"Previously, on "nashville"..." "Get on your knees." "You can see there's no motion." "Do you need anything?" "I just need to be alone." "Come to texas." "You could." "Play some shows with us or just come along for the ride." "You're close with rayna's daughter, maddie, aren't you?" "Got a song I think will be great for her." "I'm happy to pass it along." "She just doesn't think that it's quite right for her." "J said it didn't light your fire?" "How could you?" "Hey, maddie!" "Maddie!" "Maddie, wake up!" "Wake up!" "Wake up!" "Guess what?" "What?" "You are nominated for an american music award!" "What?" "Yes." "No way." "You're kidding me?" "Favorite song." "Pop rock, that's the category." "What?" "!" "No way!" "Yes way." "No way!" "Justin bieber won that last year, maddie!" "Who else is nominated?" "Katy perry!" "No!" "Yes, and juliette barnes." "That's awesome." "My god." "This is amazing." "You're back on top." "Yeah, it's great." "Juliette, it's more than that." "And less than a year ago," "You... you were never going to walk again." "Is everything okay?" "Everything's great." "Stop digging for something that isn't there." "Okay, okay." "Give cadence a kiss for me and tell her I miss her," "Bye." "That's awesome about juliette." "Yeah, it is." "How are you holding up?" "You going to visit the old stomping grounds?" "I don't know." "It's a good three hours from austin." "I'm playing backtoback shows." "You have time." "Yeah, I guess." "Just my grandma's the only person." "That still lives in aurora." "She's not exactly a renowned conversationalist." "You know, still, she's family, right?" "You should go." "I'm surprised you know how to do this." "Yeah, well, you learn a lot." "When you got two teenage daughters." "I guess so." "You going to sing me that song?" "No, actually, my home studio." "Currently consists of this iphone." "And I listened back and my vocals just sound." "Like scratchy and... and thin, so." "Why don't you just play it for me now then?" "Now?" "Yeah." "Are you serious?" "I'm very serious." "I want to hear some music." "Come on." "Okay, you know what?" "I'm going to do it." "But only because it was my new year's resolution." "To never pass up an opportunity to play." "Hold on." "Okay, this is officially." "The strangest thing I've ever done." "You need to get out more." "Haha, very funny." "All right." "Grandma?" "It's me." "It's gunnar." "Sorry I didn't call ahead." "I thought it might be best to surprise you." "Umph." "Grandma, I don't... i don't think you should be..." "I'm passing real soon." "You have to take care of yourself." "What damn difference does it make?" "Hey." "Hey." "I'm in a motel in aurora." "Um, what's it like being home?" "Yeah, it's kind of depressing actually." "You'd think after a couple of years." "My grandma and I'd have something to talk about." "She did raise me and my brother." "Well, maybe she just doesn't know what to say." "I mean, I imagine being old is hard." "Yeah..." "Anyway, how are you doing?" "I'm okay." "Is that it?" "Um, well i..." "I can't really explain without, like," "You know, so I'm okay." "You know what, can I call you back?" "I got to get something off the stove." "Yeah." "Sure." "Thank you." "Bye." "Hey!" "You still flying high?" "Hey." "Yes, this is so incredible." "Just in time for ice cream!" "Hey!" "Hi, how are you?" "Good." "You going on a trip?" "No, I just... it got real quiet at my house." "And I thought, what better time." "To come and visit my favorite family?" "Yay." "We're glad you did." "Do you want to sleep in my room?" "I would love that." "Well, I know you two." "Are going to be up all night talking," "So why don't you go ahead and get ready." "For bed right now?" "Okay." "Taking the ice cream with you?" "Yeah." "My goodness." "You okay?" "Yeah, totally fine." "Just freaked out or something." "I must've slept in that house by myself about a 1,000 times." "And then all of a sudden, I felt real vulnerable in it." "Yeah." "Well, first off, here's some ice cream." "Second of all, I think you need to cut yourself a break." "You've been through a whole lot recently, all right." "You had a gun pulled on you, darling." "As if that wasn't enough." "This is embarrassing, that's all." "I mean, I'm... i've been on this