"I know it's weird that I'm writing you instead of just calling but for some reason this feels easier." "I don't know, maybe I got used to the e- mail thing while you were in New York or maybe I'm just too scared to pick up the phone but I think we need to talk." "Oh, dumb." "But I'd really like to talk to you." " Oh, my God." "Amy?" "Shh." "Is everything all right?" "Ephram just signed on." "Right there." "He sees me and he knows that I see him." "This is so insane." "What is...?" "What is going on with you two?" "I know he came by the other night, then he left rather suddenly." " What is it, sweetheart?" " Everything's all messed up." "It was good when he got home." "I thought it was." "And then when I realized it wasn't, we got into this stupid fight." "It wasn't even a fight." "I don't know what it was." "None of this would have happened if he hadn't have gotten that letter." " There was a letter?" " Yes, from Juilliard." "Apparently he got a really crappy evaluation from his summer program." "And now he says that he needs to practice every day and that he might not have time for a girlfriend, which is totally not true." "I am really low-maintenance when it comes to that kind of stuff." " Absolutely." " See?" "I know." "But he doesn't even wanna hear it." "And now I have to deal with tomorrow, my first day of senior year and I don't even know if I'm in a relationship or not." "It's like we're standing in the same room and he won't even talk to me." "Amy look away from the screen." "Come on now." "You can do it." "God, it's not fair." "I'll tell you something you won't believe." "Ready?" "No." " You are better than this." "You are." "All right." "Let me ask you something." "If Ephram Brown didn't exist, what would you be doing tomorrow?" "Just think for a second." "I don't know." "See my friends." "Sign up for Yearbook." "There's a new photojournalism class after school." "Sounded kind of fun." " See?" " Yeah, but Ephram does exist." "Well, yes, I know." "But the point is you have interests." "You have talents." "You had a very full life before you met Ephram." "Well, that life still exists." "You just need to pick it up again and live it." "You know, don't get so wrapped up and wound up in a boy that you miss out on senior year." "I know." "You're right." "All right." "Go to bed." "Thanks, Dad." "Tsk." "Good night." "Goodbye." "Damn it." "You know, I paid $1800 for that thing." "You might wanna try hitting your pillow." "It'd be a lot cheaper." "So, what's the official word?" "Have we satisfied our mandatory cooling-off period or are we still fighting?" "I don't care." "You decide." "I'm too tired to think about anything right now." "Well, how about this?" "We both realize we were wrong." "And we were on the way to apologize to each other." "So now we're all made up and you can tell me why you were so pissed off." "Because I know it's not just about me anymore." "It's Amy." "That's it?" "You want there to be more?" "So let's have some specifics." "You can put that chair right back where you found it." " We're not doing this right now." " Why not?" "I think I could help you." " You can't help me." " Dad." "Dr. Abbott's at the door." "Now?" "What does he want?" "I don't know." "But he's wearing slippers." "Can you please have this conversation outside of my room?" "I have already told you, Harold, I am just not attracted to you in that way." "They don't know about Madison." "At least Amy doesn't know." "Which doesn't necessarily mean that Ephram doesn't but based on events, I don't believe he does." "What events?" "The fight he had with Amy?" " You know?" " Of course." " Then you know about the letter." " Of course I..." "What letter?" "Juilliard sent him an evaluation letter." "Apparently his performance this summer was lackluster effecting the odds of him attending the university next fall thus explaining his foul mood." "My toes are freezing." "I have to go." "Wait a minute." "How lackluster was it?" "Did he fail?" "Even if he did, what would that have to do with next year?" "All fine questions." "Perhaps you should redirect them to your son." "Wait, wait, wait." "Whoa." "All he told me was that he was upset with Amy." "He never mentioned Juilliard." "Not once." "Imagine my surprise." "I would continue with the proverb about the apple and tree but the hour is late, Brown." "My eyes have grown weary." "And these pajamas are drafty." "Good night." "Good luck." "I'll see you in the morning." "No, Harold." "Harold, wait." "Harold." "I was gonna say go right." "So first day of school." " Excited?" " Dancing inside." "You know, I was thinking about it last night after our warm and fuzzy make-up session that we never really talked about how your summer went." " It was fine." " Yeah?" " You like