"So you're a mom?" "I didn't know that." " He's not yours." " Some guy from Boston's the dad." "Gavin Goddard is Sam's father's name." " Did you ever miss me?" " Hannah, of course I missed you." "They love each other." "It's clear as day." "Everybody out, boys!" "Fights are gross." "Particularly the ones you send your friends to go and fight." "The fact that you don't leave the house doesn't bother me." "Would you please wait?" "Hey, Eddie." "It's me." "Just making sure we're still on." " Maybe something came up." " He doesn't want to be seen with me." " You meet Alison yet?" " [Nick] Owen Rowan's wife?" " I had sex with her." " What?" "There's too much that can be lost if we don't stop." " Hey, Big Cat." "What goes on?" " Something I want to talk to you about." "[# Harvey Danger:" "Flagpole Sitta]" "[Lip-syncing]" "Hey." "I left you a few messages." "Eddie, I can't." "Not here." "All right." "How about later?" "Look, I get it." "I listened to the messages." "I hear you." "But I just can't do this with you, not now." " Then when?" " Honestly, man?" "Be a good guy and just leave me alone." "OK?" "Please?" "Uh, for delivery, please." "One large pie." "That's right." "Extra feta." " They say Sam's gonna be OK?" " Yeah." "Next Thursday he gets his stitches out." "Should be back to normal." "Except for this little scar here." "Scars are cool." "I, myself, own 11." "Off-topic, but can I just say again how hot Aubrey is." "Yes, you can, for the 793rd time." "[Owen] I mean, wow." "You know, she's smart, too and bold." "I like her." " What goes on with Hannah?" " Nothing." " Why do you ask?" " Oh, no reason." "Just that every geometry class needs a few good triangles." " He teaches English." " And I deal in metaphor." "It's weird with Hannah." "Like every time we hang out, like that night in the hospital, it's all snug and warm, like slow-dancing." "Except we never seem to be hearing the same music." " Lot of stepping on toes." " Constant." "[Doorbell rings]" " Come in." " [Door opens]" "OK, let me just start by saying..." "Hey, bro!" "Things go betta with extra feta!" "Where's Pizza Girl?" "She has requested that I make all the deliveries to 32 Gelson, but don't worry, little dude, I get it there fast, hot and fresh." " Keep the change." " Later, bro." " Big Cat Cataldo keeps calling me." " What?" "Three times this week." "Weird, right?" " What's he want?" " To put a sit-down on the books." "A sit-down." "Who's he, Al Capone all of the sudden?" " A sit-down about what?" " He won't say." "I got no interest in talking to that flat-head." " Maybe about Eddie's business." " He's down to his last two accounts." " How come?" " One word, Big Cat Cataldo." "I can maintain all seven properties for 30 percent less than Latekka Landscaping." " Wow..." "How could I say no?" " All right, deal." " Come on, let me give you a ride." " All right." "Why is Big Cat gunning for Eddie?" "Because of me?" "Because of Hannah." "'Cause he blames you for their breakup." "He thinks he can hurt you by hurting Eddie." "He wants to hurt all of us." "The thing that's always creased Big Cat is that he wasn't a part of our gang." "That he never rolled with us through the streams and across the valleys." "That he was never a member of The Night Brigade." " Since when are we The Night Brigade?" " Let him be." "He's a shut-in." "Once a week he has to make proclamations." "You know what?" "This has gotta stop." "I know a way we can help Eddie and hurt Ray at the same time." "I love it when you get all Norma Rae, Karen Silkwood, Erin Brockovich up in this piece!" "One, two, three, four!" "Best Friend Windows." "That's what we're calling it." "This idea that Eddie and I had since we were kids, right?" "To open a store that sold and installed windows." "Huh?" "It's not easy opening a business by yourself." "Already covered." "I got Owen Rowan and Ronnie helping out." "Oh, I didn't realize you were assembling such an elite squadron." "Aubrey's lovely." "And she's talented." "I had a chance to read her story, about the porcupine who dreamed of being a king." "The Quill of Lt All." "Yeah, she's great." "And the best part?" "It's uncluttered." " Her story or your relationship?" " The story of our relationship." " You got a girlfriend, Ronnie?" " Me?" "Nah." " Well's been dry for a while now." " I know some hotties at the college." "Thanks, but I'm bad with the whole fix-up thing." "You know, growing up with the shadow of the Nick and Hannah legend, the bar was set pretty high." "I mean, that's ancient history." "That