The loaf is made with tempeh and bean paste.
Okay.
Oh, and I added cheese curds. That wasn't in the recipe.
You are going to be so regular tomorrow, you're not going to believe it.
Namaste.
No.
I steal library books.
On purpose.
I have them from every town I've ever lived in. I can't control it.
Grady never knew that about me.
- Maureen? - That has wheatgrass in it.
Also, I can put my whole fist in my mouth.
You don't want to see it, it's a little Traci Lords,
but I never told him that, either,
in six years.
Also,
I love natural disasters! I want people to die in them.
I'm genuinely disappointed when the death toll is low.
And also, I made it with a girl once.
And do you know what else? You know what Grady never knew about me
is that I think catch and release fishermen are heartless weenies.
I think putting a fish through agony
for nothing more than your own entertainment is just plain cruel.
I think if you're going to torture a living thing...
If you're going to make it look into the eyes of its maker,
face its own puny little place in the universe,
then, for God's sake, have the decency to eat it!
This is excellent, Maureen. I mean, I feel better.
Thanks.
Good.
So,
were you, like, the bitch
or the butch?
You know what? Give me that. Give me it, you little sniper.
This is not a toy. Okay? This is a weapon.
Weapons are toys.
Weapons are...
You need a hobby, kid. In a big, bad way, and I mean now.
You need like a bike or some comic books,
maybe a fishing rod. Definitely a fishing rod.
Your dad was an awesome fisherman.
My dad was a superhero.
He also fished.
That's a lot of dust.
Wait, not too far!
But, Maureen, look!
Oh, this is beautiful!
Smile.
Now, if you give a man a fish,
he will have a single meal,
but if you teach a man to fish,
he will eat his whole life.
You know what that is?
Kuan Tzu I just rocked you with. Ancient Chinese philosopher.
Quote from the Lemon Zinger Green Tea box, you might remember.
I can tell by your face, no.
You know what? Doesn't matter.
Fly-fishing.
A lot of people seem to feel that
the key piece of equipment is the rod, but I disagree, sir.
I've always felt
all the magic is in the hat.
And this hat is yours.
It belonged to your dad.
Very cool.
...which is ironic because that chick had a pretty big-ass...
Whoa, hold on. I think we might... Maybe we're on a log.
We're not! We're not on a log, kid. There's something alive here!
Oh, my God, we got a fish! We're getting a...
Dennis! We're getting a...
Look, I'm going to level with you, kid. I've never caught anything in my life.
I've been faking it. One time I lied and I bought a fish at a store
but this is the first time I have ever caught a fish
and you're going to help me reel it in!
Grab the rod. Come on, we're going to bring him in!
Oh, my. This is what God feels like when he catches a fish!
Come on! Come on, you son of a...
Bring him in! Reel him in. Pull!
Pull!
Dig it! Dig it! Now bring him in! Bring him in! Yes!
Yes! Yes!
Man versus fish. What...
That's kind of... You know what? He's a little sleepy. Come on, Mattie.
Let's head over this way.
Look out, it's a heartless fisherman.
Someone call PETA.
You know, fish have brains the size of pebbles.
They don't even remember pain.
You keep telling yourself that.
It's the truth.
Okay, fine. Just don't lead with it on a date. It makes you sound cold.
Hey, who are you dating these days?
Nobody.
What about that girl from that place who liked you? You know, with the hair.
- Persephone? - Yeah.
- You should ask her out. - Yeah, I don't know.
I guess I'm not exactly available.
What do you mean? You just said you're not dating.
- Oh, you're dating someone secret. - No.
Are you having an affair with a married woman?
No! God!
- Dennis, fess up. Do I know her? - No.
- I'm the last one to know everything. - No! Good God, no.
I'm not having an affair with a married woman. That's ridiculous.
I don't know. What else could it be?
- You really want to know? - Badly.
All right.
I'll tell you.
For the past six years,
I've been telling myself the same thing.
"It's okay. He's a better man."
