ABIGAIL CASSIE CITY_ENGINEER GRACE HELEN JERRY KATIE MARION MARTHA NARRATOR NICK NOAH NURSE_ARRINGTON OLDER_BOY PHIL RECEPTIONIST SAM STEPHANIE STEPHEN NARRATOR Previously on "Good Witch". NOAH Oh I don't think I've ever seen Grace not prepared for anything. SAM Why do you do it? GRACE This kind of stuff looks good on college applications. SAM What is it you love? ABIGAIL There's been a lot of talk of romance lately. But it got me thinking if I'm ever gonna find someone I wanna be with forever. SAM I'm sure you will. ABIGAIL Maybe, maybe not. MARTHA They say that some couples can't work together but I knew it would be different with you two. CASSIE Oh, it doesn't really matter who's the boss, does it? SAM Wait, you're the boss now? CASSIE All I know is that we work well together. GRACE Okay, I'll talk to Abigail about flowers, and you can figure out who's working with you on the decorations. KATIE I'm going to need a lot of help. GRACE Maybe we can round up another volunteer. KATIE Do you want something to drink? GRACE No thanks. NICK What were you talking to Katie about? GRACE The formal. We're on the planning committee. NICK I wanted to ask her to go but I don't know if she knows me well enough to say yes. GRACE We could use a few more people on the committee. NICK You want me to help put together a dance? GRACE We meet every day after school and during lunch and you would get to work side-by-side with Katie who would be so happy with anyone who wanted to help. NICK Where do I sign up? ABIGAIL But who is it? CASSIE He asked for privacy. MARTHA Can't you even give us a hint? CASSIE I told him I wouldn't tell anyone that he was here. STEPHANIE Can I get anyone anything else? MARTHA You can get Cassie to tell us the name of the mystery man who's been staying at Grey House for the past three days. ABIGAIL I've been living in the same house with him and even I don't know who he is. STEPHANIE Is this the mystery man that I've been sending the same grilled cheese and French fries to every single night? CASSIE Every single night. MARTHA So we know he likes grilled cheese. ABIGAIL And French fries. MARTHA And he arrived by private jet. It's been parked at the county airstrip since he got here. CASSIE He is doing some work here. I take him tea every day at one o'clock and I told him I wouldn't tell anyone what he's doing. STEPHANIE Well, if he has a private jet then he has to be rich. ABIGAIL Maybe famous. MARTHA Ooo, or maybe even royalty. STEPHANIE And he's here by himself, so he's probably single. MARTHA I just wish somebody could find out more about who he is. ABIGAIL Somebody really should. GRACE Noah. NOAH Hi. Whatcha working on? GRACE School formal stuff. NOAH Oh, I was actually wanting to talk with you about that. I figured we were going to go but I hadn't officially asked you, so. GRACE Yes. Yes. Of course. Yes! NOAH I was thinking I should do a big, fancy invitation but - GRACE This is perfect. And I get something to eat. NOAH Yeah, I was thinking that might be the icing on the cake. PHIL Who are you? ABIGAIL I brought you some tea. PHIL No, no. Cassie brings that at one o'clock. It's not even twelve thirty. ABIGAIL I was just thinking, in case she forgets. Should I bring this in? PHIL Yeah fine. Thank you. ABIGAIL Where would you like it? PHIL Well, anywhere's fine. ABIGAIL What are you working on? PHIL I'm developing a dating website. ABIGAIL Really? I've never used one of those before. PHIL You'd be surprised how many people have, to get over the awkwardness of meeting people. ABIGAIL Can I see what it does? PHIL Oh, no, uh. Sorry. I'm very careful with my work. I write it all out on this board because I like to see everything right out front of me and then I transfer it to an offline computer so no one can hack into what I'm doing and then I erase it all and I start over fresh in the morning. ABIGAIL Isn't that a lot of trouble to go through for something that sets people up for lunch? PHIL Oh, no, no, it does a lot more than that. ABIGAIL I'm Abigail, by the way. PHIL Hmm? ABIGAIL Abigail. PHIL Oh. I'm uh, I'm Phil. ABIGAIL Well, I will let you get back to it. PHIL Yeah, um. Thank you for bringing the tea. CASSIE Phil. Sam, this is one of my guests. SAM Oh, hi. PHIL Hi. Do you have a recycling bin? CASSIE I do, in the kitchen. PHIL I'm not going to be needing all of these questionnaires anymore. CASSIE Oh. Well, let me take them for ya. PHIL Oh, thanks. CASSIE Yeah. Is this what you've been working on? PHIL Yeah, when I was building my um- Well, my dating website. CASSIE You should tell Sam about what you're