planet," "What, almost three decades?" "I need to be able to exist here, by myself, and be just fine." "And apparently I can't do that, so." "Well, maybe you should try taking a selfdefense class." "This girl at the studio has been raving." "About this course she took." "She says she used to be afraid to, like," "Jog around her park after dark." "And now she's like got this whole new outlook on it." "Wow." "Look at you with the wisdom." "I don't know." "Seems like something all women should do." "This whole media narrative about you and maddie." "Being in the middle of some sort of catfight isn't going away." "And the nomination's only adding fuel to the fire." "Cream?" "Please." "In the interest to putting this thing to bed." "Before people start, you know," "Picking sides and making tshirts," "I'd be happy to help facilitate a conversation." "Between the two of you." "And we can bring in deacon to act as kind of a third..." "No, I do not need help talking to maddie." "I've known the girl since she was a tater tot." "Yeah, I... well, look, sometimes..." "With a miscommunication as delicate as this..." "Glenn, I stole her song." "You know it." "I know it." "Let's just call a spade a spade." "Wait a minute." "Wait a minute." "Maddie already had a hit song about a tidal wave." "For all we know, she'd have passed." "On a song about waters rising." "I mean, how much water can a person sing about?" "I just made nice on twitter." "Maddie's a big girl now." "We don't need couples counseling to get through this." "It's going to be fine." "Gunnar scott." "Get out!" "Is that you?" "Kelly walker." "And you even remember me." "What are you doing here?" "I'm just, just visiting some family." "What about you?" "Well, if you can believe it, I live here." "Really?" "Yeah, I moved back from dallas about a year ago." "But what about you though?" "I mean, you're legit famous now." "I don't know about that." "Come on." "I mean, in this town," "You might as well be tim mcgraw." "Yeah, I never really felt that way growing up." "Well, that's because everyone was too busy." "Watching a bunch of meatheads pulverize each other." "On the football field." "If I remember correctly," "Weren't you dating one of those meatheads?" "Yeah." "Yep, the meatiest of them all." "The choices we make, right?" "You know I..." "I kept up with you." "Almost drove to austin one time." "When I heard you were playing there." "Almost?" "Yeah, well, stuff came up." "It's a long story." "Um, but anyways," "How long you in town for?" "Well, to be honest, I was..." "I was just leaving." "No, really?" "I mean, we haven't had the chance to properly catch up." "Well, um, what are you doing now?" "Well, I have to get back to the office." "But I'm free this evening." "That is if you can stay?" "I guess my schedule's flexible." "Okay." "Awesome." "Hey, did you hear about east aurora?" "No, what?" "They're tearing it down." "Wow." "Can you believe that?" "We should go there tonight." "You know, pour one out for our misspent youth." "Yeah." "Are you staying at the motel?" "Yeah." "Okay." "Well, I'll come find you later then." "Sounds good." "Bye." "Hey, so sorry I'm late." "Hey, not a problem." "Well, if I recall, aren't you the girl." "That says she's always early?" "I really am, yeah." "Barring catastrophe." "What happened?" "Nothing, I'm exaggerating." "No, what?" "I was planning this weekend with my son." "And I normally just get a day." "So my ex made it seem like this grand gesture on his part," "Which also means he gets to cancel it at the last minute." "That sucks." "It does." "But, you know, I'm used to it." "Will?" "Thank you." "Did you just order coffee?" "I did, I come here a lot." "All right, well, you want to talk about this song?" "Not really." "No?" "No." "I'm embarrassed." "Don't be." "Seriously." "Where'd it come from?" "Gosh, where does anything, right?" "Come on now." "I guess, it's that, when people see me." "They expect some lily of the field." "And I'm just not that." "So I guess it's kind of a..." "A warning, you know." ""Stay away, broken inside."" "That's interesting." "I just think the difference." "Between what we are inside and what we seem to be outside." "That, you know, it's universal, it speaks to people." "It spoke to me." "Really?" "Even