"How was your day?" "It was OK." "I found out I'm in love with a girl who's in love with a guy in a coma." "But other than that it was pretty standard." "Ephram Brown, meet Colin Hart." " You want me to ask my dad to help Colin." " If you could just could just talk to him." "You're the last stop for us, Dr. Brown." "Your father turned them down." "My dad's never met long odds he didn't like." "If it were your son?" "It was easier when I did not know my patients" "I didnt care" "Colin came through very well." "So he's coming home." "Right now, Colin needs to get on with his life." "You know, with an injury like Colin's, ...patients can behave unpredictably sometimes." "You're sick and nobody wants to deal with it." "I bet you thought it would stop with the puking." "It didn't." "You got a lot worse up ahead." "Don't be crazy, man." "You don't want to deal with the severity of what's happened to Colin." "He is not out of the woods yet." "The thrombus of this type is like a ticking bomb inside of Colin's head." "Can you promise me that I won't be a vegetable?" "No." "Can you promise me that I won't lose my mind or my memor" "No." "I want you to count backwards from ten, Colin." "What can you promise me?" "Ten, nine..." "Nothing." "The Last of Summer." "Here are your drinks." "Lookie here." "Thank you." "Oh." "Hey." "All right, slow down there, Delia." "Remember there's no running by the pool." "That's right, little lady." "Unless of course someone is chasing ya." "Hey, Dumb and Dumber." "Do I pay you to lifeguard or have fun?" "Save it." "Save it." "I think a chicken fight is about to happen in the shallow end so get to your posts." "And you." "The Bahama Mamas only get one umbrella each." "What?" "Do you think I'm made of money?" "So, uh, are we still on for tonight?" "Colin, school starts tomorrow at, like, dawn." "Oh, come on." "Just meet me under the diving board after it closes." "The place should clear out by eleven o'clock." "Hello." "Junior year." "The most difficult year of my life coming up." "Oh, come on, Grover." "Look, you're even smarter than you are pretty." "You're gonna have a perfect year." "Hey, soldier." "I'm thinking this Mai Tai has too much Mai and not enough Tai." "O.K. I'll get to it, Grandma." "Thanks." "And tell that bartender not to pan me out on the rum either." "So I'll meet you at eleven?" "Eleven o'clock." "Don't be late." "Well, Colin and I weren't, uh, exactly best friends or anything but, uh, he'd say hi to me in the halls and stuff." "He was always doing nice things." "You know, even if he didn't know you." "Like this, uh, one time in freshman year, uh, I forgot to study for Miss Powers' Algebra midterm so, uh, this dude totally let me copy off of him." "I always thought it was kinda cool." "It's hard to say what happened exactly." "For the most part, it depends on who ask." "There are as many sides to a story as there are pairs of eyes." "It's always been that way." "One of those sides must be closer to the truth but we'll never know which one." "Tommorrow's closing day at the Everwood pool." "And, um, every year Mr. Maccabee throws a luau." "And, I never really thought much about it but that's what I just thinking about just now." "I was imagining Colin there." "I was imagining what he would do." "What he would say." "I try even now to look back at that time." "To look past the blame and the outrage that made it all so hard to see anything." "I try to piece it together." "What follows is all I know." "The funeral for Colin fell on the first warm day of spring." "For many who attended, it was the most difficult day they had ever known." "But the day was kind enough to pass." "I'd like to say it took a while for Everwood to return to business as usual but it didn't." "And by the time summer paid us a visit, things even gave the appearance of being normal again." "There he is." "There he is." "Bright and Amy went back to their usual summer jobs." "Ephram joined them, though his duties were a little less glamorous." " Marco." " Polo." "Delia finally made that group of girlfriends so important to a little girl's youth." "Andy Brown, on the other hand, suffered the expected scrutiny of a town that didn't care to understand the intricacies of Colin Hart's surgery." "All they knew was that they lost the boy that they loved so dearly." "And the man that they deemed responsible still walked amongst them." "Did I mention that I'd rather be golfing right now?" "Only about five hundred times, Harold." "You