"IRV:" "There are certain milestones in our lives that give us the opportunity to reflect on where we've been and to look ahead to where we're going." "If you're lucky, the looking ahead is as much fun as the looking back." "But not everyone is lucky." "Okay, people, we're gonna group up alphabetically." "A to D, follow me over here." "Hey, what's up?" "Hey, man, we never finished that game of, uh, Horse." "Yeah, right." "Stop by my house, you know, anytime this summer." "I'II be there." "Can't." "Harvard beckons." "My parents hooked me up with one of those, uh, mini-fridges for my dorm room." "It's gonna hold one thing and one thing only: all beer, all the time." "So, uh, what are you doing next year, man?" "Oh, I haven't really figured that out yet, so...." "Yeah." "Good luck." "[PHONE RINGS]" "hello?" "EPHRAM [O VER PHONE] :" "They're teaching you how to walk?" "That's pretty sad, even for you." "BRIGHT:" "Oh, man." "Where are you?" "EPHRAM:" "Turn around." "[CHUCKLES]" "How much longer?" "Thought we were gonna have a " Vice City" showdown tonight." "I would much rather be stealing cars and running over pimps right now." "Why, is it that bad?" "I've read books funnier than this." "To think, I've known these guys my whole life you know, and I don't have anything to say to them." "Like they have anything to say to me." "well, for what it's worth, I mean, nobody talks to me either." "It's actually kind of a good thing." "Less names to remember." "You want me to stick around?" "Uh, no." "That's, uh-- It's probably gonna take forever." "Go ahead, save yourself." "AII right, but remember, it could be worse." "You could be stuck here for another year." "IRV:" "Sometimes in these moments of great promise and potential we often wish we could simply stop time, to relish in those final moments of glory and to put off the future for just one more day." "Mm-hm, keep pouring." "AND Y:" "You sure?" "I'm having a tumor removed from my brain within a week." "Now is not the time for temperance." "We got a date with a Denver radiologist for an MRI at noon, so we'd better get going." "I thought your operation was next week." "It is." "But your dad has to do some tests on me." "See what's going on up here." "Okay." "Let's go, you." "Nina's gonna be here any minute." "I hope you do well on your test." "Thanks." "Me too." "Permission slip." "I gotta get out of school tomorrow." "Right." "Why is that again?" "Audition?" "JuiIIiard summer program?" "Processing?" "Anything?" "Dr. douglas and I have a Iot to do before next week, I'm not sure I can go with you." "That's fine." "It's a quick trip." "I don't need you there." "Hey, I thought you two were supposed to be on the road already." "Working on it, working on it." "Okay, uh, coffee's ready and impressively unburned." "della's dressed and getting her shoes on." "You are a lifesaver." "Coffee good, daughter dressed, me wonderful." "Check." "Go." "AII right, phone is on if you need it." "well, and there goes general Brown." "So, how, uh-- How is everything with you?" "No offense, but you look a little all over the place." "No." "AII here." "Mm-hm." "Are you still on Madison?" "No." "well, yeah." "I mean" " It's kind of like that, but it's not that exactly." "It's like two things that shouldn't have anything to do with each other but do." "Okay." "well, uh, Iet's back it up, a little less abstract, more names and verbs." "Come on, I'm the only female perspective you've got for miles." "AII right, so the other day Bright told me that Amy might be interested in me." "Amy?" "Wow, how do you feel about that?" "I don't even know if it's true." "Last week, Bright told me he saw Gwyneth paltrow at sai's." "well, then I guess the first question is:" "Do you want it to be true?" "I don't know." "I'm not over Madison." "I don't think I'm ready for all that relationship stuff again." "well, then there's your answer." "Yeah, but it's Amy." "This entire situation is preposterous." "I'm very sorry for your circumstances, Dr. Abbott, we've reviewed your files and we don't feel comfortable keeping you as one of our poIicy-hoIders." "You felt comfortable covering Abbott medical for over 50 years." "You certainly felt comfortable hiking my premiums to $50,000 last year which I paid in full and on time." "I understand, but all underwriting sees is the potential for one former