04x18 - Hoop Dreams

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Way to go, Mary.

Keep it up!

Mary?

Mary?

What are you dreaming?

What time is it?

Time to get up and go to school.

Robbie.

Were you dreaming about Robbie?

No. Better than that.

I was playing with the pros.

It was so real.

Real or not, you better get ready for school.

Hello?

Mary?

Coach Cleary?

Bring some sweats with you today.

We're gonna work out, okay?

With?

Just be ready to work out.

I think I've got something you might be interested in.

I'll see you at school.

Okay.

Bye.

Wow.

Wow, what?

I think my dream is about to come true.

The dream you just had?

Yeah.

The dream I've always had.

I think I'm gonna play for the pros.

I'm back in the game. What game?

The coach called and told me to bring sweats and plan to work out after school.

But the season is over, way over.

What I'm thinking is that Coach Cleary realizes now I lost my scholarship I don't know what college I'm going to, or what I'm going to do when I get there.

And so?

And so, maybe he's bringing someone in from the pros to look at me.

Wouldn't that be great?

Maybe that would be great. But is there any reason to believe that that's what he's doing?

Yes, there is.

I had a dream last night that I was playing with the Lakers.

Do you really think that that dream was somehow prophetic?

My gut feeling?

Yes.

The thing about dreams, to me, is that they're kinda like going to the movies.

Some of them have a basis in reality, but most of them don't.

Most of them are pure entertainment, you know, or something left over in your head from the day.

Some are good, some are bad...

And some are predictions of the future.

What?

Why couldn't it happen?

Why couldn't the coach call because he's setting me up with the pros?

Is there any reason to believe that that's not what he's doing?

Don't you want me to play pro ball?

Well, what happened to going to college?

This could be better than college.

Why aren't you more excited for me?

I will be excited when I find out what Coach Cleary is up to.

Because I'm sure that it's something good.

But I don't know if it's what you think it is.

Thanks a lot.

Good luck.

Hey, did you hear?

Mary is going to play pro basketball.

Yeah, I heard.

And all because she dreamed it.

Well, we'll see.

I'm not sure Mary's ready for the pros.

She's got four years of college ahead of her.

I hope I dream I'm something great.

Like what?

Like, the Queen of England.

Hmm.

I'd love to be the Queen of England.

Just out of curiosity, what is it you want to be when you grow up?

I don't know.

Not a minister.

He's only 13; he doesn't know what he wants to be.

No, but evidently he knows what he doesn't want to be.

Oh, come on.

You can't take that to heart.

Really, he didn't mean to hurt you.

Yeah, I mean, intellectually I know that.

And yet...

You just tighten this just a little, like so, and there you go.

The knob can't come off, and that way you have nothing to snack on but real food.

I think the old school bus is pulling out.

I was just fixing the dresser.

The knob came loose.

Thanks.

Could you put the toolbox back in the closet for me?

Sure.

That's my girl.

Shana?

Every time I call, I can't get through to her.

Her roommates always have some lame excuse.

She's in class, or she's at the library, or she's at work.

Yeah, all of those, totally lame.

This was all a big mistake.

What was a big mistake?

Letting Shana go to NYU.

Letting?

Wait a minute.

Maybe the mistake wasn't letting her go.

Maybe the mistake was in going with her.

I know what I have to do.

I'm afraid to ask, but what do you have to do?

Obviously, I have to move to New York.

When do you think this will be?

Now, or soon, or whenever I get the money together.

I see.

And how much do you have in savings?

And what school in New York has accepted you into a pre-med program?

Where are you going to stay when you get there?

How are you going to pay for school and support yourself?

What are you? My parents.

No, just a friend.

Hey. Hey, what's up?

Did Coach Cleary ask you to work out after school today?

No, why?

Oh, never mind.

No, it's okay, what's going on?

Last night I had this dream that I was playing basketball for the pros, and then this morning Coach Cleary called me and asked if I could work out today after school.

And so?

And so, I think it means something.

I think it means he's going to help me turn pro.

Maybe he couldn't reach you and, uh, he was going to ask you during school.

That's not likely.

I've already lined up something.

I'm going to Brown, back East.

I have an academic scholarship and a grant from the government to document my life as a single mom going to college.

But, hey, good luck.

I hope your dream comes true.

I don't know what he's doing.

Well, I think it's supposed to be a surprise.

Why don't you step outside and find out?

What's going on?

Wait, did someone die?

No. No one d*ed.

