["My Sunshine Girl" by The Radiants playing]
♪ I've got a girl She's so special now ♪
♪ She ♪
♪ Ooh... ♪
- [Tully] Kate! Kate! - [Johnny] Kate! Kate!
- Kate, can you hear me? Kate? - Kate. Hey! Hey!
- I got you water. - We're calling an ambulance.
- What happened? You okay? - Give her space, she needs to breathe.
Don't tell me how to take care of my daughter.
Someone turn the fucking music down.
Okay, the ambulance is on the way.
[Kate] Guys, stop, I'm fine.
I just got so hot, and I...
drank all that champagne, but I'm really...
- I'm fine, I promise. - Well, you're obviously not fine, Katie.
- [Kate] I'm... [groans] - [Tully] It's okay.
Please tell the paramedics not to come. I'm just gonna go inside and lie down.
I've got an appointment with the doctor on Monday.
I'll bring this up. I promise.
Everybody just keep dancing, okay? It's a party!
- Mom. - Oh, sweetie, I'm so sorry I scared you.
I'm fine, truly. I'm just gonna go lie down.
- Here, here, here. - It's okay.
You guys are being ridiculous. I can walk.
No, it's fine.
What's really going on with Mom?
Nobody tells me anything.
No idea.
Nobody tells me anything either, honey.
Why didn't you tell me the cancer was back?
- I was getting to it. - When?
I thought about telling everyone today,
but metastasized to the bones and liver didn't really seem to work into my vows.
That's not funny.
I just wanted you all to have fun, for once.
Before I go back into chemo madness.
You're not supposed to be taking care of us.
That's what I keep saying.
See how everyone was freaking out? That's exactly what I didn't want.
I just wanted to have a normal wedding.
- [tender music playing] - [Tully chuckles]
From now on, I'm right here with you, okay?
Every step of the way, I am not leaving your side.
Tul, you are leaving my side
because tonight is my wedding night and I'm going to have sex with my husband,
and you're gonna get a ride with Danny
because a little birdie told me that Celeste gave him back the ring.
You seriously trying to puppeteer my love life right now?
You have to do this for me!
- I have cancer. You can't say no. - [Tully scoffs]
You're such a pain in the ass, you know that?
Mmm. That's why you love me.
[tender music continues]
[sirens wailing faintly]
You okay?
You want to talk?
Metastasized to the bones and liver...
That sounds...
That sounds bad, right?
I mean... [exhales]
Well...
then it's a good thing I'm famous.
I'll just get her into one of those trials for...
like, a cutting-edge treatment, you know?
They... They have those happening all over the country.
I'll just... [inhales]
...find the best one, make some calls, pull some strings.
Boom, she's in.
Yeah. If anyone can do it, it's you, Tallulah.
[Tully chuckles]
You know, I'm sorry I didn't say anything about Celeste.
[Danny] It's okay.
You know, I was hoping that, uh...
if anyone was gonna make out with you, it would have been...
- It would've been me. - [Tully chuckles]
- I don't make out with men who are taken. - Just women.
Okay, like I said, she kissed me.
Okay.
Okay, but...
what about the other thing I just said?
About you and me?
Is this really what we're doing right now?
Look, Tully, I know that you've been pining for me...
- Pining? [chuckles] - ...ever since I got back to Seattle.
- God, you are so full of yourself. - No, I've been pining for you too!
Well, you have a very strange way of showing it, Sports Man.
You think I wasn't completely bummed
to find out you were single and that you were living next door to me?
- Okay, we don't have to do this. - I had a girlfriend, a serious girlfriend.
We'd been together two years, and we lived together.
Sure! Okay.
- I don't even know why we're having this-- - I thought about you constantly, okay?
But part of me just thought that, I dunno, maybe it seemed too late or something.
But you know what?
Fuck too late.
Why can't we just admit how we feel?
You're only saying this
because you were dumped five minutes ago.
No, no, no, no, no. I'm saying this because it's true.
- Why won't you just admit-- - [Tully] That I pined?
Fine. Fucking sue me. I pined.
But only because I knew I couldn't have you.
- That's the only reason you pined for me. - Oh, okay. Don't do this.
- Do what? I'm not doing anything. - We've waited for 20 years.
Oh God, speak for yourself. I wasn't waiting.
- You're just scared. That's all. - No, I'm not.
I just know myself and I am not any good at this stuff.
So what! Neither am I!
[Tully] Exactly.
But we are good at being friends,
and that's what I need right now.
So I can focus on Kate.
I have to help her beat this and...
I just need...
you to be my friend.
I don't have a lot of those, Sports Man.
[gentle music playing]
[crickets chirping]
We don't have to...
[gentle music continues]
[young Tully] Where do you see yourself in the future?
Why are colleges so obsessed with that question?
Just tell them you will be accepting your second Nobel Prize for literature
with your husband Shaun Cassidy watching proudly,
taking care of your three kids.
Wait, why am I married to Shaun Cassidy and not David Cassidy?
'Cause I'm marrying David.
Oh my God. How cool would it be if we married brothers?
Mmm, don't get too excited.
