All language subtitles for Mary 4 Mayor

[wondrous music]

- Such a good boy.

Come on, come on, almost
home, almost home.

Come on.

Come on, treats at home.

What?

Come on.

[tires screeching]
[car speeding]

Come on, what's with you?

[dog whimpering]
Come on, let's go, let's go.

[man yells]

[dog barks]

[catchy rock music]

- Okay, okay.

- Watch it, pothole, pothole!

Stop, stop!

- Watch out, watch out,
watch out for the old man,

the old man!

[screaming]

- We must've looked
like the getaway car

after a bank robbery.

But really, it was just my
family getting back on track,

which is all I ever wanted.

But you gotta be careful
what you wish for,

'cause it just might
take the craziest,

most insane way
to get you there.

Maybe even the greatest
adventure of your life.

[lighthearted music]

Echo Harbor was a
great place to be,

and do everything family.

But Main Street fell
apart, literally.

The population aged, and when
kids went away to college,

they never came back.

So, dad rolled up his
sleeves and ran for Mayor.

It was so exciting.

He was gonna make a difference,

and give everybody
hope and reason to stay

in what I once thought
was the best place

in the world to grow up.

And he won!

It felt like a victory
for our whole family.

Everything that was
wrong in Echo Harbor

would get fixed,
thanks to my dad.

And life would be
even better now.

[lighthearted music]
[clapping]

But the job of being Mayor,

trying to make everyone
happy consumed my dad.

Totally stressed him out,

which then stressed my mom out,

and then even me.

We became like so many
families today, broken.

It really made me sad.

Even sadder than
when my grandma died.

He told me it
wouldn't be forever,

he just had to figure
some things out.

So, dad moved in with grandpa,

which looking back, was probably
a nice thing for grandpa,

because of grandma.

But I was suffering.

Our family was suffering.

And I knew that something
needed to be done.

[dramatic music]

[lighthearted music]

Mom?
[car beeps]

- Mary, Jess is here!

- Gotta go.

- Okay, great.

I will have five dozen
delivered by 6 p.m.

Okay, thanks, Olivia.

Bye.

- Scary.

- What?

It's your senior year picture.

I'm proud.

- Glad to hear it,
because one more college

I won't be going to.

They say I lack life experience.

Is something burning?

- Oh!

Your cake.

- Happy birthday, me.

- Scuffles!

[lighthearted music]

- What are those?

- Two dozen deliciously
cinnamonny scuffles.

- Gotta love your mom.

Feed me.

Happy birthday selfie!

- Oh, oh, I'll take it.

[laughing]

So, I finally convinced my dad

to take me to see
schools in California.

- [Jess] Oh, that's great.

- After the election.

Serial politician.

- Derek just checked you out.

- No, he checked you out.

- No, you!
- Whatever.

- Why can't your
mom just take you?

- Evidently, having
a dad who's a mayor,

even if it's only
of Echo Harbor,

plays well in the room.

Having an amazing mom
with amazing scuffles,

not so much.

[Jess laughs]

- They haven't
tried her scuffles.

Good morning, fellow seniors.

[lighthearted music]

- I thought I was
having a bad day.

- You're not allowed in here.

- Scuffles, anyone?

- Dude.

- Did I mention
it's my birthday?

- Okay, seriously,
what is going on here?

- Under the Stars Senior
Dance, one week from now,

has been relocated from
outside, in the park,

under the stars,

where it's been since
the beginning of time,

to the stinky school gym

I've successfully avoided
for the last four years.

That's what's going
on here, Mary.

- What?

- Do you know how much work
I've been putting into this

for like, eons?

- And I had planned
out this most epic

light projection show.

You see, I figured out this way

to beam up our senior class
message into the cosmos.

Like, a super galactic time-

- Yo, yo, back to earth, Ed.

Come on, bro.

- But it's always in the park.

- The city council-

- And your dad-

- Created some new
ordinance about teens

not allowed to loiter
on Main Street after 10

once summer's over.

- So, goodbye tradition.

- Well, that stinks.

- So, we were thinking-

- Since your dad is the Mayor.

- And it's your birthday.

- No way.

- Just like I told
you, totally useless.

- Guys, come on.

- Just leave.

[melancholic music]

- Hey.

- Hey.

- Just in time.

Hot out of the
oven ginger snaps.

- Sympathy snaps.

- [Mom] Celebration snaps.

- For what?

Failing in almost
every part of my life?

- How about for turning 18?

- Perfect, now I'm legal.

- That wasn't a rejection
letter, you know.

- Rejection letter,
early feedback letter.

Read between the lines,
Mom, I'm useless.

It's a theme.

- Look, either I
break out the violin,

or you talk to me.

- Sorry.

Self indulgent pity party over.

So, daddy still gonna
be there tonight?

- As far as I know.

Why?

- Family meal, all
of us together again.

Should be interesting.

- It's what you wanted.

[dramatic music]

- Hi.

- Okay, are we still waiting?

- Yeah, just give
us a minute, thanks.

I called ahead, I ordered
the seafood tower.

Anybody with me?

- I never turn
down fresh shrimp.

- Hi.
- Hey.

[clears throat]

- Hey, aren't you the
guy that wrote that book?

- I was, yeah.

- Sorry, we don't
mean to bother you,

but we recognized
you from over there

and just wanted to come
over and say hello.

- Thank you.

- And by the way, I think
you look better bald.

[laughing]

- Sorry about that.

- Must be nice to be famous.

- I was not famous, and
that was a long time ago.

- Speaking of famous,
the Mayor's here.

- [Loren] Late as usual.

- Oh, hey, Smitty, how are ya?

- Hi.

- Juan, I wanted to mention,

we're gonna get right on that.

We're gonna take care of it.

Just some wording.

In fact, we're gonna
get two Tuesday.

Happy birthday, princess!

- Thanks, Dad.

You're sitting there.

- Yep.

Hey, Pops.

- Son.

- Doesn't mom look
great tonight?

- Oh, yes, fantastic as usual.

- You're in a good mood.

- Well, I got some good
news on the election front.

Ben Rogers had a heart attack.

- What?

- Wow, that is great news.

A pillar of the
community nearly died,

let's get champagne.

- What?

Come on, no, he's gonna be fine.

But he is dropping
out of the race, so,

that means I'm basically
running unopposed.

Not that I was worried.

- Of course not.

- You know me so well.

- Too well.

What else?

You're holding something back.

- Nope, it's nothing.

It's Mary's night.

- This is not my night,
this is our night.

The whole family together.

Isn't this great?

- Yeah, it is.

I got your text, by the way,

about the Main Street
Park and the senior dance.

- Oh, yeah, it's a tradition
for the Under the Stars Dance

to be under the stars.

- Yeah, well, good.

- That would be great.

- But I can't.

We implemented that
ordinance for a reason.

To keep downtown safe,
we had complaints.

- Safe from what?

Nobody goes down there anymore.

- 'Cause it's not safe.

But I do have some
other exciting news.

We got the last
investor in place

for the mall in Port Byron,

we break ground in January.

- Well, that's lovely
for Port Byron,

meanwhile, Echo harbor is dying.

- Port Byron's on a freeway.

We don't want a mall here,

it would take over downtown.

But guess what?

We're gonna get
all that overflow.

- Wow, that settles it.

Dad gets his mall,
we get the overflow,

gamps looks better bald, and
mom looks fantastic as usual.

- And you are finally 18.

And you know what that means?

You can vote for me.

- First thing I thought
when I woke up this morning.

- That's my girl.

- Everyone get a chance
to Look at the menus?

- Uh, can you just give
us one more minute?

We're almost, thank
you, thank you.

- Investors are
very happy though.

They're gonna take me on a
trip, golfing in Scotland.

I'll do that after the election.

- Wow.

- Rob, what about your trip
to California with Mary,

looking at schools?

- We'll work something out.

It's golf, but, you
know, it's business.

It never stops.

- No, it doesn't.

- Rob, she's counting on this.

- Mary, I need this, all right?

It's important.

- I need this, it's
also important.

- All right, can we
all just back off here?

- Look, pops, I don't
want any fingers

being pointed here tonight.

I support this
family with things

like my real estate investment,

opening the baking
business, going to college,

those things aren't cheap.

Oh, and by the way, I'm
living with my father.

You know what I mean, Dad.