doing. SAM It sounds like you're some kind of a high-tech matchmaker. PHIL Yeah. Yeah, sort of. I've figured out a way to guarantee perfect pairings based on the subjects' responses to some carefully constructed statements designed to draw out specific levels of information. SAM Things like, "Do you like your ice cream in a cup or a cone?" PHIL No. We ask open-ended questions like, "Describe your perfect Sunday afternoon", "Why do your friends say they are friends with you?" And then we have people write out their answers in longhand so they reveal even more about themselves. CASSIE I've always felt that putting pen to paper is a more personal form of communication. PHIL You and I think alike. And then I input the data and run it through an algorithm that discovers connections the applicants might have never realized they had. CASSIE Why are some of these stapled together? PHIL Those are the couples that my program matched up. CASSIE Oh, I bet they were happy to have found someone so right for them. PHIL Oh, no, this was just beta testing, to show the program works. I hired a marketing firm to take anonymous samples but we didn't do any real world meet-ups. CASSIE Oh. But these two people are perfect for each other? PHIL That's what the computer says. CASSIE Look at that. This man and woman both live in Middleton. PHIL How can you tell? I didn't take any names or addresses. CASSIE Yeah, but they describe places they like to go -- the park with the footbridge over Eternity Creek, and that bookstore where they do readings Saturday night. That's all right here. PHIL It was a national sample. What are the odds that two of them would be from Middleton? CASSIE I'm not someone who thinks too much about the odds. But I do like to help the right people find each other. SAM Cassie, the chance of finding those two people based on these answers - And you're not someone who thinks about chance, either. PHIL I don't understand. What are you going to do? SAM She's going to figure out who those two people are. And bring them together. CASSIE Good morning, Sam. SAM Morning. What are you reading? CASSIE Dating questionnaires. SAM You really think you can figure that out? CASSIE I can't not try. SAM I'm just glad I didn't have to fill out one of these in order to meet you. "What's the sound of your favorite color?" CASSIE Ooo, that's easy. A flute. SAM And what color does that sound like? CASSIE Magenta. SAM You say that like it's obvious. CASSIE Isn't it? SAM "What three things would you need in order to spend a perfect hour." Ooo, I can answer this one. Cassie, Cassie, and Cassie. CASSIE That's just one thing. SAM I have my way of doing math. And I gotta get to work. And good luck finding anybody based on those questions. I don't even know who they would have asked to fill one of those things out. CASSIE Oh, that's a good idea. SAM I had an idea? CASSIE Phil said he hired a marketing team to gather this data. Maybe they could tell me who these people were. SAM So, you're going to get in touch with whoever conducted the survey? CASSIE It was your idea. SAM I'm a genius. STEPHANIE So, he's a website designer? ABIGAIL Yeah. But he's way too into his work. And he thinks dating is just two people being matched up by a computer. STEPHANIE Computers? Whatever happened to just walking past a guy four or five times until he notices you? ABIGAIL Four or five times? STEPHANIE Okay, well, some of us had to walk farther than others. ABIGAIL Hello. Are you here to talk floral arrangements for the dance? GRACE I am. But Nick is here to pick up the corsage for his date. ABIGAIL Who are you going with? NICK This girl on the dance committee that I'm working with. STEPHANIE You're on the dance committee? GRACE It was to get to know the girl that he wanted to ask. NICK And I asked her, and it worked. ABIGAIL What color dress is she wearing? NICK I'm supposed to know that already? GRACE Oh. ABIGAIL Find out. And there's a book of corsages over there. NICK Thank you. STEPHANIE Okay, well, I should be getting back to work. Maybe I'll find a guy to walk past one or five times. GRACE See you later. ABIGAIL I saw Noah do his cute little dance invite yesterday. GRACE Yeah, he's really looking forward to going. We both are. Which is why I want to make sure the flowers to look really good. ABIGAIL Okay. Where are you having it? GRACE At the school, in the gym. ABIGAIL You're holding a romantic winter formal in a gym? GRACE It barely smells like basketballs in there. ABIGAIL Grace, this is one of those nights you're going to remember for the rest of your life. Can't you