David and I will probably get divorced after my torrid affair with John Travolta.
- Feels right for you. Yeah. [chuckles] - Yeah.
You guys have been working on those for hours.
You're making me tense just watching you.
Take a break.
Relax.
Do you want a hit?
I know, I don't normally offer,
but my friend Al grew this,
and it is seriously the best grass I've ever smoked.
It's transcen-fucking-dental.
Sounds great, but I'll pass.
When you're on your deathbed,
you're not gonna wish that you worked harder
or filled out more paperwork.
You are gonna wish that you smoked this pot
and had more adventures with your mama.
[Tully sighs]
[Cloud gasps]
What, do you want to?
I mean,
it's senior year,
and... and how many opportunities are we gonna get
to smoke transcen-fucking-dental pot?
[laughs] Wow, you are wild, Mularkey.
Wild Mularkey.
["She's A Bad Mama Jama" by Carl Carlton playing]
♪ Look at her ♪
♪ She's a bad mama jama... ♪
Deep breath.
♪ Just as fine as she can be ♪
- ♪ Hey! ♪ - ♪ She's a bad mama jama... ♪
[coughing]
You okay?
Yep, yep. Here.
Cool as a cucumber.
[Cloud chuckles]
[Kate chuckling]
So cool.
♪ That's sure enough getting attention ♪
♪ She's poetry in motion ♪
♪ A beautiful sight to see... ♪
- Your Majesty. - Mmm!
It's so nice to finally have an accessory I can wear with everything.
[Kate chuckles, clears throat]
Excuse me, everyone. Hello. Hello. I would like to make a toast.
Tully, when you first got to the anchor desk,
we were in dead last place.
But after two very short years,
you have made KPOC number one on the weekends.
- [all] Yes! - [Kate] To Tully!
[Johnny] Tully!
Well, I couldn't have done it without my tin man, my lion,
and my scarecrow,
and, of course, Toto.
I'm obviously Glinda.
- Wait, which one am I? - [Carol] Scarecrow.
Scarecrow. Scarecrow, yeah.
Wait, wait! I have one more toast to make.
To Johnny, who just got the Northwest Regional Journalism Award
for his piece on the homeless crisis in Seattle.
I love you so much, husband,
and I just know that you're gonna do so many more incredible things.
- To Johnny. - [all] To Johnny!
[Johnny inhales deeply]
[exhales] Thank you, wife,
and I will require each of you to come and visit my award,
on full display, in my office.
Because I'm a very humble man who hates attention.
- [all chuckle] - [Johnny] Um...
Speaking of humble, let me just brag about Kate for a moment.
She has already finished four chapters of her new novel.
- Whoo! - [all exclaiming]
This despite a demanding day job,
a full social life,
and a pretty high-maintenance husband.
[all chuckle]
- Yeah. - Kate, you astound me every day.
- To Kate! - [all] To Kate!
- [soft music playing] - [indistinct chatter]
- You didn't have to do that. - Yeah, you need to be toasted too.
Maybe we keep the celebration going back at home.
Barf.
Can we have one conversation where you two are not planning sex?
Ooh! [chuckles]
Come on, we're still newlyweds.
Two years is not newlyweds.
- [Johnny] Mmm... - [exhales] You guys!
This is one of those moments!
What moments?
You know, when you realize you're doing it, you're in it.
- In what? - Life.
And it's happening right now,
and it's even better than any of us ever imagined.
[Kate exhales]
- What? - Nothing. You're just adorable.
Oh.
I wish we could freeze this moment and just live in it forever.
Yeah. Like living in a photograph.
Ooh, that is fantastic. I'm gonna write that down for my novel.
To KPOC. Long may she reign.
- Hear! Hear! - [Mutt] Mmm.
Johnny, you still good for tomorrow morning?
Of course.
Hangover racquetball's my specialty. I've gotta sweat all this out.
[Mutt] Mm-hmm.
Sorry, I think maybe I just had too much beer. I'll...
- You all right? - I got it. I'll get it.
[Kate gags]
How are you already puking? What is this, amateur hour?
This is not like you, Mularkey.
[Kate] Are you calling me an alcoholic?
[toilet flushes]
No, you enjoy having fun. We all do.
[Kate] Ugh, maybe I ate bad shrimp?
- We didn't have shrimp. - [Kate exhales]
- Oh my God, Kate. Maybe-- - [Kate] Nope.
- You don't even know what I was gonna say. - I'm not pregnant.
Okay, you did know what I was gonna say.
I can't be pregnant because we agreed we would wait, like... like, another year.
We have a whole plan. I finish writing my novel, then we save up some money.
Johnny wants to go to South America, I wanna go to Europe, so we'll do both.
We'll travel for six months. When we get back, we try for a baby.
Wow. That's a cool plan.
[Kate] It is. I love our plan.
Hey, you remember when Carol thought she was having a change-of-life baby?
After she slept with Phil, the weather guy?
Well, she's still got some pregnancy tests on her desk.
Let's swipe one, find out for sure.
Okay, fine. But I mean, I'm not pregnant. There's no way that I'm pregnant. So...
