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IRV: Previously on Everwood:

What exactly is going on between you and Colin?

I mean, why are you being all buddy-buddy with him?

You´re the only person in school who

doesn´t expect me to remember them.

Or expect me to be this guy I don´t even know who he was.

ANDY: You two friends now? EPHRAM: Kind of.

-We have some stuff in common. -You mean Amy?

Surprisingly it has nothing to do with Amy.

IRV: Of the famous stories of faith overcoming adversity...

...you´ve never seen turned into movies,

you´ll never see one made about Job.

Who´d want to watch someone

you´ve come to care about suffer?

Anyone who cares about getting their 8 bucks worth...

...would throw popcorn at the screen

after the boils set in...

...telling the guy to give it up already.

Enough is enough.

Sorry.

IRV: After all, how far do you have to go

to prove your faith?

GEMMA: I like hanging out with your brother.

He doesn´t have a lot of facial hair,

so I can kiss him without breaking out.

-Yeah, I saw. -It was a really long movie.

I hope that wasn´t weird for you or anything.

Because it looks like you and Colin

haven´t even kissed since his whole--

-Hey, guys. -Here we go, Sal´s finest.

GEMMA: Thank you. AMY: Please, about to eat.

-Oh, you don´t like garlic. -Guess we´ll soon find out.

-It does smell good. -Aah! Ugh!

I hate it when they reheat the pizza.

When you take a reheat, it´s saying,

"I want you to burn my mouth off."

So I´m flicking skin off the roof of my mouth

for the next three days.

Colin, you okay?

-I´ve been here before. -You used to come here a lot.

No, I mean, I remember this place. I remember coming here.

We´d just won a basketball game, the division championship.

Yeah, we did.

COLIN: Yeah, and we came here after we won the game.

And then I went and played pinball over there.

And you were here, you, uh--

Yeah, I remember, you were with us.

No, no, that wasn´t me.

You were sitting over there on that table.

You had your red jacket on.

That wasn´t me, that was Laynie.

No, I--

Are you sure?

That´s okay, of course you´d remember your sister first.

Dude, you´re remembering, that is awesome.

Yeah.

BRIGHT: So, uh, how did the movie end anyway?

No, don´t tell me.

You waiting for Dr. Brown?

-Are those patient files? -Not very interesting ones.

I don´t think you´re supposed to look at them.

Dr. Brown shouldn´t keep people waiting unattended.

Well, I think that´s what they have magazines for.

Hey.

Hey.

I see you´ve met my sister.

Yeah, I guess. She didn´t, uh, really say much.

Yeah, that´s sort of her thing.

I´ve only known her for like three weeks

when she came back from school...

...but she seems pretty cool so far.

She starts County next week.

-Lucky her. COLIN: Yeah.

SHARON: We´ll meet you in the car. COLIN: Okay.

That, uh, Catholic Church youth group ski thing this weekend,

are you going?

Uh, I hadn´t given it much thought.

I don´t ski and I´m not Catholic.

Yeah, right. Yeah, I can´t ski either.

Your dad´s got this blanket rule about avoiding head trauma.

But you know, Amy really wants me to go...

...and I´m gonna need somebody to hang out with me.

I don´t suppose you´d believe I have huge weekend plans?

Ha, ha. Well, think about it.

But remember, you´re abandoning me to suffer alone.

AMY: Of course Colin´s excited about the ski trip.

-I mean, come on, aren´t you? -Sure.

Gemma´s going, and I go where the booty goes.

[MIMICS WHIP CRACK]

Later in life when I´m in therapy,

you´ll be able to take the credit.

Look, you can´t expect it to be like last year.

-Colin´s remembering a lot-- -Remembering more than a lot.

He´s not walking around with Post-its, he´s making jokes.

He asked me to be his girlfriend there.

Going back could fill in the pieces.

Going back where? Knife inside, Bright.

-Church ski trip. -You´re not going on that again.

-What? -Those are nothing of the kind.

They´re supervised about as well as a stampede.

-Is your mother making haddock tonight?

-Why not?

I have to go, Dad. It-- It´s a Church thing.

-It´s to cleanse my soul. I-- -Oh, please.

I delivered the baby that was the product

of last year´s bacchanal.

An excuse for your friends to drink and exchange hickeys.

Do more damage to the Church´s reputation than the Crusades.

-I don´t think so. -You make a good point, Dad.