patient to come forward with AIDS and blame you for it." "responsible or not, we'd be looking at the threat of a 1 0-figure lawsuit." "We're talking in circles now." "I think it's time that I have a word with your supervisor." "I am the supervisor." "Oh, that's fine." "well, I am more than happy to take my business elsewhere." "I'm afraid you'II find that it will be very difficult being covered by anyone, given the circumstances." "I don't understand what the problem is." "It's not a problem." "It's a dilemma." "If I invite Josh to the party I have guaranteed lake dates at his parents' cabin this summer." "But if I invite Ryan, I couId scam a trip with him and his family to London." "But Ryan has major backne." "True." "Who are you bringing, Amy?" "Ephram, hey." "Hey." "Scooch over." "Sit." "Hey, how's it going?" "It's, uh, going good." "Um...." "So we were talking about Page's party that she's having tomorrow night." "Her parents rented this giant TV so we're having a kind of end-of-the-year end-of-the-worId double feature." "Armageddon. 28 Days Later." "Ben affleck." "Zombies." "Um." "So do you wanna come?" "Uh, no, I can't." "Thank you, though." "You have a hot date or something?" "Yeah." "With three uptight music critics from the JuiIIiard summer program." "It's sort of an audition thing, you know." "Wow, that sounds kind of huge." "Yeah, it's pretty cool." "It's in boulder so I won't get back till late." "I gotta leave at the crack of dawn." "Nice bonus." "So your dad's not taking you?" "No, he can't." "So, you know, it's just, uh" " Just me." "Hmm." "Yep." "Anyways, tick-tock, the party isn't planning itself." "AII right, well, I'II, uh, I'II let you guys get back to it." "I'II see you later." "Good luck tomorrow, Ephram." "EPHRAM:" "Thank you." "MAN 1 [ON TV] :" "What's this?" "WOMAN 1 [ON TV] :" "It's your birthday present." "WOMAN 2 [ON TV] :" "Steady at 6. 1 percent." "MAN 2 [ON TV] :" "That led New York to their fourth consecutive victory" "Busy day, I see." "I'm looking for those DeVry commercials." "They're always on, except for when you need them." "You're not going to DeVry, Bright." "Now, hop up." "Your grandparents should be here any minute." "God help us all." "What?" "You know, you have to have this pressed before your big day." "You don't wanna pick up your diploma looking like a paper ball." "Doesn't matter, because I'm not going." "Not going where?" "To graduation." "Come again?" "I figure, I'II get my diploma in the mail." "It's the same difference." "Listen to me." "I understand that things haven't exactly gone the way you'd hoped but this is a milestone, a truly momentous occasion." "You don't wanna look back and regret you didn't go." "Thanks, but I got the looking back and regretting thing down." "And I don't need an audience for it." "What about all the hard work you put in?" "You deserve to celebrate that." "And be celebrated for all of your accomplishments." "For what accomplishments?" "It took me 1 3 years to finish 1 2 grades." "I failed." "The end." "Look, I understand you're upset" "I'm not upset." "It's gonna be freaking embarrassing." "Because everybody there has all these plans and I have nothing." "You will." "But for now, you're going and that's that." "Trust me, in five years you'II thank me." "No, I won't, because I'm not going." "We're home." "This is incredibly selfish of you, Bright." "So what?" "I busted my ass for County." "I took them to state 3 years in a row, football and basketball." "What do they give me?" "A handshake and a stupid piece of paper." "They never did anything for me." "AII right, fine." "Forget them, do it for us." "indulge us with a few hours of your life." "Your grandparents have traveled from scottsdale to see you walk across that stage." "Do it for your family." "I have done plenty for this family this year already." "I got good grades." "And I kept my mouth shut when you ran Amy out of this house." "For once, I'm gonna do what I wanna do, okay?" "So back off." "well, it's nice to see that nothing has changed around here." "As you can see, the meningioma has grown since we last looked at the films." "It's starting to impinge on the motor strip of the parietal lobe which is going to make the surgery" "Even riskier than before." "I'm afraid so." "I'm sorry." "call Dr. AdIer down." "I'm gonna need to see a schedule for