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- How long do you plan on being on base?
- A few hours.
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- I've got business with Captain Buck.
- Okay, thank you.
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Hold! You can't do that. Hold!
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We have a breach at Gate 3.
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Hold that, please.
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Hold it right there, miss.
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How long ago?
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Batch of them shipped out this morning.
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He's over the Pacific by now.
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Boyfriend?
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More than that.
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I'm sorry. I'm afraid you're still gonna
have to come with us, though, Miss...
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Eve.
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Eve Miller.
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- Hi, Tom.
- Hi.
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Peyton?
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Hello, Jules.
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What perfect timing.
We were just talking about you.
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- I'm Eve Miller.
- Hello.
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Eve reads your column. Religiously.
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Well, I write it the same way...
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...praying with every word
that I don't say something stupid.
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Well, your prayers don't seem to be working.
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Excuse me?
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- Perhaps we should...
- No.
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Apparently you didn't read
the note I sent you?
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Note?
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I'll summarize.
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You know, you're a fine writer,
Ms. MacGruder...
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...one of the best on the paper.
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But when it comes to the topic
of when to take a chance on love...
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...well, your opinion is...
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You know, forgive me, but it's idiotic.
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I hate to interrupt, Eve,
but I have a photographer waiting.
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Excuse me. Lovely to meet you. Bye.
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Sorry.
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Hey, Mandi, did I get a letter
from someone named Eve Miller?
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Not that I remember. Why?
Who is she, anyway?
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That's what I intend to find out.
Would you do me a favor?
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Run down to the mailroom
and see if they know anything about it.
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Sure.
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And, Mandi?
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On your way back, stop at the kitchen
and get me some aspirin.
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- You have a headache?
- Not yet.
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I'll bring you the whole bottle.
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- You're absolutely right.
- That's a nice change. About what?
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Passion.
It should always be tempered with caution.
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Especially when deciding whether or not
to take a chance on amore.
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Are you speaking from personal experience?
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It's none of your business.
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Anyway, your columns
have been excellent lately.
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- Seems to be a minority opinion.
- What?
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Nothing. So you came all the way down here
just to give me a pat on the back?
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No. I came all the way down here...
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...to tell you that in addition
to writing the "Heart Healer,"
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...you're gonna be covering
fashion and accessories...
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...while my staff
writer's on maternity leave.
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Why me?
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Because it's your old job
and that should make it easy for you.
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- But I don't have the time.
- Hey, Nora.
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King.
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Well, perhaps if you tempered
your own passion, you'd find the time.
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I ran into Mandi in the coffee room.
She said you were gonna need these.
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Yep.
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Look, Nora may be your boss, but you still
shouldn't let her push you around.
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- Too late.
- Well, in that case...
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I would prescribe either two of these...
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...or one of these.
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Do any good?
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Not sure. Try again. Maybe up the dosage.
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Yeah.
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That's better.
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To avoid relapse,
we should probably sweep off your desk...
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...and move on to the next level of therapy.
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It's exactly that kind of temptation...
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...that led to the fashion writer's
maternity leave.
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And, in turn, to my headache.
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So you go back to work.
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Unless you want to quit early
and go for a jog with Christine and me?
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Enticing, but I have to run out
to the university.
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David wants to talk to me.
Says it's important.
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Maybe I'll stop by after.
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Maybe I'll be waiting.
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I got an interesting e-mail
from a friend in New York.
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He said my name came up
at a board meeting for the Times recently.
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Which means what, exactly?
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Don't know, but I'll keep you posted.
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Where was it?
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- On Phil Brinker's desk.
- Phil Brinker?
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In Editorial. Hey, do you want me
to yell at the mailroom guys for you?
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- You think that'll do any good?
- Absolutely. Not.
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I'm so late. Christine's gonna be mad.
Thank you, Mandi.
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You're welcome.
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- So tell me about your boyfriend.
- What boyfriend?
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Don't be coy.
You know the one, Mr. Body Art.
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- Mike? At the music store?
- Yeah.
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- No, he's not my boyfriend.
- Does he know that?
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He's just a friend.
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- Don't you think he's a little
too old for you? - Please.
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Okay, I suppose it's none of my business.
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Of course it's your business.
You are my mother.
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Can't tell you how weird that still sounds
after just nine months.
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What do you mean "weird"?
What sounds weird about that?
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I don't mean anything negative by it.
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Christine, the truth is, your adoptive
father raised you until he died.
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I mothered you for only two days,
and after all of these years apart...
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I'm just a long way from knowing
how to be a decent mom.
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Okay. How about I give you
some advice, then?
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Okay.
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First of all, "mother" doesn't have
an "S" in front of it.
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I am almost 19, you know.
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And, second, keep reminding me
that you're never gonna leave me...
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...not for any reason, not ever again.
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Don't worry, baby. Now that I've found you,
you are stuck with me for good.
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Okay, okay. Come on, let's go before this
morphs into a total tearfest.
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I don't get it.
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I mean, how can you give up baseball?
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It's been your life
since the first time you whacked a T-ball.
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Well, it's not anymore, okay? I gotta...
I'm late for class.
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No, hold on, we're not done yet.
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Look, I just hate to see you
give it up, that's all.
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I mean, you...
You have a real talent for the game.
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- That's bull.
- What are you talking about?
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I've got decent stuff, but my
fastball bites. You and I both know that.
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Your body won't be fully mature till
you're 25 years old.
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You don't know what you have
and what you don't have.
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No, what I don't have
is any fire on my fastball...
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...or in my gut for the game, okay?
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Not anymore. Can we just drop it?
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What about your scholarship?
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- Obviously, if I don't play,
I don't get one. - Yeah.
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What? What, you're not gonna cover me?
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I didn't say that.
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You know what? Don't worry about it.
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- What's that supposed to mean?
- It means don't worry about it.
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- I'd almost given up on you.
- You wouldn't do that, would you?
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I won't if you won't.
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- Come sit with me.
- Okay.
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What did David want?
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- To tell me that he's quitting baseball.
- You're kidding. Did he say why?
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Just that he's burned out.
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Weird.
He was so passionate about the game.
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I guess passion can have a shelf life.
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Yeah, I guess it can.
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Honey? Come here.
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- What's this?
- It's a letter from a reader.
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- Fan mail?
- Not exactly.
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It's from this woman named Eve Miller.
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I actually met her today at the office
with Jules Grandfield.
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The art critic?
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She called my last couple
of columns idiotic.
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- Crackpot?
- I don't think so.
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I'm actually kind of intrigued by her.
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- Really? Do you mind?
- No.
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"Dear Heart Healer, I'm an avid reader
of your column, and as such...
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"I feel it is my duty to tell you
when you're full of baloney".
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Ouch.
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Keep reading.
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"Your readers take your words very
seriously, and so when you tell them...
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"to let caution trump passion,
you do them a grave disservice.
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"I know from painful experience.
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"I followed similar counsel nearly
40 years ago, and regret it to this day.
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"Perhaps over a cup of tea,
we might discuss the appropriate time...
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"to take a chance on love...
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"and while doing so, I'm quite
sure I'll be able to dissuade you...
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"of your misguided opinion.
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"If you're willing, you can reach me
at the number below. Sincerely, Eve Miller".
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- You gonna give her a call?
- You think I should?
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Might get a column out of it, and...
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- And what?
- Nothing.
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What? You think I'm full
of baloney, too, don't you?
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- I...
- Be careful.
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- I think there's a time to be cautious.
- Yes?
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- And a time to be passionate.
- Good answer.
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And what time would you say it is now?
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Like a beacon in a storm.
You are a lifesaver, Mandi.
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Were you up late?
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Late enough to need a bellhop
for these bags.
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You have an interview
for the fashion section in five minutes.
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And Nora called. She wants your leads
for your upcoming columns ASAP.
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Would it be wrong to put out a hit on Nora?
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- Yeah.
- Wrong.
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All righty, then. Do me a favor.
Get in touch with Eve Miller for me.
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The lost-letter lady?
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Tell her I'm ready to take her up
on her offer.
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Did you have that follow-up
conversation with David?
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This morning.
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And?
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He's still over baseball.
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- Would you like me to talk to him?
- That'd be fan...
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...tastic.
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What'll be fantastic?
If I speak to David, or my dress?
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Both. With the emphasis on the dress.
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Wow.
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You become more beautiful
every time I see you.
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Thank you.
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Champagne? What's the occasion?
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Well, I just thought
a pre-theater cocktail...
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...might be a nice start
to the evening's festivities.
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My, but you're winning brownie points.
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And also to soften you up...
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...for this.
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- King...
- What do you think?
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That's gorgeous.
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Like the woman I hope will accept it.
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Hey, I'd get down on one knee...
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...but too many sports injuries
preclude that possibility...
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...so I will just come right out with it.
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MacGruder...
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Sorry.
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Peyton, will you marry me?
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You know that I love you, right?
You do know that?
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I know that, and if your next sentence
is gonna start with the word "but,"
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I'd like to cash in all the brownie points
I got for bringing the bubbly...
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...and any others I might've earned
over the last nine months.
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Save them. Just let me think about it, okay?
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What's there to think about?
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Well, there's Christine, for one thing.
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- What about her?
- Well, she's fragile.
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She's trying to be strong,
but, you know, she's really struggling.
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The kid's lost
both the people who raised her.
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I'm all she has left,
and we barely know each other.
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I don't want to seem insensitive...
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...but how does our getting married
affect that?
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I don't know. I... That's one
of the things I need to figure out.
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Kingston, thank you for thinking me
worthy of being your wife...
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...and for loving me enough to ask.
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And for having the patience
to wait for an answer?
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Come on. No, I put my hand there first.
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That's mine. I'm sorry, that's mine.
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- Come on.
- I'm winning.
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I'm out of control.
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That's because you're cheating.
Look at that.
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That's not fair, that was mine.
I put my hand down first.
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- What about that?
- Yeah...
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Hello?
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Perfect timing!
I was actually just about to call you.
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Course catalog came from State
and I checked with Admissions.
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They said that since I'd already enrolled,
you know, before the plane crash...
240
00:17:30,215 --> 00:17:32,149
...that I don't need to reapply.
241
00:17:32,217 --> 00:17:34,481
- That's cool, huh?
- Very cool.
242
00:17:35,087 --> 00:17:36,918
You remember Mike, right?
243
00:17:36,989 --> 00:17:39,822
- Of course.
- Hey. Great to see you again.
244
00:17:40,826 --> 00:17:44,489
Listen, there's something I'd like
to talk to you about.
245
00:17:48,100 --> 00:17:52,093
Yeah, not a problem. I got some stuff
in the back I gotta do anyway.
246
00:17:52,171 --> 00:17:55,402
Just give me a holler if a customer
comes in, okay? I'll take care of them.
247
00:17:55,474 --> 00:17:56,600
Okay.
248
00:17:59,144 --> 00:18:01,169
Jeez, what's so important?
249
00:18:02,081 --> 00:18:04,743
King proposed to me last night.
250
00:18:06,285 --> 00:18:08,048
Did you say yes?
251
00:18:08,120 --> 00:18:10,520
I said I'd have to think about it.
252
00:18:10,589 --> 00:18:13,490
Well, that makes sense 'cause you guys
have only been seeing each other seriously...
253
00:18:13,559 --> 00:18:15,459
...for like a couple of months now, right?
254
00:18:15,527 --> 00:18:16,755
Nine months.
255
00:18:16,829 --> 00:18:19,059
Well, I mean, that's still not an eternity.
256
00:18:19,131 --> 00:18:22,328
I've left clothes at the dry cleaner
for longer than that.
257
00:18:22,401 --> 00:18:25,029
I know. It came as a surprise to me, too,
that he was ready...
258
00:18:25,104 --> 00:18:28,938
...to make such a big commitment,
but I do adore him.
