AVERY BARTENDER CAPTAIN_MASSEY COREY DOMINIQUE FRANKIE JERRY_MANAFORT JILL_MANAFORT LENORE MAX PASSENGER_1 QUACKER_1 ROSIE TRISTAN VIVIAN WALLA MAX Who's that? TRISTAN Lenore Laurent. Her husband owns the cruise line. MAX And if you wanted, if you decided that you would like to be an MD, the Captain will support you for a full scholarship. AVERY What? Oh, my God. CAPTAIN MASSEY Vivian has graciously agreed to stay with us for the rest of the season. AVERY Threesome, baby! TRISTAN Oh, wow! MAX Hey! Whoo! Threesome. AVERY I think we need to talk about what happened. AVERY I had fun. MAX What happened the other night was wonderful, but it's not me. I can't do it. I am a one-woman man. TRISTAN I love you. But I can't share you. CAPTAIN MASSEY Oh, my God. What have we done? CAPTAIN MASSEY Lenore, a whole ship full of Quakers? LENORE Quackers! People obsessed with little, rubber duckies who like to play hide-and-seek all over the ship. They bring their own to hide, and then they spend their days searching out for others. It's the latest cruising craze, Bobby. You've heard of it. Don't pretend you haven't. CAPTAIN MASSEY I might have read something about it. I know that it's some sort of a-a movement, but I don't approve, and I'll tell you why. Captain Nielson over at the Nautilus. He called me up, he told me, "I had 'em in the engine room, I had 'em in the plumbing. They were in the lifeboats for God's sake." LENORE Well, we've booked several dozens of them for a five-day cruise of fun, joy, duck decorating and any other duck-related happiness they can concoct. And you, my darling, will be their cheery host. CAPTAIN MASSEY Lenore, don't you think that one of the mid-range ships on the line is better suited for this sort of thing? LENORE We are doing this special week, Bobby. A: it is my prerogative as co-CEO, B: you are well aware of the economics of this industry ever since COVID and C: don't be such a snob of the sea. The Quackers movement brings in thousands of cruisers a year. Thousands. CAPTAIN MASSEY But The Odyssey is the flagship of the line. She's the lady of elegance and dignity and grace. LENORE Well, this week, she's the flagship of ducks. ROSIE And here's another thing about Quackers week, everybody participates, okay? Captain's orders. COREY People are looking for new ways to have clean, innocent fun in this brutal world. Last year, 50,000 ducks were hidden on cruise liners globally. And the Quacker community is only growing. MAX What's going on here? Why am I only just hearing about this? ROSIE The rules. Again, don't shoot the messenger. Every crew member must make a Quacker. One that represents you, your dreams, your goals, what makes you special. The more personal, the better. ROSIE And then the passengers and crew will have one hour to hide their ducks. For the rest of the passage, it's duck hunting season, baby. Fun ensues. COREY And there are prizes. First, second and third place for finding the most ducks, including free cruises and dinner with our very own captain. TRISTAN Uh, whoa. Is the crew eligible for this? ROSIE Yes, handsome nurse child. ROSIE And there is one elusive golden duck that the Captain hides. Whoever finds this, wins a cash prize of $5,000. AVERY A golden rubber duckie? Like Willy Wonka? COREY Social media has literally hundreds of thousands of people posting photos of their ducks and the ships they find them on. It's The Odyssey's turn. AVERY Oh. AVERY I hate crafts. I have no idea what to make. God, and this paint smell is making me nauseous. Name an important woman in history for me to decorate. MAX Joan of Arc. You can paint her melting and screaming in stoic agony. AVERY Oh, my God. MAX You know half of these ducks are just gonna end up in the water? Do you have any idea how destructive this craze is? Do you know how much plastic ends up in our oceans every year? AVERY How much? I bet you know. MAX Eleven million tons. There is not a turtle or a bird anywhere on planet Earth that has not ingested this stuff. MAX You know, one time, I was on this animal rescue mission. I find this seagull all wrapped up in a fishing net. Airway