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[Siren wailing in distance]

[Horn honking]

- We are so excited to be
working with Joe Joe's Coffee.

- She's not
just saying that.

It took her
less than a week

to fill up one of
your loyalty cards.

- Actually, that is true.

I love coffee,
and I love Joe Joe's Coffee.

- I am always happy
to hear that.

- Great!

We'll touch base
with mock-ups

for the marketing campaign.

- I can't wait
to get started.

- Us too.
- So, see you!

- Great! Bye!
- Bye!

Mmm! Score! Yes!

- Ooh, nice!

- We did it!

- Only the biggest
coffee chain in the country!

Not bad for the new kid!

- Well, it helps
that I am working

with the senior
accounts exec.

- Stop. You're making me blush.

Actually, don't stop.

- OK.

Uh, so I guess
I'll set up a meeting

with the art department
right before I leave.

- Well, Lara, you--
you gotta postpone.

- Joel, I can't.

I've already been
putting it off for so long.

- Yeah, well, not to
be disrespectful,

but your aunt isn't
exactly in a hurry.

- No, she isn't.
But her lawyer is.

And I'm her executor.

- And why do you
have to do it?

- My dad is her
closest relative.

He's in California.
I'm in New York.

But honestly,
it's gonna be so fine.

I'll go, I'll
sign some papers,

and I'll be back
before you even know it.

- Where does she live again?

- Kissing Falls, Connecticut.

You will be very
interested to know

it is the hummingbird
capital of New England.

- OK.

- I looked it up.

- Well, don't worry.

The Big Apple will be
waiting for you.

- Good to know.
- Catch you later!

- Bye!

[Clicks tongue]

- Oh!
- Oh, gosh!

I'm so sorry!

[Laughing]

- I think they call that,
uh, distracted walking.

- Yes, the office can wait.

But my coffee fix can't.

Sorry.

Oh, actually, question:

Um, do you happen to know

if there is
a Joe Joe's Coffee in town?

- Not so far,
thank heavens!

- "Thank heavens"?

- I know where you can
get a cup of tea.

- Oh, no, that's OK.

I'm a java girl,
all the way.

- Yeah, to each their own.

- Yeah.

- Hey! Take care
on the sidewalks, Java.

- Oh! Hmm.

[Barking]

- Ah! Oh! Hi, cute dog!

Um, do you happen to know
where Vivienne's Tea Shop is?

- Yeah, it's down that way
off the main road.

- What's your dog's name?
- Uh, Rufus.

- Oh! Hey, Rufus!

So cute! See you!

- Good boy! Come on!

[Man talking, indistinct]

[Birds chirping]

[Laughing]

- Hey! I'm Lara Thompson.

You must be Daphne.

- Oh, Lara, of course!
Come here!

- Oh, oh! Ha! Hugger!

- Oh! I would have
known you anywhere.

You have your
aunt Vivienne's eyes.

- Do I?

- Mmm. No one's ever
told you that before?

- No, I grew up
in California.

I was young the
last time I saw her.

- Mmm. You here for
the reading of the will?

- Uh, yes. I organized with
the lawyer to meet here.

- Well, can I get
you a cup of tea?

We got dozens to choose from.
- Oh, no thank you.

I've never really been a fan.
- Really?

Well, that's where you
and Vivienne part ways.

- Oh!

- Morning, Daphne!

- Hey! Oh, morning, Matt!

This is Lara, Vivienne's niece.
She just drove up from the city.

And, Lara, meet Matt Slater.

- Yes, I've already
had the pleasure.

- It's nice to
see you again, Java.

- Matt was one of
Vivienne's closest friends.

- Oh!

- Well, yeah,
she was a young 80,

and I'm more like an old 36.

A bit of both.

You could say that
we, uh, worked together.

I own the local garden center.

- Matt supplies all the
botanicals for our herbal teas.

He and Vivienne
had a standing date

for a cup every morning.

- Well, yeah.

Not quite, but it is
a hard habit to break.

She was a great lady.

- Right. Yeah, um...

Well, I better
check in with this.

Don't let me interrupt
your tea, though.

- Oh, no, no.
- No, no, no. Not, not...

- That's not why I'm here today.

- Lara? Elaine Schmidt.
Nice to meet you in person.

- Oh, yes! Hi!

- And I see Matt's
here already!

Shall we get started?
- Yeah.

- Um...

[Chuckling]

I'm sorry.

No, I don't understand.

- Oh, I thought I explained.
You and Matt are co-executors.

- Oh! Yeah, no,
you didn't, so...

- Don't worry.

I won't slow you down...

much.

[Inhaling deeply]

- So, that's
just about it!

The house and the tea shop
are to be sold,

and the proceeds will go to
Vivienne's favorite charity,

creating the Kissing Falls
Bird Sanctuary.

- Ah, we've been
trying to establish

that sanctuary for years.

My husband and I are
on the board of directors.

Actually, now that
Vivienne's gone,

I think we are
the board of directors.

- Oh, well, Daphne, did you
want to buy the tea shop?

I mean, I'm sure
we could cut you a deal.

- Oh, no.
No, no, no.

No, my husband and I are
gonna be way too busy

starting the sanctuary.

- My brother is
in real estate.

He's willing to
help us find buyers

for the store and
the house, if that's OK.

- Yeah, of course.
- OK, great!

So, I'll just
need your signatures.

- Oh, wow!

When I saw how thick
the will was, I was like:

"Ah! This is gonna
take forever!"

But it's actually
been really quick.

[Phone ringing]

Oh.

- Let me guess,
the office?

- Yeah, I did tell them
that I was in a meeting.

- Mm-hmm. Seems they
can't live without you.

- Oh! I'm in marketing.

Just started a new campaign.

Here you go!
I am done!

- Oh, there's one more thing.
- Mm-hmm.

[Clears throat]

- Who wants to do the honors?

- All yours.

- Oh, thank you.

[Chuckling]

OK...

Oh!

"Dear Matt and Lara, thank you
for agreeing to be my executors.

"I'm sorry to be
such a nuisance,

"but though I've lived
such a wonderful life

"full of good friends
and fine cups of tea,

"I've had no children of
my own to take on the task.

"I don't regret
being a single lady.

At least we're no longer
called spinsters."

[Chuckling]

That's funny. Uh...

"But I would have loved
to have had children.

"You, dear Matthew,
have been like a son to me.

"And, Lara, I have such
fond memories of you

"as a little girl.

You were exactly as I would have
pictured a daughter of my own."

That's so sweet.

- That was Vivienne.

- I'm sad that I didn't
get to know her.

- Yeah.

- Keep reading.

- Oh, yes. Uh...

[Clears throat]

"I have only one
other regret:

that my tea never received
a Golden Tea Cup from the..."

- [Both]: "International Council
of Tea Sommeliers."

- What?

- Uh, she talked
about it all the time.

- Until her health
started to fail,

she sent them a new blend
almost every year.

- Oh. Uh...

"I--I have a dream
that one of you

might take over
and keep trying."

That's a--that's a
pretty big dream.

Um, where is the council based?

- London, England.

- Yeah, in the tea world,

I mean, getting the
Golden Cup on your label

is like four Michelin stars.

- It's a jury process.

And tea producers from
every country you can name

send in samples.

- I mean, I would love to help,

but I have a job in New York
that I have to get back to.

Uh, Matt, do you
have any interest

in taking over
for Vivienne?

- Uh, my--my hands
are pretty full

with the, um,
garden center.

- Right.

- Well, she did say
it was a dream.

- Yeah.

Well, and that's
pretty much it.

And she gives us her love.

- Well, that's
everything. Thanks.

- Well, I guess the next thing
to do is sort out the house?

- Yeah. You wanna
go take a look?

- Yeah, I--I would love to.

Um, I do need to just
check in with work first.

- Sure.

[Sighing]

- Oh, hey! Joel, it's me.

- About time!

Hey, uh, when are
you getting back?

The art department wants to run
some preliminary ideas by us.

- Can't you do it, Joel?

- What about, "I'll be back
before you know it"?

