ALLEN ANNOUNCER BOBBY CECILIA CHARLOTTE DONOR GARY IAN INSTRUCTOR JACK JUSTINE MAN MAN_ON_BENCH MAYOR MOON OLIVIA RAYMAN REPORTER SETH SHERRY STAN TOM TROY WALLY WARREN WOMAN WOMAN_IN_PARK WOMAN IN PARK Hi! MAN ON BENCH Hello! WOMAN Hi, Judge! JACK Oh Hi. JACK Morning! MOON Oh, good morning. JACK All right MOON Pick MOON a card. JACK Uh JACK okay. MOON Don’t MOON show it to me. MOON Put it back in the deck. MOON So MOON what can I do you for? JACK Aren’t we going to do the MOON What? JACK Nothing. JACK Nothing. I will have a, uh, black JACK coffee, large. MOON Caffeine? JACK Oh, yeah. MOON It's a diuretic, you know. Sucks the vitamins and minerals right out of your body. WARREN Ah, wonderful. WARREN You know, I have to be honest with you, sweetheart. You’re too beautiful and too smart to be schlepping organic bagels and selling old Elton John albums. JUSTINE Well, that’s the problem with a degree in Fine Arts. JUSTINE It qualifies you to do absolutely nothing. WARREN Mmm. JUSTINE Onion bagel JUSTINE cream cheese on the side. WARREN Wonderful. Looks fantastic. Whoa, what is this? WARREN I didn't see this before. Is this new? JUSTINE Yeah, I made it the other day, and Moon’s going to clear out JUSTINE that cabinet so I can sell them. WARREN Really? That's nice of him. You know, if you had some start-up money, you could be doing that full-time. JUSTINE Yeah, and if I had a degree in accounting, then I could have a real grown-up job. WARREN Ah, touché. JUSTINE Cook for me tonight? WARREN You know I will. WARREN Mwah. MOON There you go. Two bucks. JACK Oh. MOON Yeah, that caffeine, it’s, uh chemically stimulates your stress responses. JACK Uh MOON Kind of like, uh, finding a snake in your bed. MOON You pull back the covers, "Oh, a snake!" Your heart starts pounding, you're short of breath MOON you break into a sweat. MOON Caffeine. Snake in the bed. JACK Well, if you feel this way, why are you know, why are you selling JACK coffee? MOON It's not my place to judge, man. Now, you have yourself a fine day. JACK Alrighty then. Okay. MOON Oh, uh, nine of diamonds. JACK Hmm? Oh! Right. Excellent. Good job. JACK Very good. MOON It’s in your jacket pocket. MOON You can keep that. ALLEN Judge Lockhart doesn't like to waste time, so we should be out of there ALLEN by 10:00. CECILIA That quickly? ALLEN Yeah, well, it's a divorce, not first-degree murder. ALLEN But Lockhart runs a pretty tight ship, so don't say anything unless you're asked a direct question, okay? CECILIA Okay. OLIVIA Both sides are in agreement as to distribution of property. OLIVIA Support is moot OLIVIA since there are no children-- CECILIA Uh-- OLIVIA Did you have something to say OLIVIA Mrs. Rendall? CECILIA Mm-mm. OLIVIA Did your attorney OLIVIA advise you not to speak in my courtroom? OLIVIA Well, I'm asking you a question, so what did you want to say? CECILIA Uh, well j-just that there was a child CECILIA um, but she passed CECILIA away. Uh, her heart she was born with IAN It was, uh IAN congenital. CECILIA Um, she was four days old. OLIVIA What was her name? CECILIA Allison Marie. OLIVIA Allison Marie. That's a beautiful name. OLIVIA And I am OLIVIA very, very sorry for your loss. However OLIVIA However, I am not going to give a final ruling on this decree OLIVIA today. ALLEN Your Honor, we were hoping-- OLIVIA I know what OLIVIA you were hoping for, Counselor, but this petition needs further study OLIVIA and I’m issuing a continuance for 90 days-- IAN Your Honor? IAN I'm about to ship out for six months, and, you know, I'd really like this wrapped up. OLIVIA I understand, but I do not rush into making important decisions OLIVIA for the sake of convenience. OLIVIA Court adjourned. ALLEN Your Honor, if I may ALLEN Your Honor-- OLIVIA Mom OLIVIA you know he's not supposed to be in here. CHARLOTTE They allow seeing eye dogs. OLIVIA You're not blind, Mom. CHARLOTTE So, what went on in there just now? OLIVIA What are you talking about? CHARLOTTE That young couple, if they were anxious to end it, why not let them? OLIVIA You know I can't discuss that. What are you knitting? CHARLOTTE Well, it started as a scarf. I think I got carried away, and now it's a blanket. OLIVIA Yes! Come in! JACK Oh, hi, Judge. Uh, I’m Jack Griffith. OLIVIA Hi. JACK Hi. Uh, I'm the new editor-in-chief, star JACK reporter, photographer, circulation, um, manager of the Cedar Cove Chronicle. OLIVIA Congratulations. What can I do for you? JACK Well JACK I would love to talk to you today about that decision in there. OLIVIA I can't discuss that. JACK It just seems JACK that an uncontested divorce would be a slam dunk. OLIVIA Mr. Griffith-- JACK Jack. OLIVIA Jack, if you hang out OLIVIA in courtrooms long enough, you'll find that when it comes to the law, there is no OLIVIA such thing as a slam dunk. Is there anything else I could do for you? CHARLOTTE I've got it. JACK Um no. CHARLOTTE Hello? OLIVIA Well, nice to meet you. Welcome to Cedar Cove. JACK All right. Thank you. OLIVIA Oh, and Jack, could you do me a favor? JACK Anything. OLIVIA Please don't ever bring a cup of coffee into my courtroom OLIVIA again. JACK Oh, well, I was just-- CHARLOTTE It's CHARLOTTE Senator Rayman's office! OLIVIA Petey? CHARLOTTE Senator Rayman. OLIVIA Oh, please. The first time I met him was at a frat party, and he had his head in a bucket of margaritas. OLIVIA Hi, Petey! RAYMAN Hello, Olivia. OLIVIA Well, is it re-election time already? I thought I just sent you a check. RAYMAN No, for once, I'm not calling about money. Um, I guess you've heard that Judge Bloom is retiring. OLIVIA I heard. CHARLOTTE What? CHARLOTTE Heard what? OLIVIA Mom, please. RAYMAN Well RAYMAN you are on a very short list of possible RAYMAN replacements and I just wanted RAYMAN to gauge your interest before I RAYMAN floated your name out there. OLIVIA I would be very, very interested. RAYMAN All right, well, I'm going to get the ball rolling here. RAYMAN Please do me a favor. Don't spread this around until it becomes RAYMAN official, all right? I want my office RAYMAN to make the announcement. OLIVIA Of course, Petey. RAYMAN I'll be in touch. OLIVIA Oh OLIVIA Oh! CHARLOTTE This is cruel. What did he say? What? OLIVIA Oh, my gosh JACK You know, this is driving me nuts. Nobody knows JACK who this guy is. TROY You could try City Hall. JACK No, they had a fire back in the '30s. No records. JACK Nobody knows. TROY Is it really that important to you? JACK What kind of town has a statue JACK and nobody knows who it is? TROY This one, obviously. JACK Yeah. TROY Slow news day, huh? JACK Troy, it is apparently always a slow news day here. JACK Please tell me you have a headless torso tucked away in a dumpster somewhere. TROY Well, I do have something for you. JACK Hmm? TROY Yeah, fella hit a deer the other night, totaled his car. JACK Is that so? TROY Yeah. Brand new Ford. Boy, was he mad. JACK Yeah, I bet the deer wasn’t too crazy about it, either. TROY Come on, that’s news. JACK Troy, that would only be news if the deer was driving the car. TROY Oh TROY that's the mother TROY right here. JACK Oh! JACK Hi, excuse me. Could I talk to you for a minute? Uh, my name is Jack Griffith. I'm with the-- CHARLOTTE Oh, yes. CHARLOTTE You should