Juilliard?" " Yeah." " Lived up to all your expectations?" " Mm-hm." "Sometimes a school like that can be difficult at first but after a while, you get used to..." "I'm really late." "Hey." "Ephram Brown." "We met a couple years ago." "Heh, yeah, I seem to remember you." "Yeah, I think you had, uh, purple hair." " I'm never gonna live that one down, am I?" " No." " So I, uh, saw you online last night." " Really?" "I was gonna IM you, but I couldn't think of anything to say." "Then I realized how much I suck at typing." "I know you have a lot on your plate now." "You don't have to feel like I'm pressuring you or anything." "No, I don't..." "It's not..." "I don't feel like you're pressuring me." "No, seriously." "Don't worry." "Amy." "Thank God, you're here." "They messed up my schedule." " We're not in Freisinger's together." "What happened?" " Total drama." "Don't worry." "I'm all over it." " Um..." " Hi, Ephram." " Hi." "We're gonna set up for Homecoming." " You have to help pick the band." "Okay." " Okay." "So yeah, I'll see you later?" " Yeah." "Yeah, uh, find me." "I try to get a little jog in, but the old knees ain't what they used to be." "Ah, yes." "The man who stole my father's office from me has now stolen my seat at the counter." "Is nothing sacred?" " Hal, how's it going?" " "Walking to wellness. "" "Your concept of good doctoring?" "Fun, right?" " Heh." "A little exercise, some fresh air." "You should join us." "You know, medicine isn't fun." "People see a physician when they're sick." "Not for some stroll in the park with juice and cookies." "Maybe that's how it used to be, but the model's changing." "These days, it's all about education and early intervention." "Treating the well patient so she stays that way." "That's why they call it a health maintenance organization." " Will there be cookies involved?" "Think I don't see what you're doing?" "Advertising yourself like some kind of doc-in-the-box trying to hoodwink people with gimmicks and freebies." "You're not running a Pep Boys, for God's sake." "What's next?" "Free coupon for an appendectomy?" "Two-for-one cholesterol screenings?" "What?" "It's just business, Hal." "I'm trying to build a client base." "And marketing is part of a solid business plan." " They're called patients, not clients." " Either way." "The offer still stands." "I'll even throw in a good pair of walking shoes for you." " Professional courtesy." " You can keep your courtesy." "I will be working tomorrow, seeing actual patients in an actual office." "And I don't need any more timeshares." "Thank you very much." "No, that's great." "You mind?" "My machine just collapsed on me." "Yeah, okay." "Thank you very much, Mr. Ackerman." "I appreciate it." "Thanks." "First day, you're already on the phone with the principal?" "Gotta be a record." "Rearranging my schedule to let me drop a couple of electives." "Oh, really?" "How come?" "For piano." "I'll be done after fifth period now." "Which means I can hit the garage early and have more time for Amy." "Which means I might not screw up the one thing I was excited to come back for which I would have screwed up if I hadn't done what I just did." "I know you said something there." "Give me a minute." "I'll figure it out." "Ah, it's a balancing act, Nina." "It's all very fragile." "School, piano, Amy." "I thought that I needed more time, but I don't need time." "The answer is obvious." " It is?" "And what is it?" " It's Amy." "Amy comes first." "I have to let her know that she's my number one priority." "And if dropping Economics is the only way to do that then I'll have to survive without Economics." "Now, if you'll excuse me, I gotta go conquer Chopin before tonight." "Ooh, what's tonight?" "Oh, it's a surprise." "Oh, uh, Real quick." "Can I ask you a favor?" "I have this friend and she and her husband are moving to Hong Kong..." "Nina, you had me at favor." "Whatever it is, done." "Cool." "So we got your reports back from the lab." "And, uh, unfortunately you've tested positive for chlamydia, which explains the burning." "Oh, man." "Well, the good news is it's very treatable." "I'm gonna put you on azithromycin and it should clear up in just about a week or so." "Is this one of those things that you can get from a toilet seat or shaking hands?" "No, you can only get it from unprotected sex." "So you're married?" "Seven years next week." "Do you think that, uh, you might have gotten it from your wife?" "Man, I wish." "That would be way better." "I was in Vegas last month, okay?" "I have these clients, these big hitters from Dallas." "They comped us a suite at the Bellagio, all the free booze, the food." "Women." " Are you having sex with your wife as well?" " Of course I am." "I keep the party at home most of the time." "This was