01x07 - The Best Laid Plans

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Previously
on "Council of Dads"...

- Right before we came here,
out of the blue,

she said
she wants to try again.

Peter and I are thinking
about adopting another kid.

What?

Keep jogging.

Evan has a whole plan
to fix up more houses

in the neighborhood.

Where are you gonna find
the time with school?

I'm not.
I'm not going back to school.

When I ask for the truth,

it comes out
in dribs and drabs,

and in my head,
I'm thinking,

What else are
you not telling me?

Hi, Sun.

I missed you.

Hi, husband.

- Hi.
- I missed you, too.

- When did you get home?
- Late.

The Crab Shack
was packed last night.

I almost made enough money
to get my car fixed.

- Yeah, you've been working
too hard.

Me too.
I can't wait for Sunday.

- What's Sunday?

- My mom's thing?
At church.

- Right, right.

- You forgot.
- Ooh, a little bit.

- My mom thinks
you don't like her.

- She doesn't like me.
- She loves you.

- Ha! See?

She loves me,
but she doesn't like me.

- Yeah, well,
she'll like you a whole lot

if you come on Sunday.

I'll be there.

- Hey,
I want all the Dads there,

just so my mom
feels the love,

but Anthony
doesn't have to come if--

He's in Vegas.

- He gets back today.

- Your mom's getting
a big award.

The more,
the merrier.

- You sure? I know things
are weird between you two.

- Well, your mom
doesn't like me,

things are weird
between me and Anthony.

God, I must be a jerk.

- My mom likes you,
and you are not a jerk.

- Any interest
in unloading this house?

I'm a developer.

I got my eye
on this entire block.

- We're not selling.

Go ruin someone else's
neighborhood.

- Porch up to code?
- It's grandfathered in.

- Which is none
of your business.

- We'll let the inspector
sort that out.

- It's up to code,
isn't it?

- I didn't put in
a ledger board.

- Why not?

- Because this way
is just as safe,

and I couldn't afford
the extra lumber.

- I made bank last night,
and what's mine is yours.

- Lu?

This house, I feel like...

maybe it's too much--
maybe we sell.

- Scott had a way of seeing
the best in everything.

He'd overlook the flaws,
and see nothing but potential.

- No way.

We're not selling.

- He did the same thing
with us, his council.

He saw the best version
of all of us,

and made us believe in it.

What are you doing here?

- Look, I know how to juggle.

Whoa.

- Guess what--
so Jules talked me

into auditioning for "Hamlet,"
and I got cast as Hamlet.

- Cool. Good job, man.

- I just watched
"The Notebook" last night

by Nicholas Sparks--
have you seen it?

- Well, yeah, a long time ago.

- It's a stupid movie.
- It's not stupid.

- We don't say "stupid."

- I get to do the sword fight
at the end with leotards.

- Laertes.

- You want to watch it with me,
Anthony?

- Sure.
- Watch! You're not watching.

- I'm trying to watch.
It's just--

it's been a week,
and so much has happened.

- Never leave again.

- But what if Scott was wrong?

What if we never were
those guys to begin with?

- And if the baby's not here
by next week,

then we'll talk about inducing.

- Well, I really want to try
for an unmedicated delivery.

- I know. I have my copy
of your birth plan.

- All 20 pages?

Did you see the section
on my wardrobe?

- I just don't want you
in a ratty old T-shirt

in our first pictures
with Anabelle.

- I'm just playing.

Hey, um, did you want
to ask her the poop thing?

Right, the poop thing.

What's the poop thing?

- I heard
that sometimes you...

Poop when you're pushing,

and I'm worried about--
I-I mean, what if--

- She's afraid if I see that,
we'll never have sex again,

and I keep telling her
there's no amount of poop

that can keep me away.

- You say
the sweetest things, Curtis.

- Camilla,
your baby is the main event.

That is all
anybody's gonna be looking at.

- Okay, all right.
- Okay?

All right.
I'll see you in a few days.

- Thank you.
- Robin.

Anthony's back, baby.

Charlotte posted a pic.
He look different to you?

- He was gone a week.
- Seems like longer.

- Aw, you missed your bestie.

You're my bestie.

- No, I just want to know
how my bet turned out.

Gave him 100 bucks
to put on red.

I'm excited.

- To see your bestie
at the Council meeting?

No, to collect my winnings.

Sorry I've ignored
you guys all night.