really dedicate a page every week to seniors' activities. JACK Well, that's JACK That's actually not a bad idea. JACK Uh, but what I wanted JACK to talk to you about was-- JACK What? CHARLOTTE Oh! Wally Dorfman! JACK Wally Dorfman? TROY Come on, you don't wanna miss this. CHARLOTTE I wonder what he caught this time. JACK He’s a fisherman? OLIVIA Well, sort of. BOBBY Look at that thing. BOBBY Hey, nice catch, Wally! JACK It's a bike. MOON A ten speed. TROY Gonna ride that one home, are you, Wally? CHARLOTTE Wally catches the most interesting things. CHARLOTTE Last time it was the back of a '72 Camaro. MOON Oh, yeah! MOON It still had that "Vote Nixon" bumper sticker on it. BOBBY Yeah. JACK Well, let's hope he doesn't do catch-and-release. JACK I just really think that the people of this town would love to read more about their judge. CHARLOTTE Look, Jack CHARLOTTE I'm not sure my daughter would like an article about her. JACK Oh, well, I would make it very flattering. You can trust me on that. JACK Well, listen JACK while I've got you, do you know who that is? CHARLOTTE No idea. CHARLOTTE The plaque fell off years ago. I can't talk about any of her decisions. JACK No, no, no, of course not. I'm thinking more background stuff. CHARLOTTE Such as? JACK Oh, like, um I don't know. Is she married? JACK Divorced? JACK Single? INSTRUCTOR 16, 17, 18 OLIVIA Come on, Janet. You thought just because you're Mayor OLIVIA they'd go easy on you? INSTRUCTOR Come on now, ladies, look alive! Let’s go! INSTRUCTOR 22, 23 OLIVIA Almost over. INSTRUCTOR All right INSTRUCTOR good. Let’s go into the plank. INSTRUCTOR Come on, now. Hands INSTRUCTOR shoulder-width apart, spine neutral MAYOR Oh INSTRUCTOR Keep that core tight. MAYOR I hate them. INSTRUCTOR Breathe! MAYOR I hate them MAYOR all. I mean, why are they even here? MAYOR They don’t need this. OLIVIA Come on, focus. MAYOR Oh Tiny hineys. MAYOR I swear, they just come here to make me feel fat. INSTRUCTOR Breathe OLIVIA Think of your reward. MAYOR Yeah, right, so I can have a glass of wine and piece of pie and put back everything I just sweated off? MAYOR I can’t wait till they have babies. INSTRUCTOR All right, now INSTRUCTOR hold your positions. Three more seconds. MAYOR Oh, are you kidding me? OLIVIA What brought this on? MAYOR Oh, it’s always bothered me that I was just 30 stupid credits short of the degree, and you’ve certainly MAYOR brought it up enough over the years. Hello? OLIVIA Well OLIVIA if your best friend can’t nag you, who can? MAYOR Anyway, now that the girls are gone, I figured, “Why not?” OLIVIA I’m so proud of you. MAYOR I have to take a gym class. OLIVIA No. MAYOR Seriously. I’m three credits short of a phys ed requirement. OLIVIA What are you going to take? MAYOR Premenopausal Tennis. CHARLOTTE And he doesn't mention the federal thing. CHARLOTTE See? I can keep a secret. OLIVIA And how did he find out the personal stuff? CHARLOTTE Well, that I might have told him. CHARLOTTE We had coffee. CHARLOTTE He loves coffee. He just moved here, and he's from Philadelphia. OLIVIA Well, that explains a couple of things. CHARLOTTE He's single. CHARLOTTE Well, divorced, and I think he might like you. OLIVIA Oh, Mom! What are we, on the playground here or something? CHARLOTTE Why are you upset? It's a flattering article, honey. He makes you sound very independent. OLIVIA That's not the point. It was a simple little divorce case, and he's trying to stir up controversy, and I don't need that. CHARLOTTE Well, I wouldn't worry about it. One little article. I'm sure it's CHARLOTTE no big deal. CHARLOTTE He's nice looking, don't you think? OLIVIA Am I late? JUSTINE No, I'm early for once. I ordered for you. OLIVIA I have some news. JUSTINE I know! The judge thing. JUSTINE Congratulations. OLIVIA I wanted to tell you. How did you-- JUSTINE Grandma. OLIVIA Your grandmother. I should have known. JUSTINE She's better than Facebook. It's great, Mom. OLIVIA Well, it's not official yet, so don't be spreading it around. JUSTINE It's not me you've got to worry about. It's your mother. JUSTINE I can’t believe you’re still wearing that necklace. OLIVIA I get a lot of compliments on this. JUSTINE From who? Blind people? JUSTINE I made that JUSTINE when I was 15. You don't have to wear it just to be polite. OLIVIA I'm not being polite. I like it. JUSTINE I'm going through your jewelry box and stealing back all the old stuff I made you. OLIVIA It might be worth a lot of OLIVIA money someday, like an early Van Gogh sketch OLIVIA or something. JUSTINE Maybe I should cut off an ear to help it sell better. OLIVIA You got me one scoop? JUSTINE You said you were fat. OLIVIA I'm not fat. JUSTINE I didn't say you were fat. I'm quoting you. Last time we left here, you said, "Don't let me get the large. I feel fat." Direct quote. OLIVIA Well, I always feel fat when we leave here, but don't listen to me. OLIVIA So are we still on for dinner next week? JUSTINE Can I bring Warren? OLIVIA Sure. JUSTINE You don't mind? OLIVIA If I minded, I would say so. JUSTINE Hey! OLIVIA And stay out of my jewelry box. JUSTINE New idea. What do you think? WARREN What? WARREN Ooh, very pretty. JUSTINE Easy, too. I could knock out a dozen in a couple hours. WARREN You know, I have to be honest with you, sweetheart. I always knew you were a little weird when you asked for a soldering gun for your birthday. JUSTINE What is that you're doing? WARREN You always rinse fish in sea salt first. Didn't your mother ever teach you anything about cooking? JUSTINE My mother is a brilliant woman, but from the time I was 16, I thought all food was cooked in a microwave. WARREN Oh. Speaking of your lovely mother, she, uh, doesn't quite approve of me, does she? JUSTINE I think she just feels a little funny 'cause you're only a couple years younger than she is. WARREN Has she mentioned that I've been in her courtroom? JUSTINE No. WARREN Hmm JUSTINE What for? WARREN Come on, honey, I'm a developer. You don't build over a hundred houses without someone occasionally suing you. JUSTINE So how did you do? WARREN Well, so far, I'm batting a thousand. I always walk out the winner. JUSTINE Good. So then the two of you shouldn't have any kind of problems. WARREN Uh, well, I hope not. But I'm just telling you that WARREN before I give you WARREN this. WARREN Marry me, Justine. BOBBY What's the problem? CECILIA It's my personal life on the front page, Dad. BOBBY Call me BOBBY Bobby, all right? It makes us feel a little closer. CECILIA No, it doesn't. You just don't want any of the young chicks in here knowing you're old enough to have a grown daughter. IAN Hey. CECILIA Hey. IAN So, I'm on alert. We're going to be shipping out soon. CECILIA Okay. So I guess we'll have to finalize this when you get back. IAN Look, I want you to do me a favor. Can you take care of the Camaro for me? IAN I'm going to be gone for six months. IAN It's not good for it to sit, so if you'd just drive it around a little bit-- CECILIA I don't need your car. IAN Yeah, 'cause that piece of junk you're driving around is just great. CECILIA Okay, is that all you wanted? IAN What is the problem? IAN You're doing me a favor IAN and I'll sleep better knowing you're driving