"Previously on Life Unexpected..." "You don't have to be alone." "There's plenty of guys who would date you for real." "You seem to forget I'm your boss." "There's something called independent living." "I'm gonna have my own place?" "We're going to find you an apartment nearby." "I can't believe you guys would do that for me." "So, um, Julia's your ex?" "Yes, Julia and I dated." "According to Paige, she was the love of your life, which is a pretty big thing" " to never mention in three years." " When you and I broke up," "Julia and I slept together." "Julia came to me and she said that she thought she was pregnant." "What if she had been pregnant?" "Would you call off the wedding?" "I don't know." "Baze told me everything, Cate." "He said you were afraid that you were in love with him?" "No." "I put those feelings to bed the second that I said, "I do."" "What would you have done?" "Not now, but then, if he had told you that he loved you?" "I don't know." "I see you've met Mr. Daniels." "You're a...?" "Teacher." "I won't let you go." "Check out the desperate housewife." "Hey, Paige, what's up?" "I'm just, uh..." "Doing laundry." "Bummer." "My solution is to wear as little clothing as possible." "Hey, is Ryan here?" "He keeps bugging me to talk to him about careers and getting a job." "No." "He went on a jog, and then we have this thing." "Ooh, couple's therapy..." "Yeah, he told me." "Yeah, it's just to work through some trust issues, you know." "Mm-hmm." "Is that why you're snooping through his phone?" "This Julia thing is just" " driving me nuts." " Well, cell phone's a good start, but I'd check the glove compartment of his car..." "The go-to place for the stashing of panties." "I'm not looking for panties." "I just want to know what happened between my husband and some woman that I know nothing about." "You know, when it happened, where..." "How many times?" "Yeah." "How long were he and Julia even dating?" "Nice try." "Yeah, see, I'm not going to tell Ryan about the cell phone, but I'm not going to sell him out either." "Look, if you want the dirt, ask him yourself." "Maybe we should, uh... get back to the office before people notice that we both took a long lunch." "You don't have to worry because I, uh..." "'Cause I blocked off extra time on the calendar for employee relations." "Get it?" "Employee relations?" "I get it." "Oh!" "Ow!" "Oh!" "You okay?" "Yeah." "Sorry." "Look at this." "I got Lux's new basketball shoes." "Wait till you have a kid." "You'll get it." "Stuff everywhere." "Of course, you'll probably be a lot better parent than I am, of course." "We're kind of on a clock here." "Right." "Sorry." "Oh, great." "Hello." "Oh." "That's okay." "No, um..." "I'll be there right away." "Mm-hmm." "Uh, a pipe burst in my kitchen." "I should, uh..." "Go." "Do you... do you want some help?" "No." "I got it." "Really it's, um..." "It's why I pay a maintenance fee, you know." "It covers everything." "Well, um, so are we..." "Are we still on for our date tonight?" "Ah, you're here." "Finally." "Sorry." "We had to go to, like, three different stores to find the good peanut butter." "You're in a new place." "I just want you to feel at home here, you know, and have everything you need." "And the place..." "looks great." "Ah, check it!" "You got me cereal with a decoder ring." "You rock, Cate." "I also got you this." "It's uh, it's linked to my account for emergencies and food and whatever." "Cate, you've already done so much for me." "You got me this apartment, the furniture." "Thank you." "Thank you!" "I promise I won't go crazy, and, like, buy a car or bad peanut butter." "All right, well," "I'm just going to hang out here, I think." "Tasha and I, we have some homework to do." "Yeah, we gots us a big test coming up." "All right, just call me when you need to get picked up." "Thanks, Cate." "Bye." "Sorry." "Sorry." "I..." "I tried to get her to stay in the car, but..." "Hi." "Uh, next time you decide to have an illicit affair with a student," "I'd say ditch the roommates and get your own apartment." "So what do you want to do today?" "Oh, maybe hang out there?" "Ooh, how about over there?" "Maybe right here." "I know our options are kind of limited." "Limited?" "We can't go for coffee, we can't go to the movies, we can't even walk down the street together." "I know, it sucks." "I'm sorry." "No, it's not your fault." "You're Minnesota." "I'm Eeyore." "We