just a one-shot deal." "No, no." "I mean, I understand and I'm not making any judgments, Dean." "What I'm trying to tell you is that this is a highly contagious disease." "And if you have been having sex with your wife there is a very good chance that she's infected." "You're gonna have to tell her what's going on so she can come in and get tested." "Oh, sorry." "You weren't kidding?" "No." "No, I'm afraid not." "Look, doc, there is no way I can tell my wife about..." "You know." "I mean, if she finds out I cheated, it's game over." "Can't you just give me extra medicine?" "I will make sure that she takes it." "Well, it's a little more complicated than that." "Chlamydia can be very serious for women." "She could have a pelvic infection." "There could be damage to the reproductive organs." "I mean, this is not something that you mess around with." "Oh, I should have gone to Celine Dion." "Hey, Mrs. Abbott." "How are you?" "Fine." "What brings you by?" "Two tickets to the Shins." "I know what you're thinking." "It's a school night." "It's only 45 minutes away." "We leave before the encore, I'll have her back before 11." "Amy's not here, Ephram." "She went out with some friends." "Something about a first-day-of-school celebration." "I assumed you'd be there with her." "Yeah, uh, well, I'm, uh, not." "Well, I'll tell her you came by." "No, it's okay." "I'll just, uh, tell her when I see her tomorrow at school." "Okay?" "Well, I appreciate your time, Mr. Yamoto." "Oh, I'm very sorry." "Dr. Yamoto." "Yes, uh, Ephram Brown." "Well, I suppose that the problem is that he received an unsatisfactory evaluation and, uh, I was hoping you could tell me why so that I..." "Yes." "I understand that, sir." "I'd just like to pinpoint the area in question so I could find him a tutor to..." "Well, that's a little presumptuous, don't you think?" "And just a touch rude." "No, no, I am listening to you." "It sounds like you're not listening to me." "No, no, you wait a minute." "I didn't send my son up there for eight weeks so that you could jerk him off and then tell him that he's got no future." "Oh." "Oh, is that so?" "Well, you can take your careful evaluation and your panel of experts and shove them right up your conservatory asses!" "So how did it go?" "Get him back on the line." "Why, so you can insult his mother next time?" "I don't think so." "Ephram would kill you if he knew you were doing this." "Ephram's not gonna find out." "You're getting pretty good at that, keeping things from your son." "Dr. Brown?" "Sorry to interrupt." "Dean, what are you doing here?" "I'm supposed to be seeing your wife today." "Yeah, about that." "Is this a bad time?" "He's all yours." "So I was up all night thinking about it." "The situation and all." "It's like we say at the closing table:" "Every problem is just a solution in disguise, right?" "I beg your pardon?" "I tell my wife I have mono, she needs to get checked, which gets her into your office." "Then you give her some antibiotics or whatever and she gets better and everything is copacetic." "No harm, no foul." "Is this a joke?" "First of all, I mean, if you had mono, you'd be in bed with a fever." "So it's not mono." "You're the doctor." "Pick something else." "How about yeast?" "Maybe I didn't make myself clear the other day." "Your wife could develop a serious illness." "Do you understand me?" "I do." "Which is why I knew you would go along with this little white lie so we could stop it." "No." "I won't." "You don't understand." "Her dad died when she was real young." "I'm the one who helped her through that." "And I have taken care of her ever since." "I'm her rock, man." "I know it sounds old-fashioned, but Mary relies on me." "If I tell her I cheated, it would devastate her." "I can't do it." "Dean, I wish there was something I could do to help you but I can't." "I'm sorry." "Well, I guess we're screwed then." "I'll have to take my chances on this one." " Dean, you can't not tell..." " Sorry, doc." "But if you wanna help her, you gotta help me." "It's your call." "Knocks it off to Williams on the right side, but..." "Booya, you got nothing." " just short of the first down, although it..." "Bright?" " Uh, hold on." "Just a sec." "Oh, hey." "Just, uh, doing a little reading." " The Holy Bible?" " Yeah." "There's a, uh, religion seminar I was thinking about attending." "Just brushing up on my Jesus." "You can stop now before you commit any actual blasphemy." "I know you didn't sign up for your classes." "How did you know?" "I'm your mother." "It's my job to know." "I'm sorry, Mom." "But it just didn't feel right." "You know?" "I went down there, but I was like, "What's the point?"" "I'm signing up for all these classes, I don't even know what they're for." "I mean, how am I