"IRV:" "There are moments in life so archetypally perfect that there's only one right thing to say." "But as humans, each with our own idiosyncrasies we may not always respond the way the universe or, say, our parents want or expect us to." "It is at moments such as these that we realize that the truth has a distinct cost that can't be bargained down." "And in these moments, we must choose whether to pay the price." "There she blows." "You can say that again." "Emphasis on blows." "You know, it was my first choice." "Didn't have to go to Denver." "phil happened to have one in stock." "talk about luck." "Yeah." "Voted "Safest" "Boat in the Navy?" "Car on the Road" 1 988 and '89 by the Association of Car Consumers and retailers." "Yeah, it's got heavy steeI-gauge doors, uh, independent steel frames." "Weighs 4000 pounds." "So, what do you think of your new wheels, Ephram?" "I mean, I think it's really awesome, you getting me a car, Dad." "Oh, yeah, yeah." "Go on." "Hop in." "Take her for a ride." "della and I can start the paperwork." "well, I was just thinking, maybe about" "Don't worry about us." "Go." "Get acquainted." "Thanks, phil." "Not what you imagined, huh?" "No, it's like two of what I imagined, painted a color called "ugly."" "She ain't much to look at, that's true." "But your girl will like her." "well, I don't have a girl." "I don't think I'm gonna be getting one with this thing." "No offense, but this kind of a mojo killer and I don't have any to spare." "No, the girl that's right for you, she'II like this car." "What?" "Some kind of weed-out?" "Thanks, but my face has that covered." "No, there's a girl, who you Iike, who likes you." "She likes the car." "A specific girl who likes this car?" "You" " Don't listen to me." "What's a guy with grease under his nails know about romance?" "Here, hop in." "Your future awaits." "If this is my future, even my past is starting to look good." "[CAR HORN HONKS]" "[CAR HORN HONKING]" "AND Y:" "It may keep you out of school for a day at the outside but what you have, Lester, is an official, card-carrying case of influenza normaIis." "The common flu." "Are you certain?" "well, it sure looks that way." "I don't have a record of you and Lester coming in for shots." "well, the flu clinic conflicted with his oboe recital." "Ah, the sacrifices we make for our art." "I'II tell you what, take him home, wrap him up, give him some tylenol." "Keep him full of fluids and electrolytes." "It could be meningitis." "Meningitis?" "Why?" "Has he been exposed?" "No, it's just that's what phil said he had." "well, who's phil?" "Another doctor?" "The mechanic." "The guy who just sold my son a lincoln?" "He's got the sight." "well, hearing, actually." "He hears things." "What kind of things?" "Like voices?" "He might wanna come in and see me himself." "He was pretty certain about Lester having meningitis and, you know, I'd just feel a whole lot better if you could do a test." "Okay." "We aim to please." "Let's have a look here, Lester." "Nope." "You have any pain there?" "Uh-uh." "Nope." "I gotta tell you, Mrs. Thompson Lester's exhibiting absolutely no signs of meningitis." "could you do a blood test?" "We'd have to do a spinal tap." "You'd need to drive to Denver." "I don't have a kit." "Give me the address, I'II take him." "I really don't think he has meningitis." "I've seen hundreds of cases of the common flu." "That is what he's got." "If you won't test him, I'm gonna have to find a doctor who will." "phil's never wrong." "Okay." "I'II call the hospital." "EDNA:" "phil DrebbIes, Marcus WeIby of the paranormal." "phil's just your average guy, has a repair shop." "sells a few cars here and there." "Some years back, word gets out he has predicted Sam and Jenny Hess will have a male child before the year's out." "only Jenny can't get pregnant on account of her ovaries were malformed at birth." "By Saint Patrick's Day, Jenny knew she was pregnant." "And around halloween, Baxter was born." "well, you can imagine, the whole town beat a path to phil's repair shop." "finally, about eight months or so later, he makes the mother of all predictions:" "A flood is gonna hit Everwood." "well, by now, his word is golden." "Everybody packs up, evacuates the town." "And?" "No flood." "Not a drop." "Drought that year, as I recall." "[MADISON SINGING ROCK MUSIC]" "What are you doing here?" "EPHRAM:" "I