"I have to go to work." "And I feel used." "Gabriel, we were at a wedding." "We got carried away." "That's all." "Move to D.C. with me." "Oh, thanks." "That's where I'm going, too." "The doctors there aren't expensive, are they?" "I'm already working doubles at a bar to put myself through grad school." "Don't worry." "Our patients are our first priority." "So you're one of the doctors?" "Yes." "I'm Dr. Montgomery." "Oh, you're the one I'm coming to see." "I'm Patty... oh!" " Patty, what is it?" " Oh, my stomach." "Oh." "Okay, okay." "It's okay." "It's okay, Patty." "What did you give me?" "I..." "I feel better." "It's an antiemetic." "It helps with the nausea." "Mm." "It's tender?" "Okay, you know what?" "I'm gonna do an ultrasound." "Have you had any other symptoms lately, any recent changes in health?" "Patty, what is it?" "I had an abortion two months ago." "I..." "I tried to go to this clinic, but outside were all these..." "Protestors?" "The things they were yelling... calling me a murderer, a... a baby killer." "I couldn't go in." "I tried to find a private doctor, but most of them won't do abortions." "I'm lucky my girlfriend knew a doctor who would." "Yeah." "Well, it's hard to do your job when you're getting death threats." "Some doctors aren't even trained in the procedure anymore." "I want kids." "I do." "Just not now." "I mean, babies are expensive." "Kids need time and attention." "It seemed wrong to bring one into the world I couldn't do right by." "Patty, you don't have to justify your decision to me." "The doctor told me I might have some cramping and tenderness, but I didn't expect to feel this bad." "Okay, let's take a look." "What is it?" "Is something wrong?" "Patty, I'm sorry." "Uh... you're still pregnant." "The fetus looks to be about 19 weeks." "But this..." "I..." "I can't." "I..." "I can't be pregnant." "Charlie and I, we used a condom." "I had an abortion." "Sometimes when an abortion is done early, the pregnancy is so small that the doctor can miss the embryonic tissue when removing it from the uterus." "But I got drunk last weekend." "I..." "I smoked two packs of cigarettes." "You have to do something." "You can just do it again, right?" "Patty, you need to understand that this isn't just tissue." "You're carrying a fetus now, and the procedure is much more difficult." "What would you have to do to me?" "There's something called laminaria... seaweed sticks that absorb fluid and swell." "They would be inserted into your cervix to help it dilate." "24 hours later, you would be brought back in, put under general anesthesia, and the fetus would be removed using forceps and suction." " Could the baby survive?" " No, not at 19 weeks." "A baby needs to be at least 24 weeks to survive outside the uterus." "The fetus would die during the procedure." "I think I'm gonna be sick." "Look, uh, there are other options." "You can carry the baby to term..." "Don't you think I considered all the options last time?" "I can't carry a child." "I am on my feet eight hours a day." "I have no money." "God, I'm pregnant." "Look, I, uh..." "I know that this is a shock, so why don't you take some time, think about what you want to do?" "Okay, say hello to a... married man." " Hey." " Hey." "If two people get married, and you don't actually witness it, did it really happen?" " Sorry about that." " Mm-hmm." "Well, congratulations." " Thank you." " Hey, any, uh, any word from the medical board?" "Well, I still have my license, so I have every right to be here." "Wait." "That's... that's not what I meant." "I..." "Sometimes I hate being a doctor." "My new patient... she's 19 weeks pregnant" " and she may want an abortion." " A partial-birth abortion?" "Partial-birth is not a medical term." " It's political, and you know it." " Okay, late-term abortion, second-trimester, DE... who cares what you call it?" "You can't do it." "Yes, she can." "It's at the doctor's discretion, and it is legal." "Did you even counsel her on her options?" "She was counseled before her first abortion." "Her first abortion?" "Is she using the procedure as birth control?" "No, she used condoms, and why are you judging?" " I..." " There is no judgment from us." "We are doctors, and we all know birth control sometimes fails, and I didn't want to tell her this because I knew