through a phone and choppy internet connection?" "It's a good song." "Bad sound can't kill it." "Well, thank you, I appreciate that." "That being said, I got a little studio time" "I'm supposed to use on juliette." "But she's not available until next week." "If you want to get in and lay it down." "Nah, I couldn't." "No?" "Just going to go with that cell phone." "No, that's not the plan." "And you don't..." "You don't have to do that." "I've got it covered." "An engineer friend of mine is recording a band all week." "And he said that he could squeeze me in." "If there's any way I can help you do right by that song," "You let me know?" "All right." "Well, the song says "thank you," and sends its regards." "Thank you." "Hey, what's up?" "Just returning your call, sorry." "I had a weird night last night." "Yeah, what happened?" "It's silly, but what I think was a family of raccoons." "Have inspired me to take selfdefense classes." "Which is very much not me." "But whatever, um, where are you?" "In aurora, actually." "Wow." "I thought you would've gotten out of there by now." "Me too, but..." "What's wrong?" "Nothing it's just, you know," "I thought we were trying to give each other some space?" "Gotcha, um, well, I'll talk to you later or not." "Hey, no." "I'm not saying never." "It's just this is a little confusing for me." "Okay..." "Well," "I will try not to be confusing moving forward." "Scarlett." "I'll see you." "Hey sweetie." "Hey." "Your sister home?" "No." "She's at louise's." "I knew that." "Yep." "Well I am starving, you want something to eat?" "You didn't eat at your meeting?" "No." "I had coffee." "That's what you do at meetings, you drink coffee." "Right." "You know that jessie, she's just a colleague, right?" "I thought you weren't signing her?" "I'm not." "I just mean like a colleague." "In the broader sense of the word." "Like the club of sad song writers." "How do I apply?" "Sorry to tell you, you don't have to." "You are already a member." "Just like scarlett, gunnar, avery and..." "Dad?" "What?" "I love you." "Regardless." "So we should talk about what we're going to eat." "Yeah." "Well, we started 6th grade here, 18 years ago." "It's funny how we've known each other for that long." "But never had a conversation as real as this one." "Yeah, well, you were always part of the cool crowd, so." "No, I wasn't." "You absolutely were." "I mean, it's not like you were mean or anything." "But you just had this..." "This force field around you." "All right, come on, do me." "Um, honestly I just..." "I remember feeling bad for you." "Great." "No, I just mean," "When my mom told me how you lost your parents." "I remember wanting to talk to you about it." "But not really knowing how." "You never really had a crowd, did you?" "I mean, I had my brother," "Until he kind of went off the rails." "But..." "Nope." "You always did have some girlfriend though." "That's... that's not true." "Yeah, since 9th grade, it was." "You always had some girl." "Who was sweet enough but kind of plain." "And you'd be inseparable from her." "Yeah, well, not everybody." "Could be with the prettiest girl in aurora." "Just in the town?" "Not the whole county?" "I mean, wasn't it obvious?" "Wasn't what obvious?" "That I liked you." "I mean, I had a hunch." "But you never asked me out." "So I couldn't be sure." "Well, what are you doing these days?" "I..." "Am breaking into this school." "What?" "You want to join?" "All right." "So, when I attack from behind," "You grab the wrist, strike the elbow to the face." "If that fails, good, turn around." "Hit me with your knee." "Good, good." "Now everybody." "Try it with me." "Try it with me." "Um..." "You're doing the motions, but there's no aggression." "I guess I'm more interested in the getting away part." "Than hurting other people part." "And what if there's no escaping?" "What are you doing then?" "Laying down and hoping for the best?" "You must react in the instant with overwhelming force." "Why not just enough to get away?" "Because, you must fight, you must win." "You strike first and you do not stop." "Until the person is on the ground or unconscious." "Try it." "Hit me with your knee when I attack." "You want to learn selfdefense, but you still want to be nice." "If