And it turns out
that's just bullshit.
Look at what he did to you, Gray.
He had, hands-down, the best girl in the world, and he goes...
If I had you,
if you were mine, there is no way...
There is no way.
Scratch that.
I'm having an affair with a married woman.
I do love you, Dennis.
That's great.
Hey, Mattie.
- Hey. - What?
Mattie.
Put your foot up. There you go.
There we go.
We'll get you all fixed up.
And today's Little Mary Sunshine Award goes to...
I'm starving.
You get extremely cool stuff when you get married.
No wonder people do it.
Were you ever close?
To getting married?
No.
Why not, do you think?
I don't know. I guess it just always made more sense to walk away.
Aren't you lonely?
Right now, no.
No, just...
In general.
Who do you tell your stories to?
I guess I keep them to myself.
That's a tragedy.
Yeah.
You want to hear a story?
I got a good one.
Guy goes to a funeral...
Sorry.
Look at you, rocking the Foreman at 3:00 in the morning. Right on, sir.
You going to eat both of those, or...
No.
- Dig in. - Thanks, man.
They say you're not supposed to eat after 7:00, but,
what, am I trying to win a beauty contest?
Thanks, Fritz!
You bet, buddy.
They have to take the DNA sample at the hospital.
The only way I could get him to go was by promising you'd come.
Well, I'm glad I could...
Hospitals scare the you-know-what out of him.
He was a preemie. He was, like, three and a half weeks early,
and he wasn't ready to leave my womb at that point.
So I think, like, on some deep psychic level,
he must associate hospitals with fear and separation.
Like, "Oh, my God! I'm leaving my mother!
"What if I never see her again?
"Am I all alone in this world?"
That's a heavy load.
You ever hear the expression "The power of suggestion," Maureen?
'Cause...
No, is that, like, a workshop?
Oh, yeah.
So it's a little filthy.
- I'm sorry. - No, that's all right.
Can I get you something to drink? We got beer,
we got some tap water.
- Do you have wine? - Yes, we have wine.
Glasses are over there. Let me see if we can find something at least drinkable.
All right.
Here we go.
I have no idea if this is any good. It was given to me by a client
I took up to Snake River.
What is it?
Persephone.
Sam, I don't know how to thank you. I really don't.
You know what? It's totally cool.
No, it really could've been a nightmare with that giant Q-Tip thing.
Here, honey.
You know what? This kid did not need my help.
The Force is strong with this one. I was just there.
You know, normally I would offer to make you something to eat, but...
I mean, I have trail mix.
I've already had dinner with you once and, no offense,
but I've reached my annual quota of turf.
Oh, hey, I know!
How about a massage?
Did you take a course?
Yeah, this is, like, a percussion-based.
All you got to do is watch the drummers on the beach, really.
Any lower and you might hit a gas pocket.
Little guy doesn't want to give it up.
Maybe he should stay.
- Sam, you're not breathing. - Oh, I'm sorry. I forgot.
- Your calves are extraordinary. - Well, you... Thanks.
Did you play football?
I watched a lot of football.
Right on.
Do you feel that chakra energy?
Is that what it is? Yes.
It's very
chakr-y.
Okay.
Well, I can't thank you enough. That was...
- Sam, we're not done. - No?
- Turn over. - What?
Oh, no.
Is there a name for this method?
Just be open.
You can really start to feel the aura change.
I feel a light magenta.
Oh, my God.
Oh, God.
What am I thinking?
- It's totally okay, you know? - No, it's not.
You're being too hard on yourself, man. It's not a thing. Don't worry about it.
I'm a terrible mother.
Oh, come on, that's just crap. You're an excellent mother.
That kid, I've seen you with him. He loves you, you know?
Sam,
I can't do this.
It's too hard.
Yes, you can.
You can do it.
You're a gem.
Come here. Come here.
What?
My girlfriends and I used to have this rule with each other.
"No sleeping with a guy until you knew his mother's maiden name."
