1 00:00:00,984 --> 00:00:04,696 Theorizing that one could time-travel within his own lifetime, 2 00:00:04,822 --> 00:00:07,866 Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap Accelerator 3 00:00:08,158 --> 00:00:09,910 and vanished. 4 00:00:14,581 --> 00:00:17,501 He woke to find himself trapped in the past, 5 00:00:17,709 --> 00:00:20,712 facing mirror images that were not his own, 6 00:00:20,838 --> 00:00:23,006 and driven by an unknown force 7 00:00:23,048 --> 00:00:25,551 to change history for the better. 8 00:00:26,009 --> 00:00:28,429 His only guide on this journey is Al, 9 00:00:28,512 --> 00:00:30,597 an observer from his own time, 10 00:00:30,681 --> 00:00:32,808 who appears in the form of a hologram 11 00:00:32,891 --> 00:00:35,352 that only Sam can see and hear. 12 00:00:35,436 --> 00:00:39,690 And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, 13 00:00:39,940 --> 00:00:42,734 striving to put right what once went wrong, 14 00:00:42,818 --> 00:00:45,612 and hoping each time that his next leap 15 00:00:46,321 --> 00:00:48,323 will be the leap home. 16 00:00:49,408 --> 00:00:50,534 Billy, come on. 17 00:00:50,617 --> 00:00:52,828 Every time you do this you act like it's the first time. 18 00:00:52,953 --> 00:00:54,305 We're reaching the door! Get in! 19 00:00:54,377 --> 00:00:55,537 Oh, Lord! 20 00:00:55,612 --> 00:00:57,603 Hang on, Billy, it's gonna be all right. 21 00:00:57,681 --> 00:01:00,013 Get me all the vital signs and a blood sample. 22 00:01:00,083 --> 00:01:01,107 Right away, Doctor. 23 00:01:01,184 --> 00:01:02,549 Effy called right after you left. 24 00:01:02,619 --> 00:01:03,984 Billy, now you hang on. 25 00:01:04,054 --> 00:01:05,112 Be careful! 26 00:01:05,188 --> 00:01:06,815 Oh, in the name of heaven, be careful! 27 00:01:06,890 --> 00:01:08,016 Close the door. 28 00:01:08,091 --> 00:01:09,149 Stay out there. 29 00:01:09,226 --> 00:01:11,251 You're gonna be all right. 30 00:01:11,328 --> 00:01:12,659 Get her clothes off. 31 00:01:12,729 --> 00:01:14,356 Get her pants. Let's do the prep. 32 00:01:14,431 --> 00:01:16,194 Huh? No. No, no. 33 00:01:16,266 --> 00:01:17,582 Calm down. 34 00:01:18,401 --> 00:01:19,390 Just calm down. 35 00:01:19,469 --> 00:01:20,436 No, I'm okay. 36 00:01:20,504 --> 00:01:22,836 Just take it easy. Now, now. There. 37 00:01:25,027 --> 00:01:26,361 What's wrong with her? 38 00:01:26,487 --> 00:01:28,322 What is she doing? 39 00:01:31,617 --> 00:01:33,035 Oh, boy. 40 00:02:47,359 --> 00:02:49,528 No. No. 41 00:02:49,736 --> 00:02:51,780 Now, just relax, honey. 42 00:02:52,406 --> 00:02:55,617 Now, hang in there, little lady, it was just a contraction. 43 00:02:55,784 --> 00:02:57,077 This can't be happening. 44 00:02:57,160 --> 00:02:58,620 H-help her into the saddle. 45 00:02:58,745 --> 00:03:00,664 Now, we got ourselves a baby to pull out. 46 00:03:00,789 --> 00:03:02,040 Come on, now. Slide right in. 47 00:03:02,124 --> 00:03:04,334 No! No! Wait... wait... wait... wait! You don't understand! 48 00:03:04,459 --> 00:03:06,378 Now, hold on. Be careful, Billy Jean! 49 00:03:07,796 --> 00:03:10,549 Hey, now, come on, honey. 50 00:03:10,799 --> 00:03:13,010 This little tyke's comin' whether you cooperate or not. 51 00:03:13,093 --> 00:03:14,636 No! No, it's not. 52 00:03:14,761 --> 00:03:17,806 I feel better. Really, I'm fine. I-I-I'm fine. 53 00:03:17,931 --> 00:03:19,766 Uh, suppose I take a look and see? 54 00:03:19,891 --> 00:03:22,644 No! I mean, it's not necessary. 55 00:03:22,769 --> 00:03:26,940 I mean, there-there's no way that this baby is gonna be coming right now. 56 00:03:27,065 --> 00:03:28,442 Trust me on that. 57 00:03:30,819 --> 00:03:32,237 All right. 58 00:03:32,529 --> 00:03:34,031 All right. 59 00:03:35,282 --> 00:03:36,700 Come on. 60 00:03:37,826 --> 00:03:41,455 That's it. Now, nobody's gonna hurt you. 61 00:03:42,039 --> 00:03:44,916 Now, come over here. Just... just sit down here. 62 00:03:45,834 --> 00:03:47,336 That's right. 63 00:03:48,629 --> 00:03:52,883 Now, suppose you tell me just how far apart those contractions are. 64 00:03:53,967 --> 00:03:55,510 Contractions? 65 00:03:56,011 --> 00:03:58,639 Oh, no. Uh, I mean, yes, but I... 66 00:03:59,473 --> 00:04:00,599 They've stopped. 67 00:04:00,682 --> 00:04:02,643 - Well, that's good. - Umm-hmm. 68 00:04:02,768 --> 00:04:04,811 - That's very good. - Umm-hmm. 69 00:04:04,895 --> 00:04:06,355 - How about your water? - Huh? 70 00:04:06,417 --> 00:04:07,876 Your water break? 71 00:04:10,609 --> 00:04:12,152 I don't think so. 72 00:04:13,195 --> 00:04:16,323 I reckon you'd have noticed if you'd sprung a leak. 73 00:04:17,783 --> 00:04:18,992 Yeah. 74 00:04:19,368 --> 00:04:21,078 You know, little lady, 75 00:04:22,621 --> 00:04:26,083 havin' a baby is about as simple as it gets. 76 00:04:26,958 --> 00:04:30,087 Women have been giving birth since the beginnin' of time. 77 00:04:30,379 --> 00:04:33,632 And even if you may not know what to do about it, 78 00:04:33,840 --> 00:04:35,676 your body does. 79 00:04:36,551 --> 00:04:38,136 I don't think so. 80 00:04:39,971 --> 00:04:41,723 You'd be surprised. 81 00:04:43,141 --> 00:04:44,810 So would you. 82 00:05:07,916 --> 00:05:10,001 From the dates on the calendar at the hospital, 83 00:05:10,168 --> 00:05:12,379 I knew it was 1955. 84 00:05:12,546 --> 00:05:15,006 November 14, 1955. 85 00:05:15,382 --> 00:05:18,301 I also knew I was in Claremore, Oklahoma. 86 00:05:18,927 --> 00:05:22,472 Or, correction, leaving Claremore, Oklahoma, 87 00:05:22,723 --> 00:05:25,308 heading for God-knows-where, to do... 88 00:05:26,143 --> 00:05:30,355 Okay, I won't deal with that just now. 89 00:05:30,897 --> 00:05:32,315 I'll deal with who. 90 00:05:32,441 --> 00:05:34,443 From the paperwork Dotty filled out at the hospital 91 00:05:34,568 --> 00:05:37,279 I knew my name was Billy Jean Crockett, and I was 16 years old, 92 00:05:37,362 --> 00:05:40,991 and that Dotty, Dorothy Louise Billings, was not my mother. 93 00:05:41,116 --> 00:05:43,702 She had signed "friend," and from everything I could tell, 94 00:05:43,827 --> 00:05:46,705 Billy Jean could use every friend she could get. 95 00:05:55,839 --> 00:06:00,177 Oh, Lord. I hope Effy pulled them perm rods out of Leola's hair. 96 00:06:00,302 --> 00:06:01,970 Otherwise, she's gonna look like 97 00:06:02,095 --> 00:06:05,223 the star poodle at the dog-and-pony show. 98 00:06:10,187 --> 00:06:12,773 Effy! Effy! 99 00:06:12,898 --> 00:06:14,858 Did you take Leola down? 100 00:06:15,317 --> 00:06:16,610 I didn't do nothing to her. 101 00:06:16,735 --> 00:06:18,403 It's about time you got back. 102 00:06:18,487 --> 00:06:20,530 I'm here. I'm here. 103 00:06:20,655 --> 00:06:21,865 So, let's see what... 104 00:06:21,990 --> 00:06:24,743 Oh, my hair! My... my hair! Oh! 105 00:06:24,868 --> 00:06:28,747 This is all your fault, you little two-bit hussy! 106 00:06:28,872 --> 00:06:30,457 Leola! 107 00:06:30,582 --> 00:06:31,958 Oh! 108 00:06:32,417 --> 00:06:34,753 You should have never taken that trash in! 109 00:06:34,878 --> 00:06:36,338 - Oh, stuff it! - You stuff it! 110 00:06:36,463 --> 00:06:39,925 And I told you we should never do the color and the perm at the same time. 111 00:06:40,008 --> 00:06:41,593 - Well, we did it. - You all right, honey? 112 00:06:41,718 --> 00:06:43,053 - Now look at me! - Yeah. Yeah, I'm fine. 113 00:06:43,094 --> 00:06:45,222 - Just look at my hair! - I'm sorry. 