something IAN that's not going to break down in the middle of the night. BOBBY Sounds like a pretty good deal to me, babe. CECILIA Stay out of it, Dad. CECILIA Okay, yeah. CECILIA Sure. BOBBY Okay, thank you. I'll drop the keys off before I leave. WARREN Will you at least look at it? JUSTINE Warren, it's very sweet, but a little crazy. JUSTINE I mean, we barely know each other. WARREN Honey, “know each other”? What are you talking about? Romeo just met Juliet at a party. JUSTINE And they were dead by the fifth act. JUSTINE I mean, can we just leave things the way they are? WARREN Okay, fine, then you move in with me. WARREN It's crazy that you're paying rent. JUSTINE I like my little apartment. WARREN Really? Okay. WARREN Try that on. JUSTINE No. WARREN Why not? JUSTINE Warren, I can't accept this. And I have to go. WARREN Where? JUSTINE I told you. I got suckered into the high school reunion committee, and we're in the midst of planning it right now-- WARREN Honey, I'm sorry to say this, but you're far too young to be having a reunion. JUSTINE Should I get two tickets? WARREN Right. Yeah, then I'd show up and look like one of the chaperones. WARREN I'll pass. SHERRY Here she is. All right, just in time. JUSTINE Hey, sorry. SHERRY So, we're debating DJ SHERRY versus Larry's band. JUSTINE Larry’s band plays all the reunions. SHERRY He’s cheap. JUSTINE That’s ‘cause he sucks. JUSTINE Let’s get a DJ. SHERRY Guess who's back in town. JUSTINE I was sorry to hear about your dad. SETH Yeah, that's, uh, that’s why I came back. You know, a few legal things SETH to clear up. JUSTINE So where are you living now? SETH On his boat. SETH You should come by sometime. It's pretty nice. SETH I thought for sure you would've stayed back east after college. JUSTINE Yeah, I thought about it, but, um I don't know, just came back. It felt right. JUSTINE What were you doing in Alaska? SETH A lot of things. Mostly worked on a commercial fishing boat. JUSTINE Wow JUSTINE tough job. SETH Sometimes SETH yeah. I like it, though. It keeps me in shape. JUSTINE Yeah, I can see that. I mean You know. You look good. SETH Yeah. Yeah, you too. Really good. SETH Well, uh, I'd better get going here. SETH It was good to see you. JUSTINE Yeah. SETH Your hair smells exactly the same. JUSTINE Is that good or bad? SETH It's, uh it's nice. JACK What do you think, Hank? JACK Sure didn't have any judges in Philly that looked like that. JACK Unbelievable. ANNOUNCER All right ANNOUNCER excellent. Let's have a big hand for our trio ANNOUNCER from Friday Harbor. Clearly, they've ANNOUNCER been spending way too much time with our feathered friends. And now for our next act JACK Hi. Jack Griffith. OLIVIA You don't have to keep introducing yourself. JACK I heard you weren't too crazy about my article. OLIVIA Ah, where’d you hear that? JACK I ran into your mom. She seems to be the, uh, town historian. OLIVIA That's a nice way of putting it. JACK Look, I-I'm sorry about the article. I didn't mean to offend you. OLIVIA I just wish you would've talked to me about it. JACK Hey, I tried, remember? OLIVIA Try harder next time. JACK Well, believe it or not, this is my first Seagull Calling Contest. OLIVIA Oh, boy, you're in for a treat. ANNOUNCER Now ANNOUNCER from Shaw Island, we have number ANNOUNCER eight, one of our favorites. JACK How about we do some handicapping here. I, uh, I pick number eight here to win. OLIVIA Why eight? JACK Well, he kind of looks like a bird. OLIVIA That's my doctor. JACK Well, I'm sure he's a very skilled physician, but, come on, you gotta admit, he does sort of look like a seagull. OLIVIA Okay, you have a point, but 12's going to win. JACK You, uh, care to put 10 bucks on that? OLIVIA Done. JACK All right, well, now it's a little interesting. Let's go, number eight! ANNOUNCER Now for our next act, we have ANNOUNCER number nine from Lopez Island. JACK Okay, tell me the truth now. How did you know number 12 was going to win, huh? OLIVIA He's won the last four years. JACK Of course. OLIVIA How are you settling in? JACK Oh, it's okay. It's just all a little, uh, different for me. OLIVIA What brought you here? JACK Uh, you know, just, uh just a change of scenery, that's all. OLIVIA You locked your car? JACK Uh, yeah. I lock my house, too. You know, I'm weird that way. OLIVIA Well, you're in Cedar Cove now. We don't lock our doors. JACK Oh, is that right? Well, I'll have you know, I read In Cold Blood. These charming, quaint little towns are deathtraps. I'm on to you people. OLIVIA Well, Jack, it was-- it was fun. See ya. JACK Bye-bye. JACK Uh, Olivia? JACK Uh, you know, I was thinking Well, you know, I was wondering if you wanted to you know, go for, uh, dinner JACK sometime? OLIVIA Off the record? JACK Absolutely. OLIVIA Well, I have to check my calendar. Give me a call tomorrow. JACK Is that a polite way of, uh JACK saying, "Get lost?" OLIVIA No. I am not that polite. I would have said, "Get lost." OLIVIA Call me. JUSTINE Moon, no one can find anything. MOON That's the joys of browsing. MOON I don’t believe in alphabetical order, Justine. JUSTINE So no sales yet? MOON It's only MOON been 24 hours. SETH Hey. JUSTINE Hey. SETH Plans for lunch? JUSTINE Look, Seth, I'm seeing somebody. SETH Yeah, I know. He's a little old for you, isn't he? JUSTINE That is none of your business. SETH Okay. JUSTINE So that's it? SETH What? JUSTINE Boy, you give up easy. SETH If the fish ain't bitin', you move on. JUSTINE Charming analogy, but, um, I didn't actually say no. I just JUSTINE thought you should have all the facts. SETH So, when's your lunch break? JUSTINE Come on, I work for Moon. JUSTINE See you later, Moon. SETH Later. JUSTINE So what are you going to do? SETH I don't know what I'm going to do. Maybe go back to Alaska, maybe just cast off, see where I end up. JUSTINE So you don't have any sort of plans? SETH My dad had plans. He went to a job he hated every day so he could retire at 65 and enjoy himself. Then he keeled over dead at 49. JUSTINE I'm sorry. But you've still got to do something. SETH Oh, I'll do something. It's going to be something I like. JUSTINE So you're leaving? SETH Funny thing is, Justine, I've been kind of just been drifting the last few years. Every place I landed felt temporary. Even if I really liked the place, it was always in the back of my mind I'd end up here at Cedar Cove SETH just like you did. CHARLOTTE You are not going to believe this. OLIVIA Mom, please. One of Senator OLIVIA Rayman's aides is about to arrive any minute. CHARLOTTE Warren bought an engagement ring. OLIVIA Who told you that? CHARLOTTE My hairdresser's CHARLOTTE daughter, the one with the piercings. CHARLOTTE She said Warren was in CHARLOTTE the other day and bought a huge diamond ring. OLIVIA Mom OLIVIA I can't deal with this right now. OLIVIA Mom, please OLIVIA the dog! CHARLOTTE Oh, Buttercup! OLIVIA I am OLIVIA so sorry. OLIVIA Please come in, Mr. Douglas. GARY It's no problem. CHARLOTTE Mr. Douglas! CHARLOTTE You tell the Senator he is making a very smart choice. OLIVIA Mom, please. CHARLOTTE My daughter is going to make CHARLOTTE a fabulous federal judge. CHARLOTTE When she was a little girl, she had a CHARLOTTE picture of Sandra Day O’Connor