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- Such a good boy.

Come on, come on, almost home, almost home.

Come on.

Come on, treats at home.

What?

Come on.

Come on, what's with you?

Come on, let's go, let's go.

- Okay, okay.

- Watch it, pothole, pothole!

Stop, stop!

- Watch out, watch out, watch out for the old man,

the old man!

- We must've looked like the getaway car

after a bank robbery.

But really, it was just my family getting back on track,

which is all I ever wanted.

But you gotta be careful what you wish for,

'cause it just might take the craziest,

most insane way to get you there.

Maybe even the greatest adventure of your life.

Echo Harbor was a great place to be,

and do everything family.

But Main Street fell apart, literally.

The population aged, and when kids went away to college,

they never came back.

So, dad rolled up his sleeves and ran for Mayor.

It was so exciting.

He was gonna make a difference,

and give everybody hope and reason to stay

in what I once thought was the best place

in the world to grow up.

And he won!

It felt like a victory for our whole family.

Everything that was wrong in Echo Harbor

would get fixed, thanks to my dad.

And life would be even better now.

But the job of being Mayor,

trying to make everyone happy consumed my dad.

Totally stressed him out,

which then stressed my mom out,

and then even me.

We became like so many families today, broken.

It really made me sad.

Even sadder than when my grandma died.

He told me it wouldn't be forever,

he just had to figure some things out.

So, dad moved in with grandpa,

which looking back, was probably a nice thing for grandpa,

because of grandma.

But I was suffering.

Our family was suffering.

And I knew that something needed to be done.

Mom?

- Mary, Jess is here!

- Gotta go.

- Okay, great.

I will have five dozen delivered by 6 p.m.

Okay, thanks, Olivia.

Bye.

- Scary.

- What?

It's your senior year picture.

I'm proud.

- Glad to hear it, because one more college

I won't be going to.

They say I lack life experience.

Is something burning?

- Oh!

Your cake.

- Happy birthday, me.

- Scuffles!

- What are those?

- Two dozen deliciously cinnamonny scuffles.

- Gotta love your mom.

Feed me.

Happy birthday selfie!

- Oh, oh, I'll take it.

So, I finally convinced my dad

to take me to see schools in California.

Oh, that's great.

- After the election.

Serial politician.

- Derek just checked you out.

- No, he checked you out.

- No, you! - Whatever.

- Why can't your mom just take you?

- Evidently, having a dad who's a mayor,

even if it's only of Echo Harbor,

plays well in the room.

Having an amazing mom with amazing scuffles,

not so much.

- They haven't tried her scuffles.

Good morning, fellow seniors.

- I thought I was having a bad day.

- You're not allowed in here.

- Scuffles, anyone?

- Dude.

- Did I mention it's my birthday?

- Okay, seriously, what is going on here?

- Under the Stars Senior Dance, one week from now,

has been relocated from outside, in the park,

under the stars,

where it's been since the beginning of time,

to the stinky school gym

I've successfully avoided for the last four years.

That's what's going on here, Mary.

- What?

- Do you know how much work I've been putting into this

for like, eons?

- And I had planned out this most epic

light projection show.

You see, I figured out this way

to beam up our senior class message into the cosmos.

Like, a super galactic time-

- Yo, yo, back to earth, Ed.

Come on, bro.

- But it's always in the park.

- The city council-

- And your dad-

- Created some new ordinance about teens

not allowed to loiter on Main Street after 10

once summer's over.

- So, goodbye tradition.

- Well, that stinks.

- So, we were thinking-

- Since your dad is the Mayor.

- And it's your birthday.

- No way.

- Just like I told you, totally useless.

- Guys, come on.

- Just leave.

- Hey.

- Hey.

- Just in time.

Hot out of the oven ginger snaps.

- Sympathy snaps.

Celebration snaps.

- For what?

Failing in almost every part of my life?

- How about for turning 18?

- Perfect, now I'm legal.

- That wasn't a rejection letter, you know.

- Rejection letter, early feedback letter.

Read between the lines, Mom, I'm useless.

It's a theme.

- Look, either I break out the violin,

or you talk to me.

- Sorry.

Self indulgent pity party over.

So, daddy still gonna be there tonight?

- As far as I know.

Why?

- Family meal, all of us together again.

Should be interesting.

- It's what you wanted.

- Hi.

- Okay, are we still waiting?

- Yeah, just give us a minute, thanks.

I called ahead, I ordered the seafood tower.

Anybody with me?

- I never turn down fresh shrimp.

- Hi. - Hey.

- Hey, aren't you the guy that wrote that book?

- I was, yeah.

- Sorry, we don't mean to bother you,

but we recognized you from over there

and just wanted to come over and say hello.

- Thank you.

- And by the way, I think you look better bald.

- Sorry about that.

- Must be nice to be famous.

- I was not famous, and that was a long time ago.

- Speaking of famous, the Mayor's here.

Late as usual.

- Oh, hey, Smitty, how are ya?

- Hi.

- Juan, I wanted to mention,

we're gonna get right on that.

We're gonna take care of it.

Just some wording.

In fact, we're gonna get two Tuesday.

Happy birthday, princess!

- Thanks, Dad.

You're sitting there.

- Yep.

Hey, Pops.

- Son.

- Doesn't mom look great tonight?

- Oh, yes, fantastic as usual.

- You're in a good mood.

- Well, I got some good news on the election front.

Ben Rogers had a heart attack.

- What?

- Wow, that is great news.

A pillar of the community nearly died,

let's get champagne.

- What?

Come on, no, he's gonna be fine.

But he is dropping out of the race, so,

that means I'm basically running unopposed.

Not that I was worried.

- Of course not.

- You know me so well.

- Too well.

What else?

You're holding something back.

- Nope, it's nothing.

It's Mary's night.

- This is not my night, this is our night.

The whole family together.

Isn't this great?

- Yeah, it is.

I got your text, by the way,

about the Main Street Park and the senior dance.

- Oh, yeah, it's a tradition for the Under the Stars Dance

to be under the stars.

- Yeah, well, good.

- That would be great.

- But I can't.

We implemented that ordinance for a reason.

To keep downtown safe, we had complaints.

- Safe from what?

Nobody goes down there anymore.

- 'Cause it's not safe.

But I do have some other exciting news.

We got the last investor in place

for the mall in Port Byron,

we break ground in January.

- Well, that's lovely for Port Byron,

meanwhile, Echo harbor is dying.

- Port Byron's on a freeway.

We don't want a mall here,

it would take over downtown.

But guess what?

We're gonna get all that overflow.

- Wow, that settles it.

Dad gets his mall, we get the overflow,

gamps looks better bald, and mom looks fantastic as usual.

- And you are finally 18.

And you know what that means?

You can vote for me.

- First thing I thought when I woke up this morning.

- That's my girl.

- Everyone get a chance to Look at the menus?

- Uh, can you just give us one more minute?

We're almost, thank you, thank you.

- Investors are very happy though.

They're gonna take me on a trip, golfing in Scotland.

I'll do that after the election.

- Wow.

- Rob, what about your trip to California with Mary,

looking at schools?

- We'll work something out.

It's golf, but, you know, it's business.

It never stops.

- No, it doesn't.

- Rob, she's counting on this.

- Mary, I need this, all right?

It's important.

- I need this, it's also important.

- All right, can we all just back off here?

- Look, pops, I don't want any fingers

being pointed here tonight.

I support this family with things

like my real estate investment,

opening the baking business, going to college,

those things aren't cheap.

Oh, and by the way, I'm living with my father.

You know what I mean, Dad.

While you two are living very comfortably

in a house that I pay for.

- We didn't leave you, you left us!