brought you your jacket." "I'm not cold." "How'd know where we were?" "Uh, Madison left a note." "Yeah, for Dad." "She finally let me watch and now she might change her mind." "MADISON:" "Okay." "Take five." "BASSIST:" "That was pretty tight." "Ephram." "You left the house." "Was it on fire?" "Uh, della forgot her jacket." "So, what'd you think?" "Uh, ahh...." "No, I mean, I think it's, uh, good." "really?" "Yeah, yeah." "Maybe if we could get that hook not to sound like ass." "Be right back." "Gonna grab a smoke." "Oh, uh, don't go too far." "I wanna do that one again." "If you were to slow it down as we head out of the verse...." "It's starting to sound punk." "That's what makes it cool." "Can we try it that way once?" "I joined this band because you gave me the impression it was going to be collaborative." "It is collaborative." "JAY:" "No, it isn't." "You told me what you thought." "Now we're doing it your way." "MADISON:" "If it's better." "JAY:" "According to you." "MADISON:" "No, the band." "That's how it works." "It works for you." "For me, It doesn't work." "I'm gone." "Come on." "We only have Chuck for an hour." "No." "You have him for an hour." "I quit." "Uh, can you hang out here with Ephram while I go talk to my friend?" "No, it's okay." "I'II take her home." "Thanks, Ephram." "I owe you one." "So do I have to ride in your car?" "LOUISE: "The proliferation of 1 5-minute breaks to include more than three per day or the extension of breaks to encompass greater than 20 minutes of downtime in the span of a three-hour period should be avoided."" "HARRY:" "Thank you, Louise." "Uh, moving on to this month's management topics...." "There's something left uncovered in the October Management Summit of 2003?" "I'm stunned." "[CELL PHONE RINGING]" "It's a shame you inherited your sense of humor from our mother." "Excuse me." "hello?" "Amy?" "You at school?" "What?" "Where are you now?" "Oh, my God." "AII right." "Um...." "I'm" " I'm coming right away." "Just stay right where you're at." "Right near that phone." "In fact, uh, give me that number." "Don't move." "Anyone approaches you, you call 91 1 ." "I'II be there as soon as I can." "Uh, I've gotta go get Amy and I need you to take me so that I can drive her back." "Why?" "Where is she?" "Wyoming." "This isn't the first time Jay's walked out." "He loves drama." "How long's he been with the band?" "He came in a couple months ago to replace Kip, who moved to Oregon to find himself." "How 1 978." "If I can't get him to come back" "Then you guys might sound okay?" "He was so off." "He was like, "You need to change the tempo"?" "It was all him." "He plays like he's on speed." "He was holding you guys down." "Down?" "I thought you said we sounded good." "well, you do sound good." "I was" " I just" " I just mean...." "What did you mean, Ephram?" "He's just not as good as you guys, that's all." "And how good is that, exactly?" "So, what culinary delight are you preparing for us tonight, Madison?" "No, it's fine." "Ephram, I want you to tell me the truth." "well, I think you guys need a better guitarist." "And?" "And a better sound and better songs and" "The casserole is in the oven." "It'II be ready in about 1 0 minutes." "The vegetables should be done by then too." "Rice is on the stove." "Check it." "See you." "You might wanna work on your bedside manner." "You just cleared the room." "I noticed." "Thank you." "Set the table, doofus, if you can even do that." "[PHONE RINGS]" "Andy Brown." "Oh, really?" "bacterial or viral?" "So you have him quarantined there?" "AII right, thank you." "I'II check in again tomorrow." "What is it, Dad?" "Oh, nothing." "A patient I diagnosed with the flu has Iife-threatening meningitis." "And phil, the mechanic, is psychic." "HARRY:" "Here." "I'm not cold." "I know." "Put it on anyway." "Got here as fast as we could, which wasn't very fast." "You realize we're no Ionger in colorado, we're in another state." "What are we doing here, Amy?" "I don't" "I don't know." "I just left my practice for a day, so did your aunt Linda to rescue you from this little excursion, so you might wanna give it some thought." "I was going to school." "And I was watching all of the kids going inside it." "The day starting and...." "only I was outside like watching them and I couldn't imagine myself inside it." "So I just kept driving." "What is happening to