While you two are
living very comfortably

in a house that I pay for.

- We didn't leave
you, you left us!

- I left you?

- Enough, enough, guys!

- Happy birthday, Mary.

Everybody smile.

[camera shutter snaps]

[somber music]

- I'm sorry about
the trip, princess.

I'll see what I can do.

- It's fine, forget about it.

Can we retire the
whole princess thing?

- You got it.

In the meantime, maybe
this will make up for it.

- What?

- It's yours.

Happy birthday.

- You're giving me
your mid-life crisis?

- Well, I'm done
with it, I thought-

- Like mom, me, us?

Done with it?

- Where did that come from?

[somber music]

- Come on, son.

Let's go home.

[somber music]

- [Mary] I think
everyone should have

a box of disappointments.

A place to put all the
disappointing things of life

so you can just hide them away.

[dramatic music]

Seems like a million years
ago since we were a family.

Although some things are
harder to keep in the box.

- I brought you
some more goodies,

and they're actually still warm.

I so appreciate your
business, Olivia.

- Dirty little secret,

when a customer comes
in to just browse,

they get a cup of coffee

and one of your delicious...

- Scuffles.
- Scuffles.

Then they buy something.

- Wow, glad it helps.

- Maybe now's the
time to tell her

what you put in them that
makes them so powerful?

- Nothing.

Nothing but love.

- And just a wee bit of sugar.

- And spice.
- And everything nice.

- Well, whatever
it is, it works.

[laughing]

So, Mary, are you gonna
follow in the family business?

- Which one, baking or bullying?

That would be my father's job.

- College first,
then she'll decide.

- If she can get
into any college

that will accept her with
her lack of life experiences.

- Oh, to be young again.

Well, for whatever it's worth,

don't change who you
are to impress anyone.

- Only problem, who am I?

[laughing]

- No, I'm serious,
if you can find out

what makes you tick, then
the path will follow.

- Thank you, master.

Can I ask you a question?

Why here, Echo Harbor?

I mean, you've
taken this old place

and turned into
something really cool,

so props for that, but in
case you haven't noticed,

we're kinda nobody anymore,
sort of off the radar.

- Mary!

- No, no, no.

That's very observant.

I had a feeling about you, Mary.

So, going back to
what I just said,

I think I know who I
am, I'm a restorer.

I value history, and
the people and places

that are part of that.

I also see the opportunity
that comes with that.

I like to fix things
up, turn them around.

Create a win-win for everybody.

When I first came here, I
fell in love with Echo Harbor

and this building,

although I suspect both
had seen better days.

- That's being generous.

- But my gut said, "buy
it, give it some love

and a new life."

And voila, here we are.

Wharf Hill, Homewares
and Skiffles.

- Scuffles.
- Scuffles.

- Oh.

- I wish they would do that to
all of Main Street, you know?

Restore it.

It used to be so
beautiful, colorful.

People strolling
in the evenings.

- Well, I'm sure they
would if they could,

but I had a hard enough time

putting this place together.

You guys have enough
rules and laws

to scare anyone off,

and the real deal breaker
for an outside like me

is one buyer, one corporation
per building, per business,

meaning I can't
use my corporation

to buy multiple properties.

And believe me, I would.

Others too.

Yes, I look up and
down Main Street,

and I see so much
potential and opportunity,

but it just doesn't
make financial sense.

- Yep, that would be my dad.

Well, gotta hit it, guys.

I gotta get good old
fashioned life experience

from good old fashioned people.

[chuckling]

See ya.

[lighthearted music]

- Lose your way back, Teddy?

Your room's just
around the corner.

- I tell ya.

Something fishy is
going on around here,

I can smell it.

- That smell is old man
who doesn't bathe enough.

- Amen, hallelujah.

- Deep.

Go Eleanor.

- You watch.

This is big.

It's the big one.

- Speaking of which,
Mary, read your card.

Oh, to be 18 again.

- And all the poor men
you left in your wake.

- "I'm not saying you're old,

I'm just saying
when you were a kid,

emojis were called
hieroglyphics."

[laughing]

It's a good one.

- Franklin picked it out.

He said that you
would understand it.

- Teddy's just mad 'cause he
doesn't know what emojis are.

- Speculation.

Overruled.

- Well, you take the girl
out of the courtroom,

but you can't take the lawyer
out of the little girl.

- Reverend, you ready to check
yourself in here, old man?

- Oh, not quite yet,
Franklin, but gettin' close.

- Pat, you still have
to play by my rules.

- Yeah, I'm just here to-

- What is in the bag?

- Nothing.

- He brought our pudding!

- Do you ever shut up, dummy?

- Hand it over.

- Objection!

- Sustained!

Beat it, Wilma!

- Fine, y'alls want to
go to an early grave?

Have it your way.

- Who knew 80 was the new early?

- Hey, padre.

Would you say a
blessing over Roosevelt?

He hasn't been himself lately,

I'm not suer what's up.

- I'll tell you what's up.

Critters are smarter
than you think.

He knows something
sneaky is going on.

- All right, let's see.

Roosevelt, may we
bless this home

in the name of the
God who created you.

May you and Franklin
continue to live

an abundant life together.

Amen.

Now, here's your pudding.

Shh.

- Thanks, gamps.

- What?

- This.

Family fishing days,
being constant.

- The most important part about

being a family is showing up.

As long as you and
I keep showing up.

You're the glue that
holds the family together,

you know that.

- Not so sure I'm that sticky.

- Your dad, he's
a good man, Mary.

You know, your grandma and I
had him when we were young,

just a couple years
older than you.

We were very young,
and very much in love.

I suppose because of
that, being so young,

he and I became more
friends than father and son.

He was a good friend, and I
know you see some of that.

It may be hard to tell,
but he means well.

- He should've never
have become Mayor.

- Never confuse blindness
with badness, or baldness.

[chuckling]

We can all lose the
plot from time to time.

- Even you?

- Oh yeah.

Even me.

Can I share something with you?

- Of course.

- I've got this
sermon on forgiveness.

I've been meaning to give it
for a year full of Sundays.

It's about me.

- Why haven't you?

- Well, every time I
get to it, every Sunday,

I look out at my
congregation, all of you,

and I just chicken out,

go to one of my old standards.

- That doesn't sound like you.

- No.

I tell you what.

You continue to inspire
me, and this Sunday,

this Sunday I'm gonna do it!

You see, you be ready.

- I'll be ready.

- Hey, Mary.

Mr. Parson.

- Oh, hey, Jordan!

- Hey, Jordan.

What's up?

[whimsical music]

- Uh...

Well, Mary, you know
the dance is tonight,

and um, I'm going alone,

and I knew everybody was
gonna be excited to see you,

so I was wondering would
you go to the dance with me?

- I already have plans
with my grandpa, sorry.

- Yeah.

Yeah, that's fine.

I just wanted you to know
that you're gonna be missed.

- Thank you.

Have fun, tell
everyone I said hi.

- I will.

See ya, Mr. Parson.

- See ya around.

[whimsical music]

Seems like a cool dude.

- Grandpa.

- I'm just saying the obvious.

Why don't you want to go
to the dance with him?

- First of all, "cool dude"?

- Well, you say that
all the time, dude.

- But you're old.

Second of all, it's
a school dance,

third of all, I don't dance.

- Oh, yeah?

We'll see about that.

[lighthearted music]

- I bet this isn't how you
envisioned your senior dance.

- No, it isn't.

Thanks, Grandpa?

- You know, my James was
quite the twinkle-toes

back in the day.

- Well, you're no
slouch yourself.

[laughing]
[lighthearted music]

- May I cut in?

- Yeah, sure.

- Pastor, have you
heard the news?

They're shutting the place down.

[clapping]

- Let's start thinking
about bedtime, kids.

- What do you mean
they're shutting it down?

- Take a look.

- GSA, it's the eviction
of demolition notice.

The building's being condemned.

- They're saying it
doesn't meet code.

And if it can't be fixed,
boom, down it goes!

- They're not gonna
tear this place down,

it's the site of the
first animal hospital

south of New York.

- You've been telling
us that for 20 years.

- This is our home!

- It's not just here,
most of Main Street

is being condemned.

- Yeah, half these buildings
are already closed down,

the other folks are just
struggling to survive.

- Smithfield Ice
Cream is on there,

they're gonna take
our ice cream!

