ABIGAIL ARTHUR CASSIE CLAY DAD ERICA GRACE KAITLYN MARTHA MODERATOR NARRATOR NOAH NORMAN PHOTOGRAPHER SAM STEPHANIE NARRATOR Previously on "Good Witch". ABIGAIL My dad used to bring me back gifts from one of his trips. GRACE Where? ABIGAIL London. That's the last time I saw him. The day that he left. NORMAN She didn't say much. But I could tell your daughter was very happy to receive it. NOAH I like to see you smile. GRACE You do? NOAH Yeah. CASSIE Who gave you that? GRACE Noah. CASSIE That was nice of him. GRACE It was. SAM I love your mother very much. And I love you. And I wanted to ask if it would be okay if I married your mother. GRACE Yes. ABIGAIL I'll get it. ABIGAIL Dad. What are you doing here? ARTHUR I wanted to see my daughter. ABIGAIL It's been twenty-two years. ARTHUR I know, Abby, and when I left - ABIGAIL People call me Abigail now. ARTHUR Abigail. Of course. I've been thinking about what I wanted to say to you for so long. But now I don't know where to begin. CASSIE What's going on? Who was at the door? ABIGAIL I'm going to bed. SAM Everything okay? CASSIE I don't know. CASSIE Ah, here you go. Now, you can eat here or out in the garden. SAM Hey. CASSIE Hey. Good morning. SAM Waffles? CASSIE Yup. SAM I've seen fruit, I've seen yogurt but I rarely ever see waffles. CASSIE I'm full of surprises. SAM Are they made with organic sweetener and filled with some sort of wheat bran? CASSIE They're made with sugar and filled with chocolate chips. SAM This is a surprise. Hey, did you find out who came by to see Abigail last night? CASSIE No. And I haven't seen her yet this morning. SAM Is she okay? CASSIE She always seems to be. So she should be able to handle the appearance of one unexpected visitor. GRACE Morning. CASSIE Morning. SAM Chocolate chip waffles. GRACE Oh! So, I got an e-mail about the math competition finals. They're this weekend. I made it into the regional championship. CASSIE Grace, that's great! SAM Congratulations. GRACE Yeah. Uh, hey, can you take me? CASSIE This weekend? GRACE Yeah. It's all day Saturday. CASSIE I actually have some guests that I think are going to need some extra attention, but - SAM I could take her. CASSIE You sure? SAM I've got the whole day free, happy to. GRACE Okay. Yeah, great. I will see you guys later. CASSIE Okay. GRACE Bye. CASSIE Bye. SAM Hey, I wanted one of those. CASSIE These are for someone else. But there's plenty of fruit and yogurt. SAM But they're not filled with chocolate chips. CASSIE Good morning. I was just bringing this up to your room. ABIGAIL Chocolate chip waffles? I used to love those when I was a kid. CASSIE Did you? Well, whoever came to see you last night left this for you at the door. It has your name on the card. ABIGAIL It says Abby on the card. CASSIE Yes. And I'm pretty sure I know who used to call you that. ABIGAIL It's from my dad. CASSIE I had a feeling. I didn't know he was even alive. ABIGAIL Yeah, it'd probably be easier if he wasn't. CASSIE Where has he been all these years? ABIGAIL He didn't say. And I didn't ask. He wants me to meet him for dinner tonight at seven. If I don't show up I never have to see him again. CASSIE What are you going to do? ARTHUR Abby -- Abigail. ABIGAIL Dad. ARTHUR I didn't think you were gonna show up. ABIGAIL Well, what girl can turn down an invitation to have dinner with her father? ARTHUR Would you like to order something? ABIGAIL No, thank you. I haven't decided how long I'm staying. ARTHUR I thought of reaching out so many times, over the years. ABIGAIL But you didn't. ARTHUR No. ABIGAIL And so I'm still wondering why you left in the first place. ARTHUR Because I decided you'd be better off without me. You don't know me, Abigail. You hardly ever did. ABIGAIL Whose fault is that? ARTHUR Mine. But you wouldn't have liked the man that I was. And I wanted you to have a chance. So I took myself out of your life. And when your mother died, I wanted to come back but, well, I couldn't - ABIGAIL You chose not to. ARTHUR Because by then I was in prison. I served eight years for business fraud, grand larceny, and tax evasion. ABIGAIL They don't have phones in jail? ARTHUR At a certain point I just didn't know what to say. ABIGAIL So what are you doing here now? ARTHUR Well, I've started putting my life back in order. I'm almost done paying my old business partners, and I'm thinking about moving back into the old neighborhood in New York. You know, the house we used to live in is for sale. ABIGAIL The red one, on Fernside? ARTHUR And I wanted you to know that things are different. I'm different. And