"Last time I saw everybody, we were still married." "Now we're divorced." "Mom, you came all the way from Ohio to go to this reunion, and maybe even get back together." "That's enough!" "Hey, come on, guys." "Mitch." ""Dear lifeguard, please keep my baby safe for 24 hours. "" "Stop him!" "I've been waiting for 20 years to get back at him." "Right, break." "Okay, come on." "Hike." "Pass, pass." "Yeah." "You got it, Tom!" "Run!" "Everybody, run!" "Go!" "Run!" "Yeah, this is Kramer, Tower Two." "Roll backup." "You're not gonna believe this one." "Look out!" "Get out of the way!" "Look out!" "Get out of the way!" "No!" "Look out!" "Stay on him." "We're right behind you." "Look out!" "Get down!" "Wait!" "Guys, wait a minute!" "Guys!" "Please, please, don't hurt him." "It's okay." "He's gentle." "Please!" "He's our school mascot." "Oh!" "Sorry, sorry." "I mean, he just got spooked when some balloons popped." "Mitch?" "Mitch Buchannon?" "Trudy Eversol." "Remember me?" "Class of '72?" "Trudy, hi." "How you been?" "Busy, busy as a little bee." "You know, Howie and I are chairing the reunion committee." "God, I cannot believe you are still a lifeguard." "Yeah." "You didn't R.S.V.P." " No." " You are coming this afternoon to the reunion, aren't you?" "Uh... no." "I'm sorry, I can't make it." "Oh, come on." "You have to." "Everybody's going to be there." "I'm sure it'll be a lot of fun, but I just can't make it." "I'm sorry, but do me a favor, will you?" "Keep the bull tied up." "Nice to see you again, Trixie." "Trudy." "Trudy." "Ha!" "See ya." "Yeah." "Hey." "Shh..." "Come on, it's okay, don't cry." "Don't cry." "It's okay." "Would you look at that hair." "He's practically bald." "Hey, look who's talking." " Hey." " Ah!" "Mitch was on the swimming team." "He took it real seriously." "The only thing in high school he did." " Hey, look at these girls." " Nice, huh?" "I can't believe they can rent hair that high." "Hey there, Long Toes," "I hear you took the bull by the horns today." "Unbelievable." ""Long Toes"?" "That was his nickname in high school." "I used to bring him in my office all the time because he couldn't keep his shoes on." ""He" was my guidance counselor." "Let me see that thing." "Wow." "I wonder whatever happened to that nerd." "Then why don't you go to the reunion?" "Yeah." "Ancient history." "Mitch, the only reason that people don't go to their reunions is if they think they're not successful enough, or they don't look good." "And you look great." "It's the best you ever looked." "You look terrific." "And you are successful, Mitch." "You're more successful than most of them." "I guarantee it." "You knew what you wanted to become in high school." "Not too many people can say that." "Ben, it's going nothing to do with being a lifeguard." "I'm proud of that." "I'm very proud of that." "Well, then, why aren't you going?" "Right there." "Because Gayle's going." "Last time I saw everybody, we were still married." "Now we're divorced." "Everybody's going to come up to me and say," ""Oh, what a shame. "" ""What happened?"" ""Who got Hobie?"" "I can't deal with that, no way." "Here we go." "Guys, one of you please... please take this thing, huh?" "It's not a thing, it's a baby." "Yeah, yeah, I know." "Here." "Whose baby?" "I have no idea." "I found it... her..." "along with my towel along with this note." "Wait till you guys hear this." "I've stopped baby tears all my life." "Could I hold her, please?" "Sure." ""Dear Lifeguard, I know your job is to save people" ""who are in trouble on the beach," ""so please keep my baby safe for 24 hours." ""I'll be back to get her." ""And please don't call the authorities." ""I love my baby very much, and I'd die if she was ever taken away from me. "" "Hopefully, there are other fingerprints on this than your own." "Heinz, get this to Garner, will you?" "I got it." "Did you see anybody at the beach today who might have possibly left her?" "No." "Must have snuck up from behind." "Here, Ben, let me try." "I had a patented way of keeping Hobie from crying." "Ooh, little baby." "Yeah." "Yeah." "Maybe it just works with boys." "Wh-What?" "Oh." "Shh..." "Shh." "Shh, shh, shh." "What?" "What are