Okay. No... it's just that since the twins were born you and I haven't spent any time together, at least not just the two of us.

So, you know, I thought I'd stop by and see if you wanted to play hooky and hang out with me.

Is it your heart? Are you dying?

No, no, I'm not dying.

I... I just, you know, wanted to have some fun.

Well, what about work?

Why don't you have to work?

I made a dozen phone calls and rescheduled everything.

But I'm in school. Yeah.

I'll get in trouble if I leave. No, you won't.

I already cleared it with the principal and your teacher. It's okay.

It's an afternoon at the movies, come on.

How can you turn down getting out of school and going to the movies?

Okay, I guess you know what you're doing.

Well...

I'll go get my books.

Okay.

You're selling all your stuff to do what?

Move to New York.

You don't have that kind of stuff.

We don't even have that kind of stuff.

Hey, do you want this?

Yes, I want it.

I've never seen it.

It was an anniversary gift from your father.

Our first anniversary.

But it's always been down here in the basement.

You don't use it.

I might use it someday, when I have the time to fix it or get it fixed.

You can't have it.

So, uh, why are you moving to New York?

Shana.

Why else would I move to New York?

Uh, pre-med too much of a challenge?

No, it's not too much of a challenge.

Studying and working at the hospital too much of a challenge?

I'm not working that much or studying that much.

Why not?

I'm just... saving up my efforts for the hard stuff.

Look, I don't know how or when, but I'm going, okay?

So, I'd appreciate if you didn't try to stop me.

I have to do this.

Fine, I won't try to stop you.

But you still can't have my clock.

How much money do you think you're gonna raise by selling all this stuff?

Couple hundred bucks.

Oh. Maybe Shana can meet you in Kansas?

But the movie already started.

So what, so we'll go in in the middle and stay till it runs back to the middle.

It's the last showing, sir.

It's a different movie at 5:00.

So, we'll see half the movie.

But we've already seen it.

Right, so it won't make any difference that we don't see the beginning.

We've already seen it.

Oh, my big boy.

Why did Dad pick up Simon from school?

Dad took Simon out for half a day; they went to the movies.

How come I never get half a day off to go to the movies?

Well, maybe when you get to the same grade as Simon, you and I will take off half a day.

I'll pencil it in.

Hey, guess what I taped for you today?

The Biography of Queen Elizabeth.

Cool.

The tapes are on top of the TV.

What's up?

Do you think Mary is really gonna get a chance at the pros?

Oh, I don't know.

Why?

She seems pretty set on it.

Just because she dreamed about it, doesn't mean it's going to happen.

Besides, she's never even mentioned trying to play pro ball, until now.

I want something nice like that to happen for her.

She's been through a lot.

But?

But I don't want her to leave home.

Well, I don't think she's ready to leave home.

No.

Besides, we've always shared a room.

I can't imagine her not being here.

I don't think you have to worry about it.

At least, not yet.

Oh!

Yeah...

I'll give you ten bucks for the whole lot of it.

I need your space.

Ten bucks? I don't think so.

You might make 20, if you hang out till closing time and you sell it yourself.

But then you'd have to hang out till closing time.

So, I'll hang out till closing time.

I'm really happy you didn't have anything to do this afternoon.

I was, too.

So, when are you going to tell me what this is all about?

You'll see, it's a great opportunity.

Here they come.

Mary, this is Molly, the team captain.

Her father is a good friend of mine, Jack Conway.

I-I thought you might be able to help them get ready for the Special Olympics.

Great movie, huh?

It was the same as the last time we saw it.

I'm not really into the cowboy stuff that much.

Yeah, but it's not just about cowboys.

It's about men and work... and having a purpose.

It reminds me of when I was trying to decide what I wanted to be in life and...

Hey, look, the flea market's open.

Maybe we can find some bargains. Can we take a look?

Sure, we can take a look.

Hey, maybe Matt would like this.

Or maybe I'd like it. I might want to go to Crawford one day.

But not to become a minister.

No, not to become a minister.

Hey, Doc, you got a customer.

Is there something you want to tell me?

He's working his way through med school.

That's funny, I thought I was working his way through med school.

I'm thinking about moving to New York to go to medical school.

So, that's what this is about.

Yeah.

Why are you two hanging out in the middle of the afternoon, anyway?

Dad took me out of school to go see The Wild Bunch.

Ah, sounds like a lecture coming up.

You and I will talk later.

Because you have to talk to Simon about something now.

There's a lecture coming, isn't there?

What did I do?