the OR." "And I'II also need a bipolar stimulator standing by so I can test speech functions during surgery." "cancel the stimulator." "If we go that deep into the lobe, I'm gonna need" "You won't be going that deep." "cancel it." "Yes, sir." "What are you doing?" "I can't do a complete resection unless I have the" "Forget the resection." "It's too late for that." "It isn't." "Yes, it is." "You'II take out what you can, and we'II treat the rest with radiation." "plan for the debuIking tomorrow." "Listen, if we leave any part behind you run the same risks as if we'd left the whole thing in there." "If we take it all out now, the prognosis is for a full recovery." "Stop talking to me like I have no idea what's going on." "donald, I was your student." "I'm not gonna argue with you." "You're rusty." "I haven't performed in a whiIe" "You haven't performed in almost a year, and look how that ended." "You'II do as I say." "That's it." "What on Earth is that noise?" "What noise?" "Oh, it's just HaroId chewing." "There he is, my handsome grandson." "would you Iike some breakfast?" "No, I'm fine, Grandma." "Gotta get to school." "Best place ever, right, Dad?" "Oh, it's such a shame." "I heard on the news that most problems with kids today have to do with a poor male role model." "And on that note...." "Where are you going?" "I thought your office was closed because of insurance problems." "Oh, goodness, I completely forgot to ask you about your meeting yesterday." "How did it go?" "Is it all cleared up?" "It is." "They've reinstated my insurance." "I'm back in business." "wonderful." "Good, then this trip won't be a complete loss anyway." "You can have a look at Herb's boils." "Beg your pardon?" "well, I got some boils, you know?" "They need taking care of." "Size of nickels." "No sense in paying a real doctor to do something surely you can handle." "I am afraid I'm totally booked up." "I have many, many patients today." "You can't make time for your own family?" "I'm sure he can find 1 0 minutes in his schedule." "Isn't that right, harold?" "shall we say 1 1 :00?" "actually, 1 1 is a little Iate" "eleven will be just fine." "Anybody seen my, uh...?" "Thanks." "Hey, Nin, you didn't have to do all this." "Oh, please." "It's practically a ritual." "AII right, I'm out." "Drive safe." "call me when you get there." "How about "Good luck"?" "Oh, yeah." "Good luck." "You okay?" "Not particularly, no." "I guess, uh, having to move up Dr. douglas' surgery isn't a good thing." "The tumor grew." "The meningioma?" "I pay attention." "I know you haven't done this in a while, but you're gonna be great." "well, that's nice of you to say." "It's too bad my arrogant ex-mentor doesn't seem to think so." "He's gone from super mentor to arrogant ex-mentor overnight?" "That's impressive." "I wasn't fond of the way he talked to me." "He completely disregarded my opinion and dictated the way that I was gonna perform the surgery." "How is his way different from yours?" "One would lessen the threat of motor-function deterioration." "The other would mean a full recovery." "The second one would be a little more risky." "Let me guess, he went for the safer choice." "He doesn't trust me." "He obviously has no confidence in my abilities as a surgeon." "At least not anymore." "Andy, just think about it for a second." "A man in his early '70s going in for major surgery finds out that the surgery's even more major than he originally thought." "If it were any patient, you'd understand." "He's scared." "He's not scared." "Other patients might be, but not him." "He's too cocky to be scared." "Trust me." "Okay." "What?" "Nothing." "You know the saying "Don't drive angry"?" "The same thing applies to neurosurgery." "well, I am angry." "I've learned to accept that there are things in life that I can't control." "But this surgery is not one of them." "If I can't make decisions in that OR, if I'm not allowed to use my instincts then I'm already playing with a handicap." "If he's not coming back the way he is now, then what the hell am I doing it for?" "Maybe he's not the only one who's scared." "Hey." "What are you--?" "I brought Chupa-Lupas, Fruit RoII-Ups and In Touch." "I was gonna make a mixed tape, but I figured..." "...all you'd have was an eight-track." "I thought you had a big apocalypse party?" "It'd be kind of false to go