find somewhere better than that. GRACE But the dance is this Saturday. It is too late to find someplace else. ABIGAIL You're on the committee, aren't you? GRACE Yes. ABIGAIL And you're a Merriwick? GRACE Yes. ABIGAIL It's never too late for a Merriwick. We can always make things better. CASSIE Hello? HELEN Is this Cassie Nightingale? CASSIE Yes. HELEN This is Helen Thorland. CASSIE Oh, thanks for getting back to me. I got your number from Phil Sturgis. You conducted a survey last year for a dating website he's working on? HELEN I supervised the team that did, yes. CASSIE Well, I saw one of the matches his program made - two people who live in my town and are perfect for each other. Um, I wondered if there might be a way to contact them? HELEN I'm sorry, we keep all of our surveys confidential. CASSIE Oh. HELEN If it helps, the sample we used was three hundred men and women, and we only used people who failed to meet a match on other dating sites. CASSIE So they were really determined to find their right match. HELEN And they were all between the ages of twenty-five and twenty-nine. CASSIE Well, that's something to go on. Thank you, I appreciate your help. MARTHA I just don't see how it's possible! MARTHA The dance is only a few days away and you want to move it from indoors at the high school to outside in the city park? GRACE I want to call it, "A Night Under the Stars." MARTHA And I call it "wishful thinking." Have you even considered the cost? GRACE I ran the numbers, and we can make it work. And it's supposed to be really nice this weekend- perfect for all of us to be outdoors. MARTHA But you'd still need a permit, and there's a rather substantial fee for that. GRACE I was sort of wondering if you knew anyone influential at city hall who might let us do it for free? MARTHA Give me some time, and I'll see what I can do. GRACE Thank you so much! MARTHA I don't know what it is about you Merriwicks but you always seem to be able to cast a spell over me. GRACE That's what I was hoping. SAM Maybe I'm old fashioned, because I don't see how people can be brought together by answering the question, "If you were on a desert island, what historical figure would you want there with you, and what would you talk about?" PHIL I get a lot of good information out of that question. CASSIE Hello, Phil. PHIL So this one's still not a believer, huh? CASSIE I'm working on him. PHIL Other dating sites, they just ask people fill-in-the-blank questions. But I match people based on different things. I bring people together who would have never realized they were the perfect match. SAM How exactly does your program decide who's supposed to be a couple? PHIL No, no, no. That's, that's the secret part that's one day going to send my IPO through the roof. CASSIE You know, since your work is mostly done, you might enjoy seeing what's been right outside your door. There's a park behind Grey House. It's a good shortcut to downtown, you might want to see where it leads you. PHIL Maybe I'll do that in the morning. Good night. CASSIE Good night. SAM Good night. So. CASSIE Yeah? SAM "What traits of yours can be described as both positive and negative?" CASSIE For you, I would write "skeptical." SAM This woman said that she has energy to burn. That she goes to bed late because she never falls asleep. And everybody she shakes hands with tells her how warm her hands feel. When did these people fill this out? CASSIE Some time last year. Why? SAM Because if a patient of mine exhibited signs like high metabolism, irregular sleep patterns and warm skin, I'd be curious enough to have her checked for a variety of conditions, including hyperthyroidism. CASSIE Is that serious? SAM It can be. Especially if she says that she thinks she's so healthy she's never seen a doctor. I'm going to see if I can move my schedule around tomorrow. CASSIE Why? SAM So I have time to work with you. And find the woman who wrote this. SAM Okay, so, we know where she likes to go on weekends. CASSIE Yeah. To that bookstore, downtown. Thank you. SAM Which means at least she lived in Middleton when she filled out the form. CASSIE Mmm-hmm. Yeah, and her desert island person is Shakespeare. She likes to read his sonnets. SAM Oh, unless that's just something she said to sound romantic. Does anybody really read Shakespearian sonnets? CASSIE I do. SAM Um, what else did she say? CASSIE She was on the track team in high school. SAM Here in Middleton? CASSIE Yeah. She ran the mile the year her team won state. SAM Oh. So a Middleton athlete on a state championship team. CASSIE You know, there's a