in her room. OLIVIA Mom OLIVIA please! CHARLOTTE Most girls had rock stars. Not CHARLOTTE her. OLIVIA Okay, Mom. OLIVIA You can go now. Thank you. Thanks so much. OLIVIA I am so sorry. GARY Oh, that's-that's-that's fine. OLIVIA Please, have a seat. GARY Thank you. TROY Coffee's that good, huh? JACK I wish. Got anything today? TROY Uh, caught a couple of kids drinking in the playground last night. JACK Confiscate anything good? TROY No, they only drink the cheap stuff. TROY Good morning TROY fellas. How are you? Nice to see you. JACK Oh, let me talk to you later about that. Hold on. JACK Good afternoon, Your JACK Honor. I would have come in, but, um, well, I didn't want to get in trouble. OLIVIA You drink way too much coffee. JACK Uh-huh. Listen, I thought you might want to, uh, see this. I found it online. JACK Seems congratulations JACK are in order. OLIVIA Hold the congratulations. All it says is that I'm being considered for federal judgeship. JACK Yeah? Well, nonetheless, do you mind if I ask you a few questions? OLIVIA Jack JACK Olivia, come on, this this is legitimate news JACK for once. Please. What do you say, huh? OLIVIA All right. JACK Yeah? Okay. Come on. JACK So JACK why you, do you think, huh? OLIVIA No idea. JACK No? JACK Did you, uh, know the senator when you guys were at Yale? OLIVIA You do your homework. JACK Well, I do try, ma'am. JACK So? OLIVIA Yeah, we went to law school together. JACK Ah, you see? Connections. OLIVIA Yeah, and it's not like that where you come from, I suppose. JACK No, no connections are needed there, just a, uh, hefty bribe will do the trick, believe me. JACK Hey, listenwhile I, uh, while I have you, why don't I get your picture here? OLIVIA No. I I'm just not feeling really pretty today. JACK Come on, Olivia. You look great. OLIVIA Jack OLIVIA the paper has my official portrait. JACK Uh-huh. And who says this is for the paper? OLIVIA You're a piece of work. JACK Uh-huh. Smile. JACK All right. Now, that is a keeper. That is a keeper. OLIVIA Oh! JACK Come on. OLIVIA I don't know. JACK I don’t know. I kind of like that. JUSTINE Relax. WARREN Honey, I'm trying. It's just your mother can be a very intimidating woman. JUSTINE This was her idea. Remember, she's a terrible cook, so choke it down, be polite, and we'll get pizza on the way home. WARREN I can't wait. OLIVIA Hello. Hi, honey. OLIVIA Hi, Warren. WARREN Hello. OLIVIA Thanks. WARREN Dinner, I have to WARREN tell you guys, was amazing. JUSTINE It was good. JUSTINE Grandma made it, didn't she? OLIVIA Why don't you go get us a bottle of wine? WARREN Beautiful view out there. OLIVIA Yes, it is. WARREN You know, she said "no" to me, by the way. I saw you checking out the ring finger. OLIVIA Very perceptive. WARREN I was also a little surprised, Olivia, at you even inviting me here. OLIVIA I thought we should try to get to know each other outside of the courtroom. WARREN Look, Olivia, I know you weren't very happy about some of those decisions, and I hope down the road that's not going to cause any WARREN problems. OLIVIA But since you're dating my daughter, I would have to recuse myself from any further legal dealings you might have, so why don't we just make a fresh start? WARREN Okay. I would love that. WARREN I'd also like you to understand that I'm not going through some mid-life crisis thing here, okay? I care about Justine very much. WARREN And I know we're not in your courtroom, and I'm not under oath here, Your Honor, but I'd like you to believe me. OLIVIA I believe you. And as long as you treat her right, we'll do just fine. WARREN Cheers. IAN You've got your keys. Owner's card. Insurance. It's all up to date. I guess that's all you need. CECILIA You went to her grave the other day? IAN Well, it was her birthday. It would've been her birthday. CECILIA I didn't think you'd remember. IAN What is that supposed to mean? CECILIA Whatever, Ian. You weren't even here-- IAN Come on, don't start this again. CECILIA I was all alone-- IAN Yeah, and I was on a IAN submarine under a polar ice cap! IAN I didn't IAN even know for a week. CECILIA Yeah CECILIA but when you came home, you IAN Yeah, I what? IAN I what? Go ahead. CECILIA It was like you didn't even give a damn. You just We never talked about her. We never CECILIA Y I was CECILIA all alone here. I had my father. CECILIA Great support system that guy is. CECILIA Stopped by for like five minutes with a sympathy card. IAN You don’t think that that was killing me, huh? IAN Hmm? CECILIA It sure didn’t seem like it. IAN I was on that submarine for nine days before they could even let me off, all right? Nine days, knowing that you were back here, and I-- IAN You know, when they first told me, I I just, I kept walking around that sub, you know, looking for a place to cry, but there's not a lot of privacy on a sub, so I just had to suck it up. IAN And then you know what IAN I came back here, and you you were so torn up, you know? I just, I just felt like like I had to be the strong one, you know? IAN I figured the last.. IAN thing you needed was me walking around here all I just-- I just wanted to take care of you. IAN I didn't even see her. IAN If I could've just seen her, I IAN We're still married, you know. CECILIA Well, not for long. So can you just CECILIA go? CECILIA Ian, please, could you just go? IAN Aye-aye. IAN I know you're not going to believe this, but, uh I was planning to marry you even if you hadn't gotten pregnant. IAN Try not to wreck the car. JACK So what do you think, Hank? How do I look, huh? JACK Yeah, what do you know, anyway? JACK All right. Uh, so, our dining options are somewhat limited here, uh, unless you know of a place that's not listed in any restaurant guide. Please tell me you know a place. OLIVIA I'm afraid not. JACK Excellent. OLIVIA What was that? JACK Oh, that's just Hank. OLIVIA Hank? JACK Yes, you might ask who Hank is. Um, of course, Hank is my parakeet. I JACK um Okay, long story short, I take him JACK into the paper with me every day, but I didn't have time to run him home before we, you know, we did this, so he's in the car, and, uh OLIVIA Okay-- JACK I mean, don't worry. I'm not going to bring him into the restaurant. I'm just going to—I’m going to stop talking and we're going to do this. Okay? OLIVIA Okay. Yeah. JACK Oh, wait, just let me get-- That's not right. That's better. OLIVIA Okay. JACK Okay. Your chariot awaits. JACK Say hello to Hank. Hank, that's, uh OLIVIA Hey, Hank. JACK Olivia. Olivia, that's my bloody bird. CECILIA Dad! That's her. That's Judge Lockhart. BOBBY I know. CECILIA Of course. Of course she sits at my table. Of course she does. CECILIA Can you get Tonya, please? Ask her to take Table 11 for me? BOBBY Why? What's the problem? CECILIA You think I'm waiting on her? I’m not. I’m not waiting on her. Mm-mm. BOBBY Okay. Whatever you say. JACK So Yale JACK Law, top of your class. I mean, you should be on Wall Street making JACK gobs of money. OLIVIA Wall Street is not a good place to raise a family. JACK I bet you were one of those kids who knew exactly what she wanted to do when she grew up. JACK Hmm? I'm right, aren't I? JACK You asked Santa Claus for a black robe and gavel, didn't you? OLIVIA My father