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(light music)

(upbeat pop music)

(police siren blaring)

(light jazz music)

(phone chiming)

- Dude, go, go, go, go, go, go.

- Wait!

(upbeat music)

(laughing)

(cheering)

(upbeat pop music)

(crowd murmuring)

(muffled crosstalk)

- Have you seen Sierra?

- No, sorry.

- Okay.

Do you know where Sierra is?

- What?

- Do you know where Sierra is?

- Seriously, get out!

- I'm not going anywhere.

- Okay, you're 86-ed.

Guys, can somebody get over here, please?

- Is there a problem here?

- Yeah, she won't leave.

- I'm not going anywhere.

- Okay that's all for you, get out.

(siren blaring)

(tapping on window)

- Ma'am?

Ma'am?

Ma'am?

- Hello.

- Ma'am, have you been drinking tonight?

- What do you think?

- You do look a little drunk,

and you look like you drove off the road.

- Nice, fine work, detective.

- All right ma'am, I'm gonna have to ask you

to step out of the vehicle.

- Ma'am, I'm gonna have to ask you.

- I will not ask you again,

I need you to step out of the vehicle.

Come on.

- Okay, okay, okay, Mister Officer.

See I am sober enough

to get out of the, oh I do not feel good.

- All right, all right.

Sit back down, sit back down.

I have a 2-0-5, on 94th Street

south of Palm Bay Drive.

11-41 please--

- Hey, where you been?

Have you seen Erica?

- Shh, quiet.

She tried to drive off.

- You are the one who wanted me to give her those pills.

- Yeah, I know but I didn't think something

like this would happen.

- Look, just, you can't say anything.

- I barely know her.

I'm not gonna see her again.

- Let's hope so.

We gotta get out of here.

- Come on, get up, you can't be laying like that.

Come on.

- Oh, Mister Officer you saved me.

- Okay, come on.

I can't have you--

great.

- I think I love you.

- Lay back down, lay back down.

I don't get paid enough for this.

(car dinging)

- Are you gonna yell at me?

Dad?

Yo?

Oh, I feel like shit.

- Good, maybe you'll learn your lesson this time.

- Not this again.

- Yeah, this again.

Drinking's one thing,

but drugs?

- It's not a big deal.

- You're right, you know what?

It's not a big deal.

I lost your mother, now I'm just supposed to lose you.

- Don't bring her into this.

- You know, this little stunt of yours,

it's landed you in some pretty hot water.

You have to go to court, you know.

- Great.

I love court, maybe I can meet Judge Judy.

- Everything's a joke to you, huh?

You think you're gonna be laughing when you're in jail?

- Whatever.

- Exactly, whatever.

I gotta get home and get ready for work.

I'm running late because of this crap.

I see you've been busy today.

- I'm supposed to get plenty of rest and fluids.

Doctor's orders.

- Well, I just got back from the lawyer,

and you got lucky.

The court's offering a pre-trial diversion,

and guess what?

You get to do community service.

- I don't call that lucky.

- Don't push it.

- I'd rather go to jail.

- Yeah well, suit yourself.

But you won't be driving for a while.

So you'd better dust off the old bike.

- It has a flat tire.

- Well then I guess you'd better air it up.

I gotta go to work.

- Of course you do.

- Well I don't see you out there looking for a job.

- I am a millennial, and the definition of a millennial,

is one with no job.

- Maybe you should make your own.

- Oh let me grab my magic wand.

Penny punny alimagunny,

give me a job so I can haz some money.

See Dad, no job.

- It's not magic, Erica.

Find a human need, use your talents, and fill it.

- I'm pretty good at Mario Kart.

- I gotta go, my work is important.

- That's right, you're saving the human race.

- Thank God, they're not relying on you.

- ET, phone home.

Let's fix you up.

- Yes?

- I'm Erica, here for my meeting.

- Right, please sit down.

You've read the Alternative Community Service contract?

- Yes.

- Do you have a job?

Go to school?

- mm-mm.

- Was that a yes, or a no?

- No, I don't have a job, no I don't go to school.

- Good, then you're gonna have plenty of time

to do your community service.

We're gonna need to assign you to a worksite.

Have you ever worked in a garden?

That was a yes or a no question.

- No, I have never worked in a garden.

- I wouldn't expect you to to have

any construction experience.

- Nope.

- Do you have any skills?

- I can rock your world at Mario Kart.

- It would behoove you to take this seriously,

unless you'd rather go to jail, of course.

- The thought has crossed my mind.

- Great, well then you're not going to mind

that I add another 10 hours to your community service.

- You can't do that.

- Actually I can, and I did.

I am not in the mood to deal with a priss like you today.

All right, as of this moment,

you now have 60 total hours of community service.

- No, I don't.

- I'm sorry, did I say 60?

I meant 70.

- What?

- 80. - No.

- 90.

- Why not just make it an even 100?

- Deal.

Now if you're through,

we'll continue with our little meeting.

Well, actually we could really use you at the soup kitchen.

- Soup kitchen,

as in like homeless people?

- Great.

Soup kitchen it is.

- I would literally rather do anything

than work in a soup kitchen.

- Then we can literally have you clean public toilets

at the county parks.

- Soup kitchen sounds fine.

- All right.

Here is the information on the soup kitchen.

The address is right here.

You're gonna want to fill out your form

with the hours that you worked each and every day.

Angela is the supervisor there,

she's gonna need to sign the form each and every day.

Do you understand?