-Do I? AMY: Definitely.

The ski trip should be fun, but it should also have structure.

What the Church could really use is a good chaperone.

Last year, the parents let the kids do whatever they wanted.

But if they had someone more capable,

more respectable, more conscientious....

Would that they should be so lucky.

Then again, maybe it would be useful...

...for these permissive, boomer-generation non-parents...

...to see how it´s done.

I´ll call the youth center now.

ANNOUNCER [ON TV]: #The Avalanche and the Red Wings--

-Tell me about this date. -My date?

Oh, she was cute, for a crazy person.

It started off like a normal date, then she started talking.

First it was the evils of men as exemplified by her ex-boyfriend.

Or her ex-husband. Both, maybe.

Then it was another hour on her trip to Cancún and how

and I quote, "It was too hot to do anything but get a rash."

-Oh, that sounds sexy. -Oh, very.

Finally she asks about me and finds out I´m a reverend.

Starts confessing about the one-night stand

she had with a hotel concierge.

-Did you say you´re not a priest? -Yeah, repeatedly.

But, she kept crying until I gave her a couple of Hail Marys.

Ha, ha. I gotta tell you, I´m impressed.

One disaster after another and you´re still there.

You´re either secure or a glutton for punishment.

Yeah, what can I say? Job is my hero.

Yes, yes, did I not call it? I am now 5 bucks richer.

Have eyes but cannot see and hands but cannot play defense.

-Hand it over. -Ugh.

This is ridiculous.

This isn´t Vegas. You got something smaller?

Sorry. Things get a little blurry when I read too long.

Had a fight with Kierkegaard this afternoon.

-Need new glasses? -No, I just have eye drops I

need to refill.

Let me save you a trip.

Come by my office, I´ll write you a prescription.

That´s nice of you, but I´m still telling everyone

you bet against the Avs.

-Thanks. -Ephram, hey.

I just got dinner for my family, I don´t want it to get cold.

Dude, tell your dad it´s my fault, man. Come on, sit down.

Come on.

Hey, so if you go on the ski trip, bring comics.

Apparently there´s a long bus ride involved.

-You´re thinking about coming now?

-Well, I was thinking about it.

From what Amy was saying, it´s like a non-stop party.

That was last year before my dad

decided to be the official wet blanket.

-Thank you. -Wait, we´ll get this.

You don´t have to go because Colin asked.

Is there a problem with me going?

-Don´t you think it´d be weird? -Not more than usual.

It´s one thing when we buddy up and have lunch...

...but three days uninterrupted gives him time to figure out--

That there was something between us?

Because the only thing we have together is honors chemistry.

-I just think we´re pushing it. -So you want me to bow out?

It´s not like you even wanted to go.

That was great, man. I got us a coma-boy discount.

I just gave them a blank face, they felt bad

so they gave us the fries for free.

I was thinking, I should come with you this weekend.

-It´s not like there´s anything going here.

COLIN: Cool.

Maybe you can score it so, uh, your dad can get

Ephram and I in a room together.

Sure, I´ll ask him.

-Alright, well, I´m out of here.

COLIN: See you later.

ANDY: We´ve gotta get going, the bus leaves at 6.

Which is exactly why I´m not Catholic.

-Since when do you ski, anyway? -Since I bought my gloves.

Why are you going?

-It´s a power move. -Oh, right. What?

Amy doesn´t want me to go. If I don´t go, it´s all about her.

She´ll know it´s all about her.

But if I go, it´s about me, so we´re even.

-Or at least close. -I actually followed that.

You weren´t supposed to.

-I should ask you questions more often.

-Let´s go.

Load them up, move them out, let´s go.

Let´s line up for the bus.

I see when I say line, I´m overestimating

your geometry grades.

A line.

Now, rest assured, there will be neither hanky

nor panky on this excursion...

...so all shenanigans can go in the trash bin, beer cans too.

You there. Yes, you, the shifty one in the silly hat.

Step forward, random search. Open up the knapsack.

This is totally unconstitutional.

I´ll be sure to mention that to your parole officer.

Well, now isn´t this a rather large bottle

of shampoo for one weekend?

Whatever might this contain?

-Doesn´t that guy have your stash?

-Not anymore, your dad´s like a cop.

Whoo. Hardly any vermouth in there, huh?

No fair you had to kill the trip for everyone

just so you could come.