I wanted you to see that. ABIGAIL So this is about you? ARTHUR No. ABIGAIL You just dropped in to let me how wonderful you are now and you were right to run away from my life? ARTHUR To say one more thing. I'm sorry. CASSIE Good morning. I came upstairs to let you know the breakfast was ready but it seemed like you wanted to sleep in. ERICA Thanks for not waking us up. Those beds at Grey House are amazing. CLAY Yeah. I haven't seen her sleep this well in forever. ERICA Which is one of the many things we won't be able to do once this baby comes, which is why wanted to do a "babymoon" while we still can. CASSIE Smart. Are you having a boy or a girl? ERICA We've decided not to tell. We want to keep it a secret for as long as we can. CASSIE Then I won't ask again. Any ideas about what you wanted to do today? ERICA Mostly "not think about baby stuff." I mean, I can't wait for our child to arrive, it's just... I want to feel happy and relaxed waiting for it to happen. CLAY Erica, look at this. A Hundred and One Lessons from Dads Around the World. ERICA I'm sure that's great, but -- That's not the right kind of reading for a babymoon. CLAY Right. ERICA But this looks interesting... Hiking Trails of Middleton. CASSIE Yeah, there are a lot of wonderful places around here to explore. ERICA Before we have to push a stroller around. Thanks. CASSIE Sure. MARTHA I'll take a few croissants -- plain and chocolate; a half-dozen bagels and... and just throw in an assortment of muffins. Whatever you think the ladies would like. STEPHANIE Well, I will put in a variety. MARTHA And you'll bring it to city hall, all of it before the meeting begins? STEPHANIE I will get there early. ARTHUR Excuse me. What's happening at city hall? MARTHA It's the quarterly meeting of our Women's Small Business Owners Association. STEPHANIE The mayor is in charge of all that. I just show up with the pastries. MARTHA You also run a very successful business of your own. STEPHANIE Well. ARTHUR May I show you my own small business owner? MARTHA Oh. Of course. ARTHUR This is one of Middleton's own, right when she was starting out. MARTHA Well, isn't she adorable. ARTHUR She begged to have her own lemonade stand and made fourteen dollars without any help from me or her mother, she just completely did it on her own. STEPHANIE That looks like Abigail. ARTHUR Yeah, she was about nine years old. Oh, I'm sorry. Arthur Pershing. STEPHANIE You're Abigail's father? ARTHUR That's right. MARTHA She said you were dead. ARTHUR Well, news of my death has been greatly exaggerated. MARTHA Have you seen Cassie yet? Arthur is related to Cassie. He's her - ARTHUR Uncle, by marriage. No. I'm taking things slow, I'm just trying to let everybody get used to the fact that I'm here. MARTHA Well, I'm very glad that you introduced yourself. Because that photo of your daughter has given me the most wonderful idea! Don't forget those pastries. Ta-ta! ARTHUR So, what does my daughter like to order when she comes here? STEPHANIE Well, she loves those pecan cinnamon rolls. ARTHUR Then I'll take one of those. STEPHANIE Coming right up. GRACE Yes! I'm like Dolley Madison fighting off the British army in the White House! NOAH One woman fought off the entire British army? GRACE Practically. She saved Washington's portrait while the place was set on fire and barely made it out alive. NOAH Wow. You make her sound like some sort of superhero. GRACE A movie about her? Now that'd make a lot of money. Oh, hey, Sam, you'd go see a movie about Dolley Madison, right? SAM Depends, who's in it? GRACE Amazement is in it. SAM Then yeah. What time do you want to leave in the morning? GRACE I don't know. Eight? SAM Do you want to go over anything on the drive? GRACE I'm good, thanks. SAM I went online to see what subjects they might be covering this year. GRACE They don't announce that until the start of each round. SAM But they haven't done polygons in a while. Maybe you should be prepared for that. NOAH I don't think I ever seen Grace not prepared for anything. GRACE I'm pretty sure we studied polygons in freshman year. SAM Okay. GRACE Thanks. Are you done attacking me? NOAH Yeah. I barely made it out alive. MARTHA Pinkies up and pastries down, ladies, this meeting will now come to order. So, do any of you recognize this innocent young politician to be? It's me! Bursting to take on the world... As soon as my skin clears up. But it's photos like this that are going to inspire the next generation of Middleton's women small business owners. ABIGAIL By showing them what not to wear? MARTHA