to a party with a bunch of people I didn't talk to all year." "I'd much prefer a road trip." "So you wanna come?" "Yeah, um...." "I mean, if you want me to." "I thought you might want some company." "What flavor Chupa-Lupas do you have?" "We have options." "Ah, Mr. Jensen, just sit." "Good." "Anywhere." "There." "If I'm gonna sit here all day, pretending to be a patient I'm gonna need more than this." "well, this won't take all day, Mr. Jensen." "I need you to pose while I take care of my father-in-Iaw." "half hour, tops." "Yes, Thurman?" "Um" "I was just wondering, what exactly do I have?" "It would help me get in character." "You have the flu." "Yes, Thurman?" "THURMAN:" "I already had the flu this season." "CouIdn't I have something a little more exotic?" "smallpox, maybe." "Pneumonia." "THURMAN:" "Okay." "Sciatica." "abdominal pain." "Arthritis." "Incontinence." "well, hey, just take a look at this place, huh?" "Hasn't changed in years." "No, it hasn't." "Good thing you don't do the decorating at home." "You should try to get one of those homosexuals from the TV to come in here and spruce the place up." "[THURMAN COUGHING]" "Twenty-eight minutes, Abbott." "What does that mean?" "We are on an extremely tight schedule and I sincerely hate to keep my patients waiting so if...." "Are--?" "Aren't you coming in?" "I've seen the boils already." "I'm not missing much, believe me." "[THURMAN COUGHING]" "[MOUTHS] Good." "It's to the Ieft here." "[SLOW SONG PLAYING ON PIANO]" "I couId tell you a joke." "Um, Bright told me this stupid joke about a camel the other day" "You know what, Iet's just blow this off." "But you're up next." "It's gonna be boring for you." "I have no chance of getting in." "If we leave now, we could be on the second basket of curly fries before lunch." "No, no, no." "I wanna hear you play." "Yeah, I don't wanna be here." "To tell you the truth my track record with this sort of thing, not good." "Bad." "I don't even know what I'm doing here." "I do." "Shh." "Look, half of these kids that are here today are just good at playing piano." "Their parents told them so, their grandparents told them so." "Now they're trying to use that skill to get into some fancy college so that they don't have to go to science class anymore." "They're here to impress old men who are gonna help them get into JuiIIiard." "But that's not why you're here." "It's not?" "You don't need some school to tell you what you're gonna do with your life." "You already know." "You're gonna play piano." "It's your destiny, your fate, or whatever you wanna call it." "So you don't get to decide when, or if, you play the piano, you just do because it's who you are." "That's why we're here today." "So this is meant to be?" "Yeah, I think so." "MAN:" "Ephram Brown?" "Ephram Brown." "Good luck." "What are you all doing here?" "They're in a doctor's office, dearie." "They're here to see the doctor." "[CHUCKLES]" "Louise." "Dr. Abbott, I came by to water Frieda." "She's our ficus." "Did our insurance get reinstated?" "Uh, yes." "Yes, it did." "So why didn't you call me back in to work?" "I assumed you were still in Barbados." "Barbados?" "Bermuda." "Wherever it was you chose to vacation this year." "In any case, you've clearly returned early and with a lovely tan, I might add." "I'm confused." "Of course you are." "It's the jet lag." "Go home." "Get some rest." "I will call you when I need you." "Mr. Jensen, you're up." "well, you know, thanks a Iot, harold." "Look, we'II see you back at the house, okay?" "Can't wait, Herb." "Goodbye, carol." "Do I really look tanned to you?" "WOMAN [ON TV] :" "Collect samples from the comets that may provide evidence that comets brought water here, making life possible." "I haven't watched this much television in a decade." "AII these new channels you hear about, they don't seem to make much difference." "well, della likes animal planet." "We got a couple of hours till surgery." "I thought maybe we could have a talk." "Yeah, you can spare me the preop pep-raIIy speech, Andy." ""You're gonna have a dressing on your head." "After the surgery, we're gonna do a baseline postop scan." "Oh, yeah." "I expect to see you on your feet within eight hours to prevent any DVT--"" "[COUGHING]" "It's all right." "It's all right." "I've got it." "So, what do you need?" "Wanna talk about testing around