- Let me rephrase.

I will be back as soon
as possible, I promise.

- I'm holding you to that.

Bye.

- OK, bye.

- All set?
- Uh, you bet!

- Let's go.
- OK.

[Phone ringing in distance]

[Birds chirping]

[Chuckling]

Oh!

When I used to visit from
California when I was younger,

I used to follow these
secret passages and pathways

and pretend like I was
lost in the forest.

- Yeah, well, Vivienne
loved her gardens.

Although they got a little too
much for her in the later years.

I'd always offer
to cut them back,

but she was adamant
she liked them overgrown.

It's very English.

- My dad said that she
spent some time in England

when she was younger.

- Mm-hmm. She went to
the Royal Tea Academy.

- Hey, Bro!

- Hey, Steve!

Uh, this is Lara Thompson.

- Pleasure.

- Yeah, you too.

Local boys.

- Yeah, Kissing Falls,
born and bred.

- But Matt lived in
Brooklyn for a while.

- No way! I love Brooklyn.

- Yeah, Brooklyn is great,
uh, for a long weekend.

- OK...

- No, it's just, uh, living
there made me realize

I need, um, you know,
more elbow room.

- Hope you don't mind.

The lawyer gave me a key
to take a look.

- Of course.
What do you think?

- Well, it's a little
far out of the city

to make it a daily commute,

but that keeps
the price affordable.

It's definitely got charm.

- That's real estate agent
for: "It needs work."

- How much work?

That's executor for: "How much
is this going to cost?"

- Hard to say.

Take care of
the obvious things:

paint the porch,
tame the flower beds.

This place would have
real appeal to city folk

looking for a small-town getaway
to make their own.

- Hmm. I'm gonna go
take a look inside.

- Yeah, sure.

- Oh, thank you.

- She's nice.

- Don't start.

- What?

- She's big city.

I'm small town.

- It's me and my mom.

- Cute kid.

- It's so sad that Vivienne

didn't have any
children of her own.

Did she ever say
why she never married?

- Oh, it's not something
she ever dwelled on.

Your aunt was always
a firm believer

in playing the hand
that she was dealt.

Although...

- Although?

- Ah, it's just something
she said to me once

when she was telling me
about her time in London.

- What did she say?

- Ah...

[Sighing]

She let out this huge sigh,
and she said:

"Who knows what
might have been."

- That's it?

- Yeah, when I asked
her to explain,

she changed the subject.

- Mmm, Vivienne Thompson,
woman of mystery.

She's pretty.

So, I'm guessing
we should get an estimate

on what it's gonna cost
to fix this place up?

- Oh, well,
I was thinking

I could do most
of the work myself.

- Well, that's not fair.
We're co-executors.

- Ah, you're most
welcome to help.

[Inhaling deeply]

- I'm expected
back in the city.

- Oh. Who's expecting you?

- Just work. Look,
we can just hire somebody.

- It's OK.
I'll do it myself.

There will be more money
for the bird sanctuary.

- Well, I mean, I guess I could
stay a couple of days.

They do owe me for
all of the weekends

that I've been
working lately.

And I am pretty handy
with a paintbrush.

- Wow! That is great, because I
am terrible with a paintbrush.

- Hmm...

All right, Mr. Co-executor,
I need to ask you something.

- Yeah, shoot.

- Would it be OK if I stayed
here instead of in a motel?

- Yeah, that's
a great idea!

That way, you can work on the
house morning, noon and night!

- Nice one!
It's not gonna happen.

Good morning, Daphne!
- Good morning!

I am steeping some
English breakfast tea,

which is a great way
to start the day.

Can I pour you a cup?

- Oh, no thanks.
I've got my coffee fix.

I was thinking
I'd start

by clearing out
Aunt Vivienne's office.

- Ugh! Be my guest.

Oh, sorry, hon!
We're not open till 8:00.

- No, it's an emergency!

- A tea emergency?

- Please, you have to help me.

- Honey, what is wrong?

- It's my boyfriend.
He's never gonna propose.

- OK, so maybe get
a new boyfriend.

- No, but I love him!

- OK.

Oh, I'm sorry.
I don't understand.

- Oh!
- Why did you come here?

- Because when my mom
was dating my dad,

she got this special tea,
a love potion.

- Oh, no, I--I don't think we
claim anything we sell here

is a love potion.

- Oh, no, that's just
what my mom calls it.

But after my dad drank it,
he asked her to marry him!

- Oh, wow!

- Yeah, here it is!

- Hmm.

- Moonglow?

Oh, we haven't
made this in years,

I mean, maybe decades.

- Yeah, but you can make it
again, though, right?

- I'm Lara.
This is Daphne.

What is your name?

- Amy.
- Amy!

That was a really
beautiful story

about your mom and your dad.

And it was just
so romantic.

- But we don't even know
what went into this blend.

- Yeah, and, I mean,
there's no way

that it could have actually
have been a love potion.

- Right. Yeah.

Well, I mean, maybe not.

But something about it
was so perfect

that it made my dad see
how perfect my mom was too.

- I'm sorry. I don't
think we can help you.

- Uh, but we will try.

- Ah!
- Wait, what?

We will?
- Yes, we will.

- Thank you!
Thank you so much!

- Yeah, uh, maybe give us
just a couple of days.

- OK. Well, OK, um...
- And I'll get back to you.

- OK, well, here's
where you can reach me.

Thank you so much! Bye!

- Whoa!
- Oh!

- There goes
a happy customer.

- Yeah, I think she's gonna be
an unsatisfied customer.

Lara, why did you tell her
we could make this tea?

- Well, don't you see?

This could be our chance

to get Aunt Vivienne
her Golden Tea Cup!

- I'm sorry, what?

- "A tea so perfect, it will
make him want to propose."

- [Scoffing]: OK!

What kind of romantic
nonsense is that?

- Well, a great product
needs a great story.

This is a great story!

- And if by story, you mean
complete fiction, then yeah.

- Come on, Matt.

What, you don't believe
in love stories?

- Well, I don't believe
that a tea

can make two people
stay together forever.

- Perfect!

Then that's what we'll call it:
Together Forever Tea.

- Yeah, just one problem.
- What's that?

- We don't know what's in it.

- I'm sure Vivienne
has recipes.

- Yeah, there's an old
file box I can check.

- What do you say? Come on!

This could
be our chance

to make Vivienne's
dream come true.

- OK, I'm game.

But even if we find this tea,
it's a long shot.

- It's never just
about the product.

It's also about
the marketing.

And that's
where I come in.

- Huh.
- Hmm.

- Apricot?

- Apricot?
- Yeah.

- No, it's peppermint!

- No luck, I'm afraid.

Vivienne kept all her
tea recipes in this box.

- And no Moonglow?

- Sorry.

- Well, maybe it was misfiled.

- Well, it wouldn't
be under M anyway.

Vivienne filed teas according
to what they did, so, um...

Like, lavender tea would be
under R for "relaxing."

- OK, so what would
Moonglow be under?

- I don't know. I checked
"love," "romance."

- Oh! Well, there's a section
called "true love."

- Looked there too.

- Ew! These ones
are stuck together.

Gross!

- Vivienne did love
her crumpets and jam.

- Yes.

- Oh!

Moonglow, voila!

- Oh!

- Well done, detective!

Here, let me see.

OK, so the first ingredient
is passion fruit.

- Yum.

- Ah, here is a problem.

The blend calls for the petals
of the Kissing Falls rose.

- Oh, well, there's the reason
Vivienne stopped making it.

- It got wiped out
by this fungus,

probably about 20 years ago.

- OK, why is it
so important?

- Herbal teas have to be
very carefully balanced, OK?

So, first, there's the
basic placeholder flavor.

Here, it's the--
the dried nettle.

- So, Aunt Vivienne wasn't
the only tea expert, I see.

- Well, everything I know,
I pretty much learned from her.

- Hmm.

- Then there's the fruity note,
which is the passion fruit.

Uh, the most important note
is the floral note.

- Mm-hmm.

- So, the petals were what
made this tea so special.