114 00:06:45,347 --> 00:06:47,599 - Oh, I'll fix it. - You can't fix it! 115 00:06:47,724 --> 00:06:49,684 It's purple, for heaven's sake! 116 00:06:49,810 --> 00:06:51,269 Looks kinda punk. 117 00:06:55,440 --> 00:06:57,359 It's gonna be very big in the '80s. 118 00:06:57,484 --> 00:07:00,737 Well, I don't know where Aidee's is. 119 00:07:00,862 --> 00:07:04,866 But here in Oklahoma we don't like lookin' like electrified cotton candy. 120 00:07:04,950 --> 00:07:07,244 Maybe you can borrow Miss Parker's wig till it grows out. 121 00:07:07,369 --> 00:07:10,539 I do not want that cootie nest, I want my hair! 122 00:07:10,705 --> 00:07:12,457 And I will tell you another thing, 123 00:07:12,582 --> 00:07:16,211 I will never step another foot into this two-bit snake pit of a beauty shop! 124 00:07:16,294 --> 00:07:17,879 Oh, Leola, you don't mean that. 125 00:07:18,004 --> 00:07:20,632 Now, just calm down. We've been friends for too many years. 126 00:07:20,757 --> 00:07:24,261 Well, we ain't friends no more, thanks to that harlot! 127 00:07:24,386 --> 00:07:26,179 Oh, that's enough! 128 00:07:26,304 --> 00:07:28,098 Her own people tossed her out. 129 00:07:28,223 --> 00:07:29,975 I tell you, she ain't your worry, Dotty. 130 00:07:30,100 --> 00:07:31,893 All she's gonna do is just ruin 131 00:07:31,977 --> 00:07:35,397 everything you have spent your entire life workin' for. Oh! 132 00:07:35,438 --> 00:07:36,606 Oh! 133 00:07:36,731 --> 00:07:39,568 Tell her, Keeter, tell her to send that hussy home! 134 00:07:39,651 --> 00:07:41,194 What the hell happened to your head? 135 00:07:41,319 --> 00:07:43,113 Oh! I cannot believe 136 00:07:43,238 --> 00:07:46,366 I'm gonna go through the rest of my life with this hair! 137 00:07:46,491 --> 00:07:48,034 Never did like that old biddy, no way. 138 00:07:48,159 --> 00:07:49,911 Will someone tell me what happened to Leola's hair? 139 00:07:50,036 --> 00:07:51,663 Sorry. I'm... 140 00:07:51,788 --> 00:07:53,623 Oh, it ain't your fault, darlin'. 141 00:07:53,748 --> 00:07:55,834 Did Billy Jean do that to her? 142 00:07:56,626 --> 00:07:59,796 Did you do that to her hair? Huh? 143 00:07:59,921 --> 00:08:04,259 Uh, well, uh, see, Dotty had to take me to the hospital and uh... 144 00:08:04,801 --> 00:08:07,053 Dotty? Dotty! 145 00:08:07,178 --> 00:08:08,638 Well, what was I supposed to do? 146 00:08:08,763 --> 00:08:12,058 Just let her have that baby right here in the middle of the beauty parlor? 147 00:08:12,434 --> 00:08:14,978 Well, now, she didn't drop it. Did she? 148 00:08:15,103 --> 00:08:18,273 That's 'cause she ain't a cow, and it was a false alarm. 149 00:08:18,398 --> 00:08:20,567 And if you had taken Leola down... 150 00:08:20,650 --> 00:08:24,571 That witch wouldn't let me lay one brown finger on her if her life depended on it. 151 00:08:24,696 --> 00:08:26,114 That's the God's truth. 152 00:08:26,239 --> 00:08:30,160 Effy offered to take Leola's hair down, and Leola flat refused. 153 00:08:30,285 --> 00:08:31,494 Said she's waiting for you. 154 00:08:31,620 --> 00:08:33,079 That's right. I heard every word of it. 155 00:08:33,204 --> 00:08:34,539 There must be something I can do. 156 00:08:34,664 --> 00:08:36,499 I think you've already done it. 157 00:08:37,500 --> 00:08:39,252 Don't start, Keeter. 158 00:08:39,336 --> 00:08:42,797 Huh? Start what, Dotty? Start what? 159 00:08:42,923 --> 00:08:44,925 One of your best customers just walked out the door 160 00:08:45,050 --> 00:08:46,593 looking like she could tune in Mars, 161 00:08:46,718 --> 00:08:48,094 you're telling me not to start. 162 00:08:48,178 --> 00:08:49,596 I can handle Leola. 163 00:08:49,721 --> 00:08:51,056 Maybe I should talk to her. 164 00:08:51,181 --> 00:08:54,142 Huh. You wouldn't get a word in edgewise. 165 00:08:54,351 --> 00:08:56,603 Besides, she'll be back. 166 00:08:56,728 --> 00:09:01,232 Hell, we've been through more messes than a fly on a manure pile. 167 00:09:03,193 --> 00:09:06,529 But you, young lady, you had better get yourself right into that parlor 168 00:09:06,613 --> 00:09:09,240 and get those feet up, now. They're startin' to swell. 169 00:09:09,532 --> 00:09:11,618 Yeah, why don't you do that, Sam, 170 00:09:11,743 --> 00:09:14,287 and then we can have a little talk? 171 00:09:14,485 --> 00:09:15,501 Okay. 172 00:09:15,580 --> 00:09:18,959 Hey, if I was you, I'd drop that kid. 173 00:09:19,334 --> 00:09:22,212 And I'd get rid of it, before you cause any more trouble. 174 00:09:28,259 --> 00:09:31,429 Billy Jean was in full labor when you leaped in, Sam. 175 00:09:31,554 --> 00:09:34,599 It took every doctor on the staff to stop her. 176 00:09:34,724 --> 00:09:36,518 Not to mention the shock she went into 177 00:09:36,643 --> 00:09:39,938 when she caught a glimpse of your reflection in those O.R. lamps. 178 00:09:40,063 --> 00:09:42,857 Al, what if she has her baby in the future? 179 00:09:42,983 --> 00:09:44,901 Well, Ziggy's very worried about that. 180 00:09:44,985 --> 00:09:48,571 He says there's an 86 percent chance that when you leap out, 181 00:09:48,697 --> 00:09:50,782 and Billy Jean leaps back, 182 00:09:50,865 --> 00:09:53,576 the baby could stay in the future. 183 00:09:54,703 --> 00:09:56,413 She loses her baby? 184 00:09:56,538 --> 00:09:58,707 Uh, well, she loses it anyway. 185 00:09:59,416 --> 00:10:02,669 In the original history, Billy Jean put her baby up for adoption. 186 00:10:02,794 --> 00:10:06,297 Then she regretted it and she spent the rest of her life trying to find her. 187 00:10:06,423 --> 00:10:08,049 So I'm here to change that. 188 00:10:08,383 --> 00:10:09,884 Apparently, yes. 189 00:10:10,510 --> 00:10:12,887 How long until she has her baby? 190 00:10:13,054 --> 00:10:16,016 Uh, uh, according to Ziggy, about 36 hours. 191 00:10:17,350 --> 00:10:18,768 Un-unless... 192 00:10:18,893 --> 00:10:20,270 Unless? 193 00:10:22,230 --> 00:10:25,108 Uh, unless you have it first. 194 00:10:26,735 --> 00:10:28,570 What are you talking about? 195 00:10:31,322 --> 00:10:32,699 I, c... 196 00:10:34,826 --> 00:10:36,995 Uh, I can't have a baby. 197 00:10:37,078 --> 00:10:40,290 I know that. But Ziggy's not so sure. 198 00:10:40,373 --> 00:10:43,293 I'm sure. I've never been more sure of anything in my life. 199 00:10:43,418 --> 00:10:45,295 There's no way that I could possibly have a baby! 200 00:10:45,420 --> 00:10:47,589 Okay. Okay, okay, calm down! 201 00:10:47,672 --> 00:10:49,591 You're gonna find yourself going back into labor. 202 00:10:49,716 --> 00:10:50,925 I wasn't in labor! 203 00:10:51,051 --> 00:10:52,719 Well, Billy Jean was. 204 00:10:53,219 --> 00:10:56,473 And Ziggy says that your brainwaves 205 00:10:56,598 --> 00:10:58,391 are linked into her emotions 206 00:10:58,516 --> 00:11:01,061 and they're cross-channeling into the baby. 207 00:11:01,269 --> 00:11:02,771 The baby's not here. 208 00:11:02,896 --> 00:11:04,731 Well, never mind the baby's not here, 209 00:11:04,814 --> 00:11:08,651 the baby is... is connecting with your mood swings. 210 00:11:08,943 --> 00:11:10,820 Ziggy says you're bonding. 211 00:11:12,447 --> 00:11:13,448 Bonding? 212 00:11:13,573 --> 00:11:17,118 Yes, bonding. And that's a good thing, in case you deliver 213 00:11:17,243 --> 00:11:19,412 before Billy Jean leaps back. 214 00:11:19,537 --> 00:11:21,372 I- 'm a man. - Yeah. 215 00:11:21,498 --> 00:11:24,000 I can't have a baby. Men cannot have babies. 