You didn't do anything, really, no lecture.

How much you want for this?

Uh, $15.

$15? How much did I pay for it the first time I bought it?

$30.

For a sweatshirt?

You're never going to get 15 bucks for that.

Forget it.

I'm sorry this afternoon wasn't what you expected.

It's almost the end of the school year.

I'm graduating... and I don't know where I'm going once I walk out that door.

I have no idea what I want to do with my life and I don't know who I am or who I wanna be.

If it's any comfort, I don't know who I am or who I want to be either.

You don't know you're Mom?

I have a lot in common with Mom.

But I'm not Mom and I don't want to be Mom.

Well, at least, not just Mom.

Just Mom left her laundry basket.

I had just gotten into seminary in New York, and I put off telling the Colonel because he had thought at some point, if he didn't give me any financial help to go to college, that, you know, I'd cr*ck.

And I'd have to join the service, then the Marine Corp. would pay my tuition.

Besides, he felt it was my duty to enlist and go wherever I was needed.

Which at that time was Vietnam.

I-I didn't want to be in the Marine Corp or the Army or the Navy or anything else.

I never wanted to, and I certainly didn't want to go to Vietnam.

Wait.

You're not going to tell me you dodged the draft, are you?

No.

They came up with this lottery system.

I remember all my buddies and I were gathered around the television set, and we waited as this guy read out birth dates and lottery numbers.

Now, low number, you were drafted.

High number, you were off the hook.

So I told myself, this is going to be a sign from God.

I got a low number, then God wanted me to be in the Marine Corp.

High number, He wanted me to be a minister.

I got a high number.

Is that the end of the story?

No, so the next day, I went up to tell my dad that I was not enlisting, I was going to enroll in the seminary.

When I finally managed to get the words out of my mouth, the Colonel just stared at me for what... felt like an eternity.

And he said, "Do me a favor, son," and I thought, oh yeah, here it comes.

The big flag-waving lecture.

But instead.... he said, "If you really want to be a minister, "if that is what you feel God wants you to do, then I hope you'll be a good one."

And I left happier than I've ever been in my life.

Is that the end of the story?

No, it should have been.

But now that I think about it, I don't know, maybe my Dad was just, you know, issuing me a challenge because what really happened at that moment was that those words set in motion years and years of the Colonel never feeling that I was a good enough minister to have stayed out of the Marine Corp.

Not that there haven't been times that I haven't asked myself if I was a good enough minister.

As well as, whether or not God... performs signs for me or anyone else on request.

Well, if you don't believe in signs, then... maybe that high draft number didn't mean anything.

And you're really not supposed to be a minister.

Maybe it just meant that you lucked out and you didn't have to, uh, sign up.

How'd you make out?

20 bucks, that's how I made out.

The sum total of my life on Earth, thus far.

A lousy 20 bucks.

I couldn't even visit New York on 20 bucks.

You can't even buy a book about New York for 20 bucks.

You don't need to help me.

Yes, I do.

Did Shana ask you to come to New York? Ever even mention it?

No.

Back in the old days, following a woman across country and showing up at her door may have been considered romantic.

Nowadays, I think it's pretty much considered a felony.

I'm not stalking her.

Then what are you doing?

I've invested almost two years in this relationship.

I'm not going to throw away two years.

And if I break up with her now, then all that time's for nothing.

If you break up with her? If?

She told me I was free to pursue other people.

That's not a breakup, not completely.

Well, why don't you just look at it as a break?

Take a break and focus on you and what you want to do.

I want to go to New York.

Uh-huh.

Where are you going?

I'm gonna go find either one of my parents and apologize for not listening every time they gave me advice.

Hello?

Hi, is Shana around?

Uh, sorry, she and Brett went to the library.

The library?

On a Friday night at midnight?

Look, I don't know how the libraries are at those little colleges in America's villages, but here at the big universities, in the big cities, libraries are open till 2:00 a.m.

Well, if it's not too much trouble, when Shana gets in, would you tell her that I'm coming to the big city?

I want to see what all them big buildings look like and take a ride on that underground train.

No problem.

I just talked to Mary. She's pretty down.

I had no idea she was so set on playing for the WNBA.

I don't think Mary wants to play pro ball, she just doesn't want to go to Crawford next year.

I didn't know that either.

I thought she felt lucky to still be going to college next year, after the year she's had this year.

What are you doing?

Oh nothing, really.

I'm just sort of... puttering with this old clock.

I don't want to be just Mom.

You're not just Mom.