is constricted, mobility's constricted. It's just tragic. And why should our wildlife suffer for our so-called fun? We never learn. AVERY Well, we could mutiny. I could explain to Lenore that God, this paint smell. It is so horrible, right? MAX The last time you tried to explain something to Lenore, you got fired. AVERY Yeah, but then I got rehired with a raise, so MAX That's a good point. Anyway, I'm not doing this. TRISTAN Wow. I recognize that. Is that Van Gogh? VIVIAN Uh. Starry Night. Yeah. TRISTAN What makes that personal? VIVIAN Oh, it's in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and my dad was a guard there when I was little. And I used to sit in front of it all the time. And it's magic and sad and Van Gogh was going through a tough time when he painted it, but it's just filled with beauty. And that's how life feels to me when I look at the night sky. TRISTAN Yeah. TRISTAN Good answer. VIVIAN What's yours? TRISTAN It is the Venezuelan troupial, the national bird of Venezuela. VIVIAN Oh. TRISTAN It's, uh It's where my first ever cruises were. They got me hooked on this whole thing, so TRISTAN And who would've thought that these rubber duckies would make you think so much? VIVIAN Hmm. TRISTAN Drill down on who you are, what makes you proud of yourself. VIVIAN Maybe we will win this thing. TRISTAN Hmm. Maybe a trip to Kyoto. VIVIAN Oh. If either one of us wins, we could share. LENORE Hello. CAPTAIN MASSEY Hi. Welcome aboard The Odyssey. PASSENGER 1 Thanks. LENORE Hello. LENORE Hello. Oh. Aren't you adorable? LENORE Hello. Hi. CAPTAIN MASSEY Hi. Welcome to The Odyssey. LENORE Oh. I li-like playing hostess with you, Bobby. I should really visit your little vessel more often. CAPTAIN MASSEY It's Robert. LENORE Mmm. LENORE Jill and Jerry Manafort! Hello! Let me introduce you to our captain, Robert Massey. JILL MANAFORT Hello. LENORE These are the Manaforts. They're the founders of Quackers United. CAPTAIN MASSEY Pleasure. JERRY MANAFORT Pleasure to meet you. JERRY MANAFORT You know, we've done a lot of these Quackers cruises, but this boat? This is the dream. The Odyssey. JILL MANAFORT Some people don't understand the joy of something as simple as a treasure hunt. You know, spending hours decorating ducks or sharing stories. JILL MANAFORT Lenore, you have been just wonderful. I mean, supporting our growing and committed community of Quackers. LENORE We are thrilled that you're here. JILL MANAFORT We have widowers, widows, uh, folks just retiring. Ah. You know, sometimes, I think that the simple pleasures of life, that's all we have. Like, friends, family and duck hunts. LENORE Aw. Please, come on. Let me show you around. JILL MANAFORT Bye. CAPTAIN MASSEY It's a pleasure meeting you. JERRY MANAFORT Pleasure for us. FRANKIE What's with all the ducks? CAPTAIN MASSEY Ladies, welcome. Welcome aboard The Odyssey. DOMINIQUE Do you see Avery anywhere? She was gonna meet us. AVERY Oh, my God. No! DOMINIQUE Look at you! FRANKIE Yes! Oh, my God! MAX Let me guess. Sorority sisters. AVERY No, not even close. Best friends since third grade. DOMINIQUE Hmm. FRANKIE We have been through everything together. Three marriages. DOMINIQUE Two divorces, including mine. MAX Max. DOMINIQUE And three childbirths. AVERY And four trips to The Eras Tour. AVERY Come on. Let's catch up. AVERY Oh, my gosh. AVERY Gosh. It's so good to see you. So good. AVERY Welcome. Make yourselves comfortable. FRANKIE Oh, cute. DOMINIQUE Oh. FRANKIE Okay, look, you've made us wait long enough, so out with it. What's the surprise? AVERY Ah. Well, um, there's actually two surprises. I got into medical school. DOMINIQUE What? FRANKIE What? AVERY Yeah. That's why I invited you here. I wanted to tell you in person. And I didn't know that it was gonna be Quackers week. Sorry. DOMINIQUE Oh. Oh, my God. FRANKIE Avery, that's amazing. AVERY Yeah. And, uh, the ship is funding it, and I can work for the cruise line after I graduate and DOMINIQUE Stop it. Avery, you're doing it. AVERY Y-Yes, but, um Wait. FRANKIE No, we're gonna drink this down and then move on to the next. AVERY I can't because, uh AVERY