"Previously on Brothers and Sisters:" "William and Holly had a daughter." "You could discover your father has another child and not tell me?" "We want to use your sperm to get Julia pregnant." " I'll help you, Tommy." " Fill out these forms." "And we'll never know which one of them it is." " That's the plan." " These your kids?" "That's Jack, he's eight." "And Sophia, she's ten." " I'm looking for Holly." " Do I know you?" "I'm her daughter, Rebecca." "You said Bill was your friend and left out the part about him being my father?" ""We're getting a gay vibe from the daytime doctor. "" "We need to lay low." "If you're expecting tears from me, forget it." "I'm not expecting anything." "I just wanted to meet you." "Every morning there were precious milliseconds before reality set in." "Before Dora remembered where she was, who she was." "Then it would all come flooding back." "Each day seemed to bring some new disturbing revelation." "Some bomb that would make her reconsider her entire existence." "This last explosion had caused the most damage." "Hey, Ma, it's me." "I just wanted to tell you to turn on Channel Seven." "They're doing a whole tribute to Betty Friedan." "Anyway, I guess I'll talk to you soon." "Bye." "Family dynamics were strained." "OK." "Here you go." " That's it." "Great." " That's it?" "You're leaving?" "You barely stayed for three signatures." " How are you, Kevin?" " Fine." "I'm just a little busy, Saul." "The fallout could be felt for miles." "You on your way out?" " Just trying to make conversation." " Well, don't." "You want to have some eggs?" "They're mostly whites." ""This last remaining surprise had threatened to destroy a family she had never been allowed to know." "Dora's family. "" "Well?" "What do you think?" " Yeah?" " Pedantic comes to mind." "What a soap opera." "I was waiting for an evil twin to appear or for someone to get amnesia or something." "You thought it was over the top?" "This is coming from a very real place." "Relax, Dora, don't get defensive." "It's Nora, Joel." "And your story about incest at the White House was not subtle." " It didn't come..." " Nora!" "Yes?" "You seem to have a lot to say, which is good." "But you don't have to say it all at the same time." "You've packed a lot of incidents in here, which makes it all a bit, uh disconnected." " It's terrible, isn't it?" "No, it's not terrible." "But it's the emotions behind the incidents that matter." "What are these people feeling?" "What is Dora really going through?" "School sucks." "I am going to make myself a huge chocolate sundae and eat the whole thing." "And then if I don't feel better after that, I will drop out, too." "Right after I stick my finger down my throat." "Why are you using Sarah's knapsack from high school?" "I needed a book bag." "Look." "It still has her Bob Marley patch on it." "I don't know if it's a good idea after your "incident"" "to be walking around with a pot leaf on your back, Mom." " She called again, by the way." " Don't worry." "I'll call her back." "Everyone's gonna have to start talking." " About what?" " About Rebecca, Mom." "She's real, she exists, and she lives 20 minutes from us." "What are you saying, that I should take a cake over there?" "I met her." "I talked to her." " You talked to her?" "About what?" " Things." " You know, we hung out a few times." " A few?" "You hung out a few times?" "I can't believe this." "You're the one who said we should do whatever we felt we needed to do." "So what you needed to do was go hang out with her a few times" " behind my back?" " I knew you'd react like this." "How do you expect me to react?" "My husband kept a daughter from me," " now you hang out?" " Did you think I wouldn't meet her?" " She's my sister." " Dammit." "You already have sisters." "She's not going away, Mom." "She's here whether we like it or not, OK?" "Wow." "More movies." "Since you decided we can't be seen in public we've driven up the company's stock at least 20 percent." " Did you order Dirty Harry?" " Yeah." "I never saw it." "Wow." "You really are bisexual, aren't you?" "I guess we'll save Singing in the Rain for Palm Springs." "Um, Kevin, about this weekend..." "No, no, no!" "Come on." "I've already made reservations and you've already said yes." "It's not that." "Something came up." "I have to go to this premiere Saturday." "It's a big director and he's interested in me for a movie." " It's really important that I be there." " I suppose you're taking your mom." " No." " No?" "I'm taking a friend." " An actress." " An actress." "Great." "Whose idea was that?" " My manager's." " Your manager." "You do everything your manager says?" "I'm here right now, so I guess not." "You know..." "You know..." "I'm sorry, Chad, but I have officially OD'd on secrets." "My family's imploding because of secrets." "I'll tell you what." "Your