- We're slammed.
- Where's Anthony?

I told him it's time.

- Time for what?

It's time
for the Council meeting,

and there he is.

Bro!

How was Vegas?

- Good.
- Did you win?

- I wasn't gambling.
- What, dude?

I gave you 100 bucks
to put on red.

And I played that,
and you lost.

- Well, if you
weren't gambling,

what were you doing?

- Just taking some time.

- Were you visiting friends?
- Yeah.

- Do these friends have names?
- Yes.

- You're being so mysterious,

you're making
your bestie jealous.

- People need to be allowed
to leave, right?

That's just reality.

You know,
this is all temporary.

Things are gonna change,
and we have to adapt--

- Anthony, Anthony,
we just missed you.

That's all.
Right?

And, all right,
now that we're all here,

we can celebrate Larry,
who's five years sober today.

Wow.

I wasn't expecting this.

Five years.

I...

Why are you talking
about leaving?

- Tonight isn't
about me, you know.

What were you saying?
- Is that what Vegas was about?

You leaving?

- Are you?

I was offered
a big opportunity.



That's prime real estate.

A big opportunity.

- Yeah, you said that already.

- We're here
to celebrate Larry.

I mean, five years.

Seriously,
blow out your candles.

- Hey.

Are you really leaving?

- Yeah, I am.

- Is it about me?

- Why would you say that?

- Things were fine
before we went to the Calhouns.

But then I freaked out,
and now you're leaving.

- This was never
a forever thing.

You're not riding home on that.

- My car is still in the shop.
- Let me give you a ride.

- No, thanks.

- I'm seeing a Brave.

- A what?

- An Atlanta Brave.

- Really?
- Don't act surprised.

- Which one?

- Well, no,
I'm not gonna tell you that.

I don't want you to k*ll him
in a fit of jealousy.

Georgia needs a World Series.

Seriously, I'm over you.

You don't have to leave
on account of me.

- I'm not leaving
because of you.

- Okay, then who is it?

Is she a showgirl?

Is it a blackjack dealer
or a bottle girl?

I'm gonna keep going with
the clichés until you stop me.

- This is not
about a woman, Margot.

It's about a job.

- Well, you have a job...

and a few months
left on your contract.

- The Vegas job won't wait.

- Well, then you are
in a real pickle.

- I'm trying to get
this adoption application in,

and I'm already stuck
on the first question--

why do we
want to adopt a baby?

- Because we do.

- Tess is almost grown.

I just want to make sure
we really want this.

- I don't want to wake up
in ten years

and regret not having another.

- The adoption agency
is gonna need something

more definitive
than potential regret.

- I'm gonna need something
more definitive

than potential regret.

- Babe, if you're having
second thoughts...

- Tess is such a great kid.

I'm just scared
of ruining perfection.

- Well, maybe it would just
make us better.

You know,
we have so much love to give,

and I love
raising kids with you.

- I love raising kids
with you, too.

- Okay, why don't we just
put in the initial application,

get the process started?

You know it takes forever.

We'll have plenty of time
to figure it out.

- This is jacked up.

- Theo.
- Theo.

- It is.
He's gonna miss "Hamlet."

- I know.
And I'm sorry.

- It's still jacked up.

- JJ.
- JJ.

- What?
Theo said it.

- Then set a good example
for your brother

- The reason it hurts
so much to separate

is because our souls
are connected.

- Char, that's beautiful.

- It's Nicholas Sparks.

"The Notebook," which you said
you'd watch with me.

Guys...

- Anthony has given us
so much of his time.

But--
- You've got to do

what's right for you,

even if it hurts
some people you love.

- Well said, Char.

- Nicholas Sparks said it.

- Okay. Everybody out.
I'm gonna talk to Anthony.

Thank you.

I can't wait for the Nicholas
Sparks phase to be over.

- I feel so bad.

- They love you.

And they've gotten used
to having you around.

So have I.

I think I had some fantasy

that this crazy,
weird family experiment

would just go on forever.

- The big, happy family
with the three dads

who hang around the edges.

- I would hardly call
what you have done

hanging around the edges.

You've gotten right there
up in the middle of it.

- These investors are willing
to spend a lot of money.

- There are investors
everywhere.

Restaurant scene
in Savannah's grown.

- Robin--

- I mean,
you just don't seem excited.

- I am.

But also, I know I promised
you guys a year.

