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- I'll, uh, take
those drinks to the table.

- Robbie?

- Syd.

- Do you wanna sit?

- One beer and one rosé.

- Honey, our table's ready.

- Lauran, this is, uh...

- Sydneyit's so nice
to finally meet you.

Robert's told me
so much about you.

- Oh, dear.
Not all bad, I hope.

Robert.

- Old boyfriend gets
you a double on the house.

What about ex-husband?

- That gets you
the whole bottle.

- For what it's worth...

she's got nothing on you.

- Oh no, no, no, no.

- Well, in that case,
we'll just get a court order,

force them to open
up their books.

- Ha, something tells me
that'll scare them

into a settlement fast.
- Hi, sorry.

- Appreciate the help, Elijah.
Say hello to Sydney for me.

- I will, Senator.
Hello, Sydney.

- Hey, sorry I had a...

plumbing issue.

- You didn't miss anything.
We're going ahead as planned.

- Great.

- Plumbing?

- Yeah.

- Want me to send my guy over?

- No, all good.

- Glowing, in fact.

I have
so many questions, Sydney.

First of all,
what kind of a man

seduces the legendary
Sydney Strait?

- First of all,
I do the seducing.

I am the seducer.
Me.

- Seducers are never
this defensive or this late.

- He wouldn't leave.

Who has nowhere to go
in the morning?

- Wake them fully dressed,
with an egg sandwich.

- What...whywhy
an egg sandwich?

- The egg tells them
they're special,

the sandwich says,
"You can take that to go."

- You're a terrible person.

- Who's never late.

May we, uhmay we help you?

- Yes, sir.

I would like to sue
the United States government.

- You're gonna
want to talk to her.

- They call them
100-year floods.

But in the last decade,
there's been three.

Rainfall is up, year over year,
beyond any forecast.

- So you wanna sue
for global warming.

- Three weeks ago,

my whole neighborhood
was under water.

Last time that happened,

insurance money took
nine months to come through.

By the time we moved back in,

there was black mold
everywhere.

People were sick.
Homes were abandoned.

- Where are you living now?
- A motel.

Everybody acts like families

getting displaced
is unfortunate.

- And it is.

- All due respect, sir,

the Mississippi
has been flooding worse now

than it has in 500 years.
That's not unfortunate.

All of this is someone's fault.

- Righteous, stubborn,
smart as a whip...

reminds me of someone.

- She doesn't need
a protracted lawsuit.

What she needs
is immediate humanitarian aid,

insurance companies
making timely payouts...

FEMA actually doing their job.

- Humans to be humane?
Agreed.

Why don't we get
on the horn and, uh,

call some charities,
local businesses?

- Mayor's office, Governor Lee.

- Yeah, all thatlet's get
these folks some help.

- What's shaking, Della?

- The parts I want
and not the parts I don't.

- That's in the cut.

Back at 6:00.

- Smells like bad decisions
in here.

- Where do you think
the music comes from?

Briana says

you wanna get your affairs
in order?

May I ask...are you ill?

- No.
- Ah.

- Last week...

I buried a friend.

Best horn player you ever seen.
When he passed,

what little money he had
went to Uncle Sam.

He ended up in a pine box.

You'd be surprised how many
old bluesmen end up like that.

Anyway...I have a collection
of guitars worth a little.

I'm hoping you can set
something up so when I go,

my friends won't have
to pass the hat.

- Well, I'll get
a proper appraisal,

and we'll incorporate
the guitars into a trust.

- If you don't mind
what's that gonna run me?

- How 'bout a private concert?

Your favorite song
right here, right now.

Uh-uh, not an easy one,
not a go-to.

I want the one you play
to get into heaven.

- Heaven...or maybe hell.

- Dad, we should take your car,

'cause I don't think
the wagon will fit in mine.

- I hope you know
that we're not trying

to disappoint you, Erika.

- Thank you, sir.

- You can call me Elijah.

- You did an awful lot
of research.

Did someone at school help you?

- My school got flooded, too,

so I take the bus
to the library.

They have a lot of information
on climate change,

and I like to do my research.

- Do you wanna be a scientist?

- Actually,
I wanna be a lawyer.

- Oh!
- So I can help people.

- That's why I became a lawyer.
- Me, too.

- Then why did you leave and go
work for that other firm?

- Uh, Dad, you wanna
you wanna take this one?

- No, no, no, no.
I think that was your question.