No, no.

I am "just" Mom.

But you're not just Dad because you have a job that people know is a job.

Yeah, I have a job as a minister, which, until Simon pointed it out to me, is the job I thought I was supposed to have.

Oh, you know you were meant to be a minister.

You can't let Simon get to you like this.

And you can't let Lucy get to you like this.

When did the kids' opinions get to be more important than ours?

I don't know.

Let's just go to bed and try to forget what they said.

I forgot to say thanks for helping out the team today.

No problem.

I enjoyed it.

I really enjoyed it, too.

Are you going to be at practice Monday?

Yep, I'm going to be there every day after school as long as they need me.

Is that all you wanted, Molly?

No.

I wanted to ask you if you could play basketball with me tomorrow.

But it makes me feel funny to ask you, because you probably have lots of things to do on Saturday, and don't have time.

It's okay, I'm available.

Great.

Do you want to come over to my house?

Or could I come over to your house?

My dad could bring me, he already said.

Fine. Then come on over.

Is there anything else?

Mary?

Yeah.

You're my hero.

No, I'm not.

Believe me, I'm nobody's hero.

There she is, the Queen.

Hail to the Queen.

Long live the Queen.

Your Majesty.

Your Highness.

Oh, look this way, please. Yes!

Ruthie?

Ruthie?

Ruthie!

Ruthie, hey.

You better get up if you want pancakes.

Where are my loyal subjects?

What are you talking about?

Wow!

I'm going to be the Queen of England.

Yeah, sure, you are.

I am.

Look, Mary dreamed she was going to play for the pros.

And she's not going to play for the pros.

We don't know that.

It still could happen.

I doubt it, Your Majesty.

And if you don't get up, I'm eating your pancakes.

Off with your head.

Why can't we just talk about it?

We don't have to talk about it.

I understand, you don't want to be just Mom.

I don't want to be just Mom either.

And I don't have to be just Mom.

I'm dreamed I'm the Queen of England.

Uh-oh.

That's probably because you watched those tapes on the Queen yesterday.

Just one of them.

Well, what did you learn that made you think that you would really, truly want to be the Queen of England?

Hello?

She lives in a castle with a bunch of dogs.

And people have to do anything she tells them and bow and curtsy to her.

You should probably watch the other two tapes.

You need to do a lot of research on someone before you decide you want to be them.

Or before you decide you don't want to be them.

Hi, Mary.

Oh, hey, kiddo, I'm glad you could make it.

I'm off to meet Coach Cleary.

I'm going to the driving range to hit a few balls, but I'll be back in a couple of hours.

You know, Molly said she wasn't sure whether she should be here this morning because you said something that confused her last night.

Why didn't you want to be my hero?

It's not that I don't want to be your hero.

I don't deserve to be your hero.

It's a long story.

I haven't had a great year.

I'm aware of that.

Maybe you're being a little too hard on yourself.

Or not hard enough.

You ready?

Have a good time. Do your best.

I will.

I'm gonna take Happy for a walk.

Uh, okay, but before you do that, you might want to find your father and talk to him.

I talked to him practically all day yesterday.

And all you got out of it is that he could have gone to Canada to avoid the draft.

So?

So, your dad was trying to tell you how he became a minister and why he loves doing what he does.

And you made him question whether or not he was ever meant to do it.

You're kidding. I did that?

Simon, you're a young man now.

You're not a little boy anymore.

What you say matters.

Find your Dad and talk to him.

I woke up and you weren't there.

What, do I have to tell you when I'm going out now?

No, it's just that I've never known you to leave so quietly.

I figured if I woke you up, I'd get another lecture.

Is that why you're here, for another lecture?

No, we just had a problem with the fax machine in the emergency room yesterday, which I took care of.

I just wanted to make sure it was still working.

So, you talked to Shana?

No, I didn't talk to Shana.

But I left a message that I plan to visit.

Well, I'll say one thing for you, you are persistent.

I'll see you back at the apartment.

Need some help?

Oh, thanks. I, I'd love a five-minute break.

I got a phone call to make.

At your service.

By the way, I'm Matt Camden.

Oh, pleased to meet you, Matt. I'm Jake.

Ah. Are you new?

Do I look new?

I just never seen you before.

Well, how long have you been working here?

Uh, nine months.

Oh, well, I've been here almost 39 years.

Yeah, I work all over the hospital.

Fill in wherever I'm needed.

I've done about every lousy job there is to do here.

Now, that's what I wanted to do, be a doctor.