- Is this legal?

- Give me that!

[dramatic music]

I'm afraid that it is.

It looks like they have
everything they need.

[dramatic music]

- We're losing the senior home?

- This is not a
good time, princess.

Mary, sorry.

I have a press conference.

And yes, someone has
reported half the town

on code violations,

and a handful of other
problems, I know.

- Okay, so what are
you gonna do about it?

- Nothing, it's out of my hands.

- Lately everything seems
to be out of your hands.

- Please, don't start.

And by the way, it might
not be such a bad thing.

- Might not be such a bad thing?

Half of Main Street is on there!

- Which has been dying
a slow death for years,

long before I took over.

- What about
Sunnyside, my friends?

They're on the list.

It's the government's
job to help the people.

- Look, if a business
can't make it,

maybe it shouldn't
be a business.

- We should step
in and help them.

Especially 80 year
olds who have spent

their entire lives
here contributing.

- Okay, fine, and
while we're at it,

why don't we just
bring Blockbuster back,

and we'll make a law that says

everyone has to watch
movies again on videotape.

[laughing]

- What's Blockbuster?

[Rob sighs]

- Mary, we cannot solve
everyone's problems.

- Do you even hear yourself?

So while you're busy
building along Port Byron,

our own Main Street doesn't
actually get the overflow,

it gets ripped down?

It doesn't take a conspiracy nut

to smell something
fishy going on here.

- Conspiracy?

- Dad!

- Okay, all right.

Hold on a second.

Where is it?

Here you go.

Uh, take a look at this.

This is Main Street.

- Yeah, I know, I've
lived here for 18 years.

- Okay, well half the
stores are closed.

- Way too many.

- Yes.

And the other half
need serious repairs

just to get up to code.

You know who they're
gonna come to for that?

Me.

- Then do it, help them!

- I have run the
numbers, princess,

it doesn't make sense.

- Okay, what about that law?

About how many businesses
a corporation can buy.

- What do you know about that?

- I know that Olivia Wharf-Hill
bought up that old shop,

and I know that people like her,

people with corporations
might be interested

in buying a whole lot more

if that stupid ordinance
wasn't in place-

- The stupid ordinance
is to prevent

a mega-company from coming in,

imploding downtown
and destroying it.

- Right, that's your job.

- I'm not the bad
guy here, okay?

- That's exclusive
to our family.

- Okay, I don't expect
a high school kid

who needs her daddy running
off to California with her

so she can finally get
accepted to college

to understand any of this.

- Wow.

- I'm sorry.

- So many parts of
that were messed up.

- Yes, that came out wrong.

- No, that's the most
true thing you ever said.

Just so we're clear,
you think I'm too young,

and I guess too dumb to
care about my hometown?

- No, that's not what I said.

- You're the Mayor.

You can do something about this.

And while you're at it,

give us kids our
park back, it's safe!

- I am the Mayor,
and guess what?

I'm gonna be Mayor
for the next 4 years,

so what I say goes.

Now, I think we're done here.

[intense music]

- I had to either walk out,

or go nuclear on him.

He lost sight of everything

that once made me
so proud of him,

family and the town
he promised to fix.

You know what?

I'm running for Mayor!

[dramatic music]

[camera shutters snapping]

- That's not gonna
happen overnight,

getting my five point
plan into place-

- You know what?

I'm running for Mayor!

I'm not running for Mayor,

so you don't have to worry.

I don't know, I was
just so angry with him.

He keeps ignoring everything.

Sunnyside Senior
Home, Main Street,

Seniors Under the Stars Dance.

And he's being a
bully about it too.

- So, you wanted to hurt him.

- No!

Yeah, maybe a little.

- That was wrong.

- I know it was, but then
I left there and thought

maybe I can actually do
something around here,

make a difference, why not?

It's better than him doing
nothing at all, right?

- Okay.

- But that's absurd.

I can't even get into a decent
college without his help.

I'll just apologize, fix it,

make it all go away.

Wow, now I'm starting
to sound like him.

[cell phone ringing]

It's Jess, needs me at school.

[lighthearted music]

- About time!

Come on, come on,
come on, come on.

Sit, sit, sit, sit, sit.

Okay, sign here,
and here, and here.

- What am I signing?

- Papers, to get
you on the ballot.

- Wait, what?

- We heard your announcement,
it was brilliant.

- But I didn't even know-

- Okay, so we missed
some deadlines,

so we have some hoops
to jump through,

but we can make it.

- "We"?

- I talked to Mr. Fordham.

Anyone participating
in your campaign

doesn't have to take the
social studies final.

You're my hero.

- But I didn't even-

- You're right, you're not.

This is a complete
waste of time.

- Annie!

- Mary, come on,
you're not your dad.

- No, she's right,
this is a mistake.

- There are no mistakes.

- Guys, my dad
pushed my buttons,

ruined my family,
so I pushed back.

- I think you'd
make a great mayor.

- No, I'm 18.

Wait, really?

- Awesome.

- Dumb.

- She's right.

Guys, let's be real.

If no one can think
of a better idea

than get back at my dad,

then this conversation is over.

- No social studies final.

- Better than that.

- Little help, bro?

[grunting]

- Hey, where is everybody?

[whimsical music]

- High schooler runs for mayor

could look great on
a college application

for anyone involved.

What?

People can't change their minds?

- I mean, talk about
a life experience.

- How many high
school seniors can say

they've ran an official
political campaign?

- And think about it, you win,

you could really make a
difference, change things up.

- Get our park back.

- Help Sunnyside Senior Home.

- And of course, show
your dad who's boss.

- Okay, keep talking.

- Great, town
council meets today.

- You missed the regular
deadline to enter the race.

- You're gonna have to
speak to the council

to get an exception.

- Speak?

Like, in front of people?

- It's a part of
the job description.

- I've got you on the agenda.

- Speak about what?

- Okay, there's like 5 minutes
of my life missing here,

can someone please
fill in the blanks?

- And we're off!

[lighthearted music]

- And that is why we think
you should grant our petition

to put Mary Parson
on the ballot.

Just remember, "Yes for Mary!"

The acronym Y-E-S.

Y is for youth, E for educated,

and S for she is a female.

Yes for Mary.

- Well said.

Thank you, Miss Duffy.

- Thank you.

- Look, enough, okay?

On behalf of my family
and I, we're very sorry.

This is obviously a very
private family matter

that should be resolved
at home, and not here.

I apologize for
wasting everyone's time

with this little fiasco.

- Excuse me, but what about this

makes you think it's
a fiasco, Mr. Mayor?

- Well, Mary's a young girl,

she obviously
can't run the town-

- Just a young girl?

Joan of Arc was
just a young girl

when she led her
troops to victory.

Cleopatra was just a young girl

when she toppled the two
leaders of the Roman Empire.

Queen Elizabeth I was
just a young girl.

- Okay.

- Your daughter's a young woman,

with more ideas in
her little pinky

than you have in that pea
head you call a brain!

- Ma'am.

- Just, we got it.

- You told 'em, you told 'em,

we got it, we'll handle this.

- All right, so we would
like to speak in opposition

to allowing Mary
to run for mayor.

- Finally, the voices of reason.

- As you know, some of
the most notorious leaders

in all of history
got their top jobs

without being voted in.

- Well, I am being voted
in, just unopposed.

- Exactly.

Unopposed.

Like Stalin and Attila the Hun.

- And Kim Jong-Un.

Yeah, no debate is complete
without bringing up

that nasty little dude

with the funny looking soul
patch on his upper lip.

Am I right, guys?
- Good one, bro.

[laughing]

- Okay.

Princess, do you have
anything you'd like to say,

or have you been spoken for?

- I can't do this.

- Yes, you can.

Just read what's on the cards.

I got an A on my essay
using those notes.

- Just speak from your heart.

- Miss Parson?

- Members of the council.

America is known as the
great democratic experiment.

The principles set forth
by the founding fathers-

- Mary, this isn't the
battle for the White House.

Just tell us why you think

we should allow you
to run for mayor.

- [Jess] Mary, hey!

You've got this, girl.

- Will and Ed are right.

A true election is about choice.

And right now it's just
same old, same old.

I meet the requirements,
the checklist.

The one thing that
isn't on there

that I can't just check off

is that I actually
care about this town.