friend the actress?" "Take her to the premiere, but that's it." "That's my line in the sand." "We're done." "Kev?" " What?" " You're right." "About what?" "I can't live my life like this anymore either." "We'll go together." " Are you kidding?" " No." "I'm about to go undercover on the show." "I am sick of doing it in my real life." "Are you..." "Are you sure?" "It's not like we're gonna hold hands." "Let them think what they want." "Saturday night, we're on." " Let's not watch Dirty Harry." " No, let's not." "Holly, I apologize for showing up here so late." "This has been a very difficult time." " Your daughter..." " Becca." "Rebecca." "The whole situation has caused a lot of tension in my family." "I mean, we have fought before, but never anything like this." "Kevin is not talking to Saul, I'm barely speaking to Sarah." "Well, if it's any consolation to you, Becca's barely speaking to me." "Well, then you agree that something needs to be done." "What do you suggest?" "I want you and Rebecca to come over to my house to dinner on Friday." "That is the worst idea that I have ever heard." "I mean, the thought of Rebecca sitting at your table, surrounded by the Walkers?" "She and Justin are already hanging out together." "Then let them have dinner together." "I mean, and forgive me, but I don't trust Sarah to be within two feet of Rebecca." "And I don't think it's being overly protective to say that spending a night with your family is not in the best interest for me or my daughter." "I was hoping that you would ask her." "Will you?" "This is the worst frost we've had since '98." "We've lost 80%/º of our citrus crop." "The Utility Deferment Plan protects farmers." "What about people who pick the fruit?" "They haven't been paid." "We're being inundated with calls demanding to know whether you're changing your tune on immigration." "I am merely pointing out that we'll incur huge costs, medical and otherwise, if we don't fix this." "Oh, an economic initiative." "That's a relief." "Here I was, worried you were being socially minded." " Spin it." "That's what I hired you for." " You hired me because of my cute butt." "I thought it was a mouse." "There's a..." "There's a very small person down there." "I know." "Jack, you've been found." "Kitty, my son Jack." "Jack." "Well, hello." "Nice to meet you." " It's spring break." " Ah..." " It's your turn to hide now." " Oh, OK." "One-one thousand, two-one thousand..." "You mean you want me to hide now?" "I've got a deadline on my press release." " Just multi-task." " Dad, the soda machine's jammed." "Hi." "Hi." "Um... you must be Sophia." " I'm Kitty." " Kitty." " Like a cat." " Sophia." " You're supposed to be hiding." " You work for my dad?" " Can you fix the soda machine?" " Kitty's my Communications Director." " And my friend." " Friend." "Yeah." "Um, hmm." "And I..." "I'd better get back to work." " "Hide and go work. "" " Let's finish in your office." "Sure." "Yeah." "Bye." "A small child under your desk." "Very JFK of you." "I was gonna warn you, but I've been busy." "No, it's fine." "Except I did reference my butt in front of your eight-year-old." "Jack loves a good butt reference." "And boogers, that's a big one." "So, do you want to have dinner with us tomorrow night?" "Oh." "Did you just go from "boogers" to "dinner"?" "There's a great steakhouse in Montecito." "Kids love it." "They have amazing sides, snap peas..." "Who do you want me to be at this dinner?" "Your employeelfriend who you happen to take for steak 80 miles north of L. A?" "Just be yourself." "They'll be asleep before the whole room thing is an issue." "They're gonna figure it out before the room thing." " Kids aren't stupid." " Look, I'm new at this." "I just thought it would be a good idea for us to all have dinner together." "I was gonna say something to Sophia beforehand." "You were?" "It's not because..." "I don't want you to do that now." " You don't want me to?" " No, I do." "Just only if you want to." "Wow." "You are so much more articulate when you're talking politics." "You're gonna love the steak." "I don't want to do it." "There are risks involved with amnio." "The doctor said we should at least talk about it." "We're having twins, a higher risk pregnancy." "Everything's fine." "I mean, I gained eight pounds in the last three weeks." "Something's thriving besides my appetite." " Your cleavage?" " Cute." "We have an opportunity to get some really valuable genetic information." "Genetic information?" "This is about paternity, isn't it?" "This whole Rebecca thing, it's making me think." "That's different." "She never had a father growing up." " Our kids have you." " I know." "But maybe they should have a clear sense of where they came from." "Look, my brothers did this amazing thing for us." "I just want to talk to them." "See if they want to weigh