I can't believe I'm pregnant.
[Tully exhales]
Me either. I'm not ready for this.
Wait, you're not ready for this? What am I supposed to tell Johnny?
- Oh yeah. - [Kate sighs]
He's really not ready.
Oh fuck.
Hey, you know how he loves Bruce Willis?
- [Kate] Sure. - He and Demi Moore are having a baby.
So Johnny and Bruce Willis have something in common,
which is pretty cool.
Maybe start with that.
[woman] Where would you like to start?
[Kate scoffs]
Seems like they only recommend a therapist when they think it's the end.
Well, is that what you think?
- [Kate] What? - That it's the end.
Oh, I...
I don't know.
Um...
No.
No, I don't... [inhales]
...think that.
How are you feeling?
Okay.
Tired.
Nauseous.
But that's normal for chemo. I've been through it all before.
I'm an old pro.
[inhales]
Plus, this time, Johnny has me trying all these alternative therapies,
but it's only been a few weeks, so, um...
I don't know if they're helping. But he thinks that they will.
And Tully, you know, she's working every angle to find me a drug trial.
There's actually a really promising one out of Stanford, so we'll see.
And, uh...
Marah's okay.
I think.
You know, she's worried.
[tender music playing]
She doesn't wanna talk about it.
And I'm trying, but, um...
she's already been through so much, you know?
Too much.
For a kid.
It's just, uh... It's awful.
Mm-hmm.
But...
how are you feeling?
I just told you.
[therapist] No, you told me about everyone else.
I want to know how you're feeling.
[Kate exhales]
I'm tired and nauseous.
I meant emotionally.
How do you feel?
- [Kate sighs] - [therapist] Kate.
I feel guilty.
Why?
Because I let everyone down.
They were all so happy when I went into remission.
And, uh...
now they're all scared and upset.
Again.
And it's 'cause of me.
You know this cancer spreading isn't your fault, right?
I know.
Intellectually, I know.
[therapist] Let's try something.
Close your eyes.
[Kate exhales]
[therapist] Visualize yourself somewhere.
Where you're free.
Free of everybody's expectations. Free of guilt.
[Kate inhales]
[therapist] Free to experience the world through your own eyes.
What does that look like?
[birds tweeting]
[woman] Remember to breathe
as you let the energy flow through your body.
[Kate inhales]
[exhales]
Wouldn't it be more effective if she actually touched you?
I swear, it helps with the chemo side effects.
I like it.
Well, it's probably a nice break from the atonal sound baths and hot yoga
Johnny's got you doing.
- Don't make fun. - He's turning into Cloud.
Oh, speaking of, are you coming to the Dama Luna tomorrow?
Sure.
Who doesn't love a goddess moon ritual?
In the meantime, on the real medicine front,
I have a call with the head of oncology at Stanford tomorrow.
Finally, it took three weeks to set up. You're all but in, babe.
I hate that you're spending so much time on this.
Oh, stop it. There's nothing more important than getting you better.
Oh, there you are. I've been looking for you.
And I... you.
Oh. Okay. We're... We're sitting.
- Everything all right, Mularkey? - [Kate] Yeah, sure, everything's great.
But maybe not. [sighs]
Um, I know that you know what I want, and I know what you want,
and maybe they can be the same.
But we've also known that they can be different.
[Johnny] Okay.
Bruce Willis is, uh, someone who's just trying to figure it all out.
Like us.
And sometimes in life you just get thrown a curveball and you have to catch it--
- Kate's pregnant! - Tully, I was getting there!
What?
I got a cab, if anyone wants to share...
Whoa. Johnny, you all right?
Looks like you just got hit in the face with a frying pan. [chuckles]
You okay?
You haven't really said a word since we left the party.
Neither have you.
Well, how do you feel?
I'm gonna be somebody's dad.
Just like Bruce Willis.
[Johnny chuckles]
Look, I know we had all these plans.
[Johnny inhales]
True.
True, but... plans change, Mularkey,
and, uh, that's all right, that's life.
No phase lasts forever.
Yeah.
[Johnny exhales]
[young Kate] No human has ever been this high.
[chips crunch]
How long have we been laying on the floor for?
Feels like forever.
What time is it?
Mmm.
Six?
Oh, 22.
Holy shit.
- Girls, we almost missed it. - [Kate] Missed what?
The moonrise.
We have to go outside and greet Mother Moon
because she is full tonight
and we need to bask in her feminine energy.
- [Kate] That's true. - Can't we bask from here?
[Cloud] No, we need to go to the roof. We have to be as close to her as possible.
To the moon!
To the moon.
[gentle music playing]
Admit it.
You're glad we're doing this.
I admit everything. [sighs]
She's so pretty.
I wish I could write my college essay about this.
[Tully chuckles]
Why can't you?
Dear college,
one example of my road to personal growth
is the time I got stoned and communed on the roof with the moon.
[all chuckle]
I'd let you in my school.
[Tully grunts]
Yeah, we could major in bong hits.
And astronomy.
[Tully and Kate chuckle]
Yeah.