259
00:18:29,508 --> 00:18:34,070
Well, what's not to adore?
I mean, King's a really great guy. I just...
260
00:18:35,714 --> 00:18:38,046
- What?
- I don't know. Nothing.
261
00:18:38,117 --> 00:18:41,575
Come on, now. Spit it out.
Tell me what you're feeling.
262
00:18:44,389 --> 00:18:46,914
I guess I'm just a little bit afraid...
263
00:18:47,593 --> 00:18:50,858
...of getting squeezed out
of the family portrait again.
264
00:18:50,929 --> 00:18:52,487
Christine.
265
00:18:54,800 --> 00:19:00,033
Whatever happens between me and King,
it'll never change the love I have for you.
266
00:19:00,973 --> 00:19:02,964
Right. No, of course.
267
00:19:04,209 --> 00:19:06,177
I'm just being selfish.
268
00:19:06,845 --> 00:19:08,745
It's gonna be great.
269
00:19:10,616 --> 00:19:14,108
And whatever you decide is cool. Really.
270
00:19:22,661 --> 00:19:25,653
Peyton. I was just coming to see you.
271
00:19:26,532 --> 00:19:29,399
- I need leads.
- Yes, I know.
272
00:19:31,136 --> 00:19:35,163
How about a follow-up
on the caution-versus-passion piece?
273
00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:37,231
What kind of a follow-up?
274
00:19:37,709 --> 00:19:41,736
A new angle on the right time
to take a chance on love.
275
00:19:41,813 --> 00:19:43,178
New angle?
276
00:19:43,248 --> 00:19:45,648
Opposing opinion. From a reader.
277
00:19:46,185 --> 00:19:48,380
Flesh it out. Get back to me.
278
00:19:54,026 --> 00:19:58,429
Mandi, tell me you've gotten in touch
with our friend Eve.
279
00:19:58,497 --> 00:20:00,897
If I told you that, I'd be lying.
280
00:20:01,967 --> 00:20:05,425
Do you still have the envelope
that the letter came in?
281
00:20:07,940 --> 00:20:10,101
Good. There's a return address.
282
00:20:10,175 --> 00:20:12,166
Okay, if you're not able
to get in touch with her today...
283
00:20:12,244 --> 00:20:15,213
I will stop by to see her tomorrow.
284
00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:16,372
Okay.
285
00:20:22,588 --> 00:20:24,351
- Hey.
- Hey.
286
00:20:25,257 --> 00:20:29,921
- I enjoyed the play last night.
- Me, too, especially the last act.
287
00:20:29,995 --> 00:20:34,329
- You slept through the last act.
- My point exactly.
288
00:20:34,399 --> 00:20:35,730
Come in.
289
00:20:36,568 --> 00:20:40,368
So, any news? On the decision front?
290
00:20:41,139 --> 00:20:43,972
King, you proposed to me
less than 12 hours ago.
291
00:20:44,042 --> 00:20:46,237
What? That's not enough time?
292
00:20:55,621 --> 00:20:57,384
I told Christine.
293
00:20:58,757 --> 00:20:59,917
And?
294
00:21:00,492 --> 00:21:04,929
She did her best to act happy about it,
but I think the idea of sharing me with you...
295
00:21:04,997 --> 00:21:06,988
...really has her pretty freaked out.
296
00:21:07,065 --> 00:21:11,195
You don't think you're reading more
into this than there really is?
297
00:21:13,472 --> 00:21:16,202
Maybe. I mean, I don't know.
298
00:21:18,010 --> 00:21:20,001
I'm just building
my relationship with her...
299
00:21:20,078 --> 00:21:23,172
...and I'm terrified to do
anything to damage it.
300
00:21:23,782 --> 00:21:25,147
Right.
301
00:21:25,217 --> 00:21:30,746
I think that we should both give
our full attention to the kids right now.
302
00:21:31,623 --> 00:21:33,284
Solidify our relationships, you know...
303
00:21:33,358 --> 00:21:37,055
...and then we can move on
to re-focusing on ourselves later.
304
00:21:40,165 --> 00:21:43,965
It's David. Returning my text.
He's on for lunch.
305
00:21:44,036 --> 00:21:45,503
Great.
306
00:21:48,940 --> 00:21:50,339
Hey, my buddy from New York called.
307
00:21:50,409 --> 00:21:53,970
It turns out that the Times is
looking for a new sports editor.
308
00:21:54,046 --> 00:21:57,504
Apparently, I'm on the short list.
309
00:21:58,517 --> 00:22:00,951
Is that something you'd consider?
310
00:22:01,653 --> 00:22:04,645
Look, the short list is not an offer.
311
00:22:04,723 --> 00:22:06,623
Let's not worry about it
until we have to, okay?
312
00:22:06,692 --> 00:22:07,784
Now go.
313
00:22:07,859 --> 00:22:12,489
Solidify my relationship with David
so you and I can move on to re-focusing.
314
00:22:19,571 --> 00:22:22,062
Thanks for taking the time
to have a sandwich with me.
315
00:22:22,140 --> 00:22:26,042
First lesson I learned in college,
never pass up a free meal.
316
00:22:26,678 --> 00:22:28,976
Not entirely free, I'm afraid.
317
00:22:29,047 --> 00:22:33,211
You are gonna have to listen to my
third degree about why you quit baseball.
318
00:22:33,285 --> 00:22:36,186
I figured that's what this was all about.
319
00:22:37,489 --> 00:22:40,652
David, I don't care whether or not you play.
320
00:22:41,660 --> 00:22:45,027
I really don't.
I care about you and your dad...
321
00:22:45,964 --> 00:22:49,263
- And I'm worried about you guys.
- What's to worry?
322
00:22:49,334 --> 00:22:52,030
You don't seem to be able to communicate.
323
00:22:52,104 --> 00:22:54,834
He says that you don't talk.
You say that he doesn't listen.
324
00:22:54,906 --> 00:22:58,307
- Well, it's kind of always been like that.
- Always?
325
00:22:59,845 --> 00:23:03,212
Well, since he and my mom
got a divorce anyway, yeah.
326
00:23:06,451 --> 00:23:11,115
Do you think maybe it's time
that you got back to what it once was?
327
00:23:11,656 --> 00:23:14,124
I mean, you don't have
to ignore what happened...
328
00:23:14,192 --> 00:23:17,821
...but you don't have to get hung up on it,
either, you know?
329
00:23:17,896 --> 00:23:21,423
Find some middle ground,
build a new relationship on it.
330
00:23:22,734 --> 00:23:24,964
You know, your father
would do anything for you.
331
00:23:25,036 --> 00:23:27,334
Yeah, except pay my tuition.
332
00:23:28,340 --> 00:23:29,864
Did he say that?
333
00:23:29,941 --> 00:23:31,670
Well, not exactly. No.
334
00:23:31,743 --> 00:23:35,179
Well, anyway, it doesn't really matter.
Not anymore.
335
00:23:35,614 --> 00:23:37,514
What does that mean?
336
00:23:39,217 --> 00:23:40,582
David?
337
00:23:46,158 --> 00:23:49,924
I didn't just quit baseball. I quit school.
338
00:23:49,995 --> 00:23:53,123
- You what?
- I'm not into it. I haven't been all year.
339
00:23:53,198 --> 00:23:57,828
That's why my grades are lousy,
which is why they cut me from the team.
340
00:23:58,670 --> 00:24:00,695
They cut you from the team?
341
00:24:00,772 --> 00:24:03,866
Yeah, my dad's gonna have a heart attack
when he finds out. But I don't care.
342
00:24:03,942 --> 00:24:07,469
This just isn't my thing. Not anymore.
343
00:24:10,916 --> 00:24:15,785
So I said, "Okay, what is your thing?"
And you'll never guess what he said.
344
00:24:18,323 --> 00:24:19,688
Art school.
345
00:24:21,026 --> 00:24:22,084
What?
346
00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:26,494
Art school. He wants to go to art school.
In LA. CalArts.
347
00:24:28,667 --> 00:24:32,433
You gotta be kidding.
He wants to be an artist?
348
00:24:33,505 --> 00:24:37,874
- Yeah. What's wrong with that? - It's
ridiculous! That's what's wrong with it.
349
00:24:37,943 --> 00:24:39,808
That is so knee-jerk.
350
00:24:40,712 --> 00:24:44,842
Give the kid a chance, you know?
You should at least talk to him.
351
00:24:47,052 --> 00:24:49,179
Hey. Promise me.
352
00:24:55,794 --> 00:25:00,322
Why is it I find it impossible
to say no to you...
353
00:25:00,398 --> 00:25:03,731
...but you have no trouble at all
saying no to me?
354
00:25:08,139 --> 00:25:10,073
All right, Peyton...
355
00:25:11,443 --> 00:25:13,377
I will talk to David. I will.
356
00:25:13,445 --> 00:25:16,471
I'll even do my best to stay calm.
357
00:25:17,983 --> 00:25:21,180
But you have to promise me
something in return.
358
00:25:22,153 --> 00:25:25,714
That you'll think about
your relationship with Christine.
359
00:25:28,093 --> 00:25:30,459
I know you feel that you owe her
your full attention...
360
00:25:30,529 --> 00:25:32,963
...and that's fine, I understand.
361
00:25:33,532 --> 00:25:39,300
Just don't confuse maternal obligation
with penance...
362
00:25:39,371 --> 00:25:42,306
...for having given
her up in the first place.
363
00:25:47,312 --> 00:25:50,543
Jeez, MacGruder,
I didn't mean to upset you.
364
00:25:50,615 --> 00:25:52,947
You didn't. It's just the smoke.
365
00:25:55,754 --> 00:25:57,346
Come here, then.
366
00:26:00,926 --> 00:26:02,621
I'll protect you.
367
00:26:04,462 --> 00:26:07,863
Can you protect me from myself
while you're at it?
368
00:26:25,884 --> 00:26:27,249
Ms. Miller?
369
00:26:28,186 --> 00:26:30,245
I see you found my note.
370
00:26:34,526 --> 00:26:36,790
If you want to punch me in the nose,
Ms. MacGruder...
371
00:26:36,861 --> 00:26:39,694
...you're gonna
have to come inside to do it.
372
00:26:49,641 --> 00:26:53,873
I'm sorry to just stop by like this.
I tried to call several times.
373
00:26:54,179 --> 00:26:57,706
I was visiting my daughter in Raleigh.
Please, make yourself at home.
374
00:26:57,782 --> 00:26:59,181
Thank you.
375
00:26:59,684 --> 00:27:02,676
You know,
it's me who should be apologizing.
376
00:27:02,754 --> 00:27:04,688
When we met the other day at the paper,
I was...
377
00:27:04,756 --> 00:27:07,919
- Refreshingly candid.
- ...unforgivably rude.
378
00:27:09,361 --> 00:27:12,023
Well, either way,
you definitely left an impression.
379
00:27:12,097 --> 00:27:15,897
- That's why I'm here.
- Well, I'm delighted that you are. Tea?
380
00:27:16,568 --> 00:27:18,229
- Sure.
- All right.
381
00:27:30,515 --> 00:27:33,143
Is this a picture of your daughter?
382
00:27:34,653 --> 00:27:38,555
And those two precious beauties with her
are my grandchildren.
383
00:27:49,267 --> 00:27:51,167
One of these guys your husband?
384
00:27:51,236 --> 00:27:54,137
Yes. Billy's the one with his arm around me.
385
00:27:55,073 --> 00:27:58,907
- Is he a pilot?
- Copilot. Ritchie Everby, loadmaster.
386
00:27:58,977 --> 00:28:00,842
Ben Morrick, pilot.
387
00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:03,672
Rescue helicopters.
388
00:28:03,748 --> 00:28:07,343
They were still in training in 1966
when this was taken.