it would freak her out, but the doctor she went to the first time was a quack who didn't know what the hell he was doing," "and now she's come to me, and my job is to help her." "And how'd you leave it with her?" "She's gonna think about it and then make her choice." "Well, maybe the choice has already been made." "What the hell does that mean?" "Well, I mean, condoms are usually effective, and the stats on failed abortions are negligible, so maybe this baby was meant to live." "You want to force a woman to give birth and raise a child" " that she clearly doesn't want?" " Well, after what she did," " Patty should probably give the baby up for adoption." " What she did... was exercise her legal right to choose." "Hey." "Hey, Pete." " So if she comes back, what are you gonna do?" " I have no idea." "Oh, my God." "It's Betsey." "She's in the E.R." "My head hurts." "I know, baby." "That was a big fall." "I was in the kitchen cooking, and I just..." " I should've been watching her." " You have to fix her." "I will, Marshall." "I promise." "I don't like it here." "Oh, baby, no one likes hospitals, but the doctors are gonna make you better." "No." "My mommy and daddy died here." "Everybody dies here." "Is she all right?" " Her vitals are stable." " Any loss of consciousness or focal neuro signs?" " Exam was negative." " C-spine?" "Clear." "We're waiting on C.T. and portable chest." "I thought social services placed her with a family in Riverside." "Yeah." "What is she... what is she doing here in St. Ambrose?" "Her family moved to the Westside a few months ago." "She's been right here?" "C.T. shows an extensive contusion in the left temporal region." " D... does that mean surgery?" " The swelling could go down on its own." "We'll need to monitor her closely for the next few days." "Any other injuries or signs of trauma?" "No." "X-ray looks good." "No broken bones." "Just a healed clavicle fracture." "Looks a couple months old." "Wait, Betsey broke her collarbone two months ago, and now she falls down the stairs?" "Now we shouldn't jump to any conclusions." "Okay, I do this every day, Sheldon, and to me, that sounds like abuse." "Cooper, you cannot jump to abuse." " We should have social services make an assessment." " No." " Well, then what do you think we should do?" " We can't leave her with those people." "If you guys had just taken her when she got left in the office." "What, then this wouldn't have happened?" "Oh, come on." "It's not like you took her." "Guys, this isn't helping." "Okay, Pete, you met the parents." "What did you think?" "They were loving and concerned, and Betsey is clearly very attached." "Well, to Betsey, any parents are good, even bad ones." "If they're abusing her..." " We have to get her out of that house." " I broke 4 bones by the time I was 10." " Kids fall all the time." " Okay, look, it seems like Betsey has found a really good family." "We cannot risk ruining that unless we have concrete proof." "Well, let's get some." "Cooper!" "Hi, I'm Dr. Cooper Freedman." "Hi." "Hi." "And this is Dr. Violet Turner." " We, uh, used to work with Betsey's dad." " Oh." " Naomi!" " Hey, sweetie." "Phil and Gina Rakoff." "Behind the video game, that's our son Marshall." "Hi." "I'm Dr. Naomi Bennett." "Betsey, look how popular you are... all these visitors." "Uh, why don't we step over here so I can update you on what's going on?" "I'm so glad to see you." "Why didn't you visit me?" "I..." "I wanted to." "I did." "But..." "I don't want to talk to you." "It's okay." "Hi, sweetie." "So how do you like your new family?" "That fall must have been scary, huh?" "You did fall, right, sweetie?" "Sweetie, did somebody hurt you?" "No." "How about... how about when you... when you broke the bone?" "I..." "I fell off the jungle gym." "Betsey, listen, even if somebody told you not to, you can tell me, okay?" "I love you." "We all love you here." "But you sent me away." "What's the matter, honey?" "What's going on?" "Why is she upset?" "Um, to be perfectly honest, I'm concerned about this fall that seems to have come right on the heels of the other accident" " where she broke the clavicle." " Kids fall." "Yes, they do, but two severe ones so close together, it's..." "Are you accusing us of hurting her?" "We love Betsey." "You have no right." "Don't be mean