- Couldn't you just
use another rose?

- I'm guessing
if it was that easy,

Vivienne would have
already done it.

But, hey,
we could always try!

- But you have tasted it,
though, right?

- Yes, a long time ago.

- Great! You will be our guide.

- [Laughing]: Oh!

[Insects chirring,
birds chirping]

- So, where do we start?

- Well, I have a few thoughts,

but they are literally
dozens of varieties.

- Yeah, well, so much for:
"A rose is a rose is a rose."

- A Gertrude Stein fan, huh?

- I did my undergrad in 20th
century American literature

before I went
to business school.

- Nice! Soul of a poet.

- Mind of a marketer.

But I'm not--I'm not just
about selling stuff, so...

- I never would
have thought that.

- OK, good.

Yeah, my plan is to,
uh, work for nonprofits.

The marketing job
was a stepping stone

to get to Manhattan.

- Hmm, bright lights
do attract starry eyes.

- Whoa!

Why do I get a feeling

there was a cautionary tale
in that remark,

something about
moths and flames?

- Oh, OK, so you don't
like the bright lights?

- No! I love them.

You know, just
as the song goes,

if you can make it there,
you can make it anywhere.

Oh! This is pretty!

Can we try this one?

- Well, we could,

but I'm thinking maybe
we need to find

something resembling
the Kissing Falls rose.

- Oh!
- My mom used to grow them.

She was the expert gardener.

Her and Dad started
this place up.

- Oh, and now you run it?

- Mm-hmm. When they
retired to Florida.

You know, Mom and
your Aunt Vivienne

were pretty
close friends.

- Oh! Really?

- Yeah.

- Uh, just like you
and Aunt Vivienne.

- Uh, yeah, I know
that may seem a bit odd.

- Not at all!

- [Laughing]: Come on!

She was just, you know,
really easy to talk to.

Great listener, very wise.

- Sounds like you're speaking
from personal experience.

- Yeah.

I went through a bit of a bad
breakup a couple of years back,

and Vivienne's advice
was spot on.

- I always remember her as
being a really caring lady.

When I visited,

she showed me these photos
of this injured owl

that she had nursed
back to health.

- Mr. Magoo?

- Yeah, it was Mr. Magoo.
How did you know that?

- Wow, Steve and I
found him one time

when we were hiking up
in the woods way back.

We asked Mom what
to do with him,

and she said if anyone
could save him,

it would be Vivienne.

She was right.

- Huh.

- Huh!
- Huh.

- Hey, how about
a cherry parfait?

- Yes! That sounds delicious!

Uh, but I--I do think

that we should probably focus
on--on finding this rose.

- That is a rose.

The cherry parfait.

- Mmm, it's not what I
remember it tasting like. Sorry.

- That's OK!
Um, we can keep trying.

You did say that
there are dozens

of different varieties
of roses, right?

- True enough.

- There's something not quite
right about the base note.

I think it's...
- The nettles?

- Quick study, huh?

- Well, maybe it's
in my blood.

- Well, nowadays, we buy them
in bulk from a distributor,

but Vivienne used to just
pick them by hand locally.

- Yeah, well, I know where a
patch is right up by the falls.

- Uh, the actual Kissing Falls?

- Mm-hmm.

- Oh, I went up there as a kid!

- That's where we'll
put the bird sanctuary.

- Oh, that's so nice!

- You wanna head
up there with me?

[Phone dinging]

- Yeah, sure.

- Let's do it!

You know, nothing was more
important to your aunt Vivienne

than keeping this place
the way it is.

She actually
lobbied for years

to set this whole place up
as a protected area.

[Sighing]

- Wow! It's so beautiful
and unspoiled.

- Here we go!

- Sorry. Fine.

Um, hey...

Should you be doing that?

You know what they say:

"Take only photos.
Leave only footprints."

- I'm certified
to collect wild plants.

I got a greenhouse dedicated
to them at the garden center.

Although, I'm very impressed

a city girl knows
the campers' code.

- I've been camping...

once.

It was for my
bachelorette party.

[Laughing]

- You're married?

- Oh! No, no, no, no.
It didn't work out, no.

We met in business school.

And, well, I realized
in the nick of time

we were like
oil and water.

He wanted to guzzle oil
into yachts and luxury cars,

and I wanted to
save the ocean.

[Chuckling]

- Well, his loss.

- Oh, no, no. We would have
been miserable together.

All we had in common
was how much

we both wanted to
move to New York.

- Hey, isn't there,
um, some story

about how the Kissing Falls
got its name?

- Legend has it that, uh,
a couple had a fight

on their wedding day.

- Oh.

- So, it looked like
the wedding was off.

And then the families
tricked each of them

into coming up here.

- Oh, wait, let me guess.

They kissed and
fell back in love?

- Yeah, something like that.

- Hmm! So romantic.
Do you believe it's true?

- Well, they were
my ancestors,

so yeah.

- Oh!

[Chuckling]

Oh! Wait, wait, wait!

[Grunting]

- Well, I better get
this back to the greenhouse,

and then get to work on the
dehydrating more rose petals.

Hopefully, one of them
is gonna work.

- Do you think you could drop me
at Aunt Vivienne's house?

- Sure.

- While you look
for a magic rose,

I'll work my charms
on the tea sommeliers.

- They won't know
what's hit them.

[Laughing]

[Insects chirring]

[Line ringing]

[Man talking on phone,
indistinct]

- Hey! Is this the International
Council of the Tea Sommeliers?

[Man talking, indistinct]

Great!

I represent Vivienne's Tea Shop
in Kissing Falls, Connecticut,

and I'm calling
to invite the Council

to sample a very exciting
new tea we're about to--

[Dial tone]

Well, there is nothing worse
than a tea snob.

- I've got a couple interested
in looking at Vivienne's house.

- Already?

- That's what you wanted, right?

- Sure, but I just wasn't
expecting it to happen so fast.

- When could you
get it ready to show?

- Well, I'd have to
talk to Lara about it,

but right now, we're kind of in
the middle of something else.

- A rose parade?

- No, we're making
a new tea blend,

trying to get the
Golden Cup for Vivienne.

- Nice!
- Mmm.

- Can't help but notice
you're saying "we" a lot.

- I can't help but notice

you sticking your nose
where it shouldn't be.

- I just want my brother
to be happy.

- Well, I appreciate it,
man, but I am happy.

- Are you?

- Get out of here.

- Catch you later!

- Love you, Bro!
- Love you.

- Hmm.

Hmm!

- You ready to start
fixing this place up?

- Sure!

Are you ready
to solve a mystery?

- It's never been opened?

- Weird, isn't it?

- Huh. And no return address.

- I think she knew
who they were from.

Why else would she
keep them all these years?

- Huh.

There's only
one way to find out.

[Sighing]

- Oh, no, no,
no, no. Whoa!

You can't open them.

- Why not?

- Because they're private!

- How else are we gonna find out
if it's important or not, huh?

- Fine, you can open one.
But we're not gonna read it.

We're just gonna open it
to--to see who sent it.

- OK.

Actually, maybe you
should open it.

You are really
related to her.

- Fine.

- It just says "N."
Any idea who N might be?

- No, not a clue.

- I don't understand why
she wouldn't open them.

- Must be someone she had
very strong feelings for.

- She didn't open them, but she
didn't throw them away either.

- Very strong feelings.

- You mentioned
that you thought

she had some kind of
romance in London, right?

- Yeah, but it's just
an impression I had.

- It's a good
place to start.

- But first, we gotta
paint the porch.

Come on!

[Sighing]

[Laughing]

♪♪ You're the only girl
got a hold on me♪

♪ Take me by the hand
Never let me leave ♪

[Both chuckling awkwardly]

♪ All I want to be
is all you need ♪

♪ There's so much more to see

- Oh!

[Both laughing]

Your edging skills were
surprisingly impressive!

- Well, a lot of practice

coloring in between
the lines, I guess.

- Not just a pretty face.

- Thanks, I think.

So, uh, I--I put a bunch
of different rose petals

in the dehydrator.