389
00:28:08,486 --> 00:28:10,511
Are you two still married?
390
00:28:11,356 --> 00:28:14,018
Billy died when my daughter was four.
391
00:28:14,826 --> 00:28:18,159
I'm sorry. Was it in the war? In Vietnam?
392
00:28:19,397 --> 00:28:21,661
Ben went. Billy stayed behind.
393
00:28:22,734 --> 00:28:25,100
Why don't you have a seat...
394
00:28:25,170 --> 00:28:29,470
...and tell me a little bit about yourself?
395
00:28:31,242 --> 00:28:37,078
All right. Well, my husband passed away,
too, some time ago.
396
00:28:37,148 --> 00:28:38,775
Like you, I have a daughter.
397
00:28:38,850 --> 00:28:41,683
With so much in common,
I wonder why we find ourselves at odds...
398
00:28:41,753 --> 00:28:44,415
...when it comes to the question
of when to trust our hearts...
399
00:28:44,489 --> 00:28:45,922
...as opposed to our heads.
400
00:28:45,990 --> 00:28:49,357
Exactly what I'm hoping to learn
by interviewing you.
401
00:28:49,427 --> 00:28:52,828
- Interviewing me?
- Yes. For the "Heart Healer," my column.
402
00:28:52,897 --> 00:28:54,592
It's an opposing point of view.
403
00:28:54,666 --> 00:28:59,000
No, no, I'm not interested in being
interviewed, Ms. MacGruder.
404
00:28:59,804 --> 00:29:02,671
But your note, your invitation...
405
00:29:02,741 --> 00:29:05,039
For a discussion, an exchange.
406
00:29:06,411 --> 00:29:08,971
- An exchange?
- Stories, life lessons.
407
00:29:09,047 --> 00:29:11,641
I mean, maybe even a secret or two.
408
00:29:13,318 --> 00:29:16,981
But it's you that my readers will
be interested in.
409
00:29:17,055 --> 00:29:20,354
But it's you that will interest me,
Ms. MacGruder.
410
00:29:20,425 --> 00:29:23,553
Give-and-take.
That way, we both gain something.
411
00:29:26,831 --> 00:29:28,924
I'm afraid I misunderstood.
412
00:29:30,368 --> 00:29:33,531
Well, I'll still be here
if you change your mind.
413
00:29:35,106 --> 00:29:37,336
- Thanks for your time.
- Bye.
414
00:29:45,984 --> 00:29:47,747
- You're kidding.
- Middleborough Times, can I help you?
415
00:29:47,819 --> 00:29:50,413
- Mandi.
- How'd it go?
416
00:29:50,488 --> 00:29:52,820
- Not so well.
- Nutcase?
417
00:29:53,358 --> 00:29:56,293
No, but she wouldn't agree to an interview.
418
00:29:56,361 --> 00:29:58,522
- That's too bad.
- Yeah.
419
00:29:58,596 --> 00:30:00,393
King's not in there.
420
00:30:00,698 --> 00:30:02,996
- Where'd he go?
- I don't know.
421
00:30:04,269 --> 00:30:06,669
He did leave an hour ago, though.
422
00:30:12,777 --> 00:30:14,574
Hey, it's King.
You've reached my cell phone.
423
00:30:14,646 --> 00:30:16,170
Leave a message.
424
00:30:16,247 --> 00:30:18,715
King, it's me. Listen, if you're gonna
have your talk with David...
425
00:30:18,783 --> 00:30:22,480
...remember your promise.
Be cool, and call me.
426
00:30:22,554 --> 00:30:24,419
Or stop by later.
427
00:30:28,860 --> 00:30:30,452
Run down to the paper's morgue.
428
00:30:30,528 --> 00:30:34,487
Dig up anything you can find
on Eve Miller and her husband.
429
00:30:35,333 --> 00:30:36,732
- Sure.
- Okay.
430
00:30:47,712 --> 00:30:48,940
Mom?
431
00:30:49,013 --> 00:30:53,211
- Christine, what are you doing here?
- I wanted to talk to you about something.
432
00:30:53,284 --> 00:30:55,548
- Do you have a sec?
- Sure.
433
00:30:56,154 --> 00:31:01,456
Okay. So I've been thinking. A lot.
434
00:31:01,993 --> 00:31:05,485
About you, and me, and King,
and this whole marriage thing...
435
00:31:05,563 --> 00:31:07,929
...and I have to tell you,
I'm pretty stressed about it.
436
00:31:07,999 --> 00:31:10,229
Trust me, that makes two of us.
437
00:31:10,301 --> 00:31:13,634
- So did you decide anything yet?
- No.
438
00:31:14,339 --> 00:31:15,567
Okay.
439
00:31:16,107 --> 00:31:19,076
Okay, well, what I wanted to tell you was...
440
00:31:20,278 --> 00:31:22,678
...don't let me be the thing
that keeps you and King apart.
441
00:31:22,747 --> 00:31:25,773
I mean, don't let me
or us or our relationship...
442
00:31:25,850 --> 00:31:29,513
...be the reason if you do decide
not to get together with King.
443
00:31:29,587 --> 00:31:33,045
Just leave me out of the equation
because I can handle you being married...
444
00:31:33,124 --> 00:31:35,718
...but I can't handle you resenting me.
445
00:31:37,228 --> 00:31:38,525
Okay?
446
00:31:39,597 --> 00:31:41,462
Yeah. Okay.
447
00:31:42,700 --> 00:31:45,066
Okay. Good.
448
00:31:46,170 --> 00:31:48,900
Good. I gotta go.
449
00:31:50,808 --> 00:31:52,469
- Christine?
- Yeah?
450
00:31:54,212 --> 00:31:55,577
I love you.
451
00:31:56,781 --> 00:31:58,612
I love you, too.
452
00:32:08,459 --> 00:32:11,519
Hey, it's King.
You've reached my cell phone.
453
00:32:12,764 --> 00:32:13,958
Got it.
454
00:32:14,632 --> 00:32:18,193
- Wow. That was fast.
- It's just one file, but it's thick.
455
00:32:19,737 --> 00:32:22,535
Husband's name was
William Stanhope Miller.
456
00:32:22,607 --> 00:32:24,438
Known to friends as Billy.
457
00:32:25,410 --> 00:32:28,208
From a wealthy family out west, Charlotte.
458
00:32:28,613 --> 00:32:30,547
- Banking money.
- What about Eve?
459
00:32:30,615 --> 00:32:31,980
Another country-club type.
460
00:32:32,050 --> 00:32:36,544
Her father was a judge,
mother a social diva in Chapel Hill.
461
00:32:37,689 --> 00:32:38,917
Is there anything else?
462
00:32:38,990 --> 00:32:43,393
A ton of stuff.
Apparently, she's a pretty big-deal artist.
463
00:32:43,461 --> 00:32:45,326
- Ceramicist.
- Right.
464
00:32:46,397 --> 00:32:48,388
One child from her marriage with Billy.
465
00:32:48,466 --> 00:32:51,526
I know. A daughter. Did she ever remarry?
466
00:32:53,538 --> 00:32:57,440
No record of it here,
but there is a lot more to go through.
467
00:32:58,176 --> 00:33:00,736
Yeah, you know what?
I'm gonna take that home with me.
468
00:33:08,319 --> 00:33:11,220
I guess you told him, huh?
About our conversation?
469
00:33:11,289 --> 00:33:15,817
Your dad? Yeah. You didn't tell me not to.
470
00:33:16,461 --> 00:33:19,794
- Why? What happened?
- He freaked out, that's what happened.
471
00:33:19,864 --> 00:33:23,095
He found me at the field house cleaning out
my locker, and started yelling at me...
472
00:33:23,167 --> 00:33:25,328
...accusing me of
having a crappy work ethic...
473
00:33:25,403 --> 00:33:28,065
...of blowing an opportunity
that any kid would kill for.
474
00:33:28,139 --> 00:33:29,902
Come on, David.
I'm sure your dad will understand.
475
00:33:29,974 --> 00:33:35,037
No, no. Don't defend him, okay? Because
the reality is, I don't care anymore.
476
00:33:35,113 --> 00:33:37,513
About what either of you has to say.
477
00:33:37,582 --> 00:33:39,777
- Wait a minute. Come on, now.
- Forget it!
478
00:33:39,851 --> 00:33:42,183
David, don't leave like this.
479
00:33:43,121 --> 00:33:44,418
David!
480
00:33:45,456 --> 00:33:46,946
David!
481
00:33:55,299 --> 00:33:57,233
- Hey. Come on in.
- Hey.
482
00:33:58,002 --> 00:34:01,597
- Get yourself something from the fridge.
- Thanks.
483
00:34:03,141 --> 00:34:05,837
- What's all that?
- Background.
484
00:34:05,910 --> 00:34:07,537
- On?
- Eve Miller.
485
00:34:08,146 --> 00:34:10,011
- You called her?
- Yeah.
486
00:34:10,548 --> 00:34:12,778
She talk you out of being cautious?
487
00:34:12,850 --> 00:34:14,215
Not yet.
488
00:34:16,988 --> 00:34:20,788
Listen, I sort of need to hear
your side of the conversation with David.
489
00:34:20,858 --> 00:34:22,018
What do you mean, "my side"?
490
00:34:22,093 --> 00:34:23,219
I've already heard his side.
491
00:34:23,294 --> 00:34:25,694
He was waiting for me when I came home.
He was very upset.
492
00:34:25,763 --> 00:34:27,731
He said that you yelled at him
about his work ethic.
493
00:34:27,799 --> 00:34:29,892
'Cause he doesn't have one!
494
00:34:30,301 --> 00:34:31,427
But you promised me...
495
00:34:31,502 --> 00:34:33,436
- That you were gonna give him a chance...
- To what?
496
00:34:33,504 --> 00:34:36,496
To explain why he wants to go to art school.
497
00:34:36,574 --> 00:34:39,566
No art school. Spare me.
I'm sure one of his buddies...
498
00:34:39,644 --> 00:34:41,703
...probably told him
he'd get to draw naked girls.
499
00:34:41,779 --> 00:34:46,045
I mean, come on, the kid couldn't
paint a house, let alone a picture.
500
00:34:47,418 --> 00:34:49,249
That's not the point.
501
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:51,220
The machine'll get it.
502
00:34:52,056 --> 00:34:54,456
This is Peyton, leave a message.
503
00:34:55,059 --> 00:34:56,959
Hi, it's Christine.
504
00:34:58,663 --> 00:35:01,461
Listen, I think I'm gonna have
to postpone cleaning out my dad's closet...
505
00:35:01,532 --> 00:35:03,056
...with you tomorrow morning.
506
00:35:03,134 --> 00:35:05,102
I've got some other stuff
that I'm kind of busy with...
507
00:35:05,169 --> 00:35:09,936
...and to be honest, I'm not really sure
that I'm ready for it, so...
508
00:35:10,475 --> 00:35:13,171
Anyhow, I guess
that you're probably out with King...
509
00:35:13,244 --> 00:35:16,008
...so I guess we'll just talk whenever.
510
00:35:19,283 --> 00:35:22,741
They can't communicate,
but they sure can manipulate.
511
00:35:22,820 --> 00:35:26,722
If that's what she's doing, the question is
why she feels she needs to.
512
00:35:26,791 --> 00:35:28,383
Come on, Peyton, let's be realistic.
513
00:35:28,459 --> 00:35:31,394
They're just kids trying to find their way.
514
00:35:32,063 --> 00:35:35,191
Look, I understand how difficult
it's been for Christine...
515
00:35:35,266 --> 00:35:37,598
...how much she needs you.
I can help, like you help with David.
516
00:35:37,668 --> 00:35:40,068
We can deal with them together.
517
00:35:41,072 --> 00:35:45,634
Or we can use them as an excuse...
