- Wow! - Mm-hmm.

- Mmm!

- Lara, I... - Matt, I was... Oh!

- You go.

- No, no. You go, you go.

- OK, uh...

Lara, I just...

I, uh, wanted to tell you that...

[Phone chiming]

[Sighing]

[Phone ringing]

[Both laughing]

[Sighing]

- Mine's from Joel.

- Oh, uh, mine's from Steve.

He's got a, uh, a firm offer on the shop.

So, uh, do you want to meet Steve out here in the morning,

sign the papers?

- Uh, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I can do that.

Um, and then, I guess I'll go back to the city.

- Uh-huh.

- I should--I should probably answer Joel.

[Chuckling]

- Uh, OK.

Well, I'll--I'll see you here tomorrow at 9:00.

- Mm-hmm. Sounds good!

- OK. - OK.

- Have a--a good night.

- You too.

[Sighing]

[Chuckling]

Hey, Aunt Vivienne.

Did you ever wonder what life might have been like

if you had gone to England or if Nigel had come here?

Of course you did.

How could you not?

Oh, Rufus! You're such a good boy!

So no more running away?

- I'm keeping close tabs on him now.

And I got that gate fixed.

- Oh, it's so good.

All right, you have a good day!

See you, Miriam! - See you, Lara!

- Bye! - Come on, Rufus!

- Good morning. - Good morning.

- Good morning! - Hey!

OK, so, who's this mystery buyer?

- Well, I don't know much more than you do.

Came out of the blue.

And they're offering about twice what the shop is worth.

- Twice!

We'll have that bird sanctuary up and running in no time!

- Which sounds great.

But does anybody feel like this might be too good to be true?

- Well, it is kind of unusual.

The buyer is anonymous.

- Uh, based where?

- Tacoma, Washington.

- That's a long way from home.

- I know.

It's kind of odd,

so I went through their offer with a fine-tooth comb.

It's solid.

And they want to pay cash.

- Ooh, cash!

That's gonna make for a lot of happy birds!

- What do you think?

- Well, it could be months before we get another offer,

let alone one this good.

- Well, you sign here, and it's done.

- What is it?

- It's just...

I don't know.

Something about Tacoma,

it just feels like it's ringing a bell.

- Well, if it doesn't feel right, we don't have to sign it.

- I'm sure it's nothing.

[Chuckling]

- Great!

Now we just have to sell the house!

- Actually, I was wondering,

how would you feel if I bought the house from the estate?

I'm getting pretty attached to the place.

- You mean, move here?

- Just, like, weekend getaways or...

- Uh, I--I don't have a problem with that.

Uh, St-steve? Do you see a problem with that?

- Uh, not so long as you buy it for market value.

- I'll just call my bank, and I'll get back to you.

- Sir Nigel!

- Ah!

- I'm off to London.

I just stopped by to say goodbye.

- Safe travels!

Hopefully, we'll meet again soon!

- Well, I know we will,

when you return to London

to accept Vivienne's Golden Tea Cup.

- Oh! You hear that?

[Bird chirping]

That's Vivienne saying: "About time!"

[All laughing]

[Horn honking]

- Joe Joe's Coffee.

- What?

- Joe Joe's Coffee's corporate headquarters

is in Tacoma, Washington.

That is why it sounded so familiar.

- So, great news about the sale!

Just got a text from Joe Joe's Coffee's lawyer

while I was driving.

- Which is illegal, by the way.

- Joel, what did you do?

- I pitched Joe Joe's Coffee on launching a tea chain,

like you said.

And they bought it, along with Vivienne's.

So I need you in New York right away.

We gotta get started on developing a brand.

- This is your idea? - What? No!

- Lara, what are you talking about?

We had a conversation about it at dinner the other night.

Matt, you were there.

[Both scoffing]

- I thought we were joking. - Yeah!

- Well, believe me, Lara never jokes

when it comes to brilliant marketing ideas!

- Are you saying Joe Joe's Coffee now owns Vivienne's?

- You better believe it!

- Oh no! This is not good!

This is not good at all.

- What do you mean? What do you mean?

- The Council of Tea Sommeliers

only awards Golden Tea Cups to independent merchants.

And Vivienne's is now part of a corporate chain.

I'm afraid Together Forever Tea

is disqualified.

- You can't take away Vivienne's Golden Tea Cup.

- There's nothing I can do about it!

- But if we knew that there was a rule against corporations,

we would never have sold to Joe Joe's Coffee!

- Steve, you gotta rip up this sale.

- You signed the contract. I'm afraid it's legally binding.

- You need to fix this.

- Look, I'm the one who suggested Joe Joe's Coffee

should buy Vivienne's in the first place.

I'll look like an idiot if I go back now

and say it was a mistake.

- Well, looks like your partner has us over a barrel.

- You're blaming me for this?

- No, I'm not blaming anyone.

I just--I think it's a shame.

- You think that I don't?

- I don't know anymore. I gotta go.

- Lara!

- Matthew, have you got a moment?

- I'm sorry, Lara.

I've gotta send copies

to Joe Joe's Coffee's lawyer by courier.

- Thank you, Steve. - Yeah.

- I thought you'd be happy.

- Happy?

You just destroyed everything my aunt worked for.

And you knew that I was joking

about selling the store to Joe Joe's Coffee.

- I wanted to surprise you.

- Ha! Wow!

OK, well, yeah, congratulations. I am very surprised.

- Look, this wouldn't even seem like such a big deal

if you weren't hanging out in this hick town anyway.

[Scoffing]

- I actually happen to be really fond of this hick town.