You may go.

Hey, hey, hey, not so fast there.

Ladies, an ounce of your wit for the video yearbook?

Something to say to posterity?

Turn that off. It´s early and some of us are still puffy.

BRIGHT: I reserved us a spot in the back. -Oh, yeah? How come?

-So we can make out. -Cool.

HARRY: Gemma, Bright, perfect. I´ve saved seats up front.

We can decide which show tunes to play on the ride up.

We were gonna sit with the kids in the back with the Bible.

Never mind them. What do you think? Pippin?

Or something a little more Sondheim?

It´s probably nothing, but I do see some deposits on the retina.

I´ll take pictures, send them to the lab.

They´ll tell me I was wasting your time.

But the fun part is, I get to dilate your pupils.

-You know any good restaurants? -Yeah, on the Upper West Side.

-Don´t tell me you have another date.

-Wednesday, new girl.

Where are you meeting all these women?

I´ve been going to singles mixers in Denver.

Singles mixers. Like, "Let´s get together

everyone who can´t get someone"?

They´re not that bad. I go, I make a fool of myself...

...leave depressed, but with a few numbers...

...then go get pancakes down the block

which somehow makes it all better.

The Mile High Diner. They give a stack the size of your head.

-They´re famous. You never been? -Missed it. You dilated yet?

Not sure, but everything has a rainbow halo around it.

-You look like Jesus. -I get that a lot.

Why don´t you come with me? You´d do great.

Even I do okay there. It´s not like women

are dying to meet a guy who moralizes.

I´m not ready for that "being out there" thing.

Fine, you can come for me then.

You can be my wingman. Just keep me company.

Truth is, I could use it.

Divorced men tend to get treated like damaged goods...

...and recently divorced men kind of are.

-Backup, huh? -Exactly.

[GROANS]

HARRY: Structure is the enemy of chaos, people,

so keep these itineraries handy.

Presence and participation is required

at all post-ski events...

...from Fimo beads to psalm sing-along.

Move quickly, we will meet back here again in 30 minutes.

The double run of Liza with a ´Z´ was punishment enough.

Hey, when you´re done checking in, you wanna go for a walk?

Ephram and I were gonna check out the pool.

No, it´s cool. I´ll just head up to the mountain.

It´s time I looked into this skiing thing anyway.

COLIN: Are you sure? -Yeah, yeah. See you guys later.

Hey, perfect timing.

We just got the TV to show scrambled porn.

Lucky me.

Listen, brain tumor. There´s two reasons we´re rooming.

-One, I want the big bed. -What big bed?

Second, with any luck, I may have to kick you out tonight.

I´m sure you had really exciting plans, but mine take priority.

-Why? -They´re mine,

I´m better looking.

So unless the three of you think you could take me all together..

That´s what I thought.

[SIGHS]

Thanks for babysitting again.

One day I´ll give you a triple bypass and maybe we´ll be even.

You don´t realize I´m operating a sweatshop...

...and Delia is my best sewer.

Okay, we can turn these off now.

-Oh, you´re all spiffy. DELIA: He´s going to a thing.

-Where´s Sam? -Eating cookie dough.

-Really? -Mm-hm. Ha, ha.

So a thing?

Oh, it´s nothing. It´s no thing.

I told Tom Keyes I´d go to a singles mixer.

-Oh, that´s, uh.... - That´s, uh, what?

That´s good.

-I´m glad. He´s a good influence.

-He´s not influencing anything. I´m not even really going.

I mean, I´m going, but I´m not "going" going.

Ah.

-Can I go now? -"Go" go, or just go, go?

Ju--

[NINA LAUGHS]

Smell. The cold smells like pine...

...or the pine smells like cold, something.

COLIN: Yeah, I like it. -I knew you would.

-Last year there was a lot more snow.

-Can you do me a favor?

Can we just not mention last year, um, or last anything?

I was hoping to take a break, rest my mind this weekend.

Yeah, sure, definitely.

So where do you, uh, think Bright and Gemma are?

Probably groping each other on a gondola?

[CHUCKLES]

He was pretty bent on trying new territories this weekend.

You think it´ll happen?

I try very hard not to think about my brother´s sex life.

That makes sense.

Funny, we were talking about it and he was so nervous.

It´s hard to believe that he has

so little experience with sex, you know?

It just goes to show that you never can tell about people.

Are you trying to ask me something, Colin?

