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IRV: The family doctor, an icon of the American experience.

For generations, they´ve mended our wounds

and warmed our hearts.

In my lifetime

Andy Brown was just about

the best example I ever knew of one.

Doctor-wise, that is.

As for the family half of the job title

he was a bit rough around the edges.

Okey-dokey, here we go.

EPHRAM: What is that? -I think it´s dinner.

I found Mom´s old recipe book.

And you cooked it?

No, smart-ass, I cooked her meat loaf.

Now come on, eat up.

-We should say grace first. -You´re both half-Jewish.

Isn´t a there half-Jewish grace?

ANDY: Quit stalling.

Look, tomorrow, we´ll try a restaurant in town, okay?

If we´re not still in the hospital.

I have my film pick for the night.

Oh, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

Excellent choice, Delia.

-Don´t let her watch it. -Be quiet.

Did I miss something?

She can´t watch that, it upsets her.

It does not.

If you don´t count screams, sleeping on my floor.

Delia, tell the truth.

It used to scare me, but not anymore.

That´s what she says every time. Like a junkie begging for smack.

I´m not a junkie, you´re a junkie.

No one´s a junkie in this house. Yet.

[PHONE RINGING]

Dr. Brown.

Yes, yes, I can.

No, we´re finishing dinner now.

I´ll be right over. What´s your address?

Okay, then. See you in a bit. Will do.

-Who was that? -Only what I´ve been waiting

for since we moved here. My first house call.

We´re just finishing dinner, huh?

I can´t let my first house call family feel bad, Ephram.

That wouldn´t be very country-doctorly of me.

Besides, I won´t be long.

-Is a knapsack country-doctorly? ANDY: Good point, Delia.

I need something that says country doctor.

I know, an umbrella.

-That singing English nanny. -Never mind.

I´ll see you guys later.

Remember, save me a piece of meat loaf.

Without a doubt.

-I´ll order pizza. -Half cheese, half pepperoni.

[DOOR CLOSES]

Mrs. Dudley, I presume?

Evening, doctor. I see you found the place alright.

It took me longer than I thought.

Just out of curiosity, how long is Forest Lane?

Uh, fifteen miles.

Where I come from, that´s a turnpike.

I was just about to put on some coffee, if you´d like a cup.

No, thanks.

So which one´s the patient?

-You don´t charge, right? -That´s right.

All of them.

We´ve to get on, we´ve so much time and little to do.

Strike that, reverse it. This way, please.

We´ll take the Wonkavator.

Hey, Dad.

Hey, kiddo.

-How was the movie? -I tried not to watch it.

Honest, but it called out to me.

-That bad. -I didn´t get scared.

I even watched the part where the girl turns into a blueberry

which you and I both know isn´t really possible.

Is it?

There was one reported case in Norway in the late ´60s...

but I wouldn´t worry too much about it. Go back to sleep.

[MUSIC PLAYING ON HEADPHONES]

I´m back.

Sound the trumpets.

-It took longer than expected. -I hadn´t really noticed.

The door?

[CHUCKLES]

[SIGHS]

It´s called a vacation, Andy. Are you gonna spend it cleaning?

I was just straightening up.

Admit it. The great Dr. Brown can´t sit still.

What you need is a good book.

What, like Madame Bovary? There´s some light summer fare.

How about your son?

That argument tonight wasn´t my fault.

Did you hear the way he talked to me?

He´s a teenager, sarcasm is how they express their affection.

-Got a funny way of expressing. -Oh, and your way isn´t?

You-- You take one week of family vacation a year

and you spend it cleaning the garage, the kitchen--

I asked him to go out in the boat with me, he didn´t come.

Okay?

I was gonna teach him how to drive it.

Teaching him something isn´t the only way to get to know him.

I would´ve killed for my father to teach me to drive a boat.

I would have killed for us to have a boat.

I swear to God, one day you two are gonna understand each other.

-It´s the last thing I ever do. -Ha, ha.