I should...

- Mm-hmm.

- ...probably go
check on those.

- Yeah, that's great.
And we could get, uh, Daphne.

She can, you know,
taste the blends tomorrow.

Maybe one of
them will work.

- I hope so.

- Mm-hmm, yeah! Me too.

- All right, I'll see
you at the tea shop?

- Yeah, you bet.

- OK.

- What?

- Uh, I said: "See you!"

- Oh, see you! Bye!

Thank you!

Bye! Bye! See you.

♪ We could wake up
to the burning sun ♪

♪ Take me by the hand
Always on the run ♪

[Breathing heavily]

♪ I just want
to be forever young ♪

♪ This love won't come undone

♪ This love won't come undone ♪

[Exhaling sharply]

♪ All that I want
is to be anywhere you are ♪

♪ All that I want
is to be anywhere you are♪

♪ All that I want
is to be anywhere you are♪♪

[Breathing heavily]

The red ribbon...

[Birds chirping]

"With Nigel in Norfolk, 1965."

"N" has to be for Nigel.

He's the one who
wrote the love letters.

I am certain of it.
And, look!

That red ribbon
is the same ribbon

that Aunt Vivienne had wrapped
around the love letters.

- I don't know. I never remember
Vivienne mentioning a Nigel.

[Sighing]

- Well, Daphne, do you?

- No, I...

I mean, unless it...

No, no, it couldn't be.

- [Both]: What?

- Well, the only Nigel
Vivienne ever talked about

was Sir Nigel Newberry.

- And he is...

- The head of the International
Council of Tea Sommeliers.

But he was no
friend of Vivienne's.

- Doesn't sound right.
Everybody loved her!

- She was sure
he was the reason

her tea never got the
recognition it deserved.

- Doesn't really
sound like someone

who would have sent
all those love letters.

- Well, I don't know about that.
- What do you mean?

- Well, when love ends,
people can become bitter.

- But then it wasn't
true love from the beginning.

Look, there's only
one way to find out

if Sir Nigel Newberry
is theNigel.

- How?

- Ask him.

- And if he is?

- Well then, Aunt Vivienne may
finally get her Golden Tea Cup.

[Chuckling]

Yeah?
- Yeah.

[Birds chirping]

[Dog barking in distance]

Oh, that's tasty!

But not it.

- Ah! OK, well,
that's it, then.

I've tried petals
from every single rose

I got at the
garden center.

- Nothing comes close to
the Kissing Falls rose.

- Yeah, so it seems.

- OK... How does this sound?

[Clears throat]

"Dear Sir Nigel, I have exciting
news about a new tea blend

"from Vivienne's Tea Shop

unlike anything
you've ever tasted before."

"I believe you may be
acquainted with the proprietor,

Vivienne Thompson."

- You gonna let him know
Vivienne passed?

- Well, I thought about it,

but then I thought if he is
the right Nigel, then...

- It might come
as a terrible shock

for him to find out
in an email.

- Yeah, better to
let him down gently.

- You know what?
Here's a problem.

- What?

- Even if it's
the right Nigel,

we don't have a
tea blend to send him.

- Well, maybe we will
by the time he responds.

I mean, all we can do is try.

- OK. All right,
I'm gonna head over

to the Hansenville Garden Center
and check out the roses there.

You want to come with?

- Sure!

[Phone ringing]

- Your office?

- Give me one minute!

Hey, Joel! What's up?

- Great news!

The art department has
terrific mock-ups

for the Joe Joe's
Coffee campaign.

- Oh, that's awesome! Um, can
you email them over to me?

- Aren't you coming
back to the office?

- Actually, I am still
in Kissing Falls.

Something came up.

- I expected you
to be back by now.

- It's just a little bit more
complicated than I expected.

- How complicated?

- Medium complicated.

Um, but, look, I just need
a little bit more time, OK?

So I can do all my work
from here, though. It's fine.

- It's not the same, Lara.
We need you back in the office.

Look, don't make me
pull seniority.

- I'm sorry?
What was that?

- Nothing, sorry.

- I am owed days off, Joel.

- Yeah, it's just, you know,
the timing couldn't be worse.

- Look, I will be back
as soon as possible, OK?

Bye.
- Bye.

- Everything OK?

- Honestly, I don't know.

- Well, it seems
like this Joel guy

is being a little
unreasonable.

- He's a good guy, really.

But, um, we should get going.

The sooner we get
the perfect blend,

the sooner I can
go back to the city.

Is this tea?

- What do you think?

- That it's delicious.

- Yes! And that is
not even Moonglow.

- We're gonna make a tea drinker
out of you yet!

- Well, never say never! Hmm!

- Uh...
- Miriam, is everything OK?

- Uh, the--the wind blew my
gate open, and Rufus got out.

I'm afraid he's lost.

You guys haven't seen him
anywhere, have you?

- Uh, no. But we will
help you look for him.

- Oh, thank you!
- Yeah.

- I last saw him, he was, um...
- Matt!

- Yeah. I'll be back.

- Rufus!
- Rufus!

Where are you, boy?

- Ah, she must be so
stressed and so worried!

- Yeah.

Rufus is a rescue dog, so he's
already on the nervous side.

Miriam's only had him
for a couple of months.

- Oh. So it is true.

[Laughing]

- What's true?

- Well, just that everyone
knows everything about everyone

in a small town.

- I like to think of it

more as people being concerned
for each other, but...

Rufus!

- Oh, hey, sorry if that came
across as being judgmental.

- No, I...
I--I'm sorry.

I mean, I guess I have
my preconceptions

about the big city too.

- Oh, do you think?

Rufus!

[Whistling]

You a dog lover, Matt?

- Ah, pretty much. I mean,
I don't have my own, but...

- Oh, why not?

- Well, I got pretty close to
my ex's Labradoodle, Eloise.

- I'm sorry.

Was it just as hard to break up
with her as it was with your ex?

- Ha! Yeah, not quite.

I think about getting
a dog sometimes.

But I don't know.
What about you?

- Well, we used to have beagles
growing up, but I don't know.

Just with my work
schedule and stuff,

it wouldn't really
be fair to get a dog.

- Right.

- Rufus!

[Dog whimpering]

Rufu-- Oh, oh!
- Hey.

[Dog whimpering]

- Oh!
- Rufus!

- Rufus!
- There he is!

- Hi!
- Come here, boy!

- Come here, baby!
- Come on, buddy!

- Come here!
- It's OK! Good boy!

You're all right!

- It's OK!
- You're safe now, buddy.

- Ah! Thank you guys
so much for finding him!

Come on! Good boy! See you!

- See you!
- Bye! Take care!

- Bye, Rufus!
- Bye, Rufus!

- You know,
I have to admit,

it is pretty exciting
being able to save the day.

- Huh.

- What?

- I'm just surprised you
can find such excitement

in a small town like this.

- Me too!

[Chuckling]

- Come on.

Let's go smell some roses.

So, Joel is your boss.

- No, he's a senior executive at
the marketing firm I work for.

We're partners on this account.

Well, at least I--I
thought we were partners.

But, yes, he is
beginning to sound

a little bit more
like my boss.

- Mm-hmm! And now he's
pressuring you to go back?

- We're developing a campaign
for Joe Joe's Coffee.

- What, the coffee chain?

[Chuckling]

- Yes.

Let me guess, you've never
been inside of one!

- No, I've been in one.

I ordered a tea.
It was terrible.

- How can you go wrong
with hot water and a tea bag?

- Oh! Lara, you have
so much to learn.

- Well then, teach me,
oh wise one!

- OK, well, tea is
about ritual, all right?

First, you gotta warm the pot.

Then you gotta measure out
the loose tea.

- They certainly have
a variety of roses here.

- Yeah, they do.

Just probably not
the one we need.

- Hmm. Oh, look!

- Cheryl.

- Matt! What are you
doing in Hansenville?

You checking out
the competition?

- Yeah, you know, just
gotta keep on my toes.

Cheryl, this is, uh, Lara.