are who we are." "Hey, what if we don't have to be?" "What are you doing Saturday?" "Can you keep it free... all day?" " Why?" " 'Cause you and I are going on a date." "A healthy relationship can't be built on lies." "And clearly that's been a problem for the both of you." "Ryan, you lied about Julia." "Cate, you lied about Baze." "Twice." "She lied about Baze twice." "And about wanting a baby." "Yeah." "Not really cool to keep score in therapy." "When was the last time that you lied?" "Or withheld something from the other?" "Last night." "This morning." "Couples often lie, thinking that they're protecting the relationship." "But little lies grow into bigger lies, creating a pattern of dishonesty." "So I want you to try an exercise." "Until the next time you see me," "I want you to be completely honest with each other about everything." "Are we talking you-look- fat-in-those-pants honest, or I-hate-this-marriage honest?" "I don't." "I mean about all of it." "Do you think you can do that?" " Yeah." " Sure." " Absolutely." " Yeah." "Cobra team!" "Man down!" "Prepare the vital fluids!" "Look what the cat dragged in." "Jamie, my man." "How did you get your mom to let you out of the house?" "Finished his chore chart and got a gold star." "She's visiting my aunt for the weekend, so I'm free to hang out with you morons." "Starting with half-price nachos." "Peel off that monkey suit and join us." "I can't." "Emma and I are supposed to go out for tapas." "So I'm going to pretend for the sake of your own manhood that you just said topless." "Then again, you know what, she did just have this whole pipe situation, so let me just..." "Let me give her a call and we'll see." "He's been like this for weeks." "It's called a relationship." "There's a give and a take." "So what's next?" "She going to give you her purse to hold or take you shopping for throw pillows?" "Hello." "Um, yeah, I'm trying to reach Emma Bradshaw." "She's in the shower." "Okay, can you tell her that Baze called?" "Stop it." "*" "So..." "Astoria." "Did you bring me here so I could eat my weight in saltwater Taffy?" "No." "I brought you here so we could do this." "We can do everything we can't do at home." "Hold hands, see a movie..." "Ride a tandem bike around the island." "Okay, not that." "We could have coffee, hmm?" "Yeah." "Right." "Oh, no." "What?" "My wallet." "It must have fallen out." "Baze." "Um, what are you doing here?" "Well, I called last night and a guy answered." "So I left a message with the guy." "And I didn't hear anything back." "Maybe you're too busy having a slumber party with the plumber." "You know, you're right about that maintenance fee..." " It covers everything." " Wait." "You know what, if you want to be seeing someone else, that's awesome." "You just need to give me a little heads up, because I thought that we were in a relationship." "Look, it's just more complicated than I can explain right now." "You and I..." "We're not in a relationship." "You know, we sneak around, we make out in cars..." "And on buses." "Whatever." "It hardly commits me to telling you about everything that goes on in my life or-or makes it okay that you show up here like some jealous boyfriend." "I'm not jealous, okay?" "And, apparently, I'm not even a boyfriend." "I just need the facts." "So if you want to be dating other people, fine, but I can date other people, too." "Lots of other people, dozens of people, thousands of people." "Then you should do that." "I'm not stopping you." "Hey." "Hey." "I..." "If you were going to the market," "I would've had you pick up something for dinner." "Oh, sorry." "I-I told Paige we'd do something." "Are you avoiding this honesty thing?" "Honestly?" "Yeah." "Are you?" "I just ran ten miles, eight of them around the same block." "This shouldn't be so hard." "It's not like we've never been honest with each other, right?" "I know." "You shouldn't be having dinner with your sister to avoid me." "Why don't you just reschedule with Paige, and you and I..." "We can have dinner and talk." "You know, I'll make that Pesto pasta thing you like." "Okay, well, if we're being honest," "I, um, I hate that Pesto pasta thing." "All right, well, in the spirit of being honest," "I hate that shirt on you." "It makes you look busty." "Maybe you should borrow it sometime." "Ryan, I want to know about Julia." "I already told you." "No, I'm not just talking about our wedding