is..." "No, it's... it's OK." "Really." "OK." "[Doorbell ringing]" " Hi." " Hey, Alison." "Uh, I know this is very June Cleaver of me, but, um, I baked a cake for Sam, nut-free." " Whoa." "Sweets have a mysterious way of speeding along the convalescence, so..." " That's really nice." "Thanks." " Sure." " Um... come on in." " Oh, OK." " Hey, Alison." "Nice to see you." " You, too." " Do you want to sit down?" " No." "I just wanted to drop this off." "I don't want to interrupt." " No, not at all." " We were just gabbing." " Nice." "I haven't done that in years." " Seriously?" "No gabbing?" "A gab-free existence?" "Sounds bleak." "Owen's circle didn't come with a lot of girlfriends." "Hmm." "It was really important to Owen that we raise our kids in Knights Ridge." " Things we do for love, right?" " Yeah." "And look." "You're getting a little gabbing in." "Fun." " I miss her." " Pizza Girl?" "She not only gave me context and serenity." "She... she gave me location." " I need you to go to her." " To Pizza Girl?" "Find her, tell her to be here at 32 Gelson tomorrow at 4:00 P.M." "Tell her there's something she's gotta see." "Oh, are you thinking of doing what I think you're thinking of doing?" "It's time." "The world inside these walls isn't big enough for Pizza Girl and Physical Phil." "Oh, that is awesome, buddy." "Ever since I kissed her, all I wanted to do was to stand in the sun with her." "Feel its heat on our faces as we held hands with nothing but the breeze between us." " I want that, Owen." " Then that you shall have." "It's called "Doodon." Doodon is so cool, isn't it?" "Now what are you guys doing?" "Doodie thinks he's discovered a planet, a moving planet." "Between you and me, he's discovered an airplane." " So, how you feeling?" " OK, I guess." "Doctor says I'm not supposed to do a lot of running around." " Don't want to pull a stitch and all." " No." "Don't want to do that." "Well, I'm glad you're all right." "You know, we were all really worried about you." " Can I ask you a question?" " Yeah." "Sure." "Do you ever sometimes think that maybe you're my dad?" "Yeah, I do." "I did." "And I really liked the idea of it a lot, but then your mom told me about Gavin Goddard." "So, what goes on with Gavin Goddard?" "Word is, Gavin Goddard is the richest man in the world, that he lives in a castle in the clouds and he rides around in a flying pomegranate made out of gold." "Of course, Gavin Goddard's not here..." "and you are." "Look, um..." "Sam, I don't know about the father of it all, but I'll tell you one thing." "I really love being your friend." "Thanks." "It's moving again." "Yeah!" "It moved, it moved." " This is yours?" " It's ours." "All of us." "I negotiated the lease." "Nicky signed on the dotted line." " Get ready to get to work, buddy." " Check it out, man." " This is nuts!" " No, it's not nuts." "It's adorable." ""Best Friend Windows."" "You guys couldn't come up with a gayer name?" ""Lavender Show Tunes Building Supplies" was taken?" " Why don't you take a hike, Big Cat?" " Soon enough, baby brother." "Tell me this." "What the hell do you guys know about windows?" "Besides they're made of glass and they let in the light?" "Don't worry about what we know about." "Oh, OK, Garrett." "All right." "I'm still waiting on that powwow, Big O." "Why don't you just tell me what you have to tell me now?" "Well, it's a private matter, just me and you." "It's better that way." "I don't really like you, Big Cat, so I don't really want to sit down with you." "Well, suit yourself." "But here's the thing, fellas." "See, windows are made of glass." "Glass breaks easier than hearts, bones or graham crackers." "Hoo-dee-hoo." "[Rock music playing]" " You had the Western Omelet here?" " You're in a breakfast-y mood." "I'm a proponent of flying in the face of conventional mealtime dictums." "Rebel, rebel, you've torn your dress." " Have you had a Western Omelet?" " Yes, it was nice." "Nice, huh?" "What about the Chicken Fried Steak?" "It's OK." "Which one do you think's gonna make me happier?" "Well, if you're in the mood for steak, I'd order the steak." "If you're in the mood for eggs, I'd say go with the eggs." "I sense that you're not as enthusiastic about the eggs." " What's going on?" "Did I over-banter?" " No." "No, no." "Do you remember last week in the hospital?" "There was something that old man said and then it came up again with your brother." "Never listen to what he says." "He's an unreliable narrator." "Nick and Hannah." "Nick and Hannah?" "The way