- Come on! Look! - [Tully] Mm-mm. Mm-mm-mm.
[Cloud humming]
Come on. Look at, the moon is watching!
Let's show her our respect!
Let's dance in wonder before her power and her beauty.
[vocalizes]
Oh! I know how to get you girls up.
[vocalizing]
- [Tully] Cloud, stop. - What?
- Cloud, stop! - [Cloud] What?
Oh! Whoa! Oh!
- [Tully] That's not funny. Stop! - [Kate] Oh my God!
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! [chuckles] - [Kate] Stop!
- [Cloud] You should have seen your face! - [Kate screams, thuds]
[Tully] Oh no.
- [Cloud] You okay? - [Kate groans]
- Would the lady care for a cocktail? - Mmm.
- Yes, please. - Okay. [smacks lips]
Down the hatch.
[gulps]
Oh. Mmm. Ah.
It's mulch-y.
That's pure wheatgrass.
A guy in my online cancer support group swears by it.
I don't know if this diet will help me live longer,
but it's definitely gonna make it feel long, so at least there's that.
Hey.
Oh my God, it smells like hot garbage.
Marah, are you high?
Uh, no.
I can smell it. Jesus, Marah, it's the middle of the day.
You smoke weed in the middle of the day.
Your mother has a prescription. It's for her nausea.
Guys, just chill.
I only had, like, one hit.
Just wanted to have a little bit of fun. Someone around here has to.
Okay, go to your room. We can talk about this later.
Cool, that's where I was going anyways.
[tender music playing]
[gags]
What is this shit?
- That is a flaxseed wafer. - What happened to the real cookies?
I threw 'em out. Your mother needs to avoid sugar.
So nobody can have cookies?
Exactly.
Got it. So because Mom is dying,
none of us are allowed to live?
That is enough, you ungrateful little shit.
Your mother said go to your room, so go to your fucking room!
I can't wait to get out of here and go to fucking college.
- [Kate] "Our transition specialists... - [door slams]
...can help during these trying times."
I got this in the mail today. I... I can't even. [inhales]
"From cremation niches to lush gardens with roaming peacocks, we have it all."
They just left out the vultures circling.
You sound angry.
I wouldn't say angry.
What would you say?
[Kate sighs]
I don't know...
how I feel.
Or if it even matters.
Do you really think it doesn't matter, how you feel?
Either way, seems like I have to figure out if I want a niche
or a bunch of peacocks running around my grave.
Have you talked to your family or friends about any of this?
I can't.
[somber music playing]
They're so focused on trying to save me, they're not ready to talk about if...
[tsks, inhales]
No, thank you, doctor.
I really appreciate you taking the time, and your study sounds incredible.
I... I really think my friend would make a great candidate.
So, um, what do you think?
We can be down to California by, well, tomorrow, if we need to...
[tense music playing]
I'm sorry?
What do you mean, too aggressive?
Isn't... Isn't that the kind of cancer you're trying to cure?
Well, I... I think you should at least examine her
before you decide if she qualifies.
No, no, no, please, don't tell me you understand.
My friend is dying, and she needs your fucking help.
But you're only interested in curing the nice, polite kinds of cancer.
You're damn right I'm upset.
That is three fucking weeks I have lost on this shit.
You know what? She doesn't need your goddamn trial.
Good luck trying to cure cancer without her.
Fuck! [whimpers]
[sobs]
- [phone beeps] - [line dials]
Can you come over?
I know they say it's a bad idea to self-medicate with booze, but...
I'll get the glasses.
I'm sorry she didn't get into the trial.
Fuck 'em.
We still have your friend at the Mayo Clinic.
- He hasn't called me back yet. - So call him again, right now.
The offices are closed. I already called him, like, three times, Tul.
So fucking call again.
If she doesn't get into one of these studies, then she...
Okay.
Okay, okay, okay.
- Relax, I promise... - [exhales]
...first thing in the morning. Okay?
[inhales] Thank you.
Let's crack this bad boy open.
I say, we just drink from the bottle.
- [Tully sighs] - [Danny chuckles]
But, you know, it wouldn't be classy.
This thing...
What do you want--
[tender music playing]
What are you doing?
Take me upstairs.
I thought you said this was a bad idea.
It is.
But I just...
I just want to forget how I'm feeling.
For a minute.
First of all,
this would not just be a minute.
Let's just be clear about that.
- Fair enough. - Yeah.
- [Tully] Five minutes then. - Mmm. [chuckles]
Or a whole night.
Tully. And then what?
Then nothing.
We forget it happened.
Forget.
That sounds...
I know it's a bad idea, but I don't care.
- I just want-- - To what? Fuck the pain away?
- Don't make fun of me. - [Danny] I wasn't.
Tully, I don't think that this is--
I said I know it's a bad idea.
- [Danny] It is a bad idea, Tully! - I know!
[Tully sighs]
Of course...
bad idea's my favorite kind.
[sirens wailing faintly]
[tender music playing]
[glass clinks]
[Kate] How does a night of sex turn into this?
[Tully] It's the miracle of life.
You know why pregnant women glow?
