Way to go, Mary. Keep it up.
LUCY: Mary?
What are you dreaming?
- What time is it? - Time to get up and go to school.
Robbie.
Were you dreaming about Robbie?
No. Better than that.
I was playing with the pros.
It was so real.
Real or not, you'd better get ready for school.
[PHONE RINGS]
- Hello? CLEARY [ON PHONE]: Mary?
- Coach Cleary? - Bring some sweats with you today
we're gonna work out, okay?
- With? - Just be ready to work out.
I think I've got something you might be interested in.
- I'll see you at school. - Okay.
Bye.
- Wow. - Wow, what?
I think my dream is about to come true.
The dream you just had?
Yeah.
The dream I've always had.
I think I'm gonna play for the pros.
- I'm back in the game. - What game?
The coach called and told me to bring sweats
and plan to work out after school.
- But the season is over, way over. - What I'm thinking
is that Coach Cleary realises now I lost my scholarship
I don't know what college I'm going to,
or what I'm gonna do when I get there.
- And so? - And so,
maybe he's bringing someone in from the pros to look at me.
Wouldn't that be great?
Maybe that would be great.
But is there any reason to believe that that's what he's doing?
Yes, there is.
I had a dream last night that I was playing with the Lakers.
Do you really think that that dream was somehow prophetic?
My gut feeling?
Yes.
The thing about dreams to me,
is that they're kind of like going to the movies.
Some of them have a basis in reality,
but most of them don't. Most of them are pure entertainment, you know?
Or something left over in your head from the day.
Some are good, some are bad.
And some are predictions of the future.
What? Why couldn't it happen?
Why couldn't the coach call because he's setting me up with the pros?
Is there any reason to believe that that's not what he's doing?
[SIGHS]
Don't you want me to play pro ball?
Well, what happened to going to college?
This could be better than college.
Why aren't you more excited for me?
I will be excited when I find out what Coach Cleary is up to.
Because I'm sure that it's something good.
But I don't know if it's what you think it is.
Thanks a lot.
Good luck.
Hey, did you hear? Mary is gonna play pro basketball.
Heh, yeah, I heard.
And all because she dreamed it.
Well, we'll see.
I'm not sure Mary's ready. She's got four years of college ahead of her.
I hope I dream I'm something great.
- Hmm. Like what? - Like the Queen of England.
I'd love to be the Queen of England.
Just out of curiosity, what is it you want to be when you grow up?
I don't know.
Not a minister.
He's only 13, he doesn't know what he wants to be.
No, but evidently he knows what he doesn't want to be.
Oh, come on.
You can't take that to heart.
Really, he didn't mean to hurt you.
I mean, intellectually I know that.
And yet...
You just tighten this just a little like so, and there you go.
The knob can't come off, and that way
you have nothing to snack on but real food.
I think the old school bus is pulling out.
Ah. I was just fixing the dresser.
- The knob came loose. - Thanks.
Could you put the toolbox in the closet for me?
Sure.
That's my girl.
- Shana. - Every time I call, I can't get through.
Her roommates always have some lame excuse.
She's in class, or she's at the library, or she's at work.
Yeah, all of those, totally lame.
[SIGHS]
This was all a big mistake.
What was a big mistake?
- Letting Shana go to NYU. - Letting?
Wait a minute.
Maybe the mistake wasn't letting her go.
Maybe the mistake wasn't going with her.
I know what I have to do.
I'm afraid to ask, but what do you have to do?
Obviously, I have to move to New York.
When do you think this will be?
Now or soon or whenever I get the money together.
I see.
And how much do you have in savings?
What school in New York has accepted you into a premed programme?
Where are you gonna stay when you get there?
How are you gonna pay and support yourself?
- What are you, my parents? - No, just a friend.
- Hey. - Hey, what's up?
Did Coach Cleary ask you to work out after school today?
- No, why? - Oh, never mind.
No, it's okay, what's going on?
Last night I had this dream that I was playing basketball for the pros
and then this morning Coach Cleary called me and asked if I could work out
- today after school. - And so?
And so I think it means something.
