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ANNOUNCER: Previously on Everwood.

Last Fourth of July they decided to go for a joyride.

Colin drove.

There was an accident, Bright thrown from the vehicle.

He doesn´t remember what happened.

She´s still pretty wrapped up in her boyfriend...

...the one in the coma.

She asked me to ask you to take a look at him.

I can´t remember the last time someone...

...said no when Dr. Brown offered his help.

Colin´s surgery´s a done deal.

You´re the last stop for us, Dr. Brown.

What do you think we should do?

I can´t tell you what to do.

-What if it were your son? -Your father turned them down.

He´s never turned anyone down, met long odds he didn´t like.

You owe it to this kid. To perform whatever miracle...

...you´ve got up your sleeve. Hell, you owe it to me.

It was easier when I didn´t know so much about my patients.

When I didn´t care.

You moved here to be a father. And a doctor.

Just didn´t know it would be so hard.

Welcome to the human race, Dr. Brown.

IRV: Every small town worth its salt has a place like this.

A place where the landscape invites us...

...to blend in for a while.

Ours is called Buck´s Rock.

It´s been graced with its own heavenly light that...

...for most people...

...eliminates any and all doubt of a higher power.

The purpose of Buck´s Rock is quite familiar.

It´s a place where the lazy days...

...of childhood play themselves out.

A place free from the responsibilities of adult life.

A place of innocence.

[CHEERS]

COLIN: And with that seamless dive...

...the young American from Everwood, Colorado...

...catapults himself into medal position.

Oh, your toes were curled, bro. Five point five.

Let´s not even talk about your entry splash. Four point two.

The Russian judge gave me a six.

Yeah, well, everyone knows Unga´s got a thing for you.

Yeah, well. Too bad Unga´s feelings are unrequited.

[AMY CHUCKLES]

-Ah! -You´re next, Grover.

-In a little bit. -Oh.

-You´re so full of it. -When you gonna realize...

...my baby sister doesn´t share our sense of adventure?

[BRIGHT CHEERS]

[CHEERS]

Good one, bro.

If I ask you a girl question, will you promise not to laugh?

No.

[AMY CHUCKLES]

What were you just thinking, just then, you had this look.

I was just thinking about the fireworks...

...we saw in Mr. Nole´s driveway earlier.

The ones he´s shooting off tonight.

-Must have cost a fortune. -Ah.

I can´t think about you every second of every day, Grover.

I mean, sometimes I gotta take time...

...to think about normal guy things...

...like trucks, electronics...

...Katie Holmes.

I get the idea.

Alright, maybe it wasn´t just the fireworks.

Go on.

I was just thinking about us watching them go off last year.

And?

I just hoped that they would keep going.

With your hand just touching mine...

...just like that.

And then it was over.

[COLIN LAUGHS]

AMY: What are you doing?

What is that?

Colin, that´s my confirmation cross.

-Come and get it. -If you drop it...

I will never forgive you.

-I said, come and get it. -Colin....

-Come on. -Colin.

Ready?

[BOTH LAUGH]

BOTH: One, two, three.

[BOTH LAUGHING]

I love you.

ANDY: The bone fragment is located in the brain stem...

...mission control for vital function.

Its placement necessitates an extreme level...

...of caution during the procedure.

The procedure will take eight hours...

...assuming there are no complications.

And I know you´re both aware of what...

...those complications might be.

-We are. -Mm.

I´ve got my old assisting surgeon flying in from New York.

He´s the best there is.

We´ll start prepping Colin at 9 a.m.

What´s the chance my son won´t survive the surgery?

It´s a high-risk procedure.

There are no odds that I can give and even if there were...

...I´m not sure they´d provide you with much comfort.

I need something.

Colin made a mistake when he drove that day...

...and he´s paid a horrible price.

I don´t wanna be responsible for making him worse.

Mrs. Hart, Colin´s been in a coma for over four months.

That´s beyond the timeframe where a recovery is likely.

The only assurance I can give you is this...

...I´ve performed over 2600 surgeries...

...and I have never had one...

...where I cared more about the outcome.

You let a guy who´s never been out of New York drive...

...a car in the wilderness.

It´s Uncle Brian, not Woody Allen.