Well, if that´s your goal, you´re gonna be around a while.

[ANDY CHUCKLES]

-Hey, Nina. -Evening, Andy.

Sometimes I remember conversations with my wife.

And this one...?

A talk we had last year.

We had a house in the Hamptons.

She´d take the kids for the summer.

Me, I was there a total of three weeks in five years.

And yourself?

I assume you´re not out here talking to a deceased spouse.

No, just enjoying the warm night.

Unseasonably warm

considering we had a snowstorm last week.

-Oh, it´s the fall thaw. -Excuse me?

Welcome to one of Everwood´s many oddities.

There´s a fall thaw?

With a legend behind it, no less.

Once a year, we get a fall heat wave that lasts around a week or

so and the town whips up a festival to celebrate it.

Stop before this gets any weirder.

Oh, you think that´s weird?

Last week, we got a doctor who doesn´t charge anybody.

Good night, Andy.

Night, Nina.

IRV: The next day

as the temperature climbed, so did the town´s excitement.

Looking around, it was almost impossible to imagine anyone

not happy about the recent turn in temperature.

Notice I said "almost."

You there. Yes, sign boy, I´m talking to you.

If you´re gonna hang that banner,

make sure that it doesn´t chip the paint.

That is Benjamin Moore latex,

the Rolls-Royce of exterior coatings.

[HARRY SNEEZES]

Morning, doctor. Happy thaw.

You´re an educated man, you don´t plan on succumbing

to one of this community´s more nonsensical traditions.

You´ve gotta admit, it´s a balmy day for mid-September.

The weather pattern at this time

of year is a typical Indian summer

brought about by a flow of the jet stream

which, coupled with our proximity to the mountains

traps and stagnates the hottest

pockets of air directly above our region.

And as much as this town enjoys celebrating this anomaly

for those who are extra-sensitive

to the allergens in the air

this is not much of a fun week.

As opposed to all those other weeks

where you just like to party down.

As usual, you make it difficult to have

a civil conversation with you, doctor.

-Thaw well. HARRY: Bite me.

-Morning, everyone. ALL: Morning.

You´re late. This posse´s getting hotter than--

Don´t finish that analogy, Edna, I haven´t had my coffee yet.

-Late night? -I answered my first house call.

Oh, you finally busted the old cherry. Who with?

The Dudleys.

-On Forest Lane? -That was no lane.

It took me half an hour to find the place,

an hour and a half to examine her kids.

I hope you got some rest

because we got another packed house.

Oh, it never lets up, Edna, does it?

Remind me and my tired feet

just why it is that you are offering

this thankless town free medicine?

Long answer is, I spent enough years

making money off of people´s sickness

and to assuage my guilt, I wanted

to do something incredibly altruistic.

The short answer is, I´m nuts.

-Okay, give it to me. -Uh, excuse me?

You´ve been here a week. What do you think of your classes?

I think they´re as annoying and dull as my classes in New York.

Only further west.

I have to warn you, there´s a movement

to issue the new kid a nickname.

Why do I not like the direction this is going?

It´s an offensive tactic.

The way I see it, as the new kid, you´ll get a nickname.

These labels are never kind. They´re either fun or mean.

-Most are mean. -I know.

I have gym with Blackhead Davis.

See what I mean?

Now, if you and I leak a few suggested nicknames

we´ll have a shot at making a fun one stick.

For the classic girl next door, you have a really warped mind.

Something in the water here.

-So, what´s yours? -Me? They call me....

[SCHOOL BELL RINGS]

Late for class.

-See you, Bubba. -Bubba?

Just testing one out.

Well, howdy, loser.

You guys choreographed a bathroom

stall exit and I´m the loser?

I see you´re still getting cozy with my little sis.

-I told you she´s spoken for. -Spoken for?

Hey, Bright, the ´50s called, they want their lingo back.

[BOYS CHUCKLE]

As soon as Colin finds out about you,

he´s gonna kick your sorry ass.