No. Well, I mean, I--

Well, I don´t know about, like, what you and I....

-I mean, did we ever...? -No. No, we didn´t. Uh.

You haven´t.

But, uh, we did an awful lot of kissing.

Were we any good at it?

Okay, I guess. I mean, could use some work.

But I suppose I could instruct you.

Well, maybe we could make that part of my rehab.

Heh, well, uh, that was even better than last year.

It started to snow and you said that if

I didn´t kiss you, you´d never forgive me.

I´m sorry. I didn´t mean it like that.

I asked you to stop.

But you´re the one who brought it up.

-You asked what we used to do. - That was different.

I was just trying to figure out where we stood.

I´m sorry, I won´t-- I won´t mention it again.

You know, you keep expecting me to be this guy you knew.

Colin, it doesn´t have to be a big deal.

Well, won´t you get it through your head that he´s gone?

He´s dead, Amy.

There´s only me.

KEYES: How´s my game face?

ANDY: Very gamy. Can we go over this?

KEYES: We go in, there´ll be people there.

ANDY: Uh-huh. We go straight to the bar.

Exactly. I talk to a few nice ladies.

I hang out, so I don´t look like the guy

who doesn´t know anyone.

-Because that´s me. -No, no, not you.

[STAMMERS] You´re just looking.

You´re like an anthropologist trying to help me find

my one true love.

-You ready for this? -Totally, no big deal.

Great, let´s go then.

Andy?

-Hold on. -You okay?

I just remembered, uh....

-Andy. -I, uh....

-I´m still wearing my ring. -That´s okay, it doesn´t matter.

-I don´t know if I can do this. -You don´t have to do this.

I can´t.

Don´t worry. Let´s get out of here.

-Come on. -No. You go in. I´ll stay here.

No, no, no. Come on, you know what?

We´re gonna cut to the pancakes early.

The Mile High is just down the block.

Come on, it´s the biggest stack you´ll ever see.

Man, they got whipped cream, they got chocolate chips.

The whole nine yards. This is what we´re gonna do.

This´ll be great.

Rise and shine.

Rise and shine. Up and at them, gentlemen.

Rise and shine. It is a beautiful morning for--

-Bright. -What? He wanted to sleep there.

Uh-huh.

Come now, gentlemen. Everybody up. Full day ahead.

Skiing followed by board games...

...a mini color war, which I´m sure you´ll enjoy...

...all topped off by an evening geology hike...

...on which, in deference to our Church sponsors...

...we can debate evolution versus that Genesis nonsense.

-So let´s seize the day, gentlemen.

SLATER: Color war?

We gotta do something about your dad.

This Church trip is getting way too wholesome.

Yeah, tell me about it. My whole Gemma plan´s out the window.

How am I gonna get her here with a 9:30 bedtime?

Hold it. You´ve got an at-bat with Gemma Maxwell?

Halter top in January Gemma Maxwell?

And you wanna bring her back here?

-What´s wrong with here? SLATER: It´s a hotel room.

Girls want romance. They want a view, they want effort.

You gotta take her someplace special.

Go outside. Get a fire going.

There´s this neat spot on the mountain.

Totally. I´ll take care of your dad for you.

All it´ll cost you is the bed.

Okay. Just don´t kill him.

Make me proud.

I´m sorry, but these can´t be the right pictures.

I saw some drusen on the retina, but not to the extent--

No, you listen to me.

I ran a fluorescein angiogram on a 41-year-old man

in perfect health. You sent me the eyes of Methuselah.

Which means somebody on your end screwed it up,

so check it out again!

I´ll add a new phone to the supply list.

What´s the damage?

The geniuses at the lab screwed up the tests we ran on Keyes.

They want a diagnosis of exudative macular degeneration.

You believe that?

That depends on what the hell it means.

It´s...

...the retinas, they slowly hemorrhage in both eyes.

Eventually detach. You go blind.

Tom Keyes is 20 years too young for that, there´s no way.

Yeah, there is, boss, you know that.

You want me to call your old buddies at Mount Sinai?

They can have their ophthalmology lab

confirm or deny it in a New York minute.

No.

You want me to call in the reverend?

I don´t know.

I´m gonna miss the Olympics this year.

Apparently, I was a badass skier.

You were badass. That´s what they talked about while you--

-A big drool machine? -I was gonna say recovering...

...but okay.