the motor cortex?" "No, I've got it." "Then you should get some rest." "I know AdIer says you'II be out in nine hours but AdIer is a putz." "You know I'm ready for this, donald." "Yeah, I know you are." "Been over it a dozen times." "You're as ready as you can be." "Just stick to what I told you." "[LAUGHS]" "Yeah?" "What's so funny?" "You're talking to me the way I talk to Ephram." "No wonder he's slamming doors in my face." "Yeah, well, I'm sorry." "I know what we're up against, and I'm a little past courtesy here." "I mean, I have a tumor the size of an olive up there where my motor functions are." "I mean, I can recite every damn base pair in the DNA and I can tell you every vessel that leads to the blood supply, but I can't" " I" "I can't do a damn thing to stop it." "Yes, you can, donald." "You have." "You have had 20 years to make me into exactly the kind of doctor you want working on you in that room." "Now, I know you don't think I'm capable enough anymore and you have every reason." "I am out of practice." "My last surgery failed and we lost colin Hart." "It's not you, Andy." "It's the odds." ""Odds are something that the ordinary use as incentive or excuse."" "Does that sound familiar?" "I have forgotten nothing you taught me." "Every adage, every insightful example, everything." "It is all going to be in that room." "You wanna go for it." "I do." "Get the scans." "We'II go over the resection together." "Just don't screw the damn thing up." "Quite the busy little office down there today, harold." "Lots of crazies." "[WHISPERS] well, it takes one to know...." "Uh, good eye, carol." "You are a revelation to diagnostic medicine." "It's true." "Some of my patients do have mental health problems as well as physical ailments." "It's par for the course." "More Scotch, Herb?" "well, don't mind if I do." "Thank you." "CAROL:" "There was quite a bit of unusual activity there today." "Not just your patients, but your nurse coming back early from Barbados..." "Oh, that-- -...simply to water a ficus." "It's a little strange." "ROSE:" "Louise in Barbados." "Now, there's any image." "Where would you get an idea like that?" "harold?" "Oh, it" " It's not what you think." "well, why would you tell my mother that Louise was in Barbados?" "Uh, because, um...." "[SIGHS]" "Because it was the first thing that came into my mind." "I don't understand." "Louise never went to Barbados." "And my patients were fictitious." "I paid them to sit there in my waiting room so that you would all think that my office was still running, when in fact, it is not." "Why not?" "Because Regency fidelity refused to reinstate my insurance coverage." "So you lied to me?" "There was simply no reason to discuss it further." "Not with Bright's graduation turning everyone upside down." "Oh, don't even try to pin this on me." "What I meant was that I saw no reason to add to the tension in the house." "You can't practice without your insurance." "I'm well aware of that." "It's a simple matter of finding another insurance company." "Before you jump down my throat, I've already started calling other carriers." "So far, several seem promising." "So I'm sure that one of them will be more than willing to take me on." "And what if they won't?" "What then?" "AMY:" "I swear to God, I thought I was gonna throw up." "I'm serious." "I Iooked past those curtains and saw those judges." "I thought I was gonna puke." "That's sweet." "I've never had a girl vomit for me before." "Romantic." "[BOTH LAUGH]" "You forget your keys in there or something?" "Why are we going home right now?" "Is this a trick question?" "We're in an actual city." "There's a million things to do and we're gonna drive back to Everwood?" "We could go to Page's party." "It's probably still going on." "By the time we get there, Armageddon will be over the world will have exploded, and there won't be any pizza left." "This is true." "well, why don't we hang out?" "We can celebrate my impending rejection with a fancy dinner." "Check out the boulder scene." "We haven't spent much time together, just the two of us." "Eh, never mind, just" "No, I would, I just" " I don't have very much money, so we should just...." "well, that's what emergency credit cards are for, right?" "shall we?" "ADLER:" "Have you found a good plane?" "AND Y:" "Oh, I'm not ready for dissection." "The