you, Amy?" "Are you angry with us?" "Are you trying to hurt us?" "No." "Do you need more attention?" "No." "Then what's going on?" "Come on." "If you could tell me what's going on, tell me what you're feeling...." "well." "Come on." "Let's go home." "Come on." "I see kids' flu symptoms aren't the only things you fix." "Hey, doc." "How's your boy liking that car?" "Just loves it." "CouIdn't be happier." "glad to hear it." "Listen, uh, phil, about the Thompson kid, um...." "I don't know what I'm thanking you for exactly, but, um you were right." "He had meningitis." "Uh-huh." "I mean, he was asymptomatic." "And five hours later, he was at a hospital in Denver with his neck so stiff he couldn't turn it." "They diagnosed it before they did the tap." "So I guess you could say you averted an epidemic." "glad to hear it." "So I just wanted to, uh...." "To thank you for, uh whatever, heh." "The, uh, nurse at school was very grateful when I told her." "You told hazel?" "Great." "There'II be a mob here by lunch." "So listen how did you do it?" "Is it some kind of perception thing?" "Or do you read body language?" "CIairaudient." "always have been, pretty much." "CIairaudient?" "What is that?" "Hear things." "Just words, phrases..." "...stuff that's gonna happen." "But all the time or just--?" "I mean, do you have to make an effort like going online?" "well, it's like hearing a voice in your head, telling you things you know are true." "well, what kind of things?" "I mean, can you hear things about me right now?" "You don't wanna get into this." "No, I mean, I'm just curious." "From a scientific standpoint." "I'm not a sideshow, doc." "Come on, there's no pressure." "Just give it the old college try." "[SIGHS]" "You're gonna get a kiss you've been waiting for." "From who?" "What are you talking about?" "What kind of kiss?" "You mean like a "kiss" kiss?" "And you'II break a promise." "I mean, this is it?" "I mean, this is like fortune cookies." "Are you sure about this stuff?" "And watch out for that file folder." "Something like that could take your head off." "MADISON:" "Ah." "What are you guys playing?" "DELIA:" "Spit." "Go ahead, tell her how much she sucks at it." "Look, last night, what I said, I, uh-- I didn't" " I mean" "I think you're a really great singer and I shouldn't have said anything, okay?" "I'm sorry." "Was that an apology?" "It was supposed to be." "Yeah." "Not great." "Oh, it was a rough draft." "I was gonna polish it up and give it to you a little later." "It's okay, Ephram." "I'm just sensitive about my music because I really want it to be good, you know?" "And I guess I thought like every other garage band from Podunk, U.S.A that I couId use it to get me out of here." "I understand that." "Yeah, but with piano, you can take that and you can use it a million different ways." "I need a band and with Jay gone...." "well, maybe I couId help out." "I couId sit in on a session or something." "MADISON:" "That's cool of you to offer but" "No, I couId rearrange stuff, whatever." "He's better than you think." "Are you sure you're up for this?" "well, I don't know if it's gonna help, but...." "You know what?" "We could use all the help we could get." "I'II call the guys." "Thanks, Ephram." "Be right back, della." "No cheating." "What?" "Boys are so obvious." "Rose thinks we should try anti-depressants." "They're working for Laynie Hart." "But I think Amy's different." "I believe that her depression is situational." "We set the precedent of medicating her out of every rough spot then how does she develop those coping skills that she needs to get by in life?" "Lin, I feel like we're losing her." "I'd Iike to try to help her." "With all due respect, because I'm sure that there are some people maybe, that really do get something out of the tea and the energy." "Harry, I know you don't believe in this, but you believe in me, right?" "would you at Ieast let me try?" "[SINGING ROCK MUSIC]" "[GUITAR WAILING]" "MADISON:" "Jay." "Jay!" "What?" "It's boring." "I'm just trying to, I don't know, do something." "It's not boring, it's just not good." "JAY:" "We sound like every wannabe band from here to boulder." "Yeah, except some of them sound like they practice." "Take 1 0, everybody." "BASSIST:" "Hey, man...." "well, thank God the mad genius is back." "You guys can really use a visionary like him." "He likes to make sure his