I figure I might have a slight advantage over him

you know, seeing as I´m conscious.

Watch what you say, little man.

Another comment like that,

Colin´s not the only one in a coma.

Statistically, I´m not that little

but according to every chart, you´re still a moron.

Oh, you may think I´m a moron, you may be right.

But when it comes to my sister Amy, I´m a genius.

And she´s playing you, dude.

Soon as she gets your daddy fixing up Colin

she´s not even going to look at you anymore.

Just remember I said that.

And that, children, is how Ronald Reagan

saved the world from the evil empire.

Yes, Delia, what is it now?

I can´t see the board as well from here. Can I move up front?

-Something wrong with your eyes? -No.

Then why do you need to sit up front?

To hear you better.

Oh, you have a hearing difficulty?

No.

I´m sorry, Delia, I don´t understand.

I just like to sit close.

In this class, the boys sit in the front rows

and the girls sit in the other rows.

You mean the back rows.

MISS VIOLET: Yes. Now, if everyone will

turn in their reading books to page 86--

Do we ever switch?

Excuse me?

Do the boys and girls ever switch?

Oh. No.

Then I´d like to sit up front, please.

MISS VIOLET: I see.

Well, to do that, you´d have to be a boy.

You´re not suggesting that

you really are a boy, Delia, are you?

[STUDENTS LAUGH]

I didn´t think so.

And while we´re at it, remove your hat.

This is a classroom, not a ball field.

[STUDENTS LAUGH]

I said, remove your hat.

Delia.

Delia.

IRV: Welcome to Gino Chang´s

Everwood´s Friday-night culinary hot spot.

Gino, the restaurant´s proprietor and namesake

moved to town from Naples a few years back.

At the time, Everwood was without a Chinese restaurant

or an Italian one.

So Gino opened both.

Okay, we´ll have one order of the minestrone soup

two orders of the chicken parmesan,

one sweet-and-sour pork

and, uh, a couple of egg rolls to start.

I´d like to take a moment and point out

that this is hands down

the weirdest restaurant we´ve ever been to.

We´re from New York City where we´re served by drag queens.

I think it´s cool.

So who´s up for going to the Thaw Fest tomorrow?

I´d love to, promise me to take up surgery and lobotomize me.

Come on, it´ll be fun.

There´s gonna be hayrides and a Ferris wheel.

In what universe do hayrides

and Ferris wheels translate into fun?

Dad, what´s it mean when someone

takes extreme disciplinary measures?

-Where´d hear that expression? -On TV.

It means someone´s in trouble.

Signora, Dr. Abbott, Everwood´s big-shot tough guy.

-How we doing tonight, huh? -Just fine, Gino,

Our regular table, please.

Uh, I´m sorry, your table, she no avail this evening.

What do you mean, she no avail?

GINO: No worry. I´m gonna give you a bellissima table right--

Gino, I do not want a bellissima table,

I want my regular table.

As a dedicated patron of this establishment

I find it appalling you would just jettison my table

without any regard whatsoever.

[GINO LAUGHS]

You smarty-pants, doc, I don´t get your fancy words, huh?

But tonight, the dessert, she´s on the house.

[GINO SPEAKS IN ITALIAN]

Hey, Ephram, how´s it going with the Abbott girl?

-What brought that up? -I´m just curious.

-Don´t be. ANDY: It must be going well.

Because she´s walking over here.

Hey, Bubba.

-Uh, Dad, you remember Amy. -Of course.

-Hello, Amy. AMY: Hello, Dr. Brown.

My boyfriend Colin is in a stage-4 coma

and I was wondering if you´d consider

using your talents in neurosurgery

to awaken him from his head trauma

so that I can sleep with him?

I´d be glad to.

[GLASS BREAKS]

Uh, Dad, you remember Amy.

-Hey there, Amy. -Hi.

-What´s your name? -I´m Delia. You´re pretty.

[CELL PHONE RINGS]

Hello? Hello, this is he.