to my mommy." "You're upsetting our children, and you're both way outta line." "Get the hell out and don't come back." "Poor kid, huh?" "Yeah, I suppose, uh, we made our bed." "What, you think this is our fault?" "I think that we... all of us at the practice... we make decisions and... we don't think about the consequences." "All I can think about lately are consequences." "This Patty thing's really killing you." " I'm fine." " You're not fine." "You want to have a baby." "You want a baby so bad that we broke up, and now..." "In a few weeks, that fetus could be... a baby." "Not just a collection of cells, but a baby, and, uh..." "I'm sorry." "Thank you." " I should go." " Mm-hmm." "When I offered to take you to lunch, the hospital cafeteria wasn't exactly what I had in mind." "Yes, well, I need to be here right now." "And I only have a half an hour." "I gotta pick up Olivia." "Don't get me wrong." "I'm happy to see you as much as possible." "Don't." "Do not ask me about D.C. again, okay?" "Not now." "Betsey's in I.C.U.," "Addison may be performing an abortion on a woman who is 19 weeks pregnant." "Hmm." "Late-term by definition, but certainly not illegal." "I mean, I can see how that might frustrate someone whose work is creating life." "That's a careful response." " You don't agree with me." " A fetus may be a life, but it's not a biologically independent life, so in my mind and in the mind of the supreme court, the right of termination belongs to the mother." "Well, thank you for the civics lesson." "Maybe you should offer to assist Addison." "If I felt that strongly about it, I would." "You know me." "I'm all about going after what you believe in as hard as possible." " She hates me." " Betsey does not hate you." "Of course she hates me." "I'm the one who sent her away." "I'm the one who looked that little girl in the eye and sold her a-a fairy tale about how marvelous her new life was gonna be because I couldn't tell her the truth." "And now her foster parents could be hurting her." "For all we know, she did fall." "But we don't know, do we?" "It's just too much." "First, Betsey loses her parents, and then her aunt drops her off here like a package that was tossed into the trash by us, the people who were supposed to care, and now tack on abuse..." "I..." "I had an obligation to take care of Dell's little girl." "Look, you've gotta stop beating yourself up." "Or is it me that you blame for all this?" "Well, right now I'm the one being blamed, by Betsey, and that's all I can think about." "Can I go home soon?" "We're working on it, honey." "I told you to stay away from my family." "I'm not coming in." "She is." " Gladys?" " Hi, Betsey." "Remember me?" "Our little girl has a brain injury, and you called social services?" "Outside, right now." "What are you doing?" "She needs to stay calm." "For the next few days, our main focus has to be her health." " I am worried about her health." " Dr. Freedman," "I will follow up." "I promise." "But I think you're wrong about Phil and Gina." "It is oddly therapeutic." "Oh, please." "You are preaching to the choir." "My goodness." "I can't get enough." "Oh, but Maya's gonna be back soon enough, so I have to enjoy it while I can." " Okay, I'll see you." "Bye." " Huh, sweetie?" "Say bye-bye." "Bye-bye." "Is Dr. Montgomery in?" "Uh, she's at the hospital." "She should be back soon." "Uh, can you tell her that Patty stopped by?" "Uh, Patty?" "Hi." "I'm, uh, I'm Dr. Naomi Bennett." "Would... would you like to wait in my office?" "I have some tissues." "Okay." "I had a plan." "I was gonna finish grad school, get my M.B.A., meet a great guy who thinks I hung the moon, get married, and around 35, we'd have a baby." "Yeah, well, no one is ready..." "ever ready... to have a baby." "It's just... you just do it." "You know, my... my daughter was 16 years old when she got pregnant with Olivia here." "She hadn't even finished high school, and I almost..." "No, I..." "I tried to force her to have an abortion." "And I'm so grateful every single day" " that she didn't." " But she had you to help her." "My boyfriend Charlie... he..." "he couldn't get away fast enough when I told him I was pregnant." "Well, that just means he's not ready to be a father." "I can't be a mother." "I have nothing." "I have to work all the