216 00:11:24,125 --> 00:11:25,877 No. I-I can't. 217 00:11:27,587 --> 00:11:29,089 You don't look so good, Sam. 218 00:11:29,214 --> 00:11:30,715 Oh, just feel a little nauseous. 219 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:35,261 Yeah, you look a little green a... around the nostrils, there. 220 00:11:47,816 --> 00:11:50,610 I told you not to upset yourself. 221 00:11:51,111 --> 00:11:53,363 I'm not upset, I'm just sick. 222 00:11:54,364 --> 00:11:55,824 I can hear that. 223 00:11:55,907 --> 00:11:57,408 Oh, you probably got the stomach flu. 224 00:11:57,534 --> 00:11:59,369 Everybody's got it. It's going around. 225 00:11:59,494 --> 00:12:01,287 And now for the weather. 226 00:12:01,454 --> 00:12:02,956 Looks like it's gonna rain out there 227 00:12:03,081 --> 00:12:04,249 so you better get yourself... 228 00:12:04,374 --> 00:12:06,084 I don't have the flu. 229 00:12:07,794 --> 00:12:11,089 Listen, are you sure that there's no way, 230 00:12:11,214 --> 00:12:13,341 no way that Ziggy could be right about this, right? 231 00:12:13,466 --> 00:12:15,635 Oh, there's no way Ziggy could be right about this. 232 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:18,388 There's no way, uh, physically 233 00:12:18,513 --> 00:12:21,516 that you could carry a baby in there. 234 00:12:21,570 --> 00:12:22,570 Right? 235 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:23,935 - Right. - Right. 236 00:12:24,060 --> 00:12:27,188 So... so then we're just saying that 237 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:30,463 Billy Jean is back in the waiting room... 238 00:12:30,526 --> 00:12:31,620 Yeah? 239 00:12:31,734 --> 00:12:33,278 ...and that I'm here in 1955, right? 240 00:12:33,403 --> 00:12:35,822 Uh, yeah, right, she's there, you're here. Yeah. 241 00:12:35,947 --> 00:12:38,241 And it's just the illusion 242 00:12:38,575 --> 00:12:42,078 of her physical aura that everybody's seeing. 243 00:12:42,203 --> 00:12:45,081 That's right, they see, uh, the illusion of her physical aura. 244 00:12:45,165 --> 00:12:46,583 - Not her body? - No, not her body. 245 00:12:46,708 --> 00:12:49,794 No, okay. So why do I feel so nauseous? 246 00:12:52,130 --> 00:12:55,592 Uh, oh, uh, could be psychosomatic. 247 00:12:55,717 --> 00:12:57,760 Yeah, a lot of fathers have that. 248 00:12:58,011 --> 00:12:59,721 Who is the father, Al? 249 00:12:59,804 --> 00:13:01,264 We don't know. 250 00:13:01,598 --> 00:13:04,559 Uh, and Dr. Beaks says that Billy Jean is too traumatized 251 00:13:04,642 --> 00:13:06,686 to push for an answer. 252 00:13:07,937 --> 00:13:09,439 You feeling a little better? 253 00:13:09,564 --> 00:13:11,941 Yeah. Yeah, I'm just a little bit tired, that's all. 254 00:13:12,066 --> 00:13:13,359 Tired? Well, that means you got the flu. 255 00:13:13,484 --> 00:13:14,777 See, that's just like I said. 256 00:13:14,861 --> 00:13:16,613 - You got the flu. - I don't have the flu. 257 00:13:16,696 --> 00:13:20,658 Yeah, well, you're not pregnant, either. Because when you're pregnant, 258 00:13:20,783 --> 00:13:22,660 the... the... the nausea and the pukies 259 00:13:22,785 --> 00:13:24,787 and the fatigue come in the first three months, 260 00:13:24,913 --> 00:13:26,915 and Billy Jean is... is at full-term. 261 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:30,210 Anyway, you can't be tired, because you gotta figure out some way for... 262 00:13:30,293 --> 00:13:32,670 for the girl to keep her baby. 263 00:13:32,837 --> 00:13:35,465 I'm just gonna rest here a little bit, Al. 264 00:13:35,590 --> 00:13:37,675 And then I'll get up, and I'll figure out 265 00:13:38,259 --> 00:13:40,261 how to patch up her and her family. 266 00:13:40,428 --> 00:13:42,347 That's a good idea, Sam. 267 00:13:42,472 --> 00:13:44,515 Yeah, you could ask her mother, uh... 268 00:13:44,641 --> 00:13:47,018 That's a bad idea, Sam. 269 00:13:47,185 --> 00:13:48,728 Her mother's dead. 270 00:13:49,020 --> 00:13:50,980 Died when she was 12. 271 00:13:51,231 --> 00:13:53,775 And her father even refuses to see her. 272 00:13:54,025 --> 00:13:55,193 Who? 273 00:13:55,777 --> 00:13:57,904 Her... Billy Jean's father. 274 00:13:58,279 --> 00:14:01,115 Bob Crockett is his name. He's, uh, 275 00:14:01,241 --> 00:14:03,493 a foreman at Kip Petroleum. 276 00:14:03,618 --> 00:14:07,247 Lives at 243 Prairie Lane Drive in Claremore. 277 00:14:07,330 --> 00:14:09,374 43 Fairy Lane Drive... 278 00:14:09,457 --> 00:14:13,503 No, not Fairy, Prairie, with a "P." P-P-P-P-Prairie Lane 279 00:14:13,962 --> 00:14:15,713 Drive, in... 280 00:14:19,801 --> 00:14:23,680 Something tells me we're in big trouble. 281 00:14:25,598 --> 00:14:27,058 Big. 282 00:14:31,229 --> 00:14:33,940 I'd spent a sleepless night drinking water 283 00:14:34,023 --> 00:14:36,734 and making 900 trips to the bathroom, 284 00:14:37,277 --> 00:14:40,697 the whole time wondering what to say to a man I'd never met, 285 00:14:40,822 --> 00:14:43,574 about his daughter and her unborn child. 286 00:14:43,783 --> 00:14:46,369 Yet as I lived another day in Billy Jean's shoes, 287 00:14:46,452 --> 00:14:48,538 I couldn't help but feel that somehow 288 00:14:48,663 --> 00:14:51,207 this baby truly belonged with Billy. 289 00:14:52,292 --> 00:14:54,836 Are you sure you wanna do this, honey? 290 00:14:55,003 --> 00:14:58,589 I mean, some things are just better worked out after the fact. 291 00:14:59,340 --> 00:15:02,885 I don't think I'd be here if I had a choice. 292 00:15:03,011 --> 00:15:05,054 Well, then, just wait till the baby comes. 293 00:15:05,179 --> 00:15:08,683 I'll bet you a $2 hog that little tyke will just melt his heart 294 00:15:08,808 --> 00:15:11,561 and everything'll turn out just right as pie. 295 00:15:11,686 --> 00:15:16,357 Let's just say that the history books are telling me that's not gonna happen. 296 00:15:16,649 --> 00:15:18,943 There's your dad. Bob! 297 00:15:27,327 --> 00:15:28,786 What are you doin' here, Billy? 298 00:15:28,870 --> 00:15:30,955 Oh, Bob, say hello to the child. 299 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:32,582 This is between me and my daughter, Dotty. 300 00:15:32,707 --> 00:15:35,918 Well, I'm just real glad to hear that there's something between you two. 301 00:15:36,044 --> 00:15:37,670 I didn't realize you two knew each other. 302 00:15:37,795 --> 00:15:39,255 Well, your... your daddy and I were... 303 00:15:39,327 --> 00:15:40,562 Went to high school together. 304 00:15:40,593 --> 00:15:42,675 Oh, we were a little more than classmates. 305 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:44,427 What do you want, Billy? 306 00:15:44,552 --> 00:15:46,346 I just wanted to talk. 307 00:15:49,932 --> 00:15:52,810 This ain't a freak show! Why don't y'all get back to work? 308 00:15:56,731 --> 00:15:58,441 We got nothin' to talk about. 309 00:15:58,649 --> 00:16:02,153 Talk to her, Bobby. Can't hurt nothin'. 310 00:16:07,784 --> 00:16:09,410 Better get outta sight. 311 00:16:09,464 --> 00:16:11,883 Folks around here got enough to gossip about already. 312 00:16:13,831 --> 00:16:15,750 Go on, I'll wait right here for you. 313 00:16:15,875 --> 00:16:18,461 Go on. Go ahead. 314 00:16:36,145 --> 00:16:38,022 Miss Thailer called to, uh, 315 00:16:38,314 --> 00:16:40,441 tell me you decided to give up the baby. 316 00:16:40,566 --> 00:16:41,651 Miss Thailer? 317 00:16:41,776 --> 00:16:45,613 - The woman from the adoption agency. - Yeah, right, Miss Thailer. 