was a lawyer. JACK Yeah, I know. No, your mom. OLIVIA Right. JACK Remember. OLIVIA When I was little, his office was my most favorite place in the whole world. OLIVIA All those law books. Of course, when I was five OLIVIA I used to make a castle out of them, but when I got older I don't know. JACK What? OLIVIA Okay, this may sound silly, but there was something majestic about it. OLIVIA The basic principles of society, what’s OLIVIA right, what’s wrong, were all there in those books. OLIVIA What? You're staring at me. JACK No, I'm sorry, I was just, uh I'm just listening. OLIVIA And what about you? Were you born with this burning desire OLIVIA to write? JACK Uh, let's say I grew up with a burning desire to never do heavy labor. JACK Pretty much STAN Olivia. OLIVIA Stan. STAN You look great, as always. OLIVIA So do you. New suit. OLIVIA Nice. OLIVIA Stan, this is Jack Griffith. JACK Hi. Nice to meet you. STAN Yeah, you've, uh STAN done a great job with the paper. JACK Oh. STAN I've actually started reading it again. JACK Thank you. OLIVIA How's Melanie? STAN Oh, please. Like you care how Melanie's doing. OLIVIA I'm being polite. STAN Part of your charm. STAN Listen, I don't want to interrupt. STAN I, uh, just wanted to say it's always nice to see you, and you really look terrific. OLIVIA Thank you. STAN Jack. JACK Old friend? OLIVIA Old husband. JACK You guys seem awfully friendly, huh? OLIVIA We are. Is that so odd? JACK Compared to my ex, yeah. JACK We didn't exactly have the most JACK um, amicable divorce. JACK You could say that. JACK So I'm used to, you know, sirens and garbage trucks and all that kind of noise. I tell you, my first night here, I heard a cricket. Kept me up the entire night. JACK I mean, I literally tore my entire place apart, looking for this thing. OLIVIA Well, is it getting any better? JACK You know, actually, now that I'm getting used to the quiet, uh, I can actually sleep here. JACK I mean, I've been an insomniac my entire life, but I don't know, there's something about this place. OLIVIA Yeah, Cedar Cove can have that soothing effect on people. JACK Yeah, so can a lobotomy. OLIVIA Jack, you're a funny man. JACK Hmm. OLIVIA And a really good writer. JACK You know, whenever I tell people that I'm a writer, they always think it's so fascinating. JACK You know, like I'm Hemingway off to the bullfights every week. JACK I don't have the heart to tell them that, uh, it's usually JACK pretty dull, and, uh well kind of lonely, actually. OLIVIA Well, it's, um, still early. Would you like to come in and have a nightcap? JACK Um no. JACK I'm going to take a rain check on that. I, um I've got some stuff to do back at the paper JACK tonight, but, um JACK thank you. Thank you for the night. Thank you. OLIVIA Um Are we OLIVIA still on OLIVIA for tomorrow? JACK Yeah. Yeah, sure. OLIVIA Uh, okay, great. I'll see you at the theatre at 3:45, then. JACK 3:45. Sounds great. OLIVIA Jack, are you okay? JACK No, I'm fine. I just, um I've got a lot of work stuff going on in my mind JACK and it's It's nothing. JACK Good night. OLIVIA Night. BOBBY Hey, what are you doing here? CECILIA I'm on the schedule, aren't I? BOBBY I thought you'd be seeing your husband off. CECILIA Ex-husband, Dad. CECILIA Wait, they're pulling out today? BOBBY He's on the Reynolds, isn't he? CECILIA Yeah, on the Reynolds. BOBBY I hate it when the Navy leaves town. BOBBY That's half my tips right there. CECILIA You always know just what to say, don't you, Bobby? JACK Hi, you've reached Jack Griffiths. You know what to do. MAN #1 Olivia? The show's about to start. SETH Hey. JUSTINE You wouldn't let me pay for lunch JUSTINE so I thought I'd bring some wine. SETH Oh SETH You're supposed to ask permission to come aboard. JUSTINE Yeah, right. SETH All right, here we go. For you. JUSTINE Thank you. SETH So where's Warren? JUSTINE City, business. JUSTINE Don't you ever get lonely out here all by yourself? SETH I have some friends. JUSTINE I know. I saw your laundry down below. JUSTINE Not wearing bras now, are you? SETH Hey, you may be the hottest girl in town, but you're not the only one. JUSTINE You know, it was weird the other night at the meeting, walking in JUSTINE and, I don't know, just seeing you there. SETH You're the only reason I joined that stupid committee. JUSTINE Maybe if I'd known you were going to be there, I wouldn't have been thrown JUSTINE off, but-- JUSTINE Seth JUSTINE no. SETH Okay, what's going on? JUSTINE You invited me here to see your boat, remember? SETH Your boyfriend's out of town, and you come by with a bottle of wine? SETH Now, did you dump him, and I'm, like, a rebound-type thing? SETH 'Cause that's cool, I don't mind-- JUSTINE It's nice to see that your ego hasn't changed. SETH You remember what you told me SETH when you dumped me, Justine? You said you saw no future with a dumb jock. JUSTINE I didn't say that. SETH Oh, yeah, you did. JUSTINE I was 17. SETH Yeah, you go from dumb jock to richest guy SETH in town. You know, if you marry him for a year or two, you're set for life. Just don't sign any pre-nups, though. JUSTINE Maybe I love him. Did you ever think of that? SETH You don't love that guy, Justine. Come on, you're just looking for something safe, like SETH you always were-- JUSTINE You want to live here on this boat with no responsibilities JUSTINE that's great. Now. JUSTINE I'll check back in on you in 20 years and see how you're doin'. JUSTINE Sometimes, growing up means doing things that you don't want to. SETH Yeah, like hooking up with a rich guy. JUSTINE God, you're still 17. SETH And you're 65. SETH Have fun with your safe little life. You know SETH come on by if you need a little adventure. OLIVIA I tried to call him, but it didn't pick up. OLIVIA I thought maybe he was running late, but he just never showed up. CHARLOTTE Well, he's a writer. Maybe he was someplace writing. OLIVIA Maybe it's just as well. He's purposely avoiding telling me anything about himself except for that he's divorced and he named his bird after Hank Aaron. I feel like he's hiding something and I don't like that. OLIVIA Stan stopped by the table. I don't know if that threw him off. CHARLOTTE How is Stan? OLIVIA He's fine. He's Stan. He's always fine. CHARLOTTE How's Melanie? OLIVIA Who cares? BOBBY Hmm, you should make a pretty good haul tonight there. CECILIA Yeah pay for about five minutes with my lawyer. BOBBY Why don't you let me help you out? CECILIA Really? You would lend me money? BOBBY No. I got a tip for you, though. Fourth race BOBBY tomorrow at the track. It's a BOBBY sure thing. You can't lose. BOBBY How much you want me to put down? CECILIA Dad, turn it up. Turn it up, turn CECILIA it up. REPORTER Tragedy tonight aboard recently dispatched nuclear submarine U.S.S. REPORTER Reynolds, as an explosion rocked the fully manned vessel. According to Navy officials, the explosion and consequent damage were limited to the forward compartment spaces only. The Naval Department has not yet determined the cause of the explosion. No names REPORTER of casualties have been released. Our sources confirm that affected areas REPORTER include crew living, command and control spaces, and the torpedo room. JUSTINE I thought