- OkayErika,
you're going to make

a really good lawyerknow why?

'Cause you know just
the rest questions to ask

to make someone
really uncomfortable.

- Whoo!
That was incredible.

It's actually one
of my favorite songs.

- What?

- Truth?
I wrote it.

- I thought Big Jay LaRue
wrote that song.

- He and I were close once.

Things happened.
He ended up recording it.

- Hold on.
Jimi, you're a smart guy.

You know there's royalties
for a song like that.

- No, that's old news.

You can't walk
down Beale Street

without running into somebody
that really wrote something.

- But you wrote "Ruby Lou."

You say you wanna make sure

no one has to pass the hat
for you.

Let me at least go
to the record company

and just talk to them.

You played that song for me,
of all the songs.

I think maybe there's
a part of you that wants

to leave behind
something more than guitars.

- Dad!

- Erika.

What did I tell you about
messing with these people?

- Oh, no, no, she's not
been a bother at all.

Elijah Strait.
This is my daughter, Sydney.

- Hiit was our pleasure

spending time
with her, honestly.

She's, uh
she's really something.

- Well, what do you say?
- Thank you, ma'am.

- Yep.

- Elijah.
- Go find your mother, baby.

She was starting to worry.

- Oh, she left her research
in the trunk there.

- Wheel it in on
her wagon, did she?

- Yeah, yeah.
- Yeah, I try not to discourage

her dreams, you know.
It'sit's been a bad stretch.

It's very kind
of you all to indulge her

and to bring her back
all this way.

Thank you.
Thank you both.

- Oh, can we help you, or...

- Oh, no, no, no.
I'll go get her research.

Dad...

- Does this seem right?
Come on, now.

We live in the richest country
in the world.

How do we let our people down
like this?

- Dad...

let's sue the U.S. government.

.

- He's all yours, Jake.
- Thank you.

So, you want to tell me

what the hell
you were doing up there?

- Have you seen
the view from up there?

It's spectacular.

- Did you notice
the "No Trespassing" signs

while you were going up there?

- Jake, you gotta lighten up.

I mean, I think the police
are gonna cut me a little slack

for a while,
you know what I'm saying?

I've never driven
a Porsche before.

- Don't even think about it.

- Uh, this is fine,
Jake, really.

I'm not in second grade.

You don't have
to walk me to my door.

- Oh, no, actually I do,

because this way
I'll be able to sleep,

'cause I'll know
that you are safe,

I'll know that
you're on the ground,

I will know that
you are in the...

George.

- Yeah, I forgot to mention
the, uh, decorations...

It's no big deal.

- Hey, um...

Why don't you grab
some things and, uh...

come stay at my place for now?

- They painted "Kid Killer"
on George's door.

- Yeah, I know.
This town's got a long memory.

Just 'cause we know
the truth doesn't mean

everyone else
is gonna believe it.

I'd offer to send a car by
- But?

- Well, me looking
into this case

I'm just about as popular
as George is right now.

- I'm sorry.

- Listen, the best way
I can help George...

by finding out what happened.
Now, good news.

Found someone who might be able
to fill in some of the gaps

about the night
Tess was murdered.

- It's an ex-cop.

- Robert.

So, um, Lauran is nice.

- You don't really think that.

- I honestly don't know,

because I'm pretty sure
she loathes me.

- Good point.
- Which you just confirmed.

- I did not.

- Robbie, it's fine, I get it.
I'm the ex-wife.

I don't expect to be invited

to dinner parties
or the wedding.

Is there a...

- Jealous?

- Curious.

- No wedding.

- Okay.

Now if the inquisition's
over...

- Yes, it's over, Robert.

- Well,
we've decided not to sue

the U.S. government
for climate change.

- Because we found someone
more directly responsible

for the flooding in your town,

someone that we can
get into court fast.

The Army Corps of Engineers.
They're the ones

who built the levee system
along the river.

- Erika, with something
as big as global warming,

it's hard to assign
specific blame,

but with the levee system,
we feel that we can demonstrate

to a jury that the Army
should have foreseen

the flooding that
your town endured.

- I like this plan.
- Okay.

- So...
how can I help?

- You know, as our client,

you will be
the face of this case,

so we would like to have you
in court with us

every day, if that's possible.

- Of course.
I just take the 14 to the six,

to the 19 to the 40the same
buses I take to get here.

- Actually, I forgot
on trial days, we pick you up.

- Mm-hmm.

- I don't need
the special treatment.