in." "They're not gonna weigh in when it comes to potty training." "I just hope it starts to hit you soon that we're the parents here." "Just you and me." " Hello." " Is this Kevin Walker?" "Yes, it is." "Please hold for Donald Dudley, Chad Berry's manager." "Sure." "Donald?" "I'm Kevin Walker." "Kevin." "Have a seat." "Thank you." "Why do I feel like my life is in danger?" " You want something to eat?" " No." "Good." "This place serves dog food." "I'm sorry to bring you here, but I need to be clandestine about this." "If he knew I was talking to you, he'd fire me." "With all due respect, maybe he should." "You're very direct." "I used to be a lawyer." "It's a God-awful job." "I don't know what you want to talk about." "I'm not sure why I agreed to come here." "Even the coffee here stinks." "OK, here's the thing." "When I met Chad Berry he was working construction." "He was taking the bus 30 miles a day." "My wife took pity on him." "She found him a used car." "I care what happens to him." " And I don't?" " I want to make sure" " your intentions are honorable." " I'm not marrying him." " I'm going to a movie." " That's where you're wrong." "What he's about to do for you, there's no turning back from that." "He's not doing anything for me, right?" "He's doing it for himself." "Please." "Semantics." "We wouldn't be sitting here if it wasn't for you." "You're the first to get this far." "Did you bring me here to tell me that?" "Listen, people find out about Chad, I got a big office." "I'm going to be fine." "I won't miss waking up wondering how many rumors" "I'm going to have to bury that day." "And I'm telling you, he comes out of the closet for you, it's like being with a virgin." "He's yours for life, kid." "He's not coming out of the closet for me." "Keep telling yourself that, but if you walk down that red carpet with him, you might as well be walking down the aisle." "I..." "I got to take this one." "Why did they close without telling me?" "That's not the way I do business." "Do you have a second?" "I wanted to run something by you." " Yep." " It's about tomorrow night." " You probably already have plans." " Probably." "Then forget it." "It's not important." "I'm meeting Maureen and Caris at Spaceland." "Do you want to stop being so cryptic and just tell me what's going on?" "Um..." "Nora Walker came by." "She did?" "That's sketchy of her." "Are you friends?" "No, we're not friends." "It's just that she invited us to dinner at her house with the family." " You're kidding." " It's ridiculous." " I'll tell her to forget it." " No." "They're curious to meet me." "What's so ridiculous about it?" "You don't want to go, do you?" "No, I just think that it would be uncomfortable." "You work with Tommy Walker." "Is that uncomfortable?" "Well, that's different, Becca." "It's business." "You don't have to go, but I'm psyched to see the house." "Justin says it's totally palatial." "Mom, you look shocked." "No, it's just not the reaction that I expected." "They're who made us millionaires." "How often do I get to meet my benefactors?" "If they want me to go over so they can all pet me, it's the least I can do." "OK, then." "We'll go." "You know what?" "I think I'd actually prefer to go alone." " Becca." " What?" "You want to come along so you can protect me like you've protected me for the past 20 years?" "I think I got it from here." "Somebody slept in." "It's 8:00 in the morning." " Mom, what are you doing?" " I'm marinating." "The meat, not me." " Please tell me you're free tonight." " I'm not." "Oh, really?" "Don't sound so shocked that I actually have plans." "I'm having dinner with Robert and his kids." " Ooh." "That's a very big step." " No, no." "It's not." "They just happen to be in town." "It's nothing." "Can you do it another night?" "You just said it was a very big step." "It is a big step, but I think we have another big step to deal with." "I'm having a dinner and I would like it if you would all be there." "I have been so good about my family dinner attendance," "I think that I'm entitled to a personal day." "This is different." "I invited Rebecca to dinner." " No, you did not." " Yes." "Mom, are you insane?" "I think it would be nice if we just all got to know each other." " Why?" " Because." "Because she exists." "Because the unknown is always more disturbing than the reality." "I think we have to confront this." "Normalize it." " Normalize it?" " Yes." "Like when you invited Dad's mistress over and then you outted her?" "No, no." " That kind of normal?" " Kitty, that's not fair." "Your father had just died, I was in shock." "I was mean and vindictive." "This time I'm trying to do the right thing." "Listen to me." "Just because she has some shared DNA with your kids, you don't know her." "You don't know what she's like." "Seriously, Mom, don't." "You are just