tumor's all over the middle cerebral artery." "I'm gonna keep teasing and see where that gets us." "NURSE:" "We're at the 1 1 -hour mark, Dr. Brown." "And Dr. KoehIer is still waiting to take over." "AND Y:" "We're almost there." "tell the doctor he can go home." "ADLER:" "That's a mistake." "AND Y:" "Excuse me?" "ADLER:" "We're not almost there." "We have at Ieast three hours to go, maybe four." "You should step out." "AND Y:" "I've performed 1 6-hour surgeries on tougher cases." "Fourteen hours isn't easy, but it's doable." "ADLER:" "DoabIe when the hard part comes at the beginning of the surgery, not at the end." "AND Y:" "Nurse, please ask Dr. KoehIer to step in." "ADLER:" "Thank God." "AND Y:" "He's to relieve Dr. AdIer." "ADLER:" "What?" "AND Y:" "Good night, doctor." "Go home." "Get some sleep." "You could use it." "GIRL [ON TV] :" "Mom." "MAN 1 [ON TV] :" "Premium is guaranteed." "WOMAN [ON TV] :" "He signed a note." "MAN 2 [ON TV] :" "Remember that" "little advice from a pro, you wanna go slower, give it a two-second pause." "flip, pause." "flip, pause." "Maximize your time without skipping any of the good stuff." "So you want me to go kill Grandma with you?" "We can go to prison together." "[CHUCKLING]" "[SIGHS]" "There's been an Abbott medical Office in Everwood for over 50 years." "always thought that when it closed down, it wouId be because I retired not because I had no choice in the matter." "You're not getting shut down, Dad." "The fact is, right now I am not allowed to distribute Band-Aids let alone write prescriptions." "If I can't find someone to insure me, I have no practice." "The truth is, no one I spoke to today is willing to take me." "I'm waiting on one more phone call, but if that doesn't come through, that's that." "But you're a good doctor, Dad." "You can't just give up like that." "I haven't given up, I've simply run out of options." "There's a difference." "Okay." "Worst-case scenario, the office gets shut down." "You're not the kind of guy that'II sit around and watch cable the rest of your life." "You'II figure something else out to do." "I'm a doctor." "Doctors practice medicine." "Yeah, I know that, but they also do other stuff." "They teach, they help firefighters." "Be a firefighter?" "I appreciate what you're trying to do but, Bright, this situation is beyond good advice and a sunny outlook." "Oh, why, because you're scared?" "Yeah, I get that, okay?" "I'm mastering in scary right now." "But maybe this is the point to have a chance to be scared." "That's why I didn't wanna go to graduation." "I didn't wanna be the only kid freaking out, not knowing what I was gonna do next." "But I don't know, now that I think about it I'II also be the only one who's psyched to figure it out." "almost makes me wanna go." "Go?" "To graduation." "What is this about?" "No, I" " What?" "I don't know." "I mean, maybe I am clueless and don't have a plan." "But so are a Iot of people." "And someone's gotta represent." "Thank you." "AII right, this looks nothing like me." "You look great, but I Iook like one of the kids on Hi and Lois." "That's not true." "I think you look cute, for a cartoon character." "Yeah, exactly." "Shut up." "Don't be fishing." "No." "You know, I actually had a good one of these done on Coney island one time." "My mom liked it so much, she had it framed." "Don't know where it is now, but it's better than this, I swear." "I bet you can't wait to get back to New York." "Yeah, a little." "I miss it." "It'd be cool to spend the summer there." "What do you miss about it?" "There's just something about being there." "The unpredictabIeness of it all." "You never know what can happen to you when you're in New York." "Yeah, but that's true in Everwood too." "What was the Iast thing that shocked you in Everwood?" "well, you." "I mean, when you came to Everwood with your purple hair last year that was pretty shocking." "So my hair is the most shocking thing that's happened to you in the Iast 1 6 years?" "That's pretty sad, Amy." "Ha, ha." "I have to tell you the truth." "Meeting you wasn't that shocking." "Thanks, that's sweet." "I mean, it's pretty standard that I'd move to a town like Everwood and meet a girl like you." "It's even more standard that I'd totally fail for that girl and she wouldn't like me back." "I didn't always not Iike you back." "No?" "When