It's like an extended
family to me,

and like family, it deserves
to be given a chance

to be brought back, restored.

We have to actually
listen to each other,

and understand what each
of us needs, young and old.

A future informed
by our history.

Because we're all a part of
this town, we all matter.

Echo Harbor is our home.

For better or for
worse, a family.

[dramatic music]

At least, that's what I think.

[clapping]

[dramatic music]

- Well, looks like we have
ourselves a race for mayor.

Not awkward for me, in
that I have two horses

in this two horse race.

[laughing]

In politics, we tend
to find ourselves

up against each other, divided.

And in doing so, I think we
lose sight of certain things.

So, today, I'd like to
talk about something

that affects us all,

something without we can
find ourselves alone,

disconnected from one
another, certainly from God.

Today I would like
to talk about f...

For...

Fellowship.

Fellowship.

Oh, thank you, thank you.

Good to see you.

Hey, so good to
see you, thank you.

- Wow, sure learned a lot
about for, for, fellowship.

- Oh, hey, thank you, thank you.

Mary, you're gonna have to
talk to him sooner than later.

Thanksgiving,
Christmas, my funeral.

- Hey, pops.

Sermon kind of wandered a
little today, didn't it?

- Oh, not you.

- [Rob] For, for, for, for...

- Rob, I get it.

- Mary.

Sorry if I was out of line
at the council meeting.

Honestly, I did not
mean to insult you.

- It's fine.

- [Rob] But can I
ask you a question?

- Sure.

- Do you really
want to be mayor?

- I guess, yeah.

- Well, why?

I mean, what is it?

Civic duty, make a difference,
you want to get back at me?

Whatever it is-

- Son-

- No, whatever it is, I
think you're gonna have to do

a little better than "I guess".

Okay?

And you're gonna have to
take a hard look around here

at the good and the bad

and figure out what makes
this place so special

that you want to
fight so hard for,

that you want to
fight me for it.

- You can smart with
Smitty's Ice Cream Parlor.

All those Saturdays we
spent there together?

- Yes, yes we did.

- And Sunnyside Senior Home.

If that goes away, they
won't have any place to live.

- We will find
places for everyone-

- Scattered across the country.

- There is a workable solution.

- And what about the
rest of downtown?

- Yes, all right?

Yes.

Echo Harbor's broken,
but guess what?

- No, please, come on.

- Dad, guess what?

It's not lost on me.

I take the job of
being mayor seriously.

- Then do your job and
help the people seriously!

- All right, guys, seriously.

I'm...

Please.

- You know, Mary,
you have a big heart.

That's one of the
things I love about you.

We can't save everyone.

But we can forgive.

We can forgive.

I don't fault you
for this silly idea

that you're somehow
gonna run against me

and make everything better,

but I do forgive you,

for making me look
foolish in the process.

See?

Walk away.

- Shh.

Just shh.

Okay, I can't.

[dramatic music]

Hi, everybody.

Steve, welcome home,
congratulations.

- What?

[catchy music]

- No.

We can do better.

We can do better.

Now we just have to
see who's with us.

- And who's against us!

- Not quite.

We just want to see who
else wants to help us

save Echo Harbor.

- And who doesn't.

- So, "We can do better."

Is that like our slogan?

- A slogan, you know,
it's like a saying.

- I know what a slogan is.

Thanks, Ed.

Sure.

"We can do better."

Jess?

- Works for me.

- [Mary] Jordan?

- Absolutely.

- [Mary] Annie?

- Game on.

- That's a start.

[lighthearted music]

Thank you guys.

- But isn't she the
Mayor's daughter?

- She is.

Guilty, Mrs. Shanahan.

- Oh, my.

This is all very odd.

- Speaking of odd,
I so hate my face.

- Try smiling.

- Mary?

You got a minute?

- Hey, Rhonda.

What's up?

- Town council sent me
to get your platform

for the election website.

- Oh, like on camera?

- Your dad's is.

- Mary, smile.

- A bake sale fundraiser.

That's a first.

- Yeah, that's what
happens when your mom

is the best baker
this side of Brooklyn.

- You know the
average campaign costs

about $50,000.

That's a lot of cookies.

- We'll do that
in scuffles alone.

Now ask her something
serious or get lost!

- No, seriously, this
topic is totally fine.

Thank you, though.

- Okay.

Initiative 143 comes before
the town council next month.

What's your stance?

- We're not up to speed
yet, what is that again?

- Reallocation of funds
from the boardwalk repair

to upgrade the computer
system at the high school.

- I would vote yes.

The high school mainframe
is like 80's technology,

there's no security wall at all.

Not like I know
anyone who deleted

a couple of absent days.

- [Will] Are you like
completely oblivious, bro?

- What's my dad doing?

- The Mayor is suggesting
we focus on the school,

for obvious reasons,

and tackle the
boardwalk next spring

before the summer rush.

- Sounds about right.

- Mary?

- Oh!

That was Mary Parson,
running for Mayor.

Literally.

[whimsical music]

- Well, why don't
we go on upstairs?

We'll get to the details,

there will be plenty
of time for that.

[whimsical music]

Come on in.

- 52 dollars, 86 cents.

- 86 cents?

- Mr. Fergus said
he liked our shirts.

- 86 cents?

I just need to find my focus.

Can you please turn that off?

My voice is so nasally.

- It's not that bad.

- I endorsed my dad's position,

I run away from an interview.

Not that bad?

- I just meant your voice.

- The good news is,
you're up in the polls.

You were at 1%, now you're at 2.

- Woo hoo!

- Found him.
- Found him.

His name's Perry Stevens,
inspector with the GSA.

- The agency that put notice

to all the buildings downtown?

- Why was he talking to him?

- 'Cause he's the rat
who ratted him out

to the GSA in the first place.

- Maybe he was meeting
for something different.

- Dark and sinister,
back alleys, rain
covered cobblestones,

figures lurking in the sha-

- Dude.

Or, maybe your dad's right.

52 bucks doesn't
show a ton of support

that downtown can
sustain itself.

- So, what?

Do we just let it
shrivel up and die?

- I'm not saying that.

I'm just saying who
thinks Main Street

is important anymore?

- Disney.

There's a reason that Walt
Disney made Main Street

the first thing you see when
you walk into his parks.

It's the heart, everything
goes out from there.

- I never thought about that.

- When you walk into
Disneyland, you feel safe.

You feel welcomed, loved,
like you're at home.

- Main Street.

- Main Street isn't just
a place for businesses,

it's a representation
of who we are

and what we stand for.

Believe it or not, my
dad actually told me

to think about the town

and why it's so important to me.

And now I think it's
time the Mayor's office

thinks about that too.

There's two kinds of people.

Those who want to
tear everything down,

and those who want
to restore it.

So now we have to
decide, who are we?

- Main Street.

- Main Street.

- Main Street.
- Main Street.

[lighthearted music]

- The old music store.

- Mr. Kostreva.

- Bought my first and
last guitar in there.

Fat fingers.

- Me too.

- Broke Mr. Singer's heart
when he had to close her up.

- You think at least
music would survive.

- Yet somehow, there's purpose.

You just gotta find it.

Nothing's worthwhile that
comes without a struggle.

It's how we deal with those
obstacles that define us.

- You and your family
have been in here,

Echo Harbor-

- God created the
Earth, Echo Harbor,

and my family's hardware store.

- Right, so, what is it?

What makes everyone stay?

- Why is it so special?

- Exactly.

- How about I walk you home?

You know all those
storms we had last year?

- Yeah.

- Now after that,
just about packed up

and got out of here.

- Why?

- Well, I kind of realized
that, looking around,

this place was our whole world.

- Hey, Mom!

I had the worst day ever
and then the best day ever.

Wow.

Whole family's here,
looking like Mt. Rushmore.

Is this like, an
intervention or something?

'Cause I don't drink,
and I don't do drugs.

- Mary, we need to talk.

Push an end to this.

- I'm just getting started.

- Mary, he comes in peace.

- Just listen.

- I don't like the
way we left things,

and it's been eating me up.

- Losing sleep, I'm sure.

By the way, I'm on to you.

- What's that supposed to mean?

- Nothing, go on.

- I don't want to
make you mad, ever,

I really don't.

- Debatable.

- And I don't want
to see you hurt.

- A little late for that.

- Mary, stop.

- Look, we all know
that you're running

just to get back at
me, and I get it, I do-

- No!