518
00:35:46,844 --> 00:35:48,744
...to keep us apart.
519
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:51,748
You think I'm looking for excuses?
520
00:35:54,285 --> 00:35:57,812
I think commitment can be terrifying...
521
00:35:59,290 --> 00:36:02,691
...especially to someone
who's already suffered a loss.
522
00:36:03,461 --> 00:36:06,760
As to whether or not you're
looking for an excuse...
523
00:36:07,999 --> 00:36:11,298
I guess that's something
you have to ask yourself.
524
00:36:15,573 --> 00:36:17,905
I'm gonna make it an early night.
525
00:36:31,422 --> 00:36:35,381
Dearest readers, in a world in which
we must juggle the complex problems...
526
00:36:35,459 --> 00:36:39,623
...of work and family,
with all its contemporary definitions...
527
00:36:39,697 --> 00:36:43,155
...when is the right time
to take a chance on love?
528
00:36:48,873 --> 00:36:54,869
When do I confront the ghosts that seem
so determined to destroy my future?
529
00:37:05,389 --> 00:37:09,655
When should we risk upsetting the delicate
balance between the complicated elements...
530
00:37:09,727 --> 00:37:13,390
...of our interpersonal relationships
in the name of passion?
531
00:37:18,135 --> 00:37:19,193
Hey.
532
00:37:52,970 --> 00:37:55,939
- Christine?
- In here.
533
00:38:01,445 --> 00:38:03,470
Late night or early morning?
534
00:38:03,547 --> 00:38:05,572
- Didn't you get my messages?
- Yeah.
535
00:38:05,650 --> 00:38:06,878
I tried to call you back
about a hundred times.
536
00:38:06,951 --> 00:38:08,680
You never answered.
537
00:38:08,753 --> 00:38:10,846
Music too loud to hear the phone?
538
00:38:10,921 --> 00:38:12,684
Yeah, probably. I had friends over.
539
00:38:12,757 --> 00:38:16,750
Yeah. I saw one of them leaving.
The one who isn't your boyfriend.
540
00:38:16,827 --> 00:38:18,727
- What's wrong with you?
- You.
541
00:38:18,796 --> 00:38:20,491
Staying up all night,
drinking and partying...
542
00:38:20,564 --> 00:38:22,691
- with someone who is way too old for you.
- "Drinking and partying"?
543
00:38:22,767 --> 00:38:24,359
That's what's wrong with me.
544
00:38:24,435 --> 00:38:26,995
Is this the stuff
that you were so busy with?
545
00:38:27,071 --> 00:38:28,333
So what if it was?
546
00:38:28,406 --> 00:38:31,341
I think you're acting out, Christine,
in ways that are self-destructive...
547
00:38:31,409 --> 00:38:34,242
...to get even with your father for dying.
548
00:38:34,312 --> 00:38:36,439
- That is totally insane.
- Is it?
549
00:38:36,514 --> 00:38:38,539
Yes, it is. I don't even drink.
550
00:38:38,616 --> 00:38:41,983
Right. Mike drank two cases of beer
all by himself.
551
00:38:42,053 --> 00:38:43,350
He was here with his band.
552
00:38:43,421 --> 00:38:45,855
They're cutting a demo,
so I let them rehearse in the basement.
553
00:38:45,923 --> 00:38:49,791
They were working, it wasn't a party.
And then I made them some food, okay?
554
00:38:49,860 --> 00:38:52,294
And as far as being mad at my dad,
yeah, you're right.
555
00:38:52,363 --> 00:38:54,763
He picked a really lousy time to die.
556
00:38:54,832 --> 00:38:57,130
And, yeah, okay,
I am mad, but not just at him.
557
00:38:57,201 --> 00:38:59,692
I'm mad at my adoptive mother
who died, too...
558
00:38:59,770 --> 00:39:01,533
...and I'm mad at you,
who actually had a say in the matter...
559
00:39:01,605 --> 00:39:04,267
...and you still chose to give me away.
560
00:39:04,875 --> 00:39:08,868
Now, if you're finished judging me,
I have to get ready for work.
561
00:39:49,553 --> 00:39:52,147
Were you embarrassed by those braces?
562
00:39:54,125 --> 00:39:56,992
Scared on your first day of kindergarten?
563
00:39:59,597 --> 00:40:01,792
Who gave you your first kiss?
564
00:40:02,366 --> 00:40:06,063
Did he break your heart
or did you break his?
565
00:40:09,006 --> 00:40:14,638
I don't know the answers to those
and about a thousand other questions.
566
00:40:15,179 --> 00:40:17,647
I missed so much of your life.
567
00:40:20,050 --> 00:40:22,314
Too much, maybe...
568
00:40:23,454 --> 00:40:25,684
...because now that I have the chance
to be the mother...
569
00:40:25,756 --> 00:40:28,020
...that I always dreamt of being...
570
00:40:29,059 --> 00:40:31,550
I'm making a total mess out of it.
571
00:40:34,331 --> 00:40:37,698
All that matters to me
is that you never stop trying.
572
00:40:40,104 --> 00:40:44,302
Unfortunately, I think that's about
the only thing I can guarantee.
573
00:41:40,898 --> 00:41:42,695
Ms. MacGruder.
574
00:41:42,766 --> 00:41:44,097
Peyton.
575
00:41:46,370 --> 00:41:52,570
I'd like to have that conversation with you,
if you're still willing.
576
00:41:55,012 --> 00:41:56,707
Yeah, come on in.
577
00:42:04,188 --> 00:42:07,555
So what made you come back?
578
00:42:09,226 --> 00:42:13,026
I'm sort of at a crossroads
in my personal life...
579
00:42:14,431 --> 00:42:16,399
...and somehow I thought...
580
00:42:19,436 --> 00:42:21,461
I don't know what I thought.
581
00:42:21,539 --> 00:42:26,033
Maybe that a view with a perspective
other than your own might be useful?
582
00:42:26,110 --> 00:42:27,634
Maybe.
583
00:42:27,711 --> 00:42:30,646
Okay. Let's put our cards on the table.
584
00:42:32,049 --> 00:42:35,143
I assume you did some research on me.
585
00:42:35,219 --> 00:42:37,710
- I...
- You'd be a lousy reporter if you didn't.
586
00:42:37,788 --> 00:42:39,585
What'd you learn?
587
00:42:42,092 --> 00:42:43,559
All right.
588
00:42:44,662 --> 00:42:46,721
Both you and your husband
came from well-to-do...
589
00:42:46,797 --> 00:42:49,288
...politically-connected families.
590
00:42:49,366 --> 00:42:51,857
Our mothers were sorority sisters.
591
00:42:51,936 --> 00:42:54,666
Billy and I were destined to be married,
at least in their minds...
592
00:42:54,738 --> 00:42:56,865
...from the moment we were in the womb.
593
00:42:56,941 --> 00:42:58,533
You studied art at Davidson.
594
00:42:58,609 --> 00:43:00,907
Yes. Of course, my father never thought...
595
00:43:00,978 --> 00:43:03,242
...that I'd ever be able to make a living
selling my work...
596
00:43:03,314 --> 00:43:06,681
...so he insisted on
a teaching credential...
597
00:43:06,750 --> 00:43:11,551
...which brings us
back to this photograph...
598
00:43:13,857 --> 00:43:16,121
...and the story I wanted to tell you
when I sent you my note.
599
00:43:16,193 --> 00:43:18,559
- More tea?
- No, I'm fine, thanks.
600
00:43:23,133 --> 00:43:26,466
Billy joined the Navy
when he graduated from Duke.
601
00:43:26,537 --> 00:43:30,633
By the time he was in flight school,
we were engaged.
602
00:43:31,709 --> 00:43:34,234
I followed him to Newport News...
603
00:43:34,311 --> 00:43:37,803
...where I got a job teaching
at a girls' school near the base.
604
00:43:38,248 --> 00:43:42,184
He became very close to his training crew...
605
00:43:42,252 --> 00:43:46,450
...and when I arrived, they very graciously
made me the fourth musketeer.
606
00:43:46,523 --> 00:43:47,785
Tell me about them.
607
00:43:49,226 --> 00:43:56,098
Well, Ritchie,
he was so full of life and joy...
608
00:43:56,166 --> 00:43:59,192
...delighted by every breath
that God gave him.
609
00:43:59,370 --> 00:44:02,305
- Are you still in touch with him?
- I was.
610
00:44:04,708 --> 00:44:08,576
Till he died. A few years back. Cancer.
611
00:44:10,781 --> 00:44:12,271
And the pilot?
612
00:44:14,952 --> 00:44:16,442
Ben Morrick.
613
00:44:17,187 --> 00:44:20,020
Well, he was the direct opposite of Billy.
614
00:44:20,090 --> 00:44:23,321
South Side of Chicago.
Street-smart, charming.
615
00:44:23,927 --> 00:44:27,158
He loved speed, danger.
616
00:44:28,999 --> 00:44:33,197
He was always trying to get the rest of us
to join him in some crazy stunt.
617
00:44:33,270 --> 00:44:35,363
- Like what?
- Well...
618
00:44:40,844 --> 00:44:42,505
There was this...
619
00:44:42,713 --> 00:44:46,274
There was this one crispy, cold autumn day.
620
00:44:46,784 --> 00:44:48,615
It was a few weeks
before they were to ship out...
621
00:44:48,686 --> 00:44:53,055
...and we all decided we'd go for a hike
in the woods not far from the base.
622
00:44:53,123 --> 00:44:55,023
Ben, give it to me.
623
00:44:56,727 --> 00:44:59,662
- Almost missed it, Ritchie.
- Get out of here.
624
00:45:01,598 --> 00:45:05,227
We came across an old bridge
that went across a gorge.
625
00:45:07,004 --> 00:45:10,303
Ben couldn't resist running ahead
and climbing up on the railing.
626
00:45:10,374 --> 00:45:14,333
The world-famous tightrope walker,
yawning in the face of certain death.
627
00:45:14,411 --> 00:45:17,380
Naturally, he wanted the rest of us
to join him.
628
00:45:17,448 --> 00:45:20,474
Ritchie and Billy
were not moved by his madness.
629
00:45:20,551 --> 00:45:24,146
I, on the other hand,
succumbed to the challenge.
630
00:45:24,221 --> 00:45:25,688
Billy was beside himself.
631
00:45:25,756 --> 00:45:27,747
Actually, I think he was more concerned...
632
00:45:27,825 --> 00:45:31,352
...with how he was going to explain
my death to my parents...
633
00:45:31,428 --> 00:45:33,396
...than he was about my well-being.
634
00:45:33,464 --> 00:45:36,160
Of course,
that made me want to do it even more.
635
00:45:36,233 --> 00:45:40,294
Now, I was halfway across and I stopped...
636
00:45:40,370 --> 00:45:45,603
...and foolishly glanced down at the creek.
637
00:45:45,843 --> 00:45:47,367
It was a long way down...
638
00:45:47,444 --> 00:45:51,471
...and I very nearly lost both my footing
and my courage...
639
00:45:51,548 --> 00:45:54,984
...until I glanced back at Ben...
640
00:45:55,586 --> 00:46:00,922
...and his outstretched hand,
and then up into his eyes...
641
00:46:00,991 --> 00:46:07,897
...where I found the gumption to continue
until his fingers wrapped around mine.
642
00:46:11,835 --> 00:46:16,795
Well, then we jumped down,
laughing like the lunatics that we were...
643
00:46:16,874 --> 00:46:19,342
...and bowed
as if we were members of a circus troupe.
644
00:46:19,409 --> 00:46:24,608
Ritchie, he applauded wildly, and Billy...
645
00:46:26,550 --> 00:46:28,780
Billy was so mad...
646
00:46:29,186 --> 00:46:32,212
...he didn't speak to me for near a week.