By revealing from whence we came. So, I need all of you ladies to go home and pull out your high school portraits and display them in front of your places of business alongside current photos, which we'll take this week. Then today's youth can see where you came from and who you are now. CASSIE It can be inspiring to know what each of us overcame to become who we are today. MARTHA Isn't this a wonderful idea? And it all came from something that Abigail's father showed me - a picture of her with her very first business. ABIGAIL You met my father? MARTHA Yes. He came into the Bistro. STEPHANIE He was very proud, bragging to Martha and me about your lemonade stand. ABIGAIL I'm shocked he even remembered that. MARTHA So, I need a framed high school portrait from each of you. STEPHANIE I suppose I could dig that out from wherever it is. CASSIE Me, too. ABIGAIL What if we don't have one? MARTHA Don't be silly. Everyone has a yearbook photo, at least. ABIGAIL All I wanted to do when I turned eighteen was move out of my foster parent's house. STEPHANIE I didn't realize it was so bad for you. ABIGAIL It was okay. I just was ready to get started with life. So all I took with me was a suitcase full of clothes. I don't have anything from when I was a teenager. Other than the memories of all the boys hearts I broke. CASSIE Well, now you have some good memories in Middleton to look back on. ABIGAIL Yeah, I guess so. MARTHA Well, I still want a current photo of you, so don't let those frown lines set in permanently before I can set you up with a photographer. And sit up straight. A sloping shoulder makes ladies look older. CASSIE Thank you for taking Grace to her math competition tomorrow. SAM I'm looking forward to it. I just hope she's ready for it. CASSIE Yeah. She usually does okay. SAM I offered to help her brush up on her geometry but she said she didn't need to. CASSIE Don't take it too personally. Grace has her own way of doing things. SAM I guess I just come from the "over- prepare and then do a little bit more" school-of-thought. CASSIE Really? I hadn't noticed. SAM Now you're just making fun of me. CASSIE And at least you noticed that. CASSIE So, what is all that stuff? ABIGAIL This box got delivered to the shop as I was locking up. Somebody moved into the last foster home I lived in and found all this in the back of the attic. CASSIE And they sent it to you? That was nice. ABIGAIL Yeah. I never thought I'd see any of this again. SAM This must have gone to a pretty spiffy-looking bike. ABIGAIL It was purple and it had a banana seat and I outgrew it pretty quick but I kept that, to remember. Dad kept saying he was going to get me a ten-speed but he left before he did. CASSIE Did you take ballet? ABIGAIL No. Dad sent those from Paris. He was always sending me stuff from wherever he went. CASSIE That was sweet. At least you knew he was always thinking about you. ABIGAIL And that's how I knew he was never coming back. I mean, my mom told me, but it didn't seem real until the gifts stopped coming. CASSIE That must have been hard on you. ABIGAIL Yeah, I made it through. You ready to see what passed for fashionable in the early two-thousands? CASSIE Oh, all I remember were peasant tops and shiny pants. ABIGAIL Well, brace yourself for disco halter tops. CASSIE Wow. When was this? ABIGAIL Homecoming. SAM Which one's you? ABIGAIL Oh, I couldn't afford to go to the dance. But the flowers are mine. I made corsages and sold them so I could afford a dress for prom later that year. CASSIE Ah. Already a business person. ABIGAIL I'll have you know I previously made a killing selling lemonade. CASSIE Right. And just think, if you had been able to go to that dance, you might not be as successful as you are today. So it seems like you learned how to make lemonade out of lemons a lot. ABIGAIL Yeah, I guess I did. PHOTOGRAPHER I wanna get the bridge in the background. MARTHA Oh, no no no no no, let's do it up there somewhere. I don't want to be upstaged by the scenery. ABIGAIL Why do we have to have our pictures taken? CASSIE Because Martha wants us to inspire the next generation. ABIGAIL Can't I just write a check? ERICA Cassie. CASSIE Hello, Erica. Clay. You know my cousin, Abigail? ABIGAIL Yes. We met at breakfast. CASSIE What'd you get? ERICA Some serving dishes. We went into this great pottery place which was right next to a kids' store I had to steer my husband away from. CLAY I can't help it. ERICA We're looking for a place to eat. CASSIE The Bistro is perfect for that. ERICA We'll check it out. Thanks. MARTHA So, I