presence is felt." "Oh, believe me, I'm feeling it." "You still think you can help us?" "well, right now you're going like this:" "[PLAYS CHORDS]" "But why not try repeating the four chord after the five chord before going back to the one." "More like..." "[PLAYING CHORDS] ...that." "The chorus, repeat the chords." "Try making the bass line interesting." "Maybe a G chord with a B bass?" "Something like that." "Why didn't you tell me you were some kind of prodigy?" "well, prodigy would imply youth while I'm actually an old soul." "At least somebody once told me that." "So you Iike it?" "Yeah." "Hey." "Hi, Mom." "could I, uh, grab the keys?" "I need the truck tonight." "Again?" "Moving may be the worst idea I've ever had." "Was it ever a good idea?" "To anyone?" "Sure you wouldn't rather take Irv's rifle?" "Don't tempt me." "You know, um, I've actually never been through a major move." "julia moved us to the apartment in New York." "And then when we moved here, I hired a moving company and they packed up our stuff and they drove it here and unpacked it and, uh we were moved." "I" " I gotta go." "What was that for?" "Your wake-up call, bozo." "What are you waiting for, her to toss a glass slipper?" "What?" "Look, you Iike Linda." "She likes you." "You both are nincompoops who do nothing about it." "What do you want me to do?" "I offered to help her, she didn't want it." "You're a grown man with a post-graduate degree." "Figure it out." "well, the thing is, I" "I promised della I wouldn't go out with her." "You also promised della a horse." "I don't see Mister Ed galloping around here." "Besides, you know, I think you might be overestimating Linda's...." "I know that girl." "I know how she looks when she's excited about something." "For reasons unknown, given your complete incompetence in the dating arena she's excited about you." "You really think so?" "Oh, for Pete's sake." "The idea behind meditation is that great rewards can come from stillness the act of doing nothing." "I keep thinking about stuff." "That's okay." "Whenever a thought pops into your head you just recognize it as a thought and then you just let it go." "Okay, so, um, ahem, do you wanna set an intention before we start?" "Is it okay if what I want is nothing?" "You don't feel like you're gonna get anything out of it?" "No, I mean, if my goal is to feel nothing." "I'II tell you what." "Why don't we just, um start and explore." "So, uh, put your hands on your knees, palms up." "close your eyes and just gently focus on your breath." "How long is it supposed to take?" "I have an idea." "I have some music that I found in India that might make this a little more fun." "I'II see if I can dig it out." "I'II be right back." "[LINDA CLEARS THRO AT]" "Hey, is this where the moving party is?" "You're not Irv." "You know, your powers of perception are amazing, doctor." "When, uh, he told me he was tempting fate doing your heavy lifting, I said I'd fill in." "Hope you don't mind." "Sure." "You up for manual labor?" "Yeah, I'm pretty handy." "Is this the Iast of it?" "I'm getting off pretty easy." "Uh, not quite." "AND Y:" "Hmm." "So when you said you travel light, you meant, uh--?" "well, that I keep it all in storage." "You know, I tried to embrace the Buddhist "live simply" thing but then I, um, started collecting Buddhas." "Yeah, enlightenment requires a Iot of props." "You still up for it?" "Oh, yeah." "I'm up for it." "I am so up for it." "well, when phil said take it off, I think he definitely meant cancer." "He meant the bunion, Thurman, take off the bunion." "Come back Tuesday." "What if it's a malignant growth?" "It's a bunion." "Now get out of here." "Make room for the next fraud-Ioving crazy on the list." "Who's next, Louise?" "Doctor, I have to see you before the pharmacy closes." "I need erythromycin for a rash I'm about to get which will be like hives and very painful and contagious, according to phil." "Oh, fine." "That's it." "LOUISE:" "Oh, dear." "Louise, Louise, I'm having a premonition." "I'm seeing the rest of today's appointments being canceled." "You can all go home." "Just leave me alone." "You're all fine." "You'II all recover unfortunately." "HARRY:" "Excuse me." "GuIIibiIity police." "Stand aside." "Yes, real doctor coming through." "Uh, listen, phil." "Uh, phil." "Excuse me." "I don't know who died and made you C. Everett Koop but the