It's 'cause they're sweaty from all the puking.
Well, you look great.
Except you do have, um...
a little vomit on your neck.
Oh. Ah.
So I had a dream last night that I gave birth to a koala bear.
- Fun! - Nope! It bit me.
Speaking of, where's Papa Bear?
He has racquetball with Mutt.
How's he doing?
Um, you know that scene where Bruce Willis is running in his bare feet
over broken glass in a dirty tank-top gripping a machine gun?
[Tully chuckles]
He is slightly less relaxed than that.
It's a big adjustment.
He'll come around.
Yeah, maybe.
- [Tully] Mmm. - Mmm.
Shit. I can't drink this, can I?
You're asking me?
I gotta get to a doctor. [chuckles]
How are you doing? Freaking out?
Sort of.
I know it's impossible, but I think I can already feel her inside me.
- Her? - [Kate] Yeah.
And, Tul,
I already love her.
Me too.
- We're having a baby! - We're having a baby!
- My God, we're gonna have a baby. - We're having a baby.
- [phone ringing] - We're having a baby!
I'm... Hello?
Oh, hey, Mutt.
What do you mean?
Yeah. No, for sure. I'll... I'll tell him. Okay.
[phone thuds]
Johnny never showed up to racquetball.
[Tully] Mmm.
[Danny] Morning.
[Tully] Mmm.
You watching me sleep, Sports Man?
[Danny inhales] Mm-hmm.
You have this adorable snore.
You're like a cute bunny holding a chainsaw.
[chuckles]
What are you doing?
I was thinking, I'll make us breakfast in bed, right?
- My pancakes? Legendary... - No, I mean...
what are you doing?
We talked about this last night.
I'm not doing anything.
Tully, all I said was pancakes.
Kate needs me right now, and I don't have space for anything else.
- You know this. - I get it.
- Do you? - Yes.
But...
you know that it's okay...
- It's not okay, nothing is okay. - ...letting me in.
Being with me.
It doesn't mean you're betraying Kate. She wants you to be happy.
[scoffs] Jesus, Sports Man, I'm...
That's not what this is. [scoffs]
I... I just... I... I can't do this...
right now.
Okay? I...
I'm sorry, can you please just...
Can you please just go?
[tender music playing]
[footsteps approaching]
How's the writing coming? You must have a whole novel by now.
[chuckles] Not yet, but I'm getting there.
I'm feeling very inspired.
- All right, can I read a few chapters? - No.
- A paragraph? Come on, a sentence? - Not one word.
Come on, give me a hint.
- Step away from the computer. - [Johnny] All right.
Hey, Marah. How you feeling?
I know I'm under house arrest, but I'm allowed to get bread and water, right?
Don't start.
Marah, if you want, for the Dama Luna ceremony tonight,
you can borrow my necklace, you know, the one with all the sapphires.
No, thanks. [exhales]
You were, like, begging to borrow it for the rehearsal dinner.
I'm gonna skip the moon thing.
I just don't feel up to it.
It's not optional.
What're you gonna do? Ground me more?
Guys, enough. It's fine.
Marah, you don't have to do it if you don't want to do it.
But if you change your mind, the necklace is yours.
Okay.
- [Young Tully] Kate, are you okay? - [Kate screams]
- Kate! - Fuck! I think my ankle's broken.
My ankle.
Oh, Mother moon, use your glowing light to heal this ankle.
- Shit, shit, shit. - Shut up! We should get it looked at.
- I mean, we're looking at it right now. - By a doctor.
Okay, come on, your, uh, mom can take us.
They're not home. They're at the Marshes' playing bridge.
- What about Sean? - He's at Robbie's!
- Should we call an ambulance? - Kids! It's cool. I got it.
Come on. Come on. [grunts]
- Okay. Ah! - All right. Deep breaths. [exhales]
- [Kate] Oh God. - [Tully] Okay.
[Cloud grunts]
[uplifting music playing]
Man, I love driving high.
It is like piloting a spacecraft.
- [rumbles] - [yells]
Ah! Sorry, girls, asteroid field. Pew, pew, pew!
Jesus, Cloud, can you not?
I... I'm just trying to relax. There's a lot of tension in the van.
Can you at least roll the window down more?
- [siren wailing] - Oh.
Fuck, fucking cops.
It's okay. Hey, hey, relax. Just be cool. Everything is gonna be fine.
As long as they don't find the drugs in the glove compartment, we're good.
[revving]
[Kate] Where the hell is he?
I called KPOC, the racquetball club, his favorite bar, his second favorite bar,
that café where he thought he saw Jean Smart.
- He's a huge Designing Women fan. - [Tully] Okay.
Let's just... Let's just think about this rationally.
He freaked out, bailed, and is never coming back.
Maybe, or--
It's the only answer.
It's not. But let's just say you're right, and Johnny bailed.
- You know what happens then? - I have this baby
and then crawl into a hole and die from shame and embarrassment?
No, you and I are gonna raise the baby ourselves.
- We are? - Yes!
So what if he doesn't come back? We don't need him, or any guy.