know, Rose, it is one thing to insist I take Fridays off." "It is another thing entirely to make me spend them here amongst these half-naked, sun-damaged chuckle-heads whose idea of heavy summer reading alternates between" "In Touch magazine and Hilary Clinton's autobiography, the next copy of which I trip over, I am tossing in the pool." "Did you bring the sunscreen?" "Yes, I did." "Only after your last application, I don't think there's much left." "Morning, Dr. Abbott." "Morning, Mrs. Greeley." "Ah, no thank you." "I already have two of my own." "Edwin's diaper rash, I think it's getting worse." "I just prescribed the ointment yesterday." "It does not work overnight." "I'd feel more comfortable if you could take another look." "Yes, and I'd feel more comfortable if you could get Edwin's bottom a bit farther away from my nasal area." "Harold." "Let me." "Hm." "Yeah, he's fine." "He's fine, Mrs. Greeley." "Just give the ointment a couple more days to work and by the time you get my bill, he shall be all better." "Your bill?" "Yes, my bill for the medical services you just connived me out of." "Have a nice day, Mrs. Greeley." "Honestly, Harold, I sometimes think you secretly enjoy being the most despised man in Everwood." "It's no secret, Rose." "Although the last time I checked, that slot had been permanently filled." "Stop here." "Stop here." "Delia, stay near Brittany and her mom and call me at lunch." "Well, I guess you're not coming in." "I would but, uh, it's a crazy day at the office." "What, you're actually paying people to show up now?" "I thought so." "Hey, Bright, you want anything from the Snack Shack?" "No thanks." "I'm alright." "Help, help, help me, help me, help me, help me, help, help." "You OK, Brittany?" "I don't mean to go in the deep end." "I'm sorry." "I don't know." "I don't know." "OK." "Just be careful from now on, OK?" "Oh my gosh, he KISSED you!" "I told you it would work." "Is it my turn now?" "We have to wait thirteen minutes and then I'll decide who goes next." "Why do you get to decide?" "Because I'm the one that made up the game." "Amy." "Amy." "Amy." "The Mawlors just told me they've been waiting for their colossal burgers for over 25 minutes." "Did you put the order through to the kitchen?" "Oh, um" "The kitchen is backed up right now." "So there's some sort of problem..." "Who are you again and why are you so pale?" "Ephram Brown, towel boy." "Yeah, um, I was born with unusually fair skin." "In fact, this is me tan." "What happened in the kitchen?" "I don't know." "The grill..." "it caught fire or something." "It's a grill." "It's made to be on fire." "That's a good point." "Do you want me to check it out?" "Sorry, Ephram." "I guess I must have just spaced there for a second." "No problem." "Making that Brandon Maccabee run around makes up for the mahatony of my day." "Not that I don't enjoy retrieving the wet towels from off the ground." "Shoot." "Where did I put the Mawlors' order?" "Um, can you run this, send this to the kitchen for me?" "Yeah, sure." "Sure" "Thanks." "Can I talk to you for a minute?" "Yeah!" "Sure." "I'm sorry to bother you." "It's just that the school called yesterday and with the kids coming back next week, they want to organize a memorial for Colin." "That's a good idea, don't you think?" "I don't know." "They want a few of his things like his jersey and I haven't even through his room yet." "I-I can't possibly organize this and I can't ask Laynie 'cause she's just getting back settled in and..." "I'll take care of it." "You will?" "Absolutely." "I'll handle the whole thing." "You don't have to worry." "Thank you." "Oh, thank you." "It's lunchtime, Sarge." "Irv and I thought we'd get a few cob salads over at MJ's." "Wanna join us?" "No thanks." "I've got some leftovers I was just about to dig into." "Well, since the schedule's light today, we'd thought maybe we'd catch T3 over at the cinaplex afterwards." "Haven't you seen that already?" "Oh, the first six times don't count." "I was still learning all the lines." "OK." "But don't make a habit of it." "I know we're not packing them in these days but there's still plenty that needs to be done around here." "Sure thing, Your Crabbiness." "Now am I relieved?" "Yes." "You're relieved." "BP is 70 over 40." "Blood pressure stabilizing." "Here we go." "Field is clear." "How much blood have we lost?" "Close to 500 cc's." "Half a liter?" "How long has he been on bypass?" "3 hours and 20 minutes." "Andy, wait." "There's new