I mean, maybe a little,

but now I really do think
things can be better,

I can do better, than you.

- I don't want to
see you humiliated,

but that interview was
frankly embarrassing.

- You know how when you
first go into Disneyland-

- You see?

This is what I'm talking about.

The world is not Disneyland.

- Says who?

Did you know-

- Someone tell her that the
world is not Disneyland, okay?

She needs some tough love here,

a dose of reality at least!

- Tough love?

You can't just show up
here after two years

and suddenly act like you care!

- Guys!

- Oh, okay, so
now it's about me.

Well, guess what?

Someone has to provide
for this family.

- Oh, here we go!

- I'm so over this!

- Both of you, stop.

[dramatic piano music]

[wondrous music]

- [Annie] What about
campaign funds?

This is a real campaign,
we need real money.

- Okay, so until we get more,

we work with what we have.

Great ideas and the
kind of ambition

we're allowed this
one time in our lives,

but I'm not gonna sit around
and wait for more money

or to become mayor, or
to prove my dad wrong.

We should start helping now.

Serving the community now,
restoring Main Street now.

- Whoa!

You should like jump straight
to running for president.

- You said it, Jess.

This is our time to
roar, so let's roar.

- Roar!

- Kind of meant
that figuratively.

So, who's in?

Let's get every
student in this school,

every kid in town, every jock,
braniac, get them together.

And we're gonna show
them what we're made of.

- [All] Roar!

[laughing]

[catchy music]

[brooms sweeping]

[squeegee squeaks]

- I usually vote for your dad.

- What if I told you...

- [All] We can do better!

- Oh.

[catchy music]

[brooms sweeping]

[squeegees squeaking]

- Whatever you're selling,
I ain't interested!

- What about making
Main Street shine again?

- Dream on!

- We are!

- What'd you say
your name is again?

- I'm Mary Parson,
I'm running for mayor.

[crowd yelling]

[chuckling]

[catchy music]

[squeegees squeaking]

[doorbell rings]

- Hi, can I help you?

- Yeah, did you guys
just move in here?

- Yes, we did.
- We did.

- Well, welcome to Echo Harbor.

- Is every kid in town here?

- Every kid that wants
to make this town better

for you and your family.

- [Man] You're the one
they've been talking about.

- [Mary] If you mean...

[cheering]

- [Woman] Go Mary!

- Then yep, I'm your
girl, woman, mayor person.

[chuckling]

[brooms sweeping]

[water splashes]

[catchy music]

- Oh, hi there!

- Need your windows washed?

- I think they're
okay at the moment.

Oh, great job out there.

- You know how you were saying

you might know some people who'd
invest here on Main Street?

- If those ordinances
weren't in place.

- One business, one corporation.

- Right.

It's a hurdle.

If we could somehow
make that go away...

- Well, if I became
mayor, maybe-

- You've already got my vote,

now you just gotta go
beat the other guy.

- Right, there is that.

Do I really have to do this?

- If you want to beat
your dad, then yes,

you have to debate
him on the issues.

Not to mention, if I can
wear this stupid hat,

you can debate.

- Just read the cards.

I got an A on my
essay using them.

- Okay, but you're the one
that got an A using your notes,

you should be running for mayor.

- Are we ready?

Are you nervous?

I'm nervous.

Anyone else nervous?

Honey, I know I've
said it before,

but it bears repeating,
so I'm gonna say it again.

I am so proud of you.

What a night!

- If this doesn't
impress colleges,

I don't know what will.

- Everyone just breathe!

- 5 minutes, everybody.

It is packed out there.

- I'm scared I'm gonna
get my first question,

and then do a face
plant on the podium.

- Focus on the notes.

- Focus on what makes
Echo Harbor special.

- Focus on you.

That's our best shot.

You being you, Mary.

- Okay, you're officially
the greatest guy ever.

- Just breathe.

- History has
shown us repeatedly

that when we act individually,

with our own personal interests
in mind, societies collapse.

So, in closing, that
is why economic renewal

can only come through
individual development

with a civic
universalist approach.

Thank you.

Your turn.

[snoring]

- Yeah!

[clapping]

[chuckling]

- Thank you, Ed.

- Thank you, Mary.

- Mayor Parson.

She's right, you're up.

- Thank you, Rhonda.

And thank you, Mary,
for those thoughts,

I guess we're gonna call them.

You did good, princess.

"Save the town, rescue Main
Street, we can do better."

Great sentiments.

A bit naive, but naivety, well,

that's the strength of youth.

Cute t-shirts only go so far.

The problem is
not in the desire,

the problem is in
the means, the how.

Now, I'm sorry princess,

but your speech didn't
put forth any solid ideas

on how we can actually save
Main Street, solutions.

Like most of you, I grew
up here, I call this home.

But let's be honest,

our Main Street hasn't
been idyllic for what,

over a decade.

And guess what, we're
not alone in that.

This is happening
all over the country.

And look, maybe saving
something that's broken

isn't the right approach anyway.

Now, isn't it time
we all came together

and started looking to the
future and not the past

for our inspiration
and our solutions?

We need to think
about the kind of town

we're gonna be leaving
people like Mary.

And yes, sometimes that's
gonna mean doing things

that seem unpopular
in the moment,

like letting
Smithfield's Ice Cream go

and replacing it with a-

- Yogurt?
- Shop.

- This town isn't your
marriage or your family.

- Mary.

- You can't just
throw it all away

'cause times are tough
and you're done with it.

- [Rob] That is not
what I'm saying.

- [Mary] Sure sounds like it.

- Progress requires
some letting go.

- You ever think that maybe

everything and everyone
that you dump along the way

for future...

We can't get over
it as easily as you,

okay, Mr. Mayor?

- I think this is going
in the wrong direction.

- Yeah, I don't think you can
take this personal, princess.

- Then don't call me princess.

And maybe making it personal
is the job of the mayor.

- Not when it comes to business.

Am I right, Rhonda?

- Bernie Kostreva is not
a business, he's a person.

His family hardware store

has been the center of Main
Street for three generations,

and it's about to go
away, he's gonna lose it.

But here's the thing, Mr. Mayor.

His business isn't
failing, he makes a profit

month in and month out.

Not much, but a profit.

That hardware store has
outlasted the Depression,

a world war, and 15 presidents.

When the economy turned,
Bernie cut back on his expenses

and increased his
personal hours.

He gave credit to half the town

and did so interest free.

The storms two years ago
gave him flood damage

that his insurance
wouldn't cover,

but still, he stayed open,

he kept his
employees on payroll,

and he did what
each of us would do.

The best he can.

He was never done.

But still, that wasn't enough.

Not because his
business wasn't solid,

or because he wasn't
trying hard enough,

but because the drywall in
the back room wasn't solid.

Too many floods back to back.

So now, he's on a list.

He has to fix it or get out.

And that requires money that
he doesn't have anymore,

because he was just doing
what he thought was best.

The same goes for
so many other stores

up and down the street.

The ice cream parlor, the-

- Okay, somebody's
been Googling.

- No, Dad, I haven't
been Googling.

I went out on the street

and actually talked
with the people.

You know, there isn't any law

against the mayor
hitting the pavement

and talking to the people
that he or she represents.

You might want to
keep that in mind.

- Yes!

[clapping]

[whistling]

[triumphant music]

[chuckling]

- Thank you so much.

- Hi!

- Thank you.

Thank you so much.

- Thank you so much.

[triumphant music]

- He didn't know what hit him.

[laughing]

- I have tried for years
to get that man to zip it!

- I can't believe all
these people came.

Do you think any of
them will vote for me?

- You know how the
town Facebook page

has that polling feature?

- Please tell me
we're at least 5%.

- Oh yeah.

- Double digits?

- Mary, you're in the lead.

[Jess gasps]

- I love politics.

- Right.

[laughing]

- Not to break up the love fest,

but even though this isn't
an official fundraiser,

it's kind of become that.

I took off old Uncle Sam's
hat to let my head breathe,

and the next thing you know,

I have over 600 bucks in it.

- Feed the beast!
- Feed the beast!

- Done.

Mary, you were
brilliant tonight.

You have my admiration
and full support.

- It's for $5,000.

- Yes, yes.
- Oh!

- We have a town to save.

- I don't know what to say.

- I do.