You´re a guy who´s so dark it turns me into an optimist.

It´s scary.

Dark, huh? That´s a polite way of putting it.

[CHUCKLES]

Yeah, I sort of blew up at Amy today.

She took me to this great spot on the hill over there.

I mean, you could see everything.

And then I kissed her.

That sounds nice.

Yeah, it was our first kiss. It was my first kiss.

But then she started talking about the way

things used to be and I just lost it.

She missed you.

It´s gotta be hard for her.

Yeah, I know.

But you have no idea how frustrating it is.

You know, I´m totally grateful to her.

I mean, she´s been my....

You know when you´re playing tag or capture the flag...

...and there´s that spot where they can´t tag you out?

It´s, uh....

-Home base. -Home base.

Yeah, that´s what she´s been.

And all she´s wanted from me was to pull out one stupid memory...

...to let her know that I didn´t lose her.

I did.

I haven´t got anything.

I can´t even give her that.

[DOOR OPENS]

Hey, is it true you don´t charge for your services?

ANDY: Nasty rumor.

Thanks for coming in. Have a seat.

Actually, I´m glad you called. Uh--

I wanted to talk to you.

Listen, last night I bullied you into

the lion´s den before you were ready.

-That wasn´t the best idea. -Wait a minute, wait a minute.

I melt down, you practically carry me home,

and you wanna say sorry?

You´re like a saint, only annoying.

-Oh, well, I´m sorry. -You were right to push me.

I need to think about getting out again.

I need to get a meltdown or two out of the way first.

What I need is to think about thinking about it.

Anyway, the point is, thank you.

It was the least I could do after that poking and prodding.

Yeah, listen, about that, um....

I got your test back today, and, uh....

[SIGHS]

I have to admit...

...I´m out of my league when it comes to eyes.

I wanted to spare you a trip to Denver,

but I´m gonna send you to a specialist.

-Anything I should worry about? -No, no.

I just want someone who can read an eye chart

to put a stamp on it.

Do me a favor and go soon, okay?

-Yeah. No problem.

[KNOCKING ON DOOR]

-Dr. Abbott? -Yes, person?

We on the red team were having such a good time

during the color war, that we wanted to do something for you.

A small thank you for putting together so orderly a trip.

Well, I already have my nightly chamomile, but, uh...

...that´s very kind of you.

So rare to be appreciated as one ought.

My personal motto.

Cheers.

[CHUCKLES]

How dumb do they think I am?

Come on. Come on. Let´s go.

Oh.

Nine thirty.

Time to put the little monsters to bed.

[YAWNS]

It´s unfair how much I´ll enjoy this.

[YAWNS]

I should get to bed soon, my....

Whoo, ah.

The best part is, he prescribed you these.

Operation Enduring Freedom is a success.

Viva la minibar!

[KIDS CHEERING]

Hey.

-Mind if join you? -She speaks.

-She sits. -She cracks jokes. Who knew?

So how come you´re not out partying?

Happy people depress me.

Drunk happy people make me wanna slit my wrists.

I thought you were part of who´s who, heir apparent to cool.

You go out of town and it´s out of sight, out of clique.

You didn´t wanna go?

Saint Margaret´s was my parents doing.

I mean, after Colin´s accident....

-It´s kind of hard to explain. -You don´t have to.

You had to parent them, right?

My mom died in a car accident, uh, almost a year ago now.

I kind of had to parent my little sister,

left my dad to fend for himself.

-How´d he do? -Not great.

Better.

Yeah, in a way I kind of lost my parents in Colin´s accident.

I mean, not in the way you did.

But they shattered after Colin crashed.

And after that, all their focus was on him getting better.

So...

...sending me away was the best they could do...

...so I could have a normal life...

...and be surrounded by friends, but I get it.

That´s harsh.

Don´t get me wrong, I love my brother to death.

I cried like a bunny to find out that I was still in his head.

But...

...ever since that truck flipped...

...my whole life has been about him.

You know, I wasn´t aware that bunnies did much crying.

-Don´t nitpick. -Right.

I thought you were just quiet.

No, I just wait until I´m sure somebody´s worth talking to.

-And then I don´t shut up. -Yeah, you´re telling me.

[LAUGHS]

-What? -What, I´m not welcome here?

You usually come over here to pick up or drop off a child.

I don´t think I have yours, do you have mine?