So you´re just here with your dad?

-I´m sorry, I can´t hear you. AMY: Yeah. How´d you know?

ANDY: Oh, hi. -Uh, hard to miss.

Father-daughter night, so we grab a bite

and go home and watch something he´s taped off Turner Classics.

Oh. Sounds bitching.

It´s hard to believe, but he can be kind of cool...

-...when no one´s looking. HARRY: Amy.

Anyways, I´d better get back before he combusts.

-Just wanted to say hi. See you. -See you.

-Is she your girlfriend? -No.

But you want her to be.

You´re this close to knowing pain you´ve never known before.

That was my patient.

I´ve gotta get over there, it´s an emergency.

We just ordered.

I should be back by the time you finish, okay?

Look, I´ll tell you what. Here´s some money for dinner.

You can use my phone to call a cab. Can you do that, Ephram?

-Sure thing, pops. -Look, I´m sorry, guys.

I´ll make it up to you. I´ll promise

I won´t cook dinner for a whole week.

EPHRAM: Not working tonight?

It took me 20 minutes just to track this number down.

Well, look at this.

Now what kind of a father

leaves his children at a restaurant alone?

Stranded?

Uh, just trying to get a taxi.

Turns out there´s only one cabby

in town and he´s taken the night off.

Mr. Randolph. Friday nights

he calls the bingo numbers at the church.

This really is the town that time forgot.

Well, we can give you a ride home, right, Daddy?

Of course we can.

He sits up front with me.

[COUGHING]

Good boy.

It doesn´t make sense. Susie was the one with the cough.

What appears to have been a case of bronchitis

is actually bacterial pneumococci.

Which is a silly way to say infectious pneumonia,

which isn´t silly at all.

-He´s got pneumonia? -He does.

Judging by the tightness of the quarters,

all your kids are infected.

On the off-chance they´re not, I´ve got vaccinations.

Unfortunately, I don´t have any more antibiotics with me.

You can give Roger Susie´s tonight.

I´m sorry, I can´t do that.

It´s perfectly allowable, Mrs. Dudley.

I can write a prescription for Roger and you can pick it up--

-I never got Susie´s medicine. -I´m sorry?

Our truck´s been out of commission.

I was gonna have my sister drive me to the drugstore.

She doesn´t get back till next Tuesday.

Your son doesn´t need antibiotics on Tuesday,

he needs them now.

You said that Susie´s cough was mild,

so I thought it could wait.

It can´t wait the night, not unless you

wanna spend tomorrow at the hospital.

[SIGHS]

Okay.

Get your kids ready, we´re gonna go find the nearest pharmacy.

-I can´t let you do that. -You have to.

-Why? -Because your children are sick.

Because I should have diagnosed

their sickness properly days ago.

Because I have a car and you don´t.

But mostly because I´m your doctor.

Now, come on.

DELIA: Thanks for the ride, Dr. Abbott.

Um....

The festival is tomorrow, I was wondering if you were going.

DELIA: Ephram. -Just a second.

I´m thinking about going,

I hear they have hayrides and Ferris wheels.

But did you know they have

a horseshoe-throwing competition?

-Ephram. -I said, just a second.

Little sisters, you know?

But yeah, no, I was thinking

about going to the Festival of the Thaw.

That came out wrong.

-Two o´clock. -Ephram.

[CAR HORN HONKS]

[CAR DOOR OPENS THEN CLOSES]

-What? -We´re locked out.

Over my dead and decaying corpse

you´re going to Thaw Fest with that boy.

I am not going with him, I am just meeting him there.

Since when do you care who I go to Thaw Fest with?

Since you started asking future parolees to attend with you.

You don´t know him.

This is so unfair.

In certain parent-child conflicts,

fairness is irrelevant.

Why is it the parent gets to decide

the relevancy of fairness?

An excellent question if I do say so myself.

-Hello, dear. -Mom, Dad is being excruciating.