[DOORBELL RINGS]

He´s here, he´s here.

-Uncle Brian! -Ah. Come here, girl. Ah.

Gentlemen and lady...

...worship me, for I have brought unto you New York City.

Did you leave any for the New Yorkers?

Nope. Let´s see.

I´ve got two bags of H&H Bagels, some Ray´s Pizza...

...all eight slices individually wrapped for travel.

No need to thank me.

-Zabar´s Special Blend. -Oh, yeah.

Yonah Schimmel knishes, and a Brooklyn Cyclones hat for Delia.

Who are they?

The minor league team that plays on Coney Island. Duh.

For a while I thought I was upset...

...´cause I missed New York now I finally know true despair.

Despair´s right up your alley. You´re a musician.

Not really these days.

You hear what I brought, you´re gonna rededicate yourself.

Bill Evans, vinyl, that´ll change your life, man.

Sweet. Thanks.

Boss, I can´t believe it.

What´s it been since we stood over an open skull?

Long enough to blot out some of your more colorful expressions.

Tomorrow, once again, we´ll hear the sweet sound...

...of that drill digging away.

Let´s save the shop talk for after dinner.

-Did you eat? You hungry? -Yes and yes.

Start shoveling whatever you got on my plate.

Ephram, you come outside and help me.

More bags?

I can´t get the car to turn off.

The television fanatics will be happy to know...

...that I have relented and purchased the satellite dish...

...which you have been clamoring for.

I´m picking it up from Herb´s Discounts tomorrow morning.

Please, hold your applause.

That´s great, Dad.

Over three hundred channels.

We can watch Jeopardy in Korean, if we wish.

ROSE: Why are you picking up the dish?

Why isn´t one of Herbert´s boys coming to install it?

I possess two university degrees and a Mensa membership, Rose...

...I do not need to pay some tool-belted ignoramus...

...50 of my hard-earned dollars...

...to hook a piece of plastic up to the house.

Pass the carrots.

I wanna spend the day in Denver tomorrow, at the hospital.

-If that´s alright with you. -I assumed you would.

I´m gonna keep an eye on Harts´ store, your dad´s on call...

...so you should ride with your brother.

I´m not going.

What do you mean, you´re not going?

Uh, I´m not going?

-Figures. -Amy.

No, I´m sick of this. Colin´s your best friend...

...you´re not even gonna be there for the surgery.

You´re doing fine with this whole martyr thing...

...you can handle it without me.

-I´ll be in my room. -Bright, get back here--

Harold, just leave him, he´s just scared about tomorrow.

There is a reason men don´t wear ruffles.

It´s not that bad.

If this were 1775, you´d be a total chick magnet.

-You´re not helping. -I´m not?

Are you sure about that?

-Oh. Where´d you swipe this? -Dad´s liquor cabinet.

Crown Royal he got from a client last year and trust me...

...if he knew you´re gonna stand in front

of the town wearing that he´d want you to have it.

Slow down, man, it´s supposed to last all day.

[BRIGHT COUGHS]

Well, I don´t know if I´ll last all day.

[COLIN LAUGHS]

Careful, you don´t wanna ruin that pretty outfit, do you?

Let´s get moving, people.

Hey, Dr. Abbott. You´re looking revolutionary.

-Thank you, Colin. -Hey, very cool.

Kentucky long rifle, right?

Curly maple, if I´m not mistaken.

HARRY: Indeed.

You know a thing about vintage weaponry.

I´ve done some reading.

It´s not every day that our family gets honored...

...by this community. I wanted to make the most of it.

This is an honor.

City council chose us to represent this entire town...

...on this year´s Fourth of July assembly, know why?

You told them you´d pay for the costumes?

Because we, the Abbotts, represent everything...

...people in this community wish they were.

We command respect from our neighbors. They look up to us.

You have a run in your stocking.

HARRY: Huh?

Don´t forget to take your scroll.

I don´t need the scroll, Rose...

...I´ve the thing memorized, of course.

My father was crier, they talked about it for weeks.

You think he used a scroll?

If the British knew they were losing you...

...they would´ve fought harder.

Let´s get going, people...

...we don´t wanna keep our public waiting.

Depending on how many people...

...you think I could borrow that rifle to shoot myself?