we were going to lunch. WARREN You know, honey you look a little depressed ever since I got back WARREN from the city, so I thought, "You know what? Let's buy her a present." WARREN You like it? JUSTINE What's going on? WARREN What do you mean, what's going on? Honey, this is your own gallery. Hand-crafted jewelry. I thought you'd bring on a couple local artists to help you out. It's great foot traffic. There's a workshop in the back. WARREN Bingo. JUSTINE Whoa. Warren, I can't just-- WARREN It's an investment, Justine. That's all. Not a gift, an investment. WARREN Besides, come on, give yourself some respect. You're talented. I think you could be very successful at something like this, which is why I thought, in the first place, to buy it. JUSTINE Wait a minute, I JUSTINE What does this mean? JUSTINE What are you expecting here? What strings are attached? WARREN There are no strings attached, I promise. WARREN Okay? WARREN Unless, of course, you want them. WARREN Come on, I can close it next week. What do WARREN you say? SHERRY That's the biggest rock I've ever seen. SETH What's going on? JUSTINE Seth, I didn't think you'd be here. SETH Can I see? SETH Wow. I guess you showed me, huh? CECILIA Hello? CECILIA Okay. CECILIA Yeah, thank you. CECILIA Thank you. CECILIA He's alive. BOBBY Oh, thank God. CECILIA He's alive. CECILIA Um, they said he was below deck when it happened, and he has a concussion CECILIA and they're going to let me see him as soon as they can. CECILIA He's going to be okay. BOBBY Good, good, good. OLIVIA You're too young to get married. JUSTINE You were younger than I am. OLIVIA Then learn from my mistakes. OLIVIA I'm sorry, you're just a kid, Justine. You don't even know what you want. JUSTINE Warren is one of the most interesting men in town. JUSTINE He takes care of me. He makes me feel safe. OLIVIA You know what I'm hearing here? I'm hearing "security." I'm not hearing "love." OLIVIA Let's throw everything else out-- OLIVIA the business, the money, the fact that I'm leaving you OLIVIA and ask yourself, and be honest OLIVIA do you love him? OLIVIA Honey, I want to be happy for you. Celebrate, and open the champagne, but I don't feel any love here. CECILIA Ian? CECILIA Ian, hi. It's CECILIA me. IAN Hey. CECILIA Hi. IAN I didn't think you'd come. CECILIA Well, of course I'd come. Why wouldn't I? RAYMAN Olivia! RAYMAN So sorry to keep you waiting. Look at you, you look great. You haven't changed a bit. OLIVIA You've put on a little weight. RAYMAN Oh, thank you. Good to see you're still honest. RAYMAN I think you are going to be RAYMAN a great nominee. And you know what, I would've put you up last time, but I didn't think I could drag you out of that town. OLIVIA Well, things change, Pete. RAYMAN So they do. Listen, I'm going to be upfront with you. RAYMAN Some of my advisors, they were a little surprised by my choice. OLIVIA Is that so? RAYMAN Yeah, a small town in the middle of nowhere. I think they were expecting a nominee with a little more name recognition. OLIVIA So why me? RAYMAN You've had a lot of decisions challenged in higher courts, and you've only been overturned exactly once. RAYMAN Do you know if that was a batting average, you'd be worth $70 million a year? OLIVIA And the fact that I'm a woman could help with certain voters. RAYMAN Can't hurt. RAYMAN I do have one concern. OLIVIA My decision was totally legal. There were certain circumstances OLIVIA that came to my attention, and I just felt-- RAYMAN Nobody's questioning the legality. It's the headline. RAYMAN Something like this appears on the front page of a newspaper RAYMAN people see controversy, whether it's there or not. OLIVIA I wasn't happy with that story either. RAYMAN If we are going to close this nomination, we have to avoid anything that even smells like controversy. OLIVIA If the couple re-petitions, I will grant the divorce. I just felt OLIVIA Sometimes, especially in a small town where everyone knows each other OLIVIA I think it's important OLIVIA to stay within the law, but use an element of common sense. In this case, I just thought it was the right thing to do. RAYMAN Okay, I hear you. I just don't want to see any more stories like this. Do we understand each other? OLIVIA I stand by my decision Senator. RAYMAN Hey, just stay off the front page, okay? RAYMAN We gotta get moving, catch that dinner reservation. RAYMAN You ready to meet some people? RAYMAN These are some of my biggest RAYMAN donors, and they just they just want to meet you. OLIVIA This place is gorgeous. RAYMAN Get used to it. RAYMAN Oh, and by the way, please, "Pete" is okay, but just don't call me "Petey" in front of these guys. OLIVIA Whatever you say, Pete. OLIVIA In a small town OLIVIA you don't specialize. That's the good part. I get everything thrown at me. OLIVIA You not only get a broader sense of the law, but it's never boring. DONOR #1 Much crime? OLIVIA Some. It may take place 80 miles away, but it ends up in front of me. DONOR #2 What are your feelings about the DONOR #2 Cathcart/Technet case? OLIVIA I haven't heard OLIVIA both sides. DONOR #2 Well, you must read the papers. DONOR #2 It'll be brought up next term. OLIVIA Yes, I know. DONOR #2 And? OLIVIA And what? TOM Well, what are your thoughts? OLIVIA I thought this was a dinner OLIVIA not a litmus test. DONOR #2 Are you avoiding DONOR #2 the question? OLIVIA No, I'll tell you straight out, I'm not answering it. OLIVIA I appreciate you gentlemen OLIVIA supporting me, but if you think this a preview of coming attractions regarding decisions, you're mistaken. RAYMAN Tom, back off. RAYMAN No judge is going to comment on something like that. DONOR #1 At least not an honest one. RAYMAN Come on. OLIVIA It's closed. RAYMAN Please. I'm a senator. RAYMAN The decisions you make in here will become a little piece of history. OLIVIA Believe me, I've thought about it. You just hope you make the right one. It's a little scary. RAYMAN Oh, you'll do fine. This way. RAYMAN Your courtroom. TROY Thank you, fellas. JACK So, Troy JACK what are those two Feds doing here in town? TROY What feds? JACK Those two that just walked out of here. TROY What makes you think they were Feds? JACK They all go to the same tailor. JACK Come on, Troy, give me something here, okay? JACK Otherwise my lead story this week's going to be about a guy who builds amusing birdhouses. TROY You know, I think what you're failing to grasp here, Jack, is that people like to read about birdhouses. JACK Yeah, this, uh guy spent a whole year building an exact replica of Buckingham Palace. JACK Between you and me, though, I really don't think the birds care. JACK Well, I gotta go. JACK Talk to you later. TROY Yeah. Bye! JUSTINE So I'll see you next week? SETH Hey. JUSTINE You're late. JUSTINE Meeting's over. SETH Yeah. Yeah, I know. I thought I ought to blow this one off. After the last one. SETH Look SETH I'm sorry. I saw your ring, and I guess I just felt, uh I don't know what I felt, but-- JUSTINE Seth-- SETH When you came out to the boat, what you said SETH maybe you were right. Maybe I do need to grow up a little. SETH Um SETH I just felt for a minute maybe I had a second chance. SETH I shouldn't have SETH said what I