I´m here for dirt. How´d it go?

It was, uh, fine.

Was it fun fine? Did you meet any nice people?

-Do we have to do this? -Well, not if you don´t want to.

I have this idea that you only talk to me

when everything goes wrong.

But you save all the fun parts for everybody else.

You´re like the opposite of a fair-weather friend.

Basically, it was a train wreck.

I barely got out of the car

before I had a nice panic attack.

-Sorry to disappoint you. -Oh, that´s so terrible.

Yeah, it was. Now I know what my patients are talking about.

I mean, you really feel as though you´re gonna die.

-What did you do? -Me? Nothing.

-A lot of shaking. -Ha-ha-ha.

Tom was the one who talked me off the ledge.

He took me out for pancakes.

Giant pancakes. There´s this place--

Mile High Diner. I´ve been there for every birthday.

-I´m a little late to the party. -Did it help?

Well, not quite a Xanax, but, uh....

I don´t know why it happened. It was just a party.

Well, dating´s never an easy thing to start again.

And from what I remember, it was never an easy period.

I had to give Tom Keyes some very bad news today.

-Is he alright? -He´s not dying, but it´s bad.

At first I couldn´t handle it myself,

and then he came into my office...

...and it was my turn to be there for him and I wasn´t.

I sent him off to let someone else tell him.

I thought you gave bad news all the time.

I did.

Doctors like to say it never gets easier, but it does.

I told people they were gonna die hundreds of times.

And it took a while, but I became good at it.

I´d march in, say it, gauge whether they were gonna crack

now or later, and if it was later...

...I´d launch into the details and keep it analytical.

If they were gonna lose it, I´d leave them

with a box of tissues...

...and go check on another patient for an hour.

The trick was to get up and out before they cracked.

And they always do.

Tom gives so much strength to so many people.

To me.

And he was in my office looking at me.

And I knew that there was nothing

I could do but make him fall apart.

And I couldn´t do it.

I thought I was done with the hard parts.

It was the weirdest thing. I was like,

"No, because I can´t do that."

Can I steal her for a second?

Why? She´s just gonna tell me later.

-Can I say I´m sorry? -No.

-Well, I am. -No, I mean, you shouldn´t be.

You haven´t done anything wrong.

Ever since the accident, everyone told me

not to push so hard.

Guess what I did.

I pushed.

And I get you back and everyone says

don´t push, and guess what I do?

Colin, I´m beginning to think...

...that the best thing I can do for you is to just go away.

Give you some time.

Don´t do that, Grover. It was me.

I´m the one that blew up.

-What did you say? -I just said that I was sorry.

No, no, I mean, uh, what did you just call me?

Uh, I called you Grover.

That´s what you used to call me.

Yeah, I know. I´ve been remembering things.

About you, and us.

I mean, some things, not everything.

I remember Grover. I even remember how you got that name.

We were like 10 years old...

...and you kicked me because I was trying to kiss you.

Why didn´t you tell me?

I didn´t wanna disappoint you again.

You kind of expect the world...

...and I can´t give you that.

-You´re not disappointed? -Uh, no, no, I´m, uh--

What´s the opposite of disappointed?

[LAUGHS]

I don´t know, I don´t--

My vocabulary´s not very good right now.

Well, whatever it is, I´m that.

Good.

Because sometimes I think you forget how lucky we are.

Lucky? Yeah, that´s us.

I mean it.

I mean, how many couples get to have their first kiss twice?

-It´s so beautiful out here. -It´s no big deal.

I just wanted to take you somewhere special.

So you´d know you´re special. Which you are, to me.

And I mean, in general too, but especially to me.

-It is special. -Is it special enough?

For what?

Oh.

-That. -Yeah.

Because we haven´t really dealt with it, really.

Except for that one time, for a second.

That was totally by accident.

Yeah.

Um.

I don´t know.

It´s just so perfect out here.

-Do you want to? -Are you kidding me?

What do you think I was praying for all that time in Mass today?

You prayed for me to put out? That is so sweet.

-Dad? -Hey, what are you doing?

BRIGHT: I´m coming. GEMMA: But I´m here.

And I said okay.

I have to go help my dad.

If I die and don´t go to heaven, I´m gonna be so pissed.

-You have a good trip? -End of the day, yes, actually.

Good. Glad I didn´t ruin it for you.

Let´s just say we´re even.

What for?