it sounds." "Nick and Hannah." "It goes together so perfectly." "The golden couple." "So I gotta ask, is there still a part of you that yearns to return to the glory days of Nick and Hannah?" " Time's up!" "Three-second violation." " It's very complicated with Hannah." "It's not complicated." "It's everywhere..." "and it's gonna bring the hurt." " It's obvious." " No, it won't." " Not if we don't let it." " The problem is, it's not just "we,"" "is it?" "It's a crowded room right now." "There's Nick and Aubrey and Hannah." "And Nick and Hannah." "And Hannah and Sam." "And Nick and Sam." "We can field a baseball team, Nick." "But I don't know that we can start a relationship." "And for that I am very sorry." "Hey." "Excuse me." "You're Phil's friend." "Um, Tony?" "You serenaded us." "That's right." "Only my real name is Owen." "And I have a request on account of Phil." " What's that?" " Thirty-two Gelson Road." "Please be there tomorrow at 4:00." "That's Phil's address." "That's right." "Look, um, Phil is sweeter than sweet." "Lovely." "He's the mom's lasagna." "But, um, it's my bad." "The truth is, I can't hang." "It's too hard." " But Phil is the best guy there is." " I would agree." "And I totally understand his reasons for not wanting to leave the house, that the world changed six Septembers ago and he doesn't want to be a part of it." " But I love roller coasters." " Roller coasters?" "It's not just roller coasters." "I mean, it's the beach the museum." "It's Tuscany or my niece's dance recital, you know?" "It's David Bowie live in concert." "You get it." "It's..." "It's "out here" stuff." "Just give him a chance." "Thirty-two Gelson, tomorrow at 4:00." "Um..." "Please send him my best." "[Hannah] It's 150 a week for boarding." "And that includes grooming and teeth cleaning." "OK, does he get to go outside?" "Well, I'll walk him twice a day myself." "OK, that sounds good." "Where you going?" "I'm going back home, to Berkeley, for just a couple weeks." " So, Sam's on the mend?" " Yeah." "He's great." " Good." " Thanks." "How's Nick doing?" "He's fine." "He's OK." "We're not really hanging out anymore." " He didn't do anything stupid, did he?" " No." "It was just cumbersome." " He'll make a stand, you know." " What do you mean?" "It's what he does." "Nick is the patron saint of impulsive gestures." "Trust me, he'll do something that'll surprise you." "Whether it's singing a song in front of all of Knights Ridge, or writing a book about you." "Showing up at your doorstep when you least expect it to ask for a second chance." "You just have to give him an opening." " This better be good." " It's good all right." "I'm talking Angela Venezzia belly ring good." " Oh, come on." "I got a lot of work." " Oh, come on, cry-baby." " Here we go." " Hurry up!" "Yeah!" " Check it." " [Hooting]" "Uh..." "I don't get it." "Ten years in the making, Eddie, but we did it." " Did what?" " Best Friend Windows." "Right here, right now." "This is it." "It's all ours." " We finally get to live the dream." " [Lkey] And the best part about it?" "It's gonna so piss off Big Cat!" "So, what do you say, Eddie, huh?" "Uh... what do I say?" "Uh..." "You got some stones on ya, Nicky." "Nick was just trying to do a nice thing." ""A nice thing"?" "Huh?" "What is this?" "Rub the lamp, make a wish," "Nicholson Garrett comes through ten years on the late?" " I don't need charity." " It's not like that." "No, these things, Nick, that you do, to come back here and make it right?" "Come back and be a hero." "It disgusts me." "I don't know how you live with yourself." "You're pitiful, man." " What'd you say to me?" " Slow down." "You blame me 'cause you're still in The Ridge?" "Still mowing lawns?" " Hey!" " No, no, no." "No, no!" "Lkey, it's fine." "No." "Yeah, I left, Eddie." "You stayed because you wanted to." "Because this is where you rule." "Everyone remembers touchdowns you scored, the cheerleaders you deflowered." " You don't know." " You wanted to stay." "Things got all turned around, made it into my fault." "You got that stuck, Eddie, 'cause you chose to get stuck." "Eddie!" "Hey, cut it out!" "Eddie!" "Ow!" "Dad." "Sorry." "[Ronny] Eddie really did a number on you." "Does this mean no more Best Friend Windows?" "I don't know what it means." "Ow!" "This is a cut, not a sprain." "Here, let me." "Let me." "[Phone ringing]" "It's Aubrey." "How you doing?" "L was just calling to say that L'm gonna bounce back to Berkeley for a couple weeks." " Aubrey, please." "Let's talk." " No, this is what's