318 00:16:46,531 --> 00:16:50,618 Right, well, that's kinda what I wanted to talk to you about. 319 00:16:51,661 --> 00:16:53,329 You see, 320 00:16:54,622 --> 00:16:58,918 I've... I've decided to keep the baby, and I can't do that without your help. 321 00:16:59,669 --> 00:17:02,630 Well, you can get help from whoever the hell it was that knocked you up. 322 00:17:03,339 --> 00:17:04,757 No, I can't. 323 00:17:04,882 --> 00:17:06,884 You can't, or you won't? 324 00:17:07,718 --> 00:17:09,679 The only way you're gonna be able to keep that baby 325 00:17:09,762 --> 00:17:12,515 is if you get him to do the right thing by you and marry you. 326 00:17:13,266 --> 00:17:15,435 That is, if he's not married already. 327 00:17:16,727 --> 00:17:18,185 Well, I... I don't know. 328 00:17:18,271 --> 00:17:19,772 You don't know? 329 00:17:19,897 --> 00:17:21,732 I mean, I... I don't know 330 00:17:22,358 --> 00:17:26,279 if I should get married, if marriage is the right thing to do. 331 00:17:26,404 --> 00:17:29,532 Little girl, you're pregnant. 332 00:17:31,159 --> 00:17:33,911 Bein' pregnant isn't a reason to get married. 333 00:17:35,121 --> 00:17:37,081 It-it's just an option. 334 00:17:38,499 --> 00:17:41,669 And so is bringing this baby up in a home 335 00:17:43,087 --> 00:17:45,047 In a family with you. 336 00:17:46,591 --> 00:17:50,011 I'm not gonna spend the rest of my life payin' for your mistake. 337 00:17:50,344 --> 00:17:52,388 This mistake will be your grandchild. 338 00:17:52,472 --> 00:17:55,933 I don't have a grandchild and I don't want a grandchild! 339 00:17:57,727 --> 00:18:00,354 Now, if you want to come back home, we can work that out. 340 00:18:01,272 --> 00:18:03,691 But not until you have this baby 341 00:18:05,359 --> 00:18:07,028 And get rid of it. 342 00:18:45,725 --> 00:18:50,897 Talking to Billy Jean's dad left me feeling sad and angry and frustrated. 343 00:18:51,072 --> 00:18:53,574 But mostly it left me feeling lucky. 344 00:18:53,950 --> 00:18:57,370 Lucky to grow up in a family with parents who listened to me, 345 00:18:57,537 --> 00:18:59,872 guided me when I was lost or confused, 346 00:18:59,956 --> 00:19:02,375 and who always seemed to be there when I needed them. 347 00:19:03,251 --> 00:19:06,712 I wanted to give Billy Jean the chance to be that kind of a parent. 348 00:19:07,046 --> 00:19:10,174 There's a Cassy Thailer here to see you, Billy Jean. 349 00:19:11,175 --> 00:19:13,511 - Hi. - Hi. 350 00:19:13,970 --> 00:19:15,388 Do you mind? 351 00:19:16,443 --> 00:19:17,419 No. 352 00:19:17,479 --> 00:19:20,184 I just have some stuff to finish up in there. 353 00:19:20,268 --> 00:19:21,852 Are you gonna be all right, honey? 354 00:19:21,978 --> 00:19:23,312 Sure. 355 00:19:26,190 --> 00:19:30,486 Effy! Effy. You get in here this minute! 356 00:19:30,736 --> 00:19:33,447 I brought those papers for you to sign. 357 00:19:33,781 --> 00:19:35,199 Papers? 358 00:19:35,324 --> 00:19:37,243 The adoption papers. 359 00:19:37,952 --> 00:19:39,912 You're due this week, aren't you? 360 00:19:41,163 --> 00:19:43,541 Well, yeah. Yeah, I guess I am. 361 00:19:44,959 --> 00:19:49,171 Okay, now you just sign all five copies. 362 00:19:52,550 --> 00:19:55,344 - Can I read them first? - Well, of course you can. 363 00:19:55,428 --> 00:19:58,180 Uh, but they're just, they're just legal talk 364 00:19:58,347 --> 00:20:00,850 that says the agency has your approval 365 00:20:00,975 --> 00:20:03,144 to put your baby up for adoption. 366 00:20:07,023 --> 00:20:09,191 Mrs. Thailer, if, uh, 367 00:20:09,984 --> 00:20:13,237 if I sign these papers and... and then I change my mind 368 00:20:13,988 --> 00:20:16,115 can I ever get my baby back? 369 00:20:17,366 --> 00:20:18,868 Well, no. 370 00:20:19,243 --> 00:20:21,120 Can I ever see her again? 371 00:20:21,704 --> 00:20:23,164 No. 372 00:20:25,207 --> 00:20:29,211 So then I'll never know where my baby goes. 373 00:20:29,337 --> 00:20:31,213 Billy Jean, honey, 374 00:20:32,465 --> 00:20:35,968 where your baby goes is not important. 375 00:20:38,054 --> 00:20:40,181 It's very important. 376 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:44,143 What's important is that your baby 377 00:20:44,268 --> 00:20:49,607 will be with a good family, and it will have a wonderful life. 378 00:20:52,276 --> 00:20:55,488 I can't ever know that if I can't see her. 379 00:20:55,780 --> 00:20:57,239 Well, I can. 380 00:20:57,365 --> 00:20:59,950 It's not your baby, it's my baby. 381 00:21:00,076 --> 00:21:02,703 Billy Jean, no one in the world 382 00:21:02,787 --> 00:21:04,789 will think that you're a bad person 383 00:21:04,914 --> 00:21:07,792 because you wanted a better life for your child. 384 00:21:07,875 --> 00:21:11,045 Mrs. Thailer, I believe in adoption, I... I really do. 385 00:21:11,170 --> 00:21:12,254 Good. 386 00:21:12,380 --> 00:21:16,467 Then let me help your baby find the kind of a life you can't provide. 387 00:21:16,592 --> 00:21:19,762 Not... not because you don't want to, 388 00:21:20,554 --> 00:21:22,973 but because you need to take care of yourself. 389 00:21:23,099 --> 00:21:24,517 You don't understand. 390 00:21:24,642 --> 00:21:26,894 You need to finish growing up, honey, 391 00:21:27,269 --> 00:21:29,897 to... to find out what it is you want to do. 392 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:33,526 I know what I want to do. 393 00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:40,366 I... I wanna keep my baby. 394 00:21:41,492 --> 00:21:44,787 Billy Jean, honey, what has brought on this sudden change of heart? 395 00:21:46,247 --> 00:21:47,707 Uh... 396 00:21:51,252 --> 00:21:54,004 You know that expression, "God works in mysterious ways?" 397 00:21:54,171 --> 00:21:55,965 It's one of my favorites. 398 00:21:56,090 --> 00:21:57,466 Well, I think this is one of them. 399 00:21:57,591 --> 00:22:01,637 I think that my change of heart is God's way of tellin' me 400 00:22:01,721 --> 00:22:03,681 that he doesn't want me 401 00:22:06,809 --> 00:22:08,894 to... to make another mistake. 402 00:22:09,395 --> 00:22:10,771 Effy. 403 00:22:11,564 --> 00:22:13,524 You're not going to sign those papers, are you? 404 00:22:13,649 --> 00:22:15,025 No, ma'am. 405 00:22:15,109 --> 00:22:18,195 Dotty, how long do I have to stay under this? 406 00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:20,865 Oh, honey, I hope it works out for you. 407 00:22:22,366 --> 00:22:24,452 I truly... truly do. 408 00:22:24,785 --> 00:22:26,287 10 more minutes. 409 00:22:37,757 --> 00:22:41,635 Oh, honey, you just look like you've lost a war. 410 00:22:42,553 --> 00:22:44,263 Just a few major battles. 411 00:22:44,346 --> 00:22:46,265 Your daddy will come around, honey. 412 00:22:46,390 --> 00:22:48,517 He's still just hurtin' from losin' your mom. 413 00:22:48,601 --> 00:22:50,603 You and he were more than classmates, weren't you? 414 00:22:50,728 --> 00:22:52,521 Well, well, 415 00:22:53,063 --> 00:22:55,816 that's just all water under the bridge, you know. 416 00:22:55,941 --> 00:22:57,067 What happened? 417 00:22:57,193 --> 00:22:58,694 Huh? Well... 418 00:22:59,612 --> 00:23:02,406 Oh, now, come on, you just got much more important things 419 00:23:02,531 --> 00:23:05,493 to worry about than what your daddy and I... 420 00:23:06,619 --> 00:23:09,121 That was a hell of a kick! 421 00:23:11,540 --> 00:23:12,750 I... I felt that. 422 00:23:12,875 --> 00:23:14,585 Well, of course you did. 423 00:23:14,710 --> 00:23:17,838 That little baby of yours has a kick like a mule in heat. 424 00:23:17,922 --> 00:23:18,964 Oh, boy. 425 00:23:19,089 --> 00:23:20,674 - You know what? - Huh? 426 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:22,510 I think so, too. 427 00:23:25,888 --> 00:23:28,808 Sam, that is disgusting. 