trophy case at City Hall. With pictures of all the teams that won. SAM With names? CASSIE Maybe. SAM That's as good a place to start as any. We can go tomorrow morning. CASSIE Thanks for helping, Sam. SAM You're not the only one in this relationship who appreciates a good mystery. MARTHA Thank you so much for meeting me here so early. CITY ENGINEER Well, if this dance is going to happen on Saturday night, we need to get on it right away. MARTHA Abigail? ABIGAIL Oh. Good morning. Aren't these beautiful? MARTHA Yes, I suppose they are. ABIGAIL Cassie told me they're in bloom and they don't last that long this time of year. So I came by to take a look. MARTHA Well, if the winter formal ends up being here, we'll make sure to warn the students not to trample them. ABIGAIL Thank you. MARTHA What is that noise? Oh, honestly, I don't know why I ever approved giving out permits for people to fly drones. CITY ENGINEER That's one of those models with a built-in camera. MARTHA What? Really? I hope it's not taking pictures of me. I don't want the camera to see me with my resting mayor's face. PHIL Look out! Are you okay? MARTHA Yes. I think so, yes. JERRY I'm sorry. I was showing the boys my new toy and it got away from us. OLDER BOY Yeah. We're sorry, Mayor Tinsdale. MARTHA That's alright. I'm fine. You do have a permit I hope to fly that thing. JERRY Of, of, of course. MARTHA Well, then just try to be more careful in the future. JERRY I will. I will. Okay. MARTHA Oh. Thank goodness you were here to save me. ABIGAIL Martha. This is Phil. He's staying with us at Grey House. MARTHA Oh. So you're the mystery man! PHIL I am? ABIGAIL Martha. MARTHA What? Oh, uh, mystery in the sense that it's a mystery how you happened to show up right in time. ABIGAIL Right. MARTHA Well, thanks again. And be sure to call me when you make decision as to whether the dance can be here, or not. CITY ENGINEER Yes, Madam Mayor. MARTHA Ta-ta. ABIGAIL Well, you just saved our mayor from an aerial attack. They might give you a medal for that. Where are you headed? PHIL Oh, Cassie told me to cut through here as a shortcut from Grey House into town. ABIGAIL The other way's actually faster, but. You can go this way, too. PHIL So, I'm going to, um, I'm gonna walk. ABIGAIL Have a nice day. MARTHA You're lucky I was able to be here on time considering the frightful morning I've had. CASSIE Thank you for meeting with us. We're looking for high school trophies from about ten years ago. MARTHA Oh, well, they should all be in there somewhere. SAM Look, here's one right there. State champs. CASSIE Yeah. And there's another one, different year. MARTHA Well, Middleton High's track team was the one to beat in those days. SAM How do we narrow it down? CASSIE I wonder what those articles say about the people who were on the winning teams? SAM Look at this. "Miler Marion Anderson said she calms herself down before each race by reading Shakespeare to herself." MARTHA Is she the person you're looking for? SAM How many people do you know who actually read Shakespeare? MARTHA I'm sure we can find her address in the city records, and then the two can go and try and track her down. SAM Huh. CASSIE Looks like we're getting somewhere. CASSIE Do you think that's her? SAM It might be. MARION Good job, good, your core is getting a lot stronger. Next Wednesday? Hi, can I help you? SAM Um, are you Marion Anderson? MARION I am. CASSIE Uh, this might seem strange but. we found you through a dating questionnaire you filled out. Some handwritten essays. MARION I thought that was anonymous. CASSIE It was. But you were matched with someone and I thought it would be nice to find the two of you, so you could meet. MARION Is this him? SAM Oh, no. I'm just a doctor who got drawn into this. I'm Sam Radford. MARION Hi. Oh, I have friend who's a patient of yours. SAM Some things you mentioned on the questionnaire brought us here for a different reason. MARION Is there something wrong? SAM Um, no, not necessarily. MARION Well, what's going on? Tell me. SAM Well, what you wrote about your energy level and your metabolism, along with your aversion to sunlight, made me think that you might need some medical attention. MARION Medical attention? About what? SAM It sounds like you could have an issue with your thyroid. MARION I've never felt there was anything wrong. SAM And there might not be. CASSIE Doctor Radford just felt they should run some tests. MARION Okay, Well, whatever it takes to find out. SAM And I might be overly concerned but we would want to find out as soon as possible. NOAH then Coach pulls