you guys looking at me like that for?" "You're the only one the baby doesn't cry with." "Well, it isn't because of me." "I mean, I don't know a thing about babies." "Come on." "The question is, do we contact the authorities, or do what the note says?" "Ben, whoever abandoned her took a big chance you might not find her." "Yeah, but he did." "And whoever wrote that note is obviously in a lot of trouble." "So, I think maybe we should wait the 24 hours, and then if they don't show up, we can call Child Welfare." "You're the guidance counselor." "What do you think?" "Doesn't hurt to wait the 24 hours." "What do we do with her in the meantime?" "I mean, who's going to take care of her?" "No way." "Huh-huh." "Mm-hmm." "You know, I think it could be time to change her diaper, Eddie." "Yeah, I got to go." " Shauni." "A taxi for me?" "Got to go." "I got to make a phone call." "Buddy?" "Ben?" "Hey, come on, man." "You're not going to leave me, are you?" "Watch me." "But... you..." "Hobie, I'm home." "Whoa... w-w-wow!" "That's a big hug." "I was only away for a few hours." "Gayle." "How are you, Mitch?" "Oh." "That is a silly reason not to go to this reunion." "I know, Dad." "You always tell me it doesn't matter what other people think." "This time, it's different." "Oh, come on." "Chuck Bezanty's coming all the way from Aspen." "Steve Roye's going to be there." "You guys haven't seen each other in years." "Don't you think it'll look funny, you and I walking in together?" "No." "In fact, I think it'd be great for people to see that just 'cause we got a divorce doesn't mean we can't still be friends." "And maybe even get back together." "Don't count on that, pal." "You don't know for sure." "I mean, it could happen." "Anyway, I can't go because..." "I don't have anything to wear." "Well, it just so happens that I brought you something." "So now you don't have any excuses." "So come on." "Wait, wait, wait, wait, hold it." "Who's going to take care of Hobie?" "I'm staying at Jeremy's house." "And I'm going to pick him up in the morning." "We're going to spend the whole day together before I have to leave." "Right?" " Right." " So..." "Uh, Gayle, I don't..." "I don't think it's a good idea." "Don't worry." "Look, I got in late, so I came straight here from the airport, but I'm going to check into a hotel right after the reunion." "Okay." "I still don't want to go." "Whoa, Dad, this is awesome!" "Yeah, I can't believe your mom kept it all these years." "I gave this to her when we first started going steady." "How old were you guys?" "Seventeen." ""# Ta-dah!" "#" "Wow!" "Hey, you look pretty good." "That jacket still fits you, I see." " Yep." " So you guys ready to go?" " Yeah." " Yep." "Um, one thing." "I think we should take two cars." "Look, I'll tell you what, if it really makes you this uptight for me to be there, then why don't I just stay here with Hobie, and you can go alone?" " Gayle, I didn't mean..." " Mom, you came all the way from Ohio to go to this reunion." "Yeah, well, I also came to see you." "Tell you what, I never wanted to go in the first place." "You go, I'll stay here with Hobie." "Mitch, we don't have to walk in together." "We don't even have to be with each other." "Let's just go, we'll have a good time, then you drive me back here, I get my stuff, and I check out." "All right." "Thanks for the jacket." "Since we weren't going steady anymore," "I really thought you should have it." " Come on." " Come on." "Oh, look!" "Tell me, what was the most embarrassing thing that ever happened to you in high school?" "No way." "No way." "Say..." "You look good." "You're looking good, man." "So are you." "What you up to?" "I haven't looked this good in a long time." "Give me a smile." "Good luck." "Beer." "I don't believe it!" "Oh, Gayle!" " I am so..." " Look at you!" "I read your stuff all the time." "Hey." "That's right." "Heard about Mary?" "I did." "I got to go talk to my wife... ex-wife." "Tell me, what was the most embarrassing thing that ever happened to you in high school?" "Please." "God." "Mitch Buchannon." "What?" "I was hoping I'd see you." "You haven't changed at all." "Well, obviously you have, because I have no