He´s off crib sheets, Ephram.

He doesn´t need you to feed him answers.

-What´d he tell you? -He didn´t have to.

The Grover story was a little specific.

Not to mention straight off the Ferris wheel.

You might think I´ve forgotten the time

we spent together, but I haven´t.

-Did you tell him anything else? -No.

Just Grover.

-Does Colin know that you--? -No.

No, and he won´t. He doesn´t need that.

Besides, it was kind of sweet in a way,

although really misguided.

Well, that´s just me in general, right?

Amy, I got us the back row.

-Checking out, Dr. Abbott? -God, yes.

I see we have some room charges and then we´ll be all set.

Eight hundred dollars?

Would you like me to put the movies on a separate bill?

Yes, please.

[CLEARS THROAT]

If I may have one final moment of your time?

I would like to, uh, congratulate you all

on your exemplary behavior this trip.

As personal thank you, I would like to introduce you...

...to Sister Mary Constance of the Order of the Blessed Virgin.

Now, Sister Mary has graciously offered...

...to lead us all in catechism for the next three hours.

[ALL GROAN]

I should point out that this fine idea was inspired...

...by my new friends at the video yearbook club.

Be sure to thank them for the spirited ending to our time.

Yeah. Uh, Sister Mary?

I wondered what went under the vestments.

Hanes Beefy-Ts.

I hear judges go commando, but we answer to a higher power.

-Didn´t expect to see you here. -Me neither.

I need to talk to you. Got a minute?

Well, I have to shake everyone´s hands over bundt cake, but sure.

I´ve got some news. It´s bad news.

I lied to you yesterday about your tests.

I told you to see a specialist...

...but the specialists will tell you that...

...you have an irreversible eye disease...

...and that you´re going blind.

You´ve got what´s called exudative macular degeneration.

You have blood vessels leaking under your retinas...

...which will make them scar and detach.

And ultimately, useless.

-Is there anything I can do? -No.

Blind?

But how? I´ve been fine except when I´m tired.

Your left eye has been compensating for your right.

-Your left eye is next. -When?

Soon. A few months, maybe.

Progression is uncertain, but rapid.

I tried to tell you yesterday.

I´m sorry, Tom.

How will I, uh...?

Will I--? Will I be able to read?

For a while, and then no.

There are people outside.

Everyone´s waiting for me in the receiving line.

I was gonna go to Corsica in the fall.

I was gonna finish writing my book.

How can I--?

How will I even be able to take care of myself?

You´ll learn how.

I don´t want to learn.

I´ve had to learn how to live without a wife.

That was like losing an arm.

I have to lose my eyes too?

People come to me all the time when they´re sick.

They always ask me why.

And I always tell them that God has his reasons...

...and we shouldn´t try...

...to decipher them.

I never realized how empty that must sound.

I don´t know much about God...

...but I´ve seen a lot of people get sick and worse.

I don´t think God does this.

I don´t think he makes people go blind.

I think what God does is...

...gives us what we need to get by.

Can you fix this?

No.

But I can sit with you.

-Need a ride? -Oh, no, thanks.

My dad´s probably gonna do his usual late anyway.

Thanks again for all that Grover stuff, you know.

It made all the difference for Amy.

You know, it was good to see her okay for once.

-Home base and all. - Yeah. Definitely.

So you got to know her pretty well when I was out.

[STAMMERS] Oh, I mean, I wouldn´t say that.

Well, you knew the whole Grover story.

You knew exactly what it´d take to make her happy.

I thought you didn´t really know each other.

We hung out a couple of times.

It was no big deal. She talked about you a lot.

Still, you knew each other better than I thought.

[LAUGHS]

Don´t worry about it. It´s cool.

Thanks again for all that.

You don´t mind back seat, do you?

EPHRAM: Again why we had to drive to Denver for this.

Well, you had a crappy weekend, right?

Oh, crappy. Crappy would have been great.

I would have gladly taken crappy.

-Me too. -Was it that bad?

Not as bad as some.

Somehow eating seven pounds of pancakes´s gonna make it better?

-You tell me. -They´re bigger than I am.

You´ll manage.

IRV: You wonder, reading Job...

...what went through his mind while everything he loved...

...turned to dust?

I like to think it was memories of things once commonplace.

Wheat fields and rain and slippers...

...a broom in the corner, his flock in the yard...

...his children at the table giving thanks for it all.