Anthony...

you have given us
so much already.

I absolve you
from any sense of obligation

that you may have towards us.

Just promise me...

That you're doing this
for the right reasons.

- I am.

- Okay, then.

- I need a favor.

Knock, knock.

He did not send you
to come plead his case.

- Yeah.

You know,
I made some phone calls.

The investor in Vegas
is perfectly fine

with him filling out
his contract here,

so what's the rush?

I think it's a Vegas
mystery woman.

- I think maybe it's like hair.

You know?
One day you love your hair.

The next day, you wake up,
and you can't stand

the shaggy mop another minute.

- So we are a shaggy mop?

- Yeah, we're the shaggy mop.

- Great.

So you would like for me to let
Anthony out of his contract

so he can, what,
get a haircut in Vegas?

- It's a tortured analogy,
but, yes.

- Don't you need him?

Wait,
I guess you're seeing that guy.

So do you even need
the Council anymore?

- What guy?
- I don't know.

Anthony said
you're seeing, like, a--

like, a firefighter
or something.

- Sam.
He's a cop.

And he's back
with his wife.

I'm sorry.

No.

It's you.

- What's me?
- You.

You're the mystery woman.

He got you that necklace
for Christmas,

and he got me the ski coat--

- No, no, no, no.
- No, listen.

I told myself
not to worry about it

because you had a boyfriend,
but you don't have

a boyfriend anymore, and...

But you're Scott's widow.

So he can't, he can't.
You're off-limits.

And he's so tortured about it.

I mean, it's painful
for him to be around you.

He's sacrificing himself.

He's gonna go off to Vegas
and die alone.

- You sound like Charlotte
explaining the plot

of a Nicholas Sparks novel.

- Now that I hear it
out loud...

Yes.

Um, perhaps I have romance
on the brain.

Did you hear
I am dating a Brave?

- Bravo.
- Thank you.

- He's not in love with me.

- Okay.

No, he's not.
He's not in love with you.

- Mom, this is for you.

My goodness.

How beautiful.

- I'll put it on for you.

- So nice
to see you here, honey.

I hope Evan told you

you're invited
to church every week.

I have been working
so much

that Sundays are the only day
I have to write, so...

- How's that going for you?

Are you selling
your stories yet?

- Not yet.
Takes a while.

- How long you gonna give it?

- As long as it takes.

- How about you?
Is that how you feel now, too?

Get to do whatever you want.
Nobody needs a real job?

What--Mom, um...

When you see the house--

- When do I get to see
the house?

- When it's finished.

It's, coming along.

- You know what?

I'm gonna get my prayer
warriors on you two.

You know,
they cured my cancer.

Maybe they can turn things
around for you.

- Hold on.
My patient's calling me.

Hey, Curtis.

Okay.

Um, well, when they're
five minutes apart,

would you please--
thank you--

would you go to the hospital?

And they will call me
as soon as you check in.

Yeah,
you're having a baby today.

Okay.

My goodness.

Did you hear that?

Camilla's gonna have
one of you today.

Hey, nice job with the ties,
you guys.

- Half Windsor.
Larry.

Clip-on. Charlotte.

- I'm gonna pray
for Anthony to stay.

- Me too.
- Me three.

- Okay, well, you guys,
let's not forget

that today's not
about Anthony or us.

Right?
It's about Evan's mom.

- When I heard I was going
to receive this award

for 25 years of service
to the church...

I was overwhelmed.

Feeling your prayers

and love
for the past three years

since my cancer
was diagnosed has been...

Well, it saved my life.

There are two reasons
I am standing here today.

Montgomery Street Friendship
is my family.

And God is my oncologist.

- You must be very proud
of your mom.

- I am. Way proud.
- Yeah.

- Trying to make it go
both ways, you know?

I can tell
by looking at her

she's just as proud of you.

- Only 'cause
I don't tell her anything.

The house...

it's...

it's falling apart
one code violation at a time.

It's just...

I'll be back, Larry.

- Just say it.

You want to scold me
for leaving.

I can take it.
- Well, that church service

took some of the fire
and brimstone out of me.

- My lucky day.

- You know, I used to think
you were one of those

"all charm
and no substance" guys,

but you do have
some good qualities, Anthony.

I mean,
you got to hang in there,

'cause they're not obvious,
at all.

But I'm gonna miss them.

I'm gonna miss you.