The next surprise is I'm pregnant. AVERY I'm-I'm actually pregnant. DOMINIQUE Oh, my God. Avery! Oh, my God! Oh. FRANKIE Oh. Oh, Avery! DOMINIQUE Wait, am I reading the signs wrong here? Are-Are you... Are you down with this? Not okay about it? AVERY I'm not sure how I feel. AVERY Do you remember when Beau was born? FRANKIE Do I ever Eighteen hours of labor, and you helped pull him out. AVERY Yeah, I cut the cord, and we were all crying. And you were so sure about that baby and how much you wanted it. And right then I thought, "Okay, yeah. I... Of course I'd want that." FRANKIE Mmm. DOMINIQUE And now? And it's okay if you changed your mind. I did. You took me. You both did. And I never looked back. FRANKIE Mm-hmm. AVERY I'm proud that I've lived my life the way that I have. Adventures, hookups, moved on, no regrets. And that's easy when you're young and on a cruise ship, always headed toward a new horizon. Never really needing to drop an anchor in your life. AVERY God, I've always been so careful. You know? Responsible. DOMINIQUE Are you still on the pill? AVERY No. I never went back on after I froze my eggs during our last hiatus. AVERY And, plus, going off and on the pill, it is no joke. FRANKIE Mm-mmm. AVERY Condoms were worn, of course. FRANKIE Yeah, but condoms can break without you even knowing it. AVERY Yeah. DOMINIQUE Other than the science of it, how are you feeling about it? AVERY Do I want to go to med school? Heck yes, I do. Can I have a baby and do that? Handle the pressure of all of it? This is the female dilemma. FRANKIE Mmm. AVERY I think I could. But AVERY This wasn't the plan. The plan was I would finish this, this cruise life, and then I would find a job at a hospital near one of you, and meet a cool guy who taught little league, and at the last moment, the dream would come together. AVERY Maybe this is the last moment. Maybe I don't need a white picket fantasy. AVERY Being a nurse at sea, I always felt like a solitary traveler. In it alone. So confident, so sure. And now In this moment, no. Every choice and option is so filled with possibility and joy at the same time. It's so excruciating. FRANKIE Honey, you-you are never alone. You always have us. Always us. DOMINIQUE And you have the father. FRANKIE Yeah. DOMINIQUE Wait, who is the father? JILL MANAFORT Just to go over the basics, the hunt is about to begin. There are hundreds of places to hide and find ducks. As soon as the clock strikes noon, you will have until the end of the cruise to find as many as you can. MAX One more thing, as a special favor to me, your dedicated onboard physician who cares way too much about the environment, please take care to make sure that none of the ducks end up going overboard. We need to protect our oceans. JILL MANAFORT Welcome, Quackers! CAPTAIN MASSEY Thank you. TRISTAN Now, it's interesting how much fun can be had when the fun thing is incredibly trivial, right? VIVIAN Trivial Tristan. You just float along, don't you? Gently down the stream. TRISTAN I was talking about the ducks. TRISTAN Have I done something? VIVIAN As a matter of fact, yes. I don't know where I stand with you. Please just stop flirting with me like it's sport, okay? TRISTAN It's not. TRISTAN Viv I'm sorry. What I want, really, is for us to get to know each other, but bit by bit, slowly, without the rushing. Is that possible? VIVIAN I found your duck. TRISTAN Hmm. VIVIAN Okay. So tell me something about yourself. Something you don't tell other people. TRISTAN That duck it's not just about paying tribute to the places I've been to. I... I have Venezuelan heritage. It's where the tan comes from. But it's not something I knew a whole lot about growing up. VIVIAN Hmm. TRISTAN And then I went to boarding school in Scotland where I was mocked for it, you know? Mocked for this identity that I didn't even fully understand, or feel connected to. And so I was lost and stuck between two worlds. A foot in both. VIVIAN A foot in neither? TRISTAN Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. TRISTAN And, so, I vowed for a life of traveling. Learn about myself, learn about other people, and to