What?
We figured it would keep us out of beds of
men we barely knew.
Gideon.
Anything else you want to know?
What's your favorite color?
Gray.
You are not who I thought you were.
Yeah, well,
neither are you.
Mattie, stop it!
Mattie, help me pick these up!
Thanks.
Come on!
Just leave those. Do you have to touch every single thing?
Hello. Do you like mangoes?
This is a papaya.
Actually, it's a mango.
It's a papaya! Maureen!
All right, baby, it's a papaya if you want it to be a papaya.
He has some separation issues because he has an absent father.
Do you have kids?
A son.
Morning, Dennis.
What...
What you doing there, sir?
All right, seriously, handyman, whatever this is,
just not good for you,
really not good for our front door.
Give me the planer, Dennis.
Give me the planer, Dennis!
- Give me it. - Get off me.
Let it go!
Yeah.
Wow! What is this?
I need to find a picture for the garden dedication.
I can't find one where you can really see his face.
I'm a big boy, you know?
You could've just told me.
Told you what?
That you were in love with someone else.
I'm not.
I saw you guys coming in last night.
Dennis. God.
That's nothing.
It's less than nothing.
Okay.
I have stuff in storage. I'll find you a picture.
Yeah.
Nice dress.
Oh, this is embarrassing.
I never got a chance to wear it.
It's a girl thing.
- What are you doing? - Heading out.
Just wanted to check in, say goodbye.
You're leaving?
- Why? What happened? - Nothing.
Less than nothing,
right?
Yeah, that's the thing with small houses, everybody hears everything.
You got to get yourself a big one, like mine.
On the beach, in Malibu, waves crashing.
Nobody can hear a thing.
I didn't mean it.
That's okay.
Really. I got to get home anyway.
Back to reality.
So...
- I'll see you. - Fritz, wait.
- I only said that because... - Because you were embarrassed.
That's okay.
Me and you doesn't look good.
Not your style, right?
I'll see you.
- Wait. - For what?
You going to get out of that wedding dress? That's gonna take a while.
I got to go.
Kind of quiet in here, isn't it?
"Yeah, it's real quiet, Sam. Good talking to you, dude."
Ladies,
not his kid.
What?
There's absolutely no chance that Mr. Douglas fathered that child.
Thank you, Eve.
This is a mistake.
You know? It has to be, because...
It just has to be and they probably just took the wrong sample or...
Or maybe I have the same initials, M.M., as someone else.
Marlene Morris, or...
Yeah, but they're usually kind of careful with this stuff.
No. I'm telling you, doctors make mistakes.
I saw an entire documentary.
They amputate the wrong leg all the time,
you have this one dying over here.
You know, it's, like, a zoo at the hospital.
Yeah, I don't know if that's the case.
- Hey, you know what? Just... - I'm just saying.
Okay, well, I don't know what you guys are saying,
because all I know is, we
were sexual and then nine months later I had a kid.
Eight months.
Because Mattie was born three and a half weeks premature.
Yeah, I know. I mean...
But when I got the ultrasound, the doctor told me
the exact day of when we probably conceived.
This would be one of those doctors that amputates the wrong leg.
Jesus, Dennis, just...
Oh, my God.
You know who the real guy is?
Yeah, his name was Rafael.
He was really nice.
He was, like, Italian or French.
What do you think you're going to do?
I'm not sure.
I guess I'll quit school and go back to work.
Find a daycare for Mattie,
but all the places I can afford are so kind of depressing.
But it'll be all right.
It will, you know. It's going to be okay. It's going to be okay.
It always is.
God, I shouldn't have ripped up that check.
Stupid.
Sam, how do I open the big one?
Just don't...
I'm going to... Come on, kid.
It's a knife!
All right, Mattie. Come on, man.
I'm really, really so sorry about all this.
You could've just loved him and missed him,
and never known.
Him.
Never known him.
You know, I just remembered something recently.
About a year ago, he and I spent a day on the river.