I'm gonna miss you, too.

- Wow.
Anthony's hugging Larry.

That hug's going on forever.

You guys, why do you think
Anthony's really leaving?

- You know, last night
Oliver had Anthony

diagnosed with MS.

This morning,
it was--what was it?

- A frontal lobe brain tumor.

- Oliver thinks
he's hiding something.

- Margot thinks
that he has feelings for me.

- What? No.
I don't see it.

- But a frontal lobe
brain tumor makes sense to you?

- Well, I think he would've
said something to me.

- Right.
'Cause you're bros.

Hey, did Camilla check in yet?

No.

Okay, I'll be right there.

- What is it?

- One of my patients was in a
car accident, and it's bad.

Her husband, Curtis, he's...

Can you--
- Go, go, we got the kids.

Okay, thanks.

- Hey.

- Hey.

- I've been thinking--

I would like to pay
for your car repairs.

- No, thank you.

- Come on,
how much you need?

- I recognize you
from the Crab Shack.

I love the food there,
and I love your daughter here.

No, he's not my dad.

- Thought your dad owned
the Crab Shack.

- Well, he did,
and then he died,

and then his best friend,
Anthony, took over for him.

This is Anthony.
- Anthony.

- I feel so terrible.

Of course her dad died.
I knew that, but I forgot.

And seeing you two together,
you look so alike.

I take that
as a compliment, but, no.

No relation.

How about you try some of
our amazing Crab Shack gumbo?

You'll love it.

- Where is my mac and cheese?

- Take this.
I need to go to the hospital.

- Babe, you look upset.
Did Anthony say something?

- No, he didn't.
Um, hopefully it's nothing.

- Oliver.

- I have never seen Annie
this happy.

That's a pretty girl
her boy married.

- Luly. Did you see
her little brother JJ?

He is actually a girl.

What?

- What do they call that,
a tr*nsv*stite?

Girl, they everywhere
these days.

- It's transgender.

And he's not really a girl,
just so you know.

He's really a boy.

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- Evan.
- Hey.

- We need to go.
- What? Why?

- Now.
- Babe, but why, why?

- Some church ladies
in the bathroom

just said some transphobic crap
about my brother.

- People stupid stuff.
Don't take it personally, Luly.

- This isn't just stupid stuff.

And these people
are your mom's church,

your church
that you keep telling me

played such an important role
in how you grew up.

And you wonder why

I don't come every Sunday
with you guys.

It's because these people
are not my people,

and I can't just
look the other way!

- What happened?
Did something happen?

- No, no, it's okay.
We got it, Mom.

- Can I ask you something?

Every time you tell me
that prayer cured your cancer,

do you ever think
about how that makes me feel?

Guess my family
didn't pray hard enough.

- Luly.

- Evan, I want to go!

Evan!

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- Luly.

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- You embarrassed the hell
out of my mom.

- Her? How about me?
Your wife?

Those church ladies
talking about JJ,

and God is
my oncologist, like--

- What is so wrong
with her believing that?

You make everything about you.

Today was her special day.
Couldn't you just--

- Kiss the ring
of your almighty mother?

Who throws shade at me
with her little digs?

And you just stand there
and let her!

- I do not.
- Yes, you do.

You know she
doesn't like me, Evan,

'cause I stole away
her mama's boy.

- Wow. Mama's bo--
What about you?

Your daddy issues?
- Do not talk about my dad.

- No, your dads.

You got dads everywhere.

This stupid-a*s Council
trying to fill the hole in you

that just can't be filled.

And then Anthony's leaving,

so now you got to punish
everyone around you.

- This isn't about Anthony.

- Blow up on me,
blow up on my mom.

How about you blow up
on Anthony?

- I'm leaving.
- So go.

Go be a victim somewhere else.

- I didn't want to interrupt.

- You're not.

- What are you doing here?

- Well, you got a porch
you need to rip out.

I got a saw.

- Could you show me
her ultrasound?

- Her husband
took the brunt of the crash.

Shattered spleen,
grade-five massive blood loss.

He's in surgery,
but the prognosis isn't great.

- Okay. Camilla looks good
at least, right?

There's no free fluid,

and there's no evidence
of trauma.

Do we know if she lost
consciousness after the crash?

No, she didn't.

Sam.

Yeah, I was on the scene
within a minute or two.

She was conscious and stable
the whole time.