I'm in pre-med at Crawford.

Well, that's where I graduated from.

You graduated from Crawford?

Yep. Pre-med.

I even won a year to USC Medical School.

Oh, but then I got married and had kids.

Well, I couldn't make a go at medical school with all that responsibility.

But you graduated from college, right?

Yep.

Oh, I didn't always do this.

See, I worked in the lab for years.

But you get older, gigs get harder to get, and the opportunities are fewer and farther between.

Well, I've got to make that phone call.

Right.

Paging Sarah Esermen.

Paging Sarah Esermen.

Come in.

I'm sorry if I did something wrong.

You didn't do anything wrong.

You just made me think about my life, that's all.

It's-It's a good thing.

I guess I hurt your feelings when I said I didn't want to do what you do for a living.

It's more the way you said it.

As if being a minister were ridiculous.

But it is ridiculous, for me.

I don't like to deal with other people's problems.

I feel sorry for them, but I don't have a lot of patience.

And I can't stand being around sick people, because I'm always afraid they'll die.

And I wouldn't want to stand up in church and talk about God, because I feel like it's so personal and close to my heart that I'd have trouble saying things out loud without getting all weepy.

You're good at what you do.

Really.

The world would be much worse off if you had gone to Canada.

I'm going to let that whole draft dodger thing drop.

Thanks.

It's okay, you don't have to explain.

Did you know that when the Queen was my age, she didn't have to go to school?

They sent the teachers to her.

And did you know that she b*at her two sisters out of the job for Queen?

Keep watching.

It's not that I don't think you're smart.

You're the smartest woman I know.

You can do everything.

And you're smart enough to do anything.

I love you, and I admire you.

But come on, who wants to be their own mother?

I mean, if you think about it.

When you think about it, who really knows their own mother?

You've only known me for 16 years.

I'm not just a mom.

I'm a person, a woman, a wife.

And like anyone else, I have dreams.

Dreams?

Yeah.

There's much more I want to do in life.

My life's not over.

Really?

So, tell me about one of your dreams.

Okay.

When Matt was a baby and your father had just gotten assigned to Glenoak, I wanted to start a cooperative at the church.

So that I could bring together the women who get accused of just staying home to bake cupcakes, with the woman who get accused of abandoning their children to go to work.

More than 20 years have passed.

And the women are still divided into the same two groups.

But that's not your fault.

No.

But wouldn't it be nice if some of the moms who stayed at home could take in one or two kids with their own after school?

Look after them, so that the moms who work outside the home could save some money on child care.

Or wouldn't it be nice if the moms who worked outside of the home could help the other moms with whatever special skills they might have or even just donate a little of their salary to help build that church child care center?

Well, that's a great idea.

Have you ever told Dad about it?

No.

Well, why not?

Because if I did, I might actually have to do it and I'm not sure I actually can.

It's okay to dream.

It's important to dream, but it's also important to know the difference between dreams and reality and how to make a dream a reality.

Who taught you how to play basketball?

You're really good.

My dad.

What does your dad do? What kind of work?

He finds girls who play basketball.

It's called a scout.

He's a scout for the WNBA.

He's a scout for the pros?

Aha, so I was right.

It's good to be right.

They're all down there.

All?

Mom, Dad, Coach Cleary, Mr. Connolly.

What did you hear? I was too nervous to listen, but you know what Mom and Dad are saying.

They're saying that I should go to college, and I don't want to go to college.

Not if I can play pro ball.

But if they want you to play pro ball, why didn't Molly's dad just talk to you about it?

Because obviously, he wanted to tell Mom and Dad first.

But when Dad called Coach Cleary, he didn't seem to know anything about it either.

Hello? It's supposed to be a surprise.

Otherwise, he would have said something about it yesterday.

I just find the whole thing kind of odd.

Yeah, well, I find you kind of odd.

I just don't know why you're so sure about this offer.

My dream.

Oh, yeah, the dream, yeah, um...

Maybe you shouldn't leave home without me.

I'm really not looking forward to this.

I guess I should be the one to let her know.

No, I don't think you should be the one to tell her.

Well, I don't think I should be the one to tell her.

Me?

No.

I want Molly to tell her.

Can you give me 15 minutes?

You sure about that, Jack?

Yes, I'm sure.

Do you, do you want me here?

That's okay.

We'll want to talk to Mary alone after she gets the news.

Okay.

What happened?

Did you know that the Queen of England works?

I'd assume there was some work to it, yeah.