me aside and says I've been hitting with a lot more power recently. So starting tomorrow he's moving me to clean up. GRACE Wait. That doesn't seem fair, they're making you clean up instead of play. NOAH No, it's- GRACE I'm joking. I know that clean-up means you're batting fourth. Congratulations. NOAH I'm starting to think that I might- GRACE Sorry. Oh, I think it's Mayor Tinsdale. Mayor Tinsdale? Uh-huh. Really? Yes, yes. Of course. I will get started on everything right away. Okay thank you, thank you, thank you! That was Mayor Tinsdale and she said we can have the dance at the park! NOAH I thought we were having it at school? GRACE I know, and I didn't want to say anything until it was official but - it's official! So it is going to be a night under the stars! NOAH That's great. GRACE I know. But I'm going to have to say "no" to bowling. I got to get home and put a list together before the end of the night. NOAH You have been putting lists together all week. It's why I've hardly even seen you. GRACE I know, but we want everything to be special, right? NOAH I guess. But you're gonna be at my game tomorrow, right? GRACE Yes, of course. I wouldn't miss it. SAM I'm glad you convinced me to come. CASSIE So are we. SAM So I've asked the lab to run a few tests to find out if your thyroid is functioning properly. If it's not, and we caught it in time, you'll have to take hormones and beta blockers. MARION And what if we didn't catch it in time? SAM There's an iodine treatment that's safe and there's very few side effects. MARION I can hardly believe that you were able to track me down based on how I answered a dating questionnaire. SAM It's just a good thing you were a Shakespeare-loving track star. NURSE ARRINGTON Marion? They're ready for you in the lab. SAM So, Doctor Stallings will be the one working with you down there. And I'll consult with him once the results come back and oversee your treatment, if there is any. I'll see you in a bit? MARION Thank you so much. CASSIE Sure. SAM Marion should be thanking you. There's no way of knowing if she'd be okay if you hadn't really wanted to find her and the man she's so right for. CASSIE Although finding her perfect match doesn't seem like the most important thing right now. SAM I guess you're right. I'll let you know how she is as soon as I hear anything. Okay? CASSIE Yeah. Please. ABIGAIL Oh, sorry! PHIL Excuse me. ABIGAIL So is that how your website works? PHIL Hmm? ABIGAIL You figure out where someone is gonna be and just keep running into them? PHIL Actually, that's something I could work into the software. ABIGAIL But it takes more than just the right program, doesn't it? PHIL It's matching up the person with the thing they desire. Simple. ABIGAIL That just sounds like marketing. PHIL It's a lot more than that. ABIGAIL When I worked in advertising, it was all about creating wants and needs that the customer didn't even knew they had. PHIL Yes. But people who are alone all want the same thing, they all want not to be alone. ABIGAIL So your selling them on the fantasy that there's someone for everyone? PHIL I'm selling them on the idea that if there is someone out there, I'm going to make sure they meet up. ABIGAIL But how can you be so sure they're going to find the right one? PHIL Because I look under the surface and get to the intangibles in a person's life. My algorithm analyzes key words and phrases and actually reads between the lines to form a deeper personality profile. And then it matches up people who would have had no idea that they should even be together. ABIGAIL That would be amazing, if it works. PHIL It's going to work. "Between the Lines" is going to be the biggest thing in internet matchmaking, ever. GRACE Abigail! Martha says we can have the dance at the park! ABIGAIL That's great! PHIL Look out for drones. GRACE What? PHIL Never mind. I should get back to work. Unless you think I'm wasting my time. ABIGAIL I didn't say that. PHIL No, not exactly, not in those words, but I read between the lines. GRACE He seems nice. ABIGAIL Yeah, I guess so. GRACE You know he likes you. ABIGAIL No. GRACE He likes you. ABIGAIL He barely knows me. GRACE Oh come on. Did you notice the way he was looking at you? ABIGAIL No, I didn't. GRACE Well, then, it's a good thing that I got here in time to point it out. SAM As Doctor Stallings explained, you do have hyperthyroidism. SAM But luckily we caught it early and it's easy to treat. I'll want you to make some changes to your diet, and a few other adjustments to your lifestyle. MARION Is one of those "lifestyle adjustments" meeting