panic you are arousing in my patients and other hapless members of this community, it has to stop." "Wasn't my intention to worry anyone." "Did you think that fraudulently diagnosing them with everything from gout to terminal illness would soothe them?" "You're whipping people into a frenzy for no reason thereby wasting my time and their resources." "But the things I tell them are true." "Yes, in your mind, they are true but you are not a doctor." "You are a mechanic." "You may have special insights with regards to exhaust and cooling systems but when it comes to the human anatomy and physioIo" "hello, phil?" "Are you listening?" "I am conversing with you." "Someone very close to you is sick." "What?" "Wha--?" "well, of course they are." "That's a statistical inevitability." "unless you're a hermit or an orphan." "How dare you--?" "[CELL PHONE RINGING]" "Yeah, uh, yeah, Dr. Abbott here." "Yeah, how can I help you?" "What?" "No, I'm sorry." "Uh, what prescription?" "For whom?" "No, well, are you sure that it's Amy Abbott because I did not write any such prescription nor did Dr. Linda Abbott." "well, yes, I am sure, no one eIse" "Uh...." "Let" " Let me get back to you." "[MADISON SINGING SOFT ROCK]" "[AUDIENCE CHEERING]" "That was great." "That was so great." "That was pretty cool." "God, Ephram, your song, your song was the best." "It was your song, I just tweaked it a little bit." "Your song was the best." "You have to work on "Joker" with me." "Sure." "So, what are you doing now?" "Can I get you a Coke or something?" "That was great, babe." "You coming over?" "Um, yeah, after-- After I help these guys pack up." "BASSIST:" "That's good." "You're the best." "I guess I better get going, Uh, I'II see you tomorrow." "Why didn't you tell me Jay was your boyfriend?" "He's not my boyfriend." "We just hang out sometimes." "Like now?" "Like when he's got his tongue so far down your throat that I thought I was gonna have to give you oxygen?" "And why should I have told you?" "I wouldn't have talked about him..." "...in front of you." "Jay can be a jerk." "You know, I talk about him too." "No, that's different." "Besides, you should've told me because" "Because what?" "Because at the DMV, I kissed you." "I mean, that meant something." "Ephram maybe it did to you." "It can't mean anything." "Anything real, anything more than what it was." "You should've told me." "You lied to me." "I didn't lie to you." "I just didn't mention it." "You know, we're not friends that way." "You're older than your sister but you're still young enough to be somebody I Iook after." "You have a crush, okay, that's what this is, that's what you have when you're 1 6." "You understand?" "perfectly." "[KEYS RATTLING IN LOCK]" "[HARRY CLEARS THRO AT]" "HARRY:" "I got a call today from the CIoverton Pharmacy." "They wanted to know if they could substitute a generic for Amy Abbott's anti-depressant prescription which they said Dr. Linda Abbott had written." "Dad, I" "What on earth were you thinking?" "You realize that by forging a prescription in your aunt's name you could've been responsible for her losing her license?" "Did you think about that?" "Did she--?" "We haven't told Linda." "Because it wouId've upset her." "It would've disgusted her." "She is one of the few bridges that you haven't burned recently." "I didn't think that" "Yeah, what did you think?" "Do you think about any of us anymore?" "Do you think about anybody but yourself?" "I am shocked at this behavior, even for you recently, it's" "It's gone from irresponsible to criminal." "I'm sorry." ""I'm sorry"?" "You have got to be kidding me." "Let her speak." "I wanted to feel better." "Like Laynie." "That stuff Aunt Linda was doing wasn't working." "You could have asked." "You could have talked to us." "I did ask." "You said no." "well, so it's our fault?" "You don't take any responsibility for your own actions." "You blame other people." "You blame colin you blame Dr. Brown, you blame us." "well, now I just blame you." "Fine." "Fine, I'II write you a prescription." "harold." "What?" "What else do you want me to do, Rose?" "You were tired of doing nothing." "Amy's tired of doing nothing." "And I am completely out of ideas." "So if this is what everybody thinks will make this whole thing go away then fine." "Fine." "Let's make it go away." "Yeah." "Here." "A prescription for Amy Abbott." "Amy