02x06 - Moving On

[bunniefuu]

♪ Set in my ways ♪

♪ Losing track of the days ♪

♪ Only me to live for ♪

♪ Had no need to give more ♪

♪ Than I wanted to ♪

♪ Spending my time ♪

♪ Just holding the line ♪

♪ Never getting caught up ♪

♪ Love was never brought up ♪

♪ It's not the thing to do ♪

♪ Ooh, it was you ♪

♪ Then came you ♪

♪ You made me leap without taking a look ♪

♪ Ooh, it was you ♪

♪ Then came you ♪

♪ You reeled me right in line, sinker, and hook ♪

♪ Never thought forever was the best I could do ♪

♪ Then came you ♪

♪ It was you and me and you ♪

♪ Then came you ♪

♪ It was you ♪

♪ Me and you ♪

♪ It was you and me and ♪

♪ Then came you ♪

[tranquil music]


- [George] Katherine, what are you doing?


- [Katherine] How can we know what we're renting,

unless we get inside.


- Look it's open.


- [gasps] I can't believe you're going in.


- Yoo hoo!

Anybody home?


- Boy, this place is spooky.

I'll bet ghosts is living here.


- Oh, don't be silly honey.

There's no such thing as ghosts.

[door slamming]


- There's ghosts! Let's get out of here!


- Katherine!


- That was not a ghost,

it was the wind.


- It wasn't the wind.

It was a sign, Katherine.

A sign we shouldn't rent this place.


- Really?

Well, you give me one reason why not.


- It's old.


- It's creepy.


- It's neo
-Victorian, and it's magnificent.

[gasps] Look at these carpets!

Oh, and stained glass windows.

George, an Adam's clock.


- Yeah. And a spittoon in the living room.

That's really classy, Katherine.


- It's not a spittoon, it's a font.


- What's a font?


- A font is a ceremonial bowl that holds water.


- Like I said, a spittoon.

And I don't want anyone falling in love with this place,

okay?


- Don't worry.


- You see Katherine, two against one.


- That's not true,

I haven't heard a nay out of Webster.


- Well, aye.


- You see, an aye.


- You're prompting.


- I am not.


- Oh, hi there.


- Oh, hi.


- We were just...


- I know.

Bill, there's another couple here to see the house.


- [Bill] Cass, I told you days ago to take down the sign.

I don't want to rent the house.


- That's it, Katherine, I'm leaving.

[doors sliding open]


- Yo, you!


- Me?


- Not you.

You, the one with the hat.


- I can explain.

You see, we
-
-


- We know why you're here.

But before you leave,

we'd like you to settle an argument for us.


- Bill, they look like very nice people.

Let's leave them out of this.


- No, you said ask any average person,

and they certainly look average.

I work with my hands.

I'm a craftsman.

Now answer me this.

Why can't a man manicure his nails and still be a man?


- Well, I
-
-
- I'm gonna go home now.


- I wanna go with him.


- Bill, I never said you shouldn't manicure your nails.

I just think you should have your own polish.


- Huh. Well, what are we arguing about?


- I don't know.


- [laughs] Good. Let's go, everybody.


- Uh wait.


- Is something wrong?


- Don't you want to know who we are?


- Not particularly.


- Yes, that's your business.


- I'm Katherine Calder
-Young Papadapolis.

This is my husband George, and our son, Webster.


- Very pleased to meet you.

I'm Cassie Parker.

This is my husband, Bill.


- Well, it's nice of you people to drop by,

but it's getting late.

Why don't you walk out with us?


- Is this your little girl?


- We don't have a little girl.


- Then how come it says "To my Daddy"?


- Uh, Mrs. Parker, could we please see the house?


- Oh, help yourself.


- Cass, we don't know these people.


- We don't know you either,

but I'm a Boy Brave,

and we're very honest and trustworthy.


- C'mon sweetheart, I think we can trust them.


- Well,

okay.

But we'll be right back.

I don't want anybody nosing around upstairs.


- Absolutely.

This is your house.

It's your rules.


- Toodle.


- Let's go.


- Where are we going?


- Upstairs.


- George, you just said we wouldn't go upstairs.


- If a guy is renting a house,

and there's a part of the house

that he doesn't want us to see,

well, that's exactly the part that I want to see.

So come on, come on.

Let's go, come on.


- George, please.


- No siree.

If there's something up here I'm not supposed to see,

I'm gonna see it before they won't show it to me,

Katherine.


- I'd ask you to repeat that, but I bet you can't.


- Oh.


- Oh, this is spectacular.

With the four
-poster mahogany bed.


- Oh! [claps hands]


- Ma'am. George, come quick.

There's a hole in the wall!