that perfect match that you and Cassie said is out there for me? SAM Well, if only it were that easy. It was hard enough to find you. MARION It's okay. I won't get my hopes up. Although I guess he's the one who'll never know what he's missing. SAM That's the way to think about it. GRACE When does the dance floor get delivered? KATIE Saturday morning. But someone should be here early to make sure it gets set up in the right spot. NICK I can do that. GRACE Okay, and then we can move the tables and chairs over here, and put the heaters in the tent where the food will be. NICK I didn't realize there was this much to do to just get ready for a dance. KATIE Yeah, which is why it's so great that you're helping us. GRACE Okay, well, I think we've got everything all planned out. I just feel like we're forgetting something. KATIE What else is there? GRACE Noah! Hi. I forgot your game. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. How did you do? NOAH We won. GRACE That's great! KATIE I just wanted to make sure you didn't leave without looking over the timeline for the night of the dance. I highlighted everything you need to do, starting as soon as you get here. GRACE Thanks. NOAH So how much more committee stuff do you have to do? GRACE Just a few more things. NOAH And you have to work during the dance, too? GRACE Just whatever's highlighted. NOAH You know, all I wanted to do was dance with my girlfriend. I didn't know I'd have to schedule in time between jobs. GRACE We can still find the time. NOAH Look, if you're going to be too busy, maybe we should just forget about it. GRACE Forget about what? NOAH Maybe we shouldn't go to the dance at all? ABIGAIL Oh, it's just you. CASSIE Who was I supposed to be? ABIGAIL I thought you might be Phil. CASSIE No, I think he's upstairs, working. ABIGAIL Good because I don't know what I'd say if I ran into him again. CASSIE Oh, have you been running into him? ABIGAIL A lot. And your daughter seems to think that he likes me. CASSIE Grace is a pretty good judge about those kinds of things. ABIGAIL I know. What if she's right? CASSIE Guys have liked you before. ABIGAIL Not one who's practically living in this house. CASSIE Do you like him? ABIGAIL I thought that I might, and then we sort of started arguing about how people should meet. CASSIE Right. And people who argue can't possibly be interested in each other. ABIGAIL Phil. We were just talking about you. PHIL Was it about how you stole the idea for my website? ABIGAIL Stole your what? PHIL I just found out that someone else is starting a site exactly like mine. And the only way they could have found out about it is from the only person that I told. And the only person I told was you. ABIGAIL Why would I have stolen your idea? And what would I even do with it? PHIL Companies pay a lot of money for intellectual property like this. ABIGAIL You think I would do this for the money? CASSIE How do you know it was stolen? PHIL Because Vizacore Systems just announced the release date of their dating site called: "In Between the Lines." It's supposed to come out three weeks before mine was going to go live and they're saying how it goes beyond the yes-or-no answers, it uses an algorithm exactly like the one I came up with. And I wrote it on the whiteboard and the only person I told about the algorithm was you. I told only you. ABIGAIL I didn't tell anyone. PHIL Then how else could they have found out about it? You'll be hearing from my lawyers tomorrow. Which is exactly when I'll be checking out of this place which I wish I'd never come to. RECEPTIONIST Can I help you? SAM I hope so. I'm looking for someone who maybe works here. He filled out a questionnaire last year and I just wanted to get in touch with him regarding the results. The way he wrote, and the interests he wrote about made me think he might be a sports columnist. RECEPTIONIST I can put you in touch with ours. SAM Great. Probably in his late twenties, early thirty. RECEPTIONIST Uh, our guy is way older. He's been here since Super Bowl one. SAM Oh. RECEPTIONIST You might try the Blairsville Clarion. They hired a new guy about a year ago. SAM Ah, that'd mean I have to go to Blairsville. And I was having such a good day. Thanks for the help. RECEPTIONIST Sure. Good luck. CASSIE There you are. What time did you finally get home last night? GRACE Not until after midnight. We still have so much to get ready before the dance. CASSIE Tonight's the big night. GRACE Yeah. Except Noah's not going. CASSIE What? GRACE We've been texting back and forth since he told me and I didn't want to