Fundraising selfie!

[chuckling]

[laughing]

[lighthearted music]

- It's like everyone
disappeared,

and I just said whatever
was in my heart.

To be honest, I don't
remember most of it.

- Sounds like you
found your voice.

- Me as mayor.

Who'd of thought?

- Can I give you some advice?

- As my pastor or as my grandpa?

- I think they're
one in the same.

To be a good pastor,

you have to think of
everyone as your grandchild.

- That's a lot of
birthday presents.

- Yeah.

There was that
part in the debate,

what was it you said?

"We can't forget that
behind all the businesses

are real people."

- Yeah.

I just remember helping
out Mr. Kostreva,

and how devastated he was

over the thought of losing
his family business.

- My advice is to keep
that wisdom in your heart.

- Behind every
business is a person.

- And behind every politician.

- Are you talking about my dad?

- A little.

I'm also talking about you.

Uh oh.

Go on, I'll clean up here.

Go on, be nice.

[lighthearted music]

- [chuckling] Hi.

[lighthearted music]

- So, we've expanded the bake
sales to every afternoon.

- And after the game,

we're gonna have a pep
rally in the square.

- You should get the
Girl Scouts involved.

They're a bunch of pushy broads.

- Oh, Mary!

- Excuse me, excuse me.

Family and volunteers only.

- She's with me.

- She doesn't have a vest on!

- Charming.

Mary, can I have a quick word?

Sorry.

[whimsical music]

Get in, please.

[car doors close]

- Bake sales and pep rallies.

Cute.

- I'm sorry, who are you?

- Oh, this is Eugene.

A good friend and a professional
political consultant.

- I've run three successful
mayoral campaigns.

One in New York, two in D.C.

Not a nice playground.

- Oh, so-

- Olivia sent along a
copy of your debate.

Raw, but there's something...

- What he's trying to say
is you show potential.

He doesn't like to
reveal his cards.

- Mary, you need to stop acting

like you want to be
homecoming queen.

- Ew, I would never do that.

- No more daddy's
little princess.

- Okay, where do I sign up?

This is for $20,000.

- She can be the real deal.

Echo Bay-
- Harbor.

- Who knows from there?

There, cards are on the table.

- Hey!

- [Eugene] Bake sales are over.

- [Mary] Sure, but we
just cleaned this street.

- Wow!

[clapping]
- Really?

- Just enough Hilary with a dose

of classic Margaret Thatcher.

- One lost and the
other one's dead.

- How about...

Jennifer Lawrence
eat your heart out.

- I can get used to that.

- This suit says power,
it says authority.

- Power, authority.

Cool.

- Next.

[dramatic music]

Perfect.

[camera shutter snaps]

- No one's hit
Division Street yet.

- Dude, seriously, I would
never live over there,

and I'd pretty much sleep
in a dumpster if I had to.

- Guys, we need people
working Main Street still,

that's the focus
of our campaign.

Finally!

- Hey, guys.

- I'm sorry, who are you?

- Oh, you like?

Eugene hautcoutured me.

- Again, who are you?

- Uh, who is Eugene?

- You're not dressed to clean.

- I don't know, I think
she looks kind of hot.

- She looks like she's 60.

- Mary, what's going on here?

- Long story, but so good.

We got a huge donation,

Olivia's introducing
me to her investors,

Eugene set up a hair
and nail thingy,

and they all want to help!

- Again, who's Eugene?

- Shouldn't you
be seen, you know,

cleaning up the town, with us?

- Actually, Olivia
wants me to focus

on spreading our optics.

You know, me with
the businesses,

you guys with the
little clean up thingy.

- Spread our optics?

- Clean up thingy?

Yeah, I'm feeling optics.

- You guys, I would
love to stay and chat,

but I have to go to
campaign headquarters.

- This is our
campaign headquarters.

- Eugene set up a
new headquarters

for our platinum
donors and call center.

- Again, who is Eugene?

- If I want to win, I have
to play like a winner,

not someone who's trying
to be homecoming queen.

No offense, Jess.

You guys, I'm just trying
to reach my full potential

maybe for the first
time in my life.

Imagine what good I can
do if I become mayor.

What good we can do.

Isn't that what we wanted,
why we did this whole thing?

I tell you what, after
my little meet and greet

cheese cracker thingy,
I'll come back and help.

Promise.

Gotta go, love you guys.

- You know Cleopatra had her
brother and sister murdered?

Looks like power in the hands
of a desperate, young woman

might have a downside.

- Look what she's
done with this place.

Olivia came in with a vision,

cleaned up the building,
and created a new business.

Working together, we can
save all of Main Street.

- I'm sorry, forgive me.

I appreciate everything
you said about me

at the debate, sweetie.

Tell me again how
this works exactly?

- Mr. Kostreva.

First of all, your
family's history here

is the wonderful heartbeat
of this extraordinary town.

My group of investors,
all good friends,

are going to buy the
buildings on Main Street

that have already closed down.

- Assuming we can get
the ordinance lifted

so that they could
buy more than one.

- [Olivia] That's right.

- And with that money-

- Capital.

- Capital for those purchases,

we will also include
some money for a-

- General building fund.

- Which we then use
as non interest loans

for small businesses like yours,

bring them up to code,
make those bad men go away.

- Okay, so, what's in it
for you, Ms. Wharf-Hill?

- Main Street thrives,
Olivia's business here thrives.

A rising tide lifts all boats.

My gamps taught me that one.

[whispering]

[catchy music]

- Is there any
further discussion

on the sewage
extension proposal?

Mary?

- I'd like to
address the council.

- Princess, we're in the
middle of something here, okay?

Can you please just go home?

- Move to table current business

and go straight to new business.

- I second that.

- Well, Mary, looks like
you have our attention.

- Come on, guys, we
don't have time for this.

- I'd like to ask the council

to repeal the corporate
limitation ordinance,

and to do it like, now,
if that's possible.

- The limitation is
in place for a reason.

- Yeah, to help
you with your mall.

- No.
- What?

- My father has
been quietly helping

build a mall in Port Byron,

which of course
would do a lot better

if it wasn't competing with
businesses here in Echo Harbor.

- There's plenty of room for
our downtown and the mall.

- Sure.

If overflow is your
big fix to save us.

We all know that
an anonymous report

lead the GSA to putting up
notices all around town.

Well, it's no longer anonymous.

Our mayor is the one
that reported us.

- That is not true.

- I have pictures, Dad.

- If Rob's selling us out,

and Rob's the main proponent

to the corporate
limitation ordinance,

then maybe we need
to really consider-

- No, I have not
sold anybody out.

We voted on this, all of us.

- I move that we
strike the ordinance.

- Second.

- Movement seconded.

The ordinance is repealed.

Thank you, Mr. Land.

- That was easy.

- Who do you think I am?

- A guy who used to
call himself mayor.

[laughing]

[phone ringing]

Jordan, please
call me, somebody.

Radio blackout.

You should've seen it.

Pretty amazing.

The look on dad's face.

- I'm glad I didn't.

- Why?

- Politics.

Us versus them.

Somebody's always made
to be the villain.

- Well, if they're
wrong, they should be.

You could listen and love
them, but they're still wrong.

- I don't know.

What would happen if politics

wasn't about winning
and being right?

- What's left after that?

- The people, of course.

- I gotta go, see
what's going on.

- I ironed your jacket.

- What?

It's like dry clean
only, didn't you read...

Ugh!

So stressful.

Come on, guys.

You're gonna have to
talk to me eventually.

- Robert's rules of
order, no we don't.

- What did I do?

I did so well last
night, I killed it.

- What happened to "we"?

- Yeah, your Machiavellian
ways are impressive,

if not a little bit spooky.

- Use your friends
to gain power,

then drop them and your
constituents along the way.

You're like a
backstabbing Caesar.

We love it.

- Caesar was the one
who got stabbed, bro.

- Jordan?

Fine.

This isn't the first time
this has happened in my life!

[door slams]

For all the great
success I thought I had

already achieved before
even becoming mayor,

something wasn't right.

I was feeling so great,

everything I wanted
was coming together,

and suddenly everyone hated me.

And those pantsuits.

Let's just say they
started to itch.

[dramatic piano music]

I don't get it.

It's so confusing.

- Oh, you'll be fine, dear.

- Not so sure about that.

I got good news and bad news.