supposed to decide if I need English comp. or physics when I don't even know what I wanna do with my life?" "Bright." "I know there's something out there that I'll be good at." "I..." "I just don't know what it is right now." "I need a little more time to figure that out." "And if I thought ECC would help me with that, Mom, I would be there in a heartbeat." "But I don't wanna go just for the sake of going." "College is important, Bright." "It's about more than just the academics." "Real college is." "That's why I busted my ass last year so I could go to Notre Dame." "But, you know, the thought of spending six hours a day at a community college it's just a big reminder of how bad I messed up my life." "I just wish you'd told us." "I know." "But it's hard with Dad and everything." "Don't you worry about your father." "He'll come around once we have a plan." "We?" "You and I are gonna figure this out together." "We'll tell your father when the time is right." "And just take it easy on yourself." "Coming through." "On your right." " Louise?" " I'm on lunch." "That's it, go ahead and enjoy yourselves, lemmings." "This is no fitness regimen." "You'll get no salutary effects from this walk." "The only effect will be the siphoning off of your pocketbook." "I demand that you all stop walking!" "So either I go along with the plan or he's not telling his wife and she doesn't get treated." " Why don't you just tell her yourself?" " I can't." " It's confidential information." " Ugh." "And she's not my patient." "You know, the guy sounds like a jackass." "His wife is gonna find out." "We always do." "I'm sorry, I shouldn't be talking to you about this stuff." "Oh, please, if I got upset every time I heard about a guy cheating on his wife I'd have to give up my soaps and you know I'm not doing that." "I guess the only thing to do is to bring her in for the appointment." "At least that way, I can make sure she doesn't get sick." "You're not actually considering doing this, are you?" "Well, he's not giving me much choice." "The guy made a mistake, he seems contrite about it and he's trying to fix it." "By covering it up?" "No." "By shielding her from something that could be very painful and that she doesn't need to know." " How do you know what she needs to know?" "Well, I don't." "But let's just say that he could get away with it." "Say I go along with the plan, she gets treated and she never finds out what he did." "Would that be so wrong?" "Yes." "Yes." "But sometimes you have to lie to people to protect them." "I mean, he messed up and he knows it." "You think that that's reason enough for him to lose his entire marriage?" "I'm not saying that people don't make mistakes." "A good person owns up to those mistakes." "They take responsibility for them." "They don't just find new people to perpetuate their lies of convenience." "So you don't think that there's any way that the end could justify the means?" "Maybe, but whose ends?" "You, uh, wanna see a movie later?" "Yeah." "Really?" "Yeah." "Maybe the 9:00." "I thought maybe it would be good for us..." "Sure." "Yeah." "Cool." "Oh, damn it, I can't." "I've got this, um, orientation thingy for Newspaper." " Sorry." " All right." "It's cool." "Whatever." "Are you mad now?" "No, um, I'm not mad." "Curious." "When you said you'd give me time to figure things out, was that a total lie?" " Or did you think you were telling the truth?" " What?" "It hasn't even been a week and you're already on Homecoming Committee Yearbook Staff and Newspaper." "You obviously don't have time for me anywhere in that, so I'm curious." "Do you not care about this relationship at all?" "I wasn't aware we were back in a relationship." "What do you think I'm doing?" "I dropped two classes so I could get home earlier to practice." "I sacrificed my entire schedule so that we could spend more time together." "You turn your schedule into something the president couldn't handle." "Not that that's saying much." "How am I to know you dropped classes?" "You didn't tell me." "I was trying to surprise you." "If I knew you'd be filling your days with all this crap, then I wouldn't have." "Screw you, Ephram." "Just because I don't spend my free time perfecting my craft doesn't mean that what I do is crap." " Heh." "You told me to go away." "You said you needed time and space which is exactly what I've been trying to give you." " I never said go away." " Problem is you never said anything." "You can't go do things without telling me and expect me to wait around for you." "I've done that before with guys." "I won't again." " I know you think piano is the only thing..." " No, I..." "My life is just as important to me as yours is to you." "Oh, yeah, let me be there for you in your crisis moment when you can't