idea who you are." "And if you looked like this in high school," "I think I would remember." "I sat behind you for years." "Trish Buckley?" "Yep." "Fated by alphabetical order to know every curl of your hair." "Until you shaved it off." "Mm." "Did you know I actually cried that day?" "No, I didn't know that." "I did." "You had such beautiful hair." "I'm surprised you're wearing shoes." "And I'm surprised you're not wearing a size 12 dress, horn-rimmed glasses and braces." "Well, some people peak in high school." "Still a wiz at science?" "I own a computer software company." "Well, you definitely have all the right reasons to come to this reunion." "Good to see you." "Watch me now!" " Hey!" " Ho-ho!" "How are you guys?" "How are you?" "!" " How you doing, man?" " I'm doing okay." "My hands hurt from that slap though." "Oh, man!" "No." "What?" "It's okay." "Eddie, don't hold the baby like that, honey." "You have to cradle her in your arms." "Oh, it's okay, it's okay." "You mean like a football?" " Yeah." " Yes, yes." "How's that?" "Is that better, huh?" "Go out for a pass." "I'm kidding." "I'm just kidding, come on." "Aw." "Now comes the fun part." "You don't look too comfy." "Oh, no, no, no." "I don't want anything to do with it." "Come on, be brave." "Just set her down right here." "I'm going to put you down." "Ah, yeah." "There you go." "There you go." "Watch out for your little head there." "There you go." "Huh?" "Go ahead." "Take the old one off." "Oh, no, no, no." "I'm not going in there." "You know, somebody had to do this for you." "And that's probably why I was put up for adoption." "I'm going to get you for this." "Okay." "All right." "Hey." "She's a good girl." "Yeah." "Call 911." "Okay." "Ooh." "Oh, it's not that bad." "Yes, it stinks very bad." "Wipe." "You stink." "Ooh." "Yeah." "Powder." "Easy." "Diaper." "Uh, what do I do with that?" " See this tape?" " Uh-huh." "Pull 'em out, and just wrap it around the front." " You got it." " Okay." "Okay." "It's a piece of cake, huh?" "Piece of cake." "Yes, it's a piece of cake." "Huh?" "Yes!" "Huh?" "How's that?" "Not bad, Mr. Mom." "Mm-hmm." "What'd I tell you?" "This is a piece of cake, huh?" "She smiled." "She smiled at me." "She actually smiled at me." "Come here, you." "Come here." "Work with me, will you?" "Thanks." "No, no, no." "Gayle, you have to say this loud enough so the whole world can hear." "Now, what was the most embarrassing moment you ever had in high school?" "Okay, okay." "Most embarrassing thing that ever happened to me in high school..." "Was the time that she got caught with me in the boys' locker room." "Hey, I don't know who you are." "Sure you do." "I'm the one you always wanted." "You know, the guy that you were too shy to come after back then, huh?" "Yeah, right." "Look, um..." "I always wanted to kiss you in high..." "One for the camera, one for the..." "That's enough!" "Come a long way since high school, haven't you, Veron?" "Mitch, let him go." "Soon as he apologizes." "What do you give a damn for?" "Heard she dumped you." "Only one being dumped on at the moment is you." "Now, say you're sorry!" "For everything you've ever done to anyone here." "Yeah." "I'm going to get both of you!" "Say you're sorry." "Sorry." "Say it loud enough for everybody in here to hear." "Go on!" "I'm sorry, okay?" "!" "You know, you always thought you were a hot shot, Buchannon." "Well, you ain't nothing!" "I own three auto parts stores, and I make more money in a month than you make in a year on the beach!" "No wonder she dumped you!" "Sorry about that." "You okay?" "My hero." "Thanks." "Get some air, huh?" "Beer." "It's time to eat!" "It's not cafeteria food, trust me." " Mitch, you have to!" " No way." "Yeah, come on, man." "We already talked to the band." "It's been 20 years, pal." "Outside, it was perfect," " like we rehearsed it yesterday." " No." "Come on, we'll blow 'em away." "Seize the moment, Mitch!" " Oh, come on, Mitch." " Not you, not you." " Don't you... no." " Mitch, please." " It'll be fun." " Don't embarrass me." "You broke my heart." "Because I couldn't dance." "You didn't even want me around." "And now I'm back to let you know." "I can really