blood in the field." "It's the vein." "It's leaking again." "It's no good." "3 hours and 20 minutes." "Blood pressure is still stable." "Wait." "That will take three hours minimum." "It puts us over six on bypass." "That's too long." "Prepare to close." "Andy, he won't make it." "If the vein's no long, he'll bleed out" "I said, prepare to close." "Knock, knock." "Oh, hey." "I didn't even hear you come in." "Yeah." "I'm sleathy that way." "Is Delia ready?" "Sam's waiting in the car." "Delia!" "Nina's here." "So guess what?" "I made reservations at Brenda's new restaurant tonight." "Oh, I heard about this." "Some kinda Hollywood theme place." "Planet California." "And I had to call a whole six hours in advance to get a table." "Well, for Everwood, that's pretty hip." "Yeah." "So are you up for it?" "Oh, thanks, but I don't think so." "Oh, don't say no..." "Ah Nina, I'm not, uh..." "Oh, it's just one dinner." "And you have to eat, right?" "And what was the last time you had an Ashton Kutcher hamburger?" "Who is that?" "Some kind of sauce?" "I'm ready!" "And don't forget." "You have to buy me a sleeping bag." "Brittany's slumber party is tonight and we all have to bring our own beds." "Right." "Oh, and it has to be purple just like Brittany's." "Purple sleeping bag." "Got it." "Think about tonight, OK?" "OK." "Amy?" "Your dad said you were up here." "You busy?" "No, no." "I'm just looking through some old stuff." "Come in" "When was this?" "Oh, that's Freshman Formal." "I remember he was so freaked out because he forgot my corsage." "Oh, that's right." "Yeah, he tried to dig up" "Mrs. Bennett's rose garden to try to make one from stratch." "It was such a disaster." "What's that?" "Oh, yeah, um, Mom thought you could use this." "Colin's computer." "Yeah, um, she thought you might want it." "I don't know." "Maybe there's some stuff on there for the memorial or..." "I know he did a lot stuff with Photoshop so maybe there's some pictures or some..." "I don't really know." "She just really wanted you to have it." "Thanks." "I should have called you, Laynie." "It wasn't your decision." "No." "You, you should have been there." "Sometimes I'm really mad about it and sometimes..." "I am glad I wasn't there." "I got a whole extra day to feel normal." "I have a hard enough time looking past his room." "I'm sorry but I can't." "OK." "And I should get going." "Um, but if you ever wanna hang out or whatever, I'm around now." "Yeah, cool." "Thanks for doing this." "You are making / and building muscle more effective than ever " "As you can see, we have a low pressure area which has been there for about three days now / coffee container which is this big one" "When they put me out tomorrow, if I don't wake up the way I'm supposed to, if I'm not me again, I don't wanna be." "Don't bring me back." "Listen, Colin..." "Please?" "Just promise me." "That you won't keep trying." "I promise." "I, ah, I wrote it down." "In case." "I understand." "But everything's gonna be fine." "OK?" "See how I'm doing it?" "Kind of." "You have to memorize it the right way." "And you have to go slower." "Oh, my dad's getting my sleeping bag today and I told him it had to be purple." "I forgot to tell you." "You can't come to my slumber party." "What?" "Why not?" "If you sleep over, then your dad would have to drop you off and pick you up and my mom thinks that would be weird and..." "Why?" "Nobody likes your dad, Delia." "But don't worry." "We can still be pool friends." "Amy?" "Amy, I'm going to grab some ice cream." "Do you want to join me?" "Oh, no thanks, Dad." "Honey, you've been locked in your room all day." "Why don't you take a break?" "I can't right now." "What time do we have to leave for the restaurant?" "Yeah, I'm not sure." "Your mother made reservations for eight, so..." "I'll be ready by then." "Doctor Brown?" "Dear Dr. Brown:" "I, Colin Hart, being of sound mind, declare that if at any point during surgery I develop an incurable or irreversible condition," "I do not want my life prolonged in any way." "Hey." "How was the pool?" "She alright?" "What do you think?" "What happened?" "Well, if you had been with us, you'd probably know for yourself." "What happened?" "Actually, if you had been with us, she probably wouldn't have had the problem in the first place." "Look, I can see that you're angry and we'll deal with that later but tell me what happened to your sister." "Brittany uninvited Delia to her slumber party tonight." "Why?" "Did they have a