- I don't like that game.

- The good news is that Olivia
has bought her building.

- That's awesome!
- Oh!

- And the bad news?

- She's tearing it down.

- What?

- There it is, the
old bait and switch.

- We have to move
out by January.

- This doesn't make any sense.

- There she is!

- Mary.

Your friend Olivia just
bought half the town,

and she's planning
to rip it down.

- What about the
general building fund?

- There is no building fund.

- Not only that, now she's
putting the squeeze on us

to sell our businesses.

- Even me.

- No more ice cream!

- There has to be
a misunderstanding,
she promised me.

[dramatic music]

- Straight to voicemail?

- Yup.

Pumped and dumped us.

[dramatic music]

- [Bernie] What's in it
for you, Ms. Wharf-Hill?

- [Olivia] If those
ordinances weren't in place...

- [Mary] One business,
one corporation.

- [Olivia] If we could
somehow make that go away...

- Ms. Crompton will
be with you shortly.

- I'm here to see
Ms. Wharf-Hill.

- One in the same.

- [Mary] And there it was,
right in front of my eyes.

Olivia's plan.

Formerly known as Echo Harbor.

- Pretty cool, isn't it?

A world class resort.

And if things go my way,
which they usually do,

grandest casino
this side of Vegas.

- So, let me get this straight.

You buy up everything you can,

you let the rest
go out of business,

and then you can get
everything for nothing.

It's all yours.

- Aren't you clever?

Yes, the unfortunate
world of cause and effect.

It's just business.

- You never intended
on saving Echo Harbor.

- Aren't I saving it,
giving it new life?

- By turning it
into what, a resort?

My friends at Sunnyside in
the last years of their lives

are gonna have to
find new homes.

- Life moves on, Mary,

but Echo Harbor will
always be there.

- This isn't who we are.

- No, but it's
who you'll become.

You do understand
that now, don't you?

- You manipulated me.

- I like to think
I educated you.

Which reminds me...

You're a natural, Mary,
great for politics.

You have this thing,
people believe in you.

Hey, maybe one day you'll
come and work for me.

- What's this?

- A letter of recommendation

to whatever college
you want to go to.

With that, you don't
need daddy's help.

You see, I'm British.

I've got clout.

The Empire and all that.

- The empire you lost.

- Bad management,
what can I say?

- You're going to lose again.

- Oh, I never lose, sweetie.

Ask all my ex-husbands.

[dramatic piano music]

- What a mess.

- Your whole town just got
sold out from under you.

That's gotta sting.

- No, not that, Mary.

She's been betrayed,
she's out there hurting.

What could be more important?

- He's human after all.

- Is it too late
to say I'm sorry?

- Never.

Let's hear it.

- You're relentless.

[chuckling]

I'm sorry, Loren.

This job, feeling important.

My pride, ego, I
don't know, whatever.

It blocked my view
of the whole reason

I wanted to be mayor.

- When did you get
that wake up call?

- Honestly?

It was the night of the debate.

Halfway through her
eviscerating me,

I thought "Who is this
amazing young woman?"

And that's my daughter.

She's a lot like you.

- And not without some of you.

[dramatic piano music]

- I fell for it.

- Hook, line, and sinker.

What?

That's funny.

- Ha ha.

- Look, Mary, it's seductive.

Power, attention.

It got to both your dad and I.

You were doomed.

- Still, I made everything
worse, divided the family.

- I think your
dad and mom played

a pretty good role in that.

- So, what now?

Sunnyside is about to go away,

and Echo Harbor as we know it

is on the brink of extinction.

- And don't forget, all of
your friends have deserted you.

Well, almost all of them.

- Sorry?

- So, what's left, Mary?

Who's left?

Who can fix this?

- Me?

Gamps, was Sunnyside really
a veterinary hospital?

Franklin said
something about it.

- Yeah.

Yeah, it was called
Emory before Sunnyside.

- So, like, does that
make it a landmark?

- I don't know.

Why?

- I think I have an idea.

[wondrous music]

- As you all know, Evelyn,
the love of my life,

our sweet Evelyn, we lost
her several years ago.

And she was my everything.

So it's no wonder it shook me
to the core when she passed.

And if I'm to be truthful,

I have not yet been
able to bring myself

to a point of forgiveness

for any role that I
played in all that.

My job here, it's
relatively simple.

Honor God, and be truthful
with all of you, and myself.

And yet I've not
done what I so often

ask each of you to do in the
darkest moments of your lives.

I wasn't there on that awful day

that they took Evy
to the hospital,

she's already lifeless.

I wasn't there much at
all back then, for years.

I had my book, ya'll
know about that.

Next thing you know, I'm
missing Sundays with all of you,

my favorite thing in the world,

because I'm off lecturing
and talking and preaching.

[laughing]

I gotta tell you, it felt good.

Oh, it felt good.

No, it felt tremendous!

I was popular.

And I've got this new authority,

and darn it if I'm
not gonna milk it

for everything it's worth.

Family trait.

I think so often, all of us,

we get lost in our
jobs and our work,

that we forget that life
isn't about our job,

our job is there
to service our life

so we can serve God.

So, Evy collapsed in our
house just across the way,

most of you have been there

for one of her wonderful meals.

She collapsed, and
I wasn't there.

I wasn't there to help her.

It was hours before
she was even found.

I've never been able to
forgive myself for that.

So, starting today,
in this very place,

in this very moment,
complete honesty.

And perhaps working
together with God's grace,

whatever happens to
our sleepy hollow,

our great history
becomes our tomorrow,

whatever happens...

Perhaps forgiveness should be

the first and last
thought of every day.

[lighthearted music]

- You working the counter today?

- I convinced Smitty
to give it to us

all to ourselves.

- It's good to be mayor.

So, what's up?

- Uh, us?

- Right, I owe you an apology.

- Well, yeah, you do actually.

- You didn't report the
buildings not being to code.

- No, but I did
get the GSA agent

to finally admit it was Olivia.

- When I saw you with that guy-

- GSA makes a complaint,

the Mayor's required
to meet with him.

- My bad on that one.

- It doesn't excuse the way

that I've been acting
throughout this whole thing.

I made some mistakes, Mary.

I didn't understand
why you got so upset

when I stopped fighting
for places like this.

- Lots of memories.

- Yeah.

And every weekend,
since you were 5-

- Father-daughter date days.

I had you and chocolate chip
cookie dough all to myself.

- And I had you, and rocky road.

[laughing]

I'm sorry.

I guess I just still see
you as my little girl.

You know, a princess.

But you're not a little
girl anymore, I...

- So they say.

- You are a
beautiful, incredible,

whip smart talented woman.

- Overkill, but thanks.

- And you know what?

You got a lot of
your mother in you.

- A lot of my dad too, recently.

- Well, I'm sorry about that.

[laughing]

- Dad, we have to stop Olivia.

I have some ideas how.

- First, will you do me a favor?

Yeah, come on.

Can we have one more
father-daughter date?

You know, without all the
politics and all that?

Just you and me?

- I don't know, what
are you serving?

- Uh, well...

- Banana split?

- Yeah.
[laughs]

- Cherry?

- Come on.

There you go.

[chuckling]

Ah!

[laughing]

[lighthearted music]

[catchy music]

Okay, thank you all for coming,
we need to do two things.

First-
- First...

We need to stop Olivia's
development plans, like pronto.

- And then something I
should've been focusing on but-

- Messed up, royally.

- We need to restore
downtown, save Main Street.

- Seems like a tall order,

like you might need some muscle.

- We just might.

Okay, my dad needs some people

to comb through
government websites.

- Uh, we got you covered.

- Ding.

We'll go deep!

- And then what we're gonna
need is one great lawyer.

- Talk to me!

[laughing]

- And then one last thing.

I'm sorry, guys.

Forgive me?

I messed up too.

- Whatever happens, we're all
gonna do this together, right?

Deal?

- Deal.

All of us.

[catchy music]

- Ah, democracy.

Just go in there and vote
for whoever you want,

completely anonymous.

- Yeah, no one knows
who you voted for,

totally a secret.

- Thank you, Mrs. Vance.
- Thank you, Mrs. Vance.

Send it in.

- So, as you can see,

your investment
is going to create

a brand new Echo Harbor.

I have an idea
for a name change,

re-imagined in the 21st century,

a world class resort and casino.