day." "I want to know how you two met, how long you dated, and how it ended." "Look, Cate, you know everything that matters." "I mean, giving you a bunch of details about a relationship that's in the past..." "It's not going to help us move forward." "Just..." "Look, I'll be with Paige." "All right, all I have is $12, a coupon for free yogurt and our ferry tickets home." "Ah, I know, this sucks." "You know, I just wanted us to have fun and not have to worry about anything." "We can." "Tasha and I used to do this all the time." "These things always have too much food and they don't know half the guests anyways." "We came to this town so we didn't have to be us, right?" "Yeah." "Let's have fun with it." "I'll be Sara, the bride's very distant cousin from Cleveland, like, way distant." "And-and you can be John." "You know the groom from, uh..." "Summer camp." "Perfect." "You like arm wrestling and-and cabins and pontoon boats." "Pontoon boats?" "What?" "I never went to summer camp." "Because Sara spent her summers practicing the cello." "Hmm." "Yo." "Hey, you guys know your front door is propped open, right?" "Pizza guy's coming." "W-what the..." "Mamma Mia!" "Every time someone sings, we got to chug." "Grab a can." "Pierce Brosnan has a number coming up." "What's..." "Baze's girlfriend found another guy to hold her purse." "Thought we had a connection." "Dude, by the time we hit "dancing queen,"" "you'll be too hammered to remember what's-her-name's name." "Emma." "Wow." "Well, I'm starting to feel real good about my life." "Guys..." "It's Saturday night, you're watching a musical." "You're a bunch of single dudes;" "you should be tearing it up." "'Cause I'm telling you, before you know it, you're gonna be eating bad Pesto pasta dinners and sitting in couples therapy." "And you..." "You have been going out with Emma for, like, what, two weeks?" "You're gonna let her ruin your weekend?" "Come on, man!" "Get off your asses!" "Let's have a, let's have a balls-to-the-wall guys' night." "Whoa, what about balls?" "I thought we were going to dinner." "Eh, look, dinner's off." "I need a break from all the yapping and honesty exercises." "And plumbers." "Exactly, Baze." "Come on, get up." "Seriously, let's..." "Listen, I want you, tonight, just to forget about women." "'Cause tonight, we're getting back to our roots." "Tonight, we are beer-drinking, knuckle-dragging, hairy-backed men." "Tonight is guys' night!" "Yeah!" "Hey, just get out of here." "No chicks allowed." "No chicks, not on guys' night!" "Hey." "Hey." "You owe me a steak." "Ryan dumped me to have guys' night with Baze." "He said he needed a break." "Something about women being emotional and yappy." "Yappy?" "No, I was not being yappy." "Our therapist said that we should be honest." "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa." "That's why you're hacking into his e-mail?" "You know what, if I knew Julia's last name," "I would just Google-stalk her, like a normal person." "I will give you $100 if you tell me everything you know about her." "Mm-mm." "No, no." "I told you, I'm not getting involved." "Look, Ryan could be into midget transvestite hookers, and you wouldn't hear it from me." "You're right." "It is not fair to put you in that position." "Thank you." "We should go out." "We should go out, we should have a few drinks and just, you know, get to know each other better." "Why?" "You hate me." "Uh, no, I don't hate you." "I just don't really know you well enough to like you." "Oh, come on." "Drinks on me." "Fine." "If you're buying, I'm consuming." "Well, then I'm buying." "Yeah, me, too!" "You sure it's your speed?" "They don't serve cougar juice." "Huh?" "That chardonnay crap that you drink." "Oh." "Excuse me." "Hi." "Um, can we get, uh, two shots, please?" "Something strong." "Okay." "Here's to sisterhood, honesty, and, uh, people's sisters being honest." "Get your drink on!" "Drink!" "Drink!" "Drink!" "Drink!" "Drink!" "Drink!" "Drink!" "Drink!" "Drink!" "Drink!" "Oh!" "Ah, no worries." "I got a stain stick." "A stain stick?" "It's guys' night, Nancy." "Exactly." "Men don't say sorry for spilling beer." "Men don't apologize for anything." "True." "Just like you never apologized for bumping uglies with Cate." "Too far?" "I am sorry about that." "I-I owe you one." "Eh, I'm past it." "Which is another great thing about men." "They move past stuff." "They don't feel the need to dwell