[Elizabeth] Previously on The Baxters...
I think we're gonna need more original pieces.
Four pieces in two weeks. This is everything you ever wanted.
Everything all right, Diane?
Just thinking. [laughs]
Look at it through her eyes. You're taking the place of her son.
Hey, baby girl, you're feeling okay?
Uh-uh.
Oh, you've been feeling off all week.
Mom, what are you doing here?
I'm not sure why you hate this family.
I cannot respect this man you've become.
Neither can I.
Or me.
[Ashley] Sorry, Luke.
Luke.
[Luke] I didn't know where else to go.
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♪ 'Cause life has a way Of pulling us under ♪
♪ But we'll stick it out ♪
♪ If we got each other ♪
♪ When it all feels too much ♪
♪ I know you'll come running For me ♪
♪ Through the highs and lows We'll find our way home ♪
♪ Family ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ Family ♪
- [screams] - [gasps]
What are you doing in my house? Luke!
- Uh, Luke. - It's okay. Hey, it's okay.
It's okay. It's okay. He's a buddy from school.
It is not okay.
Okay. All this screaming really isn't helping my headache.
[sniffs]
- All right. - I gotta shower.
Luke! What are you thinking?
I know, I'm sorry. Look at him. He's harmless.
We've worked a couple landscaping gigs together.
He went out last night. He lost the keys to his dorm.
What was I supposed to do?
Um, call his roommates?
My kid is in the other room, Luke.
He helps me get work, okay? I owe him.
[grunts] He needs to get his stuff off my artwork
and leave immediately.
Yeah, yeah.
[grunts]
Yeah, okay. I know. I guess I wasn't thinking.
I'm sorry. Look, at least he made you coffee.
[Ashley sighs]
[gags]
I would not call that coffee.
Ash, I'm sorry. Look, let me help you clean up.
Luke,
look, you've been here over a week.
Okay? I'm doing you a big favor.
I'm keeping a big secret from our family for you.
You do not abuse that.
Right. I know. I'm sorry. I...
I don't know where I'd be without you right now, Ash.
I... I promise not to pull anything like this again.
[man singing in shower]
Okay? I recommend staying away from the undergrads
and sticking to your law school friends.
Definitely. And, look, I'll be out of here soon, too.
Promise. All right, I picked up a couple of new landscaping gigs,
so I'll be able to afford my own place really soon. Right?
And I'll make you a new pot of coffee.
[sighs] I got to go to work.
Make sure he's gone before I come back.
That baby goes down for a nap so easily.
I thank God for it every day.
Ah, flowers for the wedding, huh?
Yes.
Um, my sister Brooke suggested
we hire a planner to help because it's so soon.
I'm not sure she's helping.
I'm sure it's gonna be beautiful, no matter what.
Thank you for saying that.
You're welcome.
Hmm.
I was thinking we could take Jessie to the park after her nap.
It's so beautiful out.
You know what, would you mind
if we took her to walk around the campus
where her daddy worked?
Sure.
We could do that.
I want her to grow up really knowing how incredibly smart he was.
Me, too.
Great.
Um, I have a little work to get done before then.
I'll be upstairs.
[sighs]
Hey.
[chuckling] Good morning.
Sorry.
I must have dozed off.
Was she up all night again?
Mm-hmm.
Why didn't you wake me?
She's fine.
Just had a fever. Kids get it all the time.
Brooke, it's the third time this week.
What's her temperature?
Um, I don't know. I haven't taken it in a while.
You haven't taken it?
Mmm, do you think I don't know what I'm doing?
You think I don't?
You're not the only doctor in this family.
Peter, don't wake her up.
Hey, honey.
Sweetie, I'm just gonna take your temperature real quick. Okay?
Okay. Just open up. There you go.
It's over 103.
What?
Come on, sweetie. You gotta get up, okay?
What are you doing?
Taking her to the hospital.
Okay. Okay.
It's okay.
I'll find someone to watch Haley.
[Diane] I feel most at home on a college campus.
[Kari] I never asked you.
Do you think Tim became a professor because of you?
[laughs]
Funny. You know, I never asked him.
Why, he certainly grew up around a bunch of academics.
I like to think that we rubbed off.
That big building back there,
that's where your daddy gave his biggest lectures.
Mmm-hmm-hmm.
I wish I could have seen him in front of that room.
I did.
He was amazing.
Yeah? Oh!
I guess this little baby is going to
spend a lot more time near a football field,
you know, with Ryan's job.