- Oh, no, it's not.
It comes with our service.

- Well, in that case, sure.

- How long
have you known Teddy?

- Since our playground days.

- That's beautiful.

- Oh, yeah, she's got
something, that one.

Come on, we can talk in here.

- Thanks for seeing us
on such short notice.

- What I wanna know is,
when am I gonna get you

in here to lay down something?

- What's this?

- Oh, I take it you've never
heard Anthony in church.

- Anthony.

- Go on, give me a few
bars of something.

- Surrounded by talent
everywhere I look.

That's what I love
about this city.

Speaking of talent,
what about Jimi Barkley?

Did you find out about
the history of "Ruby Lou"?

- Even if there was any proof
that he wrote it,

which there isn't,
I only own half the rights.

- Big Jay LaRue
owns the other half?

- Yes, as the song's
credited writer,

but he passed, so his widow,
Gertrude, owns it now.

But the point is,
I only make 50% on that song,

and I need every penny I get.

- Teddy...we both know
how it was back then.

I remember our dads
telling us stories

about how songs
were passed around, traded,

and yes, stolen.

- You really think
Big Jay LaRue,

author of half a dozen
legitimate hit songs,

stole "Ruby Lou"
from an old running buddy

who never wrote
a single hit in his life?

- I know when
I'm being lied to.

Jimi wasn't lying.

- How well do you know Jimi?

I mean, you know he served time
for weapons and drug charges?

You know he has a history
of exaggerated claims

and broken promises?

Old bluesmen tell sad stories.

- And they tell them well.
That's why we love them.

- That's also why you
don't ever trust them.

- Should we call them?
- Uh, no.

- Is that Emerson's car?

- I offered to get him
a new one, but...

- There she is!

You ready?

- Erika...

you know what today is?

- My day in court.

- No need to be nervous.

.

- Dr. Pope, what is a levee?

- A levee is
an artificial embankment

which keeps a river
from flooding an area

when it overflows.

- So, if someone builds
a levee to protect one town,

what happens with the water

that would have
been flooded there?

- It's redirected
back into the river,

which means
more flooding downstream.

- I study the economics
of the Mississippi River.

Over the course
of its 2,348 miles,

it generates $400 billion
in revenue.

- Could you tell the jury
is there a correlation

between the height of a levee

and the wealth of the people
the levee protects?

- The richer the area,
the higher the wall.

- Colonel Ramirez,
as the Army Corps of Engineers'

Chief Engineer, it's safe
to say you understand

the basics of hydrology?

- I do.

- When you designed
the current levee system,

one which protects
a wealthy suburb

to the north
of my client's town,

did you foresee that flooding
might increase as a result?

- We foresaw it and feared it.

That's why we lobbied
the government

to build protection
for your client as well...

- Move to strike
no question pending.

- I'm finishing
my answer to your question

about what we foresaw.

- He's right, Miss Strait.

- We foresaw the problem.

We asked to fix it.

We were blocked
from protecting her town

by the Environmental
Defense Council.

- Uh, Your Honor,
may we have a brief recess

to investigate the veracity
of this statement?

- We'll pick this up
after lunch.

That should give you
enough time.

- You look worried.

- Well, the Army Corps
of Engineers

built the levee that flooded
your town, but...

if they tried to fix it
and someone else stopped them,

then we're looking at...

- The Environmental
Defense Council

they blocked the levee
because it imperiled

the nesting grounds
for some endangered bird.

- So, does that mean we lose?

- Not necessarily.

- Miss Strait, I have seen
my share

of your antics firsthand,

but do you really expect
for me to allow you

to add a second defendant
based on the testimony

of your first defendant?

- It's not her idea,
Your Honor, it's mine.

And trust me, I wouldn't
add an environmental group

headed by a lifelong friend
to the complaint

if I didn't believe
it had merit.

- Any objections?

- To them blaming
someone besides my client?

- Oh, not besides
in addition to.

- Rightgood luck
with that strategy.

- Seems to me our odds
of winning went down by 50%.

- Some days, things just
don't break your way,

and when that happens,
what you hope for

is to live to fight
another day,

and that's what we did.

Think she bought that?
- Not for a heartbeat.

- Then we better figure out
how to win a case

against two different
defendants at once.

- Yeah.

- "Ruby Lou"?
No, I've never heard of that.

- 'Cause the music
you listen to is garbage.

- Easy or I'm gonna be telling
Maya that you're playing hooky

to watch the "Top Chef" finale.