- Yes.

- And you're not gonna be able to drive for 90 days.

After that time you're gonna have to have

an ignition interlock placed on your car,

before you're able to drive.

Do you understand?

- Yes.

- Then go ahead and sign this contract,

and you are all set.

You'll have to check in with us once a month.

And all the instructions are on the information sheet,

and please, for pete's sake,

don't drink or do drugs,

or you're automatically revoked from the program.

That means jail time, do you understand?

- Yes.

- Great, I'm gonna make a copy of this for your records.

I'll be right back.

180 hours.

- You're the worst person ever.

- You have no idea.

- Just give me my papers.

- Gladly, get out of my office.

- [Erica] I was so wasted.

- [Sierra] I shouldn't have left you alone.

I was pretty messed up too.

- It's not your fault.

- Yeah but, you could have been hurt.

I should've taken your keys or something.

- But I'm fine,

and I just have to get off some insurance stuff.

But that's not the worst part.

- What is?

- No, it's really gross.

- Well now you have to tell me.

What is it?

- I barfed all over the cop.

- You!

- Like, all over him.

- You know, they say cops' jobs are tough,

but you took it to a whole other level.

- I know.

I feel so bad.

- Is it like, illegal to barf on someone?

- Well, according to my lovely lawyer,

it could be considered assaulting an officer,

but since it was an accident,

and he's not pressing charges, I'm good.

- Well that's nice of him.

If you barfed on me, I'd throw the book at you.

- Thanks.

- So all they did was take away your license?

- Well the witch at the ACS office

is making me do community service

by feeding icky homeless people.

- I'd rather go to jail.

- That's what I said, but I don't know karate,

so what am I gonna do about like, the Bubbas in prison.

Do they have Bubbas in female prison?

What do they call them, like Bubbettes?

- You say the weirdest stuff sometimes.

- It's a legitimate question.

- What do you think?

- I think your fashion sense needs to go to jail.

- Shut up!

(dramatic orchestral music)

- You must be Erica.

You're extremely late.

- They won't let me drive.

- That doesn't matter.

You were supposed to be here early

so we could go over everything you're supposed to do.

- Well I don't know if you noticed,

but I'm kind of a screw-up.

- That may be,

but every day's another chance to turn it all around.

Since there's no time for proper introductions,

hey everyone,

this is Erica.

Erica, this is everyone.

Since you're new we'll get you started with something,

easy.

All done?

Hey,

thank you.

Screwing up is a temporary condition, if you want it to be.

- Hey.

I'm Ryan.

- Hi Ryan.

- So they had you on dish duty, huh?

- Yep.

- That's cool.

- Not really.

- So you're the new volunteer?

At least you got your good deed in for the day.

- You could say that.

- Take it easy.

- Oh, crapadoodle.

- What?

- My bike.

- No, did you just say 'crapadoodle'?

- Yeah, it's my second favorite word.

Let me use it in a sentence for you.

Oh crapadoodle, my bike has a flat tire.

- It's just that I've never heard that before.

- That's because I made it up.

- Well I could give you a ride.

- I'm sure I'm out of your way.

- It's no problem, I don't have anything to do.

- Okay, fine.

- Here I got it.

- No, it's fine.

- No, it's just that--

- It's just what, that you're a guy,

and I'm a girl, and you're supposed to be like,

all chivalrous and like help me?

- Here I can--

- It's fine I can do it.

- You like you need--

- No I don't, I'm fine.

I can do it.

- I can just--

- No, it's fine.

I've just gotta like,

turn it maybe, a little bit.

See?

I told you I could do it.

- Yeah.

Wow, that is a cool rocket.

Is that yours?

- Yeah, my dad and I used to build

rockets together when I was a kid.

It's been sitting there for years.

- Why don't you finish it?

- Because I'm not a kid anymore.

- Yeah, so?

- So, unlike you who still plays with GI Joe dolls,

I hung up my Barbies years ago.

- They're not dolls, they're action figures.

- Which are two words that basically means dolls.

- They're not dolls.

I'm glad I amuse you.

Anyways, if it were my rocket,

I would definitely finish it.

- Be my guest.

- Why don't you and your dad finish it?

- Because he is too busy building real ones at NASA.

- Your dad works for NASA, that's awesome.

- He's a certified rocket scientist.

That's how we got into building these things.

I guess he kind of thought I'd be as smart as him.

- I'm sure you're plenty smart.

Does she fly?

- Yeah, we used to take them out to the fields

and there's a parachute that comes out,

and it's my job to find them where they land.

- That's very awesome.

- It's just a flying piece of cardboard.

Let's get out of here.

Hey girl, what's up?

- Nothing, bored.

Can you go out tonight?

- I shouldn't,

but that's what makes it more fun, right?

- Okay, see you at 10.

- All right, see you then.

(dance music)

(muffled)

- Are you ready?

Catch me.

Okay, ready?

- Good morning.

- Good night.

- Where have you been?

- None of your business.

- Yeah, well the last time I checked,

I'm the one who pays the mortgage around here.

- Oh, now you care?

You should go to bed because you

have to get up early for work.

- And you have to work in the soup kitchen tomorrow.

Have you been drinking?

- No.

Maybe.

- I don't believe you.

You know what, tomorrow,

I'll be driving you, and picking you up

to make sure you're there.

- Oh good, I don't have to ride my bike.

- If you don't make it through this diversion program,

you can find another place to live.