did you Iike me?" "Now." "I Iike you now." "What do you mean?" "I mean, I Iike you, Ephram." "I Iike you as more than a friend." "I have for a while now." "I just didn't know how to tell you or if I should tell you because of everything that's happened lately." "I Iike you, Ephram." "Wow." "Wait." "What?" "Nothing." "Never mind." "It's just, you didn't seem surprised." "What are you talking about?" "well, I just told you that I Iike you which is, um, pretty big news, I think." "I mean, not in a fuII-of-myseIf kind of way." "Just, generally speaking, big stuff, you know?" "You just smiled and tried to kiss me." "You didn't do your mumbling thing." "Yeah, I mean, I" " You" " I knew-- I said, "Wow."" "I know, but it was a weird wow." "Did you know?" "Was I that obvious?" "[STAMMERING] No, you weren't." "No, I mean" "I kind of had an idea, but-- You weren't obvious at all." "You did not do anything embarrassing, don't worry." "I'm not worried." "Okay." "well, how did you know?" "well, why does it matter?" "Because something's going on right now, and I can tell." "And now I feel all weird, which is exactly the opposite of how I wanna feel at this particular moment." "So if you could just be honest with me." "well, Bright told me, okay?" "God, talk about ruining a moment." "Bright told you?" "Yes, he told me the whole thing." "He told me how, you know, you were gonna tell me at prom, but then you didn't and...." "You know, it's no big deal." "I can't believe this." "Wait, where" " Where are you going?" "What--?" "What's the problem?" "What are you--?" "Go away, Ephram, I'm serious." "Wait, are you crying?" "Ephram, go away." "I'm not gonna go away." "I don't understand." "Why are you crying?" "Do you know hard that was for me?" "To lay my heart on the line like that?" "I think I do." "Maybe it's easy for you, but it's not for me." "I don't like feeling this vulnerable, but I told you because I trusted you." "This whole night you've been lying to me." "I wasn't lying." "I wasn't sure if it was true." "If you cared whether it was true, you could've asked." "Instead you created this completely false moment, this whole night." "How much of it was a manipulation?" "Dinner?" "Were you faking being nervous at the audition?" "That's not how it happened." "Maybe you don't see it, but that is exactly what happened." "I am humiliated." "I wasn't trying to humiliate you." "I was trying to get you to tell me." "I've told you a thousand times." "You told me because you wanted to." "Not because I tricked you into it by being calculated." "How many times have you lied to me?" "With my dad?" "With colin?" "You knew I would do anything for you, you didn't have to ask." "So you didn't." "You would just bat your eyelashes and cry on my shoulder." "You played me." "well, tonight, I played you." "You know, Ephram, I thought we were ready, but we are so obviously not." "What?" "Ready for what?" "Every time we get close to being something more than friends we play these mind games." "It is horrible how we hurt each other." "AII right, we can start over, all right?" "We can treat each other better this time." "What?" "Why?" "Why not?" "Because I don't want to anymore." "I don't wanna do this with you." "I just wanna go home." "Dr." "Brown?" "What is it?" "What happened?" "You have a call at the nurse's station." "It's your son." "Oh." "Thank you." "His vital signs are stable." "He's able to move his extremities." "And the postop MRI looked clean." "It looks good." "EPHRAM:" "I got great news." "AND Y [O VER PHONE] :" "You were gonna call me yesterday." "Uh, yesterday was not so good." "Oh, I'm sorry, Ephram." "You can always audition again next year." "No, the audition was awesome." "Oh, but you just said that--?" "Yeah." "It was other stuff that wasn't good." "But I got in, Dad." "I'm going to JuiIIiard." "Not for four years, just for the summer program." "Oh, well, that's great." "That's fantastic." "They said that I was the best they saw, in colorado, at Ieast." "will is gonna freak." "Have you talked to him yet?" "No, I wanted to tell you first." "I thought when you got home tonight, we could go online, book a ticket." "well, do we have to do it this soon?" "I mean, when do you have to be in New York?" "I don't know." "Next week sometime." "We can figure it out." "Anyway, I should go call will." "Yeah, go