- I left you?

- Enough, enough, guys!

- Happy birthday, Mary.

Everybody smile.

- I'm sorry about the trip, princess.

I'll see what I can do.

- It's fine, forget about it.

Can we retire the whole princess thing?

- You got it.

In the meantime, maybe this will make up for it.

- What?

- It's yours.

Happy birthday.

- You're giving me your mid-life crisis?

- Well, I'm done with it, I thought-

- Like mom, me, us?

Done with it?

- Where did that come from?

- Come on, son.

Let's go home.

I think everyone should have

a box of disappointments.

A place to put all the disappointing things of life

so you can just hide them away.

Seems like a million years ago since we were a family.

Although some things are harder to keep in the box.

- I brought you some more goodies,

and they're actually still warm.

I so appreciate your business, Olivia.

- Dirty little secret,

when a customer comes in to just browse,

they get a cup of coffee

and one of your delicious...

- Scuffles. - Scuffles.

Then they buy something.

- Wow, glad it helps.

- Maybe now's the time to tell her

what you put in them that makes them so powerful?

- Nothing.

Nothing but love.

- And just a wee bit of sugar.

- And spice. - And everything nice.

- Well, whatever it is, it works.

So, Mary, are you gonna follow in the family business?

- Which one, baking or bullying?

That would be my father's job.

- College first, then she'll decide.

- If she can get into any college

that will accept her with her lack of life experiences.

- Oh, to be young again.

Well, for whatever it's worth,

don't change who you are to impress anyone.

- Only problem, who am I?

- No, I'm serious, if you can find out

what makes you tick, then the path will follow.

- Thank you, master.

Can I ask you a question?

Why here, Echo Harbor?

I mean, you've taken this old place

and turned into something really cool,

so props for that, but in case you haven't noticed,

we're kinda nobody anymore, sort of off the radar.

- Mary!

- No, no, no.

That's very observant.

I had a feeling about you, Mary.

So, going back to what I just said,

I think I know who I am, I'm a restorer.

I value history, and the people and places

that are part of that.

I also see the opportunity that comes with that.

I like to fix things up, turn them around.

Create a win-win for everybody.

When I first came here, I fell in love with Echo Harbor

and this building,

although I suspect both had seen better days.

- That's being generous.

- But my gut said, "buy it, give it some love

and a new life."

And voila, here we are.

Wharf Hill, Homewares and Skiffles.

- Scuffles. - Scuffles.

- Oh.

- I wish they would do that to all of Main Street, you know?

Restore it.

It used to be so beautiful, colorful.

People strolling in the evenings.

- Well, I'm sure they would if they could,

but I had a hard enough time

putting this place together.

You guys have enough rules and laws

to scare anyone off,

and the real deal breaker for an outside like me

is one buyer, one corporation per building, per business,

meaning I can't use my corporation

to buy multiple properties.

And believe me, I would.

Others too.

Yes, I look up and down Main Street,

and I see so much potential and opportunity,

but it just doesn't make financial sense.

- Yep, that would be my dad.

Well, gotta hit it, guys.

I gotta get good old fashioned life experience

from good old fashioned people.

See ya.

- Lose your way back, Teddy?

Your room's just around the corner.

- I tell ya.

Something fishy is going on around here,

I can smell it.

- That smell is old man who doesn't bathe enough.

- Amen, hallelujah.

- Deep.

Go Eleanor.

- You watch.

This is big.

It's the big one.

- Speaking of which, Mary, read your card.

Oh, to be 18 again.

- And all the poor men you left in your wake.

- "I'm not saying you're old,

I'm just saying when you were a kid,

emojis were called hieroglyphics."

It's a good one.

- Franklin picked it out.

He said that you would understand it.

- Teddy's just mad 'cause he doesn't know what emojis are.

- Speculation.

Overruled.

- Well, you take the girl out of the courtroom,

but you can't take the lawyer out of the little girl.

- Reverend, you ready to check yourself in here, old man?

- Oh, not quite yet, Franklin, but gettin' close.

- Pat, you still have to play by my rules.

- Yeah, I'm just here to-

- What is in the bag?

- Nothing.

- He brought our pudding!

- Do you ever shut up, dummy?

- Hand it over.

- Objection!

- Sustained!

Beat it, Wilma!

- Fine, y'alls want to go to an early grave?

Have it your way.

- Who knew 80 was the new early?

- Hey, padre.

Would you say a blessing over Roosevelt?

He hasn't been himself lately,

I'm not suer what's up.

- I'll tell you what's up.

Critters are smarter than you think.

He knows something sneaky is going on.

- All right, let's see.

Roosevelt, may we bless this home

in the name of the God who created you.

May you and Franklin continue to live

an abundant life together.

Amen.

Now, here's your pudding.

Shh.

- Thanks, gamps.

- What?

- This.

Family fishing days, being constant.

- The most important part about

being a family is showing up.

As long as you and I keep showing up.

You're the glue that holds the family together,

you know that.

- Not so sure I'm that sticky.

- Your dad, he's a good man, Mary.

You know, your grandma and I had him when we were young,

just a couple years older than you.

We were very young, and very much in love.

I suppose because of that, being so young,

he and I became more friends than father and son.

He was a good friend, and I know you see some of that.

It may be hard to tell, but he means well.

- He should've never have become Mayor.

- Never confuse blindness with badness, or baldness.

We can all lose the plot from time to time.

- Even you?

- Oh yeah.

Even me.

Can I share something with you?

- Of course.

- I've got this sermon on forgiveness.

I've been meaning to give it for a year full of Sundays.

It's about me.

- Why haven't you?

- Well, every time I get to it, every Sunday,

I look out at my congregation, all of you,

and I just chicken out,

go to one of my old standards.

- That doesn't sound like you.

- No.

I tell you what.

You continue to inspire me, and this Sunday,

this Sunday I'm gonna do it!

You see, you be ready.

- I'll be ready.

- Hey, Mary.

Mr. Parson.

- Oh, hey, Jordan!

- Hey, Jordan.

What's up?

- Uh...

Well, Mary, you know the dance is tonight,

and um, I'm going alone,

and I knew everybody was gonna be excited to see you,

so I was wondering would you go to the dance with me?

- I already have plans with my grandpa, sorry.

- Yeah.

Yeah, that's fine.

I just wanted you to know that you're gonna be missed.

- Thank you.

Have fun, tell everyone I said hi.

- I will.

See ya, Mr. Parson.

- See ya around.

Seems like a cool dude.

- Grandpa.

- I'm just saying the obvious.

Why don't you want to go to the dance with him?

- First of all, "cool dude"?

- Well, you say that all the time, dude.

- But you're old.

Second of all, it's a school dance,

third of all, I don't dance.

- Oh, yeah?

We'll see about that.

- I bet this isn't how you envisioned your senior dance.

- No, it isn't.

Thanks, Grandpa?

- You know, my James was quite the twinkle-toes

back in the day.

- Well, you're no slouch yourself.

- May I cut in?

- Yeah, sure.

- Pastor, have you heard the news?

They're shutting the place down.

- Let's start thinking about bedtime, kids.

- What do you mean they're shutting it down?

- Take a look.

- GSA, it's the eviction of demolition notice.

The building's being condemned.

- They're saying it doesn't meet code.

And if it can't be fixed, boom, down it goes!

- They're not gonna tear this place down,

it's the site of the first animal hospital

south of New York.

- You've been telling us that for 20 years.

- This is our home!

- It's not just here, most of Main Street

is being condemned.

- Yeah, half these buildings are already closed down,

the other folks are just struggling to survive.

- Smithfield Ice Cream is on there,

they're gonna take our ice cream!