time." "B - but being a mother isn't about what you have." " It's about who you are." " I can't have this baby." "I can't." "I already got an abortion before." " I can live through it again." " It's not the same, Patty." "At 19 weeks, do you know that your child can hear you?" "It can be startled by loud noises." "Your child already has vocal cords and fingerprints and air sacs in her lungs." "She can move her arms and legs, not unlike Olivia here." "Yeah." "Yeah." "I know you're confused, which is why I think you need a little more time to think about it." "And I promise you that I can offer you all the support you need to get through this pregnancy." "Just please... just consider... just consider... carrying the baby to term." "What did you say to Patty?" "She comes here to see me, and then you scare her into changing her mind?" "I didn't scare her." "I talked to her." " You had no right." " She needed to think about what she was doing." "This abortion could affect her for the rest of her life." "Any choice she makes" " would affect her for the rest of her life." " All the more reason for Patty to be sure of her decision now." "Okay, you don't get to have an opinion." "You don't even work here." "Which makes the only objective person in the room." "The patient was made aware of her options, and she chose, end of story." "This isn't some clinical trial where we line up the pros and cons." "There's an emotional component here that can't be quantified." "It's not just emotional." "This is physical." "When you crush that baby's skull to get it through the cervix," " it feels that pain." " You don't think I know that?" "!" " I don't think you care." " Of course I care, but" "Patty is my patient." "You violated the trust that I established with my patient... my patient." "You have crossed so far over the line, you can't even see it." "You know what?" "I did what I thought was right." "Whether or not to do this procedure is not your decision." "It is mine." "I thought it was Patty's." "You didn't want to do it anyway, and now you don't have to." "Okay, don't pretend that you did this for me." "You manipulated a terrified and confused girl." "Preach whatever you want to your own patients, but stay away from mine!" "How's Betsey doing?" "Her intracranial pressure is holding steady, so no surgery yet." "Honestly, for once, I don't want to cut." "I get that." "It's a tricky procedure." "Besides, Betsey's just a kid." "And her father died on my table." "What happened with Dell was not your fault." "You don't really blame yourself, do you?" "I don't know." "I just..." "I've got a little girl in the I.C.U., and all I can think about..." "All I can focus on is how badly I want a drink." "My mama always says," ""God doesn't give with both hands."" "You're young, beautiful, brilliant." "Has to be something you can't have." "Some days, I'd give all that up." "That's just the craving talking." " But the longer you go without a drink..." " I drank... at your wedding." "I thought it was ginger ale." "I spit it out." "Okay." "Since then?" "Nothing." "But I can't stop thinking about it." "It was an accident." "Don't turn a slip into a fall." "Get your butt to a meeting." "I will." "I gotta go watch Betsey a little longer." "Hey." " You okay?" " No." "You know, Betsey's just a kid." "She suffered a trauma." "So give her some time." "Time won't change the fact that Pete didn't let me keep her." " What?" " Look, I'm all for blaming Pete when it's justified, but this is not his fault." "If you wanted to adopt Betsey," " you could've fought harder." " Well, Cooper, you've been married for what, like a minute and a half?" "So what do you know?" "Okay, do you want a shoulder or do you want the truth?" " Spit it out." " Okay." "After Betsey left, you didn't visit her." "None of us did." "Yeah, but you judged us all for not coming to her rescue." "You played the guilt card, the responsibility card." "You made her your mission, and then the social worker takes her away, and... you know, out of sight, out of mind." "Oh, God." "I'm vile." "I am selfish." "I am selfish and vile." "Come on." "Violet, we all failed Betsey." "We just have to figure out how to help her now." "You have to know that we didn't... we could never..." "Where do they get off accusing us of hurting her?" "Look, we