fight?" "Don't you see you're doing it again?" "You're doing the same thing all over again!" "What are you talking about?" "You're acting like a freak!" "You hole yourself up in your office all day." "You don't come out of the house at night." "You realize we haven't been to dinner as a family once all summer?" "What does that got to do with Delia being uninvited..." "Brittany uninvited her because of you." "Because her mom didn't want you in their house." "Well, I can't control these people's minds, Ephram." "I can't make them like me." "What am I supposed to do?" "Take out an ad in the Pinecone, saying hey," "I'm Andy Brown, I'm still a real nice guy and a heck of a surgeon?" "Forget it." "No, no." "I'm serious." "You're angry with me as though this is my fault." "What am I supposed to do?" "I want you to stop acting so damn guilty!" "OK?" "You didn't kill him, Dad." "He died." "Colin died." "Just like hundreds of other patients you've had in the past." "Why is this so different?" "I mean, you did your best, didn't you?" "You tried?" "Of course, I tried." "Then why can't you let it go?" "Why are you doing this to yourself?" "I don't know." "Well, you better figure it out." "Because the guiltier you act, the more these people are going to convict you." "And us." "I'm not sure when he wrote it." "It's not dated or anything." "I don't even know if he gave it to Dr. Brown but if he did." "Don't you see Dr. Brown might not have done everything he could to save Colin because of what's in this letter." "Calm down, sweetheart." "Give them a chance to process this." "I know it sounds crazy but I really think we should find out from Dr. Brown if he knew." "He did know, Amy." "And so did we." "Colin spoke to us about his wishes before he went to see Dr. Brown." "The night before the surgery." "No." "I, no, I was with him that day." "That's the day we all went..." "He couldn't have." "He did, Amy." "So you-you did know." "You came to me." "You asked me to plan the memorial." "You asked me to go back, find pictures, go through his things, and I did that for you." "And you kept this from me." "I am so sorry." "We, we should go." "You have to understand." "We, we thought we did the right thing." "Colin's dead." "How could that be the right thing for anybody?" "Whatcha you doing, kiddo?" "It's called Cat's Cradle." "But it doesn't really work with one person." "Well, maybe I can play." "Why don't you teach me how?" "It's OK." "It's stupid, anyway." "You're mad at me." "No, I'm not." "Yeah, you are." "But it's OK." "I'm mad at me, too." "It's not your fault people hate you." "I mean, you-you didn't mean to kill Colin." "Well, I actually didn't kill Colin, sweetheart." "I know." "It was an accident." "Well, I, I wouldn't put it that way either." "So how would you put it?" "Well, it's kind of hard to explain but..." "As a doctor, there's always the possibility that one of my patients won't survive surgery." "It's one of the risks involved." "But just because I wasn't able to save Colin doesn't mean that I killed him." "Do you understand the difference?" "Not really." "OK." "Do you remember... when Gary the hamster got sick back in New York?" "I made him drink my cold medicine so that it would get better." "Right." "Because you wanted to help him." "But he died anyway." "Ephram said hamsters aren't supposed to have people medicine and that I make Gary even sicker." "Maybe." "But that's not the point." "The point is that you tried to help." "And you couldn't." "It was out of your control." "Sometimes no matter what we do, sweetie, hamsters just die." "Like with Mom." "Yeah." "Like with Mom." "Now, I know it's not as cool as a slumber party but Nina has made reservations for all of us at that new restaurant in town." "So what do you say?" "Wanna go?" "Totally!" "Then get your shoes on and let's going." "Where are we going?" "We are going to out to dinner tonight." "Cool." "Can I drive?" "No" "OK, no shoving, people." "No shoving." "This is California, not New York." "Dr. Brown." "What an uncomfortable surprise." "Table for five, please, Brenda." "Oh, well." "As you can see, Planet California is, is quite booked." "Word of mouth travels fast in this town so..." "Um, if you would like to come back another time." "Perhaps in a few weeks, then..." "We had a reservation, Brenda." "It's under my name." "Well, aren't you a tricky little thing?" "OK, right this way." "Please notice the sand." "Here you go." "Oh, and would you listen to this?" "Smoked trout