you are defending yourself, you're already past nice." "Yeah." "You... you want to pick on somebody else now?" "I... i got your point." "Okay, and what if you're on the ground?" "Why are they tearing it down anyway?" "It had, like, off the charts levels." "Of lead and mold and other carcinogens." "Suddenly I feel light headed." "Okay, okay." "You're better off worrying." "About the seven years of exposure you already got." "Yeah." "Hang on, I'm going to pee." "Come on, gunnar." "We just went through this on thursday." "What do we do?" "We combine like terms." "After that, your job is to isolate "x"" "Gunnar, you need to report to the principal's office." "Beyond awful, boys." "I'm so sorry to have to give you this news." "Gunnar?" "Yeah, in here!" "Okay, super weird." "I swear I just felt my 7th grade braces." "Brush against my gums when I was in the girls room." "Crazy." "So..." "I have work in the morning but can I see you tomorrow?" "Yeah, yeah, that'd be great." "Excellent, more trips down memory lane to come." "They got a good sound." "Where were you thinking of taking them?" "The great smoky mountains." "Which would've been a hoot." "Why is that?" "Because I haven't pitched a tent since..." "I don't know, girl scouts, maybe." "But jake has adhd." "And something about nature just agrees with him." "Sort of slows him down." "It does the same thing for me." "Sounds great." "Hey sam, can we take five." "And go again from the top?" "Sure thing." "Doesn't sound like they're going to be done any time soon." "Nope." "I'm sorry jessie." "You ask me, they already got it." "But, it's their record." "Sam, don't apologize." "You're the one that's doing me a favor." "I'm happy to wait, really." "Be back in a sec." "I'm not happy making you wait." "You're not making me wait." "I know but I just feel uncomfortable." "Making you sit around all day." "Which is why I said I had it covered in the first place." "Well, all right." "I got some stuff I need to do anyway." "So I'll head on out." "All right." "You let me know how it goes, okay?" "All right." "Good luck." "Thanks." "Hey there." "How you doing?" "Hey, what are you doing here?" "Meeting with alyssa," "About what's happening next." "Since the exes are on break or something." "Ya'll all come up with anything?" "Well, I'm... i'm writing." "And, I really want to stay involved." "With the women's clinic." "You know it means even more now after the..." "Sorry." "No, come on." "Come on, it's all right." "I cry eight times a day." "And I'm never going to get over what happened." "Who says you should?" "You lost a baby, scarlett." "And a version of your future that you'd fallen in love with." "Yeah." "You cry all you want." "You sit down, all right?" "Okay." "How's everything else, otherwise?" "I miss gunnar more than I thought I would." "And I'm a failure at selfdefense." "And I feel like a wimp for coming to stay." "With you and the girls." "Come on now." "Would you cut yourself a break?" "Just trying to do everything alone." "And be on my own." "And be okay." "And so far, I'm just screwing it all up." "What is this obsession everybody has." "With doing everything all by themselves?" "What?" "Half a year ago," "I could barely put my own boots on." "And more than a few people, you most of all," "Stepped in, in big ways." "That's different." "Not really." "Sweetie, the opposite of being with someone." "Isn't doing everything all alone." "It's getting a lot of different kinds of help." "From a lot of different people." "Never thought of it that way." "Yeah, well, neither did i." "It just..." "Sounded good so I went with it." "I appreciate it." "Hey, you know, that's a really nice rug there." "You know, it looks really expensive." "You can't just walk in here, brad." "Where's jake?" "We're supposed to have dinner." "Jake!" "Told you, I was dropping him off!" "Well, you know, I was in the neighborhood." "Thought I'd pop in and surprise my two favorite people." "And how was I supposed to know that?" "Well, you weren't." "You see, that's the definition of a surprise... jake!" "He wants to stay at his friend kevin's tonight!" "And you were going to let him?" "Well, I was going to call you." "When?" "Tomorrow?" "Come on, he's 13 for heaven's sake." "Yeah, that's