Abbott, not my daughter, wherever she is." "She would never have done this." "Mom." "AND Y:" "When people moved me, it was like little elves working while I slept." "I was living in New York and the next thing, I was here in Everwood." "And not a single box did I see." "well, I probably won't move again for another year." "You mean, I gotta do this again in 1 2 months?" "I don't have a tendency to stay in one place for very long." "Is that why I'm drinking merlot out of a mug?" "You're lucky it's not Styrofoam." "LINDA:" "Mm." "See this?" "This is the only thing I've had with me the whole time I was away." "What is it?" "Keepsakes." "Things that mean something to me, as much as I couId carry." "Don't keep me in suspense." "What made the list?" "Oh, it's just junk." "It has no value to anybody but me." "Come on." "Show me." "I mean, if you want to." "LINDA:" "Uh...." "Heh." "It's my favorite book." "The Little Prince." "It's a good one." "I had it in French too, but I gave it to this kid in Guinea." "little con artist, but I couldn't turn him down." "[LAUGHS]" "And this is the four of us, when Harry and I were young." "AND Y:" "He looked like alfalfa." "Yeah, looks." "And let's see, this is, um" "Was a" "A friend, a friend that I lost." "I've lost a Iot of people." "That's how it works in places like that." "You move so around much it's like chunks of your life just fall away." "[SIGHS]" "This would be so much more daunting if you weren't here." "Thank you." "I do what I can." "You're a kind man." "No, I'm not I'm just...." "I am gonna refill your wine glass." "You're nearly empty." "Hey, phil?" "phil." "I'm not available." "As psychic or a mechanic?" "You got car trouble?" "No." "One of those things you said actually came true." "No kidding." "So then I tried the second thing and" "What do you mean you tried?" "well, I followed your advice." "I don't give advice." "Okay, look." "When I took the steps that would most likely lead me along the path that you predicted, it didn't work." "That kiss that I was supposed to get?" "Never showed up." "You got it right with the meningitis thing." "How come I got gypped on the kiss?" "This is why I hate telling people stuff." "You know, sometimes I think it just screws it all up." "I never wanted to get back into this racket." "I knew that kid was sick." "I had to say something." "Why couldn't it just end there?" "well the thing is, if people think you know some truth about them they're gonna wanna know what it is." "people say they wanna know the truth about what happened to their Iong-Iost brother or why their kid hates them or if their wife is cheating, but knowing only makes them unhappy." "They don't really want the truth they just want good news." "I don't know." "I just wanna fix cars." "Maybe I ought to move." "Been thinking a Iot about Arizona." "Nobody knows me in Tucson." "well, what happened last time?" "When you predicted that flood?" "I heard it clear as a bell." "And, uh, nothing happened?" "Oh, no, it happened." "In Houston." "It's too bad you can't just predict another one." "well, it seems like that'd lack credibility." "But what if it were something different?" "For instance, say an avalanche?" "avalanche." "Whoa, looks like a tornado rolled through here." "I'm still not finished unpacking." "Say that again." "Here." "I brought you a housewarming." "It's not wrapped." "How'd you know?" "It's just what I needed." "Yeah, yeah." "Listen, I'm not gonna beat around the bush, mainly because I don't know how." "But I think you and Andy Brown could have a good thing going if you would wake up and smell the coffee." "Beg your pardon?" "well, Irv thinks you're lonely." "I don't know if that's true, but if it is, the solution's right in front of your face." "I don't think so." "I do." "He likes you." "You like him." "Any bIockhead can see it." "It's not that simple." "Sure it is." "Why does everybody have to make everything so complicated these days?" "They're not." "I liked the looks of Irv." "He liked the looks of me." "We got hitched." "well, you were lucky." "No, we just weren't neurotic." "We didn't put up our own roadblocks and then stumble around them." "I'm not putting up my own roadblocks." "You sure as hell aren't taking any down." "Mom, you don't know anything about it." "well, then tell me." "[SIGHS]" "I have a disease." "Pfft." "Is that what this is all