did. I hope you're happy. OLIVIA Jack? JACK Sorry to bother you. I don't mean to, uh, intrude, but if you've got a minute, I, uh, got something here I think you might want to see. JACK Warren's been under surveillance. JACK Troy's been working with JACK some federal boys. OLIVIA What are they looking into? JACK Financial stuff. I didn't get the details. He just told me enough to, um, you know, get me to shut up for a while. OLIVIA Jack, this is evidence. JACK No. JACK No, Olivia, it's not. That was in the trash, all right? So, uh, they obviously didn't think it was that important. JACK Look, maybe I shouldn't have, um JACK brought this to you. I-I just OLIVIA No OLIVIA I'm glad you did. JACK Okay. OLIVIA Would you like OLIVIA a cup of coffee? JACK Yeah. JACK It's gorgeous JACK back here. OLIVIA It's my favorite place. JACK Hmm, yeah. JACK Look, I owe you an explanation. OLIVIA You don't owe me anything. JACK Olivia, I know that you're angry about the other day, okay? OLIVIA Do you know why? JACK Yeah, I think I've got a JACK pretty good idea, yeah. OLIVIA I don't think you do. OLIVIA If you had called and said specifically what was going on OLIVIA why you had to cancel OLIVIA that's one thing, but you're evasive OLIVIA Jack, and I don't like that. OLIVIA I'm a judge. People stand in front of me and lie every day, and I have to read between the lines and try to figure out who I believe. OLIVIA I don't have time to do that on my day off. JACK Yeah, that's fair enough. JACK I'm an alcoholic. JACK The other day, when I was supposed JACK to meet you at the play, I, uh I panicked. JACK Olivia, you're the first woman that I've dated JACK sober. And I swear to God, I was in my car on my way to meet you, and, uh JACK I just got very scared. JACK I didn't think I could do it without a drink. JACK So I turned around, and I spent the afternoon JACK in my sponsor's living room, gulping down copious amounts of coffee. JACK This is why I'm in Cedar Cove. JACK Back there in Philly, I, uh JACK I screwed up my job, my marriage, and my kids. JACK My son rarely talks to me now JACK and, quite frankly, I can't blame him. JACK You see, this-this job is a life preserver for me. JACK It's my last chance, and, uh JACK I know it. OLIVIA Why didn't you just tell me? JACK Because I was embarrassed. JACK And, uh JACK I was trying to impress you, and I didn't want to scare you off. OLIVIA You're not going to scare me off. OLIVIA I'm sorry. OLIVIA Thank you for telling me. JACK Olivia, I have never met anyone like you. JACK Or if I did, I wasn't sober enough to remember it. JACK Look at you. JACK You're smart, you're gorgeous, you occasionally laugh at my lame jokes. OLIVIA Occasionally, yeah. JACK And I can't stop thinking about you. I think about you all the time. JACK So what do you say? You want to go watch Wally Dorfman? OLIVIA Oh OLIVIA Not really. Not right now. No. OLIVIA Why don't we go inside? It's getting kind of chilly. JACK Okay. WARREN You know, I go away for just a WARREN few days, and all of a sudden, you run into your old boyfriend. JUSTINE An old friend. And maybe if you made a little bit more of an effort to meet JUSTINE some of them-- WARREN Justine, save it. Please, you never really wanted me to go to this reunion in the first place, and you know it. JUSTINE Warren, we're engaged now. Don't you think it's going to look a little-- WARREN I don't care WARREN how it looks, Justine! No! JUSTINE Warren JUSTINE it's always just JUSTINE the two of us. WARREN Hmm. JUSTINE I'm so JUSTINE isolated out here. I mean, one night. Please, just come. WARREN So I can watch you dance with your fisherman friend? JUSTINE You're a jerk. WARREN Where are you going? WARREN Justine! JACK You really think you could leave JACK all this? OLIVIA It's not going to be easy, but I keep reminding myself that a federal judge can do a lot of good, change a lot of lives. JACK Ah JACK And so, what, you couldn't do that from here in Cedar Cove? JACK You know, I hear JACK half the little girls in this town want to go to law school because of you. OLIVIA Yeah, and that's what the world needs, more lawyers. JACK Thank you. JACK Who's the little boy here with Justine? OLIVIA That's my son. Jordan. OLIVIA Justine had a twin brother. He drowned when he was 13. JACK I am so sorry. OLIVIA Justine saw it. She's never gotten over it. OLIVIA Stan and I OLIVIA oh, wow. We were devastated. Angry, guilty. OLIVIA The marriage broke up shortly there afterwards. OLIVIA You know, and I can't help but think if we hadn't given up so easy, we might have been able to save the marriage. JACK I'm sorry, Olivia. I didn't know. OLIVIA There's nothing like the pain of losing a child. OLIVIA It's just really sad that Stan and I couldn't mourn that loss together. JACK Do you think that maybe that had something to do with your denial of that divorce? OLIVIA Jack! Don't even go there. IAN I don't know, this might not be such a good idea. CECILIA Well, it's better than the base. IAN Well, where am I going to sleep? CECILIA Right there. IAN Where are you going to sleep? CECILIA Same place. IAN Are you sure about that? CECILIA Yes, I am. JACK So JACK are you free tomorrow night? OLIVIA Turn around. Look at that, Jack. OLIVIA I'm moving. JACK Yeah. OLIVIA Jack OLIVIA I really like you. I do. OLIVIA But let's not start something we can't finish. JACK Well, you're the judge. JACK Yeah. CECILIA Ian? IAN Hey. IAN Uh, can I get a ride to the base? CECILIA Why, did they call you back again? IAN No. No. I just think I'd better leave. CECILIA No. Why? That's crazy. You're going to stay here. I'm going to take care of you. IAN Why? CECILIA Because you're my husband. IAN Well, not for long. IAN I mean, what are we doing here? IAN You know, it's just like we're playing house or something. Before I left, you couldn't wait to divorce me, and now what? I mean, what, what's the big change? CECILIA I was scared. I don't know, I thought you were dead. CECILIA Just the thought of CECILIA losing you, and CECILIA I'm still not over losing her yet. IAN Yeah, neither am I. IAN I dreamt about her last night. IAN She was all grown up and we were packing the car to take her to school. IAN I just think it's better if I go. CECILIA Please don't go. CECILIA Please. CECILIA Look at me. CECILIA Please CECILIA Stay with me. Don't leave. CECILIA Please? IAN Okay. CECILIA Come here. CECILIA Get back in the house. OLIVIA Hey. JUSTINE I hope you don't mind. OLIVIA No, no, of course not. OLIVIA Mm, fight with Warren? JUSTINE Kind of. JUSTINE It's been a little tough lately. JUSTINE Sorry. OLIVIA No, it's okay. JUSTINE I've just been thinking about Jordan a lot lately. JUSTINE With you leaving and JUSTINE not having this house anymore. JUSTINE Mom, I'm just JUSTINE I'm afraid I'm going to forget him. OLIVIA Oh JUSTINE How he laughed and how he JUSTINE When I come in this house JUSTINE it just all comes back. Like he was still here. JUSTINE It's so stupid. OLIVIA No, it's not. OLIVIA It's not stupid. OLIVIA I still go sit in his room all the time. OLIVIA His bike is still in OLIVIA the garage. I can't bring myself to give it away. JUSTINE I'm sorry, I know this whole judge thing means a lot to you, and I don't mean to