- If I don't make it through this diversion program,

I'm gonna be in jail.

- Well it might do you some good.

- That is not a nice thing to say to your daughter.

- It's the truth.

You get it together, or you move out.

- Oh dad that is not fair.

- You know what's not fair?

Is having a daughter whose sole purpose in life,

is to end up in jail.

- Oh dad.

- Go to bed.

- Okay.

- You're back.

- I'm Ethan.

- Hi Ethan, nice to meet you.

- Just making sure Erica showed up today.

- Okay well,

I can take her from here.

You're gonna be working up front today,

so go find Ryan, he'll show you what to do.

Go on.

How are you holding up?

- I'm fine.

Her mother passed away a couple of years ago.

It changed her.

- I'm sorry to hear that.

You know, maybe just working around all these new people

will help her.

- I'll be back later to pick her up.

- Okay, I'll see you then.

- I should go.

- Okay.

All right.

- Bye.

- Bye.

- A hairnet, really?

- Food safety.

- Oh no, we wouldn't want to get a hair

in the free food.

- Just 'cause it's free,

doesn't mean it should have hair in it.

- Get what you pay for, I guess.

- Better than nothing.

- I don't know about that.

- Get ready, the line's about to open up here.

- Mornin' ma'am.

- Good morning.

- Morning Bill.

- Good morning.

- Morning.

- [Erica] Good morning.

- Morning.

- [Woman] Morning.

- Good morning.

- Morning.

- What is with these people, they are so rude.

- Morning.

What are you talking about?

- Every time I say, good morning,

they look at me like they're gonna kill me.

- Oh, I forgot to tell you,

that's because around here, we don't say, good morning.

We just say, morning.

- Morning.

- Thanks for the heads up.

- Morning.

- Morning.

- Morning.

- Morning.

- [Ryan] Morning, Danny.

- [Erica] Morning.

- Thank you.

- How was your second day?

- My wrist hurts.

- A lot of hungry people to feed out there, huh?

- Yeah, I wish there were less hungry people,

so I didn't have to work so hard.

- Have a good day, Erica.

(poignant orchestral music)

- Wait dad, stop the car.

- What?

- Is that Ryan?

- [Ethan] Who?

- [Erica] My friend from work, just stop the car.

- Okay.

Where are you going?

- I'll meet you at home.

- All right.

(light music)

- I know you're there.

I have pepper spray, I'll spray it in your eyes.

- It's just me.

- Erica, you scared the crap out of me.

- I know, you should have seen your face.

- That is not funny.

- That was like the definition of funny.

- I thought you were like an attacker.

- You have pepper spray.

And it's pink.

- It's not pepper spray, it's just Chapstick.

- Even better.

So, what are you doing out here?

- Nothing I'm gonna tell you about.

- Oh come on.

I'm sorry I made fun of your pink pepper spray.

- Apology accepted.

I'm still not gonna tell you what I'm doing.

- Please?

- Okay fine.

Come on, follow me.

- Aye aye, captain.

So do you think it's smart

that I'm letting a guy I barely know

lead me into a swamp?

I'm not gonna end up on the news tomorrow, am I?

- I haven't decided yet.

- Oh, that makes me feel good.

- You're the one who followed me, remember?

- What are we doing out here?

- I'm using my phone's GPS to look for a geocache.

- A which-what?

- A geocache.

- What's that?

- Geocaching's basically a game,

where somebody hides a geocache,

and then they upload the GPS coordinates to the internet.

Then somebody else downloads those coordinates,

and then finds the geocache, using a device with GPS.

- Got it.

So the point of this game is?

- To find the geocache.

- Is there a prize in this geocache?

- You'll see.

The one I'm looking for should be just up here.

All right.

So according to the GPS,

it should be somewhere around here.

Look for a container of some kind.

- I don't think it's out here.

- It's out here.

Somebody wrote it in the logbook.

I saw it last week.

- Are you sure?

- I'm sure.

- I don't think it's out here.

- It's out here, according to this.

- Ryan, it's not here.

(bird calling)

Wait, is that it?

- Yeah.

That be it.

- How are we gonna get it down?

- Looks like it has a hook.

And that's probably what this stick is for.

So I can just grab it.

- Finders keepers.

- You can't keep it.

- Why, I found it?

- I know, but you can't keep it.

You gotta open it up and see what's inside.

- Fine, well if there's money, I'm keeping it.

- There isn't.

- It's just a box of junk.

- It's not junk.

It's a box things that people left behind.

This is a logbook.

I'm gonna sign it, and date it, to log the find.

- You are such a dork.

- That's me.

Dorky Ryan.

- Making fun of you is not as much fun when you agree.

So how many of these little boxes have you found?

- This makes 832.

- Holy crap, that is a lot of time spent

looking for little boxes of junk.

Do you need to see somebody,

do you need to talk it out?

I know somebody.

- Very funny.

- I try.

- You know what, I think you're the dork.

- That's me, dorky Erica.

- I'd say.

- Hey, you have to admit, I'm pretty adorkable.

- Do you think you can get yourself

down to the soup kitchen, today?

- Sure.

- Good.

I gotta get to work.

And look, I'm sorry I yelled at you.

I just want what's best for you.

- I know.

(soft orchestral music)

It would suck to be homeless.

- Yeah, you think so?

- Yeah, I mean where would you sleep

if you had nowhere to sleep?

- Some of them stay in shelters.

Others sleep behind bushes, or sleep under bridges,

anywhere they can find that's safe.