"Excruciating" literally means feel the pain of crucifixion.

While my law may be difficult at times

I think we can both agree that Jesus had it a bit tougher.

AMY: He didn´t live here.

Well, now, where are you going?

We haven´t even gotten to the movie

half of the evening and it´s your favorite.

Repeat viewing of The Red Shoes.

Oh, don´t look at me like that, like you´re gonna overrule me.

I don´t have to. You´re gonna rescind your own ruling.

Our daughter hasn´t had

a moment´s fun since Colin´s accident.

If she wanted to go with Eminem, I´d let her do it.

Rose, Rose, do you know who this boy is?

He´s the son of that faux Marcus Welby.

Oh, you´ll be interested to know

we had another five cancellations today.

"Just feeling better, Dr. Abbott," they all say.

Yeah, give me a break.

Like Marian Waddle´s biliary cirrhosis just healed itself?

Come on. They´re all going

across the street for some free medicine.

[HARRY SNEEZES]

And how can I compete with that?

We´ve had this conversation umpteen times, Harold.

This isn´t about that doctor

or his son or even about free medicine.

You know what this is about.

This is not about my mother.

I couldn´t care less what that battle-ax does.

Her working there is just

one of her attempts meant to embarrass me

and it´ll prove just as ineffective as all the others.

Goodnight, Harold.

[SNIFFLES]

Delia Brown, what did I tell you about hats in class, hmm?

-No hats in class. -That´s right. No hats in class.

No hats in class.

Miss Violet, you´re turning violet!

No hats in class! No hats in class!

ALL: No hats in class!

-No hats in class! GIRL: She´s gonna explode!

Miss Violet´s gonna explode!

-She´s gonna explode! -Delia, what´s wrong?

-Miss Violet´s gonna explode. -Shh. Nobody´s gonna explode.

Where´s Dad? I want Dad.

He´ll be home soon. Here, lie down.

Okay?

-Ephram? -Yes.

Could you stay with me for a little while?

Move over.

[EPHRAM SIGHS]

[ANDY SIGHS]

Where´ve you been?

I was stuck at the Dudleys.

-What´s the matter, okay? -No.

Everything´s not okay, your daughter had a nightmare.

-How is she? -She´s fine now.

Got her back to sleep about 30 minutes ago.

It was that movie, wasn´t it?

I should´ve made sure she didn´t see it.

For someone who was cited as one of the greatest minds in America

it amazes me sometimes how clueless you are.

You really think this was about a movie?

Why don´t you enlighten me as to what it is about

because that´s just what I need,

a lecture from my 15-year-old son.

Do not talk to me the way you used to talk to Mom.

-What is that supposed to mean?

I wanna be having this conversation?

I didn´t marry you, never agreed to pick up your slack.

Look, Ephram, I am sorry

I couldn´t take care of Delia tonight.

But I was treating a 7-year-old boy who could hardly breathe.

Seven-year-old boys who can´t breathe

trump little girls with nightmares.

-In my profession they do. -In the medical profession?

-Or in the crappy father one? -Alright, that is enough.

You and that mouth of yours are gonna

start showing me some respect or--

Or what?

What happened to your hand?

It´s tonight´s punch line.

I sliced it while trying to pry open a window

after Delia and I couldn´t get a ride home

after you left us at dinner for the second night this week.

-Let me take look at it. -It´s fine.

-Let me just see it. -Don´t touch me!

The great Dr. Brown.

That´s what Mom and I used to call you.

You always thought it was endearing but it wasn´t.

It was our own private joke.

Will the great Dr. Brown be here for dinner?

Will the great Dr. Brown be joining us?

Don´t you see? You´re still that guy. You´ll always be that guy.

It doesn´t matter if it´s the Dudleys or some rich lady

on Park Avenue they´ll always come first.

Only difference is this time Mom´s not here to cover for you.

At least I got her.

Who does Delia get?

[CROWD CHATTERING]

Now, what did we talk about in the car?