[SIGHS]

The accident happened on the Fourth of July.

Truck overturned and Colin and his passenger...

...were both thrown from the truck.

Passenger got by with minor injuries...

...doesn´t remember a thing.

Colin, as you can imagine, didn´t fare as well.

His ICP´s been well-managed, but nothing´s changed.

So tomorrow we get to climb Mount Everest.

Just about.

Paul Yates performed a double aneurysm last week.

Paul Yates? That lifetime minor leaguer?

You´re not there anymore, Andy, people had to step up.

Check this out. He was pressed for time--

Problems with cerebral profusion.

Close, Hairspray tickets.

The guy´s totally deranged.

He wants to be you.

Hell, I wouldn´t mind being you, minus the beard.

[BOTH LAUGH]

Being me is not all it´s cracked up to be these days.

Come on, can´t be all that bad.

-How are the kids doing? -Well, Delia´s adjusting well.

-She´s a trooper. -And Ephram?

Ephram would hate me in every one...

...of the 48 contiguous states...

...plus Hawaii and Alaska, so we might as well be here.

[BRIAN LAUGHS]

About tomorrow, boss. What´s the deal?

We´ll take a lateral peripetrosal skull base...

...to the brain stem. There´ll be parenchyma swelling.

Hopefully the surrounding vessels won´t be spasmodic.

I was wondering, though, why I´m here.

I´m flattered you wanted me, but the team was available.

I checked around, Lethem´s tops, so is Murdoch.

I thought it´d be good to have a familiar...

...and trusted face in the room.

And, uh, to be honest with you, I, uh....

I have a slight case of performance jitters.

You´ve been dormant, it´s normal.

Anyway...

...I´m gonna rely on you more than usual...

...if we have a shot--

If? A shot?

Boss, you´re talking like you´ve never done this.

Well, I haven´t, not this exact surgery.

Like there´s any order of difficulty...

...in the miracles you´ve performed?

Well, I´m a different person now.

-I may just be out of miracles. -No, you´re not.

And how do you know?

Before you took me under your wing, Andy...

...I never believed there were people...

..put on this Earth to fix God´s mistakes.

That´s the sort of gift that doesn´t go away.

Sleep easy, Dr. Brown.

You´re gonna be great.

[SIGHS]

♫ I´m alone but I know just why ♫

No, no, that´s not how we do it.

Sorry, I forgot.

-Towel, nurse. -Ha, ha.

Thank you.

I don´t think I´m gonna be a brain surgeon when I grow up.

-No? Why not? -Well, for one thing...

...you have to wake up early, even on Saturday.

Yeah, that can be a drawback.

I´m probably gonna be a tap dancer.

Thought you´re gonna be a fireman.

I´m gonna do that too. During the day.

Oh. Brush?

-Dad? -Huh?

Are you gonna have to work at the hospital all the time again?

-No, honey, just today. -Good.

I don´t use that one anymore.

Go wake Uncle Brian, okay?

Uncle Brian.

You have to go do brain surgery.

-Grr! -Aah!

I´ve still got time for a tickle-ectomy.

Ha, ha!

[DELIA SHRIEKS THEN LAUGHS]

Butter or cream cheese?

Ephram, you didn´t have to do all this.

I was up.

Well, cream cheese would be great.

Morning.

Oh, ha, ha. Man, you brought them.

There was this invention a couple years ago...

...it was called the CD player?

-You should check it out. -Hey, these are the mix tapes...

...your mom made for our surgeries.

She´d figure out songs to pick based on the kind...

...of surgery we were doing.

For instance, Glioma ´97 has an upbeat, Motown kind of a feel.

Whereas Triple Aneurysm ´99 is more of...

...an angry-lesbian-with-a-guitar mix.

And here is my personal favorite...

...Middle Fossa Skull Base Tumor 2000.

Which one you want for today?

I don´t know, why don´t we pick one on the way down.

Here. Add this to your collection.

-You made this? -No big deal.

I was fiddling around with iTunes.

I´m going back to bed.

Mix CDs.

-Whole new world, man. -Yes, it is.

He can´t hate you all that much.

[HARRY MUTTERING]

Ah. That was easy enough.

Oh.

Lord.