647
00:46:32,990 --> 00:46:35,049
You had a wild streak.
648
00:46:35,125 --> 00:46:38,060
Repressed by the world
in which I was raised.
649
00:46:40,564 --> 00:46:43,124
Whatever happened to Ben?
650
00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:48,467
Well, after he served in Vietnam,
he married a Cambodian woman.
651
00:46:48,539 --> 00:46:53,033
Stayed in Asia,
flying mercy missions for various charities.
652
00:46:53,110 --> 00:46:55,738
So when was the last time you saw him?
653
00:47:00,450 --> 00:47:04,045
Well, I think we have to save that story.
You know, my clay's drying out.
654
00:47:04,121 --> 00:47:05,486
I need to attend to it.
655
00:47:05,556 --> 00:47:08,787
Why don't you bring a couple of sandwiches
with you tomorrow for lunch?
656
00:47:08,859 --> 00:47:12,761
We can continue this with you
telling me about Gil.
657
00:47:12,830 --> 00:47:14,764
Did I tell you my husband's name?
658
00:47:14,832 --> 00:47:17,096
It's a two-way street we're
traveling together, remember?
659
00:47:17,167 --> 00:47:19,431
I did a bit of research myself.
660
00:47:19,503 --> 00:47:23,599
Your husband died in a traffic accident.
You were pregnant at the time.
661
00:47:23,707 --> 00:47:25,675
You gave the child up for adoption...
662
00:47:25,742 --> 00:47:29,940
...and you were reunited last Christmas,
after that terrible airplane tragedy.
663
00:47:31,081 --> 00:47:32,946
How could you know all of that about me?
664
00:47:33,016 --> 00:47:37,510
Well, it's not hard when you have a source.
665
00:47:39,156 --> 00:47:41,056
Jules Grandfield.
666
00:47:42,092 --> 00:47:44,219
He's a great fan of my work. And a friend.
667
00:47:44,294 --> 00:47:47,559
- And a shameless gossip.
- Yes, that, too.
668
00:47:47,631 --> 00:47:50,395
He tells me that you're involved
with a sports writer.
669
00:47:50,467 --> 00:47:54,096
A man whom, I'd be willing to bet,
has something to do with the crossroads...
670
00:47:54,171 --> 00:47:56,537
...that brought you back to see me.
671
00:47:58,842 --> 00:48:00,332
Tomorrow then?
672
00:48:03,180 --> 00:48:04,647
Tomorrow.
673
00:48:19,596 --> 00:48:20,756
- Hey.
- Hey.
674
00:48:20,831 --> 00:48:24,392
I hope you like ravioli con funghi
because they ran out of your favorite.
675
00:48:24,468 --> 00:48:25,958
But I also got you a Caesar salad and...
676
00:48:26,036 --> 00:48:29,301
Yeah, listen. Sorry, I can't stay.
677
00:48:29,373 --> 00:48:31,933
Come on.
I bought enough food for a regiment.
678
00:48:32,009 --> 00:48:34,534
David moved out of his dorm.
No one seems to know where he's gone...
679
00:48:34,611 --> 00:48:39,639
...including his mom, who's been calling me
non-stop, panicked, ticked off...
680
00:48:39,716 --> 00:48:42,184
Says it's all my fault he quit school...
681
00:48:42,252 --> 00:48:43,514
King...
682
00:48:43,587 --> 00:48:47,114
And then there's this New York thing.
683
00:48:47,190 --> 00:48:51,388
So the interview went well?
You charmed them?
684
00:48:51,461 --> 00:48:54,760
Must have.
They offered me a job on the spot.
685
00:48:55,065 --> 00:48:57,932
Wow. Mr. Irresistible.
686
00:48:58,001 --> 00:48:59,764
To everyone but you.
687
00:49:00,771 --> 00:49:02,568
They...
688
00:49:02,639 --> 00:49:06,905
They want a five-year commitment
and an answer by the end of the week.
689
00:49:08,345 --> 00:49:09,744
Okay, I see.
690
00:49:12,716 --> 00:49:18,484
You know, it's unlikely at my age that I'll
get another opportunity like this, Peyton.
691
00:49:20,757 --> 00:49:24,386
And I will happily pass it by if...
692
00:49:29,900 --> 00:49:32,300
If you'll just agree to marry me.
693
00:49:38,909 --> 00:49:40,274
King, I...
694
00:50:01,565 --> 00:50:03,999
Let the clay slide between your palms.
695
00:50:04,067 --> 00:50:08,333
Press evenly on both sides,
letting the bowl's wall get thinner.
696
00:50:08,405 --> 00:50:10,703
And let your hands glide up
to the lip of the piece...
697
00:50:10,774 --> 00:50:14,073
...making the shape more delicate
and more fragile.
698
00:50:14,411 --> 00:50:17,903
Well, should've quit while I was ahead.
699
00:50:17,981 --> 00:50:20,609
Well, to have a chance at success...
700
00:50:20,684 --> 00:50:23,710
...you need to have the courage
to face potential failure.
701
00:50:23,787 --> 00:50:25,118
Here.
702
00:50:25,522 --> 00:50:29,481
Tell me about your sports writer.
Is your relationship serious?
703
00:50:29,993 --> 00:50:31,722
It was.
704
00:50:31,795 --> 00:50:36,357
He recently proposed
and I put him off until last night.
705
00:50:36,433 --> 00:50:40,597
King sort of pressed me for an answer
that I just couldn't give.
706
00:50:42,472 --> 00:50:44,940
Couldn't or wouldn't?
707
00:50:47,344 --> 00:50:50,074
Okay, let's talk about something else, then.
708
00:50:50,147 --> 00:50:51,478
Like what?
709
00:50:51,548 --> 00:50:55,177
I don't know.
How about your relationship with Gil?
710
00:50:57,788 --> 00:50:59,619
I'd rather not.
711
00:51:01,191 --> 00:51:04,285
This was supposed to be
give-and-take, remember?
712
00:51:05,996 --> 00:51:09,591
So far, all it's been is I give, you take.
713
00:51:10,100 --> 00:51:14,628
So how long were you married
before you got pregnant?
714
00:51:16,039 --> 00:51:17,370
Two years.
715
00:51:18,608 --> 00:51:21,543
Was your husband excited
about having a baby?
716
00:51:24,314 --> 00:51:26,714
He had been my college professor.
717
00:51:27,417 --> 00:51:32,616
- It's so embarrassing. It's just such
a clich�. - All right, but go on.
718
00:51:32,689 --> 00:51:35,351
He was everything
that you would expect him to be.
719
00:51:35,425 --> 00:51:40,829
Handsome and charming
and rumpled and so smart.
720
00:51:40,897 --> 00:51:44,799
You must've had plenty of competition,
then, for his attention.
721
00:51:45,435 --> 00:51:49,428
Let's just say he did nothing
to discourage his popularity.
722
00:51:49,673 --> 00:51:53,234
And impending fatherhood,
how'd he deal with that?
723
00:51:54,277 --> 00:52:01,183
He tried at first to get used to the
idea of it, but it didn't fit his self-image.
724
00:52:03,186 --> 00:52:09,056
And then when I began to show,
he just became more and more...
725
00:52:09,793 --> 00:52:12,227
I don't know...
726
00:52:13,363 --> 00:52:15,126
Disengaged.
727
00:52:16,333 --> 00:52:18,927
That's a word I understand very well.
728
00:52:19,703 --> 00:52:24,163
"Disengaged" is about the best thing
I can say about my relationship with Billy.
729
00:52:24,241 --> 00:52:26,971
Our marriage was, in essence, arranged.
730
00:52:28,578 --> 00:52:32,412
We respected each other,
but there was very little affection...
731
00:52:32,482 --> 00:52:33,949
- Hey.
- ...never mind love.
732
00:52:34,017 --> 00:52:35,382
- Hey.
- Gentlemen.
733
00:52:35,452 --> 00:52:36,714
Hey.
734
00:52:36,786 --> 00:52:38,151
You can have the winner.
735
00:52:38,221 --> 00:52:40,189
In the meantime, dance with Eve, will you?
She's bored.
736
00:52:40,290 --> 00:52:42,485
I can't handle her staring daggers at me.
737
00:52:42,559 --> 00:52:47,053
Our lives were destined
to be rich with privilege...
738
00:52:47,130 --> 00:52:49,462
...but totally devoid of passion.
739
00:53:39,316 --> 00:53:41,307
Ben and I...
740
00:53:41,384 --> 00:53:44,876
...we tried our best
to not become involved, but...
741
00:53:48,959 --> 00:53:52,451
Well, it was inevitable.
742
00:53:55,732 --> 00:53:59,725
But if it was Ben you loved,
how did you end up married to Billy?
743
00:54:04,641 --> 00:54:08,042
Do you love...
What's his name, your sports writer?
744
00:54:08,111 --> 00:54:10,238
Kingston, King.
745
00:54:12,282 --> 00:54:14,773
Just saying his name makes you smile...
746
00:54:14,851 --> 00:54:16,819
...and yet you can't bring yourself
to marry him.
747
00:54:16,886 --> 00:54:18,285
Why is that?
748
00:54:20,290 --> 00:54:24,920
Did you ever write to Ben, you know,
after Billy died?
749
00:54:25,095 --> 00:54:29,828
There was no point. I mean, not after
Ritchie told me he'd married another woman.
750
00:54:29,899 --> 00:54:32,333
- But when was that?
- It was the '70s.
751
00:54:32,402 --> 00:54:35,963
- It's so long ago. You know, maybe...
- It doesn't matter.
752
00:54:36,506 --> 00:54:39,600
Even if I wanted to,
I wouldn't know how to begin to find him.
753
00:54:39,676 --> 00:54:43,703
I wouldn't know where to begin looking,
not after all these years.
754
00:54:56,626 --> 00:55:00,892
I must've picked this one out for you
when I was what, six years old?
755
00:55:01,765 --> 00:55:05,064
I can't believe
that you wore this one to work.
756
00:55:06,469 --> 00:55:08,733
How do we make forward progress...
757
00:55:08,805 --> 00:55:12,673
...when the past weighs on us
like Marley's chains?
758
00:55:12,942 --> 00:55:15,968
With what tool can we cut
those onerous bonds?
759
00:55:16,579 --> 00:55:18,570
Therapy? Confession?
760
00:55:18,715 --> 00:55:23,175
Or perhaps, more simply, with
a candid dialog between trusted friends.
761
00:55:23,253 --> 00:55:25,585
I've found such an opportunity recently...
762
00:55:25,655 --> 00:55:28,715
...with a woman
whom I have come to greatly admire...
763
00:55:28,792 --> 00:55:33,820
...one of you, dear readers, who wrote
to oppose my admonition to be cautious...
764
00:55:33,897 --> 00:55:36,297
...when opening one's heart to love.
765
00:55:36,366 --> 00:55:39,494
I'm beginning to be persuaded
by her point of view...
766
00:55:39,569 --> 00:55:45,508
...and as her argument continues to unfold,
I hope to share it with you in this column.
767
00:55:45,575 --> 00:55:48,237
Okay, so I talked to a yeoman first class...
768
00:55:48,311 --> 00:55:50,745
...whatever that is,
at the Veterans Administration.
769
00:55:50,814 --> 00:55:53,374
Very, very sexy voice, by the way.
770
00:55:53,450 --> 00:55:56,351
I'm betting that he has a ship tattoo
right on his...
771
00:55:56,419 --> 00:55:59,013
- Mandi.
- Sorry.
772
00:55:59,089 --> 00:56:00,522
- Bottom-line it, please?
- All right.
773
00:56:00,590 --> 00:56:04,617
The last time the Navy made any contact
with Ben Morrick was in 1974.
774
00:56:04,694 --> 00:56:08,790
They sent his discharge papers
to an address in Chiang Mai.