on details." "Right on, man." "'Cause, you know, I don't," "I don't need to know who this guy is that Emma's dating or how they met." "I mean..." "Do you think it was the camping trip?" "'Cause there was that one chaperone with the man boobs." "Stop." "Look, you don't need to know this stuff, okay?" "'Cause, I mean, it's just gonna put stuff in your head that doesn't help anyone." "Besides, tonight is about men." "There is no Cate and no Emma." "Hello." "Sorry to bother you on guys' night, but we have a situation." "Okay, so Cate tried to booze me up to talk about Julia, but seeing as how I have the tolerance of a linebacker, it kind of backfired, and I have a feeling she's a sloppy drunk, which isn't" "gonna work with my puke phobia." "Is it hot in here or is it me?" "!" "It's me!" "Wild bar." "You might want to get down here." "Hey." "Maybe we should go out." "Yeah!" "Yeah!" "Yeah!" "Yeah!" "Let me go change." "Why did you say that you were an olympic skater?" "'Cause how often do you get to be an olympic level ice skater?" "I-I still can't believe you told the father of the bride that we have a wolfhound." "No, it makes sense that we have a dog, since we met at a dog park." "Yes, but I only pretended to have a dog so that I could meet you." "Today was amazing." "I'm sorry our date has to end." "Uh, please tell me that that's not the water taxi." "Sorry, kid." "Looks like you missed it." "No, no, no!" "Wait!" "Wait!" "Wait!" "Listen, sir, we need to be on that boat." "Okay, when is the next one?" "Tomorrow morning." "Eaea please, Tasha." "Look, I need you to give your credit card number to the hotel." "They said if you can vouch for us and give them your info, then they'll let us stay." "Lux, that credit card is for emergencies, not so you can hook up with your teacher." "What if Cate sees the charge?" "As soon as we get back," "Eric can move the charge to his card." "And I-I already called Cate and told her that I was crashing at your place, so she'll never know, I-I swear." "She better not." "Thank you." "Yes!" "This is what I am talking about." "Guys' night." "Do you smell that?" "It is the smell of sweat, of freedom..." "Boom... of possibilities." "Did my bar smell like this?" "You mean like urine with a hint of beer?" "Your place didn't draw the crowd to brew this scent." "Forget the smell." "Check out the talent." "I see a lot of thongs and lower back tattoos." "I-I..." "I like our chances." "I'm uncomfortable." "Don't... don't these women have any self-respect?" "All right, she's a deep innie and she's drunk." "Who's up for a challenge?" "Cate?" "Cate's here?" "Come on." "What happened to guys' night?" "What always happens with guys' night." "Girls ruin it." "Hey." "You mind?" " Get up." "Get up." "What?" "What?" " Come on." "Come on." "Let's get you home before you do something you regret." "You know, Ryan, I've already done things I regret, and I have told you about them." "And with whom I have done them." "Whom." "Whom, you know." "All right, yeah, I get it." "I get it." "You know, your nbf, the guy that you go camping with and you... you..." "You drink beers with, right, without all the yap-yap." "Cate, let's go home." "Come on." "No." "Listen, if you don't tell me about Julia..." "I'm just going to go on to plan b, which is going on a jag of humiliation and self-destruction until you do." "This is really, really wrong." "We're not doing anything other than breathing and not moving." "Except spending the night together in a hotel under assumed names." "There's that." "Lux, I don't want to be hot and cold, so, uh, don't think that's what I'm doing." "Eric..." "No." "As a guy that likes you and wants to spend every minute I can with you, missing that ferry was the greatest thing that could happen." "But as the guy who's supposed to be responsible, who's supposed to be looking out for you..." "Lux, I'm your teacher." "We can't pretend to be other people and lie to your parents, lie to ourselves and escape to an island every weekend, just to be together." "We don't have a future together." "We're not John and Sara." "At the end of the day, we're still ourselves." "I know." "Do you?" "Think about it, Lux." "Is this really ever going to be enough for you?" "'Cause the last person's heart I want to break is yours." "You." "What?" "Guys' night." "You tell me to forget about Emma, and you drag us down here to chase down Cate?" "Yeah, well, it's