- Oh. It's, uh,
nice to meet you.

- Yeah, you too.

- How's Megan?

- Oh, she's fabulous!

She just got back from a
business trip to Singapore.

Before that,
she was in Geneva.

- Oh!
- Great!

Good for her.

And--and, uh, how's Eloise?

- Eloise is fine.

- Ah, tell her I said hi.

- Eloise or Megan?

- Uh, Megan.

- Sure.

It's nice seeing you.

- You too.

[Exhaling sharply]

- Well, that was awkward.

- Yeah, Cheryl
is my ex's sister.

- Yes, no, I figured it
was something like that.

- Hmm. I'm guessing Megan is
still holding a bit of a grudge.

- Well, when love ends,
people can get bitter.

- Yeah.

- You know, uh,
maybe it wasn't true love.

- You really believe what you
said the other day about love?

- Well, I believe that if two
people really love each other,

then they care more about
each other's well-being

than they do
about their own.

So it's not possible
to feel bitter.

- Oh, and that's how
you felt about your ex?

[Inhaling deeply]

- I thought so,
but turns out I was wrong.

Haven't given
up hope, though.

[Birds chirping]

[Car door closing]

- Matt? Is everything OK?

- Yeah, um, I forgot
to tell you something.

- Oh yeah? What's that?

- Friday night, it's, uh,
movie night in Kissing Falls.

- They have a theater?

- Well, you could call it that.

It's more like a patchy piece
of grass under the stars.

- Mmm! Who could resist?

- And don't worry.
I packed the bug spray.

[Insects chirring]

- Oh, It Happened One Night!
This is my favorite!

- Yeah, it's a classic!
- The original rom-com.

- Yeah, poor boy
meets rich girl.

- They butt heads.
- Banter ensues.

- She almost marries
the wrong guy.

- Ha! But then,
in the nick of time,

they realize they are
meant for each other.

- Hmm.

So, you do believe
in love stories.

- I never said I didn't.

Popcorn?

[Chicken clucking]

- Oh, Matt, Matt!
He responded!

- What did he say?

- Uh, oh, no, actually,
it's from his assistant.

Thank you.

"Sir Nigel Newberry
asks that you desist

"from making
further inquiries

on the matter of
Vivienne Thompson."

- And that's it?

- Yeah, that's it!

- Aw, I guess it was
the wrong Sir Nigel.

- Oh no, it's
the right Nigel.

- You're right.
He sounds bitter.

- Wild guess,
it didn't end well.

- In that case,
he won't be much help

with that Golden Tea Cup.

- Well, if it turns out
that he's been

blocking Aunt Vivienne
from getting one

because she broke up with him,

then that's
completely unfair.

- You're right.

Maybe we could
put in a complaint

to the sommeliers
on the council.

- Yes.
- I don't think that'll work.

Sir Nigel Newberry
holds a lot of sway.

- Well, he looks the part.

- Well, then there's
only one thing to do.

- Oh, I can already tell
this is gonna be good.

- Mmm.

Oh, it's ringing.
It's ringing, it's ringing.

- [Man on phone]: Yes?

- [With British accent]: Hello!

Is this Sir Nigel
Newberry's assistant?

- Yes, this is he.

- Good! Uh, well, I'm calling
from the Royal Tea Academy.

I have some business
of the utmost importance

with Sir Nigel Newberry.

- I'm afraid Sir Nigel is away
from London at the moment.

May I ask what
sort of business?

- Yes, you may.

We--I'm calling
about his speech

to the graduating class.

- Oh, but graduation
is 10 months away.

I fail to see the urgency.

- OK! Well, I don't,
and I need to speak with...

We need to know...
He's going to stretch.

We'd love--we'd love
to tell the time--

We'd love to know, how long
is his speech going to be?

- Well, the usual length,
I imagine.

- Well, that's
not very helpful.

I'd love to speak with him
in more detail, personally.

- In that case, you can try
to reach him in New York.

He's staying at the Willingdon.

- Oh, is he? Great!

[Man clears throat]

- I don't believe
I caught your name.

- I didn't give it
to you. Ta-ta!

[All laughing]

Wait, well, I could
head to New York City,

and I can corner him
at the Willingdon.

- Oh, we don't actually have
a blend ready for him yet.

- Well, the one that you gave me
yesterday tasted pretty good!

- Um, pretty good
is not good enough!

- We got one shot at this.
It's gotta be perfect.

- OK, well, keep trying.

And meanwhile, I will try
and soften up Sir Nigel.

- OK!

[Laughing]

[Horns honking,
sirens wailing]

[Men and woman chatting,
indistinct]

[♪ Classical playing on PA ]

- Sir Nigel Newberry?

- Yes.

- I'm Lara Thompson.

I--I believe you knew my aunt,
Vivienne Thompson.

- I thought my assistant
made it clear.

I have no wish to
make contact with Vivienne.

- Yes, but--

- Good day, young lady!

Perhaps I didn't
make myself clear.

- Crystal, but you
don't understand.

- Oh, I understand
perfectly well.

If, in her dotage,

Vivienne has had some crisis of
conscience over how we parted,

that is of no concern to me.

You may tell her it is
too little, too late.

- Sir Nigel...

- What is it?

- I'm so sorry to be the one
to have to tell you this,

but, um...

Aunt Vivienne
passed away last month.

I'm so sorry.

- How regrettable.

May I offer my condolences
to you and your family.

Is there anything else,
Ms. Thompson?

- Yes, actually.

Um, look, I don't know what
happened with you and my aunt,

but I do know that
it was her greatest wish

to receive a Golden Tea Cup from
the Council of Tea Sommeliers.

- Yes.

She submitted samples
several times.

- Wait, so, you knew?

- Yes. What of it?

- Well, did you ever block her
from getting a Golden Tea Cup?

- Why would I do
such a thing?

- I don't know.

I mean, maybe
out of bitterness?

- Your aunt chose to
live a little life

in a small,
insignificant town.

- No, you know nothing about
Kissing Falls or her life there.

- Nobody gets
a Golden Tea Cup

by living small.

- I thought you might
want these back.

And now I can see why
she never opened them.

- And we can sort all the
paperwork straight away.

All right,
you let me know.

- Thank you.
- Thank you.

- Thank you.
- Thanks for coming out.

Call me if you
have any questions!

- Hey! Any bites?

- Still on the fence,
I'm afraid.

Speaking of which,
that one's falling down.

- Well, we're still
fixing the place up.

Is Lara here?

- I haven't seen her.

- Hey, Steve...

Was I a complete
jerk to Megan?

- Where did that come from?

- I ran into her sister
the other day.

Man, if she'd been
any frostier,

I would have lost
a couple of toes.

- Ah, you and Megan just
wanted different things.

- But I could have
been more flexible.

- Matt, you tried living
in the city. You hated it.

- Yeah, I know, but maybe I was
just being closed-minded.

- Is this about
you and Lara?

- No. We want
different things.

That would never work.

- Now that's just being
plain defeatist, Bro.

- Yeah. Thanks, man.

[Sighing]

[Birds chirping]

[Chuckling]

Vivienne, what are you up to?

- Hey, you're back!
How did it go with Sir Nigel?

- Not great.

- What happened?

- Well, it was the right Nigel.

And, boy, can that man
hold a grudge.

- So, he's not gonna help us?

- No, not only that, I think
that Aunt Vivienne was right.

- He's been standing
in her way all these years?

- Yeah, I'm afraid so.

- Oh, that is just wrong!

- Mm-hmm.
- Hey!

Matt came by
this afternoon.

He was looking for you.

- Oh yeah?
What did he want?

- Mmm, he wouldn't say.

But he was awfully excited.

Mind you, he has been that way
a lot since you've come to town.

- Come on!

Really?

So, did you ever, like,
meet that Megan girl or...

- Yeah. She was a local girl.

But Kissing Falls was
never good enough for her.

- Hmm. You have to wonder why
she'd give up a guy like Matt.

- Between us, Vivienne never
thought she was right for him.

- Hey!

[Breathing heavily]

There you are!