BRIGHT: I´m out.

Uh, wait, Bright, come here a sec.

I don´t really feel like talking to anybody.

No, no, no, I wanna tell you something.

It´s about Dr. Brown.

He´s the axis of evil. I know.

Yes, he is, but he´s also an unbelievable surgeon.

If he wasn´t so annoying...

...in every single aspect of his existence...

...I´d say we were lucky to have him.

-What´s your point? -Bright.

-Colin is in good hands. -I don´t wanna talk.

-I understand-- -You don´t understand.

Forget it, I´ll be back in a few hours.

Bright.

[PHONE RINGING]

-Hello. AMY: Hey.

Ephram, it´s Amy.

Hey, hey, are you alright? Are you at the hospital already?

Yeah. But nothing´s happening yet.

I guess they´re prepping him or something. Whatever that means.

Probably shaving his head.

Or, you know....

I don´t know what I´m talking about.

So, what are you up today, anything fun?

Uh, not really, you know, gonna finish some math homework...

...read a couple comics, eat lunch...

...I´m falling asleep just listening to myself.

Sounds kind of nice to me.

You doing okay?

Honestly, I don´t know.

But this is what I´ve been waiting for...

...so it´s a good thing, right?

Yeah...

...I guess.

Anyways, I should probably go.

Wait, wait, wait, I--

It´s okay, I should stay close to the O.R...

...in case there´s any news.

Just wanted to touch base with normal.

You definitely called the wrong person for that.

-I´ll talk to you later, Ephram. -Amy, Amy--

Amy Abbott, please report to the stage.

-Dad, your mic´s not working. HARRY: Lord.

Help me, your mother´s out there kissing babies...

...like it´s Election Day, your brother´s missing in action.

I cannot locate the orchestra´s conductor.

We need to establish a signal...

...so that they know when to start playing...

...the timing is crucial.

Dad, it´s not an orchestra. It´s the school band...

...and your conductor is Mr. Mendick...

...who´s inhaling a corn dog over there.

Alright. Thank you, thank you. Uh, go find your brother.

Are we on? Hello.

[BOTH CHUCKLING]

-What are you guys doing? -Hey, Grover.

My dad´s waiting for us, we have to go.

You´re gonna be busted for that.

-Why, who´s gonna tell? -He´s gonna smell it.

Oh, your brother´s had, like, 7000 breath mints.

It was my idea, I thought it would be good...

...to give him some liquid courage.

Why? He´s not making the speech.

I´m wearing tights, isn´t that enough?

Let´s go before I tell Dad.

Don´t you even care that we´re fighting?

I didn´t know we were fighting.

How could you not--? You know what?

-Fine, forget it. -No, wait.

I´m sorry.

What for? You didn´t know we´re fighting.

I am sorry for whatever I did that pissed you off.

It´s because of earlier.

When you said what you said at Buck´s Rock...

...and I didn´t say what I should´ve said back.

You didn´t have to say anything back, I´m just...

...hurt that you didn´t.

-Don´t take it the wrong way. -How am I supposed to take it?

It´s the first time I´ve ever--

It´s the first time I´ve ever said that...

...to someone I wasn´t related to.

It just took me by surprise, that´s all.

Me too.

You are the longest relationship I have ever had, Amy.

You´re my girl.

You wanna go watch the fireworks together later?

I guess. I gotta go.

Aren´t you gonna kiss me goodbye?

I´m late.

[KNOCKING ON DOOR]

Hey, I, uh, made some snacks for the munchkins.

I thought I´d bring you some too.

Thank you.

Um....

I hope Delia isn´t too much trouble.

What, are you kidding? Sam´s in his glory.

She made a pillow fort.

They´re defending the living room against mutant raptors.

[CHUCKLES]

-Um, any word from your dad yet? -Uh, not yet...

...but these things usually take, like, 10 hours.

Oh. I guess you must be pretty used to this, though, huh?

Kind of, although I don´t usually know the person, so...

...uh, it´s a little different.

-You know Colin? -Amy.

Amy Abbott. Yeah, friend of mine from school.

She´s a sweet girl, she baby-sits for Sam sometimes.

So, what´s he like? Colin.

Oh.

He´s a charmer.