We'll make sure there's a balance...
- [chuckles] - ...of both.
What about music? Hmm?
Are you going to teach her everything... Aw!
...Tim's daddy taught him about jazz and the blues.
You know, they, uh...
took piano lessons together.
Father and son, side by side.
I'll do my best.
It's not gonna be the same.
You know, how could it be? I mean, Ryan's not Tim.
There couldn't be two more different men.
That's not true, Diane.
Come, let's sit down. We'll talk for a while.
I shouldn't have come. It's just too hard.
Why isn't this hard for you, Kari?
- Oh, God. - I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry. That was so out of line.
So out of line.
I understand, Diane. Really.
Kari, I think it's time that I went home.
Okay, let's go.
No, no, no, honey, my home.
I just feel that I am hurting more than I'm helping.
That's not true.
Please stay a little longer.
I'll think about it, honey. I'll think about it.
I want to be here for you.
We all do.
I know, but I don't know if you can be.
Honey, I don't know if anybody can.
- Come on. - Oh.
[sniffles]
All right, buddy. Time to pack it up.
Phil?
That solves that.
Luke, what's up? I'm at work.
Hey, Ash, you didn't by chance take your portfolio
in to work with you, did you?
[Ashley] No, why would I do that?
Luke, why are you asking?
[Luke] You know the kid
who stayed at your house last night?
Ash, I think he might have taken it with him.
What?
[Luke] Yeah.
Hey, Dr. Laine. Hoping we'd see you.
John. Elizabeth.
Sorry to be seeing you under these circumstances.
You get any results back yet?
We're going to be admitting her for a few days.
[monitors beeping]
White count's over 10,000, John.
Ten thousand?
- You think... - We don't know yet.
[sighs]
[Laine] Could just be an infection run rampant.
We're going to start her on some antibiotics immediately
while we run more tests.
If she responds, we'll know it's just an infection.
And if not?
I've expedited all the lab work.
And alerted the child oncology team.
Oncology?
Are you going to tell them?
Cancer, John?
They have to run a lot of tests first.
We just need to stay positive
and I think we should be in here, come on.
[door slams]
Ash, I'm so sorry, okay?
I don't know how I let this happen.
[sighs]
You need to understand
how important these paintings are to me, okay?
Not just to me, to my career, okay?
If I can't deliver, I will be missing
the opportunity of a lifetime.
Do you understand that?
- Yes. - Okay.
So we need to track him down immediately.
What do you know about this kid?
His name is Phil. Okay?
I don't... I don't...
Oh, he said... He said he lives in South Hall on campus.
Okay, that's where we're going.
[monitor beeping]
[Elizabeth] Hi, sweetie.
Hi.
Where's Dad?
He's talking to Dr. Laine.
It's good to see you praying, Brooke.
Feels like it's the best thing I can do for her right now.
And for you.
How is she?
She's a total trouper. I, on the other hand...
[sobbing]
- [Elizabeth] Oh... - Mom.
Aw, baby.
[sobbing]
I know.
It took a mass shooting
to get me out of the hospital and back into church.
Now it's taken Maddie being sick
to get me to actually pray.
I don't know, maybe if I had been
less preoccupied with work
and spent more time on my faith, I just...
God doesn't work that way, Brooke.
And all we've got to do now is to stay focused on the present.
Peter wanted to bring her in weeks ago
when the fevers first started.
Kids get fevers all the time.
It's usually nothing. You know that.
I know. That's what I told him. But...
Now, if it's something worse, I...
[Elizabeth sighs]
Now we've got to stay focused on the present.
God is with us.
And He's with Maddie.
Hi. Have you seen a guy named Phil?
He's kind of tall. Little scraggly.
No, sorry.
[sighs]
Thanks.
You know what? We need to get inside and we need to knock on doors.
I'm asking the next person that enters to let us in.
Oh, actually, no, no, that's called trespassing, okay?
[scoffs] Luke, please.
There he is.
Yeah.
- That's him. - [Ashley] Yes.
Okay. Stay calm. We do not want him to think
- that we're going to... - Mm-hmm.
Hey, you! Phil, stop!
Luke. Hey!
- [man] Ooh! - [Phil] Sorry.
[Ashley] Give me back my paintings!
[Luke] Somebody grab him!
[Ashley] Stop him.
Come on, Ash.
Hey!
Phil! Stop!
You can't run forever.
[panting]
Okay. Okay.
- I give up. I give up. - Dude, not cool.
You better have my paintings!