428 00:23:29,225 --> 00:23:30,893 How can you eat that? 429 00:23:31,018 --> 00:23:33,020 Actually, it's... it's pretty good. 430 00:23:33,604 --> 00:23:37,191 I know folks get hungry for funny stuff when they're having babies, but... 431 00:23:37,316 --> 00:23:39,235 Jell-O and onions? 432 00:23:39,318 --> 00:23:42,446 I mean, don't you kinda wonder what you're hatchin' down there? 433 00:23:42,571 --> 00:23:44,323 What, have you got cravings or something? 434 00:23:44,406 --> 00:23:45,616 You're craving? 435 00:23:45,783 --> 00:23:47,409 I just wanted Jell-O and onions. 436 00:23:47,535 --> 00:23:49,495 Okay, okay. 437 00:23:50,120 --> 00:23:53,165 Don't come callin' me in the middle of the night when you get stomach pains. 438 00:23:53,290 --> 00:23:56,418 Oh, uh, Miss Dotty said come into the shop when you're feelin' better. 439 00:23:57,002 --> 00:23:59,129 Mmm-hmm. Thank you. 440 00:24:01,966 --> 00:24:03,259 Al. 441 00:24:03,384 --> 00:24:04,552 What? 442 00:24:04,677 --> 00:24:06,470 I felt the baby kick. 443 00:24:06,679 --> 00:24:07,847 What? 444 00:24:07,972 --> 00:24:11,350 I felt Billy Jean's baby kick inside of me. Right there. 445 00:24:11,475 --> 00:24:12,852 Gas. 446 00:24:13,018 --> 00:24:14,103 What? 447 00:24:14,186 --> 00:24:17,690 You probably feel gas from eating this junk. 448 00:24:17,815 --> 00:24:20,067 No, no, no, no. Dotty felt it, too. 449 00:24:20,192 --> 00:24:21,318 Oh, that'd be a neat trick, 450 00:24:21,443 --> 00:24:25,739 since Billy Jean's baby is inside Billy Jean, 40 years in the future. 451 00:24:25,906 --> 00:24:29,368 All I know is, Dotty had her hand on my stomach 452 00:24:29,493 --> 00:24:31,787 and we both felt the baby kick. 453 00:24:31,912 --> 00:24:33,205 That's impossible. 454 00:24:33,330 --> 00:24:35,457 Well, maybe it isn't. I mean, maybe... maybe... 455 00:24:36,417 --> 00:24:40,212 maybe when I came in and Billy Jean leaped 456 00:24:41,213 --> 00:24:42,756 the baby stayed. 457 00:24:42,882 --> 00:24:44,300 - Yeah. - Huh? 458 00:24:44,425 --> 00:24:45,634 Read my lips. 459 00:24:45,718 --> 00:24:48,679 It's impossible, Sam. 460 00:24:48,929 --> 00:24:52,892 So just forget about being the first male mother 461 00:24:53,017 --> 00:24:55,311 and concentrate on finding a way 462 00:24:55,436 --> 00:24:57,897 for Billy Jean to get to keep her baby. 463 00:24:58,063 --> 00:25:00,482 Oh, what happened when you talked to the father? 464 00:25:00,774 --> 00:25:02,693 Oh, well, nothing good. 465 00:25:02,943 --> 00:25:06,155 It'd take a miracle to get him to accept Billy Jean and her baby. 466 00:25:06,530 --> 00:25:09,033 Well, you better work a miracle, because according to Ziggy 467 00:25:09,116 --> 00:25:11,452 that baby is due in less than five hours. 468 00:25:12,453 --> 00:25:13,662 God! 469 00:25:14,246 --> 00:25:15,831 What? What's wrong now? 470 00:25:16,165 --> 00:25:17,917 It's so hot in here. 471 00:25:22,755 --> 00:25:23,881 Hot flashes. 472 00:25:24,006 --> 00:25:25,466 - Huh? - I'm having hot flashes. 473 00:25:25,549 --> 00:25:27,968 You're not having hot flashes! 474 00:25:28,636 --> 00:25:30,387 Yeah, right, and I'm not having cravings, 475 00:25:30,512 --> 00:25:32,514 but I'm sitting here eating Jell-O and onions. 476 00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:36,060 Al, read my lips: 477 00:25:36,185 --> 00:25:37,895 I'm pregnant. 478 00:25:41,482 --> 00:25:45,110 You are not pregnant, Sam. 479 00:25:45,235 --> 00:25:47,655 But you are running out of time. 480 00:25:49,073 --> 00:25:50,741 Who's the father? 481 00:25:54,078 --> 00:25:56,747 I mean, did Billy Jean tell you who the father is? 482 00:25:59,333 --> 00:26:02,795 No. Dr. Beaks wouldn't let me get near Billy Jean. 483 00:26:04,713 --> 00:26:08,092 Oh, I gotta find a way to buy Billy Jean some time. 484 00:26:08,300 --> 00:26:10,010 I gotta find a way... 485 00:26:10,678 --> 00:26:13,514 - You gotta get real, Sam. - ...to get her life together. Huh? 486 00:26:13,597 --> 00:26:16,809 Billy Jean doesn't even have a high-school education, 487 00:26:16,892 --> 00:26:18,727 she hasn't got the slightest prospect 488 00:26:18,811 --> 00:26:20,437 of finding a job to support herself, 489 00:26:20,562 --> 00:26:24,024 and even if she found a job, who's gonna stay with the baby 490 00:26:24,149 --> 00:26:26,902 while she's doin' whatever job it is she finds? 491 00:26:29,029 --> 00:26:31,865 Dotty. Dotty. 492 00:26:32,241 --> 00:26:36,036 Dotty's been... She's been right under our noses all this time. 493 00:26:37,955 --> 00:26:39,748 Dot... What's so funny? 494 00:26:41,667 --> 00:26:43,669 Oh, Dotty! Hang on, Sam, no, no! 495 00:26:43,752 --> 00:26:46,714 Look, if Dotty had wanted Billy to stay with her 496 00:26:46,839 --> 00:26:48,590 it would've happened 40 years ago. 497 00:26:48,716 --> 00:26:50,134 You wouldn't even be here. 498 00:26:50,259 --> 00:26:53,929 Uh, well, maybe nobody thought of it back then. 499 00:26:54,013 --> 00:26:56,265 You know, you keep talking to yourself like that 500 00:26:56,348 --> 00:26:59,560 little men in white coats are gonna come and take you out the door. 501 00:27:00,060 --> 00:27:01,645 Thought of what? 502 00:27:01,812 --> 00:27:05,649 Uh, Sam, you wanna be very careful how you handle this. 503 00:27:05,774 --> 00:27:08,527 A way to help me keep this baby. 504 00:27:08,652 --> 00:27:10,112 That's subtle. 505 00:27:10,237 --> 00:27:13,866 Oh, honey, I thought you were givin' that baby up for adoption. 506 00:27:13,991 --> 00:27:16,326 Well, I was, but I-I-I'm not now, uh... 507 00:27:16,410 --> 00:27:19,455 I'm... I'm not sure that that's the best thing to do. 508 00:27:19,580 --> 00:27:21,874 For who? You, or that little baby? 509 00:27:21,917 --> 00:27:22,891 Both. 510 00:27:22,916 --> 00:27:25,561 Best thing would've been not to have gotten knocked up in the first place. 511 00:27:25,586 --> 00:27:27,796 Uh, this is bad timing, Sam. 512 00:27:27,921 --> 00:27:29,882 Drink your beer, Keeter. 513 00:27:30,007 --> 00:27:32,634 Billy Jean, you are a young girl 514 00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:34,928 with your whole life in front of you. 515 00:27:35,054 --> 00:27:37,473 Now, you don't want to have it ruined by a baby. 516 00:27:37,598 --> 00:27:39,933 But what if it's not ruined, though, see? I mean, 517 00:27:40,059 --> 00:27:42,811 what if I'm supposed to have this baby in my life? 518 00:27:42,936 --> 00:27:46,023 Well, that might be true if you had a husband and a home. 519 00:27:46,106 --> 00:27:47,274 But you don't. 520 00:27:47,357 --> 00:27:49,902 You don't have a soul that's gonna help you with that baby. 521 00:27:50,277 --> 00:27:52,780 Not now, Sam. Not now. 522 00:27:53,072 --> 00:27:56,116 Dotty will help me. Won't you, Dotty? 523 00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:57,701 That's it. 524 00:27:58,869 --> 00:28:00,078 I'm outta here. 525 00:28:00,120 --> 00:28:02,247 I'm going down and have myself another beer. 526 00:28:03,457 --> 00:28:06,043 I'll have supper in a jiffy, Keeter. 