He´s the kind who forgets to mow your lawn two weeks...

...then when he comes, you end up paying him for three.

I think he was all-state football...

...and he´s pretty smart too.

So he´s basically like God.

No, you´d like him. He´d like you too.

Oh, thanks.

Um, how is Amy holding up?

I don´t know. I mean...

...she sounded a little weird on the phone earlier, but....

She probably could use a friend right now.

Well, I don´t know if I´m the best person for that.

Why is that?

Let´s just say there´s some issues.

Like?

Like I think she´s amazing and beautiful...

...and completely outta my league. She agrees.

If she wanted me at the hospital, she could have asked.

Could she have?

If going to the hospital is something...

...that you think you can handle, then go.

Chances are she probably really wants you there...

...but she just doesn´t feel like she has the right to ask.

If you don´t wanna go, that´s okay too.

You don´t have to be the best friend...

...that helps her get through this.

You just have to decide what kind of friend you wanna be.

I forgot how good women are at this stuff.

[CHUCKLES]

HARRY: As free and independent states...

...they have full power to levy war...

...conclude peace, contract alliances...

...establish commerce and to do all other acts and things...

...which independent states may of right do.

And for the support of this declaration....

[BAND PLAYING MARCHING MUSIC]

No, Mr. Mendick.

Mr. Mendick, no, that was not the signal.

-We haven´t finished. -Dad. Dad, its okay.

No one was listening anyways.

Hey, Johnny Tremaine, you wanna see something...

...that´ll knock your pantaloons off?

Sweet, is this your dad´s new truck?

He doesn´t know jack.

If this was mine, I would spike the tires...

...get a Marlin Crawler short-change shifter at minimum.

[VEHICLE APPROACHES]

Nice truck, Hart. Too bad it´s your daddy´s.

Whatever, McNally. Like I can´t drive this whenever I want.

Oh, I´m sure you can.

Your brother there is still the kid...

...who threw up on the DMV guy during his driving test.

[BRIGHT LAUGHS]

We´re going to Miller´s Field for some off-roading. You´ll in?

Hell, yeah, we´ll see you in 20.

-Dude, what about your dad? -We´ll be back before fireworks.

He´ll never even know the difference.

-On one condition. -What?

-Take me home to change first? -Ha-ha-ha!

[ENGINE STARTS]

[EKG BEEPING]

[JAZZ BALLAD PLAYING ON STEREO]

♫ I´ve got you ♫

ANDY: That´s my boy.

♫ I´ve got you ♫

♫ Deep in the heart of me ♫

We´ve created a bone flap and we´ve retracted the dura...

Bring the scope in, please.

Now...

...according to the films...

...the chip should be right in the center of the field.

I don´t believe it.

-What´s up? ANDY: There´s a second chip.

Are you sure?

ANDY: It´s on the other side of the posterior cerebral artery.

So small it didn´t show up on the scans.

There it is, I´m seeing it now.

ANDY: We´re gonna need another unit of blood in here, okay?

And, uh, you might wanna alert the O.R. head nurse...

...tell her to reschedule any electives, it´ll be a while.

BRIAN: Like one chip wasn´t enough for this kid.

[COLIN & BRIGHT LAUGHING]

COLIN: Whoo-hoo! Come on.

[BOTH LAUGHING]

BRIGHT: Yeah! Whoo-hoo!

Yeah.

COLIN: Yeah!

COLIN: Whoo! Yeah.

MOLE: We gotta get back.

Yeah, we don´t wanna miss the fireworks.

-You ready? -You sure it´s okay?

You can not miss this, Bright. This is unbelievable.

I´m still kind of messed up from before, man.

What if I scratch the truck up?

What are you gonna hit, a dust ball?

Man, if you scratch the truck, I´ll take the heat. Let´s go.

Let´s do it.

[ENGINE STARTS]

COLIN: Yeah, boy!

[BOTH LAUGHING]

[COINS CLINKING]

[AMY SIGHS]

You´re holding up the line.

Ephram...

...what are you doing here?

I wanted a Twix.

You came a long way.

Well, there´s two in a pack.

Yeah, I really only wanted one...

...needed somebody to share it with.

[BUTTONS BEEP]

[CHOCOLATE BAR THUDS]

Travel Boggle.