shake 'em down." "Watch me now!" "Watch me now!" "Let's get this done before he wakes up." "Oh, no, no, no, no." "This one's too hard." "Why don't you get the other one?" "Yes." "You know what?" "It's a little stuffy in here, too." "Maybe we should open the doors." "No." "No, we can't do that, 'cause then, she'd... catch a cold, because it'd be too cold for her, huh?" "Yes." "There's something wrong with this bottle." "Maybe the temperature is not right, or something." "Eddie, Eddie, Eddie." "Maybe the nipple is a little clogged." "Sweetie." "It's okay." "Let me have the baby." "Oh, no, no, no." "She's almost asleep." "Oh, baby." "Everything is okay." "Oh, yes." "Hi, sweetie." "We're going to make you comfy." "Okay, yeah." "Oh, yeah, now, there." "Oh, yeah." "That's comfy, that's good." "Yeah." "I want to have three babies." "I want to have two boys and a girl." "What about you?" "You know that we have never even talked about that before." "Oh, I don't know." "All I know is when I become a father, the mother and I are going to stay together forever." "No fights, no breakups." "I went through all that hell, and I swore my kid would never go through it." "Huh?" "Yeah, but there's no such thing as a "100o/%" guarantee, Eddie." "I mean, all you can do is... do the best you can one day at a time with the person you love." "Yeah, you're right." "You know anyone I can do that with?" "Oh, very funny." "Ha-ha..." "Hush!" "You're going to wake the baby." "Oh, shut up and kiss me, will you?" "Baby, baby, baby..." "everything's about the baby." "Oh, I love you, too." "What about Shauni?" "Oh, Shauni didn't get any attention." "Shut up and kiss "me. "" "Seeing the three of you up there, it felt like we were back in high school, really." "Thanks." "For what?" "For making me come." "I'm having a great time." "Tell me something." "Do I look, you know, very different than I did back in high school?" "Gayle, why are you so insecure?" "You look beautiful." "You look as beautiful as ever." "Well, good..." "that means all the facials and workouts have been worth it." "Ha!" "We came out here the day of our prom, you remember?" "Right after the dancing started?" "Yep." "Snuck out here to be alone." "So you want to?" "What?" "Sneak off and be alone." "We're out of here." "We should get a camera, take a picture of his face when the wave hits him." "He wakes up and sees where he is..." "I'm not going to need a picture to remember this moment." "I've been waiting for 20 years to get back at him." "I think about you a lot, Mitch." "I..." "I miss you." "I miss you, too." "I got to tell you." "You're doing a great job with Hobie." "Really, it makes it so much easier for me to deal with being away from him, just knowing that he's with you." "Thanks." "That means a lot." "What the..." "Hey, Veron." " Hey, Lar." " How are you doing, buddy?" "Get me out of here!" "I'm going to kill you both." "Ooh." "M" " Maybe, maybe if you beg us, we will, Veron." "Yeah." "Come on, Veron, beg." "Beg a little bit." "Just-just a little bit." "Come on, beg." "Uh, may... maybe we should dig him out." "Come on, he's the one supposed to panic, not us." "This is where Hobie got started." "No, I think it was down the beach..." "All right, it's where we got started doing what started him." "How we waited till our senior prom night, I'll never know." "It wasn't me." "You're the one that kept saying no." "Well, I won't say no tonight." "That's one of the things about you I miss the most." "Yeah!" "Beg, come on, beg, vermin!" "Beg!" "Like-like on prom night, when I begged you to leave me alone, and you chased me out into the ocean in front of everybody, in front of my date!" "Get me out, please, come on, please!" "Please!" "No." "No." "Howie." "You see how scared he is?" "Howie!" "The tide is getting higher." "Come on." "Okay, okay." "We'll dig him out far enough that he can get the rest of the way out himself, then we run, okay?" "All right, yeah, good." "Sh... sh..." "the wa..." "Man, the water is filling up the hole, Howie!" "We got to get him out of here." "Help!" "Help, someone!" "Help!" "Help us, somebody!" "Help!" "What is it?" "I don't know." "It's Mitch!" "Mitch!" "Mitch, quick!" "It's