all just want what's best for her." "I should probably take Marshall home." " You're leaving?" " I'm staying with you, honey, okay?" "Hug your sister." "I need some help in here!" "What?" "What's happening?" "10 milligrams of lorazepam." "She was fine." "I don't understand." " What's going on?" " Her I.C.P. Is off the chart." " We need to get her into surgery now." " Come on." "I'm going with her." "I should go, too, but Marshall..." "You both go." "I'll stay with him." "Thank you." "Will Betsey be okay?" "Dr. Shepherd is the best." "She'll do everything she can." "You have to make her okay." "You have to." "You promised!" "Make her okay!" "Make Betsey better!" "Make her better!" "You promised!" " Marshall, it's okay." " You said you will!" "Make her better!" "Hey, Pete." " Hey." " Who's your friend?" "This is Marshall, Betsey's foster brother." " Mommy says we don't say "foster."" " Of course." "I'm Sheldon." "Hey, can I join you?" "Sure." "Now you and Betsey are about the same age." "Must be nice to have her living with you, huh?" "Yeah." "It's fun." "Uh, hey, listen, I gotta check on a patient." "Uh, do you mind?" "I'll be back in a couple of minutes." "Now I'm sure you got upset by what happened to Betsey, but the doctors here are very good." "They're gonna take great care of her." "Does your dad ever get upset?" "Sometimes." "But does he get more upset now that Betsey lives with you?" "He fights with mommy a lot more." "And mommy gets sad." "I don't like it." "Of course not." "You love your mom." "So what do you do to make her happy?" "I'm an extra-good boy so she knows I love her." "I tell Betsey to be extra good, too, to listen to daddy and mommy." "When... when Betsey doesn't listen, does your dad do more than just talk to her?" "Does he... spank her or..." "No." "What about your mom?" "Is she ever mean to Betsey?" "No." "But sometimes I help her to listen." "How do you do that?" "Is that what you did on the jungle gym?" "Betsey's clumsy." "It was her fault." "And when Betsey misbehaves," "I guess that's her fault, too." "Must make it harder for your parents." "Yeah." "And that's not right." "So I guess it makes sense, then, that she needs to be punished." "I'm done with my ice cream." "Can I have more?" "How's it going?" "It's tricky." "The hematoma's on the tip of the left temporal lobe." "If I remove more than 4 centimeters, she'll have persistent speech problems." "You checking up on me?" "Worried I'm not competent to do this?" "Actually, I have complete faith in you." "I'm just worried you lost faith in yourself." "Sooner or later, this kid's gotta catch a break." "Dell did everything for Betsey, and it still all went bad." "Now why do you think having kids scares the crap outta me?" " Cooper must want 'em." " Of course." " He's giving me the time to get on board." " That's nice." "Addison had to choose between having a kid and being with Sam." "Now she's got neither." "You're lucky..." "To have a man like Coop." "I got it." "What's wrong?" "Damn it." "There's a bleed." "I need to remove more of the temporal lobe to stop it." " If I am off by 1 centimeter..." " Amelia, this is what you do." "Don't think." "Just do it." "I knew Betsey was holding back." "Yeah, but Marshall didn't admit to pushing her." "He didn't have to..." "The way he talked about Betsey, his aggressiveness with Pete." "It's clear Marshall's been hurting Betsey." "Can't believe it." "The kid's only 8 years old." "Well, did... did Marshall feel any guilt at all?" "He justifies his actions under the guise of protecting his mother." "And there's a pride he associates with being a good boy." "So the kid's a psychopath." "That's great." "No, no one's saying that." "Look, there's a reason why we don't diagnose these kids with antisocial personality disorder." "The prefrontal cortex doesn't really develop till we're in our 20s." "Sheldon, I know that." "But while the brain is maturing, he could be learning new ways to hurt people." "Would therapy help?" " Possibly." " Well, maybe..." "Maybe he just needs more love and attention from his parents." "Why are we worrying about Marshall?" "Betsey's the one we care about." "Recent history notwithstanding." " Naomi." " We didn't give up on Betsey, okay?" "You weren't here." "It was difficult and complicated, and you weren't