Travel Checkers.

Travel Scrabble.

And...

-...Clue. -There´s no travel-sized Clue?

Professor Plum wouldn´t look as cool all travel-sized...

...and squashed up.

So take your pick.

-Scrabble. -Excellent choice.

And in case I have to challenge you?

Ha, ha.

Never say I didn´t come prepared.

You must have lived at the hospitals back in New York.

Actually, this is the first time I´ve been...

...since my dad was working.

Letters?

You´re a good friend, Ephram.

So are you.

[GUITAR ROCK MUSIC PLAYING ON STEREO]

What are we listening to?

ANDY: It´s a CD.

My son made it for me.

Oh. It´s really good.

[EKG BEEPING ERRATICALLY]

BRIAN: We´ve got a bleeder.

-Pressure´s dropping. ANDY: It´s the petrosal sinus.

We packed that off two hours ago.

That baby is unpacking.

-Everybody focus. -Let´s get some suction here.

CASTLE: Pressure´s labile, it´s a little thready right now.

-I´ll start Levophed. -See it?

No, field´s still flooded. Cottonoid and some gel foam.

Hold on, Colin, hold on.

COLIN: Go for it, go for it. -Pressure´s 70/40.

ANDY: I need a big sucker, give me a 12.

BRIAN: Empty the suction canister.

ANDY: Let´s go, come on, Colin, stay with us.

Stay with us.

We´ve got diffuse brain swelling.

ANDY: Hang some blood. -Bring some more fluids here.

CASTLE: Pressure´s 90/60 now.

There you go, man, got it. Let´s go, let´s go!

Good, good, good, let´s get his fluid status up.

-Can you see the chip? -No, I´m zooming out.

Zooming in.

[BOTH LAUGHING]

COLIN: Bright!

[TRUCK CRASHES]

Bright, what is it?

I remember everything. About last Fourth of July.

I remember everything that happened that day.

Well, that´s natural, it´s been a while.

The immediate effects of the trauma--

I always have.

Go on.

That afternoon, he stole some stuff...

...from his dad´s liquor cabinet. Colin.

We were drinking.

The ceremony´s over and these guys are gonna go off-roading.

The truck was there, I knew we shouldn´t have taken it.

We get to Miller´s Field, he says I can drive--

No, wait, slow down, you´re not making any sense.

It was me, Dad.

I was driving the truck when the accident happened, not Colin.

Sergeant Danforth said, it was--

He assumed by where Colin´s body landed, that he was driving...

...and I let him think it.

And you were drinking too.

Yeah.

I was.

You see, it´s my fault.

Now if Colin dies, it´s gonna be like I killed him.

Like I killed my best friend.

I wanted to tell you when it happened, I should´ve told you.

And I am sorry, Dad. I´m so sorry.

Amy´s gonna hate me forever.

You were driving.

Yeah.

And you waited until today to tell us.

-Jim. -No, I just wanna understand.

[SIGHS]

Four months, after all is said and done...

...I find out that Colin wasn´t driving.

I don´t get it, what does that mean?

It means he wasn´t driving, that´s all.

He was still in the truck, he still got hurt.

-It doesn´t change anything. -No, you´re wrong.

It has to. Something has to change.

Jim, you have every reason to be upset.

Bright just wants to make things right. We both do.

Harold...

...how can things be made right when Colin is like he is?

I don´t know.

I don´t know. The truth is, this is just a first step.

That shouldn´t be my son in there.

Bright, sit down.

I know I did a horrible thing.

I´m so sorry.

Bright, to my knowledge, you´re the first person...

...to take any responsibility for what happened that day.

I should have said something sooner.

SHARON: Yeah.

I could say the same thing about myself.

But I haven´t able to bring myself to say those words.

-You weren´t there-- -How could I not know...

...my son was drinking or that he took the truck keys?

When I look back at that day, I think....

I think that I knew.

I miss him.

Me too.

Will you wait here with us?

Yeah.

It´s official.

I have run out of things to say.

I´m really not this boring, it´s just rare...

...that I spend so long with one person, you know...

...I´m not usually scraping the bottom of the barrel.

I get in, I get out, nobody gets hurt.

It´s not you, this day´s starting to feel longer...