different." "I can't forget about Cate." "I married her." "Well, you know," "I can't forget about Emma, either." "You know what?" "I think that maybe being beer-drinking, hairy-backed knuckle draggers wasn't the best idea." "I don't want a guys' night." "I don't want to be at wild bar." "I want to know what the hell is going on with Emma." "I mean, if she never wants to see me again, if she thinks the whole thing is a big joke because she thinks..." "She thinks that I'm a big joke," "I just want to know the truth." "It's just going to make it worse, man." "I'm telling you." "I can't feel any worse than I do." "And I bet the same thing goes for Cate." "She can't feel any worse than she does right now." "Come here." "I'm drunk, I just lost my bra in strip pool, and now you want to talk?" "That's great." "Julia and I worked together." "That's how we met." "We started dating." "I moved in." "Three years later, I moved out." "Three years?" "You lived with her for three years?" "Well, why did it end?" "Because I proposed and she said no." "She said she didn't believe in marriage." "Maybe she didn't believe in marriage to me." "She didn't want to marry you, so you... you, what?" "You just..." "You settled for me?" "No." "No, Cate, that's... that's not it." "I mean, her ending it..." "That's... that's what led me to you." "Are you over her?" "Yeah." "I mean, I moved on." "I married you." "I chose you." "That's not what I asked you." "What I asked you is if you are 100% completely over her." "No." "Look, Cate, yes, I-I..." "I have feelings for Julia, but how is that different than Baze?" "I mean, you went to him the night before our wedding." "But you chose me." "You and Julia..." "That is not the same thing, okay?" "Because I told you about Baze." "That is the difference." "No, the difference is," "I could deal with it." "I've been dealing with it." "That's the reason I wasn't honest." "'Cause I knew you couldn't handle it." "Cate, where are you going?" "Getting a cab." "Come on." "I'll go with you." "No!" "I am going home alone!" "Emma!" "Hey, Emma!" "I need to talk to you." "Look, I know that you think this relationship is just fun and sex in cars and buses, but it's not." "Not to me." "I care about you, and I want to be with you, and I don't want you to be with any other guys." "And I don't know who this other dude is, but... but..." "But..." "But I want you to know that..." "What?" "Oh, crap." "There is no other dude." "This is my son Sam." "You need to leave now." "What?" "A hotel room charge?" "No, no." "That's not right." "I got that credit card for a 16-year-old." "Oh, crap." "Can you walk any faster?" "I'm sorry, but these damn pants are cutting off my circulation." "Geez, how small are you?" "Are you seriously giving me attitude right now?" "I just ran to the dock to save your ass, so I wouldn't bitch if I were you." "Okay." "Well, good morning, kiddos." "Hey." "Y.Hey." "Hey." "So, uh, you're lying and sneaking around behind my back?" "Where have you been?" "We just went to go get some food." "No, no, no." "I mean last night." "You know, the credit card company called, and apparently, there was a hotel room charge last night in Astoria." "One of you better start talking right now." "Uh..." ""Uh..."" "Um..." "Uh, get in the car." "Let's go." "What?" "What?" "Let's go." "Where are we going?" "We're going to go to the hotel." "If you can't remember who you were with, maybe someone at the hotel does." "Tasha, get in the car." "Seriously, what are we doing?" "We're going to go to Astoria." "Look, I-I hoped that you had a better plan than that." "Look, if Cate and Baze find out that Eric and I were in a hotel last night..." "Yeah, so what?" "You'll just find another boyfriend." "Tash, he could lose his job." "Or worse." "Okay, I don't really care about Mr. Daniels, Lux." "Okay, well... what about me?" "Do you care about me?" "I've never felt this way before." "Not in my entire life." "Don't mess this up for me, Tash." "Please." "What the hell am I supposed to say?" "Okay." "All right." "All right." "We stay calm, united front." "We drive to the docks, and we hope that one of them cracks before we get there." "Okay." "Okay, you guys, we're serious." "I'm going to start this car." "I..." "I am starting this car in three seconds." "One..." "Two..." "Three." "All right." "Uh... okay, wait." "Wait." "I ran into this guy we used to know, and he told me about