ahead." "And congratulations, Ephram." "I'm very proud of you." "Hey, I, uh" " I almost forgot to ask, uh, how was the surgery?" "Oh, it went well." "really well." "Then I guess it's a great day in the history of the Browns." "Yes." "I guess it is." "Just in from scottsdale, Grammy and Pop-Pop." "always so delightful." "Oh, here's Mama Rose, looking just radiant." "And behind?" "It's the graduate himself." "Looking quite dashing in his County colors." "Hear that?" "I Iook dashing." "I told you how to put your hat on." "He had it on sideways, it looked like a trucker hat." "It's called style." "Maybe you should try it." "Ha." "AII right, little sister, go with your mother." "I wanna practice my two-shot here." "For heaven's sake, at the rate you're going, we'II be there in time for Amy's graduation." "[KNOCKING ON DOOR]" "HARRY:" "Erase that." "Oh, it's you." "hello, carol." "You remember my husband?" "How could I forget?" "How are you, Merv?" "Just fine, carol." "lovely." "Everyone's here." "shall we go?" "Oh?" "Oh, here." "[PHONE RINGING]" "Abbott residence." "Yes, this is he." "Uh-huh." "I see." "I'm sure you noted prior to this incident, my record was impeccable." "Yeah." "well, I" " I understand." "Yeah, I'm sorry to hear that." "Thank you." "Sweetheart, if we don't leave now, my mother's gonna drive herself." "harold?" "Come on." "Let's go watch our boy graduate." "So tell me everything." "I wanna hear all the gory details." "Not much to tell." "Fourteen hours from open to close 35.2 millimeters of tumor fully resected, and everybody calls me a genius." "You saved his life." "well, I saved his quality of Iife." "Why do you look like a guy who got gum stuck in his hair?" "Ephram got into the JuiIIiard program." "That's great." "That's not great?" "That's horrible?" "No, no, of course it's great." "It's wonderful." "He's gonna be spending eight weeks in New York, living on his own learning from the best musicians in the world." "Far away from Everwood, away from his family from me." "I'm the most selfish father in American history." "No, you're not." "Then what's wrong with me?" "Why aren't I happy for him?" "You want my official diagnosis?" "You're exhibiting early signs of empty-nest syndrome." "He's only gone for the summer." "His last summer before senior year." "After which, he'II be leaving for four years, then for good, and you're starting to see it." "You think so?" "Oh, yeah." "It's textbook." "Everybody worries about their children growing past their need for them." "You've got more of a reason, because your son is gifted." "His talent could take him even further away than most kids go." "Like it did with you." "Oh, great." "These are the genes he inherits." "He couldn't have just gotten my eyebrows?" "[CHUCKLES]" "well, he's gonna go away eventually, Andy." "AII you can do is enjoy the time that you have with him now." "And make sure there's a place he'II always wanna come home to." "Thank you, Dr. Feeney." "You're welcome, Dr. Brown." "Hey." "Can I talk to you for a second?" "Um, it's about to start, Ephram." "I'II just be a second." "I swear." "Look, we don't need to do this." "I think we said everything we needed to say last night." "At least I did." "And whatever you need to say, you don't have to." "I'm sorry." "I know you're sorry, so...." "well, I didn't come here to apologize." "I came here to thank you." "For what?" "For helping me with my audition." "I got in." "really?" "That's awesome." "When did you find out?" "Uh, this morning." "They called." "I'm off to New York next week." "Next week?" "That's" " That's really, uh...." "That's fantastic, Ephram." "Thanks." "But, you know, seriously, I couldn't have done it without you, so...." "You're welcome." "AII right." "So, uh, you know, I'II see you?" "Yeah." "AII right." "And now without further ado I welcome you all to Peak County High's graduation ceremonies, 2004." "[APPLAUSE]" "please join me in congratulating the first graduate in his class HaroId Brighton Abbott." "harold Brighton Abbott." "IRV:" "We're taught to remember only the significant moments the rites of passage." "In truth, the smaller steps that get us to these momentous occasions are just as significant." "Looking back, we see it's not just the high points but the low points, that also define who we are." "And who we will become." "[ENGLISH SDH]"