527 00:28:08,629 --> 00:28:10,380 Feed it to mama. 528 00:28:18,639 --> 00:28:20,015 Look what you did. 529 00:28:20,140 --> 00:28:21,433 Sorry, Dotty. You're just... 530 00:28:21,558 --> 00:28:22,976 You're the only one left who can help me. 531 00:28:23,102 --> 00:28:25,020 Well, I can't have a baby in here! 532 00:28:25,145 --> 00:28:27,022 It won't, it won't take up much room. 533 00:28:27,523 --> 00:28:30,359 Keeter would just be out of here quicker than I could spit. 534 00:28:30,442 --> 00:28:33,737 Uh, he's out of here, anyway, Sam. 535 00:28:33,862 --> 00:28:35,697 He never does marry her. 536 00:28:35,823 --> 00:28:38,909 I promised him that you'd be gone as soon as that baby comes. 537 00:28:38,992 --> 00:28:41,120 And I don't want you to go back on your word. 538 00:28:41,203 --> 00:28:43,664 But I also... I don't want to lose this baby, either. 539 00:28:43,747 --> 00:28:45,874 Well, you do not have a choice. 540 00:28:45,999 --> 00:28:47,960 Now, look you can work here part time if you want to, 541 00:28:48,085 --> 00:28:50,420 but you have got to give that baby away. 542 00:28:50,546 --> 00:28:53,549 Look, if I do that I'm going to lose her forever. 543 00:28:53,632 --> 00:28:56,593 And if you don't, I'll lose Keeter! 544 00:28:56,718 --> 00:28:58,470 Well, you might lose him anyway. 545 00:28:58,595 --> 00:29:00,556 Shut your mouth! 546 00:29:01,515 --> 00:29:03,016 Now, look here, Billy Jean. 547 00:29:03,142 --> 00:29:06,895 I have given you a home, a job, the food on your plate, 548 00:29:07,020 --> 00:29:12,442 and don't you go askin' me to give up my life for you, because I won't! 549 00:29:13,152 --> 00:29:15,237 I just won't! 550 00:29:27,583 --> 00:29:30,085 Well, she's right, Sam. 551 00:29:30,210 --> 00:29:33,338 You can't ask her to take on all of Billy's problems. 552 00:29:33,463 --> 00:29:35,465 Well, maybe they're opportunities. 553 00:29:35,716 --> 00:29:39,052 I mean, maybe this is a chance for her to love someone. 554 00:29:39,178 --> 00:29:41,013 I mean, if Keeter's gonna leave her anyway... 555 00:29:41,138 --> 00:29:42,556 But she doesn't know that yet. 556 00:29:42,681 --> 00:29:43,932 Obviously you can't tell her. 557 00:29:44,057 --> 00:29:46,476 There's gotta be somebody who can help me, Al. 558 00:29:46,977 --> 00:29:50,522 Well, you tried her father, you tried Dotty. 559 00:29:50,647 --> 00:29:52,566 There's... Who? There's nobody else. 560 00:29:52,649 --> 00:29:55,068 Nobody except the father of this baby. 561 00:29:55,194 --> 00:29:56,862 And only God knows where he is. 562 00:29:56,987 --> 00:29:59,740 Willis is probably walkin' home from work about now. 563 00:30:00,991 --> 00:30:02,951 Huh. Out of the mouths of babes. 564 00:30:03,015 --> 00:30:04,045 Willis? 565 00:30:04,077 --> 00:30:06,288 It's after 5:00. He'd be quittin' about now. 566 00:30:06,413 --> 00:30:08,749 Effy, I really need to talk to him. 567 00:30:08,874 --> 00:30:11,335 I thought you two swore never to see each other again. 568 00:30:11,543 --> 00:30:15,297 Well, we did, but I... I... I kinda changed my mind. 569 00:30:15,881 --> 00:30:18,800 Yeah, you know, he's probably quittin' right now 570 00:30:18,967 --> 00:30:20,802 and gonna be driving home to... 571 00:30:21,303 --> 00:30:23,305 That baby must be sucking your brain dry. 572 00:30:23,430 --> 00:30:25,224 Willis ain't got no car. 573 00:30:26,683 --> 00:30:28,977 Uh, no, of course not. No, what... what can I be thinking of? 574 00:30:29,102 --> 00:30:33,357 No, he's... he's probably just, you know, walkin' down old, uh... 575 00:30:35,108 --> 00:30:36,777 Water Tower Road. 576 00:30:36,944 --> 00:30:38,362 Water Tower Road. 577 00:30:38,487 --> 00:30:39,947 That's where I'll find him. 578 00:30:40,030 --> 00:30:42,616 Water Tower... Okay, got it. Sam. 579 00:30:42,699 --> 00:30:44,660 It's about a mile west of here. 580 00:30:45,869 --> 00:30:48,080 You're not really gonna talk to him, are you? 581 00:30:49,665 --> 00:30:51,458 He's my last chance. 582 00:30:53,210 --> 00:30:55,462 I know you really don't love Willis. 583 00:30:55,921 --> 00:30:58,715 So you'd be makin' a big mistake if you made him marry you 584 00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:00,592 just to hold onto your baby. 585 00:31:10,894 --> 00:31:12,938 Sam, you should be takin' it easy. 586 00:31:13,063 --> 00:31:15,440 What are you doin' walkin' along the road? This is crazy. 587 00:31:15,565 --> 00:31:17,484 I can't take it easy, Al. If I take it easy, 588 00:31:17,567 --> 00:31:19,361 I'll never find a home for Billy and her baby 589 00:31:19,486 --> 00:31:22,197 and if I don't find them a home, I'm not gonna leap. 590 00:31:22,531 --> 00:31:24,324 How much longer till the baby comes? 591 00:31:25,325 --> 00:31:27,244 Two hours, 27 minutes. 592 00:31:29,204 --> 00:31:31,540 What? What's wrong? 593 00:31:31,915 --> 00:31:34,668 Ah! I think just too much Jell-O and onions. 594 00:31:35,877 --> 00:31:38,338 Now, listen, don't get your hopes up 595 00:31:38,463 --> 00:31:41,133 because this Willis guy is probably just some yahoo 596 00:31:41,258 --> 00:31:42,718 who could care less about Billy Jean. 597 00:31:42,843 --> 00:31:45,429 He doesn't have to care about Billy as long as he 598 00:31:45,512 --> 00:31:48,181 accepts financial responsibility and helps her with this baby. 599 00:31:48,307 --> 00:31:50,434 Come on, this is the '50s. What high-school kid 600 00:31:50,559 --> 00:31:51,977 is gonna be able to pay for a baby? 601 00:31:52,102 --> 00:31:54,771 If you think I'm going about this wrong, give me a better idea, 602 00:31:54,896 --> 00:31:56,732 or better yet, ask Billy Jean. 603 00:31:56,857 --> 00:31:58,942 But not the terrified 16-year-old in the waiting room. 604 00:31:59,067 --> 00:32:01,737 Find Billy Jean, the woman. The one who spent her whole life 605 00:32:01,862 --> 00:32:04,948 looking for her only child, and ask her what she wants me to do. 606 00:32:05,073 --> 00:32:06,450 Well, don't bite my head off. 607 00:32:06,575 --> 00:32:09,161 Willis is just as responsible for this baby as I am. 608 00:32:09,286 --> 00:32:10,495 You mean Billy Jean is. 609 00:32:10,620 --> 00:32:13,290 He's gonna have to face his responsibilities like a man. 610 00:32:13,999 --> 00:32:15,667 Or like a boy. 611 00:32:17,711 --> 00:32:19,338 That's Willis? 612 00:32:20,630 --> 00:32:24,009 Oh, no wonder she never told her father who got her pregnant. 613 00:32:24,926 --> 00:32:26,553 He works for him. 614 00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:28,472 He doesn't look like what I pictured. 615 00:32:28,597 --> 00:32:30,515 No, me, either. He's just a boy. 616 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:32,351 Well, you're just a girl. 617 00:32:33,477 --> 00:32:36,688 Well, I'm gonna leave the two of you alone. 618 00:32:53,914 --> 00:32:55,540 Hey, Billy Jean. 619 00:32:57,084 --> 00:32:58,585 Willis. 620 00:32:59,669 --> 00:33:01,505 So I guess you're due pretty soon, huh, Billy? 621 00:33:01,588 --> 00:33:03,340 Sooner than you think. 622 00:33:03,632 --> 00:33:07,386 Yeah. Well, at least now it'll all be over. 623 00:33:08,637 --> 00:33:10,138 No, it won't. 624 00:33:11,098 --> 00:33:13,225 Should've let Mama Elliot fix things. 625 00:33:13,768 --> 00:33:14,978 Abortion? 626 00:33:15,018 --> 00:33:17,854 It just would've made things a lot easier on everybody. 627 00:33:20,273 --> 00:33:23,235 Well, that's, uh, that's no longer an option. 628 00:33:24,069 --> 00:33:27,239 The point is, what'll we do now? 629 00:33:27,322 --> 00:33:30,492 I told you, I can't do nothin', Billy. 