775
00:56:08,865 --> 00:56:10,457
Thailand?
776
00:56:10,967 --> 00:56:12,229
Okay.
777
00:56:12,302 --> 00:56:14,600
This is gonna be a long shot,
but what the heck.
778
00:56:14,671 --> 00:56:15,797
I pulled these off the Net...
779
00:56:15,872 --> 00:56:19,171
...a list of nongovernmental organizations
operating in Asia.
780
00:56:19,242 --> 00:56:22,302
Start calling them.
See if anybody's ever heard of the guy.
781
00:56:22,379 --> 00:56:23,505
Okay.
782
00:56:25,849 --> 00:56:29,341
There are fewer names
in the Beijing telephone directory.
783
00:56:29,419 --> 00:56:33,150
Well, who knows? Maybe the
first one will be the lucky winner.
784
00:56:33,223 --> 00:56:36,317
If not, I'll give
you a hand when I get back.
785
00:56:41,364 --> 00:56:43,025
Be right there.
786
00:56:51,040 --> 00:56:53,440
- Hey, come in. Thanks for coming over.
- Hi.
787
00:56:53,510 --> 00:56:56,946
Your message made it sound important.
What's all this?
788
00:56:57,013 --> 00:57:00,449
It's stuff for the homeless shelter.
789
00:57:00,884 --> 00:57:02,545
Your dad's stuff?
790
00:57:03,186 --> 00:57:04,175
Yeah.
791
00:57:04,254 --> 00:57:06,017
I decided it was time
to get my head straight.
792
00:57:06,089 --> 00:57:07,954
About a lot of things.
793
00:57:10,093 --> 00:57:13,358
I can't tell you how proud that makes me.
794
00:57:13,430 --> 00:57:15,955
- But that's not why I called you.
- No?
795
00:57:16,032 --> 00:57:20,594
No. Mike's bass player, Ricki, let it slip that
David's been crashing on his hide-a-bed.
796
00:57:20,670 --> 00:57:21,659
Said he's supposed to keep it quiet...
797
00:57:21,738 --> 00:57:23,262
'cause he's trying to avoid his dad
or something?
798
00:57:23,339 --> 00:57:25,967
- Who's been worried sick.
- Yeah, that's what I figured.
799
00:57:26,042 --> 00:57:29,534
Anyway, he got himself a gig
at this one-hour photo place.
800
00:57:29,612 --> 00:57:31,910
This is the address right here.
801
00:57:32,882 --> 00:57:35,942
- Great. Thank you, Christine.
- You're welcome.
802
00:57:37,320 --> 00:57:39,117
Mom?
803
00:57:39,189 --> 00:57:42,181
Don't let David know
that I'm the one that dimed him out, okay?
804
00:57:42,258 --> 00:57:44,852
Don't worry. I never reveal a source.
805
00:57:59,476 --> 00:58:02,843
- Any luck with the NGOs?
- I thought you'd never ask.
806
00:58:03,480 --> 00:58:06,142
You found him? You found Ben Morrick?
807
00:58:06,216 --> 00:58:09,947
Seemed like I talked to every
dot-org in Asia to do it, but, yeah.
808
00:58:10,286 --> 00:58:13,153
By the way, you might
want to give Nora the heads-up...
809
00:58:13,223 --> 00:58:15,623
...about the gigundous phone bill
that's about to come her way.
810
00:58:15,692 --> 00:58:18,889
- I'll do that. Tell me.
- Okay. On about the 50th phone call...
811
00:58:18,962 --> 00:58:22,159
I spoke with an NGO
who he'd flown with for nearly 10 years.
812
00:58:22,232 --> 00:58:26,293
Apparently, his job was to shuttle orphans
and sick people...
813
00:58:26,369 --> 00:58:28,769
...and medical supplies
in and out of remote areas.
814
00:58:28,872 --> 00:58:33,070
- Mission outposts, that sort of thing.
- So is he still in the jungle, or what?
815
00:58:33,142 --> 00:58:37,101
If you consider Washington the jungle,
'cause a lot of people do.
816
00:58:37,213 --> 00:58:38,202
He's in DC?
817
00:58:38,281 --> 00:58:41,478
Just outside.
He retired there six months ago.
818
00:58:41,551 --> 00:58:44,247
You got all this from one phone call?
819
00:58:44,354 --> 00:58:47,118
Guy I spoke with at the non-profit
home office in Hong Kong...
820
00:58:47,190 --> 00:58:49,750
...was very friendly,
invited me for dim sum.
821
00:58:49,826 --> 00:58:52,294
Well, did your new friend
offer up an address?
822
00:58:52,362 --> 00:58:53,886
Indeed he did.
823
00:58:53,963 --> 00:58:55,760
You're gonna have to take your act
on the road, though...
824
00:58:55,832 --> 00:58:59,393
...if you want to talk to him.
No e-mails, phone's unlisted.
825
00:59:00,470 --> 00:59:03,303
You, young lady, deserve a raise.
826
00:59:06,743 --> 00:59:09,473
Feel free to mention that to Nora, too.
827
00:59:14,651 --> 00:59:17,484
Hey, what a surprise.
828
00:59:17,554 --> 00:59:21,820
Usually only fire marshals
and fitness freaks use the stairs.
829
00:59:21,891 --> 00:59:24,155
I stopped by your office.
830
00:59:24,227 --> 00:59:26,752
I thought maybe you'd gone up
to New York again.
831
00:59:26,829 --> 00:59:28,091
Not yet.
832
00:59:29,999 --> 00:59:34,095
Anyway, I'm glad I found you.
I need to talk to you.
833
00:59:34,170 --> 00:59:36,570
- Really?
- About David.
834
00:59:36,639 --> 00:59:38,732
David? What about him?
835
00:59:38,808 --> 00:59:42,972
Christine found out where he's working.
It's a one-hour photo place.
836
00:59:44,581 --> 00:59:47,607
- He's all right?
- Far as I know, yeah.
837
00:59:48,551 --> 00:59:50,610
I'm gonna call his mother.
838
00:59:51,321 --> 00:59:53,221
- King?
- Yeah.
839
00:59:54,991 --> 00:59:58,620
- I was reminded of something recently.
- What's that?
840
00:59:58,795 --> 01:00:00,490
In order to have a chance at success...
841
01:00:00,563 --> 01:00:03,794
...you need the courage
to face potential failure.
842
01:00:06,970 --> 01:00:08,961
David has the strength.
843
01:00:09,806 --> 01:00:14,539
He just needs to know that, win or lose,
you'll still be there for him.
844
01:00:18,014 --> 01:00:22,678
Peyton, why can't you tell me
what's really keeping us apart?
845
01:00:51,547 --> 01:00:52,605
Eve.
846
01:00:54,450 --> 01:00:56,384
I'm so glad I caught you.
847
01:00:56,452 --> 01:00:58,317
No, I'm just running off to the gallery.
848
01:00:58,388 --> 01:01:01,687
I won't keep you.
I've got the greatest news.
849
01:01:02,625 --> 01:01:04,490
I found Ben Morrick.
850
01:01:05,628 --> 01:01:09,064
And the best part,
he lives less than 200 miles from here.
851
01:01:09,132 --> 01:01:10,429
It's near Washington.
852
01:01:10,500 --> 01:01:13,697
- No, I'm sorry. No, I...
I've got to go. Sorry. - I've...
853
01:01:13,770 --> 01:01:15,533
Eve, wait a minute.
854
01:01:16,105 --> 01:01:17,197
Eve.
855
01:01:20,109 --> 01:01:22,703
What happened to the two-way street?
The give and the take?
856
01:01:22,812 --> 01:01:26,009
You know, we were both supposed
to get something out of this, remember?
857
01:01:26,082 --> 01:01:29,643
So far, all I've gotten is
more confused than ever.
858
01:01:29,719 --> 01:01:32,620
Please, call me. You know the number.
859
01:02:21,304 --> 01:02:23,602
- Mr. Morrick?
- Yes?
860
01:02:23,673 --> 01:02:26,574
- Ben Morrick?
- That's right. Can I help you?
861
01:02:26,642 --> 01:02:28,803
I sure hope so.
862
01:02:30,613 --> 01:02:33,047
Nice place you've got here, Mr. Morrick.
863
01:02:33,116 --> 01:02:36,449
- Your flowers are beautiful.
- Thanks. Call me Ben.
864
01:02:37,053 --> 01:02:39,544
My wife got me into gardening.
865
01:02:39,622 --> 01:02:43,353
She said it would be the yin to the yang
of flying choppers.
866
01:02:43,659 --> 01:02:46,594
- Sounds like a wise woman.
- She was indeed.
867
01:02:48,564 --> 01:02:50,156
She passed away.
868
01:02:50,767 --> 01:02:52,928
- Three years ago.
- I'm sorry.
869
01:02:53,703 --> 01:02:56,171
So, tell me...
870
01:02:56,239 --> 01:03:01,506
Tell me what brings you
all the way up from Middleborough.
871
01:03:01,577 --> 01:03:04,478
What could a reporter
possibly want with me?
872
01:03:06,215 --> 01:03:08,445
Eve Miller sent me a note.
873
01:03:10,953 --> 01:03:12,011
Eve?
874
01:03:12,889 --> 01:03:16,791
She wrote to complain, actually,
about a column I'd written.
875
01:03:17,727 --> 01:03:20,924
- What kind of column?
- On relationships.
876
01:03:20,997 --> 01:03:25,058
Specifically, I was discussing
when to take a chance on love.
877
01:03:25,601 --> 01:03:29,264
And her note led to several conversations...
878
01:03:29,338 --> 01:03:32,796
...in which she told me about Ritchie,
Billy and you.
879
01:03:32,875 --> 01:03:35,435
What exactly did she tell you?
880
01:03:35,511 --> 01:03:39,140
About how you had all trained together
and the friendship you shared...
881
01:03:39,215 --> 01:03:44,414
...and how you once encouraged her
to cross a gorge on the railing of a bridge.
882
01:03:45,688 --> 01:03:48,213
"Gorge" is a bit of an overstatement.
883
01:03:49,592 --> 01:03:54,461
She implied it was a dangerous step for her.
Both literally and figuratively.
884
01:03:57,200 --> 01:04:00,192
She said the two of you
got close after that.
885
01:04:02,138 --> 01:04:05,835
It was a long time ago.
886
01:04:12,548 --> 01:04:15,278
You knew that she and Billy got married,
I assume?
887
01:04:15,351 --> 01:04:17,444
Ritchie Everby told me.
888
01:04:17,520 --> 01:04:19,954
We ran into each other in Saigon.
889
01:04:21,557 --> 01:04:23,491
He said Billy's father
had pulled some strings...
890
01:04:23,559 --> 01:04:26,221
...and got him a posting stateside...
891
01:04:26,963 --> 01:04:29,329
...as a wedding present.
892
01:04:29,999 --> 01:04:34,766
- Were you surprised by their marriage?
- Yes and no.
893
01:04:34,837 --> 01:04:38,796
It was certainly what their families wanted
for their own agendas.
894
01:04:38,875 --> 01:04:42,868
Still, it was hard to believe
that Eve would...
895
01:04:44,647 --> 01:04:47,673
She was so curious. I mean, so full of life.
896
01:04:47,750 --> 01:04:52,050
And Billy, he was just the opposite.
897
01:04:53,256 --> 01:04:54,780
She deserved...
898
01:04:55,725 --> 01:04:57,158
What?
899
01:04:57,226 --> 01:04:59,956
More than Billy was capable of offering.
900
01:05:03,132 --> 01:05:06,226
But there was nothing
you could do or say, right?
901
01:05:06,369 --> 01:05:10,806
I mean, Billy was your best friend
and she'd already agreed to marry him.
902
01:05:11,540 --> 01:05:13,337
It's quite a dilemma.