...than the four months Colin´s been in a coma.

God...

...four months.

What are you thinking about?

I´m thinking about the moment when Colin finally wakes up.

I´ve thought about it a billion times.

Yeah?

And I know what I´m gonna say to him.

It´s not what you think.

I am gonna tell him how sorry I am.

Sorry?

Ephram, there´s a whole part of this...

...thing I´ve never told anybody about.

What?

We had a fight that day.

Before he took the truck. A big fight.

I told him I loved him.

You guys have a weird way of fighting.

He didn´t say it back.

Maybe...

...he was just having a hard time with the words.

You know, sometimes people really wanna say something...

...but they just can´t.

Maybe.

Maybe he never really loved me.

You know what the worst part is, worse than the waiting...

...and the operation and the tubes and the machines?

Sometimes I think he wasn´t just going for a joyride that day.

I think he was running away from me.

Amy...

...this is gonna sound really lame...

...but it´s the truth.

I know how you feel.

For a long time after my mom had her accident...

...I was sure it was my fault.

But blaming yourself, it´s just a way...

...to try and make sense of something...

...that will never make sense...

...when the truth is, it was what it was, an accident.

It´s kind of amazing, isn´t it?

Out of all the people I´ve known my whole life...

...you´re the only one who showed up today.

Colin came through very well.

[SIGHS]

We got the chip.

Actually, two chips. We found a second one during surgery.

We had bleeding we didn´t expect, which slowed us down...

...I can´t promise you that it didn´t do any damage.

We won´t know where we stand for a while.

In fact, for a week or two it may seem...

...as though nothing has changed at all.

I want you to know that we´ve done everything possible...

...to help your son.

Can we see him now?

He´s on his way to ICU...

...the O.R. nurse´ll show you.

Okay.

[DOOR OPENS]

Thank you.

I don´t know what you were talking about last night.

That was awesome. Awesome.

You took a damn bone chip out of a damn brain stem.

-You made history. -Easy, Brian, easy. Down.

You´re right about one thing, you´re a different person.

You´re better than you were before.

It was the knishes.

The fact for the first time in my life...

I had a personal stake in the outcome.

Whatever it was, put it in a carry-on bag...

-...and come back to New York. -Sorry, no can do.

Hey, it doesn´t have to be today.

When you finish this sabbatical, come back home.

We still need the guy who can fix God´s mistakes.

This is my home now, Brian.

And as for the big guy´s mistakes...

...these days I´m working on one of his bigger ones.

And it ain´t the fact that you´ll never be as pretty as me.

How is he?

He´s out of surgery now.

If you wanna see him, Brian here will show you the way.

Okay.

Wait, Dr. Brown?

Thank you, Dr. Brown.

Considering a career in neurosurgery?

I am now.

-Delia´s with Nina. -I figured.

[EPHRAM SIGHS]

So how´d it go?

Okay.

I don´t know if we did any good...

...from here on in it´s wait and see.

I meant, how´d it go for you?

Truthfully?

I was scared.

-Scared? -Mm-hm.

You called it, remember?

Well, what were you scared of?

That I would fail Colin...

...Amy...

...the Harts...

...you.

You were scared you would fail me.

Yeah.

I was.

But the music helped.

Bobby Short, inspired choice, very New York.

-Glad you liked it. -Hmm.

Travel games, huh?

I always wondered what people did to kill time...

...while we worked.

Up for a quick game of Travel Scrabble?

There is no way I´m playing you in Scrabble.

You´ve been published in the Scientific American.

But I will kick your butt in Clue.

Oh, I think not, Professor Plum.

Clue doesn´t come travel-sized?

One of the world´s greater atrocities.

IRV: When things are working right in the universe...

...a loss of innocence is usually followed...

...in time, by an increase in humanity.

Time is funny like that.

For everything it robs us of, it grants us something.

Sometimes it´s a new friend...

...sometimes it´s a better understanding of ourselves.

Sometimes, it´s just...

...a perfect day.

We should be heading back soon, it´s getting late.

He´s right, Colin, my dad´s gonna lose it...

...if we´re late for dinner again.

Hang on a second, guys...

...let´s just lie here a little longer.

We don´t have all day.

Sure we do.