decide what the homecoming theme should be." "I didn't..." "I didn't mean that." "Okay?" " I've been trying so hard..." " Maybe you should stop trying so hard." "If this relationship is such a burden, maybe we shouldn't have one." " You're right." "Maybe we shouldn't." " Okay." "Okay." "Amy?" "Come on, it's almost 7:30." "For God's sake, you're gonna be late..." "You okay?" "We broke up." "Oh, sweetheart." "I did what you said." "Made myself busy, got a whole life thing." "Only problem is he went and made himself unbusy." "He changed his entire schedule just so that he could be with me and now I'm stuck doing Newspaper and Yearbook and Homecoming Committee." " I hate homecoming." " I'm sorry." "I know this feels horrible right now, but, um, maybe this is for the best." "Maybe it won't be so difficult with another boy." "There is no other boy." "It's not like that." " I know you think I'm shallow, but..." " I never said that." "Then maybe you're right." "You probably are." "It's probably bad that the only thing that makes me happy is the thought of being with Ephram, but it's true." "I can fill my schedule with a thousand different things." "I can study more and dance more and do all of that stuff." "But the fact is none of those things make me even one-tenth as happy as the thought of being with Ephram, even if it is only for 20 minutes even if I have to wait around." " I know it sounds awful." " No, it doesn't." "It sounds like you're in love." "What do I do?" "Well, if this is what you want then I think you should mount a full offensive, muster all your resources." "You know what?" "You don't need me to tell you what to do." "You'll figure it out." " Hey, how about a goodbye?" " Hmm?" "Goodbye." " What's wrong with you now?" " Nothing." " What's wrong with you?" " Nothing." "Who's taking me to school?" "Ephram is." "Come on, Delia." " You okay?" "Broke up with Amy." " Already?" " Shut up, Delia." "So all I need is a sample and, uh, we'll see if there's anything to worry about." "I don't understand." "Dean said he had strep throat." "Why do you need a urine sample from me?" "Well, I figure since you're here, we might as well run a test on everything just to be safe." "And, um, hey, you know what?" "It's on the house." " I thought you were already free." " I am." "Good point." "What did he give me, Dr. Brown?" "Just tell me the truth." "I can take it." "Your husband tested positive for chlamydia." "It's highly contagious, Mary and, uh, since you've been exposed, we need to run tests on you right away." "My husband gave me VD." "I'm sorry." "Did he tell you where he got it?" " Uh..." " Forget it." "It doesn't matter." "You're not a very good liar anyway, heh." "I don't know what to say." "I wish you, uh, hadn't found out this way." "Oh, I knew." "I've always known." "I should have said something about it a long time ago, but I didn't." "He'd pretend he was working late." "I'd pretend I believed him, heh." "Just got worse and worse." "Now it's like we've been lying to each other for so long I wouldn't even know how to stop." "You must think I'm pathetic." "No." "I just..." "I never thought he'd get me sick." "Well, maybe you could look at this as an opportunity for the two of you to get everything out in the open and..." "My husband can't know that I know about this, Dr. Brown." " What?" " You can't tell him." "I know it's awful and I know what he did was wrong but I'm still not ready to give up my marriage." "Well, no one's telling you you have to give up your marriage." "But you can change it, you can make it better." "It's too late for that." "Promise me you won't tell him." "What do you want me to do?" "Run the test." "And write me a prescription for strep throat." "I'll take care of the rest." "Let's go, honey." "What in the world is going on?" "Hi, Mom." "Aah!" "Oh, my God." "We love your house." "Everybody out." "Now." "Now!" " You have got some nerve." " What did I do, Mom?" "All this blather about finding your purpose." "All you were trying to do is extend your summer vacation and use my home as your own personal resort." "Well, that ends right now." "You thought you could butter me up with your sweet talk, but our deal is over." "I do not enjoy being played for a patsy, Brighton." " Do you hear me?" " Mom, I wasn't trying to..." "You are supposed to be at a low point, young man." "I suggest you start acting like it." "What's that?" "Oh, just a little advertising experiment." "Suffice it to say, I now know how the makers of Gigli must have felt." "Listen, Harold, I'm gonna tell Ephram about Madison." " Oh, boy." " Let me finish." "I came to Everwood for one specific reason to build a relationship with my son." "It's what Julia wanted and it's what she knew I needed." "And that was starting to