- Is this legal?

- Give me that!

I'm afraid that it is.

It looks like they have everything they need.

- We're losing the senior home?

- This is not a good time, princess.

Mary, sorry.

I have a press conference.

And yes, someone has reported half the town

on code violations,

and a handful of other problems, I know.

- Okay, so what are you gonna do about it?

- Nothing, it's out of my hands.

- Lately everything seems to be out of your hands.

- Please, don't start.

And by the way, it might not be such a bad thing.

- Might not be such a bad thing?

Half of Main Street is on there!

- Which has been dying a slow death for years,

long before I took over.

- What about Sunnyside, my friends?

They're on the list.

It's the government's job to help the people.

- Look, if a business can't make it,

maybe it shouldn't be a business.

- We should step in and help them.

Especially 80 year olds who have spent

their entire lives here contributing.

- Okay, fine, and while we're at it,

why don't we just bring Blockbuster back,

and we'll make a law that says

everyone has to watch movies again on videotape.

- What's Blockbuster?

- Mary, we cannot solve everyone's problems.

- Do you even hear yourself?

So while you're busy building along Port Byron,

our own Main Street doesn't actually get the overflow,

it gets ripped down?

It doesn't take a conspiracy nut

to smell something fishy going on here.

- Conspiracy?

- Dad!

- Okay, all right.

Hold on a second.

Where is it?

Here you go.

Uh, take a look at this.

This is Main Street.

- Yeah, I know, I've lived here for 18 years.

- Okay, well half the stores are closed.

- Way too many.

- Yes.

And the other half need serious repairs

just to get up to code.

You know who they're gonna come to for that?

Me.

- Then do it, help them!

- I have run the numbers, princess,

it doesn't make sense.

- Okay, what about that law?

About how many businesses a corporation can buy.

- What do you know about that?

- I know that Olivia Wharf-Hill bought up that old shop,

and I know that people like her,

people with corporations might be interested

in buying a whole lot more

if that stupid ordinance wasn't in place-

- The stupid ordinance is to prevent

a mega-company from coming in,

imploding downtown and destroying it.

- Right, that's your job.

- I'm not the bad guy here, okay?

- That's exclusive to our family.

- Okay, I don't expect a high school kid

who needs her daddy running off to California with her

so she can finally get accepted to college

to understand any of this.

- Wow.

- I'm sorry.

- So many parts of that were messed up.

- Yes, that came out wrong.

- No, that's the most true thing you ever said.

Just so we're clear, you think I'm too young,

and I guess too dumb to care about my hometown?

- No, that's not what I said.

- You're the Mayor.

You can do something about this.

And while you're at it,

give us kids our park back, it's safe!

- I am the Mayor, and guess what?

I'm gonna be Mayor for the next 4 years,

so what I say goes.

Now, I think we're done here.

- I had to either walk out,

or go nuclear on him.

He lost sight of everything

that once made me so proud of him,

family and the town he promised to fix.

You know what?

I'm running for Mayor!

- That's not gonna happen overnight,

getting my five point plan into place-

- You know what?

I'm running for Mayor!

I'm not running for Mayor,

so you don't have to worry.

I don't know, I was just so angry with him.

He keeps ignoring everything.

Sunnyside Senior Home, Main Street,

Seniors Under the Stars Dance.

And he's being a bully about it too.

- So, you wanted to hurt him.

- No!

Yeah, maybe a little.

- That was wrong.

- I know it was, but then I left there and thought

maybe I can actually do something around here,

make a difference, why not?

It's better than him doing nothing at all, right?

- Okay.

- But that's absurd.

I can't even get into a decent college without his help.

I'll just apologize, fix it,

make it all go away.

Wow, now I'm starting to sound like him.

It's Jess, needs me at school.

- About time!

Come on, come on, come on, come on.

Sit, sit, sit, sit, sit.

Okay, sign here, and here, and here.

- What am I signing?

- Papers, to get you on the ballot.

- Wait, what?

- We heard your announcement, it was brilliant.

- But I didn't even know-

- Okay, so we missed some deadlines,

so we have some hoops to jump through,

but we can make it.

- "We"?

- I talked to Mr. Fordham.

Anyone participating in your campaign

doesn't have to take the social studies final.

You're my hero.

- But I didn't even-

- You're right, you're not.

This is a complete waste of time.

- Annie!

- Mary, come on, you're not your dad.

- No, she's right, this is a mistake.

- There are no mistakes.

- Guys, my dad pushed my buttons,

ruined my family, so I pushed back.

- I think you'd make a great mayor.

- No, I'm 18.

Wait, really?

- Awesome.

- Dumb.

- She's right.

Guys, let's be real.

If no one can think of a better idea

than get back at my dad,

then this conversation is over.

- No social studies final.

- Better than that.

- Little help, bro?

- Hey, where is everybody?

- High schooler runs for mayor

could look great on a college application

for anyone involved.

What?

People can't change their minds?

- I mean, talk about a life experience.

- How many high school seniors can say

they've ran an official political campaign?

- And think about it, you win,

you could really make a difference, change things up.

- Get our park back.

- Help Sunnyside Senior Home.

- And of course, show your dad who's boss.

- Okay, keep talking.

- Great, town council meets today.

- You missed the regular deadline to enter the race.

- You're gonna have to speak to the council

to get an exception.

- Speak?

Like, in front of people?

- It's a part of the job description.

- I've got you on the agenda.

- Speak about what?

- Okay, there's like 5 minutes of my life missing here,

can someone please fill in the blanks?

- And we're off!

- And that is why we think you should grant our petition

to put Mary Parson on the ballot.

Just remember, "Yes for Mary!"

The acronym Y-E-S.

Y is for youth, E for educated,

and S for she is a female.

Yes for Mary.

- Well said.

Thank you, Miss Duffy.

- Thank you.

- Look, enough, okay?

On behalf of my family and I, we're very sorry.

This is obviously a very private family matter

that should be resolved at home, and not here.

I apologize for wasting everyone's time

with this little fiasco.

- Excuse me, but what about this

makes you think it's a fiasco, Mr. Mayor?

- Well, Mary's a young girl,

she obviously can't run the town-

- Just a young girl?

Joan of Arc was just a young girl

when she led her troops to victory.

Cleopatra was just a young girl

when she toppled the two leaders of the Roman Empire.

Queen Elizabeth I was just a young girl.

- Okay.

- Your daughter's a young woman,

with more ideas in her little pinky

than you have in that pea head you call a brain!

- Ma'am.

- Just, we got it.

- You told 'em, you told 'em,

we got it, we'll handle this.

- All right, so we would like to speak in opposition

to allowing Mary to run for mayor.

- Finally, the voices of reason.

- As you know, some of the most notorious leaders

in all of history got their top jobs

without being voted in.

- Well, I am being voted in, just unopposed.

- Exactly.

Unopposed.

Like Stalin and Attila the Hun.

- And Kim Jong-Un.

Yeah, no debate is complete without bringing up

that nasty little dude

with the funny looking soul patch on his upper lip.

Am I right, guys? - Good one, bro.

- Okay.

Princess, do you have anything you'd like to say,

or have you been spoken for?

- I can't do this.

- Yes, you can.

Just read what's on the cards.

I got an A on my essay using those notes.

- Just speak from your heart.

- Miss Parson?

- Members of the council.

America is known as the great democratic experiment.

The principles set forth by the founding fathers-

- Mary, this isn't the battle for the White House.

Just tell us why you think

we should allow you to run for mayor.

Mary, hey!

You've got this, girl.

- Will and Ed are right.

A true election is about choice.

And right now it's just same old, same old.