tell you until it was official but it's official. CASSIE What happened? GRACE He doesn't think I'm going to have time to be with him. CASSIE And is he right about that? GRACE I mean, I'm going to have a few things to do but we were still going to be there. CASSIE Be there at the same time but together? GRACE As much as possible. CASSIE Well, that's too bad. I know Noah was looking forward to being there with you. GRACE When did you get that? CASSIE I've had this around for a while. GRACE It's nice. CASSIE Yeah, I've always thought it was special. Hey Sam. SAM Hi. Hi Grace. GRACE Hi. SAM What's going on with her? CASSIE Oh. High school dance problems. SAM Ah. CASSIE How's Marion? SAM I met with her yesterday, she's going to be fine. She doesn't need any major procedures. CASSIE That's good to hear. SAM You want to hear something else? I tracked down the guy that's a perfect match. CASSIE Since when did you become a matchmaker? SAM It's just - Marion seemed so curious about meeting him and I thought... we've come this far, why not go all the way. CASSIE How did you find him? SAM Well, in his questionnaire he said he loved basketball but wasn't good enough to play. And he used a few sports metaphors in his essay, which was really well-written, and he mentioned that his proudest moment was his first column he had published in college. So I just went on a hunch that maybe he's working as a sportswriter. CASSIE And you went around every newspaper in the tri-county area? SAM Well, there are only seven. And I got lucky after two. His name is Richard Stroud. I looked up his address online and I thought. CASSIE I want to go there, yeah! Now. SAM Which is why I brought my car. CASSIE Okay. MARTHA Oh, Abigail! There you are. Have you been back to that park where I saw you the other day? ABIGAIL Not since you saw me there. MARTHA I was hoping you might have taken a stroll through with our mystery man. ABIGAIL That will not be happening, no. MARTHA And you haven't seen our drone flying man doing any drone-flying? ABIGAIL No, why? MARTHA Well, I was able to get council to pass an ordinance banning those things from the park and I wanted to tell him that his permit was officially revoked. ABIGAIL Maybe you can see if his kids are there. The ones who were flying the drone with him. MARTHA Oh, those aren't his kids, those are the Willets boys. Their mother just lets them run wild. ABIGAIL So, that man was flying that drone by himself? MARTHA Mmm-hmm. ABIGAIL And you haven't seen him since? MARTHA No. ABIGAIL Do you still have his permit on file? MARTHA Yes, it's public record. ABIGAIL So I could take a look at it? MARTHA At city hall, yes. ABIGAIL Then what are we doing here? MARTHA Well, I was gonna order a-- Oh, never mind. SAM So I read some of Richard's columns. He's really good. CASSIE Yeah, a perfect match for an English Lit major like Marion. SAM So, maybe the computer is better than all of us at figuring out who should be together? CASSIE There might be a few things that we know more than it does but let's just see if we've found our match and let the future decide the rest. STEPHEN Hello. SAM We're looking for Richard Stroud? STEPHEN Then you've come to the right place. CASSIE Oh. Mister Stroud, my name is Cassie Nightingale. SAM And I'm Sam Radford. CASSIE We found your name when we - STEPHEN No, I'm sorry, I'm Richard's brother. Stephen. I'm housesitting while he and his wife are on their honeymoon. CASSIE Your brother's married? STEPHEN Yep, just last week. He finally found the love of his life. PHIL Oh sorry, I'm all out of ideas for you to steal. ABIGAIL I didn't steal your idea. But I think I know who did. Remember that man in the park who was flying the drone with his sons? Well, those were not his sons. And he doesn't even live in Middleton. I got a look at his permit. And he arrived the exact same day that you did and now he's gone. PHIL So? ABIGAIL So I think he used the drone to take photos of that white board which is facing the window. PHIL But how would he have known that's how I like to work? ABIGAIL Someone who used to work with would know that. Maybe you should take a look at the name on this permit. SAM So, what are we going to tell Marion? CASSIE I don't know. Maybe it's better that she never knows what happened to her perfect match. SAM Because Richard found somebody that he must think was more perfect than she is. CASSIE I guess computers aren't always right. SAM I just feel so bad for her. CASSIE You know, I'm surprised that you're this disappointed. SAM It's just after the diagnosis and everything, I was