learn about the world itself. VIVIAN "The world itself." I could dig that. TRISTAN Hey. I found this little guy in my triage bag. Almost like someone wanted me to find it. VIVIAN Hmm? MAX Are either one of you aware of the great duck spill of 1992? TRISTAN No, but I can't wait for you to tell us. VIVIAN No. MAX 1992, a cargo ship carrying 28,000 rubber ducks and other bath toys spills them into the North Pacific. VIVIAN Oh. And then months later, they washed up in Alaska, right? MAX Oh, no. Three decades later, they are still finding these on beaches all over the world. MAX These have me very depressed about the state of mankind and... and my place in the world. I'm wondering if I shouldn't just go back to working in a war zone. These damned ducks have me questioning my life choices. VIVIAN They make people happy, Max. Is that such a bad thing? MAX They are a breeding ground for bacteria. They are germ havens. MAX And in the natural world, ducks eat other ducks' ducklings babies. They're not even cute. They're, like, vicious. They're the... the serial killers of the aquatic world. TRISTAN They're not real ducks, Max. VIVIAN And "duckling babies" is redundant. BARTENDER Do you want my special mojito? AVERY If it doesn't have any booze in it, please. BARTENDER Are we taking a break, dear? Sure, I can. I have all the right ingredients. But if you change your mind, the rum is right next to that little yellow rubber duck. AVERY God, they're everywhere, aren't they? BARTENDER It's only a few more days, then the ship gets back to her regularly scheduled elegance. DOMINIQUE Mister barkeep, please, sir, I would like a Tequila Sunrise. BARTENDER You got it. FRANKIE Moscow Mule on Nurse Avery's tab. DOMINIQUE So we've been thinking. FRANKIE About your little Jane Austen plight. DOMINIQUE Not knowing who the father is. FRANKIE I think there's a good way to talk to the boys about this. A way that makes it fun and entertaining, like a game. AVERY It's not a game. FRANKIE I think the Quackers would disagree with that. Life's a game. DOMINIQUE And a hunt for prizes. BARTENDER Ladies. DOMINIQUE Hear us out. AVERY Okay. JILL MANAFORT Jerry, be sure you get the plum sauce for it. And could we share your plate? I'll get the duck egg rolls if you get the Peking. JERRY MANAFORT You got it, dearest duckling of my life. JILL MANAFORT Jerry. What was that? JERRY MANAFORT What was what? JILL MANAFORT I saw what you just did. JERRY MANAFORT I put an extra plum sauce packet in my pocket so we'd have more for later. "Extra plum sauce packet in my pocket." "Extra plum sauce packet in my pocket." You try saying that three times fast. JERRY MANAFORT Oh. Wow. JERRY MANAFORT This really is the best Quackers cruise ever, you know? JILL MANAFORT Yes, it really is. It's the way it always should be. JERRY MANAFORT You got that right. QUACKER 1 Jill, over here! MAX Let's get those sunglasses off. TRISTAN Really? MAX Oh, yes. Really. MAX Mm-hmm. MAX You too. MAX Look straight ahead. MAX Hyperemia of the conjunctiva. TRISTAN I know. MAX When did this happen? VIVIAN When we got out of the pool. MAX Hmm. MAX Tristan, any other symptoms? TRISTAN Could we just maybe, you know, confirm what this is, please? MAX Why don't we start with a differential diagnosis and confirm what it's not? TRISTAN Scabies. Mumps. TRISTAN It's bacterial conjunctivitis. MAX Yes, it is. Which you got from those filthy, nasty, dirty, grubby ducks in the pool. And now I'm down a nurse and down a head chef, and I want you both to go back to your cabins and do not touch anyone or anything, 'cause this stuff is crazy contagious. MAX And I'm gonna have to have the pool ultra-chlorinated, and those filthy little rubber ducks sterilized. You're dismissed. Thank you. MAX I told you those ducks were no good. TRISTAN You confuse me, Max. TRISTAN You wanna watch a movie in my cabin with me? JERRY MANAFORT JILL MANAFORT Jerry, what is it? Oh, God. Jerry! Okay. Baby? MAX Manafort? MAX Mr. Manafort? MAX Pulse is tachy. We need a gurney right now. AVERY Temperature is elevated, 102.4. MAX Jerry. Does it hurt when I do this? JERRY MANAFORT Uh-huh. AVERY