I meet the requirements, the checklist.

The one thing that isn't on there

that I can't just check off

is that I actually care about this town.

It's like an extended family to me,

and like family, it deserves to be given a chance

to be brought back, restored.

We have to actually listen to each other,

and understand what each of us needs, young and old.

A future informed by our history.

Because we're all a part of this town, we all matter.

Echo Harbor is our home.

For better or for worse, a family.

At least, that's what I think.

- Well, looks like we have ourselves a race for mayor.

Not awkward for me, in that I have two horses

in this two horse race.

In politics, we tend to find ourselves

up against each other, divided.

And in doing so, I think we lose sight of certain things.

So, today, I'd like to talk about something

that affects us all,

something without we can find ourselves alone,

disconnected from one another, certainly from God.

Today I would like to talk about f...

For...

Fellowship.

Fellowship.

Oh, thank you, thank you.

Good to see you.

Hey, so good to see you, thank you.

- Wow, sure learned a lot about for, for, fellowship.

- Oh, hey, thank you, thank you.

Mary, you're gonna have to talk to him sooner than later.

Thanksgiving, Christmas, my funeral.

- Hey, pops.

Sermon kind of wandered a little today, didn't it?

- Oh, not you.

For, for, for, for...

- Rob, I get it.

- Mary.

Sorry if I was out of line at the council meeting.

Honestly, I did not mean to insult you.

- It's fine.

But can I ask you a question?

- Sure.

- Do you really want to be mayor?

- I guess, yeah.

- Well, why?

I mean, what is it?

Civic duty, make a difference, you want to get back at me?

Whatever it is-

- Son-

- No, whatever it is, I think you're gonna have to do

a little better than "I guess".

Okay?

And you're gonna have to take a hard look around here

at the good and the bad

and figure out what makes this place so special

that you want to fight so hard for,

that you want to fight me for it.

- You can smart with Smitty's Ice Cream Parlor.

All those Saturdays we spent there together?

- Yes, yes we did.

- And Sunnyside Senior Home.

If that goes away, they won't have any place to live.

- We will find places for everyone-

- Scattered across the country.

- There is a workable solution.

- And what about the rest of downtown?

- Yes, all right?

Yes.

Echo Harbor's broken, but guess what?

- No, please, come on.

- Dad, guess what?

It's not lost on me.

I take the job of being mayor seriously.

- Then do your job and help the people seriously!

- All right, guys, seriously.

I'm...

Please.

- You know, Mary, you have a big heart.

That's one of the things I love about you.

We can't save everyone.

But we can forgive.

We can forgive.

I don't fault you for this silly idea

that you're somehow gonna run against me

and make everything better,

but I do forgive you,

for making me look foolish in the process.

See?

Walk away.

- Shh.

Just shh.

Okay, I can't.

Hi, everybody.

Steve, welcome home, congratulations.

- What?

- No.

We can do better.

We can do better.

Now we just have to see who's with us.

- And who's against us!

- Not quite.

We just want to see who else wants to help us

save Echo Harbor.

- And who doesn't.

- So, "We can do better."

Is that like our slogan?

- A slogan, you know, it's like a saying.

- I know what a slogan is.

Thanks, Ed.

Sure.

"We can do better."

Jess?

- Works for me.

Jordan?

- Absolutely.

Annie?

- Game on.

- That's a start.

Thank you guys.

- But isn't she the Mayor's daughter?

- She is.

Guilty, Mrs. Shanahan.

- Oh, my.

This is all very odd.

- Speaking of odd, I so hate my face.

- Try smiling.

- Mary?

You got a minute?

- Hey, Rhonda.

What's up?

- Town council sent me to get your platform

for the election website.

- Oh, like on camera?

- Your dad's is.

- Mary, smile.

- A bake sale fundraiser.

That's a first.

- Yeah, that's what happens when your mom

is the best baker this side of Brooklyn.

- You know the average campaign costs

about $50,000.

That's a lot of cookies.

- We'll do that in scuffles alone.

Now ask her something serious or get lost!

- No, seriously, this topic is totally fine.

Thank you, though.

- Okay.

Initiative 143 comes before the town council next month.

What's your stance?

- We're not up to speed yet, what is that again?

- Reallocation of funds from the boardwalk repair

to upgrade the computer system at the high school.

- I would vote yes.

The high school mainframe is like 80's technology,

there's no security wall at all.

Not like I know anyone who deleted

a couple of absent days.

Are you like completely oblivious, bro?

- What's my dad doing?

- The Mayor is suggesting we focus on the school,

for obvious reasons,

and tackle the boardwalk next spring

before the summer rush.

- Sounds about right.

- Mary?

- Oh!

That was Mary Parson, running for Mayor.

Literally.

- Well, why don't we go on upstairs?

We'll get to the details,

there will be plenty of time for that.

Come on in.

- 52 dollars, 86 cents.

- 86 cents?

- Mr. Fergus said he liked our shirts.

- 86 cents?

I just need to find my focus.

Can you please turn that off?

My voice is so nasally.

- It's not that bad.

- I endorsed my dad's position,

I run away from an interview.

Not that bad?

- I just meant your voice.

- The good news is, you're up in the polls.

You were at 1%, now you're at 2.

- Woo hoo!

- Found him. - Found him.

His name's Perry Stevens, inspector with the GSA.

- The agency that put notice

to all the buildings downtown?

- Why was he talking to him?

- 'Cause he's the rat who ratted him out

to the GSA in the first place.

- Maybe he was meeting for something different.

- Dark and sinister, back alleys, rain covered cobblestones,

figures lurking in the sha-

- Dude.

Or, maybe your dad's right.

52 bucks doesn't show a ton of support

that downtown can sustain itself.

- So, what?

Do we just let it shrivel up and die?

- I'm not saying that.

I'm just saying who thinks Main Street

is important anymore?

- Disney.

There's a reason that Walt Disney made Main Street

the first thing you see when you walk into his parks.

It's the heart, everything goes out from there.

- I never thought about that.

- When you walk into Disneyland, you feel safe.

You feel welcomed, loved, like you're at home.

- Main Street.

- Main Street isn't just a place for businesses,

it's a representation of who we are

and what we stand for.

Believe it or not, my dad actually told me

to think about the town

and why it's so important to me.

And now I think it's time the Mayor's office

thinks about that too.

There's two kinds of people.

Those who want to tear everything down,

and those who want to restore it.

So now we have to decide, who are we?

- Main Street.

- Main Street.

- Main Street. - Main Street.

- The old music store.

- Mr. Kostreva.

- Bought my first and last guitar in there.

Fat fingers.

- Me too.

- Broke Mr. Singer's heart when he had to close her up.

- You think at least music would survive.

- Yet somehow, there's purpose.

You just gotta find it.

Nothing's worthwhile that comes without a struggle.

It's how we deal with those obstacles that define us.

- You and your family have been in here,

Echo Harbor-

- God created the Earth, Echo Harbor,

and my family's hardware store.

- Right, so, what is it?

What makes everyone stay?

- Why is it so special?

- Exactly.

- How about I walk you home?

You know all those storms we had last year?

- Yeah.

- Now after that, just about packed up

and got out of here.

- Why?

- Well, I kind of realized that, looking around,

this place was our whole world.

- Hey, Mom!

I had the worst day ever and then the best day ever.

Wow.

Whole family's here, looking like Mt. Rushmore.

Is this like, an intervention or something?

'Cause I don't drink, and I don't do drugs.

- Mary, we need to talk.

Push an end to this.

- I'm just getting started.

- Mary, he comes in peace.

- Just listen.

- I don't like the way we left things,

and it's been eating me up.