happen." "But now it's like I'm living in this time warp and all the progress that we've made over the last two years is just shot to hell." "I mean, he won't talk to me, I can't talk to him." "It's like there's this wall between us and I put it there." "The day I decided not to tell him that Madison was pregnant." "I did that." "And I need to undo it before our relationship turns into..." " Turns into what?" "Turns into what I saw in there today." "Trust me, Harold." "This is the right thing to do." "It may have been." "If you came to me two months ago and asked my opinion I might have told you, "Tell Ephram the truth. "" "Or I might not have." "I don't know." "I can't imagine how you've handled these last two months let alone these last two years all by yourself." " Where are you going with this?" " You don't have to figure this out alone." "You've brought me into it so allow me to be here for you now and to aid you in this decision." " Do not tell Ephram." " Harold..." "This isn't only for Amy's sake, although naturally that is my concern." "Fact is you can't undo what you did." "Telling Ephram now isn't gonna make this any better for him." " It'll only be better for you." " That's not what this is about." "You wanted your boy to have a chance at a normal childhood." "Opportunity to be happy." "Well, that's a very real possibility for him right now." "They're in love." "Well, that may well be true, but nonetheless, I..." "No, it's more than that." "It's remarkable." "The fact that after everything they've endured that they've managed to salvage any hope at all." "Allow them this brief period of time to enjoy their youth." "And the innocence that should come along with it." "Lord knows they deserve it." "You know Madison could come back at any time." "Or call." "You can't control that." "What you can control is what you do today, right now." "Start over with Ephram." "Make a clean slate of it." "Don't let this one incident with Madison prevent you from doing that." "I quit Yearbook." "Damn, I just signed up." " Sorry." " I'm sorry." "I just got so caught up in trying to prove how much I could do without you." "I forgot how much I didn't wanna do it without you." "I shouldn't have changed my schedule without asking you." "I shouldn't have yelled." "No, yelling's part of your charm." "You shouldn't have to drop Yearbook or any of that stuff if it makes you happy." "We'll figure it out." "We just gotta remember to talk to each other." "And be honest and stuff like that." "Like the other night, I should've told you I came by your place the night you went to Sal's." "That's why I was such a jerk the next day." "I wrote you, like, 15 e-mails." "Didn't send any." "Some of them were pretty damn good." " So basically we're both crazy?" " Yeah." "Heh, the irony of it is I don't even remember what was going on in those meetings because I was too busy thinking about you to pay attention." "Well, I haven't been able to practice for a week because all I've been thinking about is you." "What's that all about?" "I don't know." "By the way how do you feel about PDA?" " I feel good about it." " Good." "Don't give up on me." "I'm not giving up on you." "I'm just disappointed." "And you have every right to be." "I screwed up." "Not just the other day, but, you know, in general." "And I wanna fix it." "I mean, I really do, Mom, but I need your help." "I can't help you unless you take on some responsibility yourself." "That's what I was trying to say the other day." "I know." "That's why I went to the book store and I got these." "FYI, the one about cheese, uh it's not really about cheese." "It's metaphorical." "Also, uh, I was hoping you could help me put together a résumé." "I mean, I know I don't really have anything real to put on it just yet but, uh, you know, maybe we could figure something out, because I think I need a job." "A job would be good." "But there's just one thing." " Dad." " You have to tell him the truth." "Yeah, I figured." "But I mean, if you think he would take it better coming from you then I'm totally cool with that." " Not a chance." "Damn." "Damn it." " Rushing off to see more clients, are we?" "Sorry, can't talk right now, Hal." "Gotta get to the pharmacy." "How unfortunate for you, seeing as how they closed 40 minutes ago." "What?" "Ted likes to keep summer hours into October." "Fly-fishing season." "Oh, you gotta be freaking kidding me." "Troubles?" "Uh, a woman came in to see me this morning with back pain." "I checked her out and she seemed fine." "Straight leg raises were negative neurological signs were normal." "So I figured she had spasms." "Gave her an anti-inflammatory and sent her home." "Well, she just called." "And she's having horrible stomach pain." "She's freaking out." " Her