trying to control an uncontrollable situation." "I'm not trying to control anything." "You are hosting a meet-the-illegitimate-daughter dinner." "I'm sorry, but even if I were free, I wouldn't come." "Fine." "Fine, fine." "I thought you'd have problems with it." " What is that supposed to mean?" " Your relationship with your dad." "So, Freud, do you think you're really ready for this?" "You think you'll be able to handle this?" "Because once she walks through the front door, you can't take it back." " She's a Walker." " Kitty, she already is." "We need food network distribution, utilities assistance." "All right, I'll call him right now." "I am so sorry." "One more call and we are out of here." "It's OK." "I feel bad for those workers." "Me too." "I'm sorry you and your brother are stuck in here all day." "It's fine." "I'm very self-sufficient." "That's what Ms. Allen put on my report card." "And industrious." "Apparently, I'm very industrious." "Soph, I need to talk to you." " Am I in trouble?" " No." "No, sweetie." "God, we've made you neurotic." "So, um I've invited someone to TMG's with us tonight." " But that's our dinner." " I know." "And it still is." " But do you remember Kitty?" " As in "meow"?" "Yeah, I know about her." " You do?" " There's a picture of you and her in a magazine." "You were at a restaurant." "She was wearing a red dress that Mom thought looked cheap." "Is she your girlfriend?" "Uh..." "Well, I guess you could call her that." "I mean, I would call her that." "Are you OK calling her that?" "Not that you have to actually call her..." "I wish your mother hadn't shown you that photo." "Really?" "A paternity test?" "Look, I don't know, dude." "We went into this thinking we weren't gonna know." "The last thing I need now is a kid, Tommy... two kids." "I can't handle a relationship." "I'm not asking anyone to be more involved in their lives." "If it comes out they're courtesy of me, I'll feel this pressure, to deliver on birthdays, holidays, go to all the games." "Tommy's got the games." "You stick to bake sales." "Can we have a serious discussion before Rebecca gets here" " and the whole nightmare begins?" " That's whose DNA we should be testing." " What?" " We're going on Holly's word?" " How reliable is that?" " Holly wouldn't make this up." "She didn't want Rebecca to find out." "That's what she told us." "She may have lied for the money." "Don't you want to know beyond a doubt before we bring her in here?" "Did you bring your DNA kit?" "You gonna swab her over salad?" " I can get a stray hair." " That's not gonna work." " You have to get it from the root." " What are you, Columbo?" " I watch crime shows." " I'll take her water glass into a lab." "It's not gonna work." "The glass will get corrupted." "Are you both high?" "You want your DNA test right here?" "She's hot, I feel nothing." "God." " Hey." " Hey." " Hi, I'm Kevin." "Come in." " Hi." " Cool." "It's a nice house." " Thanks." "Mom." "This is Rebecca, Mom." "Yes." "Of course." "Hello." "Welcome." "Thank you." "It's nice to meet you." "Nice to meet you too, Rebecca." "I can't believe you spent time in Chicago." " It's freezing there." " It's really cold." " But the summers are gorgeous." " Yeah." "Where were you?" "At the University of Chicago?" " Northwestern." "I was a drama major." " An actress like your mother?" "Barely." "That's one of the reasons why I dropped out." "I just don't see a future in that stuff." " The other reasons?" " This isn't a job interview." " I'm interested." " It's cool." "I had a pretty devastating breakup." "I sort of spiraled," " and then I just started painting." " You paint?" "Are you any good?" "We're all bad in the arts." " That's not true." "Sarah used to draw." " Yeah, when I was ten." "I write a little bit." " I read about you." " Me?" "Someone sent me a link to the Skinny Minnie." " Are you really dating Chad Berry?" " Uh, no." "Yes." "Yeah, I know him." " Like Romeo knows Juliet." " Like Siegfried knows Roy." "This whole family loves to kid." "So where's the other sister?" "Kitty?" "She didn't want to meet me." "No, not at all." "She had a date with Senator McCallister." "Oh, yeah." "I read about that too." "Apparently, all my children have made the gossip columns." "I'm not so sure I should be proud about that." " How about seconds?" "Anyone?" " I do." "I'm eating for three." " Do you have more iced tea?" " I'll get it." " I'll get it!" " I'll get the drinks." " I'll get the drinks." " OK, I'll help." "They are both very polite." " Give me the glass." " You need a time-out." "Humor me." "I'm a lawyer." "I like to know the facts." " Fine." "I'm walking away." " Yeah." "So, Justin tells me you went to Marshall." "Yeah, except for one year my mom moved us up to Ojai." " You're kidding?" " No." "Why?" "Thanks." " We have a ranch in Ojai." " It's so boring