- Losing sleep, I'm sure.

By the way, I'm on to you.

- What's that supposed to mean?

- Nothing, go on.

- I don't want to make you mad, ever,

I really don't.

- Debatable.

- And I don't want to see you hurt.

- A little late for that.

- Mary, stop.

- Look, we all know that you're running

just to get back at me, and I get it, I do-

- No!

I mean, maybe a little,

but now I really do think things can be better,

I can do better, than you.

- I don't want to see you humiliated,

but that interview was frankly embarrassing.

- You know how when you first go into Disneyland-

- You see?

This is what I'm talking about.

The world is not Disneyland.

- Says who?

Did you know-

- Someone tell her that the world is not Disneyland, okay?

She needs some tough love here,

a dose of reality at least!

- Tough love?

You can't just show up here after two years

and suddenly act like you care!

- Guys!

- Oh, okay, so now it's about me.

Well, guess what?

Someone has to provide for this family.

- Oh, here we go!

- I'm so over this!

- Both of you, stop.

What about campaign funds?

This is a real campaign, we need real money.

- Okay, so until we get more,

we work with what we have.

Great ideas and the kind of ambition

we're allowed this one time in our lives,

but I'm not gonna sit around and wait for more money

or to become mayor, or to prove my dad wrong.

We should start helping now.

Serving the community now, restoring Main Street now.

- Whoa!

You should like jump straight to running for president.

- You said it, Jess.

This is our time to roar, so let's roar.

- Roar!

- Kind of meant that figuratively.

So, who's in?

Let's get every student in this school,

every kid in town, every jock, braniac, get them together.

And we're gonna show them what we're made of.

Roar!

- I usually vote for your dad.

- What if I told you...

We can do better!

- Oh.

- Whatever you're selling, I ain't interested!

- What about making Main Street shine again?

- Dream on!

- We are!

- What'd you say your name is again?

- I'm Mary Parson, I'm running for mayor.

- Hi, can I help you?

- Yeah, did you guys just move in here?

- Yes, we did. - We did.

- Well, welcome to Echo Harbor.

- Is every kid in town here?

- Every kid that wants to make this town better

for you and your family.

You're the one they've been talking about.

If you mean...

Go Mary!

- Then yep, I'm your girl, woman, mayor person.

- Oh, hi there!

- Need your windows washed?

- I think they're okay at the moment.

Oh, great job out there.

- You know how you were saying

you might know some people who'd invest here on Main Street?

- If those ordinances weren't in place.

- One business, one corporation.

- Right.

It's a hurdle.

If we could somehow make that go away...

- Well, if I became mayor, maybe-

- You've already got my vote,

now you just gotta go beat the other guy.

- Right, there is that.

Do I really have to do this?

- If you want to beat your dad, then yes,

you have to debate him on the issues.

Not to mention, if I can wear this stupid hat,

you can debate.

- Just read the cards.

I got an A on my essay using them.

- Okay, but you're the one that got an A using your notes,

you should be running for mayor.

- Are we ready?

Are you nervous?

I'm nervous.

Anyone else nervous?

Honey, I know I've said it before,

but it bears repeating, so I'm gonna say it again.

I am so proud of you.

What a night!

- If this doesn't impress colleges,

I don't know what will.

- Everyone just breathe!

- 5 minutes, everybody.

It is packed out there.

- I'm scared I'm gonna get my first question,

and then do a face plant on the podium.

- Focus on the notes.

- Focus on what makes Echo Harbor special.

- Focus on you.

That's our best shot.

You being you, Mary.

- Okay, you're officially the greatest guy ever.

- Just breathe.

- History has shown us repeatedly

that when we act individually,

with our own personal interests in mind, societies collapse.

So, in closing, that is why economic renewal

can only come through individual development

with a civic universalist approach.

Thank you.

Your turn.

- Yeah!

- Thank you, Ed.

- Thank you, Mary.

- Mayor Parson.

She's right, you're up.

- Thank you, Rhonda.

And thank you, Mary, for those thoughts,

I guess we're gonna call them.

You did good, princess.

"Save the town, rescue Main Street, we can do better."

Great sentiments.

A bit naive, but naivety, well,

that's the strength of youth.

Cute t-shirts only go so far.

The problem is not in the desire,

the problem is in the means, the how.

Now, I'm sorry princess,

but your speech didn't put forth any solid ideas

on how we can actually save Main Street, solutions.

Like most of you, I grew up here, I call this home.

But let's be honest,

our Main Street hasn't been idyllic for what,

over a decade.

And guess what, we're not alone in that.

This is happening all over the country.

And look, maybe saving something that's broken

isn't the right approach anyway.

Now, isn't it time we all came together

and started looking to the future and not the past

for our inspiration and our solutions?

We need to think about the kind of town

we're gonna be leaving people like Mary.

And yes, sometimes that's gonna mean doing things

that seem unpopular in the moment,

like letting Smithfield's Ice Cream go

and replacing it with a-

- Yogurt? - Shop.

- This town isn't your marriage or your family.

- Mary.

- You can't just throw it all away

'cause times are tough and you're done with it.

That is not what I'm saying.

Sure sounds like it.

- Progress requires some letting go.

- You ever think that maybe

everything and everyone that you dump along the way

for future...

We can't get over it as easily as you,

okay, Mr. Mayor?

- I think this is going in the wrong direction.

- Yeah, I don't think you can take this personal, princess.

- Then don't call me princess.

And maybe making it personal is the job of the mayor.

- Not when it comes to business.

Am I right, Rhonda?

- Bernie Kostreva is not a business, he's a person.

His family hardware store

has been the center of Main Street for three generations,

and it's about to go away, he's gonna lose it.

But here's the thing, Mr. Mayor.

His business isn't failing, he makes a profit

month in and month out.

Not much, but a profit.

That hardware store has outlasted the Depression,

a world war, and 15 presidents.

When the economy turned, Bernie cut back on his expenses

and increased his personal hours.

He gave credit to half the town

and did so interest free.

The storms two years ago gave him flood damage

that his insurance wouldn't cover,

but still, he stayed open,

he kept his employees on payroll,

and he did what each of us would do.

The best he can.

He was never done.

But still, that wasn't enough.

Not because his business wasn't solid,

or because he wasn't trying hard enough,

but because the drywall in the back room wasn't solid.

Too many floods back to back.

So now, he's on a list.

He has to fix it or get out.

And that requires money that he doesn't have anymore,

because he was just doing what he thought was best.

The same goes for so many other stores

up and down the street.

The ice cream parlor, the-

- Okay, somebody's been Googling.

- No, Dad, I haven't been Googling.

I went out on the street

and actually talked with the people.

You know, there isn't any law

against the mayor hitting the pavement

and talking to the people that he or she represents.

You might want to keep that in mind.

- Yes!

- Thank you so much.

- Hi!

- Thank you.

Thank you so much.

- Thank you so much.

- He didn't know what hit him.

- I have tried for years to get that man to zip it!

- I can't believe all these people came.

Do you think any of them will vote for me?

- You know how the town Facebook page

has that polling feature?

- Please tell me we're at least 5%.

- Oh yeah.

- Double digits?

- Mary, you're in the lead.

- I love politics.

- Right.

- Not to break up the love fest,

but even though this isn't an official fundraiser,

it's kind of become that.

I took off old Uncle Sam's hat to let my head breathe,

and the next thing you know,

I have over 600 bucks in it.

- Feed the beast! - Feed the beast!

- Done.

Mary, you were brilliant tonight.

You have my admiration and full support.

- It's for $5,000.

- Yes, yes. - Oh!

- We have a town to save.

- I don't know what to say.

- I do.