daughter's ready to call an ambulance." " Who's the patient?" "Mrs. Sampels." "You know her?" "Evelyn came to see you." "I take it that the anti-inflammatory you gave her was non-steroidal?" "Well, that's the problem." "No, I gave her ibuprofen." " With her history of ulcers." " I know, heh, I know, I know." "It was a crazy day." "I only skimmed through her chart." "I haven't had chance to get a new nurse yet, so it's been kind of a lot to handle." "The ibuprofen could cause her stomach to bleed." "I know." "And she's going to have tar in her stool." "I warned her about that." "But she's going to need Nexium which is why I need to find a pharmacy that's open." "Ted?" "Harold Abbott." "Sorry to bother you." "Uh, we've got a pop-up." "Nexium." "One hundred milligrams." "Yes, and it will be Dr. Hartman meeting you." "Right, the new guy." "Very good." "Thank you." "Best to Margaret." "Twenty minutes." " That was impressive." " You're welcome." "Well, my wife's lasagna is getting cold." "I will leave you to your duties." "I can't believe you actually know the pharmacist's home number by heart." "I don't even think I know the name of the pharmacist back at UCLA." "Which is precisely why you came here, if I remember correctly." "You spoke to Jenna today, Evelyn's daughter." "Well, I delivered her back when I first started in practice with my father." "Last summer, I delivered Jenna's first daughter." "All I can tell you is if you took a yardstick and broke it in half and kept going till you had the smallest piece possible well, that would be how you'd measure what we do here." "Very small increments." "Our job is to heal, to do good." "And it doesn't matter if you are in California or Calcutta." "It's still the same." "Good share, Hal." "Start your watch." "Our scheduled alone time begins right now." " We were alone in the car." " Yeah, I know." "But I decided the travel time doesn't count." " I like that decision." " Ephram." " Hey, Amy." "Hey." " Hey." "Remember that favor I asked about?" "Uh, yeah." "Yeah." "Mm-hm." " Well, she's here." " She?" "Y" " Your favor is a-a she?" "I told you that." "Anyway, she, uh, starts school tomorrow and she doesn't know a soul." "Come on out, sweetie." "She's a little shy." "But I told her she was very lucky since I know two of the best kids at County High and one of them already agreed he'd take special care of her." " Isn't that right, Ephram?" " Uh, yeah." "Uh..." "Guys, this is Hannah." "Hannah, this is, uh, Amy and Ephram." "Hi." "Hey." " Hey." " Hey." " Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you." " No, it's okay." "You can come in if you want." "I take it from your mood that, uh, things are going better with Amy." "Yeah, all that stuff got worked out." "I did something I need to talk to you about." "Well, that doesn't sound good." "First of all, I know about your Juilliard evaluation." "Yeah, I wanted to tell you about the evaluation as soon as I got home." "I did." "I..." "It's just you built this whole thing." "You were all excited about me being a genius." "I didn't wanna disappoint you." " You could never disappoint me, Ephram." " Yeah, well, I disappointed myself." "I guess we both just have to accept the fact that I'm average, which is fine." "Nothing about you is average." "Not the way you play." "Certainly not your level of ambition." "You were willing to give up the girl to get more practice." "No average kid in America would do that." " Yeah, but the people at Juilliard said..." " Oh, who cares what they said?" "They told you you'd never make it this far and you worked your butt off and proved them wrong." "You'll do it again." "I'm sorry I blew up at you the other day." "I guess keeping this stuff inside makes you go crazy." "I know." "You're not the only one who's been keeping secrets." "Which leads me to the second part of this discussion." "I yelled at your Juilliard professor." "You what?" "Well, I..." "When I found out about your evaluation, I called him to see what was going on and he was so arrogant and so rude that I..." "Well, I guess my audition just got a little tougher." " Sorry." " It's all right." "I like a challenge." "I need to be able to talk to you, Ephram." "I know you're getting older and you're working things out for yourself and I respect that." "At least I'm trying to." "But recently this just isn't working for me." "And it's not because I wanna control your life or that I wanna parent you to death." "It's because I miss you." "I need to be a part of your life and I need you to be a part of mine." "It's important." "I know." "I'll try." "Thanks." "Well, I'll let you get back to practicing." " Dad." " Hmm?" "Thank you for telling me about the phone call." "I probably never would have found out otherwise." "No problem."