there." "I'm sure your mother didn't find it boring." "It's our company name." "It was our father's favorite place." "Right." "Yeah." "Guess that explains that." " I'm sorry." "I didn't mean to..." " No, no, it's fine." " Sarah is just being rude." " My apologies, but this meal has reached a new level of weirdness." "We all know what happened." "That's why we're here tonight." "I would like us all to get to know each other." " Mmm." "Snap peas are really good." " They were better last time." "So, Soph, when Kitty was your age she was a spelling bee champion too." " Wow." " No, your dad's bragging about me." "I was really just the runner-up." " What was your hardest word?" " I don't remember." " Come on, Soph." " I know one!" "M-i-s-s-i-s-s-i-p-p-i." "Hmm, very good." "That is very impressive, Jack." " Thank you." " No." "Everyone knows how to spell that." "I don't know think many eight-year-old's know how to spell it." " Jack, good job." " Thanks, Daddy." "So, Sophia, do you like the Cheetahs?" " The who?" " I think it's The Cheetah Girls." "Oh." "That's right." "The Cheetah Girls." "I knew that." "Did you Google ten-year-olds?" "Sophie, that's a warning." " How's everyone doing?" " Good." " I think we could use some dessert." " I want the turtle sundae." " OK." " Sophia, do you?" " I'm not hungry." " You know what they say." "Even if you're full, dessert is a separate compartment." "No one says that." " Your daughter like ice cream?" " I'm not her daughter!" " Sophia McCallister." " No, no, no, no." "It's OK." "No, it's not." "You sit down now and apologize to Kitty." "For what?" "She's not my mother." "You're in a picture with my dad." "It does not mean you're anything to me." " Sophia!" " No, it's OK." "She's right." "No." "No, it's not." " So, are you having twins?" " Yes." "We are." " Wow." "Boys or girls?" " One of each." "Yeah." "So, how long are you planning to stay at your mother's house?" "I don't know." "I'm just sort of..." "I'm on the rebound from this guy in Chicago." "So I just want to take it easy." "You know, chill out for a little bit." "You know, see where it all goes." "Ow!" "Did you just pull my hair?" " Did I?" " You just pulled a hair out of my head." " I'm sorry." " My God." "Why would you do that?" "I'm sorry." "You know what?" "I saw a split end." "It's something I do with my sisters." "That's not why you did it." "Tell her why." "You got me started with all your talk of DNA." " DNA?" " Enough about whose DNA it is." "You're the father." "She just found out who her father was at 20 years old, and look how that turned out." "I don't want that to happen to our kids." " I think she turned out fine." " I'm sure she's great." "I'm just saying there's been a lot of fallout." "Kevin doesn't even believe her." "You pulled a hair out of my head to get my DNA?" " Let me explain." " I'm gonna kill you!" " OK." "I got to go." "I got to go." " Rebecca, please wait." "You guys are wack." "I mean, you just pulled a hair out of my head." "You are the most insane group of people that I have ever met." "And don't bother with the test." "He's not my dad." "He might have been your dad, but he was nothing to me." "He's still nothing." "I appreciate this dinner, Mrs. Walker, but I'm not part of this family." "I never will be." "Rebecca, please." "You can be a part of this family regardless of how you got here." "He may not have been your father in any way you knew." "And clearly he wasn't any kind of a husband either." "It wasn't your fault, Rebecca." "And it wasn't your mom's." "It's his." "Well, they're down." "That meal was a success." "What, are you trying to make a quick getaway?" "Don't go." "I'm sorry." "I shouldn't have snapped." "But Sophia should never have behaved like that." "Maybe she didn't have a choice." "I mean, you can't tell somebody how to feel or how to react." " Especially a kid." " She's mature for her age." "She's ten." "And I couldn't stomach having dinner with that Rebecca person and I'm a grown-up." "Lucky for me, my parent couldn't make me go." "You think this is my fault?" "Because I did everything I was supposed to do." "I talked to both kids, they had time to process and prepare," "I took them to their favorite place." "Let's just look on the bright side." "At least we've broken in the "G" word." "This is not a treaty that you're negotiating." "We're talking about your kids." "And I just think that it might have been too much too soon." "Going out for dinner the first week they come here and shoving me with my stupid hobbies down their throats." "I didn't shove you down their throat." "And by the way, if you didn't want to come, you didn't have to." "I didn't say that." "I'm just saying that I think maybe they're not ready yet." "Them or you?" "Would you please put those keys down?" "Look, I know this isn't easy." "It's complicated." "But I