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What would we do, baby, without us?

What would we do, baby, without us?

And there ain't no nothing, we can't love each other through.

What would we do, baby, without us?

Sha -la -la -la.

There you are, Andy, your very own magic set.

Now, I don't know if I told you, but I was quite a magician in my day. In fact,

I can do any trick there is.

Can you disappear?

We'll work up to that.

Now, the first trick I want to show you is called the magic rings. As you can

see, these three rings are all attached.

All I do is say the magic words, abracadabra, and presto.

I can't believe my eyes.

Hey, Dad, how you doing? Hey, Andy.

What's going on, Dad? Dracula tryouts?

Oh, great. Dad's in his magic phase again. Don't worry, Andy.

We've all been through it before.

Are you saying that you doubt my magical powers?

I have here a dollar bill.

I will rip this dollar bill into little pieces.

Never fear, Alex, never fear. Just say the magic words.

And presto.

Oops.

You killed it!

All right, class is dismissed for today.

He masks his enthusiasm well.

Oh, Carnac.

Do you want to give us a hand cleaning up? A company is coming.

Who's the company?

Oh, Evelyn Mitchum.

Evelyn Mitchum? Yeah, you remember my friend Rosalie Mitchum? She used to live

around the corner? Well, this is her mom.

Oh, yeah, sure, I remember.

They must have moved away about three years now.

Two and a half.

You remember during the 76 election they had that Carter Mondale sign in the

front yard?

God, when I saw that one.

Funny how it kept disappearing.

And kept showing up in our basement.

You know, it's the first time since Rosalie died that Evelyn's come back

Yeah, sometimes it's so hard for me to believe.

I mean, 18 years old and she took her own life.

God, it's so sad.

I don't know if I can handle this. I mean, how are we supposed to act in

of Mrs. Mitchell? Just act normal.

Alex, just act close to normal.

Oh, bitchy.

Evelyn! Oh, so good to see you. Hi, thank you. Hi, Elise.

Oh, God. Everyone, you remember Evelyn Mitchell? Yeah.

Mallory, look at you. You're just... You're a beautiful young woman.

Oh, God. Hi, Mrs. Mitchell. Oh, please, please, call me Evelyn.

Jennifer, you look terrific.

All grown up now, huh?

Nice to see you, Mrs. Mitchum.

Please call me Evelyn. Okay.

Alex? Hey.

I hope you're not still angry about that Carter Mondale incident, Evelyn.

Please call me Mrs. Mitchum.

So you really like living in New York, huh?

Yeah, it's great. It took a little getting used to, but it's very exciting.

Do you live near Bloomingdale?

I live in Bloomingdale, Mallory.

Oh, I want to go to New York so bad, Mom.

Oh, Evelyn, you don't have to do the dishes. Don't be silly. I don't mind.

All right, everyone into the living room for levitation.

So, Mallory, how's everything going with you?

Oh, great.

I'm a sophomore at Grant College. I'm majoring in fashion design.

Oh, that's great. I'm glad to hear you kept up with that. You always had a

eye for fashion.

I remember Rosalie would come home from school saying, Mallory's wearing a

paisley skirt.

I want a paisley skirt.

Or Mallory's wearing a check blouse. I want a check blouse.

Well, I hope I wasn't wearing them together.

You know, I have very warm memories of you and Rosalie.

Oh, thank you.

Those letters you wrote really meant a lot to her.

I think she was...

Very lonely in New York. She never quite seemed to get the rhythm of the city.

Yeah, I know. I got a sense of that in the letters she wrote me.

Really? But what exactly did she say? Did she say anything specific?

Oh, well, you know, Rosalie.

She'd write four pages on the color of the trees in Central Park.

And I'd reply with four pages on the color of the blouse I was wearing.

You could always make her laugh, Mallory.

You were one of the few people who could.

I really miss her.

I'm sorry. This is hard for you to talk about. No, no, no. I want to talk about

this.

Yeah, there are a lot of questions I don't have any answers to, and you're

of the few people that really knew her.

Elise, you're breaking the mood.

I just thought I'd levitate in here for a while.

How's the magic going, Mom?

Not so well. I had to get in here before your father tried to saw me in half.

Well, it's getting a little late.

Thanks for dinner, Elise. I'm going to head back to the hotel.

Mallory, would you like to get together tomorrow?

Maybe go to a museum, do some shopping?

Great, yeah.

I'd love for you to meet Nick.

All right, then it's a date. Okay.

Bye.

Are you all right?