- I would never, I would get a job.

- Yeah, but all it takes is a few lost paychecks

and some bad luck.

It can happen to anyone.

What would you do if you didn't have your dad to live with?

- I have an aunt in Montana.

- Okay, how would you afford to travel there?

- I'd get a job.

- Yeah, but that takes time.

If you're lucky, then you'd have a friend

who would like you stay with them while you found one.

But without a support system,

what would you do, where would you go?

- You are such a downer.

- It's just reality.

- Well, reality sucks.

But I guess that's just how the world is.

- Yeah, there'll always be people who are homeless,

and hungry, in this world, until we--

- Until what?

- Till we decide that it won't be that way.

You wanna go say hi to these nice folks?

- No thanks, I'll stay here.

- Come on, don't make me drag you out there.

- You are not the boss of me.

- But I am.

If you want your paper signed for today,

you'll get out there.

Go on.

(soft music)

- Hi.

I'm Erica.

What ya workin' on?

- So, out of everyone here,

you had to talk to the one person

that's never said a word to anybody?

- That would be my luck.

So she writes a bunch of math equations on a napkin,

and then leaves.

What's up with that?

- Well I heard that she was a math professor

over at the university,

but now I think she has a mental illness.

She's never said a word to anybody,

and she just writes those equations down.

- That is so sad, does she not have a family?

- Not that I'm aware of.

I mean, you could ask her,

but I don't think you'd get very many answers.

- You know the minute they started mixing

the alphabet with the numbers, they lost me.

- How does that not surprise me?

- Is that a comeback?

There may be hope for you yet.

- Thanks.

- So, are we close?

- According to this, we should be right at ground zero.

I don't know, it should be here.

- Just keep looking.

- Okay, let's just step back for a moment,

and look around.

There I think that's it.

That was easy.

All right, let's see what we got here.

Oh, hey look.

A geo coin.

- What's a geo coin?

- It's a coin that belongs to someone else.

This one is pretty cool.

Check it out.

- There's a code on the bottom.

T-N-7-R-P-S.

What do you think that means?

- It's a tracking number.

You can discover it on your profile, and get an icon.

- That's cool.

Hey, this thing might be worth something.

- Hey hey, that's stealing.

Give it here.

- Fine.

But, I am gonna trade that number one dad.

- Water slides.

They're the best, because you just--

- Tag, you're it!

- Erica, we are,

way too old, to be playing tag.

- Cheater!

- Tag, you're it.

- Okay.

Okay I'm it, and I will stay it because I'm done.

And I need to lay down.

- You need to get some cardio.

- No, I'm good.

I'm good, I could still,

I need more cardio.

- I guess treasure-hunting in real life

isn't as physically demanding as it is in the movies, huh?

- Yeah well, there's a lot more hiking

than there is actual running.

Of course in the movies, there's always

some sort of bad guy that's after the same treasure.

- Ooh, we should make a movie about some bad guy

trying to get to the useless junk before we do.

- Hardy har har, you're just hilarious, aren't you?

- I'm just a barrel of monkeys.

- You're a barrel of monkeys?

You really are a barrel of monkeys.

- An adorkable barrel of monkeys.

- So check it out, there's this rumor

of a very special geocache hidden somewhere on the beach.

Now it's not easy to find,

but they say, if you find it,

you'll find the meaning of life.

I want to find it for my 1000th geocache milestone.

- The meaning of life, huh?

But it's just an empty container.

- [Ryan] You think so?

- After my mom died I just,

I don't know, we're here and then we die,

and that's it.

- I wouldn't put it that way.

- How would you put it?

- Take a look at those leaves up there.

They react to the energy of the sun and the wind.

They don't know where that energy comes from,

they just react.

People are just like complicated leaves.

We can feel the energy.

We just don't know how to describe it.

It's there.

Just a matter of,

going along with it, or fighting it.

- Mind blown.

You know in a weird way, you're kind of like hella smart.

- Okay.

I'll try my best to take that as a compliment.

- I don't know what to think.

I'm sure that there's something out there,

but I don't know where to start to look for it.

- Well, maybe it's the one thing

that you don't have to look for.

- That's cheesy, even for you.

- Well, the truth shall set you cheese.

- May the cheese be with you.

- Long live the cheese.

- Cheese the day.

- Cheese long and prosper.

Come on, let's get out of here.

- Here you go.

- For me?

- Just for you.

- What for?

- For always being there.

- That's easy, you won't move out.

- You know what I mean.

- If you say so.

- It's a compliment,

you're just supposed to say, thank you.

- Thank you.

- That's better.

Now, I have a friend coming over for dinner,

and you're gonna help me cook.

- Do I have to?

- Yes, it'll be just like old times.

- Hey.

- Don't worry, we can Tivo it,

and you can watch after dinner.

- Okay.

- And I was like, that's my underwear.

- That was a good one.

- It was a little awkward.

Anyways, this is really good.

- Thank you, I learned from the best.

- So what happens again when you find,

what's it called?

- Geocache.

Once you find it, then you use your geocaching name

to sign into the log,

and then you can decide to replace the item, or not,

but some of them are really hard to find,

and those are the ones that are really worth it.

- Yeah, they didn't have this kind of stuff

when I was a kid.

We didn't have computers.

Nowadays, you kids do everything on the internet.

Even find stuff other people have hidden all over the place.

- I have an idea.

- What?

- We are gonna find you a date on the internet.