me-saw salad with field greens and Dijon vinaigrette dressing." "And look at what Baxworth is charging for this culinary catastrophe." "I think it sounds delicious." "Hollywood cuisine, my foot." "Take an ordinary piece of cauliflower, stick it under a blender, title it Purée of Sylvester Stallone, charge five extra bucks for it." "It's, it's obscene." "I'd say the Kelly Ripa salad looks pretty good, Dad." "Except for the burnt walnuts." "I'll just ask them not to burn my nuts." "What are you going to have, Amy?" "I'm not hungry." "Well, you have to eat something." "What is it, sweetie?" "Amy!" "Amy." "What a nice..." "Did you think I wouldn't find out?" "I'm just curious." "Find out about what?" "I'm not sure I understand." "I found the letter." "Colin didn't just die." "You let him." "You let him die, didn't you?" "Dad, what she talking about?" "Your father, the number one brainsurgeon in the country." "It's such a joke." "Why don't you come by my office, Amy, tomorrow?" "We can talk about this." "Well, you know what?" "I want to know now because I'm sick of everyone lying to me." "So why don't you tell me what happened?" "What did you do?" "Nothing." "There was nothing left that I could do." "Nothing that Colin would..." "That wasn't your decision to make." "Amy." "Amy, that's enough." "That's enough." "You were his doctor." "You weren't supposed to play it safe." "That's why I found you." "Because you never gave up." "I didn't give up, Amy." "I tried." "You didn't try hard enough, did you?" "DID YOU?" "No." "Thanks a lot." "You have to understand, Amy." "It was such a risk to begin with." "That's what you said the first time." "That's what everyone said but he was fine." "And he was perfect." "After everything we've been through, where was your faith?" "I'm sorry." "Go put your pajamas, Delia." "I'll be up in a minute." "I guess we know who you're not taking to the prom this year." "Are we going to talk about this?" "Well, not much left to say." "I'm pretty sure you heard it all." "There was, uh, a point in the surgery." "After the vessel burst." "Where I could have tried something else." "A more complex version of the same procedure." "But we would have had to start all over again." "I just kept thinking about that night." "He was sitting on that couch right where you are." "Pleading with me." "Making me promise something I never should have promised." "And so, I just stopped." "I stopped trying." "So he would have lived?" "Probably." "But he wouldn't have been the same boy that you knew." "At best, he would have been barely functioning." "Both physically and mentally handicapped." "Dependent upon those who loved him for everything." "At worst, he would have been under breathing apparatus until the Harts themselves were forced to make the same decision I did." "I knew that the only way to keep my promise to him was... to let him go." "So you've been living with this all summer and you haven't told anybody?" "His wishes were confidential." "That's a load of crap." "I'm your son." "You should have told me." "Why?" "So you could blame me too?" "So you could hate me like the rest of this town?" "I couldn't take that risk." "Not after everything we've been through." "After everything we've been through?" "The only risk you took was not being honest with me." "Well, now you know, Ephram." "And you can decide just like everyone else." "Did I kill Colin Hart?" "Or did I save him?" "Still?" "It's the looping under part that keeps on screwing me up." "I told you, just get me a clip-on." "Here." "How's Amy doing?" "Well, better than she was last night." "Let's hope she gets through the service, OK?" "What in the world?" "Were you trying to strangle yourself with Armani?" "I didn't know she felt like that about Dr. Brown." "I don't feel like that." "I don't blame him for what happened to Colin." "Nor do I." "She blames him." "She must blame me too." "Since it's my, I'm the reason why Colin hurt in the first place." "You can't keep going there." "I don't want to." "But Amy is..." "Your sister's in a lot of pain." "She's looking for someone to take it out on." "At the moment, that unfortunate soul is Dr. Brown." "That doesn't mean she's right." "Now, truth be told, I'd prefer she has these kinds of outbursts." "Unfair as they are." "Rather than keeping all of her feelings inside." "It's the only way she'll ever move on." "Do you think she can?" "I'm not sure." "I certainly hope so." "I do know one thing." "What?" "It doesn't mean she