want my kids to have the same rules they've always had." "I want to make things normal for them." "You know what?" "You can't do that." "You can't make things normal." "They take time." "And look at you." "Look at you." "You go at warp speed." "It's like you're trying to rush through everything." " What am I trying to rush through?" " Everything." "Me." "Us." "Maybe that's the way you are." "You go careening from one achievement to the next." "But you just came on so strong and nobody likes me that much that fast." "And I just can't help wondering if you're just looking for a family to stand up with you at the podium." " Is that what you think?" " I don't know." "Maybe I'm just freaking out." "It's late." "No." "No, I think you're right." "I think you should go." "Oh, my God." "This place is a disaster area." " It's OK, Sarah." "I've got it." " Come on, Mom." "Let me help." "No, really." "I think you should just go on home." "I got to hand it to you." "That was quite a party." "How is it that you're able to do that?" "Even with Dad and his whole Republican "personal responsibility" spiel, you always managed to show us how important it was to give." "The world's not fair." "You do what you can." "That's exactly what I mean." "I'm often astounded at your compassion." "I just..." "I don't understand why it doesn't extend to me." " That's not true." " Isn't it?" "I'm still in the doghouse and yet, unbelievably, you manage to include someone who you could have gone your whole life without talking to." "Don't you think that's a little unfair?" "I didn't come here tonight because of Rebecca." "I came here because I want things to be better with us." "I need you to care about me the same way that you care about the world." " Well, of course I love you." " Then stop punishing me." "I'm sorry." "I'm just so mad." "Your father's dead and I need someone to be furious with." "It's so hard to tell somebody who isn't around anymore to go to hell." "Oh, Mama." " What?" " I didn't say anything." "If you're gonna look at me like that, just ask." " I didn't look at anything." " It was fine, OK?" "Just fine." " And awful." " I'm sorry." " You're not, Mom." "You're relieved." " You're angry." "I know." "So, I'm just going to be here." "And if and when you feel like talking or venting or whatever..." "Well, there's really not much to talk about." "I started with the beet salad and then Kevin pulled my hair." " He what?" " You heard me." "Well, like in a playful, brotherly kind of way?" "No." "More like a forensic scientist kind of way." " What?" " Yeah, don't ask." "They just have their own sibling thing going on, you know?" "It's like they're all yelling and fighting and talking over each other." "It's completely dysfunctional." "Like they're this big crazy clique." "And I am so clearly not a part of it." " This is how you set it up." " Don't say that." "But it is." "You didn't just deprive me of a father." "You deprived me of an entire family." "Honey, you have a family." " You and me, we're family." " But I could've had so much more." "I could've had brothers and sisters." "I could've had this busy, chaotic childhood that you fantasize about as a kid." " But you didn't let me." " I'm sorry." "I did my best." "I worked with what I had." "You don't know how it was." "No, I know how it was." "It was exactly the way that you wanted it to be." "I get it now, you wanting to find out." "I didn't understand the impact of Rebecca until tonight." "Tommy, if you need to find out, we can." "It's fine." "I'm dropping it for good." "But me wanting to find out, it wasn't just about Rebecca." "I mean, you're carrying the babies, my brothers supplied the seeds." "I'm just like this useless bystander." "I just thought if I could find out more about them" "I'd feel more connected." "Less out of control." "Tommy, we're having twins." "There is no control." "Worse." "We're having a family." "I mean, you saw dinner tonight." "What have we done?" " You pulled her hair out?" " No!" "I pulled one hair." "I pulled one strand." "I know." "I should be put away." "I scared myself tonight." "I thought you asked me to come over here to talk about tomorrow night." "Which, strangely enough, I'm totally not nervous about." " Look, not even shaking." " Actually, I do want to talk about it." "I've been thinking and maybe you're right, you know?" "Maybe tomorrow night's not such a good idea." " You're kidding, right?" " No." "Chad, I just feel what you're about to do is this major change and you know, it affects us in ways..." "It's not fair, but it's forcing us to go faster than we normally would." " I don't understand." " OK, look, I just came from a dinner that never would have happened if my father had thought first." "I don't want you to make a flippant decision about this." "Flippant?" "I'm 34 years old." "So why now?" "Why