We're gonna parent the shit out of this kid together.
You would do that for me?
Duh, it'll be great. [chuckles]
We'll buy a house on the water. Go boating on the weekends.
Wait, I don't know how to boat. Do you know how to boat?
We'll learn.
You sure?
Yeah.
I look super cute in those French striped navy shirts.
No. Are you sure about this? About raising a kid together?
I mean, you always said you didn't want to have kids.
No, I said I didn't want to be a mom.
I'm fine being a dad. Dads get to do all the fun stuff.
Take 'em to the zoo and teach 'em how to ride a bike,
and I can still focus on my career.
Plus, dads only have to show up at school events once in a while,
and people think they're a hero.
Being a dad sounds awesome.
So you want me to be the mom?
You want me to change diapers and do the laundry and make meals
and put the kids to bed and then greet you with a martini,
and I'm wrapped in cellophane in the sexy raincoat?
Well, you don't have to do all that.
We'll figure it out.
We can both be mom and dad at different times.
We can make our own rules.
It'll be great.
Just you and me and our little baby.
- Firefly Lane girls forever. - Thank you...
so much.
We still have to deal with Johnny, though. Is he an official missing person now?
I think you gotta give it 24 hours.
And they probably double it for people who just found out they'll be a dad.
[Kate sighs]
[birds squawking]
[Kate] Thanks so much for coming early.
Well, I wanted to make my entrance before Mother Moon did.
[Kate chuckles]
Johnny, dinner's ready!
Uh, I don't think this is on the Johnny Ryan macrobiotic meal plan.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, Mularkey. - [Kate sucks teeth]
Red meat, alcohol?
No, no, I was gonna make my... my lentil loaf.
- Ooh. - It's for you and Tully.
My therapist said that I should start focusing on what I want,
and I wanted to talk to you both about something.
So, these are the schools that I want Marah to look at next year.
If I'm not around.
She doesn't have to apply to all of them, but just make sure she tours them.
Kate, this is ridiculous.
Harvard?
Look, her GPA's getting better, and we don't know her SATs yet.
What about one of those schools that's the "Harvard of" somewhere,
like the Harvard of South Dakota or the Harvard of Nebraska?
She can tour those too.
- [Johnny] Thanks. - [Kate] Also, um...
I just want you both to know that...
you have my blessing if...
you decide that you want to be together, after I'm gone.
- [Tully] What? - What the hell you talking about?
I just love you both so much, and I'd hate it if guilt kept you apart.
[Tully] This is insane.
You are not dying. We're getting you into a clinical trial.
- Just in case you don't. - We will.
Exactly.
You're not going anywhere.
Plus, you know Johnny and I would just make each other miserable.
The only reason you want to imagine us together
is because you know all we'll do is talk about how much we miss you.
I just don't want you to be alone, either of you.
- [Tully scoffs] - Yeah. Okay. I can't do this, sorry.
The oncology nurse talked about the power of positive thinking.
This is definitely not positive.
Well, if it's not gonna be you,
can you at least make sure it's someone nice,
someone we'd be friends with?
Okay, can we please stop talking about this?
Okay.
[Tully] Plus, I have some news.
I slept with Danny last night.
- [Kate] What? - Mmm.
Oh my God, finally. That was gonna be my next suggestion.
[Tully chuckles]
[Kate] So how was it?
It was great.
And then it was terrible.
So pretty much everything I was expecting.
[Kate chuckles]
Wow.
[Tully exhales]
- He's gonna hear you eating that. - Do not tell Johnny.
Oh my God.
Mmm!
Oh my God, that's good.
[Helen] Mother Moon is rising to greet us.
And now, let's create our own moon circle.
[Johnny exhales]
Uh, I'm sorry, but we're channeling only feminine energy tonight.
Mmm. Yeah, no, I have a... a rich feminine side.
Please.
Leave us.
Okay, that's... that's cool.
Hey, you guys have fun. I'll be in the house.
[Tully chuckles]
Okay.
[Helen inhales, exhales]
[Margie exhales]
[Helen] The moon affects our bodies and our spirits
the same way it affects the tides,
and a full moon is when all her energy peaks.
Tonight, we're gonna connect to the moon's power
and combine it with our own declared strengths
to focus
on healing Kate.
Who wants to go first?
- I'll go first. - [Helen] Okay.
[Cloud breathes deeply]
Oh, Mother Moon,
I will take all of your light and love
and marry it with whatever strength and luck got me this far.
And I give all that energy
to our beloved Kate.
- Thank you. - [Helen] Okay, who's next?
I don't know about the power of the moon.
But I do believe in the power of will.
And under this full moon,
I am using every ounce of my will
and my determination to heal my Kate,
whose friendship
makes me believe that maybe,
just maybe, there is magic in the world after all.
- [Kate] Hmm. - [Tully sighs]
How about you?
Would you like to share something with Kate?
[sniffles]
I... [exhales]
I can't. I can't do this.
No, Kate, stay.
Soak up all those healing moon rays.
- I'll go talk to her. - Okay.
[Helen] Kate, breathe.
[Cloud] These ceremonies can stir up a lot of feelings.