For the next three hours, I don´t know you.

-Doc-a-doodle-do. -Hey, Edna.

-You remember Irv? -Good to see you.

Hello, doctor. Hello there, Delia.

-Hey, Mr. Irv. -Doc Brown, Doc Brown.

Thurman Revere from Glen Oaks Drive.

Hi, Thurman.

Listen, I have a cyst just above my backside.

Actually, I´m here with my family and I´d prefer--

-A look-see, it´d take a second. -You know, I--

Go ahead, doc, we´ll watch the munchkin for a bit.

Well, alright. No, no, not here, Thurman.

-Hey. -Hey, there you are.

Ephram Brown, the melting man. The melting man, Ephram Brown.

-He´s oddly quiet. -He´s not having the best day.

-I think it might be his last. -Everyone just watches him melt?

It´s a contest. You bet when the hat´s gonna hit the ground.

Mr. Lawrence has won three years in a row.

Well, I think it´s safe to say we have a few hours yet.

Here´s the deal.

My dad agreed that I could hang with you under one condition.

Yeah? What´s that?

How goes it, Bonelick?

He has to hang with us.

No offense, Amy, but, uh,

he´s my least favorite thing about you.

Yeah, well, you´re really my least favorite thing about you.

Dude, you´ve really gotta work on the insults.

So, what are we gonna do first?

We´ve got face-painting over there.

Let´s try the silent auction over here.

[CROWD GASPS]

Vanilla and chocolate frozen yogurt in a cup

with a spoon of sprinkles distributed evenly over the top.

Rinse that spoon if it´s been in the nut dish.

Buddy, how about you finish ordering before the thaw´s gone?

-Hello, Mother. -How´s it hanging, Junior?

With the plethora of greetings in English

I find it hard to believe that´s the best.

I find it hard to believe you used "plethora."

Two scoops of chocolate on a cone, please.

You´ve got your panties in a bunch

we´re gonna steal your patients.

There´s enough hoity-toities around these parts

who don´t wanna wait all day

with folks from the wrong side of the mountain.

I do not have my panties in a bunch.

-I´m concerned for you. -Concerned?

You´re working with a severely addled human being.

You´ve got a few bouts with reality,

I don´t much recommend the exposure.

What are these bouts?

The time you decided to leap your motorbike

over four cars down Main Street?

That was a fundraiser for Myrna´s goiter operation.

How about this drunken bar brawl last month with Edgar Cage?

Edgar had it coming, he called me a puss.

Your sophomoric stunts aside, the truth is

you´ve given no thought that you may

be driving yourself into an early grave.

You´d like that too, wouldn´t you?

Then you could say, "I told you so."

You´re presuming I´d attend your funeral.

You know what your trouble is, Junior?

Your whole life, you´ve wanted this town

to see you the same way they saw your pops.

Wise, generous, big-hearted.

Trouble is, people can´t see what´s not there.

As usual, I´m bathed in your maternal warmth and kindness.

AMY: Oh, my God.

[EPHRAM CHUCKLES]

I´m surprised Bright didn´t shove himself up here with us.

I knew he wouldn´t go near this thing,

he´s definitely afraid of heights.

So, what do people do up here,

besides wait for an early demise?

And ask really dumb questions.

Actually, I brought you up here

to tell you something very important.

Grover.

Grover.

It´s my nickname.

I always loved Grover as a kid.

I know for most kids it´s all Winnie the Pooh or Hello Kitty

or occasionally Strawberry Shortcake.

But for me, life was about a little blue Muppet named Grover.

Well, Grover was a very underrated Muppet.

Colin and Bright used to torment me

by stealing my Grover doll and hiding him.

Then one day, Colin refused to give me

the doll back unless I kissed him first.

Colin, that is, not Grover, who I had kissed many, many times.

So I closed my eyes, Colin closed his

we both leaned forward and I kicked him right in the nuts.

Colin, that is, not Grover, who didn´t have nuts.

At least none that I was aware of.