right, he's 13 years old." "And he knows the rules." "Here we go." "You have got to stop enabling him, jess!" "And you've got to stop treating him." "Like he is in military school!" "I am trying to give him a future." "And what is it that you think I am trying to do?" "Man, I have absolutely no idea... i don't." "Unless it's to render him as weak and helpless." "As you possibly can." "You need to leave." "So what, you going to bring him over then or what?" "You're really not going to let him stay at kevin's?" "I expect him at 5:00 p.M." "As per our court mandated agreement!" "He'll be there." "Good girl." "Now get out." "Hey, man." "Hey." "Hadn't heard from you." "So I thought I'd check in." "How are things going?" "What are you up to today?" "I'm sitting here outside my old house." "And it looks exactly the same." "Except there's another family living in it." "Well, you should introduce yourself." "Bet they'd invite you in." "Hello?" "Hi, my name's gunnar." "Um, gunnar scott, I..." "We don't want to buy anything." "No, nono." "Um, I used to live here when I was younger." "I... i just came by because I wanted to see it." "But, it's... it's okay." "I'm sorry to bother you." "I really did live here." "Um, there's a little black stove in the kitchen that burns wood." "Come in." "Come in." "Thank you." "I can give you a tour." "Yeah, thanks." "This is the living room." "And this is the kitchen." "And over there is the room I share with my brother." "I used to share it with my brother too." "Do you want to see it?" "Is that okay?" "Of course." "I sleep on the top bunk." "Marisol, come." "Excuse me." "That'll be enough of that racket." "It's not racket." "It's guitar." "And you, stop playing the clown." "That damned thing's bigger than you are." "Screw this." "I'm out of here." "Jason, come on." "Please." "You'll get in trouble." "You really think I care!" "Please." "Don't leave." "Please, don't be such a wimp!" "Mister?" "Mister?" "Are you done looking at the room?" "Yeah..." "Yeah, I'm done." "Hey." "Hey." "You okay?" "Yeah, why?" "I just didn't think I'd hear from you." "Unless something bad happened or there was an emergency." "So I... i got worried." "Yeah, no, no emergency." "Good, um, what's up?" "Nothing, just being home is really weird." "Kind of tough." "Like how?" "Look, I... i'm sorry, I know I called you." "But I... i should probably just go." "You sure?" "Because I'm here." "Yeah..." "Yeah, sorry to bother you." "You... you're not a bother." "All right, thanks." "Hey." "Hey yourself." "How'd it go?" "Okay." "What does that mean?" "Sam said that he was going to make time for me next week." "That's why I didn't call." "What are you doing at five?" "Not sure." "Why, what's up?" "Meet me at tracks studio." "Come on jessie, it's just sitting there empty." "Um, really?" "You sure?" "I consider that a yes." "I'll see you there." "Okay." "Thank you." "It's like she's conveniently forgotten." "All the things that I've done for her." "Maybe she's just saying thanks." "No, she is calling me a thief." "She's just not saying it outright..." "Yet." "Well, why do you think she hasn't said anything?" "I don't know." "Maybe she's trying to draw it out, prolong the pain." "Or..." "Maybe she's trying to protect you." "All right, great." "Let's just do a couple in a row." "I'm not really feeling it." "Okay, um, what's wrong?" "Just a quick minute." "Thanks." "You know, it's been a long day." "And I just feel like I'm not going to get it right now." "We got all the time you need, jess." "And I mean, seriously, right now," "It feels like the only thing in your way is..." "Yourself." "So that's what you think?" "It's not an insult." "I'm just saying it can be scary." "When all the obstacles to being here are cleared away." "And you're just standing there." "In front of that microphone by yourself." "I know, I've been there." "Or we can come back tomorrow if you'd like," "Yeah, cool, okay, let's do that." "Thanks." "My favorite student." "Don't get too attached." "I think this is my last class." "Tell me, why are you here?" "Um..." "Me and my friend were assaulted." "And what did you do?" "Nothing." "What did you want to do?" "I don't know." "You wanted to do something, no?" "Come." "Okay!" "Class in