Yeah, it's just... It's so weird. I mean...

You know, standing here in my kitchen talking to Rosalie's mom about Rosalie

Rosalie is dead.

It just doesn't seem real.

Takes a brave woman to come back and face all those memories.

Yeah, I get the feeling she really needs to talk about it. Well, it's a good

thing that you're here for her.

Yeah.

going completely overboard with this magic business. He's all tied up in a

and he'd bet Alex ten dollars that he can get out by dinner time.

This beauty stuff has got to stop.

Hey. Hey, did you guys have a good time?

We had a great time. We went to the museum. We went shopping.

I hope you don't mind, Elise. I bought a few presents for Mallory.

I mean, she would look at these clothes like she was in love.

I couldn't resist.

Boy,

she knows her way around them all like no one I've ever seen.

That's my girl.

You know that waterfront area?

Boy, that's really built up a lot. Yeah, 400 stores under one roof. You can get

almost all your shopping done there.

Oh, Mom, Evelyn invited us to stay with her in New York next month.

She said the best museums are in New York.

Ah, did you know they call New York the Big Apple?

Anybody know why?

No, why, Nick?

Well, I don't know. I was hoping one of you would know.

Dad, you cannot chew your... way through the rope not

only that but i won't have to floss for

a week i know these are words you don't enjoy hearing but pay up son

this is way too easy

what i really need is a straight jacket you read my mind

I'll put these things upstairs.

Oh, I'll give you a hand.

You know, I really like that Nick.

What's not to like?

Rosalie seems very happy with him.

Excuse me?

I said she and Nick seem very happy together.

You know, we fell to the playground on the way home.

Oh, boy, that brings back a lot of memories.

Seems like everything's memories now.

Honey, are you okay?

You know, I remember when Rosalie was a little girl.

She ran inside to tell me about a bird's nest that she'd found in the yard. And

I don't know, I just, I had a hard day at work. And I remember I just, I didn't

hear what she said.

So I got angry at her for tracking mud into the house.

And she looked at me with her eyes so full of love.

How could I yell at her?

I'm sorry, you know, it just... It just gets to me sometimes.

Of course it would, why not?

You know, something like that happens and you... You don't think it's forever.

You think that somehow they're going to come back.

But they don't, you know?

They don't.

Jennifer, just the person I want to see. Get in this box.

What is this, Daddy Dearest?

Stephen,

we're not going to put our daughter in a magic box.

Well, okay, at least then you help me.

Oh, Jen, get in.

When I next open this box, my daughter Jennifer will be

gone. Come one, come all from far and near, you have seen my daughter, dear.

make her disappear.

Well,

that's very good. Now bring her back.

She's gone. She's gone. Alack, alack. I will bring my daughter back.

Jennifer, Jennifer, the trick worked. You, uh, come out now.

She's really gone.

Can you do that with Mallory?

What's going on here? Where is Jennifer?

I don't know.

Carl, under a spell and the other one's vanished?

I'm sorry. I didn't know I was this good.

Wait, can you get him to walk?

I think so.

Andrew, I command you to rise and walk.

Levitatus, El Nino.

Hi,

Mom.

Nick's not here yet, is he? Oh, no, no. Oh.

Josh, I don't want to be late. Evelyn's taking us to the ballet tonight.

Oh, really? Well, that's six nights in a row you've all been out together.

Yeah, I'm really having a great time.

I think it's good for her to be with someone my age.

You know, we talk about Rosalie a lot, and I think it's really helping her.

That's nice. Just try not to get too deeply involved here.

Mom, I can handle this. I want to help her.

Honey, we cannot begin to imagine the kind of pain that Evelyn is going

But I don't think it's your responsibility to take that pain away.

Mom, Ruthie and I were best friends. I owe it to her.

Honey, you don't.

Yes, I do.

I can't just walk away from this because I might be afraid.

That's not right either.

Hey, babe.

You ready? Yes.

All right. You know, I'm kind of excited about this. I ain't never been to the

ballet before.

No kidding.

We'll see you, Mom.

Goodbye, Don. Have a good time.

Hey. Hey.

You think I scared him enough to make him quit?

I hate to say this, but I am really bored.

I don't know if we should stay for the second half.

Hey, I was enjoying it. I was sleeping good.

What are we going to say to Evelyn? Maybe we shouldn't say anything. Maybe

should just go.

Oh, no, we can't do that.

Oh, right, right, right, right, right.

Hi, guys.

Oh, hi.

Hey.