- Oh, no no.

- Oh come on, it's an amazing idea.

You've never tried it, there's so many profiles.

- No no.

- I'm just gonna go grab my computer.

- This is a bad idea.

- This is an amazing idea.

Look at all of these profiles.

- I don't like it at all.

- Do you want a blonde, brunette,

an Asian or Caucasian, an African American.

This is like shopping for love.

- I just don't think this is for me.

- Okay, but look,

she likes science, just like you.

- I said no!

- I'm sorry.

- It's fine.

- I just want you to be happy.

- I know it's just,

I couldn't.

I can't.

- I know, and I'm sorry.

- Thanks.

- So you want to volunteer with me

at the soup kitchen sometime?

- I probably should.

Last time I volunteered anywhere,

you were in high school.

- What about Tuesday?

- Let's do it.

- I'm gonna put it on the calendar.

- Oh hey, I don't think these'll fit me.

- Why are we looking for this thing?

And what is it that we're looking for, exactly?

- It's a geocache,

it's kind of like a treasure hunt.

- There's bugs out here.

- Okay, we're here.

Look for a container,

it could be in a tree, or under anything.

So just look.

- Kind of boring.

- Not boring.

Keep looking.

- What are you doing?

- Trash in, trash out.

- Ooh, there's a frog.

- He's not hurting you, keep looking.

- I'm good, thanks.

- I found it.

It's a micro-cache.

- That's what we came out here for?

What is it?

- It's a really little geocache.

They can be really difficult to find.

- And all that's in it is that piece of paper?

- The fun is in the hunt, I guess.

- I'm tired, and sweaty.

Can we go?

- I mean sure, it's not like I want to share

this really awesome thing that I started doing.

- Great.

Awesome.

Can we go now?

- Yes pumpkin, let's go.

Hey Danny, what's up?

- Hello Miss Erica.

Can I please have some salt?

- Sure.

- I mean, can you get it for me?

I'm sorry to complain.

- It's not a problem.

Here you go.

- Thanks dear.

- You're welcome.

- Oh, this ain't right.

This food is disgusting.

- Well, you get what you pay for, right?

- I'm sorry I said that.

- Apology accepted.

Since when do you care?

- Since I tasted it.

We have to do something about this.

Hey.

- Hi Erica.

- So um, I was wondering.

- Yes?

- Can I cook tomorrow?

- Why on Earth would you want to cook?

- Well I used to cook with my mom,

and she was really good,

and I haven't done it in a while,

but I thought maybe I could give it a shot.

- All right.

You have to be here an hour earlier than usual.

- Okay, can I have a copy of the recipe,

just so I know what I'm cooking?

- Sure.

I hope you can handle the heat.

- I can.

- All right, come with me.

(phone ringing)

- We need to go.

- Not time yet.

- I'm cooking today, and I need to go the store.

- I knew, we will.

- Okay, come on, we gotta go.

- Honey.

- We have to go!

- Hold on!

Erica?

(light orchestral music)

- Well, you're here bright and early.

- I wanted to make sure we had plenty of time.

- Okay.

- You remember my dad?

- Yes, hi Ethan.

- He's gonna volunteer today.

- Nice to see you.

- Good to have you with us.

- I hope you don't mind,

but I bought a couple spices to add to the recipe.

- You did what?

- It'll be good, I promise,

and if it's not I'll do dish duty for a week.

- Okay, you got a deal.

You brought your own apron.

- It was her mother's.

- For good luck.

- Okay, where do we start?

- After you.

(light orchestral music)

All right, there we go.

Awesome.

- Hot hot hot.

- Careful, it's hot okay?

- There you go.

- Morning.

Enjoy.

It's really hot, okay?

- Enjoy.

- Thank you very much.

- Hey Danny.

- Hello Miss Erica.

- It's hot okay?

- [Ethan] Here you go.

- This is good.

This is the best food I've had in forever, Miss Erica.

May I have some more?

- Sure.

- If I may ask,

who cooked today?

You cooked?

Thank you, Miss Erica.

Hey everyone, Miss Erica cooked today!

Thank you.

(group applauding)

(bright orchestral music)

- Thank you.

Thank you Danny, have a good day.

- Thank you, Miss Erica.

- Bye, have a good day.

You're welcome.

You're welcome, have a good day.

- Thank you.

- You're welcome.

- Guys, I think we have a new cook,

if she wants the job.

- Seriously?

- We could use a real chef around here.

- Thank you.

- That was amazing.

- There were so many people there,

and I've never cooked for that many people,

it was amazing.

- That's awesome.

What about that guy down there?

- He's just a friend.

- Yeah.

- We just geocache together, and it's fun.

Seriously.

- Anyways, I heard the word on a DJ at a party,

and everything, we're gonna get krunk.

- So that's where we turn left I think, am I right?

- [Sierra] It's a sketch.

- [Erica] Wait, stop the car!

- [Sierra] What is it?

- [Erica] Stop the car!

Hey.

- What are you doing around here, old man?

- [Erica] Hey!

- You're dirtying up my streets.

- Get away from him.

- Well well well guys, look what we got here.

- Why don't you pick on somebody

who can actually defend themselves?

- You can actually defend yourself?

- You want to try me?

- I don't know, you're pretty darn cute.

Why don't you just come over here to daddy?

- Since you asked for it.

(screaming)

Get away!

Go!

- [Thug] Let's get out of here, let's go!

- Danny, are you okay?