session!" "Good, good." "Next." "Good, next." "Yes!" "Yes!" "Yes!" "Yes!" "Yes!" "That's how it's done!" "I'm tell you, people, don't mess with this woman!" "She's stronger than she looks!" "Gunnar?" "You there?" "So, what kind of trouble should we get into tonight?" "I don't know." "Um, honestly, I... i'm kind of wiped, so." "Okay." "Um, you going to invite me in?" "Or shall we just keep hanging out here in the doorway?" "You want to talk about it?" "About what?" "Whatever's on your mind." "Tell me something, did I seem happy growing up?" "Um..." "Sometimes." "I don't know." "I always thought I was a pretty happy kid, you know." "Sure some bad stuff happened." "But I didn't act out or... or," "You know, get in trouble like my brother did." "Why are you asking this?" "I don't know." "It's just..." "Ever since I've been back here," "I... i've been having these..." "These memories." "Of what?" "You know, it..." "It doesn't matter." "It's been a long day, you know," "And I don't want to get into all the..." "The silly details of it, so." "You lost your parents gunnar." "It's not a small thing." "Kelly, I... i just don't want to talk about it right now." "Jill scott, obviously you knew her better than I did." "But I crossed paths with her enough times." "In the drug store to get a sense..." "I mean, it's not like she hit me or anything." "Just because nobody hit you." "Doesn't mean you don't have scars." "You're all alone." "You were too young for something like that." "Hey." "You know, when I used to see you." "All alone, looking lost." "I never really worried about you." "You know why?" "Because I could tell that you." "Were going to do something great." "What's wrong?" "Sorry, it's just..." "No, I understand." "It's okay." "I probably shouldn't either actually... i'm..." "I'm married." "Yeah, aaron chambers." "That meathead from high school." "He sells appliances now." "Washers, dryers..." "Not very successfully but..." "I'm not the answer to anybody's problems." "I'm just a girl with my own." "Yep." "All right." "Can I ask you something?" "Yeah, sure." "Why are you doing this?" "I told you, jessie, because I want to." "I like the song." "But the first time you offered" "I was pretty clear that I couldn't accept your help." "Well, yeah, but... but what?" "You weren't exactly confidence inspiring." "In your plan to get it done yourself were you?" "Ok, so then you just come in and do everything for me." "And I feel guilty and then feel like we have to." "Do everything your way." "You don't have to do." "Anything my way." "I never said you did." "It feels like you're taking over though." "I'm sorry if I didn't listen to you, okay." "But honestly, all that I want to do." "Is just to give you a platform to do your thing, okay." "Why?" "Because you're good." "Because you deserve it." "My god." "What?" "What?" "I just turned you into my exhusband." "And I filtered everything that you were doing through him." "And felt like you were trying to control me." "I'm sure I was being a little pushy," "Little too forceful..." "No, I'm so sorry." "Well, well then, I'm sorry too." "Why, you didn't do anything?" "No, I got my thing too." "All right, my whole life has been a series." "Of me falling down and other people coming along," "Helping me out, picking me up." "I think I probably just got a little swept up." "In being on the other side of that equation one time." "What?" "That's just really sweet." "So are we going to do this song or what?" "Yeah." "I know it was bad circumstances for everyone." "You didn't want to raise two more boys." "And you were grieving too." "But I was 11 years old." "And I felt like if I walked out of that house." "And never came back, you wouldn't even notice me." "Let alone miss me." "I guess what I'm trying to say." "Is that sometimes it's... it's hard to believe in yourself." "When no one else ever did." "And I know it's 18 years later and..." "Nothing's going to change that." "And I should probably just move on." "But I just... i needed to say that to you." "I raised you the best I knew how to." "You know, you never cared to hear it when I was younger," "So I don't know what the difference will be now." "But I became a damn good musician." "I'm going to play something for you." "That I wrote last night."