903
01:05:13,910 --> 01:05:17,004
Yes, quite a dilemma.
904
01:05:18,781 --> 01:05:20,840
So how did you resolve it?
905
01:05:21,250 --> 01:05:24,014
In the worst way imaginable, I'm afraid.
906
01:05:24,754 --> 01:05:28,588
What did Eve tell you? About how it ended?
Between us, I mean?
907
01:05:29,558 --> 01:05:31,253
She was vague.
908
01:05:32,495 --> 01:05:35,828
Which is why I'm here, probably.
909
01:05:35,898 --> 01:05:38,833
I guess I'd like to have
your perspective on it.
910
01:05:41,070 --> 01:05:47,339
She did lead me to believe, Ben, that
she still regrets not following her heart.
911
01:05:48,644 --> 01:05:50,271
So what happened?
912
01:05:55,918 --> 01:05:59,217
Just a few days before I left for Nam...
913
01:06:03,092 --> 01:06:06,721
...the rainshower had rolled in
from the ocean...
914
01:06:06,796 --> 01:06:09,924
...and I was driving through it...
915
01:06:13,336 --> 01:06:18,000
...when I saw Eve
riding her bike down the road.
916
01:06:35,925 --> 01:06:38,257
I knew I shouldn't have stopped.
917
01:06:39,328 --> 01:06:41,387
I knew what would happen.
918
01:06:44,367 --> 01:06:46,494
But I somehow convinced myself...
919
01:06:46,569 --> 01:06:49,436
...that we would be forgiven
our transgressions...
920
01:06:49,505 --> 01:06:52,531
...that we could ignore our obligations.
921
01:06:52,608 --> 01:06:54,337
You gotta let me talk to Billy.
922
01:06:54,410 --> 01:06:57,140
Let me tell him
we didn't mean to fall in love...
923
01:06:57,213 --> 01:06:58,373
- No.
- ...that it just happened.
924
01:06:58,447 --> 01:07:01,245
- No.
- I'll make him understand. You'll see, Eve.
925
01:07:03,452 --> 01:07:07,718
- You can't tell him, Ben.
Not now, not ever. - Eve...
926
01:07:12,528 --> 01:07:13,517
Eve.
927
01:07:13,596 --> 01:07:18,693
If only we were willing to risk everything
for an abiding love.
928
01:07:20,436 --> 01:07:22,836
Unfortunately...
929
01:07:25,374 --> 01:07:28,537
Eve didn't have it in her
to take that chance.
930
01:07:29,745 --> 01:07:32,441
You never saw her again after that day?
931
01:07:33,682 --> 01:07:36,242
I wanted to. Desperately.
932
01:07:38,354 --> 01:07:40,845
But the choice wasn't mine to make.
933
01:07:41,557 --> 01:07:43,024
It was hers.
934
01:07:45,194 --> 01:07:49,858
You knew Billy got killed, right?
A sailing accident. Years ago.
935
01:07:54,904 --> 01:07:56,394
I didn't know.
936
01:08:16,892 --> 01:08:18,621
Eve's phone number.
937
01:08:20,296 --> 01:08:22,628
Unfortunately, Ms. MacGruder...
938
01:08:23,766 --> 01:08:26,394
Peyton...
939
01:08:27,536 --> 01:08:29,766
...it's still her choice to make.
940
01:08:50,259 --> 01:08:51,624
- Can I help you?
- Maybe.
941
01:08:51,694 --> 01:08:54,185
I'm David Danville's father.
I called yesterday.
942
01:08:54,263 --> 01:08:56,231
They said he might be working here tonight.
943
01:08:56,298 --> 01:08:59,028
Yeah, he's in the darkroom.
You can go on back.
944
01:08:59,101 --> 01:09:00,363
Okay, thanks.
945
01:09:08,444 --> 01:09:09,604
David?
946
01:09:11,680 --> 01:09:13,910
- Hey.
- Hey.
947
01:09:18,654 --> 01:09:23,591
Look, for some reason, you and I seem
to be on different wavelengths lately...
948
01:09:23,659 --> 01:09:26,594
...and I just want to get past that.
949
01:09:26,662 --> 01:09:27,686
Okay.
950
01:09:27,763 --> 01:09:32,564
Okay, so talk to me, why don't you,
about this whole art-school concept.
951
01:09:32,635 --> 01:09:36,093
There's nothing to talk about, really.
I'm going, end of story.
952
01:09:36,172 --> 01:09:39,005
You expect to pay your tuition
working here?
953
01:09:39,074 --> 01:09:41,167
I expect to pay for my plane ticket
working here.
954
01:09:41,243 --> 01:09:44,110
I'll figure out the rest when I get to LA.
955
01:09:44,747 --> 01:09:46,442
Where's all this coming from
all of a sudden...
956
01:09:46,515 --> 01:09:50,315
- This newfound passion?
- It's not all of a sudden.
957
01:09:50,419 --> 01:09:51,613
- No?
- No.
958
01:09:51,687 --> 01:09:56,920
It's something I got started with a while
ago, after you and Mom... You split up.
959
01:09:58,394 --> 01:10:02,524
It was kind of a distraction for me
from all that...
960
01:10:02,898 --> 01:10:04,957
From all that stuff going on.
961
01:10:06,502 --> 01:10:11,701
Yeah, those were tough times for everybody,
especially you. I know.
962
01:10:14,376 --> 01:10:17,174
What I regret most about the whole thing...
963
01:10:17,246 --> 01:10:21,546
...is the gap it put between us...
964
01:10:21,617 --> 01:10:25,018
...that I still haven't been able to bridge.
965
01:10:25,087 --> 01:10:27,078
I could have done better.
966
01:10:27,756 --> 01:10:30,850
I should have done better.
967
01:10:33,696 --> 01:10:36,460
And for that failure, I am truly sorry.
968
01:10:41,070 --> 01:10:44,631
If you want to go to art school
and draw pictures, that's fine by me.
969
01:10:44,707 --> 01:10:48,905
I will support you in every way I can.
970
01:10:51,747 --> 01:10:54,773
- Okay. Cool.
- Cool.
971
01:10:57,586 --> 01:11:01,215
And just so you know,
it's not drawing that I'm into.
972
01:11:01,290 --> 01:11:03,622
- No?
- This is...
973
01:11:04,660 --> 01:11:06,355
This is what I do.
974
01:11:13,502 --> 01:11:15,663
You took these?
975
01:11:15,738 --> 01:11:19,299
- Yeah. Well, they're not all
that good, but... - Not good?
976
01:11:22,911 --> 01:11:24,538
They're amazing.
977
01:11:26,749 --> 01:11:30,150
Amazing enough to get me
into CalArts, anyway.
978
01:11:30,219 --> 01:11:32,278
I mean, who knows,
if you can win the Pulitzer...
979
01:11:32,354 --> 01:11:34,379
...maybe it's in the genes.
980
01:11:39,695 --> 01:11:41,629
Wow, somewhere along the way
I seem to have forgotten...
981
01:11:41,697 --> 01:11:44,996
...what an incredible kid you are.
982
01:11:47,369 --> 01:11:50,167
If you can forgive your old man for that...
983
01:11:53,542 --> 01:11:56,534
I promise it will never happen again.
984
01:12:01,383 --> 01:12:02,407
How could you have done that?
985
01:12:02,484 --> 01:12:03,746
How could you
have taken it upon yourself...
986
01:12:03,819 --> 01:12:05,446
How could I not?
987
01:12:05,521 --> 01:12:09,321
After everything you told me
about losing the love of your life...
988
01:12:09,391 --> 01:12:11,791
...because you weren't brave enough
to follow your passion.
989
01:12:11,860 --> 01:12:16,160
And yet all these years later, when I offer
you a second chance, you what?
990
01:12:16,231 --> 01:12:19,166
- You still don't have the courage?
- You know, you don't understand.
991
01:12:19,234 --> 01:12:22,567
You keep saying that.
What don't I understand?
992
01:12:22,638 --> 01:12:24,833
My daughter is his daughter.
993
01:12:26,742 --> 01:12:29,472
She's not Billy's child, she's Ben's.
994
01:12:31,847 --> 01:12:33,838
Of course she is.
995
01:12:35,117 --> 01:12:36,516
Of course.
996
01:12:39,254 --> 01:12:43,588
By the time I realized I was pregnant,
Ben had been shipped out.
997
01:12:44,159 --> 01:12:46,787
It was an election year...
998
01:12:46,862 --> 01:12:52,960
...and my father was running on a platform
of what we now call family values.
999
01:12:54,670 --> 01:12:57,605
I didn't know how Ben would take the news.
1000
01:12:58,307 --> 01:13:01,105
So I chose caution over passion.
1001
01:13:02,077 --> 01:13:06,639
Eve, that was 40 years ago.
What's left to hold you back now?
1002
01:13:06,715 --> 01:13:09,445
I stole Ben's child from him.
1003
01:13:10,386 --> 01:13:13,219
Raised her with another man's name.
1004
01:13:13,288 --> 01:13:16,314
What could I possibly expect from him
after all these years?
1005
01:13:16,392 --> 01:13:20,089
How could I begin to explain?
Where would I find the words?
1006
01:13:22,464 --> 01:13:26,298
In the same place that I found the words
to tell my child...
1007
01:13:26,368 --> 01:13:30,236
...that I tried to take her life
along with my own.
1008
01:13:30,305 --> 01:13:33,638
And when I failed and she was born,
I gave her away.
1009
01:13:35,444 --> 01:13:37,207
I found the words.
1010
01:13:38,213 --> 01:13:41,114
What strength that must have taken, Peyton.
1011
01:13:42,251 --> 01:13:48,486
And yet, you're not brave enough
to commit your heart to King.
1012
01:13:49,992 --> 01:13:52,119
I can't help but wonder why.
1013
01:13:58,200 --> 01:13:59,997
- Because I'm a...
- No.
1014
01:14:01,203 --> 01:14:04,172
Don't tell me. Tell him.
1015
01:14:09,845 --> 01:14:13,542
More than four decades ago,
my critic and new friend...
1016
01:14:13,615 --> 01:14:17,949
...chose a well-marked path rather
than risk following an unblazed trail.
1017
01:14:18,020 --> 01:14:22,286
Her regret at having made that choice
had lasted a lifetime.
1018
01:14:22,357 --> 01:14:26,987
And when, after all these years,
fate offered her another chance to choose...
1019
01:14:27,062 --> 01:14:28,723
...a do-over, if you will...
1020
01:14:28,797 --> 01:14:32,790
...she balked
because of a long-harbored secret.
1021
01:15:41,904 --> 01:15:43,394
Hello, Ben.
1022
01:15:53,382 --> 01:15:58,217
After that day in the rain,
I was confused about what I...
1023
01:15:59,788 --> 01:16:04,282
What we'd done, about who I was,
who I wanted to be.
1024
01:16:06,128 --> 01:16:12,897
It took me a while to sort it out, to realize
that the love I felt for you was real.
1025
01:16:12,968 --> 01:16:16,699
- And by the time I came to tell you...
- You came to tell me?
1026
01:16:17,139 --> 01:16:19,164
Rode my bike.
1027
01:16:19,241 --> 01:16:23,575
Didn't bother slowing down at the gate
and got arrested by the Marines.
1028
01:16:25,447 --> 01:16:30,146
But not before I made it to your quarters...
1029
01:16:30,218 --> 01:16:35,554
...and found out
that you had left that morning for Vietnam.
1030
01:16:35,624 --> 01:16:37,683
Why didn't you write, Eve?
1031
01:16:40,162 --> 01:16:42,289
I would have...
1032
01:16:44,032 --> 01:16:47,092
...but I found out the next day...
1033
01:16:49,404 --> 01:16:51,929
...that I was pregnant.