- Did you change something?

- Hey, sweet!
Brewskis.

That's a nice surprise
from a guy who has

a mini wine fridge.

When did they start
making those, anyway?

- George, you've, uh

you've moved
my furniture around.

- Yeah, isn't it better?

The flow is more natural.

One thing about living
in a six by eight cement cell

for all those years.
You get real good at feng shui.

- Okay, so what do we think?

- Okay, so Teddy was right.

Jimi Barkley has had more
than this share of trouble.

Robbery, grand theft auto...

- Jacket of an addict
always reads the same way.

- This, however,
is interesting.

Every time he was arrested
from '68 to '77,

look who bailed him out.

- It's either Big Jay LaRue

or a woman named
Gertrude Davis.

- And didn't Teddy say
that LaRue's wife

was named Gertrude?

If it's the same one,
that means she knows Jimi,

and maybe she'll believe him.

- I couldn't sleep last night.

I was up tossing and turning,

thinking about
how much I want to win.

- You and me both.
- Do you have a boyfriend?

- Oh, uh...

uh...no, not really.

There's...well I guess
there's this one guy.

He's cute,
but I don't really...

know him that well
well, what about you?

You gotyou got
your eye on someone, huh?

- I mean, there
is this one boy I like.

- Okay.
- But my dad says he's trouble.

I know that's supposed
to be a bad thing,

but I kind of like
that he's trouble.

Does that make sense?

- So much and so little
at the same time.

- Drinks.
What are you two talking about?

- Tacos.
- Theme parks.

- Oh, so that's how
it's gonna be?

Okay, coffee for Sydney,
a...OJ for Erika.

- Elijah?

- Sydney, give us a second.

Hey, Caleb, we, uh

we shouldn't be talking
like this.

- Yeah, you're damn right,
we shouldn't be.

What are you doing?
Last time I checked,

I'm a guy who spends most
of his time fighting big money

to protect forests
and parks,

and you're the guy
representing my organization.

- I know.

- What kind of a message
do you think it sends

to your other clients
if you come after me?

- That a threat?
- No, it's an honest question.

- I've got a town under water.

People living in motels and
a little girl who wants to know

how this happens in
the greatest country on Earth.

So...I gotta go
wherever this case leads.

...and so the EDC acted?

- Yes, we blocked that levee.

But the flooding
is not our fault.

- So you admit you blocked
construction of a new levee?

- Yes.

- But you think the flooding
is not your fault?

- We did our own investigation

into the flooding
of your client's town.

- Since when does the
Environmental Defense Council

conduct investigations?

- Since it was named
in a lawsuit alongside

the Army Corps of Engineers,

an organization
we routinely fight against.

Our investigation found
that the levees north

of your client's town were
systematically overbuilt

by contractors in order
to gouge the taxpayers.

This, in conjunction
with systemic kickbacks

to inspectors.

- Nothing further.

- And as such,
we would like to add

the following defendants.

Ted Gafney, president,
Benson Construction.

Louis Bartlett, president,
Wild River Construction.

Edgar Barta, director

of the Memphis Department
of Public Works,

and Joan Aversano,

the Head of the River Valley
Levee Board.

- I thought you said
our chances of winning

decrease
with every new defendant.

- We did.
- 100 divided by eight...

- Yeah, Erika...

- Don't say, "We live
to fight another day,"

because that's not
what's happening.

Losing is what's happening.

- Yep, you're right.
We're losing.

But the next thing
a good lawyer does

when one strategy
doesn't work

you pivot to another one.

- Like what?

- We don't know.

.

- It's called
alternative liability.

It's a legal doctrine
which allows the plaintiff, us,

to shift the burden
of causation of an injury

to multiple defendants.

Then, it's up to the defendants
to provide evidence

as to which one of them
caused the injury...

and if they can't do that,

then a jury can hold
them all responsible.

- Erikabottom line is,
if we go with this,

come Monday morning
when we walk in there,

we don't have to point
the finger

at just one person anymore.
We can blame them all.

- It's risky,
but we think it'll work.

- Appreciate you
seeing us, Tommy.

I was real sorry
to hear about your son.

- Yeah.

- No parent should ever have
to bury their child.

Let's, uh...

let's talk about George Bell.

- Yeah...I figured
somebody would be coming by

when I read he was freed.

- I found the mother's
original statement.

I know you took it.
I know someone buried it.