Fundraising selfie!

- It's like everyone disappeared,

and I just said whatever was in my heart.

To be honest, I don't remember most of it.

- Sounds like you found your voice.

- Me as mayor.

Who'd of thought?

- Can I give you some advice?

- As my pastor or as my grandpa?

- I think they're one in the same.

To be a good pastor,

you have to think of everyone as your grandchild.

- That's a lot of birthday presents.

- Yeah.

There was that part in the debate,

what was it you said?

"We can't forget that behind all the businesses

are real people."

- Yeah.

I just remember helping out Mr. Kostreva,

and how devastated he was

over the thought of losing his family business.

- My advice is to keep that wisdom in your heart.

- Behind every business is a person.

- And behind every politician.

- Are you talking about my dad?

- A little.

I'm also talking about you.

Uh oh.

Go on, I'll clean up here.

Go on, be nice.

Hi.

- So, we've expanded the bake sales to every afternoon.

- And after the game,

we're gonna have a pep rally in the square.

- You should get the Girl Scouts involved.

They're a bunch of pushy broads.

- Oh, Mary!

- Excuse me, excuse me.

Family and volunteers only.

- She's with me.

- She doesn't have a vest on!

- Charming.

Mary, can I have a quick word?

Sorry.

Get in, please.

- Bake sales and pep rallies.

Cute.

- I'm sorry, who are you?

- Oh, this is Eugene.

A good friend and a professional political consultant.

- I've run three successful mayoral campaigns.

One in New York, two in D.C.

Not a nice playground.

- Oh, so-

- Olivia sent along a copy of your debate.

Raw, but there's something...

- What he's trying to say is you show potential.

He doesn't like to reveal his cards.

- Mary, you need to stop acting

like you want to be homecoming queen.

- Ew, I would never do that.

- No more daddy's little princess.

- Okay, where do I sign up?

This is for $20,000.

- She can be the real deal.

Echo Bay- - Harbor.

- Who knows from there?

There, cards are on the table.

- Hey!

Bake sales are over.

Sure, but we just cleaned this street.

- Wow!

Really?

- Just enough Hilary with a dose

of classic Margaret Thatcher.

- One lost and the other one's dead.

- How about...

Jennifer Lawrence eat your heart out.

- I can get used to that.

- This suit says power, it says authority.

- Power, authority.

Cool.

- Next.

Perfect.

- No one's hit Division Street yet.

- Dude, seriously, I would never live over there,

and I'd pretty much sleep in a dumpster if I had to.

- Guys, we need people working Main Street still,

that's the focus of our campaign.

Finally!

- Hey, guys.

- I'm sorry, who are you?

- Oh, you like?

Eugene hautcoutured me.

- Again, who are you?

- Uh, who is Eugene?

- You're not dressed to clean.

- I don't know, I think she looks kind of hot.

- She looks like she's 60.

- Mary, what's going on here?

- Long story, but so good.

We got a huge donation,

Olivia's introducing me to her investors,

Eugene set up a hair and nail thingy,

and they all want to help!

- Again, who's Eugene?

- Shouldn't you be seen, you know,

cleaning up the town, with us?

- Actually, Olivia wants me to focus

on spreading our optics.

You know, me with the businesses,

you guys with the little clean up thingy.

- Spread our optics?

- Clean up thingy?

Yeah, I'm feeling optics.

- You guys, I would love to stay and chat,

but I have to go to campaign headquarters.

- This is our campaign headquarters.

- Eugene set up a new headquarters

for our platinum donors and call center.

- Again, who is Eugene?

- If I want to win, I have to play like a winner,

not someone who's trying to be homecoming queen.

No offense, Jess.

You guys, I'm just trying to reach my full potential

maybe for the first time in my life.

Imagine what good I can do if I become mayor.

What good we can do.

Isn't that what we wanted, why we did this whole thing?

I tell you what, after my little meet and greet

cheese cracker thingy, I'll come back and help.

Promise.

Gotta go, love you guys.

- You know Cleopatra had her brother and sister murdered?

Looks like power in the hands of a desperate, young woman

might have a downside.

- Look what she's done with this place.

Olivia came in with a vision,

cleaned up the building, and created a new business.

Working together, we can save all of Main Street.

- I'm sorry, forgive me.

I appreciate everything you said about me

at the debate, sweetie.

Tell me again how this works exactly?

- Mr. Kostreva.

First of all, your family's history here

is the wonderful heartbeat of this extraordinary town.

My group of investors, all good friends,

are going to buy the buildings on Main Street

that have already closed down.

- Assuming we can get the ordinance lifted

so that they could buy more than one.

That's right.

- And with that money-

- Capital.

- Capital for those purchases,

we will also include some money for a-

- General building fund.

- Which we then use as non interest loans

for small businesses like yours,

bring them up to code, make those bad men go away.

- Okay, so, what's in it for you, Ms. Wharf-Hill?

- Main Street thrives, Olivia's business here thrives.

A rising tide lifts all boats.

My gamps taught me that one.

- Is there any further discussion

on the sewage extension proposal?

Mary?

- I'd like to address the council.

- Princess, we're in the middle of something here, okay?

Can you please just go home?

- Move to table current business

and go straight to new business.

- I second that.

- Well, Mary, looks like you have our attention.

- Come on, guys, we don't have time for this.

- I'd like to ask the council

to repeal the corporate limitation ordinance,

and to do it like, now, if that's possible.

- The limitation is in place for a reason.

- Yeah, to help you with your mall.

- No. - What?

- My father has been quietly helping

build a mall in Port Byron,

which of course would do a lot better

if it wasn't competing with businesses here in Echo Harbor.

- There's plenty of room for our downtown and the mall.

- Sure.

If overflow is your big fix to save us.

We all know that an anonymous report

lead the GSA to putting up notices all around town.

Well, it's no longer anonymous.

Our mayor is the one that reported us.

- That is not true.

- I have pictures, Dad.

- If Rob's selling us out,

and Rob's the main proponent

to the corporate limitation ordinance,

then maybe we need to really consider-

- No, I have not sold anybody out.

We voted on this, all of us.

- I move that we strike the ordinance.

- Second.

- Movement seconded.

The ordinance is repealed.

Thank you, Mr. Land.

- That was easy.

- Who do you think I am?

- A guy who used to call himself mayor.

Jordan, please call me, somebody.

Radio blackout.

You should've seen it.

Pretty amazing.

The look on dad's face.

- I'm glad I didn't.

- Why?

- Politics.

Us versus them.

Somebody's always made to be the villain.

- Well, if they're wrong, they should be.

You could listen and love them, but they're still wrong.

- I don't know.

What would happen if politics

wasn't about winning and being right?

- What's left after that?

- The people, of course.

- I gotta go, see what's going on.

- I ironed your jacket.

- What?

It's like dry clean only, didn't you read...

Ugh!

So stressful.

Come on, guys.

You're gonna have to talk to me eventually.

- Robert's rules of order, no we don't.

- What did I do?

I did so well last night, I killed it.

- What happened to "we"?

- Yeah, your Machiavellian ways are impressive,

if not a little bit spooky.

- Use your friends to gain power,

then drop them and your constituents along the way.

You're like a backstabbing Caesar.

We love it.

- Caesar was the one who got stabbed, bro.

- Jordan?

Fine.

This isn't the first time this has happened in my life!

For all the great success I thought I had

already achieved before even becoming mayor,

something wasn't right.

I was feeling so great,

everything I wanted was coming together,

and suddenly everyone hated me.

And those pantsuits.

Let's just say they started to itch.

I don't get it.

It's so confusing.

- Oh, you'll be fine, dear.

- Not so sure about that.