1034
01:16:53,208 --> 01:16:54,266
Pregnant?
1035
01:16:54,343 --> 01:16:57,210
You were gone, Ben,
to the other side of the world.
1036
01:16:57,279 --> 01:16:59,270
I didn't know what to do.
1037
01:16:59,381 --> 01:17:05,581
I tortured myself for days and then, finally,
I turned in the only direction I felt I could...
1038
01:17:05,654 --> 01:17:08,282
...to the world in which I'd been raised.
1039
01:17:08,724 --> 01:17:10,316
To Billy, you mean.
1040
01:17:10,392 --> 01:17:13,088
I decided that under the circumstances...
1041
01:17:14,930 --> 01:17:16,659
...to avoid a scandal...
1042
01:17:17,599 --> 01:17:20,193
...to protect our families' reputations...
1043
01:17:22,938 --> 01:17:25,771
...that I would go through with the wedding.
1044
01:17:31,613 --> 01:17:36,243
It was a cowardly decision, Ben,
and one I regretted...
1045
01:17:36,318 --> 01:17:38,013
...even as I stood in front of the pastor...
1046
01:17:38,086 --> 01:17:41,749
...because you were always there, Ben,
between us.
1047
01:17:41,823 --> 01:17:46,658
And then when Billy died,
I tried to find you...
1048
01:17:48,330 --> 01:17:52,494
...but Ritchie told me
that you had married another woman.
1049
01:17:53,769 --> 01:17:57,261
I did everything I could
to get you out of my mind...
1050
01:17:57,339 --> 01:17:59,500
...and I failed miserably.
1051
01:18:00,642 --> 01:18:04,476
And then Peyton MacGruder told me
that she'd found you...
1052
01:18:06,915 --> 01:18:08,075
...and I wanted to run away...
1053
01:18:08,150 --> 01:18:12,211
...because I didn't believe I had
it inside me to tell you the truth.
1054
01:18:15,957 --> 01:18:17,754
But here you are.
1055
01:18:21,163 --> 01:18:22,221
Yes.
1056
01:18:30,739 --> 01:18:34,038
Tell me everything about your life
that I've missed.
1057
01:18:38,346 --> 01:18:42,146
- Ben, there's so much.
- We have time.
1058
01:18:43,251 --> 01:18:44,513
Start...
1059
01:18:45,353 --> 01:18:48,914
Start by telling me about our child.
1060
01:18:50,759 --> 01:18:55,025
Ben, you have a daughter.
1061
01:18:56,732 --> 01:18:58,461
Her name's Dawn.
1062
01:19:01,269 --> 01:19:06,798
And, not to make you feel old,
but you've got grandchildren.
1063
01:19:10,145 --> 01:19:13,205
Not just one, but two.
1064
01:19:15,383 --> 01:19:16,907
Mandi, have you seen King?
1065
01:19:16,985 --> 01:19:18,976
- No. I've been hiding out.
- From who?
1066
01:19:19,054 --> 01:19:22,615
Nora. She's called me at least three times
since my first latt�.
1067
01:19:22,691 --> 01:19:25,421
She wants this week's column,
and she wants it now.
1068
01:19:25,494 --> 01:19:28,190
Well, it's not finished yet.
1069
01:19:36,905 --> 01:19:38,930
- Is today Friday?
- All day.
1070
01:19:40,375 --> 01:19:43,037
What time does the morning flight leave
for New York?
1071
01:19:43,111 --> 01:19:45,136
About an hour ago.
1072
01:19:51,553 --> 01:19:53,020
Oh, no.
1073
01:19:53,955 --> 01:19:55,946
You okay, boss?
1074
01:19:57,492 --> 01:19:59,460
Book me on the first flight to La Guardia.
1075
01:19:59,528 --> 01:20:01,155
- What about Nora?
- Stall her.
1076
01:20:01,229 --> 01:20:02,287
- Me?
- You.
1077
01:20:02,364 --> 01:20:04,127
- How?
- Don't know, don't care.
1078
01:20:17,946 --> 01:20:22,178
- Where are you going in such a hurry?
- New York. I thought that you were...
1079
01:20:22,250 --> 01:20:23,808
But they're painting your office.
1080
01:20:23,885 --> 01:20:26,877
It's part of the deal I made with Nora
so I wouldn't go to the Times.
1081
01:20:26,955 --> 01:20:31,119
Course, I didn't tell her
I already passed on the offer.
1082
01:20:31,193 --> 01:20:33,889
- You turned it down?
- Yeah.
1083
01:20:34,896 --> 01:20:38,127
- Can I come in?
- Yeah, sure.
1084
01:20:43,038 --> 01:20:46,030
Listen, I want to hear
why you turned down the job...
1085
01:20:46,107 --> 01:20:49,304
...but there's something
that I really need to say first.
1086
01:20:49,377 --> 01:20:50,571
Okay.
1087
01:20:51,746 --> 01:20:53,304
You were right.
1088
01:20:55,016 --> 01:21:01,854
About me using Christine as an excuse
to not commit to you, to us.
1089
01:21:04,826 --> 01:21:08,557
I told you about Gil and how we met.
1090
01:21:08,964 --> 01:21:11,432
That he was your professor, right?
1091
01:21:11,867 --> 01:21:14,199
And I was his adoring student.
1092
01:21:15,770 --> 01:21:19,399
And our relationship was built
on passion mostly...
1093
01:21:19,474 --> 01:21:23,171
...and I was na�ve enough to think that
that was gonna last.
1094
01:21:23,245 --> 01:21:24,735
It didn't.
1095
01:21:26,047 --> 01:21:31,110
When I got pregnant, Gil became distant.
1096
01:21:33,188 --> 01:21:36,885
Started finding excuses
to spend time away from home...
1097
01:21:36,958 --> 01:21:40,519
...and I just started suspecting an affair.
1098
01:21:41,463 --> 01:21:46,332
I didn't realize.
I mean, I thought you two were...
1099
01:21:46,401 --> 01:21:48,494
- Desperately in love.
- Yeah.
1100
01:21:48,703 --> 01:21:50,398
I know.
1101
01:21:54,376 --> 01:21:58,870
I confronted him the night of the accident.
1102
01:21:59,614 --> 01:22:02,139
I accused him of betraying our marriage.
1103
01:22:02,217 --> 01:22:06,881
He denied it, of course.
But we screamed at each other.
1104
01:22:06,955 --> 01:22:11,016
We said vile things
that I'm just never gonna forget.
1105
01:22:11,092 --> 01:22:17,656
And then he walked out into the rain
and I never saw him again.
1106
01:22:19,634 --> 01:22:22,330
Was it true? What you thought?
1107
01:22:23,672 --> 01:22:26,573
Less than a month after I buried him,
I got a letter.
1108
01:22:27,375 --> 01:22:29,502
One of his grad students
looking for absolution...
1109
01:22:29,577 --> 01:22:31,807
...for the affair that she'd had with him.
1110
01:22:31,880 --> 01:22:33,211
I'm sorry.
1111
01:22:34,482 --> 01:22:39,317
She said that he had ended it
with her that night...
1112
01:22:41,456 --> 01:22:46,484
...and that he was on his way back here
to beg for my forgiveness.
1113
01:22:48,096 --> 01:22:50,087
But he slid off the road.
1114
01:22:55,170 --> 01:22:59,163
I just stopped trusting my heart then.
1115
01:22:59,908 --> 01:23:05,278
I was afraid that the passion
you feel for me would disappear...
1116
01:23:05,347 --> 01:23:09,943
...like it did with Gil,
and I just couldn't face that again...
1117
01:23:10,018 --> 01:23:12,646
...no matter how much I love you.
1118
01:23:15,357 --> 01:23:19,259
But now...
1119
01:23:20,328 --> 01:23:21,420
What?
1120
01:23:23,498 --> 01:23:27,628
Having just seen
firsthand a lifetime of love...
1121
01:23:27,702 --> 01:23:30,865
...squandered because of fear...
1122
01:23:32,140 --> 01:23:35,234
I decided I couldn't let that happen to us.
1123
01:23:43,551 --> 01:23:47,282
So, tell me, why did you turn down the job?
1124
01:23:47,355 --> 01:23:48,720
I had to.
1125
01:23:49,724 --> 01:23:54,127
I started fantasizing about your pantyhose
drying on my shower curtain.
1126
01:23:54,896 --> 01:23:57,558
- What?
- I know. Weird, huh?
1127
01:23:57,699 --> 01:24:03,331
I kept imagining my last razor
being used to shave your gorgeous legs.
1128
01:24:03,405 --> 01:24:07,535
Started thinking about
how little closet space I actually need.
1129
01:24:11,012 --> 01:24:15,176
And I couldn't conceive of a life
without you in it.
1130
01:24:16,084 --> 01:24:17,278
So...
1131
01:24:21,056 --> 01:24:24,617
Even if you don't want this today, Peyton,
that's okay.
1132
01:24:25,393 --> 01:24:31,457
'Cause I intend to propose every day
for as long as it takes...
1133
01:24:31,533 --> 01:24:35,060
- Until you feel you are ready to say...
- Yes.
1134
01:24:39,441 --> 01:24:41,170
- Yes?
- Yes.
1135
01:24:42,544 --> 01:24:44,341
Oh, my.
1136
01:24:50,485 --> 01:24:53,818
Eventually, my friend overcame her fear...
1137
01:24:53,888 --> 01:24:59,121
...and was rewarded with an opportunity
to rediscover her long-lost passion.
1138
01:24:59,427 --> 01:25:03,193
The lesson she learned from her experience
passed on to me...
1139
01:25:03,298 --> 01:25:06,756
...and now to you, dear readers, is this.
1140
01:25:06,835 --> 01:25:10,828
Love is alive and constantly evolving.
1141
01:25:13,174 --> 01:25:16,302
Don't attempt to understand it...
1142
01:25:17,412 --> 01:25:19,209
...or reason with it...
1143
01:25:21,649 --> 01:25:23,276
...or defer it.
1144
01:25:23,351 --> 01:25:27,014
We are gathered together to witness
the exchange of vows...
1145
01:25:27,088 --> 01:25:30,751
...between Peyton MacGruder
and Kingston Danville.
1146
01:25:30,825 --> 01:25:33,726
Your love for each other will grow deeper
with every passing day.
1147
01:25:33,795 --> 01:25:37,663
Or deny it entry into your heart...
1148
01:25:37,732 --> 01:25:41,395
...with excuses
molded from doubt or insecurity.
1149
01:25:43,404 --> 01:25:47,431
King, will you take Peyton to be your wife?
1150
01:25:47,509 --> 01:25:52,173
Will you cherish her friendship,
trust and honor her?
1151
01:25:52,247 --> 01:25:57,048
Be faithful to her in sickness and in health
as long as you both shall live?
1152
01:25:58,853 --> 01:25:59,945
I will.
1153
01:26:00,021 --> 01:26:03,957
Peyton, will you take King
to be your husband?
1154
01:26:04,025 --> 01:26:08,052
Will you cherish his friendship,
trust and honor him?
1155
01:26:08,129 --> 01:26:12,998
Be faithful to him in sickness and in health
as long as you both shall live?
1156
01:26:14,702 --> 01:26:16,033
I will.
1157
01:26:16,104 --> 01:26:21,838
By the power vested in me,
I now pronounce you husband and wife.
1158
01:26:22,510 --> 01:26:24,137
You may kiss the bride.
1159
01:26:24,779 --> 01:26:29,614
Rather, when it comes your way, grasp love.
1160
01:26:29,684 --> 01:26:32,983
Hold onto it for all you're worth.
1161
01:26:33,421 --> 01:26:37,016
Never let fear keep you
from reaching for life's bouquets.
1162
01:26:37,091 --> 01:26:43,462
And, finally,
never ever fail to take a chance on love.98582
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