Could I get anybody something to drink? I'm fine.

I'd love some orange juice.

You got it. You know, and by the way, I love this ballet.

Very restful.

I'm sorry. It's not very good.

Oh, that's okay.

You know, Rosalie and I used to come here to the ballet all the time.

She loved it.

She'd say as soon as the lights went down, she'd escape to another world.

Yeah, Rosalie loved music.

You know, she wouldn't go to the ballet with me in New York.

She wouldn't do anything with me. She'd just shut off.

It was like she knew that it mattered to me.

Well, that doesn't sound like Rosalie. I'm sure she had reasons.

Don't defend her.

She knew what she was doing, believe me.

Um,

Evelyn, maybe this is not such a good idea.

I don't know if we should all stay for the second half.

You're not leaving.

What?

You're staying till the end. Rosalie would have stayed till the end.

I'm not Rosalie. I know that.

Don't you think I know that?

Um, Evelyn, do you... How could she have hurt herself like that?

How could she have hurt me like that? What did I do?

Evelyn, you can't blame yourself. She could have talked to me.

Anytime I was there, I was ready to listen.

You know how many times I went into her room trying to get her to talk?

Val, they didn't have orange juice, so I got you pineapple juice. I hope you

don't mind.

Um, I have to get out of here.

Hey, I know it'll bug you so much. No.

Um, um, uh, take it of Lanone.

Mal, she's crying.

I... I have to get out of here.

Hi, Lanone. Hi. I love you.

Must have been some ballet.

I love you, too.

That was Evelyn.

It went too far.

She started yelling at me, but she wasn't really yelling at me. She was

at me like I was Rosalie.

Oh, honey, sit down.

I had this idea that I could help her, that I could fill this void that Rosalie

left.

And I wanted to ease her pain. I think I wound up just hurting her more.

Honey, you didn't hurt Evelyn. Rosalie did.

So weird.

Rosalie and I were best friends.

We wore the same clothes.

We snuck into movies together.

We got caught smoking cigarettes in the girls' bathroom together.

Excuse me?

You didn't hear about that one?

No.

Well, swatter under the bridge.

I just don't know how she could have made a decision like that.

I mean, how could she have been so sad?

I don't know.

I mean, no matter how bad a day is, there's always tomorrow.

I mean, there's always a chance that things can get better.

I guess Rosalie didn't see it that way.

She always saw things so differently.

Even when we were little, I could tell she felt things much deeper than anyone

else.

She was so sensitive.

I remember one time we were at McDonald's and these girls started

her.

And they were much bigger than us. So I stood in front of Rosalie.

And I took out a cherry pie and I threatened them with a hot fruit

And they backed off. But Worldly, she ran outside and she started to cry.

But it was the way she was crying. It's like, it's like they hurt her so deeply

in her soul.

It's like she couldn't help herself from hurting so deep.

Eloise.

Mallory, can I talk to you?

Sure.

Nick, why don't you and I go in the living room, and you can tell me all

the ballet. You can start at the beginning, okay?

Okay. First the lights went down, and then the music started up real soft.

And then one person in the audience coughed.

And then another, and another. And that was a real nice surprise, because I was

not aware that it was going to be an audience participation.

What I did tonight was unforgivable.

I can't be her, Evelyn. I know that.

I don't know what I was doing.

You're such a beautiful girl, Mallory.

You're so full of light and life and... I guess when Rosalie died, I thought I'd

never see that light again.

Why did you come back here, Evelyn?

I guess I wanted to turn back time.

I wanted to try to remember when everything was okay.

Maybe if we hadn't moved away, things would still be okay.

I keep thinking if I'd just done something different, this never would

happened.

You can't think like that, Evelyn. It wasn't your fault.

I guess I spend so much time thinking about the past because I just can't bear

to face tomorrow.

Well, you have been every day.

You know my biggest fear?

God, what am I saying this to you for? I've done enough damage already.

Ellen, tell me it's okay.

My biggest fear is that I'll forget her.

That I'll wake up one morning and I won't remember the sight of her face

or the sound of her voice or

what it felt like, you know, when she was a little girl and she used to put

hand in mine.

So I struggle every day to try to keep those thoughts very clear in my mind.

And I guess you were part of all that.

I'm sorry.

Don't be.

Rosalie was the most precious thing in my life.

I guess I'm not ready to stop loving her.

Well, you don't have to.

I mean, you can still love the spirit of who she was.

I haven't been able to do that I think it's time, huh?

Sit, Ubu, sit.

Good dog.