Anyway, Colin screamed and doubled over.

My parents raced into the room

and when they asked what happened

Colin wouldn´t tell them.

All he would say was that Grover did it.

And somehow, suddenly I had developed my first crush.

On Colin, that is.

Not Grover.

I know we haven´t talked about this since that trip to Denver

so--

You want me to ask my dad to help Colin.

If you could just talk to him.

I mean, I know there´s probably nothing he can do but--

Yeah. Sure, Amy.

I´ll ask him. No problem.

Thank you.

Yoo-hoo! Dr. Brown, care to try for a wish?

-Anything for my patient. BRENDA: Oh. Such a doll, doctor.

All you do is drop a quarter in the tank.

If it lands in those glasses, then you get your wish.

It costs 50 cents, not counting the 25 cents in the tank,

of course and the money goes to benefit the girls´ dance troupe.

The Everwood Swans. We have a recital coming up this fall.

-You know what´s funny? -Hmm?

I didn´t get the coin in the glass, but I still got my wish.

You´re lucky that way.

Aren´t you gonna tell me why I´m here?

I wanted to see you.

Know that you´re more than just a memory.

And tell you that I kept my promise.

You didn´t keep yours.

You promised you´d be here.

In Everwood.

But you´re not.

I´ve got some bad news for you, you´re gonna be fine.

Fine is not great.

You´ve had enough of great.

It isn´t all that it´s cracked up to be.

Fine is real.

Now, come on. Say it.

Say what?

Goodbye.

That´s why you wanted to see me, isn´t it?

You wanted to say goodbye.

No.

No, not to you. Just to--

To this.

I understand.

You do?

Besides, I was never the reason.

-I don´t get it. -He was, Andy.

You came here so you could know him.

Know who?

[BALLOON POPS]

Let´s go home, Dad.

[ANDY SIGHS]

So, what did everyone think of the festival?

[ALL CHUCKLE]

-That´s not funny. -It´s a little funny.

[ALL CHUCKLE]

[ALL LAUGHING]

-What´s this? DELIA: It´s a note from school.

I´m in big trouble.

[ALL LAUGHING]

DELIA: See you inside.

She´s crafty, that one.

[ANDY & EPHRAM CHUCKLE]

[ANDY SIGHS]

EPHRAM: I see her too, sometimes.

Mom. I mean, not like you do. I don´t talk to her

or anything.

More like, I feel her.

With us.

When we´re all having dinner

or when there´s a song playing on the radio she used to like.

I just know she´s there.

Ephram, I wish I could tell you everything´s gonna be okay.

I know that´s what I´m supposed to say, but the truth is

I don´t know what´s gonna happen to us.

What I do know is that all we have now is each other.

I need your help raising your sister.

I can´t do it alone.

She gets us.

HARRY: Morning, doctor. -Good morning.

What´s the matter?

Didn´t have time for your usual bowl of sarcasm this morning?

Actually, I wanted to say thank you.

For giving my son and daughter

a ride home. It was very kind of you.

You´re welcome.

Since you seem hell-bent on becoming a permanent fixture

I should give you a piece of advice.

And that is?

When I first joined my father´s practice,

I too went out of my way

to be available to all people at all times.

I realized that exhausting myself was no good for anyone

least of all for my family, who needed me the most.

Being a small-town physician

is a marathon, doctor, not a sprint.

And if one of us is going to win this race

you are going to have to stay in it.

And behold the people

who had every attribute of dogs

except loyalty.

Come on, everyone, inside.

WOMAN 1: Thank you, doctor. -Welcome back.

WOMAN 2: Thank you. -All is forgiven.

You hear that?

That was the sound of a pin dropping.

After what happened yesterday,

I´m surprised you´re still here, Edna.

You´re paying me.

We´re in this foxhole together, compadre.

Don´t worry about everyone else.

They´ll come around, they always do.

That´s sort of the nature of this place.

You´re up one day, down the next.