630 00:33:30,617 --> 00:33:32,160 I got my scholarship, Billy. 631 00:33:32,285 --> 00:33:34,079 I start school in January. 632 00:33:34,204 --> 00:33:37,082 I'm gonna be the first Taylor ever who gets to go to college. 633 00:33:37,207 --> 00:33:40,419 Well, that's fine for you, but what about me and the baby? 634 00:33:41,670 --> 00:33:43,672 You told me you were gonna give it up. 635 00:33:46,716 --> 00:33:48,009 Well, I... 636 00:33:48,635 --> 00:33:49,928 I can't. 637 00:33:50,095 --> 00:33:51,471 You have to. 638 00:33:51,930 --> 00:33:53,348 What the hell are you gonna do? 639 00:33:53,473 --> 00:33:55,350 You ain't even finished high school. 640 00:33:55,434 --> 00:33:56,852 Maybe it's time I did. 641 00:33:56,977 --> 00:33:58,645 Oh, with a baby? 642 00:33:58,770 --> 00:34:00,105 And your help. 643 00:34:00,188 --> 00:34:03,984 I told you, I can't help you, Billy Jean. 644 00:34:04,067 --> 00:34:05,986 My scholarship only pays for my tuition. 645 00:34:06,111 --> 00:34:08,530 I... I have to work to earn my room and board. 646 00:34:08,780 --> 00:34:11,324 I can't be sending you enough money to keep a baby. 647 00:34:11,450 --> 00:34:14,119 Well, you should have thought about that before you made one. 648 00:34:14,244 --> 00:34:16,455 Well, I didn't make it alone. 649 00:34:25,088 --> 00:34:27,048 I like you, Billy. 650 00:34:27,841 --> 00:34:29,718 I liked you a lot. I liked the way we talked 651 00:34:29,843 --> 00:34:31,928 about books, and traveling, and... 652 00:34:32,137 --> 00:34:35,640 You're the only person in this dumb little town who understood me. 653 00:34:38,018 --> 00:34:41,021 And I really wish there was some way that I could help you, 654 00:34:41,188 --> 00:34:42,898 but there just ain't. 655 00:34:44,399 --> 00:34:45,942 I'm sorry, too. 656 00:34:47,777 --> 00:34:49,154 Oh, damn it, Billy! 657 00:34:49,279 --> 00:34:51,156 You're the one who told me to go to college. 658 00:34:51,281 --> 00:34:53,533 You told me to make somethin' out of myself. 659 00:34:53,658 --> 00:34:57,537 Now you wanna trap me here in this stupid little town. 660 00:34:58,205 --> 00:34:59,956 I gotta get outta here. 661 00:35:01,500 --> 00:35:05,253 And if you had a lick of sense, you'd give up that baby 662 00:35:05,378 --> 00:35:07,464 and you'd get outta here, too. 663 00:36:11,528 --> 00:36:13,738 You gonna break every nail on your hand. 664 00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:17,075 You got a better way of doin' this, I'm all ears. 665 00:36:17,158 --> 00:36:19,786 No. But I can't do your nails again, 666 00:36:19,869 --> 00:36:21,329 'cause my mama's turning 50 today 667 00:36:21,413 --> 00:36:23,081 and I gotta get home for her party. 668 00:36:23,164 --> 00:36:25,000 Get the other tire. 669 00:36:25,500 --> 00:36:27,794 Okay, okay. I'll get dirty, though. 670 00:36:27,919 --> 00:36:30,338 Just get the damn tire! 671 00:36:44,894 --> 00:36:49,316 I told you to get the tire, Effy, not manufacture it. 672 00:36:50,525 --> 00:36:53,653 Oh, Lord! Oh! 673 00:36:55,322 --> 00:36:58,408 Hospital. You gotta get me to the hospital. 674 00:36:58,533 --> 00:37:01,119 Oh, lord, honey, my car has a flat! 675 00:37:01,202 --> 00:37:02,621 You look horrible. 676 00:37:02,746 --> 00:37:04,080 You look just fine. 677 00:37:04,164 --> 00:37:05,290 Call the doctor. 678 00:37:05,415 --> 00:37:06,625 And my father. 679 00:37:06,750 --> 00:37:09,085 The numbers are on the wall there by the phone. 680 00:37:09,377 --> 00:37:10,670 Call my father! 681 00:37:10,795 --> 00:37:12,714 You'll be all right, honey. Just hang on there. 682 00:37:12,839 --> 00:37:14,883 It's okay, don't you worry. 683 00:37:15,717 --> 00:37:17,135 Come on, honey. 684 00:37:17,844 --> 00:37:18,970 Just sit right in here. 685 00:37:19,095 --> 00:37:20,722 Here it comes. Here it comes. 686 00:37:20,847 --> 00:37:22,015 Oh, no, it'll be all right. 687 00:37:22,063 --> 00:37:23,022 Oh, God. 688 00:37:23,058 --> 00:37:24,809 Get right over here and sit yourself down. 689 00:37:24,934 --> 00:37:26,728 Oh, my. Oh, my God. 690 00:37:26,846 --> 00:37:30,892 No. Don't you go pushing now, or you'll have that baby right here. 691 00:37:31,191 --> 00:37:32,359 Okay. 692 00:37:32,484 --> 00:37:34,653 Okay. 693 00:37:35,945 --> 00:37:37,614 Here, you just take this. 694 00:37:42,243 --> 00:37:43,662 Effy! 695 00:37:45,580 --> 00:37:47,707 There was an accident on the Nile Farm 696 00:37:47,791 --> 00:37:51,086 and Dr. Rogers is in surgery fixing their oldest boy's leg. 697 00:37:51,169 --> 00:37:54,547 The nurse says, get her to Claremore, or deliver the baby yourself. 698 00:37:55,256 --> 00:37:57,008 Don't look at me. I can't help you. 699 00:37:57,133 --> 00:37:58,343 Well, you're gonna! 700 00:37:58,468 --> 00:37:59,511 What about my father? 701 00:37:59,636 --> 00:38:01,763 I tried both numbers, work and home. No answer. 702 00:38:01,809 --> 00:38:03,030 You gotta get a hold of him. 703 00:38:03,098 --> 00:38:04,849 Don't worry, honey, we'll find him. 704 00:38:04,974 --> 00:38:07,560 Now, run down to the field. Her daddy's probably workin' outside. 705 00:38:07,686 --> 00:38:11,356 That's all the way over in... I'm goin'! I'm goin'! 706 00:38:12,691 --> 00:38:16,111 Keeter! I forgot about Keeter! 707 00:38:16,236 --> 00:38:18,196 He's been out on a rig so long, 708 00:38:18,279 --> 00:38:20,407 I just plumb forgot about him. 709 00:38:24,619 --> 00:38:27,122 Hello, Tom? It's Dotty. 710 00:38:27,247 --> 00:38:29,124 You got Keeter down there? 711 00:38:30,333 --> 00:38:33,753 Keeter? Oh, Keeter, I need you to come home. 712 00:38:33,878 --> 00:38:35,422 What the hell for, Dot? 713 00:38:35,547 --> 00:38:39,175 Oh, Billy's having her baby, and I have got to get her to the hospital. 714 00:38:40,301 --> 00:38:42,095 So? Drive her. 715 00:38:42,178 --> 00:38:44,389 Well, I got a flat tire. 716 00:38:44,472 --> 00:38:45,807 Fix it, Dot. 717 00:38:45,932 --> 00:38:48,268 Keeter, she doesn't have much time. 718 00:38:48,393 --> 00:38:50,353 It's probably another false alarm. 719 00:38:50,437 --> 00:38:52,856 Keeter, we need your help here. 720 00:38:52,981 --> 00:38:56,901 No, Dot. The knocked up trash needs my help. 721 00:38:57,026 --> 00:38:59,446 And she can need my help till hell freezes over, 722 00:38:59,571 --> 00:39:00,822 but she ain't gonna get it. 723 00:39:00,947 --> 00:39:03,450 Keeter Slade, you selfish son of a bitch! 724 00:39:03,575 --> 00:39:05,744 If you don't bring your butt over here right this minute, 725 00:39:05,869 --> 00:39:08,371 don't you bother bringin' it back at all! 726 00:39:21,676 --> 00:39:24,596 Listen, I can't have this baby. 727 00:39:24,721 --> 00:39:28,183 Honey, I think you're a little too far along to turn back now. 728 00:39:28,641 --> 00:39:29,976 How far apart are they? 729 00:39:30,101 --> 00:39:31,436 Five minutes. 730 00:39:31,519 --> 00:39:33,104 Oh, Lord. 731 00:39:33,188 --> 00:39:35,023 All right, come on, darling. 732 00:39:35,148 --> 00:39:37,275 We gotta change a tire. 733 00:39:40,570 --> 00:39:44,115 Stop! Stop! Stop! Will you stop? 734 00:39:45,450 --> 00:39:49,120 She's gonna have a baby! Hurry! Hurry! 735 00:39:50,079 --> 00:39:51,915 Okay. Okay. 736 00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:54,375 Okay, honey, you take this and get in the car! 737 00:39:54,501 --> 00:39:56,419 All right. Okay. Okay? 738 00:40:09,724 --> 00:40:12,685 Get in, take it easy. You're all right. 