I think it means he's gonna help me turn pro.
Maybe he couldn't reach you,
and he was gonna ask you during school.
That's not likely.
I've already lined up something.
I'm going to Brown, back East.
I have an academic scholarship and a grant from the government
to document my life as a single mom going to college.
But hey, good luck.
I hope your dream comes true.
I don't know what he's doing.
Well, I think it's supposed to be a surprise.
Why don't you step outside and find out?
What's going on?
Wait.
- Did someone die? - No.
- No one died. - Okay.
No...
It's just that--
Since the twins were born, you and I haven't spent any time together,
at least not just the two of us, so...
I don't know, I thought I'd stop by and see if you wanted
to play hooky and hang out with me.
Is it your heart? Are you dying?
No. No, I'm not dying. I--
I just, you know, wanted to have some fun.
Well, what about work? Why don't you have to work?
I made a dozen phone calls and rescheduled everything.
- But I'm in school. - Yeah.
- I'll get in trouble if I leave. - You won't.
I cleared it with the principal and your teacher. It's okay.
It's an afternoon at the movies, come on.
How can you turn down getting out and going to the movies?
Okay, I guess you know what you're doing.
Well...
- I'll go get my books. - Okay.
You're selling all your stuff to do what?
Move to New York.
Huh.
You don't have that kind of stuff. We don't even have that kind of stuff.
[LAUGHS]
- Hey, do you want this? - Yes, I want it.
I've never seen it.
It was an anniversary gift from your father.
Our first anniversary.
It's always been here in the basement. You don't use it.
I might use it someday, when I have the time to fix it or get it fixed.
You can't have it.
So, uh, ahem, why are you moving to New York?
Shana. Why else would I move to New York?
Uh, premed too much of a challenge?
No, it's not too much of a challenge.
Studying and working at the hospital a little too much of a challenge?
I'm not working that much or studying that much.
- Why not? - I'm just
saving up my efforts for the hard stuff.
Look, I don't know how or when but I'm going, okay?
So I'd appreciate it if you didn't try to stop me. I have to do this.
Fine. I won't try to stop you.
But you still can't have my clock.
How much do you think you're gonna raise by selling all this?
Couple hundred bucks.
Maybe Shana can meet you in Kansas.
But the movie already started.
So we'll go in in the middle, and stay till it runs back to the middle.
It's the last showing, sir.
It's a different movie at 5:00.
- So we'll see half the movie. - But we've already seen it.
Right, so it won't make any difference that we don't see the beginning.
We've already seen it.
Oh, my big boy.
Why did Dad pick up Simon from school?
Dad took Simon for a day. They went to the movies.
How come I never get half a day off to go to the movies?
Well, maybe when you get to the same grade as Simon,
you and I will take off half a day.
I'll pencil it in.
[CHUCKLES]
Hey.
Guess what I taped for you today?
The biography of Queen Elizabeth.
Cool.
The tapes are on top of the TV.
What's up?
Do you think Mary is really gonna get a chance at the pros?
Oh, I don't know. Why?
She seems pretty set on it.
Just because she dreamed about it, doesn't mean it's going to happen.
Besides, she's never even mentioned trying to play pro ball until now.
I want something nice like that to happen for her.
She's been through a lot.
- But? - But I don't want her to leave home.
I don't think she's ready to leave home.
No.
Besides, we've always shared a room.
I can't imagine her not being here.
I don't think you have to worry about it. At least not yet.
Oh. Heh-heh.
[CHUCKLING]
[CHATTERING]
I'll give you 10 bucks for the whole lot of it.
I need your space.
Ten bucks? I don't think so.
You might make 20, if you hang out till closing time and you sell it yourself,
but then you'd have to hang out till closing time.
So I'll hang out till closing time.
I'm really happy you didn't have anything to do this afternoon.
I was too.
So when are you gonna tell me what this is all about?
You'll see.
It's a great opportunity.
Here they come.
Mary,
this is Molly, the team captain.
Her father is a good friend of mine, Jack Connelly.
JACK: I thought you might be able
to help them get ready for the Special Olympics.