- Now we're getting somewhere.


- Look!


- Oh, that's not a hole in the wall.

Look, it's a dumbwaiter.


- Drat.


- I don't see a dumb waiter, or even a smart waiter.


- No, sweetheart.

You see, it's a kind of elevator.

See these ropes?

Well, they used these to pull things

from one floor to another in the old days.


- Hmm. I wonder if it still works.


- Could be.


- Boy, this place is neat.


- Well, wait a minute now.

I thought you said you didn't like this place.


- That's before I found out it came with rides.

I wonder if there are more.

Ma'am, George, look.

Toys!


- Webster, it is not polite for children

to look in other people's closets.

Let me look.

Oh my goodness [sighs].


- Wow.

Look.

A doll house.

It looks just like this house.

It has a backyard and swings.

And there's the dumbwaiter.


- It is this house.


- There's a girl's room.

Wait a minute.

We didn't see a girl's room.


- It's probably in there.


- Maybe the girl in the picture lives there.


- [Cassie] Hello!


- They're back.


- [Cassie] We're home!


- Ma'am, George, come here quick!


- We don't have time. Come on, come on.

[eerie music]


- Wow!


- Webster, come on now.


- But, Ma'am.


- Now.


- It's all clear.


- Oh, I'd be so embarrassed if they caught us.


- Ma'am, George,

there was someone in that room upstairs.

I saw through the keyhole.


- Don't be silly, it was just a shadow.

[door slamming]


- Oh, it was a wonderful day in the neighborhood.


- Oh.


- Do you know my wife, Mr. Rogers?


- There you are.


- There you are.


- So I guess you might say we're all here.


- Why don't we all go into the kitchen,

have some coffee, and talk.


- Oh.
- Why don't we go home.


- Please, George.

That sounds lovely.


- Can I go outside and play on the swings?


- Sure.

You just go out that door and around to the back.


- Thank you.


- Adults, follow me.


- W
- wait, how many swings you got back there?

All right, I'll have coffee, but I won't like it.

[suspenseful music]


- Bill, will you please get the rental application?


- I'll get it, but I won't like it.

[suspenseful music continues]

[dramatic music]


- So you see the house is totally soundproof.

All the restoration was done by hand by my Billy.


- Oh.
- He's really quite a genius.


- Yes I am. Here.

[papers rustling]


- This is the application form?


- Part one.


- What's part two?

True and false?


- No, it's an essay question.

[suspenseful music]


- Where am I?

Ma'am?

George?

[suspenseful music continues]


- I think question is unfair and inappropriate.


- Well, that's where we disagree.

We think that's our best question.


- Who was the first president to swim naked in the Potomac?


- You'd be surprised how many people get that wrong.


- John Quincy Adams.

But I fail to see how that's relevant to renting the house.


- I don't wanna rent the house.


- Fine, 'cause I don't want to live in the house.


- More coffee, anyone?


- Yes, thank you.

[suspenseful music]


- Hi, Miss.

I'm Webster Long.

Looking out the window, huh?

Hello?

Hello?

Well, I guess you want to be alone.

Okay.

[music continues]

[doorknob rattling]

[eerie music]

Miss, I can't open the door.

Miss?

Miss?

[rocking chair creaking]

[dramatic music] [door knob rattling]

[tranquil music]


- I think Cassie and I need a little time

to look over your applications.


- Well, George and I could use a little time ourselves.


- Fine.

Why don't you go in the den?

We'll stay in the living room.


- Um.

Why can't we stay in the living room and you go in the den?


- Because I want to stay in my living room.


- [clears throat] He's hiding something, Katherine.


- Fine.

You stay in the living room.

We'll go in the den.


- You mean we can stay in the living room?


- It's all yours.


- Fine.

Come on Katherine.

We're going to the den [chuckles].


- George, what was that all about?


- I don't know, but I'll find out soon enough.

[chuckles] Oh.

Katherine, I'm not sure this is,

this is our kind of house.


- Oh, George. We've looked at houses.

I mean, this house is one of a kind.


- Yeah, but I, I like the one with the,

with the jacuzzi and the mirrors on the ceiling

and the wet bar.


- Honey, that was a condo in a singles community.


- What, I can't have fun?

All right, forget the singles community.

The point is, I'm a now kind of guy and,

and this is a then kind of house.

[door rattling]


- Ma'am, George, help me!

[rocking chair creaking]


- Cass, I, I've made up my mind.

I can't have anybody living here.


- But Billy, we can't afford to go on restoring this

and the carriage house,

and the attic without tenants.

You gotta admit the Papadapolises are a nice family.

It might be nice to have a little boy around

now that Randall is married and on his own.


- Regis is married and on his own.