- They were so mean to me.

- I'm so sorry.

- What's going on?

- They were beating on Danny.

- You know him?

- Yes, he comes into the soup kitchen.

- He smells, like really bad.

- You would smell if you didn't have a shower too.

- I don't feel good.

- Do you have somewhere,

a safe place that we could take you?

- Over there.

- He's fine, he's fine, let's go.

- I'll grab a cab, it's fine.

No, I promise, it's fine.

I'm gonna stay with Danny okay?

- Are you sure?

- I'll text you when I'm home.

- Okay.

- Which direction?

(somber orchestral music)

- Thank you.

- I'm sorry people are so mean.

You didn't deserve that.

- It's okay.

I forgive them.

- They don't deserve that.

- If they can't be forgiven,

I can't either.

- What do you mean?

- Years ago, I was a lawyer.

I loved to win.

It was just a game to me.

- So why aren't you a lawyer anymore?

- Well,

I got a client off a DUI at a trial.

Later that night, we went out to celebrate.

He drank too much,

and killed an entire family in an accident.

So, you see,

I deserve this.

- You had no way of knowing that that was gonna happen.

- That's what everyone said.

But I did know.

- [Erica] Well, it's not your fault.

(introspective orchestral music)

- Whoa, I wish every geocache had one of these,

being in Florida.

Okay, so that makes 967 boxes of junk.

- I'm never gonna live that down, am I?

- I haven't decided yet.

- I guess I deserved that.

So you're coming up on number 1000.

Are we gonna go to the 'meaning of life' cache?

- Well, that was the plan,

but, it's a multi-level cache,

and the first part is a really hard sodoku puzzle,

that I just can't figure out.

- A what?

- Sodoku puzzle.

Like, New York Times, newspaper.

Here.

- Oh.

Dude, I totally know how we can figure this out.

- Okay, I don't want to cheat and go online.

- That's not what I'm saying,

can we use a friend?

- Yeah, sure.

- Follow me.

- Well you guys aren't scheduled for today.

- Is May here?

- Yeah, right over there.

- Thanks.

Hey May,

so I know you're really good with numbers.

This is a sodoku puzzle, can you help us?

Could you help us figure it out?

- I'm sorry, I thought she'd be able to help us.

- Yeah, it's okay.

It was worth a shot.

Any other ideas?

- Maybe there's a non-crazy professor

at the university that can help us?

- Yeah, that's an idea.

Poor May.

- Don't worry, we'll figure it out.

- Sorry to bother you, May.

Have a great day.

Erica?

- What?

- No way.

- She did it.

- May!

Thank you.

Number 1000, here we come.

(soft music)

(light orchestral music)

- Erica?

Hey.

I haven't seen you since,

since that party, right?

- I've been busy.

- I was thinking maybe I can get your number.

We can hang out again sometime.

- I don't think so.

- Why not?

I thought we had fun, right?

- You thought wrong.

I ended up in the hospital that night,

because of your stupid pills.

- Oh look, don't blame me,

just 'cause you can't handle yourself.

- So it's my fault?

- You're weren't complaining at the time.

- You were such a jerk.

- If you're looking for somebody to blame,

why don't you talk to your girl, Sierra?

She's the one who gave me those pills,

and told me to hook you up.

- What?

- You heard me.

Said to make sure you had fun.

You know what?

Whatever man, I don't need this drama.

- Good afternoon interweb,

I am here with my great friend, Ryan.

Say hi, Ryan.

Do you know what Ryan is, everybody?

Ryan is what you call a good friend,

somebody who doesn't try to ruin your life.

People are like geochaches.

Sometimes they're easy to find,

sometimes they're hard to find,

and you never know what's gonna be inside

until you crack them open and see.

Some people drug you, and ruin your life,

and other people take you on amazing adventures

that change your outlook on everything.

Have a good afternoon.

(bright piano music)

Have you seen it?

It's like 10 minutes long,

and it's cats doing the stupidest stuff ever.

Look.

Talk about an arm workout.

- Outstanding.

(phone ringing)

- Hold on.

Hello?

This is she.

He's where?

I'll be right there, thank you.

My dad's in the hospital, I gotta go.

- Hey, I'll drive you.

(siren blaring)

- Dad?

What happened?

- I'm fine, I'm fine really.

- You're obviously not fine, you're in the hospital.

- It's nothing, really.

- I remember you, how are you doing?

- I'm fine, what happened to my dad?

- Your father, he suffered a mild heart attack.

- Is he okay?

- Just a small one.

- His prognosis is good.

He does need to rest over the next couple of days.

That means no working, no stress of any kind.

Are you gonna be able to take care of him?

- Yes, of course.

- All right, excellent,

then let me go ahead and just

give you this prescription for his medication.

This particular medication needs to be taken

three times a day.

Can you make sure he gets his meds?

- Yes.

- All right, well then, why don't you just stick around

for a little while longer,

we're waiting on a couple of test results.

Speaking of food, he needs to be on a low-cholesterol diet.

Lots of veggies, okay?

- Okay.

- All right, let's just try to keep you two

out of my emergency room for a little while, shall we?

I'll be back in a little bit.

- Thank you.

- Thank you, doctor.

- You hear that?

Vegetables.

- Can they be fried?

- No.

- I didn't think so.

- Oh I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Okay, are you ready?

- I don't know for what, but sure.

- It's over here.

Since I know that you are not gonna sit still

while you are recovering,

I thought I would give you something to do.