spoke with the photographer and she's pretty sure that she can make the bags under your eyes disappear. ABIGAIL I have bags under my eyes? MARTHA Of course you do, dear. We all do. Actually, you don't. And neither do you. Honestly, why do I continue to live in a town where all the women are so pretty. MODERATOR I'd like to congratulate the competitors who've made it into the final round of today's competition. On the left is Grace Russell, next to her is Melissa Combs, and finally, Jacob Walker. The topic of our final round will be. Polygons. Our first question. A dodecagon is a polygon with how many sides? Grace Russell? GRACE Twelve. MODERATOR that's correct. SAM Yeah! MODERATOR I'll remind parents to please refrain from showing any outbursts of support. Next question. The sum of the interior angles of a decagon is how many degree - GRACE One thousand four hundred and forty. MODERATOR That's right. If any angle is greater than one hundred and eighty degrees, then the polygon is called GRACE Concave. MODERATOR That's correct. ARTHUR When did you move to Middleton? CASSIE A long time ago. Grey House has been in my family forever. ARTHUR I remember your mother talking about it. CASSIE I wanted to put some life back into it. ARTHUR I think all the Merriwicks would be very proud. It's a nice town. I can see why my daughter chose to live here. CASSIE How are things going with her? Have you been able to see each other again? ARTHUR Not since we met for dinner. I told her I'd give her some time, which turned out to be a lot harder for me than I thought it would. But she didn't say that she never wanted to see me again so I'm just waiting to find out if she ever does want to see me again. These are very interesting. CASSIE Oh, yeah. A local artist makes them. All the birthstone are represented. This one is your daughter's sign. ARTHUR Oh. I remember so many great birthdays when Abby was a little girl. I took her out when she turned five and I told her she could order whatever she wants -- which usually meant macaroni and cheese. But she wanted a whole, entire crab, and she was determined to eat every bite. Took her two hours, but she did it. CASSIE Abigail does tend to finish what she starts. ARTHUR She was a tenacious little girl. I'll take it. CASSIE Alright. I'll wrap it up for you. ARTHUR Great. Taking a walk down memory lane, huh? CASSIE Oh, that's Abigail's. I'm taking her senior photo and having it scanned and framed for something our mayor wants us to do. Would you like to take a look inside? ARTHUR I'd love to. I've never seen her senior photo. One of the many things I've missed out on. My little girl. CASSIE As she grew into the woman that she is today. Here you go. ARTHUR Thanks. Could you maybe make me a copy of Abigail's photo? I'd love to have something to put on the mantel. CASSIE I'd be happy to. In fact, why don't you stop by Grey House later tonight? You can pick it up there. ARTHUR Cassie, you're as kind as your mother was to me. CASSIE I've always believed in the goodness of family. ERICA I've been craving strawberry cheesecake all morning. Do you have any of that? STEPHANIE I think I can find a piece or two. ERICA Then make it two. One for each of us. STEPHANIE I'll bring it right over - KAITLYN But that's not what I wanted. DAD Kaitlyn! If you want to tell me why you're sad, then we can try to get you what you want. KAITLYN I don't like these with ketchup. I want white sauce. DAD You want ranch dressing? KAITLYN Yes, please. STEPHANIE Excuse me. Did I hear someone might like some ranch dressing? DAD If you could. STEPHANIE Coming right up. KAITLYN Thank you. ERICA So, I guess that's us in a few years, huh? CLAY Yeah, might be. STEPHANIE Do you think we all would have been friends in high school? CASSIE Probably. What were you into back then? STEPHANIE Mostly musical theatre and boys. But I got stuck playing Aunt Eller in "Oklahoma" while all the boys pined after Dream Laurey. CASSIE Well, it seems like you were happy there. STEPHANIE Does it? All I remember was that I flunked a project in art class and I just stopped crying long enough for them to snap this picture. I was trying to make a vase but it turned out more like a kidney. ABIGAIL So, I shouldn't hire you as a supplier for my store? Got it. CASSIE You know, I have some old vases I was going to put in storage. I wrapped them up but if you want to stop at my shop you can take them to yours. ABIGAIL I never say no to free merchandise. MARTHA Yoo-hoo! I have some wonderful news that can only be shared really via the visual so - Voila! And I wanted Abigail to be one of the first to see it since the announcement was partly due to her. ABIGAIL What'd I do? MARTHA No, your father did this. He's donating ten bikes just like that one to Middleton girls in need. All in the name of Abigail Pershing. ABIGAIL Well, isn't that nice of him. MARTHA Oh, you say that as if it's not nice at all. ABIGAIL He's just trying to buy his way into people liking him. Which is what he always used to do with me. MARTHA Well, he's here now, and we have the ten-speeds to prove it. STEPHANIE I mean, it couldn't have been easy for him to come back the way he did. ABIGAIL You know what would have been easier? If he never left. CASSIE Well, he does seem regretful about that. ABIGAIL I haven't seen much of that. MARTHA I would hope that if I ever had a rift with either of my children that they would be open to let me try and make up for it. CASSIE And perhaps then you could have a future you never even imagined. SAM You texting your mom? GRACE Noah. SAM Oh. Well, make sure and tell him how his girlfriend got first place. GRACE Yeah. SAM You should send a picture of the trophy to your mom. GRACE She's seen me with trophies before. SAM Oh, come on, send her a picture. Where is it? GRACE I left it there. SAM We can go back. GRACE Sam, we're almost home. SAM It's not far. GRACE It's just another trophy, okay? And who even cares about that? ABIGAIL Dad. ARTHUR I've walked past this place five times trying to get up the nerve to come inside. ABIGAIL It's okay. You can come in. ARTHUR This is a beautiful store. ABIGAIL Thank you. ARTHUR I've been wanting to stop by to see it - well, to see you - since dinner. But I thought you'd want some time to get used to things. ABIGAIL Because it's not every day your father comes back from the dead. ARTHUR Did you really tell people I died? ABIGAIL I got a couple of really nice condolence cards out of it, too. ARTHUR Well, I got you something. And not because of my death but because I was thinking about you. ABIGAIL It's my sign. And my birthstone. It's beautiful. I guess I should thank you for all the ten-speed bikes you donated in my name. ARTHUR Well, I wasn't around to give you one when I should have, so. ABIGAIL I guess we can call it the next best thing. Look what I just found. It'd been so long since I'd saw one of my old ads. ARTHUR Your work was in the papers? ABIGAIL My work was in a lot of places. But that's the one that got me the most attention. I spent so much time living in different places, dreaming about the perfect family, that idea came to me pretty quickly. ARTHUR I wish I could have given you a family like this. The kind that you deserved. So, I don't know if you're free, but - if you want to maybe we could have dinner tonight. Catch up on more of what you've been doing since I - Just, sort of, catch up. ABIGAIL Actually, I was going to see a movie tonight. ARTHUR I understand. You've got other plans. ABIGAIL Do you want to come? ARTHUR I'd love to. ABIGAIL They're playing His Girl Friday at the theater. ARTHUR Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell. It's one of my favorites. ABIGAIL Mine, too. ERICA I don't understand why you want to go home. I thought we were having a really good time. CLAY I've been trying to but - the more I try not to think about this baby, the more I realize how terrified I am about becoming a father. ERICA You're going to be a great dad. CLAY But I don't know how to actually be one. When that little girl started whining at the Bistro, I started wondering about what I would have done if I were her dad. And I realized that I have no idea. Because my dad would have never talked to me like that. Because my dad hardly ever said anything at all. ERICA I just want to stay for one more night. Cassie set out tea, and said that there's everything here we could want, and I really like this bed. CLAY Well, since we're probably not going to get much sleep over the next eighteen years. ERICA Thanks. ABIGAIL Just give me a minute. There's a few things I meant to water before we left for the movie. ARTHUR Take your time, no problem. You know, I hadn't seen His Girl Friday for a long time. ABIGAIL Really? I watch it two or three times a year. That and The Philadelphia Story. I love the way Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart fight over Katharine Hepburn. It probably gave me a few ideas about how to get men to fight over me. ARTHUR Abigail, please, you're talking to your father. ABIGAIL Right. Sorry. Just give me one minute. I have to water these guys in the back. ARTHUR