here." "You need to keep Marshall away from Betsey." "What are you talking about?" "Marshall loves his sister." " You're not involved in this." " Yes, I am." "I'm the one who promised Betsey" " she would be safe in foster care." " She is." "There's something wrong with Marshall." "Who the hell are you?" "Sheldon Wallace." "I'm a psychiatrist at the practice." "Of course you are." "Betsey's intracranial pressure spiked when Marshall was about to hug her." "She's clearly afraid of him." "You've never even talked to Marshall." "Actually, I spent time with him earlier, and I really do believe that he's trying to hurt her." "Wait." "What?" "You interrogated our son?" "He was trying to protect your daughter." " What kind of doctors are you?" " We've heard enough." "Get out of here, or I'll call security." "How is she?" "How's Betsey?" "She's out of surgery." "She's stable." "But she's in a coma." "I've been calling you all day." "I know." "I just needed some time." "I just wanted to apologize for Dr. Bennett." "She had no right to upset you like that." "Anyway, I..." "I..." "I just wanted to make sure that you're okay and tell you that I am here, to talk, to listen, to help you in any way I can." "Dr. Montgomery?" "I don't know what to do." "I can't tell you what to do." "I can only tell you that it's your choice." "Maybe it shouldn't be." "But it has to be." "Patty... when it comes to abortion, everybody has an opinion." "Everybody's gonna want to tell you what to do." "If this were 1972, it would've been a back alley and not my elevator that you would've collapsed in, because back then you didn't have a choice." "Now you do." "But it's still hard." "And even after you make the most difficult and personal decision that there is, it's still not safe, because you have some fanatic who claims to value life who can walk into an abortion clinic and blow it up." "Patty, you are the only one who knows if you're ready to have a child." "Everybody else's opinion is just background noise." "So if you want to keep this baby, I'll support you." "You want to give it up for adoption, I'll help." "You want an abortion, I'll do it." "I am not here to judge you." "I just need you to know that whatever decision you make is for you..." "Not for me, not for Dr. Bennett, for you." "Hey." "Any word on Betsey?" "She still hasn't woken up." "I..." "I..." "I know I wasn't here when Betsey's aunt dropped her off, and maybe I should've come back from Africa..." "No." "We... we have Olivia to take care of and we're nowhere near done with Maya, so..." "Well, as much as she'd like to think otherwise." "I don't know." "Do you think that she'd be okay if we didn't see her that often?" " Well, she might not go to Columbia." " No." "On the other hand, New York is just a short train ride away from D.C." "Hmm?" "Fife asked me to go back with him." "And a... are you considering it?" "I know." "You don't like him." "He is an arrogant ass." "I mean, I..." "I wouldn't pick him for you, but what do I know?" "How you doing since you and Addison split?" "Mm, I have my good days, bad days." "You think you two will manage to stay friends?" "You think you will?" "You're a good mother, Gina." "You love Marshall." "You spend time with him." "You take care of him." "You knew, didn't you?" "He... he... he doesn't have friends." "He fights with kids at school." "He says they pick on him, but the other parents, the guidance counselors... they always swear, Marshall started it." "I knew he was different." "But you don't want to think..." "I just..." "I..." "I didn't want to see it." "I thought if we brought another kid into our home, he'd have someone..." "A friend." "That's not enough." " He needs..." " More..." "love, attention... more of us." "I love you, Betsey." "Wait." "Betsey can't go back in the system." "Marshall is my son." "He has to come first." "My kid would've been 6 this year." "A girl..." "I know it would've been a girl." "Ella." "She would've been in the first grade." "She would have the same gap between her teeth as me." "If you have this much regret about your own abortion, then how can you go through with this?" "I know that that may have been my one chance to get pregnant." "But still... for me, it was... the right decision at the time." "I do not take this lightly, Nai." "To try to