- Hey!

- Wait, did you
find Sir Nigel?

- Uh, yes, I did find him.

And, honestly,
it's pretty hard to imagine

him and Aunt Vivienne
ever being in love.

Although, when I did
say that she was gone,

he did look like
he was maybe gonna cry.

- Oh, well then, he must
have really loved her.

- Yeah, I guess,
in his own kind of way.

I mean, two seconds later,

he was pretending like she
meant nothing to him, so...

- Well then, obviously, she
meant everything to him.

- I mean, you should have heard
him dissing Kissing Falls.

Like, the nerve!

- You're defending
Kissing Falls?

- Yes, well, I feel like
defending Kissing Falls

and defending Aunt Vivienne

are actually
the same thing.

Daphne said that you
were looking for me?

- Uh, yes!

You are not gonna
believe what I found.

[Birds chirping]

Behold, the
Kissing Falls rose.

[Sighing]

- It's no use, Matt.

Sir Nigel is never
going to give

Together Forever Tea
a Golden Cup.

- I know, but maybe we
could still make the tea

for Ms. Lonelyhearts?

- For Amy?

- Yeah, who knows?

Maybe her guy will
finally propose.

At least someone will
get a happy ending.

- I'm sorry, I thought
that you didn't believe

in "romantic nonsense."

- Did I say that?

- Yes.

- Huh.

Well, that was before.

- Before what?

- Do you want to maybe
get some dinner with me?

[Horn honking]

[Chuckling]

- Whoo! Lara, there you are!

- Joel, what are
you doing here?

- Uh, lady at the tea shop
gave me directions.

- Oh, no, I mean, what are
you doing in Kissing Falls?

- Well, you wouldn't
come to me,

so I figured I'd
better come to you.

I've got the, uh,
art department mock-ups with me.

- Great! Um...

Matt and I,

we were just gonna
get some dinner, I think?

- Yeah.

- Yeah. Um, maybe
Joel can come too?

- Sure, yeah.
- Yeah?

- Yeah, the more the merrier.

- Great!
- Mmm!

- Mmm, I was
beginning to worry

you were never coming
back to New York.

- No!

- But then I got a--
a look at Kissing Falls

and realized, no way.

- What is that supposed to mean?

- Well, come on!

I mean, the place is cute,

but what do you do for fun
on a Saturday night?

Watch the weeds grow?

- [Chuckling]: Funny!

No, actually, Matt runs
the garden center, so no!

- Yeah, this time of year,

I'm watching the
chrysanthemums grow.

[Laughing]

- Hot times.

- Actually, you'd be
really surprised.

There's a lot to do
here in Kissing Falls.

- Yeah? Like--like what?

- Well, you can
visit the falls.

You can...

go for a run.

- Mm-hmm.
- Um...

- Bird watching.
- Bird watching.

- Bird watching?
- Mm-hmm.

- Yeah, uh, nowhere
on that list

do I hear films,
concerts, theater...

- Oh, no, actually, there...
There is a theater.

Yeah. Well, kind of.

It's... Excuse me, hi!

Could I please order some tea?

- Whoa, whoa, whoa!
Did you just order tea?

- Mm-hmm.

- You, the Lara Thompson,

who just about
single-handedly

keeps Joe Joe's
Coffee in business?

- Oh! Well, it's not
just any tea.

- Vivienne supplies the teas
for the restaurants.

Yeah, Lara is becoming
quite the convert.

- Well, don't let
the word get out.

Coffee stocks would tumble!

- Well, we should pitch Joe
Joe's Coffee on serving tea.

- Uh, proper tea.

- Yeah, I mean, they could start
a whole new chain: Tea for Two.

- Yeah, I'd go there.

- I would go there too.

- I'll, uh, show you those
mock-ups real quick.

- Oh, yes! Of course!
- Yeah.

- OK...

So, been working
real hard last week.

- Oh, wow! That's cool.

- Yeah!
- Yes!

- Right?
- These are good.

Good morning!

- Good morning!

- How's your baby?

- Uh, I think she's adjusting
nicely to her new home.

- She?

- Yeah, classic beauty
always seems feminine to me.

So, where's your friend, Josh?

- Well, his name is Joel.

And he has gone
back to the city.

Said he had some
research to do.

- Huh.

- Look, I'm sorry
for the way

that he was making fun
of Kissing Falls.

- Thanks for
sticking up for us.

- Well, it's a special place.

I can see why Aunt Vivienne
loved it so much.

- Wow! We might make a
small-town girl out of you yet!

[Laughing]

- I don't know about that.

[Birds calling in distance]

- What?
- Hmm?

Nothing.

- What is it? Come on.

- Just something that
Sir Nigel said to me,

that no one would ever get a
Golden Tea Cup for living small.

- Well, it depends on what
you mean by living small.

- And how much getting
the gold means to you.

It's just a--it's just a shame
that there's only one flower.

- Well, we'll just have to
treat it like gold, huh?

At least until I can coax
the plant to bloom again.

Care to do the honors?

- Oh, no! I will leave
that to the professional.

[Chuckling]

- All right, here it goes!

- It smells like love!

[Chuckling]

- Well, that right
there in that bag

is all the Together Forever Tea
there is in the world.

- Until we can grow more roses.
- Yes.

- Ah, are you sure
you guys can spare it?

- Well, we did have
other plans for it,

but they kind of fell through.

- Yeah, and at least,
this way,

we know that somebody is getting
some happiness out of it.

- Thank you so much, all of you!

- Good luck.
- Let us know how it goes.

- I will. We're going on a
romantic getaway this weekend!

- Oh!
- This could be it!

[Sighing]

- I hope she's not setting
herself up for disappointment.

- Well, maybe she'll prove

that tea can really
bring two people together...

forever.

Fix the porch.

Did you fix
the hallway light?

- Yeah.

- OK, well, so much
for the Golden Tea Cup.

I feel really bad giving up
on Aunt Vivienne's dream.

- Hey, we tried.

Maybe it just wasn't
meant to be, huh?

- Well, not so long
as Sir Nigel

is in charge of the
tea sommeliers, no.

- Well, at least to
Aunt Vivienne's garden,

we revived
the Kissing Falls rose.

That's huge.

- That's true.

How long until it
will bloom again?

- Well, the bush I dug up

should hopefully bloom
again in the spring.

In the meantime,
I've harvested more seeds.

And I can always graft other
branches onto other rose bushes,

but, you know, realistically,

it's gonna years before
it's commercially viable.

- Such a shame.

Together Forever Tea
could have been a huge hit.

- Yeah. Well...

It doesn't really matter now.

- What do you mean?

- Steve texted me before.

He's got a buyer
for the shop.

- Wait, what?

Uh, how is that
even possible?

We haven't even
listed it for sale yet.

- I know, but around here,
it's probably word of mouth.

Whoever the buyer is,

they might turn Vivienne's into
something completely different.

- True.

- Now, there's something
you don't see every day.

[Chuckling]

[Car door closing]

- Sir Nigel, what
are you doing here?

- Never let it be said

I let personal bias
influence my decisions.

- Oh, wait, you're here to
taste Aunt Vivienne's tea?

- Correct! And you are?

- Uh, Matt Slater.
A family friend.

- Well, presumably,
you've been pestering me

because you have a
tea sample ready for me.

[Chuckling nervously]

Let's have it.

- Uh...

- I--I don't know.
What are we gonna do?

We gave all of the
Together Forever Tea to Amy.

- Uh, maybe we could
serve him something else.

- No, Vivienne already sent him
all of our best tea blends.

He rejected every one of them.

- OK. Well, OK, Daphne,
go and call Amy.

I mean, maybe she
hasn't even used it yet.

- She said she was
going on a romantic weekend.

What if she doesn't
have phone service?

- We can at least try.

- OK.
- Thank you.

- OK, what do we do
in the meantime?

- Uh, stall?
- What?

- I fail to see why I
am being kept waiting.

- I am so sorry.

OK, so what happened--
funny story--

we are actually fresh out of
one of the ingredients

for the tea that we want
to make you to taste.