- Oh, hi.

It's a party.

- Oh, everyone meet Mary Parson,

the future mayor of Echo Harbor.

- Yeah, we'll see about that.

You guys must be talking
about the new resort project.

Pretty cool, right?

- [Olivia] Yes!

- So, I'm guessing you guys
haven't heard the bad news?

- Mary...

- [Man] What bad news?

- There is no bad news.

- Eleanor?

- What's this?

- This is an injunction.

There will be no more
construction at 16 Main,

this building, and the
adjoining properties.

- This is a historical landmark.

[chuckling]

- Since when?

- This building was
the first hospital

for veterinary care
south of New York.

- Kinda famous.

Who knew?

- Well, now the
Historical Society does.

- Paperwork submitted by
Mayor Parson just yesterday.

He rushed it right through.

- I'll fight this
in court, and win.

- Maybe, maybe not.

Certainly not until after a
long, drawn out legal process,

7-8 years?

- Not to mention, the optics
aren't really on your side.

- I fought the Second
World War, Your Honor,

and this woman is throwing
me out on the street.

- You do understand, if
you stop this project,

there will be nothing and nobody

to help you save this pitiful
little excuse of a town.

You truly will become an echo.

- Wow, low.

And the second
reason why I'm here.

- [Olivia] Oh, pray tell.

- Mom?

- Coming, honey!

Fresh from the oven.

You'll do great, sweetie.

- Thanks.

Let me just fix this.

Okay, not as fancy, but some
great memories with legos.

So, here's another
investment opportunity.

It might help you and my pitiful
little excuse for a town?

It's good to have
options, right?

So, yeah, you invest a little
bit more in these businesses,

and then bring them up to code,

add a fresh coat of paint,

and then next thing you know-

- A thriving town center,
open for business.

- This is ridiculous!

These are sophisticated
investors,

not a bunch of idiots
looking to give handouts.

- Yeah, no problem.

We already have investors,

but just in case...

Guys?

- Is the whole town out there?

- I convinced my mall
investors to shelf Port Byron

and invest in Echo Harbor.

Call it a reverse anchor.

You see, tourists will
come to Echo Harbor

as they always have, for
the charm, and the beauty,

and the wonderful hospitality.

That will be the destination.

- You're throwing your
money away on this dump.

- Maybe, maybe not.

I mean, either way, I'm
not making any money.

In fact, I'm losing money.

You see, that was the
incentive for the investors.

I'm giving up 100%
of my 30% interest

that they can share equally.

I end up with nothing.

Well, that's not really true.

I kind of get it all.

- Where do I throw up?

- Investment disbursements
are outlined in section 18,

paragraph 3 of these packages.

Ha.

- So, we also share in the
success of an existing business

once they're up and running?

- Of course, it's an investment.

- Plus 36% federal
rebate for the AHA,

21% tax security for the
Small Business Loan Act,

and the rest appreciated over
increased property valuations

all outlined in appendix C.

Wow, I can't believe
I just said that.

- Without the cards!

[laughing]

- Come on, people, you
can't seriously think

you're gonna make more money
with her silly little plan

than my resort.

- If it gets built.

- His shares alone boost
the return by a third.

It's a no brainer, Olivia.

- That's right.

Have any of you ever
seen Echo Harbor?

- Or tried our world
famous homemade scuffles?

There's a saying on this
side of the pond, Olivia,

and I think I get it now.

"United we stand,
divided we fall."

Kind of like that
little empire of yours.

- [Rob] All right,
guys, let's go.

Ladies, gentlemen,
everyone, let's go.

- Hey, sounds pretty good.

- Peter, Sarah!

Wait!

I can explain!

What just happened here?

- You got your butt kicked.

- Big time.

- Boom!

- The pressure, Will,
I can't take it,

I feel like I'm
gonna short circuit.

- Sit down.

- Is it raining, Will?

I feel wet.

- No, it's not raining.

Hold on, bro.

Whoa, tied?

- What?

- Yo-
- Hey, send it, send it!

- Okay, okay, okay.

- Thank you so much.

I think it's actually working.

- Oh, God willing.

- I think it already has.

- Eleanor killed it.

- Mad skills never age.

- We already have more
than enough investors

to make it work.

- You just saved Echo Harbor.

- We saved it.

- Victory selfie?

[phones buzzing]

- Oh, no.

- Oh, you gotta be kidding me.

- 854 to 854?

- The polls are about to close.

- I think somebody
forgot to vote.

- Mary, where's your sticker?

- Go vote.

But-

- And that's an order
for your father.

- I'd listen to him.

- And you still have time,

you've got like two minutes.

- We'll never make it.

- Oh, yes you will.

[catchy music]

[tires screeching]

- Woo!

I could get used to this.

- Go, go, go, go,
go, go, go, go, go!

Guy, there's a guy,
there's a guy, there's a-

- Watch out!

- Sorry!

Watch it, pothole, pothole!

Stop, stop, stop!

- Watch it, watch it, watch it!

[Mary screaming]

- Yeah!

- Jordan!

- I'm sorry!
- Jordan!

- Stop, slow down,
we're here, we're here!

Stop!

- Watch out, watch out!

[screaming]

- Get out, go, go!

Go, Mary, go!

- There you go, go, go.

- Dad, I just want to say-

- Go, go, hurry,
I'll get over it.

Go on.

Vote.

- I hope she makes it.

- Let's go.

- I'm proud of you.

I know how much being
mayor was important to you.

- When Mary wins and
she's out of earshot,

I'm gonna cry like a baby.

- I expect nothing less.

- Listen, honey.

Now that Mary's gonna
be running the town,

I'm gonna have some free time.

Don't you think we could...

- Yes?

- Yes what, yes
you'll take me back?

- I never let you go.

- Oh.

[chuckling]

Oh, here she comes.

- Did you make it?

- Made it just in time.

- I guess I should
be the first one

to congratulate Miss Mayor.

- Are you crying?

- No, I'm not crying.

- Yes, you are.
- No, I'm not!

[laughing]
I don't know.

I know I lost, but I feel great.

I feel like a winner.

- Just so you know,
you have 4 years,

and then once I finish college-

- Finish college?

What are you talking about?

- Uh, Rob?

- [Man] What, really?

- [Rob] She voted for me?

- If you don't keep your promise

and do what's right around here,

I'm gonna come back from college

and we can do this
little dance again,

except this time,
I'll win, old man.

- Oh, okay.

[chuckling]

- She voted for me?

- I just got here and you
just figured that out?

- Family photo?

- All right, let's get one!

Hey, where's Dad?

- I'm here. [groaning]

- Pops!
- Gamps.

- I need to get my balance.

- Get over here!

[laughing]

- Thanks for the car, Dad.

- Take care of it.
[chuckling]

- All right, Jordan,
let's hit it.

- Cheese!

[lighthearted music]

- [Rob] What?

Hey!

- Finally.

- Aw.

- Cool.
- Cool.

- All right, that's enough.

- Praise God!

- Praise God!

Ah, we'll see.

We'll see.

[lighthearted music]

- As the great Will
and Ed once said,

this election really
was about choice.

The choice to help others,

the choice to forgive,

and most importantly, the
choice to see all moments,

even defeats as blessings,
and not as disappointments.

I think I'm gonna
need a bigger box.

Dad is actually
doing a great job

revitalizing the town,

almost like he's 18 again.

He really wanted to
restore the music store,

but had a much better idea.

And Olivia Wharf-Hall Compton

or whatever she calls herself,

her place still sits empty.

The minute I finish college,

I have a plan, a big
plan for this one.

[lighthearted music]

And most of all,
I am happy to say,

our family feels
like a family again.

Of course, we still
have work to do,

but what family doesn't?

So, the race delayed
my trip a little,

but here I am now,
better for it.

And I'm so excited
about your school.

I mean, California?

Who wouldn't want
to be me right now?

We're going to Disneyland!

- I'm so excited!

[laughing]

About your school, excited.

I mean, we're excited about
Disneyland too, you know.

We're generally-
- Dad, Dad, stop.

- Sorry.

Isn't she amazing?

- So, does that
answer your question?

Sorta, kinda?

- I was thinking
more along the lines

of a couple of sentences.

But yeah, that sounds like it
was a great life experience.

[lighthearted music]

[calming music]

[catchy music]

[lighthearted music]