Sir, what did you eat today? JERRY MANAFORT J-Just the buffet. It was mu shu pork. MAX We got high-pitched bowel sounds. Suspected possible obstruction, maybe volvulus. Let's get him prepped for a CT scan. AVERY Oh, no. JILL MANAFORT What is going on? Is everything okay? MAX Mrs. Manafort, your husband needs an emergency endoscopy. We're prepping him for it right now. He appears to have ingested several objects. JILL MANAFORT Objects? MAX Yes. Thankfully, nothing has passed beyond the stomach, but it is blocking the valve to his intestines, causing him intense pain. JILL MANAFORT No. AVERY Are you familiar with Pica? It's a psychological disorder. A person has the uncontrollable urge to chew on, or even swallow, items that have no nutritional value. JILL MANAFORT Right. But, uh, people have all kinds of quirks. I mean, I ate a crayon when I was a kid, and it popped right out just a few days later. MAX Ma'am, this quirk can be deadly. JILL MANAFORT Deadly? MAX We gotta get these objects out of him right now. JILL MANAFORT Jerry! JILL MANAFORT Can't I go in with him? I-I need to hold his hand. MAX I'm sorry, Mrs. Manafort, I can't have you in here. JILL MANAFORT I love you. JERRY MANAFORT MAX Mrs. Manafort? JILL MANAFORT Is he okay? MAX He did great. We're all done. JILL MANAFORT MAX It looks like we got it all. Eighteen objects in total. AVERY Several of the objects were very sharp. Nails, staples, a-any one of them could have perforated Jerry's bowel. He's lucky to be alive. JILL MANAFORT Oh. Well, good. Good. Now we can move on then? Uh, put this whole silly thing behind us. Yes? MAX No. Pica is a serious condition. Getting the objects out of Jerry's body, that was the easy part. Now we have to help Jerry learn not to put the objects in his body in the first place. AVERY Jill, has Jerry ever displayed these symptoms before? JILL MANAFORT Of course not. He's not... What? Some sort of lunatic? No. This is his idea of a joke. He thinks he's being funny. He has always gone too far with the frat jokes. You know, the... th-the swallowing the goldfish? But trust me, I know how to handle him. MAX You know, in situations like this, it's important not to judge the behavior but to try to understand it. JILL MANAFORT How am I supposed to understand... perfectly sane, perfectly perfect Jerry swallowing scrap metal like a goat? AVERY Well, you'll probably want to find a psychologist, or a psychiatrist, to get to the underlying issues, but Pica can be a reaction to many things. Loss of autonomy, exacerbated by stress... JILL MANAFORT We are on a never-ending vacation. What could be less stressful than that? AVERY You may want to reevaluate your lifestyle. JILL MANAFORT Quackers is not a lifestyle. It's who we are. These people are my family. JILL MANAFORT How soon will he be out? MAX We're gonna keep him overnight for observation. JILL MANAFORT Good. It's a new day. We have the bird watchers breakfast. We have the duck walk contest. I will swing by and fetch him in the morning. Thank you, both. MAX Why don't you get some rest? I'll take the first shift. MAX MAX Hey. AVERY Hi. MAX Something's off. His fever's spiked to 103.5. I gave him some more Tylenol, just hung another bag of antibiotics, but something doesn't feel right. AVERY You think perforation? Sepsis? AVERY Dexmedetomidine, it can linger in the body beyond the infusion period. Patients can experience a transient fever as the anesthetic wears off. MAX Damn. I should have thought of that. Meds are doing their work. I'm really sorry for getting you out of bed. I... I'll continue to monitor. You go back to sleep. AVERY No... AVERY No, it's fine. I was, uh... I couldn't sleep anyway. MAX Craft-induced anxiety dreams? AVERY Yeah. Something like that. AVERY Is this enough? For you? All of this. What we do. MAX Oh, boy. You're having a full-blown rubber ducky-induced existential spiral. AVERY I mean, it should be, right? Helping people. Saving lives. I always knew that this was my path. But what if there's other paths? Like... I always thought that if I became a doctor, things would start to make sense, and now I'm working