Matt is going to go to his
garden center to get some.

- I am?

I mean, yes,
I'll be right back.

- And while he is doing that,

um, how would you like to go
and see where Vivienne lived?

So, Aunt Vivienne lived
here for over 40 years.

- Somehow, it reminds me of her.

- Yeah, you're right.

I think that's why
I wanted to stay here,

you know,
while I'm in town.

- People must tell you
how much you look like her

when she was young.

- Oh!

No, not really.

[Laughing]

- I suppose there are
so few of us left

from back then to remember.

[Inhaling deeply]

- How come you came here?

Really?

- I read the letters
you left with me.

I really was insufferable.

- How so?

- I expected her to do
all the compromising,

to give up
everything for me.

No wonder she refused
to open the letters.

- She kept them.

I mean, that means something.

Should we go inside?

You took this
picture, didn't you?

- Oh, we'd gone to my
family estate in Norfolk.

That was the weekend I
introduced her to birding.

- So, that's how
she got interested.

- What do you mean?

- Oh, in her will,

she's giving everything
to create a bird sanctuary.

- Ah...

[Chuckling]

- You were in love.

- Yes, very much so.

- What happened?

- I asked her to stay
in London and marry me.

Oh, she agreed
to the marriage,

but only if we split
our time between London

and the small town
where she grew up.

[Laughing]

We wound up parting
ways over it.

- You never forgave her?

- No, I don't suppose I did.

[Phone ringing]

- Sorry. Just one...

Hey.
- Hey.

I found Amy. She's on her way.

- I am so glad to hear that.

Um, can you let Matt know?

- Yep! Sure! No problem.

- Thanks, Daphne.

Guess what?

Turns out we do have some
Together Forever Tea after all.

- Fancy that!

[Clinking]

- Isn't it beautiful?

- It's lovely.
- Congratulations!

- I can't stay long.

My fiancee is
waiting in the car.

- But is there any tea left?

- Oh, yeah!
We didn't even use it.

It turns out Jerome was
planning to propose all along.

I was really glad to
have it as backup.

- Yes, backup is good.
- Thank you.

- Mmm, yeah.

I wonder if this is how my mom
felt when my dad proposed.

- Oh! If I could just...

- Oh! Sure!
- Thank you!

Bye, thank you!

- Bye!

- And before you
taste the tea,

there is a story behind
Together Forever Tea.

- I enjoy a good yarn.

- Well, this one
begins 50 years ago,

when a young woman's
love for tea

took her all the way from
Kissing Falls, Connecticut,

to London, England.

When she returned home
from the tea academy,

she had but one regret.

- Yes, that she left behind
the man she loved.

- So she set out to make
a tea so perfect

that it would warm the soul
the way love does.

And she called it Moonglow.

- For years, it was
our most popular blend.

- But there was one problem.

You see, one unusually
wet spring,

a fungus wiped out
the key ingredient,

the Kissing Falls rose.

- But then,
by some miracle...

- ...we found the rose again,
right here in Vivienne's garden.

- As if she left it
there for us to find

at exactly the perfect
moment in time.

- To warm the heart.

- The way love does.

And that is
the full story.

- Yeah.

- Are you sure about that?

- The, um, tea is getting cold.

- Oh yes. The tea.

- Oh.

- Thank you, no.
I always travel with my own.

Well, the color palate
is pleasing to the eye.

The aroma...

inviting.

A robust blend,
by the look of it.

Finely balanced.

Now for the true test.

Uh, a little more elbow room,
if you please.

- Oh, yes.
- I'm sorry.

- Of course, sorry.

So, what do you think?

- This tea...

- Yes?

- ...is utterly delightful.

- Oh!
- Oh!

- Sprightly, yet substantial.

- Yes.
- Mmm!

- Joyful, but at the same time,
warming and reassuring.

It tastes like...

- Like love?

- Yes, it tastes like love.

- [Laughing]:
All right!

So, what--what do you say?

- Yeah, is it worthy
of a Golden Tea Cup?

- That is the recommendation

I will forward to
the Council of Sommeliers,

and the Council of Sommeliers
always agrees with me.

- Yes!

[All laughing]

- Oh my goodness!

[Insects chirring]

- What better way
to celebrate

than with the last of
the Together Forever Tea.

- Well, the last until
Matt grows more roses.

- Oh, hey, I couldn't
have done it without you.

- You're the one
who found the rose.

Oh, wait, Daphne,
what about you?

- Oh no, I've already tasted it.
I'm going home.

See you guys tomorrow.

- Bye! Bye!
- Thanks, Daphne! Good night!

- See you!

- OK.

To Aunt Vivienne.

- To Vivienne.

- Wow!
- Mm-hmm.

- Mmm!

- Lara, I...
- Matt, I was... Oh!

- You go.

- No, no.
You go, you go.

- OK, uh...

Lara, I just...

I, uh, wanted to
tell you that...

[Phone chiming]

[Sighing]

[Phone ringing]

[Both laughing]

[Sighing]

- Mine's from Joel.

- Oh, uh,
mine's from Steve.

He's got a, uh,
a firm offer on the shop.

So, uh, do you want to meet
Steve out here in the morning,

sign the papers?

- Uh, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I can do that.

Um, and then, I guess
I'll go back to the city.

- Uh-huh.

- I should--I should
probably answer Joel.

[Chuckling]

- Uh, OK.

Well, I'll--I'll see you
here tomorrow at 9:00.

- Mm-hmm.
Sounds good!

- OK.
- OK.

- Have a--a good night.

- You too.

[Sighing]

[Chuckling]

Hey, Aunt Vivienne.

Did you ever wonder what
life might have been like

if you had gone to England
or if Nigel had come here?

Of course you did.

How could you not?

Oh, Rufus!
You're such a good boy!

So no more running away?

- I'm keeping close
tabs on him now.

And I got that gate fixed.

- Oh, it's so good.

All right,
you have a good day!

See you, Miriam!
- See you, Lara!

- Bye!
- Come on, Rufus!

- Good morning.
- Good morning.

- Good morning!
- Hey!

OK, so, who's this
mystery buyer?

- Well, I don't know
much more than you do.

Came out of the blue.

And they're offering about
twice what the shop is worth.

- Twice!

We'll have that bird sanctuary
up and running in no time!

- Which sounds great.

But does anybody feel like this
might be too good to be true?

- Well, it is kind of unusual.

The buyer is anonymous.

- Uh, based where?

- Tacoma, Washington.

- That's a long way from home.

- I know.

It's kind of odd,

so I went through their offer
with a fine-tooth comb.

It's solid.

And they want
to pay cash.

- Ooh, cash!

That's gonna make for
a lot of happy birds!

- What do you think?

- Well, it could be months
before we get another offer,

let alone one this good.

- Well, you sign here,
and it's done.

- What is it?

- It's just...

I don't know.

Something about Tacoma,

it just feels like
it's ringing a bell.

- Well, if it doesn't feel
right, we don't have to sign it.

- I'm sure it's nothing.

[Chuckling]

- Great!

Now we just have
to sell the house!

- Actually, I was wondering,

how would you feel if I bought
the house from the estate?

I'm getting pretty
attached to the place.

- You mean, move here?

- Just, like,
weekend getaways or...

- Uh, I--I don't have
a problem with that.

Uh, St-steve? Do you
see a problem with that?

- Uh, not so long as you
buy it for market value.

- I'll just call my bank,
and I'll get back to you.

- Sir Nigel!

- Ah!

- I'm off to London.

I just stopped by
to say goodbye.

- Safe travels!

Hopefully,
we'll meet again soon!

- Well, I know we will,

when you return to London

to accept Vivienne's
Golden Tea Cup.

- Oh! You hear that?

[Bird chirping]

That's Vivienne saying:
"About time!"

[All laughing]

[Horn honking]

- Joe Joe's Coffee.

- What?

- Joe Joe's Coffee's
corporate headquarters

is in Tacoma,
Washington.

That is why it
sounded so familiar.

- So, great news about the sale!