Ta da!

- God, the old rocket.

- So I thought that you could do it, and I'll help,

and when we are done we can send it to the moon.

- Well, the entire Saturn V didn't make it

all the way to the moon.

Remember that

how many stages-- - The point is,

we're gonna do it together.

- I'd like that.

You wanna get started now?

- Let's do it.

(sentimental instrumental music)

(dramatic orchestral music)

(soft piano music)

- All right, show me how this online dating thing works.

- Dad?

- Seriously.

- Are you sure?

- Just show me how it works quickly,

before I change my mind.

- Okay.

Here it is.

First we have to make a profile.

So age 46,

Caucasian,

height, five-eight.

And you're what, like 200 pounds?

- 170.

- Okay, 170.

Eyes, brown, hair, brown.

Drinker, social.

Non-smoker, body type, average.

Okay, hi, thanks for looking at my profile.

I am really looking forward to meeting you.

We can work on that later.

Let's find somebody near us.

Age range, the youngest you can date is 30.

- What, hey wait.

- You're not dating somebody younger than me.

And the oldest is 52 because you're not

dating a grandmother.

- Thank you.

- Smoker or non-smoker?

- Either.

- Okay.

- I can't believe I let you talk me into this.

- It's just how people do it now.

- Even widowers that just had a heart attack?

- Even them.

Okay, so,

here are your choices.

What do you think?

What about her?

She's cute.

Let's click on Monica.

All right, so it says here that Monica likes

cats, movies, cooking,

wine, riding bikes, and she's a medical billing specialist.

What do you think?

- I don't know.

- Dad I know that this is difficult.

But you can do it.

- If you say so.

- And, she's online right now,

so we should probably chat, right?

- Great.

Go ahead.

- Let's get you a date.

- Oh no, no no no no.

Okay.

Let's see,

here's this, and,

these,

and these.

And your nice belt.

- Your mother gave me that belt.

- It's okay, dad.

- Okay.

- Now, get to it.

- What do you think?

- [Erica] You look good.

- Yeah.

- Go get 'em tiger.

- Thanks.

- There's just one thing you're missing.

- What?

- Just in case.

Now,

don't be home too late.

- Seriously?

(knocking on door)

- Where have you been?

I called you like a million times.

- I've been ignoring you,

can you not take a hint?

- Look, I didn't mean for anything bad to happen.

I just wanted to help you have fun.

- I could have killed myself,

or somebody else in that car, Sierra.

You don't care about anybody but your self.

- I was trying to be a good friend,

get you to loosen up.

I was gonna take care of you, and you just left.

- You don't get it, you just don't get it.

I don't trust you, and honestly,

we don't have anything in common anymore,

so I don't really want you a part of my life.

- Erica, please.

- Maybe I should thank you,

because now I know what I want out of life.

So why don't you find another friend to drug,

and just leave me alone.

- Please.

- Don't.

- I'm gonna make it up to you, I promise.

- Good luck with that.

(soft orchestral music)

Hey, how'd it go?

Well, tell me everything.

- I couldn't.

I pulled up in the restaurant parking lot,

and I just couldn't get out of the car.

- Oh dad.

- I just miss her so much.

- I know, I know.

- She was the love of my life,

and she's never coming back.

- I miss her too.

- She would have been so proud of you, you know?

- What?

Thanks dad.

Have you seen Danny today?

- Actually no.

- Hey Angela, have you seen Danny?

- No, I haven't.

- That's weird, he hasn't missed a day since I've been here.

I'm gonna go look for him.

- Okay.

- Danny!

What happened?

- Everything's okay.

- Everything's not okay,

I'm gonna call for an ambulance, okay?

Hi, I need an ambulance.

We're at 32nd and Horton.

His name's Danny, I don't know his last name.

No no, he's bleeding, please hurry, okay?

They're on their way, okay.

I need you to just hold on.

- Miss Erica,

I don't want to stay.

- Please?

No no no no.

- I don't deserve to.

You've brightened a sick old man's miserable life.

Thank you.

- No no no, Danny no.

No no.

- Thank you.

- Danny?

No!

(sad orchestral music)

- [Angela] Erica, what's wrong?

- Danny's dead.

- What?

- He's dead.

He's gone.

- What happened?

- He died, they beat him up again, and he's dead.

- I'm sorry.

- No.

(crying)

Why do this if you can't change anything?

- You can't change everything.

- Why bother?

- Because, sometimes that's all you can do.

Sometimes it's enough.

- It's not enough.

There are over a million homeless people in this country.

How are we gonna feed them?

How are we gonna save them?

- Erica dear, we've all asked ourselves that

at one point or another.

I've come to realize there's,

there's so much out of our control.

- Tell me something I don't know.

- Okay.

You can't go from being a child to an adult

without all those turbulent years in between, right,

you know that.

- And?

- The world is the same.

Society is like a selfish teenager honey.

It's growing, it's changing, it's showing but,

it just takes time.

- It needs to hurry up.

- It can't.

- So why do you do this?

Why do you bother?

- Do you remember the first day you cooked?

- Yeah.

- What'd you see on those faces

when you looked out here in the lobby?

- I don't know.

- Yeah, you do.

- I know what you're trying to get me to say,

you're trying to get me to say that they were happy,

and that one person can make a difference,

but that's just a dumb cliche and it's not true.

- You made a difference in the quality of their lives.

- Danny still died, and they're still homeless.

I can't do this any more, I'm done.