towards that, and I want that, but... AVERY Now I'm not making sense. Never mind. It is very late. MAX When I was in med school, one of my profs used to love to tell us this quote: "If you can laugh at it, you can deal with it." AVERY Well, love 'em or hate 'em, I think the Quackers seem to get that. Did you love medical school? MAX Did I love it? I don't know, that's tricky, because med school is the greatest, longest, hardest thing that you are ever gonna do. MAX But, Avery, you are gonna kill it. AVERY BP's crashing, he's in V-tach. What's going on? MAX Give me two lines, wide open. I'll secure his airway. AVERY Perforation? MAX Gotta get him prepped before he goes into septic shock. Let's get him ready for Ex-lap. AVERY Should we get Tristan? MAX Tristan is still contagious. It's gonna have to just be us. MAX Two procedures back-to-back puts him at high risk. Checking all four quadrants. Nothing here. Suction. MAX I'm seeing signs of perforation. Fecal contamination. Pooling blood. Suction. MAX Irrigate. I-I know this isn't standard boat med, but we're gonna run the bowel manually. AVERY Looks like acute inflammation. MAX Yeah. AVERY Oh, my God. Necrotic bowel. MAX This has been going on a lot longer than we thought. AVERY It's a wonder he's not dead. MAX Wait. Wait, wait, wait. I've got an obstruction here. Clamp. MAX Scalpel. MAX Forceps. MAX There. I got it. AVERY How did this not show up on the imaging? MAX Uh... Plastic. CT only picks up dense objects. It's hollow. I have no idea. AVERY It must have appeared as another fold in-in the... A-And we did take, what, almost 20 foreign objects out of there? MAX Suture. MAX I'm gonna throw a couple of sutures in the perforation. I'm hoping that we can salvage as much of this bowel as possible. AVERY Max, this level of necrosis, what can we even do? MAX Just put one foot in front of the other. AVERY Blood pressure's dropping. MAX Clamp below this. AVERY Blood pressure is still dropping. 89/51. MAX Push one of epi, hang five units of O neg. Oh, my God. MAX There's a bleeder in here. I can't see it. AVERY Pushing one of epi. AVERY BP is rising. He's stable. For now. COREY Hey, Doc. So that was a blast, wasn't it? MAX Was it? What happens with all the rubber ducks now? Pack 'em up, send them to the landfill? Maybe we should just chuck 'em overboard, save 'em the trip? ROSIE Actually, they're, uh, going to the children's hospital. We found a program. So we're sending boxes. And then the rest, well... COREY Yeah. ROSIE We organized it, they're going on another Quackers cruise. COREY We heard about your heroic save last night. MAX Yeah, EMS is meeting us at the port. He's stable now. He's gonna make it. ROSIE Still, a brush with death, it rattles you. You hanging in, Maximillian? MAX You know, I'm not unfamiliar with brushes with death. And I don't know why, but I just thought that this job was gonna be more... I almost said "smooth sailing." ROSIE Yeah, it shocks you when real life catches up to you on The Odyssey. COREY Cruises are supposed to be a way to step away from real life, but some passengers, they get hooked, cruise after cruise. That's not stepping away, that's running away. MAX Hmm. So what do you think that says about us? ROSIE Okay, what? No. It's decided, enough gazing into the void for one day. You are coming with us to the best fish taco spot, up the coast. ROSIE We got beers, we got limes, we got a jukebox with Willie Nelson. MAX Am I in the mood? COREY Half an hour. Meet you at the terminal? ROSIE Good man! COREY That's a good man. MAX She's just sitting there? WALLA AVERY Purser said he couldn't get her to leave. MAX Hmm. MAX Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh! I need to see those eyes, Mrs. Doubtfire. TRISTAN I'm all better. Promise. I heard about Mrs. Manafort. I thought maybe a nice cup of tea would help? Get her moving. MAX Mrs. Manafort, it's Dr. Bankman. I have Tristan and Avery here with me. Can we come in? TRISTAN We have tea. MAX Mrs. Manafort, Jerry's ashore now. And he needs you there with him. AVERY Is there someone you can call to go with you to the hospital? JILL