separate what I want personally from what I need to do professionally is... killing me." "I want to strangle the doctor who botched this up in the first place." "We've come so far, right?" "Then why can't Patty get what she needs... a safe and legal abortion without judgment?" "Why does she have to go through this again?" "Why do I have to go through this?" "I hate what I'm about to do, but..." "I support Patty's right to choose." "It is not enough to just have an opinion, because in a nation of over 300 million people, there are only 1,700 abortion providers... and I'm one of 'em." "Okay, Patty." "We're ready." "Are you sure about this?" "Yeah, I'm sure." "This is what I want." "But I'm so scared." "I know." "I'm gonna take good care of you." "I just feel so alone." "You're not alone, Patty." "You're not alone." "Prep tray and foley cath." "You did everything you could." "What if it's not enough?" "What if the amount of temporal lobe" "I removed from Betsey damaged her brain?" "She could lose her ability to speak if she even wakes up." "It's been a rough couple of days." "The hospital can reach you if there are any changes." "Why don't we go to a meeting?" "I'm grateful that we are friends and that you look out for me, but you can't worry that every time something goes wrong, I'm gonna drink." "I'm gonna stay here." "But I will go to a meeting with you tomorrow morning." "I promise." "Thank you." "I know that you were there for Patty, but..." "I was there for the both of you." "You helped that woman." "I miss you, Nai." "I really miss you." "And when you took Patty's hand in there and told her that she wasn't alone, it broke my heart," "because I am alone." "Somewhere... along the way, you let go of my hands." "And being alone, it just sucks." "I want my best friend back." "You want to get a drink?" "Yeah, I do." "I do." "But, um, can I bring some wine over later?" "Sure." "You have plans?" "Um... what I have are a lot of opinions." "It's time for me to act on 'em." "What if she doesn't wake up?" "Betsey's tough." "She'll come out okay." "What?" "You." "You never struck me as the kid-friendly type." "Yeah, I used to think that anything that took me away from the lab was a waste of time." "But now..." "I don't know." "I guess I can see the advantages of making space in my life for others." "I can't go with you." "I love you, Naomi." "And I'm not sorry I came back for you, 'cause I do believe you have to stand up for the things that truly matter." "But you also gotta recognize when you've lost." "I'm leaving tomorrow." "She's gonna wake up, right?" "She has to." "I'm lucky to have you, Coop." "I don't ever want it to seem like I take you for granted." "We can't take anything for granted." "Hey, Betsey." "It's me." "It's Violet." "You know, you're right to be mad at me." "Your dad would be so mad at me, too." "It's sad that the only way I can talk to you is when you can't hear me." "But I don't know." "Maybe you can." "Okay." "I'm sorry that I lied to you." "I didn't want to, but, uh..." "I was afraid that if I told you that foster care was..." "I mean, if you thought that where you were going wasn't safe and happy and full of love, then it would make it harder for you to go." "Or maybe it would just make it harder for me to see you leave." "I don't know." "But... you have to know that I care." "And I wanted to help." "I mean, I want to help now." "So... so..." "I promise you, that I am going to find some people for you to live with who will give you all the love that you deserve." "And I'm not gonna give up this time, okay?" "So you better not give up either, 'cause you have... you have so much life ahead of you and you have so many beautiful things to look forward to..." "But you have to wake up." "Violet?" "What can I get you?" "Vodka tonic." "But just one." "You're still here." "I promised." "Thanks for calling." "Hey." "I heard you were feeling better." "Where is my mommy?" "Oh, honey." "I'm so sorry." "She loves you." "She does." "But..." "She doesn't want me anymore." "Well, you listen, I am gonna find you a family." "I swear." "And no matter where you are," "I'm gonna be a part of your life... always." "Where am I gonna live now?" "You're coming home with me." "She is?" "For how long?" "How about forever?" "Really?" "Really." "Thank you."