In the meantime, we have some excellent periodicals.

[DOOR OPENS]

Good morning, doctor.

Mrs. Dudley, what a nice surprise. How are you?

-Just fine, thank you. -Ah.

I wanted to stop by and take the opportunity

to say thank you for the other night.

Well, that´s quite a long way just to--

How did you get here?

MRS. DUDLEY: I heard about what happened yesterday.

And I wanted to tell you that my family--

Like a lot of other families around here, we don´t have much.

But now we have a doctor.

Uh, I know it was a tragedy that brought you here, sir.

For that I am sorry.

But I´m not sorry that you came.

Neither am I, Mrs. Dudley.

You take care now.

Well, at least offer her a ride home.

ANDY: Mrs. Dudley?

-How´s it going there, Ham? -Ham.

-It´s your nickname, welcome. -My nickname´s a deli item.

See, that´s what everyone will think,

but we´ll know it´s really short for this.

See? You look just like Hamlet.

-That does not look like me. -No, you can´t deny it.

Everwood finally has its own dark prince.

You wanna grab some lunch?

Um, before we get lunch, we should talk.

You asked your father, didn´t you?

He said no.

I mean, you can´t really begrudge the guy.

He´s trying to get out of brain business, start a new life.

I don´t know what I was thinking.

Sorry, it was silly for me to ask.

I´m sorry, Amy.

You still wanna get lunch?

I think I´m gonna hang back here a while

and look over some notes before class.

Your daughter has a mind of her own, Dr. Brown.

She repeatedly interrupts my lessons

with questions that make little sense.

This in addition to her inappropriate apparel.

ANDY [WHISPERING]: I´ve never been to a parent-teacher thingy.

-Am I allowed to speak? -You have to raise your hand.

Excuse me, Dr. Brown.

Just out of curiosity, Miss Violet,

why do the boys sit in the front?

[SCOFFS]

Very simple. Boys are rowdier.

-Rowdier? -They cause more of a fuss.

By sitting in the front,

I can monitor their behavior more closely.

You believe girls are genetically less rowdy,

you relegate them to the back?

-The term "relegate" is-- ANDY: Entirely appropriate.

As for Delia having a mind of her own,

whose is she supposed to have?

I think you misunderstood my point.

No, I don´t think that I did.

Delia, perhaps you should step

outside while your father and I--

No, she got to be here for the bad part.

I want her to hear what I´m about to say.

My daughter´s been through a traumatic year

and she´s come through the other side remarkably well.

I´d like to take more credit for that, but I can´t.

She´s the product of a mother who taught her strength

courage and independence from an early age.

My job is to make sure she doesn´t forget those lessons.

Now she will sit wherever you tell her to sit.

But as long as she´s polite,

she can ask all the questions she wants.

And I´d get used to those baseball caps.

As for you and me? You can keep calling me in here.

But next time, my daughter better

have really done something wrong

or you are gonna have one rowdy father on your hands.

This meeting is over, doctor.

Yes, it certainly is.

Come on, Delia.

See you tomorrow, Miss Violet.

[SIGHS]

Where have you two been?

You wanna tell him, or should I?

We went horse shopping.

There´s a ranch just off the highway that breeds horses.

Dad took me there. We just looked, though.

-Making good on that bribe, huh? -You cooked dinner?

I figured we should have meat loaf for a change.

How´s the hand doing?

I´ll tell you what.

I´ll stay away from recipes involving three

or more ingredient, you stay away from the first-aid kit.

Heh. It´s a deal. Now go on, sit down. Dinner´s ready.

IRV: The first fall thaw that Andy Brown and his children

ever knew passed through Everwood later that night

taking with it our last bit of warm autumn air.

But not our warmth of spirit.

That was in the people of Everwood

and in our hearts

some broken, some mending

and some for the moment, complete.

♫ A quiet night is music ♫

♫ Tonight will simply fade ♫

♫ Trying to be a soldier once ♫

♫ But his music.. ♫