this rave thing in Astoria." "I wanted to go." "Lux didn't, but she covered for me." "And I actually stayed at that hotel." "Do you have any idea how stupid that is?" "It's really stupid." " Sorry." " Yeah, me, too." "You're gonna have to give me that credit card back." "And we are gonna have to figure out a different way with some new rules." "I swear, you don't have to worry about me." "Um, yeah, I do..." "Okay?" "So there's gonna be no more going over to Jones's house." "What?" "!" "No more basketball." "What?" "Yeah, and from now on, you'll be coming home every day after school because, apparently," "I cannot trust you the way I thought I could." "Okay, Cate..." "Lux." "You messed up big-time." "I really hope that it was worth it." "Yeah, me, too." "Wanted an emergency I think meeting on a Sunday." "Presumably it wasn't so we would all sit in silence for the hour." "Your honesty exercise sucked." "That's because she turned it into an inquisition." "She wouldn't let up until I told her about Julia." "Yeah, how he wanted to marry her, how he's not even really over her." "Okay, yeah, it's not that simple." "It's interesting..." "Julia and Cate share similar qualities." "Julia didn't want to marry you." "Cate gave you plenty of signals that she didn't want to get married." "Uh, yeah, she hit me when I proposed." "Oh, and she slept with someone else." "So why did you push so hard to get Cate to marry you?" "Why didn't you just take no for an answer like you did with Julia?" "I pushed to marry Cate because I, I loved her." "I didn't want to lose her." "That's your honest answer?" "Maybe I, uh, maybe I kind of pushed her to..." "To say yes." "To feel better..." "To get over Julia saying no." "All I'm saying is maybe I rushed you." "I rushed us." "For whatever screwed-up reasons I had." "Well, that makes me feel really good." "Cate..." "Cate, this is a good thing," "I promise you." "Figuring out why you both chose to do what you did will allow the relationship to move forward." "How about you?" "You spent your whole life saying you didn't want to get married." "Why did you agree to marry Ryan?" "I don't know." "Um..." "You're asking me all these questions and I don't even really have the space to figure them out." "You know, I mean, we live together and we work together and..." "Would you both consider a little time apart?" "What?" "No, no." "Like a separation?" "Ryan, if you could find someplace else to stay, just for a little while," "it might give Cate the emotional space she needs." "Math let me in." "Should we talk?" "How could you not say anything about having a kid?" "Um..." "Sam hasn't lived with me since he was 11." "Ugh, he was getting into trouble at school..." "Well, you know, I just didn't know what else to do, so, you know, when he asked," "I said he could go live with his dad, my ex." "But you know, his dad really wasn't much of a dad, so..." "We, uh, sent him off to boarding school, and, uh, he got arrested for selling pot, and then we sent him off to some 30-day rehab place, but he got kicked out of there, too." "And, um..." "His dad dropped him off at my doorstep yesterday..." "Out of the blue." "Okay." "You know, the whole kid/doorstep thing..." "I get." "Been there." "That I could live with." "You and another dude, now that's... you know, I can't," "I can't deal with that." "But I'm..." "I'm serious about you, about us." "Me, too." "So do you have any more secrets to tell me?" "Anything else you want to get off your chest?" "I think I'm falling in love with you." "I think I am, too." "With you, not me, 'cause that would be weird, you know?" "Falling in love with myself." "Right." "I think a little less talking, a little more employee relations." "Yeah." "Yeah." "It's not like I have anything else to lose." "Tasha..." "She's upset." "Yeah." "I mean She's risking a lot for us..." "And we are, too." "Eric..." "For me, it's worth it." "Beyond worth it." "I thought about what you asked me..." "If this was enough for me." "And I know that we don't have islands and weddings and we aren't John and Sara." "But I don't care about the future." "That's the thing about me." "All my life I-I could never count on the future because I was too busy trying to keep what I had in the present from disappearing." "I don't want you to go anywhere." "'Cause what I have right now is you." "What I want right now..." "Is you." "Ryan." "You still owe me one."