all of a sudden can you make this decision now?" "Because we met at the right time." "Who knows?" "Please don't do this for me." "I'm not ready to settle down, Chad." "Not remotely." "Settle down?" "Who said anything about settling down?" "If we do this, I know I'll feel this pressure to be this perfect boyfriend." "Or you'll feel like you've done it for nothing." " I can't even believe this." " I know." "I give off mixed signals." "Mixed signals?" "It's multiple personalities." "I just don't want to make things harder for us." "Believe me, this is making things harder for us." "You know what?" "Forget it." "We'll go tomorrow." "It's absolutely fine." " Well, don't do me any favors." " Look, I just..." "I got scared." "It's not about you." "It's me." "That's the first honest thing you've said all night." "Come in." "I'm almost done." "These are the quarterly tax things." " They just need your signature." " OK." "How's your mother?" "I don't know." "She works in mysterious ways, Saul." "She does." "I hear it was a memorable night." "Yes, it was." "You should call her." "She could use a big brother." "Yeah, I call her every day, Kevin." "I'm talking about you." "Did you really pull her hair?" "Yes, I did, OK?" "Yeah, I readily admit it was not my finest hour." "Actually, it's not been my finest week." " What about us?" "How are we doing?" " What do you mean?" "As I recall, the last time we spoke you were furious with me." "About?" "That?" "That's water under the bridge." "We have a 24-hour-a-day news cycle around here." "I thought you read the crawl." "By the way, you did the right thing." "Rebecca was never going to stay hidden." "We were nuts." "We were just trying to keep it a secret like him." "You know?" " The sins of the father." " And the mother." "Holly?" "She won't speak to me anymore." "Look at us." "I'm in my 60's and we're like in high school at a slumber party." " Does high school ever end?" " No, Kevin." "It's like taxes." "We're doomed to repeat it year after year." "Great." "Well, on that note, please sign here, or I'll be late for Algebra." "Thank you very much." " Morning." " Good morning." " You're set." " I appreciate it." "Thank you." "Your kids get back OK?" " Yeah, they're already back at school." " Good." "I mean, not good that they're not here anymore, obviously." " Is there anything else?" " No." "We're all set for the press conference on the federal funding we secured." "Yeah." "I got the email." "If there's anything else..." "I have a lot of reading I've got to catch up on." "I know that I spewed a lot of stuff at you the other night." "And I don't know." "Call it relationship growing pains." "If you'd like to spew back at me..." "You accused me of being shallow and using you to get ahead." "I wasn't necessarily accusing you, I was just raising concerns." "Kitty, the thing is you were right." "I did move fast." "I am fast." "I wouldn't be here if I wasn't." "I get more done by 8:00 a. m." "Than most people do by 8:00 p. m." "No, I know that." "And I've been married and I have kids." "I don't have time for games." "And maybe you do." "If I'd looked at your relationship track record, I would've run for the hills." "But I didn't because I thought there was a connection." "It felt right." "And I thought you were right there with me." "I was." "I am." " Doesn't feel like it." " Robert, people fight." "Maybe it was just time for us to." "Yes, we have different speeds, we have different temperatures, but I had to tell you what I was feeling and where I was at." "Right." "Now I got to figure out where I'm at." "OK." "Well, if that's it..." "Yeah, that's it." ""What she finally had to admit was that she was angry." "No, furious." "Anything would set Dora off." "A cordless phone that wasn't fully charged." "The cupboard door that refused to stay closed. "" "I'm sorry." "This is stupid." "I never had a chance to read it through." "No." "No, no, no." "Keep going." ""She was even angry at her kids just for being like her." "Stubborn and human." "And always refusing to let things go. "" "It's Grandma." "She was especially angry at how they had gotten in their own way." "Risking happiness by shutting out the ones they love the most." "So nice picture of you online." "You give good photo, surprise-surprise." "Although your friend Layla looks a little buzzed for my taste." "I hope you didn't ply her with mojitos all night." "Anyway, enough of my cattiness." "Call me." "Of course Dora was furious at someone far more difficult to face." "Someone they had trusted." "Someone who had loved them and led them." "And finally betrayed them all." "When a husband dies, you're supposed to be able to mourn your loss." "You're supposed to grieve, but she could not." "He had robbed her of that option." "So, instead, Dora did the only thing left to do." "She said good-bye."