I don't need your hippie crap right now, Cloud.
I get it.
So let it out.
It doesn't make any sense.
Why is Kate the one who's sick?
She... She doesn't smoke, she exercises.
She... She has a mammogram every year.
I don't know.
The universe is highly mysterious.
And look at you. How are you so healthy?
After all the drugs that you took, all the times you nearly OD'd?
Man, I should have died, like, a thousand times.
Why not me?
I've smoked my entire life.
It is not... [sniffles]
It is not fair.
You're right.
It sucks.
And you are pissed.
So why don't we use it and go help her?
[Margie sighs]
I can't believe I'm getting parenting advice from you, of all people.
Well...
uh, maybe the universe kept me around for a reason.
Come on.
[gentle music playing]
[telephone ringing]
You planted the drugs, you fucking pigs.
I know my rights!
We were just having fun. She fell off a roof.
- Thank you. - [Cloud] Is that fucking illegal?
- What happened? - Mom, Mom, don't be mad.
- [Tully] I pressured her onto the roof. - [Kate] We were having fun.
- [Tully] They searched the car illegally. - [Margie] We'll talk about this at home.
Tallulah Hart, your mother's in violation of her parole.
She's being sent back to jail until her hearing. Come with me.
- No. - Come on.
No, I can't go back to Gran's.
- [Kate] No, she can't! - [Tully] Please!
[Kate] You can't let them take her again! Mom, please!
- Mom, Mom, Mom! - She can stay with us.
- [Tully] Really? - We'll take care of her.
Of course, honey, you're family.
We'll help you through this. Let's go.
You're not taking my kid, Margie.
I'm coming back for you, Tallulah, you hear me? I'm coming to take you back.
Fuck you. Fuck you.
[sobbing]
[brakes screech]
[dogs barking in distance]
[owl hoots]
[priest] Great. Thanks, everyone.
Oh, and remember, next week, uh, first chapter of the Acts of the Apostles.
Oh, and don't forget, we've got a game against the Temple Beth-El Monday night.
So bring your mitts and...
Dad.
Look what crawled out from under a rock.
Heard the softball team needed a new outfielder.
[chuckles]
Well, why don't we grab a drink? There's a place just down the block.
The beer is good.
The wings are terrible.
But some of the loveliest waitresses in Oregon. [chuckles]
- [Johnny exhales] - It's good to see you.
The prodigal son returns.
I... I've been praying for this day, and now it's finally here.
Oof.
How do you do it?
[Johnny's father] Do what?
[Johnny] Say shit like that.
With a straight face?
I don't know what you mean.
Oh, you know.
It's the whole Man of God thing.
The hypocrisy.
The bullshit.
I never claimed to be anything but human.
And that's why they eat it up.
All your followers.
But I know the truth.
This is fun.
I like it.
We should do it more often.
[Johnny] You're the reason she's dead.
Drank herself to death because of you.
You and your womanizing.
And your judging her. Your fucking holier-than-thou bullshit.
Your mother was sick.
- She had a sickness. - Yeah, because of you, mate.
You hated her.
[breathing shakily]
You hated her because she saw the real you.
And you hated me because I was there and I saw it all.
No, no, no, I never hated you.
I love you, son.
Don't... ever...
call me that.
You were barely a father to me.
I couldn't even invite you to my wedding. Do you know what that feels like?
My own father lives fucking three hours away,
and I can't ever see you because of what you did!
Let he who's without sin...
[Johnny scoffs]
Etcetera, etcetera.
By the way, if you came here to yell at me, you're doing great.
I feel yelled at.
But can we at least do it over a beer?
I came here because I'm gonna be a father.
[Johnny sniffles]
And instead of feeling happy, which I should...
I'm terrified that I'm gonna fuck it all up
just like you did.
I don't know how to do this,
and that is your fucking fault!
Don't give me that bullshit.
The man who raised me was a monster.
He beat me if the wind blew the wrong way.
But I don't blame him for my mistakes. That's between me and God.
What do you want from me? An apology?
A promise that everything's gonna be better?
You're a grown man, John, you make your own choices.
You fuck this up, that's on you.
[tender music playing]
Oh...
congratulations.
Hope I get to meet the tyke.
[door opens]
[door shuts]
[gentle music playing]
[Helen] Feel the love of everyone around you. Let it wash over you.
Let it lift you to a place where you're free.
Free of pain, free of the cancer inside you.
Tell me what you feel.
I don't know.
Let in the healing light.
Open your heart.
Tell me what you feel.
- [heart beating] - [gentle music continues]
[heart continues beating]
I don't wanna die.
I'm not ready.
Marah needs me, I can't...
I've gotta be there for her graduation and her wedding and her kids.
I'm so fucking sick of all this bullshit. I just... [sniffles]
I'm so scared,
and I... I just hate it.
That's good. Let it out. Give it to the moon.
[Kate sniffles]
Let's try to channel something more positive.
- Oh, fuck that, this is my ceremony. - [all chuckle]
Fuck cancer!
That's right. Exactly.
Fuck you, cancer!