- Would Danny want you to give up?

- Well Danny's not here now, is he?

- Hey Angela, I'm sorry I'm late.

Is Erica ready?

What's wrong?

- Danny died.

- I'm so sorry.

Does Erica know?

- She was with him.

He died right in front of her.

- What?

Oh no.

No, this is the last thing she needs right now.

- I know, but she has to--

- You don't understand.

She was with Amanda when she passed.

- I'm sorry, I didn't know.

- She's been doing so well since coming to work here.

This has been really good for her.

It's been good for us both.

I just don't want to see her get derailed.

I finally feel like I'm getting my daughter back.

- Is there anything I can do?

- I'll let you know, I gotta go look for her.

If you can just call me if you hear anything.

- Sure.

- So you haven't seen her.

You haven't talked to her, she hasn't texted you?

No I haven't talked to her since she left yesterday.

I already tried them.

Hold on, she's walking in now.

Thanks, bye.

Erica.

Are you okay?

Oh baby.

I'm so sorry about Danny.

- I'm not going back there.

- I know, it's okay.

- Okay, they can throw me in jail, that's fine.

- Okay.

Your mother told me to save this for you,

until I thought you needed it.

I think now might be that time.

- Okay.

- Oh baby.

- [Amanda] Dear Erica,

I want to be there with you

for whatever you're going through,

like you've been there for me.

I'm writing this letter

so I can at least be there in spirit.

And knowing how life is,

there's a pretty good chance

you'll need this at some point.

I'm laying here in the hospital bed.

Your father is asleep in the chair.

I've lost all my hair,

and I can't eat anything without getting sick.

So, why am I still happy?

How can I be in so much pain, and still be happy?

Because of you.

You have been my heart and my strength

these last few months.

When you bring me home-cooked meals,

it makes me feel better than any medicine.

You have a strength in you, Erica,

that others can lean on,

so always let your light shine.

Now, I don't know what you're going through right now,

but whatever it is, don't let it dim your light.

The world needs it.

It needs you to be a part of it.

Honey, I don't know what exactly it is

you need to hear from me,

so I'll keep telling you

what you've told me all these months,

since I've gotten cancer.

Fight, don't let whatever it is knock you down,

and if it has, then stand back up and fight, Erica.

Now just in case,

this might be the last time I get to say, Erica, I love you.

You alone carry my spirit,

and I will be with you.

Love always, Mom.

- I am here because I want to be here.

- I know the feeling, I'm so glad you're back.

- Erica.

Hey.

- Hi.

- Oh man.

I'm really sorry about everything that happened.

I wish I'd been there for you.

- No, it's not a big deal.

You were there for so much.

- It's no problem.

I missed you.

I mean having a friend to geocache with,

is what I meant.

- Speaking of, I just hid my first cache.

- Really?

Where?

- In a place of my memory of Danny.

- That's really cool.

Hey guess what?

- What?

- May got picked up.

Her son and daughter came and picked her up,

she's living at home now.

- Really?

- Yeah, they said that you called them,

and they said to thank you.

And to give you this.

It's like what they did.

- That's awesome.

- I'll be in the kitchen.

- Okay.

What are you doing here?

- I'm volunteering.

- No you're not, you can leave now.

- [Angela] Sierra?

- That's me.

- I'm so glad you're here.

Erica, can you show Sierra what to do?

- I wish you would just leave me alone.

- I told you I was gonna make it up to you.

Where do I start?

- You're late.

- I'm sorry.

I screwed up.

- Screwing up is a temporary condition if you want it to be.

And since you're new

we'll get you started doing something easy.

(soft piano music)

You did good today.

- I can't believe there were so many people here today.

It kind of makes me sad.

- As a wise woman once said,

society's like a selfish teenager.

It's evolving, but not as fast as we'd like.

- Who are you, and what have you done with Erica?

- I'm still me, I just decided to do something with my life.

- I don't want to drag you down.

If you really don't want to be friends,

I understand.

- You have to do 20 hours of community service.

No drinking, or doing drugs.

Think you can do that?

- I can do that.

- Then you're forgiven.

- Can we still put on makeup

and chase boys around sometimes.

But only the nice ones, of course.

- Only the nice ones, but if they're not,

then I'm gonna spray them with my pepper spray.

- Yeah, I know.

That's what I love about you.

- Let's finish up.

Ready for number 1000?

- Let's do it, hop in.

(muffled talk)

- Are you serious?

- I couldn't be more serious.

- This does not look like the way

to the 'meaning of life' cache.

- Yeah well, I couldn't imagine finding any other cache.

So don't tell me.

I will find it.

Hmmm, could this be it?

- I don't know, you'll have to open it up and see.

- You've stumbled upon Danny's Cache.

This cache is here to remind you

that we all deserve forgiveness,

and another chance to turn it all around.

Well this is it.

My 1000th cache.

It means a lot to me that you're here for this.

- It means a lot to me that you found Danny's cache.

How about some pancakes?

- Yeah, I can do pancakes.

- Hey dad.

- Hey guys.

- You almost done?

- Just put on the last piece.

- Wow, that's a beauty.

What do you guys say we take this baby out tomorrow

and watch her fly?

- [Erica And Ethan] Yeah.

(solemn orchestral music)

- All right, you ready to do this?

- Yeah.

- Okay.

10, nine, eight, seven,

six, five, four, three,

two, one, blast off.

(triumphant orchestral music)

(upbeat orchestral music)