- Okay.
Thank you.

I have a baby to deliver.

Come with me.

- Dr. Perry.
We were T-boned.

- I know, I know.

But you are doing so good,
and the baby, too.

- What about Curtis?
Did you see him?

- Curtis is in surgery
right now.

The best thing that you can do
for Curtis right now

is focus on delivering
this baby.

- I can't.
- Okay?

- I can't do it alone.
- You can, you can.

All right, all right.

Guess what.
You already are.

I can see Anabelle's head.

- No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
This wasn't the plan.

- Well, listen to me.
Listen to me.

The plan is changing,
and that's okay, all right?

Today's Anabelle's birthday.
You ready to meet her?

One, two, three, push.

Push, push, push, push, push--

- Hey, check the joist
on that ledger

and see if we're still level.

- It's level.
- Good.

That should ward off
the inspector

if he comes
breathing down your throat.

- Hey, thank you.

Listen,
if you overheard us fighting,

what I said about--
Stupidass Council of Dads?

It's kind of hard
to stay cool and calm

when somebody's
attacking your mom.

- Well, it goes both ways.
Luly's right.

Like, my mom, she blames Luly
for me dropping out of school,

buying this house...

- Taking away her mama's boy?

Hey, I'm all she's got,
you know?

My...my dad left
when I was a baby.

Luly and I talk about that,
you know?

How we were both raised
by single parents.

The difference is
then she got this big family,

and my mom...

- The church is her family.

- I love my mom.

And I love Luly.

I don't know how to fix this.

- Well, I may have a tool
or two in the old shed

I can loan you.

- Hey.
What happened?

- I just had a huge fight
with my husband...

who pointed out
that I have daddy issues,

and he's right,

'cause I've been pretty much
out of my mind

since you've announced
that you are leaving soon,

which is looking
a whole lot like now.

- Luly.
- When are you leaving?

And don't say soon.
Don't you dare say soon.

- Now.

As soon as I pack.

- Thank you.

Okay, now...

when my dad was sick

and they said
that he had a week left...

I wasn't ready.

And I wanted to ask him
to stay longer.

- I did, too,
but this is for the best.

- Please let me finish.

Please.

I couldn't ask him to stay...

to not leave me...

because he was dying.

But I can ask you.

- Luly, this is different.

- You're right.
It is...

'Cause it's a choice.

Your choice...

to leave me and my brothers
and my sisters.

I mean, what the hell?
Were you even gonna say bye?

Like a proper good-bye to them?
- Yes.

- I don't want to be
mad at you.

I want us to be good,
but if you leave now,

then I'll always feel bad,

like I ruined this
or something or whatever.

And I'm asking you to stay!

Not forever,
just--but...

a little while longer...

and help me
get over you leaving.

- Luly, this is me.
It's what I do.

I'm not the man you have
built me up to be in your head.

I'm Uncle Anthony.

But I'm no dad.

- You're right.

You're not...

'cause if you were,
you would stay.

- Luly.

Luly.

Luly, watch out!

- I thought you called me
over here

because your wife
wanted to apologize.

- No, that's something
that I need to do.

I'm sorry I haven't made
some things clear.

Me leaving school,
that was my decision.

Buying this house,
I pushed for it.

Luly is not responsible
for my choices,

but you blame her for them.

It's not fair,

not to her
or to me or to you.

- I think I've been
yelled at enough for one day.

- Wait, Ma.
- Anne, please.

Hear your son out.

Y'all need to have
this conversation.

- It's one-sided.
Him, Luly, these kids today--

they're more than happy
with you

as long as you say yes
to everything they want,

but the world
doesn't work that way.

- What am I asking
you for, Mom?

To be nice to Luly?

You know, she...

She lost her dad.

I still have you, Mom.

I don't know where I would be

or what kind of feelings
I would be throwing at people

if I lost you.

I wouldn't be standing.

But she is.

She is standing,
and sometimes she's falling,

but she's getting back up.

- I prayed that you'd find
a strong woman.

- Well, I found her.

And I need you
to treat her better...

with respect and compassion,

like you treat everyone else.

Why can't you treat
the most important person

in my life like that?

"Most important."

Ma, listen--

You're a close second, Mom.

But, yes, she is.

We had a plan--
college.

And I know you have dreams

about fixing up
this neighborhood,

but you can't even
afford this house,

let alone buy more.