MANAFORT No. Not really. It's a nice community, the duck people, but it is transient. I wish I could just remain onboard. Go around one more time. MAX I understand that, but... the fact is, you can't stay on The Odyssey. Jerry is gonna wake up, and when he does, he's gonna want you there to hold his hand. JILL MANAFORT We have been taking these trips for the last few years, organizing them. You make it your whole life. Before you know it... your world consists of all these little duck things. I mean, how? JILL MANAFORT How could that even happen? TRISTAN Well, Pica is a complex condition. It will take some time to fully understand. JILL MANAFORT It started with him chewing paper. I thought it was just a harmless eccentricity. But deep down, I knew something was going on. JILL MANAFORT Why is it that you can go on a grand adventure but can't ask the simple question like, "Is everything okay?" MAX You know, I found that asking the simple questions is one of the hardest things to do in life. But it is also its own kind of adventure. And in this case, luck is on your side. 'Cause you still have the time to change the things that need changing. AVERY Go to him. Be with him. He needs you. JILL MANAFORT You have all been very kind to me. AVERY Let me help you pack. TRISTAN Best of luck to you both, Mrs. Manafort. JILL MANAFORT Thank you. AVERY I need to talk to both of you in the infirmary. Ten minutes? TRISTAN Yeah. MAX These are... AVERY Uh, ducks. AVERY Yeah, they're stupid. Stupid little baby... baby ducks. I was, um, crafting, uh, a painting and, um... AVERY Well, I wasn't actually gonna give them to you, but I thought, that's the whole point of this duck thing, right? It's to... say something. Something true. About yourself. MAX You're pregnant. AVERY Mm-hmm. MAX And you think it happened when the three of us... AVERY Unless it was an immaculate conception. That was the only time during my cycle that I... So obviously there was some sort of... MAX Uh, condom malfunction, right? 'Cause we were both wearing protection, so there-- AVERY Which apparently can break. And during the heat of the moment. Mo-Mo-Moments. Uh... MAX So you don't know which one of us... MAX Okay. Okay, well, um, congratulations. AVERY Oh. Oh, no. No, no, no, don't do that. MAX Or-Or... But not condolences either, right? AVERY Uh... MAX Right. Well, look, um... If you were my patient-- AVERY No. No Dr. Max either. MAX Look... No. I would just... I would tell you that, so far as medical school goes, you're gonna be fine. I me... The first couple of years, the preclinical years, they're basically just a bunch of studying, and with your experience, it's gonna feel like a refresher course, honestly. MAX I mean, I had friends who did it with four-year-old twins. AVERY You're not doing this right. MAX There are summer programs, part-time programs. W-We can take a paternity test at eight weeks. AVERY Max. MAX Ha-Have you thought about what are you-- AVERY Of course I thought about it! That's all I've been doing since the two lines turned up on the stick, and the blood test confirmed it. MAX And? AVERY So far, thinking about it is as far as I've gotten. MAX And what about you? Thoughts? Feelings? We're kinda having an important conversation here. TRISTAN Are you? Having a conversation? Or are you just dribbling your feelings all over Avery, who called us here, when she didn't have to, to talk about what happens next. TRISTAN Right? Right. MAX You've been through this before. TRISTAN Twice. Different ship, before this. The thing is, Max, you and me, we can weigh in on this, but... it's not our body. And so it's not our decision. TRISTAN But that doesn't mean she has to be alone. TRISTAN Aves... whatever you need, whatever you want, however you want it, I can listen, or-or we can answer questions. You know? Or I can just... be here 'till you figure it out. TRISTAN Yeah, I learned the hard way that that's all we can do. And until Avery gives us the green light, what we have to do, Max, is wait. TRISTAN Hey. TRISTAN It's all gonna be brilliant. There's no wrong move. TRISTAN Thank you for this. TRISTAN Yeah.