about?" "Hep A couldn't kill a flea." "Besides, you're not gonna give it to Andy." "It's not hep A, it's, um...." "It's HIV." "I contracted it while I was working in Africa but I went on the cocktail right away." "And my counts are good." "I may never be symptomatic." "But still, I can't bring Andy into this." "I can't bring anyone in." "Why didn't you tell me?" "There's nothing anyone can do." "I don't want the whole town to know me as the once who's sick." "I'm not the whole town." "I didn't wanna worry you." "To most people, it still sounds like a death sentence." "But I'm fine." "I'm really fine." "I'm your mother." "You don't tell me things because you think I'II solve your problems." "You tell me because you need someone to tell." "For three years, you've lived alone with this?" "See?" "I knew you would worry, heh." "I'm okay." "You don't have to be okay." "But I am." "I'm fine." "I'm home." "I'm doing great." "You don't have to be strong." "You're not alone with this anymore." "She'II never be much to look at, I'm afraid." "Thanks for the encouragement." "You know, it doesn't matter, though." "A car like this, it's not what's on the outside that counts." "You see, the thing about big cars is they've got a Iot of room which is, um, good for friends and movies." "Road trips." "You can fit a whole lot of Iife into a car like this." "That's what makes her cool." "I'm sorry that I upset you, Ephram." "especially after you were so cool about the band and everything." "I handled it wrong." "I should've told you." "So why didn't you?" "Because here's the thing." "You're awesome." "You've got it all, all the stuff that girls are looking for." "But?" "But you're 1 6 and I work for you dad and I take care of your sister..." "...and I'm responsible for you too." "No, you're not." "Yeah, I am in a way." "Can you just see where I'm coming from?" "You're younger than me and no matter how mature you are for your age or how much of an old soul you may be, some maturity just comes with time." "Ephram, you don't even know me." "well, I might not know everything about you, but I do know some things." "You're the only person that makes my little sister think it's okay to be a girl." "I know how you feel when you sing because it's how I feel when I play." "AII you really want from Jay is for him to get you and he never will because the only thing he's interested in getting is himself." "And I know that all this stuff about me being too young is just you being afraid." "It's easier for you to say I'm too young than to risk something that's not what you thought you wanted." "But most of all, I know that ever since I kissed you at the DMV every time I've seen you, I've wanted to kiss you again." "And I don't know for sure but I'm pretty certain that you have too." "Thought so." "[CAR HORN HONKS]" "COP:" "Keep moving." "MAN:" "We gotta get out of here." "COP:" "Have a safe trip." "[CAR HORNS HONKING]" "AND Y:" "I'II be right back, you guys." "COP:" "hold on." "AII right, you can go." "MAN:" "Rick, go ahead and pull in line." "This could take a while." "The things you've gotta do to keep a mechanic." "Just when you thought it was safe to unpack your boxes." "Good help's hard to find." "Yeah, heh." "COP:" "hold on." "hold on." "MAN:" "Yeah!" "How far do you think they'II get before they realize?" "Oh, conservatively, Montana." "I gotta get going." "Yeah, you gotta beat the traffic." "Listen, Linda the thing is I Iike you." "That's really all there is to it." "I'm sorry if last night was awkward." "Maybe it took you by surprise." "It kind of took me by surprise because I" "I never thought I'd feel this stuff again or anything like it." "I thought that part of my Iife was over" "Andy, I think that" "Let me finish, all right?" "You may not know how you feel or maybe you do and have reservations and if that is the case then whatever those reservations are, I respect them." "Or maybe you just don't feel the same way." "But I know how I feel." "So I had to tell you." "And I hope that's all right." "[SIGHS]" "[CAR HORN HONKING]" "EPHRAM:" "What was that all about?" "Oh, you know, work stuff." "IRV:" "That you, honey?" "You're late." "Long day at the office?" "What happened, sweetheart?" "What's wrong, honey?" "What is it?" "[SOBBING]" "IRV:" "It's all right." "It's all right." "It's all right." "I'm here." "It's all right." "[ENGLISH SDH]"