I got good news and bad news.

- I don't like that game.

- The good news is that Olivia has bought her building.

- That's awesome! - Oh!

- And the bad news?

- She's tearing it down.

- What?

- There it is, the old bait and switch.

- We have to move out by January.

- This doesn't make any sense.

- There she is!

- Mary.

Your friend Olivia just bought half the town,

and she's planning to rip it down.

- What about the general building fund?

- There is no building fund.

- Not only that, now she's putting the squeeze on us

to sell our businesses.

- Even me.

- No more ice cream!

- There has to be a misunderstanding, she promised me.

- Straight to voicemail?

- Yup.

Pumped and dumped us.

What's in it for you, Ms. Wharf-Hill?

If those ordinances weren't in place...

One business, one corporation.

If we could somehow make that go away...

- Ms. Crompton will be with you shortly.

- I'm here to see Ms. Wharf-Hill.

- One in the same.

And there it was, right in front of my eyes.

Olivia's plan.

Formerly known as Echo Harbor.

- Pretty cool, isn't it?

A world class resort.

And if things go my way, which they usually do,

grandest casino this side of Vegas.

- So, let me get this straight.

You buy up everything you can,

you let the rest go out of business,

and then you can get everything for nothing.

It's all yours.

- Aren't you clever?

Yes, the unfortunate world of cause and effect.

It's just business.

- You never intended on saving Echo Harbor.

- Aren't I saving it, giving it new life?

- By turning it into what, a resort?

My friends at Sunnyside in the last years of their lives

are gonna have to find new homes.

- Life moves on, Mary,

but Echo Harbor will always be there.

- This isn't who we are.

- No, but it's who you'll become.

You do understand that now, don't you?

- You manipulated me.

- I like to think I educated you.

Which reminds me...

You're a natural, Mary, great for politics.

You have this thing, people believe in you.

Hey, maybe one day you'll come and work for me.

- What's this?

- A letter of recommendation

to whatever college you want to go to.

With that, you don't need daddy's help.

You see, I'm British.

I've got clout.

The Empire and all that.

- The empire you lost.

- Bad management, what can I say?

- You're going to lose again.

- Oh, I never lose, sweetie.

Ask all my ex-husbands.

- What a mess.

- Your whole town just got sold out from under you.

That's gotta sting.

- No, not that, Mary.

She's been betrayed, she's out there hurting.

What could be more important?

- He's human after all.

- Is it too late to say I'm sorry?

- Never.

Let's hear it.

- You're relentless.

I'm sorry, Loren.

This job, feeling important.

My pride, ego, I don't know, whatever.

It blocked my view of the whole reason

I wanted to be mayor.

- When did you get that wake up call?

- Honestly?

It was the night of the debate.

Halfway through her eviscerating me,

I thought "Who is this amazing young woman?"

And that's my daughter.

She's a lot like you.

- And not without some of you.

- I fell for it.

- Hook, line, and sinker.

What?

That's funny.

- Ha ha.

- Look, Mary, it's seductive.

Power, attention.

It got to both your dad and I.

You were doomed.

- Still, I made everything worse, divided the family.

- I think your dad and mom played

a pretty good role in that.

- So, what now?

Sunnyside is about to go away,

and Echo Harbor as we know it

is on the brink of extinction.

- And don't forget, all of your friends have deserted you.

Well, almost all of them.

- Sorry?

- So, what's left, Mary?

Who's left?

Who can fix this?

- Me?

Gamps, was Sunnyside really a veterinary hospital?

Franklin said something about it.

- Yeah.

Yeah, it was called Emory before Sunnyside.

- So, like, does that make it a landmark?

- I don't know.

Why?

- I think I have an idea.

- As you all know, Evelyn, the love of my life,

our sweet Evelyn, we lost her several years ago.

And she was my everything.

So it's no wonder it shook me to the core when she passed.

And if I'm to be truthful,

I have not yet been able to bring myself

to a point of forgiveness

for any role that I played in all that.

My job here, it's relatively simple.

Honor God, and be truthful with all of you, and myself.

And yet I've not done what I so often

ask each of you to do in the darkest moments of your lives.

I wasn't there on that awful day

that they took Evy to the hospital,

she's already lifeless.

I wasn't there much at all back then, for years.

I had my book, ya'll know about that.

Next thing you know, I'm missing Sundays with all of you,

my favorite thing in the world,

because I'm off lecturing and talking and preaching.

I gotta tell you, it felt good.

Oh, it felt good.

No, it felt tremendous!

I was popular.

And I've got this new authority,

and darn it if I'm not gonna milk it

for everything it's worth.

Family trait.

I think so often, all of us,

we get lost in our jobs and our work,

that we forget that life isn't about our job,

our job is there to service our life

so we can serve God.

So, Evy collapsed in our house just across the way,

most of you have been there

for one of her wonderful meals.

She collapsed, and I wasn't there.

I wasn't there to help her.

It was hours before she was even found.

I've never been able to forgive myself for that.

So, starting today, in this very place,

in this very moment, complete honesty.

And perhaps working together with God's grace,

whatever happens to our sleepy hollow,

our great history becomes our tomorrow,

whatever happens...

Perhaps forgiveness should be

the first and last thought of every day.

- You working the counter today?

- I convinced Smitty to give it to us

all to ourselves.

- It's good to be mayor.

So, what's up?

- Uh, us?

- Right, I owe you an apology.

- Well, yeah, you do actually.

- You didn't report the buildings not being to code.

- No, but I did get the GSA agent

to finally admit it was Olivia.

- When I saw you with that guy-

- GSA makes a complaint,

the Mayor's required to meet with him.

- My bad on that one.

- It doesn't excuse the way

that I've been acting throughout this whole thing.

I made some mistakes, Mary.

I didn't understand why you got so upset

when I stopped fighting for places like this.

- Lots of memories.

- Yeah.

And every weekend, since you were 5-

- Father-daughter date days.

I had you and chocolate chip cookie dough all to myself.

- And I had you, and rocky road.

I'm sorry.

I guess I just still see you as my little girl.

You know, a princess.

But you're not a little girl anymore, I...

- So they say.

- You are a beautiful, incredible,

whip smart talented woman.

- Overkill, but thanks.

- And you know what?

You got a lot of your mother in you.

- A lot of my dad too, recently.

- Well, I'm sorry about that.

- Dad, we have to stop Olivia.

I have some ideas how.

- First, will you do me a favor?

Yeah, come on.

Can we have one more father-daughter date?

You know, without all the politics and all that?

Just you and me?

- I don't know, what are you serving?

- Uh, well...

- Banana split?

Yeah.

- Cherry?

- Come on.

There you go.

Ah!

Okay, thank you all for coming, we need to do two things.

First- - First...

We need to stop Olivia's development plans, like pronto.

- And then something I should've been focusing on but-

- Messed up, royally.

- We need to restore downtown, save Main Street.

- Seems like a tall order,

like you might need some muscle.

- We just might.

Okay, my dad needs some people

to comb through government websites.

- Uh, we got you covered.

- Ding.

We'll go deep!

- And then what we're gonna need is one great lawyer.

- Talk to me!

- And then one last thing.

I'm sorry, guys.

Forgive me?

I messed up too.

- Whatever happens, we're all gonna do this together, right?

Deal?

- Deal.

All of us.

- Ah, democracy.

Just go in there and vote for whoever you want,

completely anonymous.

- Yeah, no one knows who you voted for,

totally a secret.

- Thank you, Mrs. Vance. - Thank you, Mrs. Vance.

Send it in.

- So, as you can see,

your investment is going to create

a brand new Echo Harbor.