- Fuck you, cancer! - [all chuckling]
- Fuck it! Oh! - [all gasp]
Fuck it!
- [all together] Fuck it! - ["Chandelier" by Sia playing]
Fuck it!
[all]
Fuck it! Fuck it! Fuck it!
Fuck it!
[Cloud] Fuck!
[all] Whoo!
Fuck it! Fuck! Fuck it! Fuck it! Fuck it!
♪ I'm gonna fly like a bird... ♪
What the fuck, Ryan?
- Where were you? I was so worried. - You abandoned your pregnant wife?
- Well, guess what. We don't need you. - Tully, can I have a second with my wife?
Oh well, she's my wife now, buddy.
[Johnny clears throat]
Kate, I'm... I'm sorry.
I had something I needed to take care of, but I... I didn't mean to worry you.
Look, I know this baby was a surprise, and I know it changes some plans.
- If it's too much, you don't have to stay. - Exactly. Good riddance!
- Wait, what? - I know you didn't want kids. I get it.
But I need you to understand that,
husband or no husband, I will not become my mother.
I make my own rules.
- That's right. You do. - Mularkey, stop, please.
I... I don't know what you're talking about, but I just needed a minute...
to adjust.
Wait, so you didn't abandon me?
Abandon you?
Kate... [chuckles]
...we're a family.
And you're right, we don't have to be our parents.
We... We won't be our parents.
We can be better,
and I just forgot that for a second,
but I really do believe it.
And, yeah, this is scary.
It's a big change.
But with you by my side...
I could do anything.
I'm so glad that we have each other for the rest of our lives.
You and me, Mularkey.
[tender music playing]
I've still got my eye on you.
[Johnny chuckles]
- We're gonna have a baby. - [Kate chuckles]
Can whip you up a regular batch.
I've got a secret stash of white flour and maple syrup.
Chocolate chips too?
[bag crinkling]
[Johnny clears throat]
Nice.
I'm sorry for losing my temper the other day.
Shouldn't have yelled at you like that.
[squelching]
Mom's gonna die, isn't she?
[exhales] Last night she said I could wear her sapphire necklace, and...
last time I asked her, she said over her dead body.
Well, that doesn't mean that your mom's gonna die.
Why are you lying?
We don't know.
But it's not as hopeful as it was.
[sobbing]
What are we gonna do?
You know... [clicks tongue]
...when I found out that your mom was pregnant with you,
I freaked out.
- I... I got on my motorcycle and-- - You had a motorcycle? [chuckles]
Not quite the point, but I--
You call them death traps on two wheels. You said I could never ride one.
Yeah. Both still true and still not the point.
- Okay? - [chuckles] Okay.
The point is, is that I was scared.
I was probably more scared than I'd ever been about anything.
Scared that I wasn't ready,
scared that I'd never be ready.
[tender music playing]
And that's kind of how I'm feeling right now.
[Johnny inhales]
But...
that's the thing about big life changes.
You don't get to choose when they happen.
You just have to hold on tight to the people you love
and make your way through it.
Together.
[Marah exhales]
I know you're scared, okay?
I'm scared too.
No matter what happens, I'm not going anywhere,
and we will get through this.
I promise.
[Johnny inhales]
Hey, early risers.
- I'm just headed to acupuncture. - Oh, I'll grab my keys.
No, enjoy the pancakes. I can take myself.
Okay.
Yeah.
["Dance Until Tomorrow" by Lavender Diamond playing]
[birds tweeting]
♪ You sing ♪
♪ Like it was the last time ♪
♪ And you say... ♪
Thank you.
Hey, buddy. Here we go. Let's go.
♪ And you say ♪
♪ How did we get so far? ♪
♪ And you say ♪
♪ How will we get back? ♪
Hey.
Whoa.
Acupuncture must have gone well. You're all aglow.
I rode a horse.
- You did? - Mm-hmm.
- Huh. - [exhales] It was amazing.
It was exactly what I needed.
[Kate sucks teeth]
I know that you don't want to talk about this stuff.
Like what happens if I'm not around, but--
It's okay.
We can talk about it.
Okay.
Good.
[inhales] I want to talk about my funeral.
And, um, there's some special arrangements that I want you to make.
- You should probably write them down. - [Johnny chuckles]
Okay.
[Johnny exhales]
I'll need you to get a pack of Virginia Slims.
- [tender music playing] - [exhales]
And an iPod.
Okay.
And a picture of David Cassidy.
[chuckles, sniffles]
Okay.
And, it's gotta be in color.
[Danny] Tallulah Rose!
Jesus, Danny!
I need my key back.
I did it. I got Kate in.
You what?
My contact at the Mayo Clinic, he pulled some strings,
we got Kate in!
He says the trial's showing promising results
against aggressive cancers like Kate's.
- She's in? - She's in!
- Oh my God, Danny, thank you. - [Danny chuckles]
Oh, thank you. I love you.
["Wedding March" playing]
[Tully] Okay. The wedding may begin.
The godmother of the bride is ready.
[chuckles]
Wow.
["Wedding March" continues]
[music ends]