- How'd you find it?

- Tommy,
right now this is informal.

You keep answering my questions
with more questions,

it's gonna get formal
real quick.

- It was around
10:30 that night

I got a call telling me
that they found Tess's body.

And, um,
not five minutes passes

before Chief Rayburn calls me,

wants me
to get out of bed

and go take
the mother's statement.

- Wait, nowyou're saying
the chief called you himself?

That didn't seem strange?

- Yeah, it seemed very strange,
but he's the boss.

So I go get
the mom's statement,

except she's so blotto that I
don't know what to make of it.

She said the daughter
came home.

But she also made
a pass at me, so...

I go back to the station,
I show Rayburn what I wrote up,

and he says,
"Just lose this interview.

Try it again tomorrow."
That's what happened.

- And the second interview
he tell you to steer it?

- They told me
he was the guy, Robbie.

- Did the chief
ask you to steer it?

- "Get the final nail,"
he says.

"Because we know
she didn't come home."

- So, next stop, Rayburn?

- Chief Rayburn's dead.

Yeah, suicide.

Eight or nine years ago.

Cheer up.
My trail might've run cold,

but Tommy's gonna help
make your case, right?

- Yeah.

- Thanks for coming in,
Mrs. LaRue.

I was a big fan
of your husband.

- Call me Trudy.
- Thank you, Trudy.

I represent a gentleman
I think you know.

Jimi Barkley.

- Jimi Barkley.

- Now, to be clear,
he's not saying that

your husband stole the song,

but is it possible
that, just maybe,

Jimi had a hand
in writing it?

- My husband loved Jimi
like a brother.

Took care of him the way
you take care of family,

even when they disappoint you

or steal from you or...

lie to your face.

So many times I begged
Joseph to write Jimi off,

but Joseph never gave up.

He said,
"There's a good man in Jimi."

And now Jimi's going around,
spreading that lie like that.

I'm just glad
Joseph's in a better place,

because this would
break his heart...

Whereas all it does to me
is prove my point.

- EmersonEmerson,
are you almost here?

Are you sure?

Damn car of his broke down.

- No!
- Uh, no need to panic.

He said that Erika
has a backup plan

that involves
three different buses.

- Okay.

- Twice in my life I've known

12-year-old girls that...

couldn't have stopped them

from doing what they
believed in if I tried.

No, she'll get here.
Just gotta make sure

we got this courtroom teed up
for her when she does.

- Let's hope she gets here
by closing arguments.

Mr. Gafney, is it true

that your company
built the north levee?

- Yes, we built
the north levee,

but those specs were dictated
by the planning board,

who demanded we overbuild.

This is not our fault.

- Mr. Bartlett.

- Instructions are
instructions,

and our job is to follow them.

It's not our fault.

- Edgar Barta.
- It's not my fault.

- Joan Aversano?

- It's no one's fault.

- Is it my understanding
that the defense rests?

Very well.

This brings to a close

the evidentiary portion
of the trial.

We'll now hear
closing arguments,

starting with the plaintiff.

- You're supposed to talk to
the record company, not Trudy.

- Jimi, there was nothing...

- If I wanted you
talking to her,

don't you think maybe
I would've mentioned her?

I never should've
opened my mouth.

- Jimi, calm down.

- Nothing but trouble and pain!

Nothing but trouble and pain.

That's all I ever gave
that woman.

- Did she know?

- How's that?

- That you loved her.
Did Trudy know?

- 'Course not.

I wouldn't have done that
to her.

I knew she didn't love me.

Why do you think
I changed the name?

- Changed the name?

- The song, "Ruby Lou."
That wasn't the original title.

It was "Trudy True."

- You still have
those lyrics, don't you?

You never would've
thrown them away.

- Might be I held onto 'em.
Why?

- The plaintiff doesn't
need to be here for you

to deliver a closing argument.

- Your Honor,
in this case, she does.

She's not just
a plaintiff, she's...

- We have six defendants
over there.

I'm not making them wait
when there's no legal reason

they have to.

You will deliver
a closing argument now.

- Sorry.

- Yes, we will.

.

- In some ways, you've
witnessed an unorthodox case.

What started
with a single defendant

became two,
and then grew and grew.

And yet, sadly, there's
nothing really unorthodox

about what's at work here,
is there?

What you've seen
is something that's become

a national pastime.

We pass the buck.

At that table,
our businesses and regulators

and environmental agencies
who refuse to work together

they'd rather argue
than find common ground.