- Well, if I can get this one
done, I can get a bank loan--

- No one's going to give
a black man

without a college degree
a loan.

- I might.

I think you're partially
responsible for this, Anne.

You built your church
from nothing,

and he watched you do it.

Y'all are both doing
the same thing,

giving back,
building community.

It's inspiring,

which is why I'd like
to come in as an investor.

- Wow.

All right, Anabelle.

This is your mommy.

Do you know anything
about Curtis,

and you're just not telling me?

- I haven't heard anything.

- I'm so scared.

He wasn't breathing.

When they put him in the
ambulance, he wasn't breathing.

- Camilla,
his surgeon is fantastic.

- Will you go check on him?

- Of course.

What are you doing here?

I had nowhere else to go.

My room got
turned into Hope's nursery.

- Isn't that because you have,
like, a whole house with Evan?

- He thinks
I have daddy issues.

- Well, duh.

Join the club.

Yeah.

We've got, like, ten dads

and no dads at the same time.

- Are you and Evan okay?

- We will be.

I think.

I mean, I hope.

I'm just gonna...

I'm just gonna deal
with it tomorrow.

I'm gonna stay here tonight.

- But remember what Dad
used to always say?

- Do not quote "Little Women"!
- Do not let the sun go down

on your anger.

And I'm actually quoting Dad
quoting "Little Women."

There's a big difference.

God, you're annoying!
- Because I'm right.

I'm--I'm always right,
actually.

- You're not always right.
- Always.

- But I'll give you this one.

- Gabby.
How'd it go?

- I'm on my way to speak
to his spouse.

- Well, she just had a baby,
so just--

how bad is it?

Just tell me,
and I'll tell her.

- Curtis did great.
He's gonna be fine.

- What?

- I mean,
he's down a spleen,

but his GCS and his labs

have already normalized
post-surgery,

so I expect a full recovery.

Sorry.
I wasn't expecting that.

- We're all dead.

Hey, Anthony.

- What's all this?

- I think it's the death scene
from "Hamlet."

JJ's Laertes,
and he's trying to k*ll Hamlet

with his
poison-tipped pool noodle,

and Charlotte is dead Ophelia.

Wait, wait.
She's resurrected.

- Hey, Anthony!

- I came to watch
"The Notebook."

Right now?

Yeah, but, um--

- Can we do it tomorrow?

- Yeah.

Sure, tomorrow.

- Hey, you stay away!

- Hey, man, are you okay?

- No.

- I need to talk to you.
- Just let me go, please.

- Luly's blood type
isn't compatible

with a paternal
relationship to Scott.

When Scott was sick,
we considered

an experimental treatment.

We took blood from all the kids
to look for a platelet donor,

but Scott
took a turn for the worse,

and I never followed up...

until now.

- I have to go.

- To Vegas, alone?

Look, Anthony, this is too much
to carry by yourself.

This will k*ll you.

- I can't tell her.

And neither can you.

- Okay, stay.
We'll figure it out together.

You helped save my marriage.
Let me help you.

- No.

- Hey, Anthony,
you're my friend.

I can't let you go like this.

- We're not friends.

We're just two guys
who knew a guy who died.

Don't be making this
your business.

This is my problem,
and I'm dealing with it.

Now let go of my arm.

- What do you think happened?

- He had an affair
with Michelle.

- Can you imagine
holding on to that

as long as Anthony has?

My God, Robin's gonna
sense something's off.

I got to tell her, right?

- Can we just go back
to a couple of hours ago

when Scott was Luly's bio-dad?

I really want to go back
to that world.

- So innocent.

- The kids
were fantastic today...

just having each other's backs.

That's why I want a baby.

- A baby?

Do we really want a baby?

So now you're having
second thoughts?

- Well, you were right before.

Our lives
are so good right now.

Seeing what this family's
been through for the last year,

what they're
about to go through

with this Anthony stuff...

Makes me want to just stop.

You know?
Quit while we're ahead.

Why tempt fate?

We just got an email
from the social worker.

We've been chosen
by a birth mother

who's due in seven weeks.

We have 24 hours to decide
if we want the baby.

- Hey, I just wanted
to check on the family.

Yeah, they're fine.

Right now they're busy falling
in love with their new baby.

- Really?
Wow.

That is so great.
- I know.

Hey, so, I don't know
how to say this.

Um, my divorce is final.