right." " It's what I need to do." " Aubrey, I..." "Listen, I gotta pack." "The cab is coming in a few hours and I haven't even started." " Goodbye, Nick." " Just... [dial tone]" "Gotcha!" "Um, I'm kinda busy." "The whole town's buzzin' about your friend, Freaky Phil?" "Is he really gonna do it, leave the house?" "What did you want to talk about?" "Big, sweet Owen." "Affable." "Do you know that word?" "It was on the twins' homework the other day, automatically thought of you." "It means warm, friendly, pleasant." "Exactly the type of guy who shouldn't have what I'm about to tell you happening to him." "What?" "It's just practice." "It's just practice, baby." "We talking about practice." "[Phone ringing]" "Hello?" "Whoa, Owen, slow down a second." "What?" "What are you talk... whoa." "No." "That can't be, Owen." "Owen?" "Owen!" "Hello?" " What goes on?" " You're not gonna believe this." "You all right?" "I have... no home, Nicky." " None." " Whoa." "Whoa, what's going on?" "Big Cat he told me the worst thing." " The worst thing I've ever heard." " What did he say?" "Alison." "My Alison... and lkey." "They've been together." "Together, Nicky." "How could this be?" " Did you ask Alison?" " Yeah." "I asked her." "I told her, "Ray Cataldo says you've been sleeping with lkey." "Isn't that funny?"" " And you wanna know what she did?" " What?" "Laundry." "It's what she does when she's scared and nervous." " She does laundry." " Laundry?" "How can this be, Nicky?" "How can this be?" "[Tires squealing]" "What up?" " Is it true?" " What?" "You and Alison." "One word answer, right now." " Psshh." " Don't lie to me, man." "Yeah." "It's true." "We're done, me and you." "We don't work together, we're not friends." "We're done." " Eddie!" "Come on!" " All this time, lkey!" "We rode together, worked together, drank together and you're doing this?" "If I woulda told you, you woulda killed me." "I'm still gonna kill you." "I swear to God." "There is nothin' I can think worse than what you've done." "Nothin'!" "How can I be in the same room as her?" "And how can I watch her hold the kids?" "And the kids..." "Nicky." "I love them so much, but now..." " Look..." " How could this be?" "You're angry and you have every right to be, but..." "It's him, isn't it?" " Owen." " Don't make me talk to him, Nicky." " Please don't make me talk to him now." " Ikey, not now." " You got every right to beat me soft." " Go home." "I know you can never forgive me." "And I'm gonna have to live with that." "With losing the best friend I ever had, losing all my friends." "But Alison, she loves you." "You can't let this thing finish that thing." "And we already ended what we had." "Nicky, he helped me see the light." "Ikey, lkey... shh." "You knew?" "This whole time?" "And he was all over me to do what's right." "Ray Cataldo, of all people, has the decency to tell me what goes on, but you didn't?" "How can this be?" "How can this be?" "Owen." "O... [door shuts]" "Let me get a draft." " I thought we agreed, Eddie." " Yeah." "Yeah, I know." "The thing is, Janet, this is my bar." "This is where I go." "If you don't like it, go work at the Johnson Inn." "What's your tweak?" "My friends, they're marching morons." "Every last one of them." "Just big, fat disappointments." "What'd they do, neglect to pick you up for a barbeque?" " Can I just finish my beer?" " Sure." "By the way, Eddie," "I've always found the best way around a disappointment is forgiveness." "So, then when are you gonna get around to forgiving me?" "Hey, dude, I preach but I'm not so hot at the practicing part." "Hey, um, something occurred to me on the drive over here today." "What's occurred to you, Eddie?" "That I am basically a sad person." " You?" " I am." "I'm a sad person." "But then I was thinking about you." "And the way you smile and the way that starts in your eyes and then spreads across the rest of your face, like a rush of ink." "And I was thinking about how when I see you or I hear your voice on the phone," "I think to myself," ""Oh, goodie, now the fun begins."" " "Oh, goodie, now the fun begins?"" " Yeah." "And I was thinking that when I'm with you, that I am not sad anymore." "I gotta go make sure Owen's all right, but when I get back, I wanna see you, Janet really see you." "Will you let me do that?" "I've gone and tumbled for you, Eddie." "So I guess... yeah." "Yeah." "I'll let you do that." "Hey, uh, by the way..." " You were twirling'." " No." "I wasn't." "I, um, I just..." "I was trying to... catch a horsefly and... did