loved him more." "There." "That's better." "Thanks, Dad." "There sure are a lot of cars here." "Yeah." "Thanks for pointing that out." "Are you going to talk to all these people?" "I'm going to try." "Are you going to tell them the hamster story?" "Something like that." "That's what I was doing just now." "I was..." "Imagining Colin there." "I was imagining what he would do and what he would say." "I don't think he'd be too crazy about tonight." "He hated school some weeks." "He hated school weeks but he loved basketball and Coldplay and Jim Carrey movies." "And he loved the month of October because that's when his birthday was." "But most of all, he loved Everwood." "A lot of us talk of about moving away from here someday but Colin never did." "He wanted to be a part of this place forever." "He is now." "I came here tonight to, um." "share with you my memories of Colin Hart." "And to tell you how sorry I am for your loss." "For most of you, these are empty words" "I know." "But I offer them nonetheless." "As patients go, Colin was the best kind you could hope for." "He was willful." "He was determined." "Endlessly optimistic." "And why not?" "His repercussion from his initial surgery was hailed as a miracle." "He was talking again." "And he was walking." "Soon he was running." "His failure to remember his past..." "Didn't stop him from making new memories." "And new friendships." "O r rekindling his old ones." "For five months..." "He reacquinated this town." "With his beautiful spirit." "Many of you believe that I was somehow responsible for all of this." "And I let you." "Because I was desparate to believe it too." "We're thought to think as surgeons that we are... in control Of people's destinies." "The truth is, we are really just footsoldiers." "Colin knew this." "He didn't expect a miracle from me." "Because he knew." "That he was the miracle." "What he expected was for me to do my best." "And that is what I tried to do." "I'm sorry it wasn't enough." "I'm sorry that he's gone." "Sometimes it is only with the ending of a season that a storyteller can find the most appropriate ending To his tale." "As the last hours of summer crept upon the town of Everwood It seemed as everyone was just about ready for change." "What about Jimmy?" "Want some of this?" "Filled with new adventures and new friends." "And some old ones." "And those somewhere inbetween." "Doctor." "Or if death reminds us of anything, it reminds us of just..." "How resilient the human spirit is." "When it wants to be." "You almost done?" "Yeah." "Pretty such." "You?" "Oh, I still got a few things I left to do so." "Um, I'll lock up." "You can go home." "You sure?" "I mean, I can stay if you want to." "It's OK." "I wouldn't mind being alone." "I'll help you." "You know, after my mom died." "Everybody told me that I was going to be OK." "That it would take a little time but I'd heal." "That didn't really happen." "Not really." "What you are feeling right now, Amy." "It doesn't ever really go away." "Not completely." "It's not like you're going to, you know, you're going back to be the person you were like before they died." "The person's gone." "It's more like... something inside of you breaks and your body finds a way to compensate for it." "Like i-if you busted your right hand, you figure out how to use the left one." "And sure, you might resist for a while because you get pissed off but..." "You have to learn all this stuff again that no one else does." "Eventually your body takes over and it figures it out for you and you're glad." "Because if it were up to you, you, you'd just..." "look at your busted hand forever." "Trying to figure out what it was like before." "I wish he wasn't your father, Ephram." "I wish I didn't have to think of him every time I talk to you." "Sometimes I wish he wasn't my father too." "Believe me." "I do." "I mean, he's a good person, Amy." "And he knows what you're going through." "If you're asking me to forgive him, I can't do that." "I'm sorry." "So what happens now?" "With us?" "We're friends, Ephram." "Let's just leave it at that, OK?" "OK." "Sure." "I'll see you at school." "See you at school." "You know, they say that junior year is supposed to be the hardest." "I mean, after this last one, it's gotta be a cakewalk, right?" "Yeah." "See ya." "Grover!" "Grover!" "Over here." "Hey, look, it's eleven o'clock." "Remember?" "You promised." "Wait." "Stop." "I'll come to you." 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