- [Phil] Uh... - Who even does that?
Seriously, I'm asking...
I'm sorry, okay? I know it was a lame move. I just...
Oh, they're really good, by the way.
Thank you. That isn't the point! Continue.
I-I thought maybe this art major that I have a really huge crush on
would finally give me the time of day.
Where are my paintings, Casanova?
I don't know, okay. I gave them to her
with a note, and then I walked away.
Ugh!
Okay. Look, do you know where we can find her?
Ugh. Yeah. She works at the coffee stand on campus.
Let's go.
- I'm really sorry... - Oh, no, no, no.
Not so fast. You're coming with us.
[Brooke] Maddie, we'll see you soon, sweetie.
Yeah. It's just a few more tests, is all.
Yeah, see we're brave, Mom and Dad, aren't we?
[chuckles]
Okay.
[sighs]
I'm allowed to be tired.
Our daughter might have cancer.
Yeah, I'm aware.
Look, Peter, I know that you're frustrated.
I am, too, but I don't appreciate this hostility,
and it's certainly not helping Maddie.
Can you just admit that I was right this time
that we should have brought her in sooner?
What is the point of this conversation?
Are you just trying to make me feel worse?
I just...
I don't know how I can even process all this right now.
I need some air.
Here you go.
- [customer] Thanks. - That's her.
Hey, what can I get for you?
Sorry, we're not actually ordering.
We're here about the paintings that that guy Phil gave you.
Oh. He is such a creep.
Hey, what's up?
No, Phil, we do not have time
for your terrible attempt at flirting.
I really need those paintings. Do you have them with you?
I didn't even look at what was in the portfolio.
I just threw them out right after he gave them to me.
Please say you remember where you threw them out.
Uh, yeah. The dumpster behind Stanley Hall.
Stanley Hall. Okay, thank you so much for your help.
I'm really sorry.
That's gotta be it.
No, no, no.
Trash is where they belong.
- Hey. - I didn't believe in those anyway.
Come on. Don't say that.
Ash.
I'm really sorry.
Okay. I mean, you...
You've just been so great to me lately, and...
And you've even been, been keeping the fact
that I've been staying with you from Mom and Dad, and...
This is all my fault.
Look, maybe I could help you redo them.
It's too late.
Don't... Don't say that, it's not--
[sighs]
Ash, please wait.
Do not follow me, Luke.
[monitor beeping]
She looks more comfortable.
Hmm.
They should know if the antibiotics are working by tomorrow morning.
- Look, Peter-- - I'm sorry for before.
I am, too.
I don't wanna fight.
I don't either.
Let's table this all for now.
We both need to be here fully for Maddie.
That sounds like a plan.
[woman on TV] I often wish you weren't such a stinker.
Latin, I suppose. You must come up
and meet my Mother. She'd like that phrase.
Irvel.
What are you doing up so late?
[TV turns off]
Hank's late from work again, so I'm spending the evening
watching a very young and very handsome Cary Grant.
Want to join me?
I'm not really in the mood right now.
Sorry.
Why so gloomy, dear?
Well...
my paintings...
for the gallery show in Los Angeles
are gone.
So now I have to call the owner, Cynthia,
and tell her we have to cancel the whole thing.
Oh, I am so sorry to hear that.
Me, too.
[exhales]
I really thought this was gonna be my big break.
Sometimes, things like this happen for a reason.
Yeah, it's probably for the best.
I was so nervous for the show.
Maybe it was a sign
I didn't believe in the work anyway.
And that maybe this was a blessing in disguise.
How?
Prepare you for work you do believe in.
You are so wise, Irvel.
You know what they say:
Old age brings wisdom and wrinkles.
Though I like to think of them as memory lines.
You have the most beautiful hair.
Has anyone ever told you that?
[softly] Once or twice.
[chuckles]
Thank you, Irvel.
...big fat lummox like you hiring an airplane to write,
"Hildy, don't be hasty. Remember my dimple. Walter."
[Elizabeth] Next time on The Baxters...
We need good news, Brian.
My team did discover something problematic.
I wanna be honest about something with you, Sam.
I want us to start talking about starting a family.
I'm going through a thing with my family.
They don't understand me. And they're not trying to.
Maybe you don't understand yourself.
It's your Grandpa's birthday today, little man.
Tommy deserves a dad just like him.
Have you thought more about
giving Luke the chance to be that man in his life?
Ash, it's for you. Some guy with an accent.
Why are you calling me?
Miss Baxter, there is no easy way to say this.
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