- Come on, let's just go back to New York.

Things will look differently from there.

- You can go. I'm gonna stay.

- Well, for how long?

- Well, I don't know. Maybe until I fix things.

- Lara, you mean something to me.

[Sighing]

- Joel, I'm...

I'm really sorry if I misled you in any way.

You mean a lot to me too.

But...

we're friends, and we work together.

And that's it.

- Yeah. - I'm sorry.

- No, that's...

[Sighing]

Well, I've been more than patient with you, Lara.

So I need you back in the office today.

- Or what?

- Don't make me answer that.

Gotta go.

- You seemed rather accusatory back there

about Lara and that fellow.

- Yeah, I--I didn't mean to be. I...

I messed up.

- Forgive my boldness, but do you love Lara?

- Uh, I mean, it's not as simple as that.

She's got a big life in the city,

and my life is here.

- How much would you sacrifice for love, Matt?

- That's a big question.

- It's a question I wish I'd had the courage

to ask myself 50 years ago,

but I didn't.

And I lost the love of my life.

- Vivienne.

- Might I suggest you apologize to Lara.

- And what if she won't accept my apology?

[Laughing]

- Nobody ever said that love was without risk.

Talk to her.

Listen to her.

You'll soon find out if it's really love.

[Chuckling]

- How big of an idiot was I back there?

- I'd say medium to large.

[Sighing]

Hmm...

[Both chuckling]

- Is that Vivienne's will?

- Yeah, I'm just trying to find a loophole

to get us out of this sale.

- Please let there be one.

- Really? I mean, it's a lot of money for the bird sanctuary.

- The most important thing is Vivienne's Golden Tea Cup.

- Well, I wouldn't hold your breath.

I mean, I've been through the fine print,

and now I'm going through the fine-fine print, but...

It's just such a shame

that Aunt Vivienne and Sir Nigel never made up.

- Yeah.

Hard to understand

when people let silly arguments come between them.

[Chuckling]

- Matt and I barely know each other.

- Yet...

You still thinking about buying the house?

- Thinking about it,

but I'm not sure I'm entirely welcome in Kissing Falls

as much as I thought I was.

- I have never met anybody who belonged here more.

- I don't know about that.

- Oh, Lara.

The Golden Tea Cup wasn't Vivienne's only dream.

[Chuckling]

- What do you mean?

- Well, why do you think she made you and Matt co-executors?

[Chuckling]

- Ah!

- You called?

- Oh! Yes!

I think that I found a way out of the deal.

There is a clause in Aunt Vivienne's will

that says that the bird sanctuary committee

has to approve the sale.

- And the bird sanctuary committee

is Daphne and her husband.

- And the committee officially objects to the sale.

- Well, that's that, then. I'll notify the purchaser.

Oh!

Lara, are you serious about buying Vivienne's house?

- Uh...

I'm still thinking about it.

- Well, you know a good place to think about things?

Kissing Falls.

- You're right.

Actually, I might go there now.

[Chuckling softly]

OK, thanks. See you guys!

- See you!

- You need to call Matt right now.

[Birds chirping]

- Lara!

- Matt?

- Everything OK?

Steve told me to get up here.

- That's what Daphne told me to do.

- Ah, right, the, uh...

- Right.

- The family legend.

- Well, I guess this is how

your great-great-great- great-grandmother felt.

- Oh, really? How's that?

- Well, bamboozled.

[Both chuckling]

But also grateful.

- Steve, um, he told me you saved the day.

- Oh, no. Aunt Vivienne's will did.

She was a really smart lady.

- That she was!

Look, uh, Lara, what I said outside the shop...

- It's OK, Matt.

I know that you, you know, weren't actually blaming me.

I guess I just...

already felt a bit guilty.

- Why?

- For including Joel.

By the way, I am probably out of a job now, so...

- Oh, I'm sorry.

- Oh, no, don't be, honestly.

This past week,

everyone's been telling how much like Vivienne I am.

And, I don't know. I guess it made me realize something.

- What?

- Well, just, like, I don't know.

Aunt Vivienne, she lived her life...

being true to herself.

And...

I just need to be true to myself too.

I don't care about Joe Joe's Coffee.

I care about making a difference in the world.

- Wow!

Like, for instance,

maybe helping promote a new bird sanctuary?

- Yeah.

So, I mean, well, the sale is off.

- Right.

- And, um, I mean, we still have a tea shop on our hands, so...

- Yeah. You know what?

I've been thinking about that, and...

- Oh yeah?

- What if, maybe, we... - [Both]: Buy it?

- Mmm? Really?

- I mean, it would be a...

It would be a lot of work, that and the garden center.

I mean, personally,

I feel like we could probably work together,

and we could manage it.

- Absolutely! - OK.

- I mean, you know, eventually,

we could get Together Forever Tea trademarked.

- And I could take a photo of the rose

and track its progress and build a following online.

We could take profits from that

for the bird sanctuary.

Why are you looking at me like that?

- Because I love this idea. - You do?

- Yes. - OK! OK!

- [Both]: OK.

- So, does this mean you're gonna buy the house?

- Yes. Yes, it does.

- For weekends?

Because I, you know, I've been realizing that...

[Sighing]

...the city isn't so bad.

I mean, I--I could get used to New York

if, I mean, if you wanted me to.

- I don't know.

How about we, um...

stay here...

together?

- Forever?

- Wait!

Wait, what if this is just the tea

that's making you feel this way?

- Not a chance.

- How can you be so sure?

- 'Cause I've felt this way since the moment I met you.

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