No problem. ABIGAIL All done. You ready? ARTHUR Yeah. May I walk you home? ABIGAIL Sure. After you. GRACE Okay, we've got it. Now can we go?! SAM Just a minute. It didn't seem like you were having very much fun today. GRACE It was a competition. SAM But why do you do it? GRACE Because my teacher says this kind of stuff looks good on college applications. SAM That's it? GRACE Isn't that enough? SAM You know, I had a scholarship for molecular biology when I went to college. I figured I'd end up getting paid a lot of money to do research in a lab every day. And then one day, in the middle of class, I realized I didn't want to do that. What I wanted to do was help sick people. Get to know them. Let them get to know me. So I just gave up the scholarship, changed my major. It turned out to be one of the best decisions of my life. Because I love doing what I'm doing. So what about you, Grace? GRACE What about me? SAM What is it you love? MARTHA This looks perfect here. And it's going to be so inspiring to all the future women of tomorrow. STEPHANIE I think those are called "girls." MARTHA Potato, po-tah-to. STEPHANIE Oh, hey there. Can I help you? DAD I'm here to pick up an order of chicken fingers, to-go. STEPHANIE With ranch dressing? DAD You should probably put some of that in there, yeah. STEPHANIE I have them right here for you. There you go. KAITLYN I think I know what I want to be when I grow up. STEPHANIE Would you like to own a business some day? Maybe a restaurant like this? KAITLYN No, I want to run a flower shop. STEPHANIE Oh. MARTHA Or maybe she'd like to be something even better, like the mayor. KAITLYN What do mayors do? MARTHA Well, mayors run the city and they get to cut ribbons and make speeches! KAITLYN Ick. MARTHA Ick? KAITLYN I want to run a flower shop. Can I do that, Daddy? DAD You can do anything you want. STEPHANIE Thank you. Come anytime. DAD Thanks. KAITLYN We will! STEPHANIE Well, would you look at that. Your idea is already inspiring the women of tomorrow. MARTHA So it's a success! And you never know what kind of woman that little girl might turn out to be. STEPHANIE Plenty of different paths. Yeah. CASSIE Hello. Where have you been? ABIGAIL At the movies. With my dad. CASSIE That sounds nice. ABIGAIL It really was. I never imagined it could be, but it was. CASSIE It was good of you to let him back into your life. ABIGAIL Well, he came all this way. Hello? This is Abigail. Why would they be checking my credit score? No, that wasn't authorized at all. Okay, thanks. CASSIE Is everything okay? ABIGAIL No. That was the fraud department at my bank. Someone asked for a credit check so they could put my name on a loan. CASSIE Why would anybody do that? ABIGAIL I know why my father would do that. So he could clean me out and steal the rest of my life from me, too. Welcome back, Dad. GRACE I like writing. And history. And I really liked working at your office, with your patients. And photography. I like that a lot. SAM Then you should do more of that. All of it. And just figure out what you like the best. GRACE I kind of want to go skydiving. SAM You want to jump out of a perfectly good airplane? GRACE Yeah. With a parachute, of course. SAM Yeah. I've always wanted to do that, too. But we'd both have to convince your mother. GRACE And she's never letting that happen. SAM Not in a million years. CASSIE Clay. Can I get you something? CLAY Is there an ice cream shop around here? CASSIE There are some nearby. But if you wanted to stay in, I have some ice cream in my freezer. You can help yourself. CLAY Oh, thanks, but Erica is craving raspberry ripple, and I can't imagine you stay stocked up on something like that. Yeah, it looks mostly like chocolate. CASSIE You sure? CLAY Raspberry ripple? No way. CASSIE There are bowls and spoons right over there. ARTHUR George told me I could find you here. Were you able to get that photo of my daughter done? CASSIE I did. And I found the perfect frame for it in my store. ABIGAIL Is there anything else I need to do? Okay. Thank you so much for your help. Did you try to put my name on a loan? ARTHUR I did, yes. ABIGAIL Well, I cancelled all my credits cards and blocked all my accounts. You can't get to them now, so don't even try. ARTHUR What? I wasn't trying to get to anything. I wanted to give you something. As a gift. ABIGAIL Is that what they teach you to say in prison? ARTHUR Abigail, I wanted this to be a surprise, but I'm buying our old house. And I want to put your name on the loan so you can be a co- owner. ABIGAIL You want to give me a