hoping we could give Marion some kind of "happily ever after." CASSIE Well, you never know. That part of the story may not be written yet. NOAH Grace. GRACE Hi. NOAH Why aren't you at the dance? GRACE Because, I wanted to be here instead. NOAH You look amazing. GRACE Thank you. Um, look, I was thinking about what you said, about just wanting us to be able to dance together. That's what I wanted, too. To dance under the stars. So I um, brought some music. And the stars were already up there, just waiting to be danced under. I was wondering if you still wanted to do what that cupcake said? NOAH Did I already tell you how great you look? GRACE You did, yeah. NOAH I'm uh a little under-dressed. GRACE What? No, you look fine. NOAH Thank you. You know, we can still make it to the dance, if you want. GRACE Why? Things are perfect right here. STEPHEN Sorry. MARION Excuse me. Go ahead. STEPHEN Oh no, I was just browsing. My brother told me about this place and I thought it'd be a good way to spend a Saturday night. MARION Uh, is there anything specific you like? STEPHEN I'm not really an expert on books. MARION Oh Have you ever read Shakespeare? STEPHEN People read Shakespeare? MARION They have a whole section over here. STEPHEN I'd love to take a look. MARION Okay. Everybody loves the plays. STEPHEN Yeah. MARION But I'm fascinated with the sonnets. PHIL Good morning. Well, it seems you were right about the guy with the drone. He worked for my company. I never met him but I guess he was upset about being fired or. He went to my former partner who knew about how I like to work on the whiteboard, so that's how they were able to steal my idea. ABIGAIL Well, I'm glad you got to the bottom of that. PHIL I should have known you would never have done it. I just didn't know how else it could have happened. ABIGAIL And now you do. PHIL Yeah. Anyway, my lawyers were able to keep them from working with my intellectual property. ABIGAIL So you can put your website online? PHIL I could. But I'm not going to. I figured out I have a lot to learn about dating before I start telling people who should and should not be together. ABIGAIL You sure do. PHIL But I thought maybe you could teach me. If you wanted to. Anyway, I'm going to be staying at Grey House for a while. So maybe I'll see you around. GRACE And here's a picture of us dancing. And here's a picture of us eating burgers. And here is one of him giving me a corsage that's actually just a flower that he picked out of his backyard. SAM It sounds like you two had a good time. GRACE It was everything we both wanted it to be. But I've got to go. Noah has a game today and I promised I'd be there before the first pitch. CASSIE Cheer loudly. GRACE Oh, I will. Bye. Oh, Nick, how was the dance? Did you and Katie have a good time? NICK We hardly had any time at all. With you not there I had to work twice as hard and we barely saw each other. GRACE That's too bad. I'm sorry. NICK All I know is I won't be volunteering to help out at any more school dances. KATIE Hi guys. GRACE Oh, hi Katie. KATIE Did Nick tell you how amazing he was at the dance last night? GRACE He told me a little. KATIE There was so much to do and he did it all. Didn't complain, just dove in and got the job done. NICK Well, I mean, I did volunteer. KATIE We should go out some other time and actually be together, okay? NICK Yeah. KATIE Next weekend? NICK Yeah. KATIE Great. I'll see you. GRACE Bye. You know, it's not too late to volunteer to help out with the prom. NICK I might consider doing that. MARTHA Oh, I wanted to catch Grace and congratulate her on how the formal went off without a hitch. Perfect weather, well-behaved teens and best of all no drones. SAM No drones is pretty much the key to any successful dance. MARTHA It's the key to everything. Which is why I'm so pleased that they arrested that conniving drone operator for trying to steal that young man's computer dating idea. CASSIE And I'm glad Abigail was cleared of doing any wrongdoing. MARTHA Justice in Middleton is swift and severe, criminals are not welcome here. Ooo, that'd make a great slogan! I'm gonna put it on the welcome sign. CASSIE So, I saw Marion last night at a bookstore, and guess who she was with? SAM Who? CASSIE Stephen Stroud. SAM But I thought she was matched with his brother? CASSIE All I know is that the two of them seemed to be having a good time. SAM So the computer wasn't right about who was supposed to be with whom. CASSIE But somehow the right two people ended up together, anyway. It's funny how things work out that way, isn't it? SAM Yeah. Funny.