We tried to work it out,

but it's kind of a funny story
in a tragic kind of way.

We were...

we were at the park,
kids were playing soccer.

We made this picnic,
and we were eating this food.

It was beautiful night.
Kid were getting along.

And she says,
"I'm in love with Jerry."

Yeah, Jerry is one
of her co-workers,

and, yeah,
I guess they'd gotten together

during one of our breakups.

And when she and I
got together, um...

it made her miss Jerry.

So we cried and ate
the pasta salad and broke up...

For good.

And I went to Alaska
on a fishing trip,

and it was just so quiet there,
you know?

And in the--in the quiet,
I could think.

And I just thought about you.

And all this is to say,
would you like to try again?

- Wow.

Sorry.
I wasn't expecting this.

Um...

That's Anthony,
and he says it's urgent.

Okay, yeah.

I mean, go ahead.

- Sorry.

Wait. Yes.

The answer's yes.
I would like to try again.

So call me.
Or I will call you.

Someone will call someone.

[font color="#ffff00"]- It's a new day coming[/font]

[font color="#ffff00"]I can see it now[/font]

[font color="#ffff00"]I can see it now[/font]

[font color="#ffff00"]There's a future
of promise[/font]

[font color="#ffff00"]I believe it now[/font]

- Nice porch.

- Thanks.

- I need to make things right
with your mom.

- No need.

I handled it.

- I need to make things
right with you.

I do have daddy issues.

I'm a daddy's girl.

But what I want
more than anything

is to be Evan Norris's wife.

[font color="#ffff00"]- There's a shadow
of something [/font]

[font color="#ffff00"] I can't quite make it out[/font]

[font color="#ffff00"] I can't make it out[/font]

- Scott saw the best in us,

the men on his Council.

And it made us
want to step up.

- A little over five years ago,

I walked into this room
for the first time.

I listened to you folks
talk about sobriety

and steps...

and I thought,
"-that ain't for me."

I tried to slip out the back.

But this guy stopped me...

Scott P.

He said, "Larry, I want you
to make a list

"of the things you'd like
to accomplish in a year,

two years, five years."

Truth of the matter was
I couldn't see five months.

But Scott wouldn't let up.

He said,
"Write down one thing--

a goal, a wish, a prayer."

So I did.

And in some ways...

That little prayer
became my higher power.

Even though
I stopped drinking,

I never thought
I'd achieve that goal.

But today, today
I got a little bit closer.

I've carried this little note

with me every day
for five years.

It's the first time
I've ever read it out loud.

"Be someone that others
can depend on."

- But sometimes
you fall short.

Sometimes greatness
just isn't in you.

Thanks for meeting me.
- Yeah. You buying a new car?

- It's the latest model.
Great pickup.

Plus, it can go off road.

It's a totally safe car.

Come on.
Get in.

- It's nice.

- Front and rear
parking assist.

Eight airbags.
Automated braking.

- What's going on, Anthony?
- I bought it for Luly.

And I want you
to give it to her,

'cause I'm afraid if I try,
she's not gonna take it,

and she needs a safe car.

- Okay.

This feels really impulsive.

- When she was a baby,

Scott was...

Absolutely terrified to put her
in the car he drove,

so he--you know,
he threw himself

into figuring out
the safest cars.

And he started
cutting up her food real small

so she wouldn't choke...

- And followed her
around the playground

so she wouldn't hurt
herself, but...

He had parental instincts.

I didn't.
- But that's okay.

You were helping out.

No one expected you
to be a dad.

- No, but now I get it.

She's riding that bike
in the dark.

It's--it's dangerous.
She's gonna get hit.

- She's gonna be fine.

We are walking around
expecting the worst

because the worst thing
happened to us.

But you know what?

Life doesn't always
end in tragedy.

Sometimes people live,
and bad things get better.

- Robin, just promise me--

- Anthony, what is it?
You have to tell me.

- I can't.

- Are you sick?

Because Oliver thinks
that you have some--

- No.
- Because if you are,

we can get through it.
- I'm not.

- Is it me?

I mean,
do you have feelings for me?

Because that's totally normal.

We've been through something
really intense together.

And maybe if you just
say it out loud,

it'll lose its power.

- It's not you.

- What is it, then?

Anthony...

just--just look at me.

Hey, look at me
and tell me.

Just say it.

- Luly...

is my kid, Robin.

She's my daughter.