He fished and I read. It was one of those perfect days.
We were on our way home and he said he had something to tell me.
I said, "Is it going to make me happier, or less happy?"
He said, "Less happy."
I said...
"Then don't tell me."
Ellen. Hi.
I'd like to talk about the boy.
The one that is definitely not my son's child.
Well, the one he decided to support without a DNA test.
Grady didn't need that money.
And he knew this kid's life would be so much better with a little help.
What are you saying?
I'm saying if you don't give this child what Grady wanted him to have
then I will.
But you don't have money.
No.
But I do have this.
I don't want to sell it, Ellen.
I would so rather give it back to you.
But all I know is that for whatever reason, Grady wanted this boy to be okay.
Look, the papaya lady!
Hey. You knew him, too?
He was my son.
I should've told you that.
God, that's...
I'm sorry.
How did you know who we were?
It was the hat.
Grady tied those flies himself.
He did?
This is for you.
Am I in trouble?
No.
I figure you're going to pout all day until I say this,
so I'm just going to put it out there.
You give good garden.
Thanks, buddy.
Hey, there's something I got to tell you.
Yeah, what's that?
I found a new place.
New place for what?
Really?
For me to live in.
What? What? Wait! What?
- You're moving out? - Yes.
- Oh, my God, dude. - Yeah, I know. I know.
- It was just a fight, sir. - Look, it's not about you.
It's just that it feels like time, man.
It's not time.
It was a small fight, sir. A tiny fight. Like, we'll get over it, sir.
I'm not ready to live alone, Dennis.
Listen to me. Listen to me.
It's a great house and I'm sure if you want to stay there,
you're not gonna have any trouble finding another roommate.
Ellen.
It was great what you did for them.
Here.
Oh, no. You keep it.
Just promise me that the next person who gets it, you'll tell them about him,
everything you can remember.
I promise.
I didn't need the money. I never wanted it.
Or the ring.
I just wanted my boy back.
I didn't know everything about Grady.
Here's some of what I did know.
I told them all the great things I know about you,
and there were a lot. I was up there a while.
He loved coffee.
I didn't tell them everything, though.
I left out the complicated stuff,
like how it took losing you forever for me to truly find you.
And how finding you turned me into someone else entirely.
That's not what they came for.
People want to hear you were great.
Not that you were great, but also, sometimes, not so great.
They want to know I miss you.
Not that while I've been missing you,
I've fallen for someone else.
It's weird, though.
I feel like the only one who would understand it is you.
In a way, that makes sense.
He was the one person you were yourself around.
Of course he'd be that same person for me.
Anyway, I left all that out and I kept it simple.
I told them I loved you and that's the truth.
- Do I get my own bedroom? - Yeah.
- Can I use the hockey table? - Absolutely not.
Wait, which one are we taking?
Take the one upstairs on the left, Mo.
Whoa.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
Well, I just figured they should stick around at least until winter
because the kid has never seen snow.
- What kind of craziness is that? - Totally.
That's a bold move, Samuel.
Well, as Helen Keller once said,
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
Which tea?
Come on, sir. I've been known to pick up a book.
- Which tea? - Tummy Mint.
Sam, are you bringing the bags?
- I'm... - You just...
- Yeah, I'm on it. - All right.
Oh, now, what the hell is this? You're leaving, too? Come on, man.
You have a very full house here, Sam.
You don't need me. You'll be fine.
Well, can I at least come visit you at your new place,
maybe paint your walls an inappropriate shade of blue?
Yes. Absolutely.
I'm just going to go on a quick trip and then...
Where you going?
Wait a second.
No!
Oh, you little tramp!
- You're really going. - I really am.
- I'll see you soon. - Yeah. It's okay.
Hello?
Come here. Come here.
You ready? Okay, come on!
I think I should have called.
You're probably busy or on your way out, or...
God, you could be seeing someone by now. I hadn't thought of that.
Someone you met in a normal, you know, uncomplicated...
What took you so long?