you..." "did you want something... else?" "No." "No, I was just, uh hoping to catch you in a twirl." "Owen..." "Owen?" "He's gone." "Gone where?" "He grabbed a case of Irish whiskey left over from my birthday party and all of his Bruce Springsteen and Bob Seger CDs," " and then he left." " Where did he go?" "I'm sure he went to Jersey, to his brother's." "Big Boy Brett?" "It's where he always goes when he's upset." " Big Boy Brett used to be trouble." " Big Boy Brett still is trouble." "Last time Owen went down there, they ended up almost going to jail." "The time before that, they did go to jail." "Now, don't tell me you didn't see this coming." "Bring him back to me, Nick." "I know I have no right, no right in the world." "I've been doing an awful thing for a long time." "But I knew, the minute Owen walked in here, and I saw his furious face, that he's the one for me." "Do you know how demented that sounds, Alison, even for you?" "I know I want him back." "I know you don't owe me a thing and I know you don't like me at all." "But I'm begging you." "I'll bring him back, but not for you." "I'm bringing him back for us." "Whatever it takes." "You only get one shot at this kind of thing, Nick." "That is all that I'm sure of." "You make a terrible mistake, you only get one shot to make it right." "[# Mychael Blue:" "Gold]" "Nick." "[Panting]" "What are you doing here?" "Everything about this place reminded me of my mother, everything." "Her memory haunted it all." "But when I left here and I put some distance between myself and the Ridge, it got easier." "But just the thought of me coming back here, to the pain of it, it kept me away." "It's indefensible, I know." "I know." "But I was a kid and I was grieving." "And..." "I was dumb." "I lost my way." " OK, Nick..." " No, no." "Please." "What I remember is you barefoot, in your prom dress, pumping gas into my truck, laughing beneath a lipstick sky." " Remember that?" " Mm-hmm." " I hated that truck." " Look, those years are gone." "And I didn't plan on coming back here and causing you any pain, but I didn't expect on meeting Sam, and I didn't expect to have these feelings for you." "The moment I saw you, ten years later, it was just so obvious to me that it's like I'd been starving." "All these years, I didn't even know it." "It's not about whether I'm Sam's father or not." "Or whether it's this Gavin Goddard guy that you speak of." "No." "Coming back here, the only thing that matters is that I want you guys in my life." "I can see that now." "I guess what it comes down to is maybe you really do only get one shot." "Maybe that's the unreasonable beauty of things." "The unreasonable beauty of things?" "No matter." "The singular truth." "The incontrovertible reality." "Yes?" "We all fall in love sometimes." "You know?" " Nick, can we talk about this later?" " [Door opens]" "Nick Garrett, this is Gavin Goddard." "Gavin Goddard, this is Nick Garrett." "It's a pleasure to meet you." "I was a huge fan of your book." " Gavin, please." " What?" "It's fact." "I gave it to all my friends." "I was living in the city and I really connected to it." "I love how you described the Ground-Zero-clean-up noise as the, uh, "clanging measures of a discordant hopelessness that rattle around like the imprecise certainty of a howl in a haunted house"." "It's just..." "It was really great stuff, man." "Thanks." "And I'll tell you, what you just said to Hannah, that was..." " Gavin." "Stop." " That was nice thoughts, man." "The unreasonable beauty of things?" "I love that." "I don't know what it means, but..." "I know it's a special sentiment." "You're a word man, Nick." "As a numbers guy, I admire that." " This needn't be awkward." " Uh, no." "Hey." "You meet Gavin?" "Yeah." "I did." "Doesn't look much like a flying pomegranate made of gold, huh?" "Oh, um, that one's in the shop." "Right, Gavin?" " Yeah, if you say so, Sammy." " Nick, this isn't what you think." "I don't know what I think, except that I gotta go take care of a friend, but, um you guys take care." " Nice to meet you, Nick." " Gavin." "[# Southside Johnny:" "Lt's Been a Long Time]" "Hi, I need a delivery." "Four large pepperoni pies to 34 Gelson Road." "And I need them there within a half an hour, please." "Thank you." "Now, what are you doing here?" "I hear you're going after Owen." " I'm comin' with you." " I can handle it." "Yeah, I'm sure you can, but I'm not letting you leave town a second time, Nicky." "Not alone." "Not without me." "[Cheering]" "Baby steps." "Hoo-dee-hoo."