house? ARTHUR The house you grew up in. ABIGAIL The one you walked out of? Stop trying to buy your way into my life. And stop pretending to be my dad. You gave up being my father when you walked out the door and never came back. ARTHUR I thought I was doing the right thing. So you'd turn out better than someone like me. ABIGAIL You know what the "right" thing would have been? If you had actually tried to be a father. This guy doesn't even think he's ready to be a dad. But he's already put more effort in before his kid's born than you did my entire life. ARTHUR I know. And you're right. But I'm here now. And I'm trying. The best that I can. ABIGAIL Well, it's too late. I thought I needed you, but I turned out just fine on my own. I've started businesses, and I used every bad thing that ever happened to me to my advantage. And when I think about the person that I am today, maybe you were right. I was better off without you. ARTHUR She made a good point. She never needed me. And that's one of the many reasons why I should never have come back. CASSIE Wait. Before you leave. This is for you. ARTHUR Thanks. CASSIE I hope you'll come back when your baby is born so I can get to know the whole family. CLAY We will. ERICA And I'm going to want that exact same bed. CASSIE I'll keep it open just for you. Are you glad you stayed the extra night? CLAY I'm glad you had the ice cream she wanted, too. CASSIE It was nice to know a man who realizes he may not be a perfect father but knows he needs to try. Which is the first thing that every little boy needs. ERICA How did you know we were having a boy? CLAY We didn't tell anybody. CASSIE Didn't you? Hmmm. Oh, and I pulled this book off the shelves. It made me think of you. ERICA Clay's already read every parenting book there is. CASSIE But I think he might like this one the best. CLAY "One Otter and Twenty-One Rabbits"? CASSIE It was one of my daughter's favorites. We used to read it together and laugh and laugh and not think about anything else. CLAY What's it about? CASSIE It's about an otter. And twenty-one rabbits. ABIGAIL What are you doing here? ARTHUR I just wanted to tell you that I'm leaving. ABIGAIL Because you're good at that. ARTHUR Because I didn't want to just disappear from your life again. I printed up a copy of the paperwork that shows you're not on the loan for the house. So you're free and clear of me. ABIGAIL Are you really going to go live in the exact same house that you walked out on me from? ARTHUR I am. Because it's the house we brought you home to after you were born. And it's where I watched you learn to walk. Where you set up your lemonade stand. So it'll give me a chance to remember the good things instead of all the mistakes that I made. ABIGAIL Well thanks for this, at least. ARTHUR And thanks for coming to dinner. And what you said at Grey House was right. You didn't need me then, and you don't need me now. ABIGAIL Yeah, I turned out okay. ARTHUR Any man would be proud to call you his daughter. ABIGAIL When are you moving in? ARTHUR I don't know. A couple of months. ABIGAIL Maybe I'll come see you some time. I'm not saying I'm not still mad at you. I'm just saying that people get older. They grow up. And they change. And I'm not sure I want to get older without having a father in my life. You're the only one I've got. ARTHUR You really are a better person than I ever could have raised. ABIGAIL Well, you had something to do with it. ARTHUR If you ever want to come back to the house, let me know and I'll make sure your room's exactly how you want it. ABIGAIL Thanks, Dad. ARTHUR It was good seeing you, Abigail. ABIGAIL You can call me Abby. SAM I found a couple of ripe ones out there. CASSIE Those look good. SAM Do you want me to cut them into dodecagons? GRACE Oh. SAM You're not the only one who knows what a twelve-sided figure is. GRACE I don't know, maybe they should have given you the trophy. SAM Nah. You deserved it. ABIGAIL Hey. CASSIE Hey. Dinner's ready in 30 minutes. ABIGAIL Great, thanks. SAM Nick's on his way. GRACE Wait, did you ride a bike here? ABIGAIL It was a present. Something I always wanted. What are you making? CASSIE Mac and cheese. ABIGAIL Yum. When I was little, my mom used to let me crush up the bread crumbs and sprinkle them on the top before it went in the oven. CASSIE Then it's a good thing I saved that job for you. Crush away. ABIGAIL I won't be needing that. We did things differently in the Pershing house. That's how you do it to make sure they're the right size. GRACE Okay. ABIGAIL Yeah, that used to happen a lot.