Why would anyone assume there was work involved?

All the people are supposed to work for her.

No.

She works for all the people.

I'll say.

She never gets a chance to play with her dogs or ride her horses or see her kids.

I don't think she's too upset about that one.

It's a good thing Mom gave me those tapes.

I would have been heading for a major disappointment.

So, are Mom and Dad going to let Mary take the basketball job or not? I don't know.

They're still in their big conference.

What are you guys doing?

Ruthie just decided that she doesn't want to be the Queen of England.

What do you want to be when you grow up?

I want to be Mom.

Want to be?

You are Mom.

No, not yet, but if I turn out to be half the woman my mother is, that'll be fine with me.

Hey... you're on recon.

You have to go find out what's happening with Mary.

I'd hate to see Mary leave, but someday she will.

Yeah, someday she will.

We all will.

Yeah, and by the time you leave, they probably won't even notice.

Ah, come on, you know I love you.

Hello.

Is Shana there?

Shana isn't here.

She's at the library.

Is this Matt?

Yeah, it's Matt.

So, what time does your bus get into town?

I guess that passes for humor in the big city.

Hey, man, I'm sorry.

It's just that you've called here 27 times, and I hate to keep telling you that Shana isn't here but she's not here.

She's in pre-med.

She studies, she goes to the library.

What can I tell you?

If all you guys are in pre-med and everyone is always at the library studying, how come you're always at home answering the phone?

Because I got kicked out.

Oh, sorry.

I'll tell her you called... again.

Thanks.

And tell her I'm not coming to visit.

I think that's best.

You decided not to go to New York?

I was never going to go to New York; we both know that.

No, I knew that.

You didn't know that.

You know, I talked to this old guy at work today.

Something he said made me think twice about it.

I really do need to get serious about school.

Whoo, hallelujah.

Yeah, I signed up to work as an orderly today.

You know, get more hours earn more money.

Get more of a feel for what's going on outside the world of hospital food. Good for you.

No, good for you.

You paid that old guy to tell me that story about dropping out of med school.

Ha... how did you know?

Because it was a totally lame story and a little too coincidental.

He confessed.

And I figured if you went through all that trouble to try to get through to me, I really should start listening.

Want to go to the library?

Why not?

We make a nice couple.

You say the sweetest things.

Pizza?

You realize you'll basically be moving out?

Yeah, I realize.

And you'll be giving up your opportunity to go to college.

Or delaying.

A couple of years in the WNBA and I can pay my way through college.

I should write that down.

That is a big selling point.

Maybe Mom and Dad won't even try to stop you.

Maybe they think it's a good idea.

They're not going to think this is a good idea.

You know what?

I'm almost 18, and when it comes down to it, they have to let me do this.

This is my life.

Molly's here to see you.

Good luck.

I love you.

I think I made a mistake.

I make a lot of mistakes.

What mistake?

Oh, no.

Your dad isn't a pro scout?

No, he is.

That's good.

What mistake?

Did I say that he wants you to play pro ball?

Not in so many words, but...

Because if I did, I'm really sorry.

He doesn't want me to play pro ball.

No.

How could that be?

Why would Coach Cleary have me coach...?

Girls like me.

Because I saw you play in high school and that's when I decided that you're my hero.

Molly's very responsible.

When she's done something wrong or something that hurt someone, she likes to handle it herself.

It gives her a lot of confidence.

Molly didn't say you wanted to draft me.

Uh, she told me you were a scout, and I jumped to the wrong conclusion.

I didn't make a mistake?

No.

I made the mistake.

Molly?

I owe you an apology.

I'm so sorry, kid.

It's okay.

No, it's not okay.

Yes, it is.

Everyone makes mistakes.

I should have told Mary that I was a scout in the first place and that Molly was a big fan of Mary's.

It's not that you're not WNBA material.

I just don't think you're WNBA material yet.

I hope you land on a college team and we can work something out in the future.

You've got a lot of potential.

Thanks, that means a lot to me.

So I'll see you in practice Monday afternoon?

Thanks, Mary.

Good night.

We know you're disappointed.

Yeah, I am.

But don't underestimate my ability to come back.

After spending some time with Molly and seeing how hard she has to work at things, I realized that I'm just going to have to work a little bit harder if I really want my dreams to come true.

She's amazing.

Inspiring.

Hey.

I want to talk to you about a dream I've had for years.

Oh, I can't wait to hear it.

Did Simon talk to you?

Yeah.

And?

And the flip side of doubt is... is faith.