guilt trip you. JUSTINE It's just it's going to feel so weird without you around. JUSTINE I mean, I know Dad tries, but JUSTINE Come on, it's always just been us. OLIVIA Hey, there's some ice cream in the freezer. JUSTINE I already had mine. OLIVIA You did not! No! JUSTINE It's okay, I left you some. WARREN Olivia, hi. OLIVIA I'll get straight to the point. I want you to break off the engagement. WARREN You know, Olivia Why are you doing this? WARREN I thought we had reached some sort of understanding here. WARREN Okay, look, I know we're never going to be best friends WARREN but I have every intention of making your daughter happy. OLIVIA Do you think these would make her happy? OLIVIA One of your business trips. OLIVIA Glad to know you weren't lonely. WARREN Where did you get those? OLIVIA What matters is that I have them. Now, I haven't shown Justine, but I will if I have to. Break it off, and I won't. WARREN Well, maybe I'll take that chance. OLIVIA You won't, Warren. Your reputation means too much to you. OLIVIA Justine would never OLIVIA tolerate this behavior. Do you really want everyone in this town knowing you got dumped? WARREN You know, Olivia, I love your daughter very much, no matter what you think. OLIVIA You don't love her. You're not capable of love. WARREN Okay. You know, two of us can play at this game. WARREN You know WARREN you're not really acting very ethical right now, Your Honor. OLIVIA I'm a mother first. You're not going to hurt my daughter. OLIVIA Be smart. OLIVIA Break it off. OLIVIA Yes, come in. IAN Hey, uh, Judge, can we talk to you for a sec? OLIVIA You really should have counsel present. IAN Well, actually, um, we'd like to drop our, uh CECILIA Petition. CECILIA We figured maybe CECILIA if we just spoke to you about it IAN Then we could save some legal fees. OLIVIA Consider it dropped. CECILIA Um, these are for you. OLIVIA This isn't a bribe, is it? CECILIA No, it's more of a thank you, I guess. IAN Yeah, 'cause there's something else we want to talk to you about. CECILIA See CECILIA when we got married, I was pregnant-- IAN And I was shipping out-- CECILIA And, well CECILIA the whole thing took, like, a minute. I was wearing jeans. IAN Yeah, it wasn't real romantic. WARREN I get it, okay? WARREN I understand we're to close the deal in 24 hours, and just do it. WARREN Oh Yeah. WARREN I WARREN Listen, I got to go. I'll call you back. Yeah. WARREN Do it. Bye. JUSTINE Hey. WARREN Hey. WARREN Um, listen, sweetheart, thank you for coming back. Listen, have a seat for a second. JUSTINE I'd rather JUSTINE not. Warren, I really-- WARREN Justine, could you please just give me a moment? WARREN We have lots to talk about. WARREN Look WARREN Look, I've been giving this a lot of WARREN thought and I never want to hurt you. You know that, but WARREN maybe we should reconsider this whole engagement thing. JUSTINE I'm sorry. Um You're breaking off the engagement? WARREN Well, yeah. JUSTINE That's what I came here to do. JUSTINE I'm JUSTINE sorry. I-I JUSTINE I don't mean to laugh, but you just made this so much easier. JUSTINE I'm gonna go. JUSTINE Hey. SETH Hey. SETH You alone? JUSTINE Yeah. SETH So, uh SETH what's up? JUSTINE Just thought I'd stop by, if that's okay. SETH Come on, Justine. I'm not sure that's a good idea. SETH Wow. What happened? JUSTINE It's a long story. SETH I've got time. JUSTINE Okay. Well, um requesting permission to come aboard. SETH Anytime. JUSTINE I didn't bring wine this time. SETH I got a little stash downstairs. No worries. OLIVIA Hey! JACK Hey. OLIVIA What are you doing here? JACK Oh, just enjoying a little peace and quiet. OLIVIA Justine called from here. She wanted me to come pick her up. You haven't seen her, have you? JACK No. MOON There you go. MOON One OJ, straight up. JACK Thanks, Moon. WALLY You must be the new guy. JACK That's right, I am. WALLY We haven't met. I'm Wally Dorfman. JACK Nice to finally meet you. JACK So, Wally, have you caught anything good lately? WALLY Got a good stop sign the other day. JACK Wally, what are you using for bait? MAN #2 Hey, uh, listen up, everybody. MAN #2 The Mayor has an announcement to make. MAYOR Everybody, could I have your attention? MAYOR Olivia MAYOR You're probably MAYOR going to be too busy to miss us, but we are all really going to miss you. MAYOR So we figured MAYOR you could take us with you. OLIVIA Thank you OLIVIA so much. JACK I have a little, uh, going-away present for you. JACK I thought you might want JACK to see this before it runs in the paper tomorrow JACK knowing what a stickler JACK you are for things being written about you. OLIVIA Oh OLIVIA Thank you. JACK "We all dream of making it big someday JACK "and for Olivia Lockhart, being appointed to a federal judgeship is like being called up to the Major Leagues, more prestige, better money, a bigger JACK "audience. She'll have a chance to make decisions that will JACK "be studied in law books for years to come. Very few things in life, however, come without a price, and she'll be paying a steep one. JACK "She has to leave us. There will be a lot of sad people here in Cedar Cove JACK "on the day she does. JACK "Her family, her friends JACK "young girls who looked up to her as a role model. Olivia Lockhart JACK "has touched a lot of lives here in Cedar Cove JACK "probably more than she realizes. JACK "That's tough to do in a big city, so I can't help but think she'll be a little sad, too. JACK "The city has lots to offer, but there's one thing she won't have there, her memories JACK because they're right here, in Cedar Cove." OLIVIA Hi. JACK Hey, you. OLIVIA Am I interrupting anything? JACK Oh, yeah. Yeah. I'm, uh, doing an in-depth article on the Rotary Club Pancake Breakfast. JACK I smell Pulitzer. OLIVIA You can't print it. JACK Come on, Olivia. JACK Do you know how hard that was JACK for me to write that? OLIVIA You can't print it because I'm not going. OLIVIA I turned it down. JACK You're kidding. OLIVIA Nope. JACK But why? JACK Why would you do that? OLIVIA Lot of reasons, I guess. OLIVIA Maybe I'm afraid of being homesick. JACK Olivia JACK This is a huge opportunity JACK for you. OLIVIA I know. Maybe I'm crazy. I have wanted something like this my whole life, and now it doesn't seem that important. JACK Well JACK you know, maybe it isn't so crazy after all. JACK "There are more JACK tears shed for answered prayers than unanswered." JACK Saint Theresa. JACK What? OLIVIA You just quoted a saint? JACK Yeah, well, I read it in a fortune cookie. OLIVIA Oh OLIVIA Okay, I, um I want to ask you something. JACK Ask away. OLIVIA Okay. OLIVIA Um OLIVIA do you really think about me all the time? JACK Well JACK not if there's a really good game on, 'cause that would, you know-- JACK Of course I do. You know I do. OLIVIA Oh, wow. I really like that. OLIVIA Do you think we could do the dating thing again? JACK Absolutely. OLIVIA Hey. JACK Hmm? OLIVIA Do you own a suit? OLIVIA We are gathered here today to celebrate the reunion OLIVIA of Ian and Cecilia. OLIVIA But first, on a personal note, I would like to say I am very, very happy OLIVIA to be here today. OLIVIA Ian, would you like to OLIVIA share your vows with us? IAN Cecilia, for the rest of my life