Veron!" "We buried him!" "We can't get him out!" "We were just trying to scare him!" "Get that trashcan over there... hurry!" "Oh, my God." "What can I do?" "Get the shovels." "Mitch!" "Mitch!" "Mitch!" "All right, turn it upside down!" "Okay, now lower it over his head when the wave comes." "Here comes the wave." "Okay, now." "Okay, pull it up." "Dig!" "Dig!" "Here comes another one." "Okay." "Here it comes." "You got this one?" "Yeah." "Can you get the other leg, Mitch?" " Pull it out." " Okay." "Here comes another one." "Okay, pull it up and dig!" "Dig!" "I got a leg." "Let's get him out of there." "I can't move him." "I can't move him, Mitch." "Lift, two, three, go!" "Hold on!" "Easy." "That was great, Mitch." "Thanks for you help." "We're sorry." "Bye, Gayle." "Thanks." "Thank you." "The culprits are fleeing." "Don't worry." "Worrying about what Veron's going to do to them when he comes to will be punishment enough." "I still can't believe that happened." "One minute I'm kissing you, the next minute I've got my lips pressed against Larry Veron's." "Oh... well..." "It's been an interesting day." "Oh, it's been a wild one, that's for sure." "Yeah." "Well..." "Yeah." "I guess some things, um... are just left unfinished." "I don't know." "Maybe it's for the best, huh?" "Guess I'd better go change." "Okay." "Um, do you mind if I use your shower?" "No." "No, go on." "I mean, you know, believe me," "I'll be in there right after you are." "Okay." "John." "Who's John?" "He's a man that I've been seeing." "Now?" "With your eyes closed, you're seeing him now?" "I don't know." "What do you mean you don't know?" "You... you have to know who you were thinking about." "I never know." "I've been seeing John for about a year." "Um, and he's asked me to marry him." "But sometimes, when I'm with him," "I start thinking about you." "Do you call out my name?" "I have, yeah." "But he understood." "In fact, it was John who was the one who urged me to come to this reunion." "He said that I should sort out my feelings about you and that..." "That if I was in love with you," "I should either get back together with you or let you go." "It's not about love, is it?" "I'll always love you." "I know that." "And I hope you'll always love me." "Maybe it's time, huh?" "Maybe it's time for both of us to let go." "Okay." "You know what tonight is?" "No." "What?" "It's our graduation." "How you doing?" "What can I do for you?" "Uh, yesterday afternoon," "I left our baby girl under your tower." "L" " I'm really sorry." "I mean, I know it was wrong." "It's just that my wife wanted to give her up for adoption and I just..." "But things are okay now, so I'm-I'm here to pick her up." "Shauni." " Hey." " Hey." "This here is Dan Gerson." "He says he's the baby's father." "I am her father." "Well, wait a minute." "Wait." "When we find something on the beach and somebody comes here to claim it, we at least make them describe it." "So what color eyes does he have?" "It's a she." "Her name's Elizabeth, and she has blue eyes." "And if you'll look, a mole on her right thigh." "Okay?" "Come here, darling." "Thank you." "Okay." "Wait, wait, wait a minute." "Dan, um, just do me a favor, would you?" "Write down part of what you wrote on the note." "Sure." "Hey!" "Stop him!" "Watch the baby!" "Watch the baby." "Got a lady here says she's the mother." "Elizabeth?" "It's okay." "Yeah." "It's okay." "It's okay." "It's okay." "Mama's here." "Mama's here." "Mama's here." "Oh, God, I never should've left you alone." "I'll never leave you alone again, I promise." "And he'll never take you away from me." "It's okay." "Yeah." "Okay." "So the ex-husband tracked her down here tried to steal the baby." "That's why she left her with us, until she could get away from him." "That's right, but he caught her made her tell him where the baby was." "So Garner took him downtown to sort the whole thing out." "There you have it." "You know, it's a good thing" "I have great instincts about babies." "Hey, hey, hey!" "So, Mitch, how was that reunion, huh?" "Pretty boring, I bet." "It had its moments." "Hey!" "How was Disneyland?" "Great." "Hey, Dad..." "Hey." "Hey." "Look out." "Whoa."