I have an idea for a name change,

re-imagined in the 21st century,

a world class resort and casino.

- Oh, hi.

It's a party.

- Oh, everyone meet Mary Parson,

the future mayor of Echo Harbor.

- Yeah, we'll see about that.

You guys must be talking about the new resort project.

Pretty cool, right?

Yes!

- So, I'm guessing you guys haven't heard the bad news?

- Mary...

What bad news?

- There is no bad news.

- Eleanor?

- What's this?

- This is an injunction.

There will be no more construction at 16 Main,

this building, and the adjoining properties.

- This is a historical landmark.

- Since when?

- This building was the first hospital

for veterinary care south of New York.

- Kinda famous.

Who knew?

- Well, now the Historical Society does.

- Paperwork submitted by Mayor Parson just yesterday.

He rushed it right through.

- I'll fight this in court, and win.

- Maybe, maybe not.

Certainly not until after a long, drawn out legal process,

7-8 years?

- Not to mention, the optics aren't really on your side.

- I fought the Second World War, Your Honor,

and this woman is throwing me out on the street.

- You do understand, if you stop this project,

there will be nothing and nobody

to help you save this pitiful little excuse of a town.

You truly will become an echo.

- Wow, low.

And the second reason why I'm here.

Oh, pray tell.

- Mom?

- Coming, honey!

Fresh from the oven.

You'll do great, sweetie.

- Thanks.

Let me just fix this.

Okay, not as fancy, but some great memories with legos.

So, here's another investment opportunity.

It might help you and my pitiful little excuse for a town?

It's good to have options, right?

So, yeah, you invest a little bit more in these businesses,

and then bring them up to code,

add a fresh coat of paint,

and then next thing you know-

- A thriving town center, open for business.

- This is ridiculous!

These are sophisticated investors,

not a bunch of idiots looking to give handouts.

- Yeah, no problem.

We already have investors,

but just in case...

Guys?

- Is the whole town out there?

- I convinced my mall investors to shelf Port Byron

and invest in Echo Harbor.

Call it a reverse anchor.

You see, tourists will come to Echo Harbor

as they always have, for the charm, and the beauty,

and the wonderful hospitality.

That will be the destination.

- You're throwing your money away on this dump.

- Maybe, maybe not.

I mean, either way, I'm not making any money.

In fact, I'm losing money.

You see, that was the incentive for the investors.

I'm giving up 100% of my 30% interest

that they can share equally.

I end up with nothing.

Well, that's not really true.

I kind of get it all.

- Where do I throw up?

- Investment disbursements are outlined in section 18,

paragraph 3 of these packages.

Ha.

- So, we also share in the success of an existing business

once they're up and running?

- Of course, it's an investment.

- Plus 36% federal rebate for the AHA,

21% tax security for the Small Business Loan Act,

and the rest appreciated over increased property valuations

all outlined in appendix C.

Wow, I can't believe I just said that.

- Without the cards!

- Come on, people, you can't seriously think

you're gonna make more money with her silly little plan

than my resort.

- If it gets built.

- His shares alone boost the return by a third.

It's a no brainer, Olivia.

- That's right.

Have any of you ever seen Echo Harbor?

- Or tried our world famous homemade scuffles?

There's a saying on this side of the pond, Olivia,

and I think I get it now.

"United we stand, divided we fall."

Kind of like that little empire of yours.

All right, guys, let's go.

Ladies, gentlemen, everyone, let's go.

- Hey, sounds pretty good.

- Peter, Sarah!

Wait!

I can explain!

What just happened here?

- You got your butt kicked.

- Big time.

- Boom!

- The pressure, Will, I can't take it,

I feel like I'm gonna short circuit.

- Sit down.

- Is it raining, Will?

I feel wet.

- No, it's not raining.

Hold on, bro.

Whoa, tied?

- What?

- Yo- - Hey, send it, send it!

- Okay, okay, okay.

- Thank you so much.

I think it's actually working.

- Oh, God willing.

- I think it already has.

- Eleanor killed it.

- Mad skills never age.

- We already have more than enough investors

to make it work.

- You just saved Echo Harbor.

- We saved it.

- Victory selfie?

- Oh, no.

- Oh, you gotta be kidding me.

- 854 to 854?

- The polls are about to close.

- I think somebody forgot to vote.

- Mary, where's your sticker?

- Go vote.

But-

- And that's an order for your father.

- I'd listen to him.

- And you still have time,

you've got like two minutes.

- We'll never make it.

- Oh, yes you will.

- Woo!

I could get used to this.

- Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go!

Guy, there's a guy, there's a guy, there's a-

- Watch out!

- Sorry!

Watch it, pothole, pothole!

Stop, stop, stop!

- Watch it, watch it, watch it!

- Yeah!

- Jordan!

- I'm sorry! - Jordan!

- Stop, slow down, we're here, we're here!

Stop!

- Watch out, watch out!

- Get out, go, go!

Go, Mary, go!

- There you go, go, go.

- Dad, I just want to say-

- Go, go, hurry, I'll get over it.

Go on.

Vote.

- I hope she makes it.

- Let's go.

- I'm proud of you.

I know how much being mayor was important to you.

- When Mary wins and she's out of earshot,

I'm gonna cry like a baby.

- I expect nothing less.

- Listen, honey.

Now that Mary's gonna be running the town,

I'm gonna have some free time.

Don't you think we could...

- Yes?

- Yes what, yes you'll take me back?

- I never let you go.

- Oh.

Oh, here she comes.

- Did you make it?

- Made it just in time.

- I guess I should be the first one

to congratulate Miss Mayor.

- Are you crying?

- No, I'm not crying.

- Yes, you are. - No, I'm not!

I don't know.

I know I lost, but I feel great.

I feel like a winner.

- Just so you know, you have 4 years,

and then once I finish college-

- Finish college?

What are you talking about?

- Uh, Rob?

What, really?

She voted for me?

- If you don't keep your promise

and do what's right around here,

I'm gonna come back from college

and we can do this little dance again,

except this time, I'll win, old man.

- Oh, okay.

- She voted for me?

- I just got here and you just figured that out?

- Family photo?

- All right, let's get one!

Hey, where's Dad?

I'm here.

- Pops! - Gamps.

- I need to get my balance.

- Get over here!

- Thanks for the car, Dad.

Take care of it.

- All right, Jordan, let's hit it.

- Cheese!

What?

Hey!

- Finally.

- Aw.

- Cool. - Cool.

- All right, that's enough.

- Praise God!

- Praise God!

Ah, we'll see.

We'll see.

- As the great Will and Ed once said,

this election really was about choice.

The choice to help others,

the choice to forgive,

and most importantly, the choice to see all moments,

even defeats as blessings, and not as disappointments.

I think I'm gonna need a bigger box.

Dad is actually doing a great job

revitalizing the town,

almost like he's 18 again.

He really wanted to restore the music store,

but had a much better idea.

And Olivia Wharf-Hall Compton

or whatever she calls herself,

her place still sits empty.

The minute I finish college,

I have a plan, a big plan for this one.

And most of all, I am happy to say,

our family feels like a family again.

Of course, we still have work to do,

but what family doesn't?

So, the race delayed my trip a little,

but here I am now, better for it.

And I'm so excited about your school.

I mean, California?

Who wouldn't want to be me right now?

We're going to Disneyland!

- I'm so excited!

About your school, excited.

I mean, we're excited about Disneyland too, you know.

We're generally- - Dad, Dad, stop.

- Sorry.

Isn't she amazing?

- So, does that answer your question?

Sorta, kinda?

- I was thinking more along the lines

of a couple of sentences.

But yeah, that sounds like it was a great life experience.