Randall was our cockatoo.

And I believe he d*ed a bachelor.


- Bill, we have to have tenants.


- Shh, I've got something for you.


- Don't change the subject.

What is it, you big lug.


- Well, while I was restoring, you know,

working on the door to your study,

I bronzed your knockers.


- You did that for me?


- Well, to tell you the truth,

I did it for both of us.

Your old knockers were getting a little green.


- You're such a romantic.


- Yes, I am.

[both chuckling]

[lips smacking]


- Now, about the Papadapolises.


- Let 'em bronze their own knockers.


- Billy, I know what this is about.


- I can't, Cass.

I can't bear to take her room away.


- Oh, Billy.

I love you, and I'm, I'm hurting too.

But you're just intensifying the pain.

We've been over this and over this.

Maggie is our problem,

and we have got to deal with her the best way we can.


- Excuse me.

Uh, we went out the back door

and around to the side yard,

and we can't find our son.


- Well, he's not in here.

Well, he's not out there.


- Oh Billy, you don't think
-
-


- Yes, I do think, the secret passageway.


- The what?


- Woo.


- Webster!


- He's not down there.

Check the clock!


- Right.

What?


- Webster?

I think I heard something.


- Where does this lead to?


- Up to Maggie's room.


- Oh my God.

He's in Maggie's room.


- Web!


- Who's Maggie?


- Our daughter.

Follow me.


- [George] Please hurry.

Web.

Web, where'd you go champ?


- George, Ma'am, where were you?

I called and called, and no one answered.

And the rocking chair squeaked and went back and forth,

back and forth.

And I tried to talk to your dumb doll,

And I got scared.

And I took a nap.

[George laughs]


- Oh, what a wonderful doll.

[chair squeaking] But it was the wind.

Everything's all right now.


- [clears throat] No it isn't.

I want you people outta here now.

And kid, you shouldn't have been in here.


- Well, wait a minute.

You don't have to talk to my son like that.


- This is my daughter's room.

I'll talk however I want.


- Oh yeah?


- Yeah.


- George.


- Bill.


- Boy, what a nice room.

You know,

I thought she was your daughter

and I tried to talk to her,

but she wouldn't answer 'cause she was a doll.


- Yeah she was, a doll.

She was my baby.


- Please stop talking about her

as if she was in the past tense.

Maggie is very much alive.


- Well, we'd love to meet her.

Where is she?


- I wish we knew.


- I don't.

And I don't want to know anymore.


- She's a runaway.

It's been five years now.


- A month before her th birthday.


- She was so, so pretty.


- Oh.


- We get letters now and then.


- No return address.

"I'm all right, Pop."

"Don't worry, Pop."

"I don't want to see you anymore, Pop."

Sometimes I,

it's easier to think that she doesn't exist,

rather than that she doesn't love me.

that she doesn't love us anymore.


- Mr. Parker?


- Yeah?


- I once ran away before, too.

But it wasn't 'cause I didn't love Ma'am and George.

And I bet your little girl loves you, too.


- Yeah.

Sure.


- He's right, Billy.


- We kept her room the way she left it, hoping.

We're always hoping.


- Hoping, but not living.

We locked this room up and kept it like a shrine.

I think it's time we let some life into it.


- Who'd want to live here?

She didn't.


- I would,

if you'd let me.


- I'd let you.

Bill?


- And if Ma'am and George let me,

and I hope they do,

I'd love to live here.

This place is neat.

This ladder goes up and down the whole house.

Come on, George.

I'll show you.


- I don't suppose you have one of those in the,

in the master bedroom do you?


- Your room?

No.

But I could put one in.


- Well, that's great.


- What do you think?


- I think we'll take it!


- Yay!

[upbeat music]


- Webster
-
-
- Will be back
-
-


- In a moment [laughing].

[tranquil music]

[paper sliding]


- Do I sign the lease too?


- [laughing] No, it's just for adults.


- No way, I want the kid's John Hancock on here.


- Why?


- Well, kids are people too.

Right, kiddo?


- Yeah.


- Now, about those secret passageways.


- Yeah. Where do they go?


- Okay, follow me.

First, you got your basic dumbwaiter.

That goes from the basement up to the second floor hallway.

Next,

right over here we have our basic Adams clock

that leads right up to Maggie's
-
- Webster's bedroom.


- That's great.

How about the wall?


- Ah, the secret panel.

Very observant.

This leads out to the side entrance of the house and
-
-


- Refreshments.


- And of course downstairs to our apartment.


- Your apartment?

You mean you're living in our house?


- No.

You're living in our house.

We live in the apartment downstairs.

Welcome.

[tranquil music]


- Katherine, we have to talk.

[Webster laughing]

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