They would rather
sue each other

than come up with solutions.

The people who are supposed
to protect us

have stopped talking,

and we are the ones
who pay the price.

In fact, thethe only thing
that they can agree on

is that they should
all band together

to fight a 12-year-old girl.

You wanna know
why it's their fault

that Erika's town flooded?

It's not because of the design
of the levee, it's not...

because they tried
to protect a species,

it's not even
because they overbuilt

or bribed or cheated.

It's their fault because
they refuse to work together.

It's their fault because
instead of trying to fix

things that are wrong,
they just cross their arms

and act angry with each other.

Like children.

Thank you.

- That was hot, my man.

- Della, what's
she doing here?

- She's come to hear
the song, Jimi.

She came to hear it played

the way it was
meant to be played.

- II can't.
- Yeah, you can.

- My husband was
an incredible man.

And I loved him
with all my heart.

But Jimi wrote that song.

I'll sign the paperwork.

Have it messengered
over in the morning.

- And finally...
alternative liability

requires every possible party
to be included.

And in this case,
one has been left out.

We call a tragedy like this

an "act of god" for a reason,
ladies and gentlemen.

It's because a tragedy
like this

no man can stop that.

- Miss Strait, rebuttal?
- Wanna do it yourself?

- Miss Strait,

do you have a rebuttal?
- Are you sure?

Yes, Your Honor.

Uh, our client would like
to deliver it herself.

- Ladies and gentlemen
of the jury.

When I was younger,
around eight or so,

my family had a dog
named Memphis.

And whenever Memphis
would have an accident,

my brothers and sister
and I would play this game

whoever could say,
"not it" first,

and the last one would have
to clean up the mess.

One day, my grandmother
saw us playing this game,

and she sat us down.
She said,

"When you agree
to take care of something,

"it's your responsibility

to uphold your end of the deal,
no matter what."

So, I ask you to teach
the people at the table

over there the same lesson.

Thank you for
your consideration.

I messed up.
- Stop.

- I forgot
at least two key points,

and I was nervous
they saw that.

- You spoke from the heart.

They saw that.
That's what really matters.

Was that dog of yours
really named Memphis?

- I don't know if y'all
were watching the jury,

but by the time
she was done...

well, suffice it to say,
you can play Russian Roulette

to see which one
of you big bad wolves

the jury punishes,

but if I were a betting woman,
which I am...

I would say you're all
about to get hammered,

so...how about we come up
with a settlement that,

uh, you can spin to the press

as a heroic gesture

on behalf
of the American people?

And the last item

is a state-of-the-art
levee system

which will not only
protect your town,

but all of the towns
downstream.

And they have also agreed
to a $25 million

displacement fund
in the unlikely event

that there will be
any future flooding.

And this is on top of
the temporary housing

for all of you.

Well...Erika,
what do you think?

- That'll work.

- I got something
for you, Jimi.

You will receive
your first royalty check

for "Ruby Lou" next month.

- I was thinking...seeing that
my needs aren't all that great,

maybe the extra money should go
into a fund

for other bluesmen like me

whowho aren't as lucky

to find someone...like you.

- Big Jay LaRue was right.

You are a good man,
Jimi Barkley.

- Thank you so much
for helping my daughter.

- Let me tell you a little
secretshe helped us.

- Yeah.
Hey you!

- Hey!

Don't be a stranger, okay?

- Promise.

- Good,
because we got you something.

- Ooh!

- Every good lawyer needs one.

- It's a nice bag.
- Thank you.

- It's nice.

- George, I got
some good news.

The, uhthe alarm system's
been installed...

George?

The apartment's all clean...

George!

George?

- Sometimes those other rooms
just feel so big.

- Yeah, I get it.

- What's the good news?

- Well, I, uh...

I thought it through...

And I think it would be better
if you stayed here.

- The other night...

I was trying
to make that omelet

your mother used to make...

- You mean the "mom-let"?

I was looking at it,
saying, "This is wrong."

And then I realized what
was missing was your mother.

I don't recognize
this house anymore, Sydney.

I walk around, it's like...

somebody blew out
all the candles.

- Yeah.

It's starting to sink in.

Really sink in.

You know who
Mom would've loved?

Erika.

What I wouldn't give for her
to have seen that girl go.

- She did.

First time around.

- Was I that cute?
I feel like I was that cute.

- Tenacious
that's what you were.

What are we gonna do, Dad?