Just got a text from
Joe Joe's Coffee's lawyer

while I was driving.

- Which is illegal, by the way.

- Joel, what did you do?

- I pitched Joe Joe's Coffee
on launching a tea chain,

like you said.

And they bought it,
along with Vivienne's.

So I need you in
New York right away.

We gotta get started
on developing a brand.

- This is your idea?
- What? No!

- Lara, what are
you talking about?

We had a conversation about it
at dinner the other night.

Matt, you were there.

[Both scoffing]

- I thought we were joking.
- Yeah!

- Well, believe me,
Lara never jokes

when it comes to brilliant
marketing ideas!

- Are you saying Joe Joe's
Coffee now owns Vivienne's?

- You better believe it!

- Oh no! This is not good!

This is not good at all.

- What do you mean?
What do you mean?

- The Council
of Tea Sommeliers

only awards Golden Tea Cups
to independent merchants.

And Vivienne's is now part
of a corporate chain.

I'm afraid
Together Forever Tea

is disqualified.

- You can't take away
Vivienne's Golden Tea Cup.

- There's nothing
I can do about it!

- But if we knew that there
was a rule against corporations,

we would never have sold
to Joe Joe's Coffee!

- Steve, you gotta
rip up this sale.

- You signed the contract.
I'm afraid it's legally binding.

- You need to fix this.

- Look, I'm the one who
suggested Joe Joe's Coffee

should buy Vivienne's
in the first place.

I'll look like an idiot
if I go back now

and say it was a mistake.

- Well, looks like your partner
has us over a barrel.

- You're blaming me for this?

- No, I'm not blaming anyone.

I just--I think it's a shame.

- You think that I don't?

- I don't know anymore.
I gotta go.

- Lara!

- Matthew, have you
got a moment?

- I'm sorry, Lara.

I've gotta send copies

to Joe Joe's Coffee's
lawyer by courier.

- Thank you, Steve.
- Yeah.

- I thought you'd be happy.

- Happy?

You just destroyed
everything my aunt worked for.

And you knew
that I was joking

about selling the store
to Joe Joe's Coffee.

- I wanted to surprise you.

- Ha! Wow!

OK, well, yeah, congratulations.
I am very surprised.

- Look, this wouldn't even
seem like such a big deal

if you weren't hanging out
in this hick town anyway.

[Scoffing]

- I actually happen to be
really fond of this hick town.

- Come on, let's just
go back to New York.

Things will look
differently from there.

- You can go.
I'm gonna stay.

- Well, for how long?

- Well, I don't know.
Maybe until I fix things.

- Lara, you mean
something to me.

[Sighing]

- Joel, I'm...

I'm really sorry if I
misled you in any way.

You mean a lot to me too.

But...

we're friends,
and we work together.

And that's it.

- Yeah.
- I'm sorry.

- No, that's...

[Sighing]

Well, I've been more
than patient with you, Lara.

So I need you back
in the office today.

- Or what?

- Don't make me answer that.

Gotta go.

- You seemed rather
accusatory back there

about Lara and that fellow.

- Yeah, I--I didn't
mean to be. I...

I messed up.

- Forgive my boldness,
but do you love Lara?

- Uh, I mean, it's not
as simple as that.

She's got a big
life in the city,

and my life is here.

- How much would you
sacrifice for love, Matt?

- That's a big question.

- It's a question I wish
I'd had the courage

to ask myself 50 years ago,

but I didn't.

And I lost
the love of my life.

- Vivienne.

- Might I suggest
you apologize to Lara.

- And what if she
won't accept my apology?

[Laughing]

- Nobody ever said that
love was without risk.

Talk to her.

Listen to her.

You'll soon find out
if it's really love.

[Chuckling]

- How big of an idiot
was I back there?

- I'd say medium to large.

[Sighing]

Hmm...

[Both chuckling]

- Is that Vivienne's will?

- Yeah, I'm just trying
to find a loophole

to get us out of this sale.

- Please let
there be one.

- Really? I mean, it's a lot
of money for the bird sanctuary.

- The most important thing is
Vivienne's Golden Tea Cup.

- Well, I wouldn't
hold your breath.

I mean, I've been
through the fine print,

and now I'm going through
the fine-fine print, but...

It's just such a shame

that Aunt Vivienne
and Sir Nigel never made up.

- Yeah.

Hard to understand

when people let silly
arguments come between them.

[Chuckling]

- Matt and I barely
know each other.

- Yet...

You still thinking
about buying the house?

- Thinking about it,

but I'm not sure I'm entirely
welcome in Kissing Falls

as much as I
thought I was.

- I have never met anybody
who belonged here more.

- I don't know about that.

- Oh, Lara.

The Golden Tea Cup wasn't
Vivienne's only dream.

[Chuckling]

- What do you mean?

- Well, why do you think she
made you and Matt co-executors?

[Chuckling]

- Ah!

- You called?

- Oh! Yes!

I think that I found
a way out of the deal.

There is a clause
in Aunt Vivienne's will

that says that the
bird sanctuary committee

has to approve the sale.

- And the bird
sanctuary committee

is Daphne and her husband.

- And the committee officially
objects to the sale.

- Well, that's that, then.
I'll notify the purchaser.

Oh!

Lara, are you serious
about buying Vivienne's house?

- Uh...

I'm still
thinking about it.

- Well, you know a good place
to think about things?

Kissing Falls.

- You're right.

Actually, I might go there now.

[Chuckling softly]

OK, thanks. See you guys!

- See you!

- You need to
call Matt right now.

[Birds chirping]

- Lara!

- Matt?

- Everything OK?

Steve told me to get up here.

- That's what Daphne
told me to do.

- Ah, right, the, uh...

- Right.

- The family legend.

- Well, I guess
this is how

your great-great-great-
great-grandmother felt.

- Oh, really? How's that?

- Well, bamboozled.

[Both chuckling]

But also grateful.

- Steve, um, he told me
you saved the day.

- Oh, no.
Aunt Vivienne's will did.

She was a really smart lady.

- That she was!

Look, uh, Lara, what I said
outside the shop...

- It's OK, Matt.

I know that you, you know,
weren't actually blaming me.

I guess I just...

already felt a bit guilty.

- Why?

- For including Joel.

By the way, I am probably
out of a job now, so...

- Oh, I'm sorry.

- Oh, no, don't be, honestly.

This past week,

everyone's been telling how
much like Vivienne I am.

And, I don't know. I guess
it made me realize something.

- What?

- Well, just,
like, I don't know.

Aunt Vivienne,
she lived her life...

being true to herself.

And...

I just need to be
true to myself too.

I don't care about
Joe Joe's Coffee.

I care about making
a difference in the world.

- Wow!

Like, for instance,

maybe helping promote
a new bird sanctuary?

- Yeah.

So, I mean, well,
the sale is off.

- Right.

- And, um, I mean, we still have
a tea shop on our hands, so...

- Yeah. You know what?

I've been thinking
about that, and...

- Oh yeah?

- What if, maybe, we...
- [Both]: Buy it?

- Mmm? Really?

- I mean, it would be a...

It would be a lot of work,
that and the garden center.

I mean, personally,

I feel like we could
probably work together,

and we could manage it.

- Absolutely!
- OK.

- I mean, you know,
eventually,

we could get Together
Forever Tea trademarked.

- And I could take
a photo of the rose

and track its progress
and build a following online.

We could take
profits from that

for the bird sanctuary.

Why are you looking
at me like that?

- Because I love this idea.
- You do?

- Yes.
- OK! OK!

- [Both]: OK.

- So, does this mean you're
gonna buy the house?

- Yes. Yes, it does.

- For weekends?

Because I, you know,
I've been realizing that...

[Sighing]

...the city isn't so bad.

I mean, I--I could
get used to New York

if, I mean,
if you wanted me to.

- I don't know.

How about we, um...

stay here...

together?

- Forever?

- Wait!

Wait, what if this
is just the tea

that's making you
feel this way?

- Not a chance.

- How can you be so sure?

- 'Cause I've felt this way
since the moment I met you.

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