739 00:40:20,777 --> 00:40:22,278 Oh! 740 00:40:27,784 --> 00:40:29,494 How're you doin'? 741 00:40:30,036 --> 00:40:32,997 Well, I've been better. 742 00:40:34,999 --> 00:40:36,376 Oh! 743 00:40:36,501 --> 00:40:38,127 Why don't you let me drive? 744 00:40:41,756 --> 00:40:43,883 Because you're busy. 745 00:40:52,809 --> 00:40:55,019 Come on, Mr. Crockett, be here. 746 00:40:57,689 --> 00:40:59,190 Can I help you, girl? 747 00:40:59,315 --> 00:41:02,235 Mr. Crockett, Billy Jean's having her baby. 748 00:41:06,072 --> 00:41:07,574 It was bound to happen. 749 00:41:07,824 --> 00:41:09,367 She's askin' for you. 750 00:41:09,492 --> 00:41:11,369 She don't need me to have no baby. 751 00:41:11,744 --> 00:41:13,288 But Dotty's car broke down, 752 00:41:13,413 --> 00:41:15,582 and she's got no way to get her to the hospital. 753 00:41:15,874 --> 00:41:18,251 She can have the baby at home, like her mama had her. 754 00:41:18,376 --> 00:41:20,086 Billy's hurting real bad. 755 00:41:20,211 --> 00:41:22,547 I... I think she might die. 756 00:41:23,506 --> 00:41:25,508 She's 16 years old. 757 00:41:25,967 --> 00:41:27,927 She's not gonna die from having no baby. 758 00:41:28,011 --> 00:41:29,971 My sister was 17. 759 00:41:30,388 --> 00:41:32,932 She bled to death in my mama's arms. 760 00:41:41,566 --> 00:41:43,693 Oh, here it comes again, here it comes. 761 00:41:43,818 --> 00:41:45,528 Oh, oh. Okay, sit. 762 00:41:51,326 --> 00:41:53,077 Y'all wait right there. 763 00:41:53,953 --> 00:41:55,496 Where the hell have you been? 764 00:41:55,580 --> 00:41:56,623 I'm right here, honey. 765 00:41:56,748 --> 00:41:58,291 I've been in the waiting room with Billy Jean. 766 00:41:58,374 --> 00:41:59,709 The poor kid is terrified. 767 00:41:59,792 --> 00:42:02,795 She thinks she's having a baby in an alien spaceship. 768 00:42:02,921 --> 00:42:04,964 - Here, drink this. - I'm having this baby! 769 00:42:05,089 --> 00:42:06,674 No, you're not, Sam. 770 00:42:06,799 --> 00:42:08,343 Honey, they can tell that. 771 00:42:08,468 --> 00:42:11,387 Billy Jean's having the baby 40 years in the future. 772 00:42:11,512 --> 00:42:13,723 I'm in labor, and I'm having this baby! 773 00:42:13,848 --> 00:42:16,976 Who's she tryin' to convince, us or herself? 774 00:42:19,354 --> 00:42:22,065 Honey, how far apart are your contractions? 775 00:42:22,774 --> 00:42:24,400 Contractions? 776 00:42:24,525 --> 00:42:27,528 Sam, you're not having any contractions! 777 00:42:27,654 --> 00:42:29,364 Well, we lost count. 778 00:42:29,489 --> 00:42:31,199 It-It's physically impossible! 779 00:42:31,324 --> 00:42:32,450 Impossible? 780 00:42:32,533 --> 00:42:35,286 I'm sorry, darling, I've been a little busy to watch the clock. 781 00:42:35,411 --> 00:42:37,246 Let me get these clothes off. 782 00:42:37,330 --> 00:42:40,291 Sam, this is all happening in your imagination. 783 00:42:40,334 --> 00:42:41,484 Go to hell! 784 00:42:41,542 --> 00:42:44,087 All right, young lady, you just watch your language. 785 00:42:44,170 --> 00:42:46,172 Yeah, take it easy, Sam. 786 00:42:48,341 --> 00:42:50,176 What are you doin', honey? 787 00:42:50,259 --> 00:42:52,387 - He's breathing. - I'm breathing. 788 00:42:52,512 --> 00:42:54,931 - Why is she doing that? - It beats the heck out of me. 789 00:42:55,056 --> 00:42:57,266 It... it makes the contractions, uh, easier. 790 00:42:57,392 --> 00:42:59,268 Why am I telling you? You can't hear me. 791 00:42:59,394 --> 00:43:02,605 Honey, you are gonna hyperventilate if you keep this up. 792 00:43:03,231 --> 00:43:05,274 - It's not working! - What's not working? 793 00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:06,484 Of course it's not working. 794 00:43:06,609 --> 00:43:08,236 You're not really in labor! 795 00:43:08,361 --> 00:43:09,696 Yes, I am. 796 00:43:12,740 --> 00:43:14,784 All right, let me help you. 797 00:43:16,661 --> 00:43:18,830 All right, now you're going to have a baby. 798 00:43:18,913 --> 00:43:21,624 It happens every day. Okay. 799 00:43:21,749 --> 00:43:23,167 How far is she dilated? 800 00:43:23,292 --> 00:43:25,336 I've been fighting just to get her clothes off. 801 00:43:25,461 --> 00:43:27,922 I haven't been able to do the prep or time the contractions. 802 00:43:28,047 --> 00:43:29,465 All right, Billy Jean, let's have a look. 803 00:43:29,515 --> 00:43:30,481 No. 804 00:43:30,508 --> 00:43:32,135 Al, you gotta help me. 805 00:43:32,218 --> 00:43:33,219 Who? 806 00:43:33,344 --> 00:43:34,929 Gushie, what's happening? 807 00:43:35,054 --> 00:43:37,140 Get her to the delivery room. 808 00:43:37,515 --> 00:43:39,017 The baby's head is crowning! 809 00:43:39,142 --> 00:43:40,184 The head is crowning? 810 00:43:40,231 --> 00:43:42,353 I don't know, 'cause you won't let me look. 811 00:43:42,437 --> 00:43:46,107 Ziggy says that wherever the baby is coming, it's coming in four minutes. 812 00:43:46,232 --> 00:43:48,376 - Where's my father? - Effy's looking for him, honey. 813 00:43:48,401 --> 00:43:50,903 I'm not gonna have this baby till my father gets here! 814 00:43:51,029 --> 00:43:52,572 You don't have a choice. 815 00:43:52,697 --> 00:43:54,824 Hang on, honey. 816 00:43:55,575 --> 00:43:56,826 Billy! 817 00:43:56,909 --> 00:43:58,536 - Daddy. - Billy. 818 00:43:58,828 --> 00:43:59,871 Dad. 819 00:43:59,954 --> 00:44:03,332 Everything's gonna be all right, sweetheart. Everything's gonna be okay. 820 00:44:03,458 --> 00:44:05,585 The baby. I want... 821 00:44:05,710 --> 00:44:07,462 She wants to keep the baby, Bob. 822 00:44:07,628 --> 00:44:09,255 She's been sayin' that for days. 823 00:44:09,380 --> 00:44:11,257 Let's not argue about that now, sweetheart. 824 00:44:11,382 --> 00:44:15,011 Sam, there's a little problem in the waiting room. 825 00:44:16,429 --> 00:44:19,640 The baby has disappeared from Billy Jean's womb. 826 00:44:19,766 --> 00:44:23,061 I knew it, I knew it. I'm having this baby! 827 00:44:23,186 --> 00:44:24,771 Here we are, Billy Jean. 828 00:44:24,896 --> 00:44:26,105 Off the gurney. 829 00:44:27,774 --> 00:44:29,901 Here we go. 1, 2... 830 00:44:31,944 --> 00:44:34,822 Good. Get in the stirrups. 831 00:44:34,947 --> 00:44:36,282 Bob, will you get out of here! 832 00:44:36,365 --> 00:44:40,161 No, no, you have to help me keep the baby. 833 00:44:40,369 --> 00:44:41,746 Billy, it ain't right! 834 00:44:41,871 --> 00:44:44,999 For God's sake, Bob, she's your only daughter! 835 00:44:45,083 --> 00:44:47,335 All right. All right, Billy. 836 00:44:47,418 --> 00:44:50,129 You get through this thing okay, we're gonna do anything you wanna do. 837 00:44:50,213 --> 00:44:52,381 - Oh, hallelujah! - I love you. 838 00:44:55,259 --> 00:44:56,803 Al! 839 00:44:57,178 --> 00:44:58,554 It's okay, honey. 840 00:44:58,638 --> 00:45:00,556 - Get it out! - It's gonna be all right. 841 00:45:00,681 --> 00:45:01,933 Get it out! 842 00:45:01,974 --> 00:45:04,602 Take it easy, Sam. Everything's okay. 843 00:45:04,685 --> 00:45:08,981 Bob marries Dotty, and they help Billy Jean raise the baby. 844 00:45:09,065 --> 00:45:11,025 You've done it! You've done it! 845 00:45:11,109 --> 00:45:15,113 I see a head of curls trying to get out, little lady. Give a push. 846 00:45:34,674 --> 00:45:36,968 Activate the time machine. 847 00:45:39,053 --> 00:45:41,848 Stand by the time accelerator. 848 00:45:43,808 --> 00:45:47,979 Uh, uh, standing b-by. 849 00:45:48,062 --> 00:45:50,898 Activate now! 850 00:46:00,449 --> 00:46:02,118 Oh, boy.