[CHUCKLES]
Great movie, huh?
It was the same as the last time we saw it.
I'm not into the cowboy stuff that much.
But it's not just about cowboys.
It's about men and work and having a purpose, you know?
It reminds me of when I was trying to decide what I wanted to be in life and...
Look, the flea market is open.
Maybe we can find bargains. Can we take a look?
Sure, we can take a look.
Hey, maybe Matt would like this.
Maybe I'd like it. I might want to go to Crawford one day.
But not to become a minister.
No, not to become a minister.
Hey, doc.
You got a customer.
Is there something you want to tell me?
He's working his way through med school.
That's funny. I thought I was working his way through med school.
I'm thinking about moving to New York to go to medical school.
So that's what this is about.
Yeah.
Why are you hanging out in the middle of the afternoon?
Dad took me out of school to see The Wild Bunch.
Oh. Sounds like a lecture coming up.
You and I will talk later.
Because you have to talk to Simon about something.
There's a lecture coming, isn't there? What did I do?
You didn't do anything, really. No lecture.
- Hey, how much you want for this? - Uh, $15.
Fifteen dollars?
How much did I pay for it the first time?
- Thirty dollars. - For a sweatshirt?
You're not getting 15 bucks for that.
Forget it.
I'm sorry this afternoon wasn't what you expected.
It's almost the end of the school year.
I'm graduating,
and I don't know where I'm going once I walk out that door.
I have no idea what I want to do with my life
and I don't know who I am or who I wanna be.
If it's any comfort, I don't know who I am or who I want to be either.
You don't know you're Mom?
I have a lot in common with Mom,
but I'm not Mom and I don't want to be Mom.
Well, at least, not just Mom.
Just Mom left her laundry basket.
ERIC: I had just gotten into seminary in New York
and I put off telling the Colonel because
he had thought, at some point,
if he didn't give me any financial help to go to college, that I'd crack.
I'd have to join the service, then the Marine Corps
would pay my tuition.
Besides, he felt it was my duty to enlist
and go wherever I was needed.
Which at that time was Vietnam.
I--
I didn't want to be in the Marine Corps or the Army or the Navy
or anything else. I never wanted to.
And I certainly didn't want to go to Vietnam.
Wait.
You're not gonna tell me you dodged the draft, are you?
No.
No, they came up with this lottery system.
Hmm.
I remember all my buddies and I are gathered around the television set
and we waited as this guy read out birthdates and lottery numbers.
Low number, you were drafted.
High number, you were off the hook.
So I told myself,
this is gonna be a sign from God.
If I got a low number, then God wanted me to be in the Marine Corps.
High number,
he wanted me to be a minister.
I got a high number.
- Is that the end of the story? - No, so the next day I went up
to tell my Dad that I was not enlisting,
I was going to enrol in the seminary.
When I finally managed to get the words out of my mouth,
the Colonel just stared at me for what
felt like an eternity.
And he said, "Do me a favour, son."
And I thought, "Oh, yeah, here it comes."
The big flag-waving lecture. But instead,
he said:
"If you really want to be a minister,
if that is what you feel God wants you to do,
then I hope you'll be a good one."
[LAUGHS]
And I left happier than I've ever been in my life.
- Is that the end of the story? - No, should have been.
WAITER: Can I get you anything else, sir?
But now that I think about it, I don't know, maybe my Dad was just
issuing me a challenge because what really happened at that moment,
was that those words set in motion years and years of the Colonel
never feeling that I was a good enough minister
to stay out of the Marine Corps.
Not that there haven't been times I haven't asked
if I was a good enough minister. As well as
whether or not God
performs signs. For me or anyone else on request.
Well, if you don't believe in signs,
then maybe that high draft number didn't mean anything.
And you're really not supposed to be a minister.
Maybe it just meant that you lucked out and you didn't have to sign up.
How'd you make out?
Twenty bucks, that's how I made out.
The sum total of my life on Earth thus far. A lousy 20 bucks.
I couldn't even visit New York on 20 bucks.
You can't even buy a book about New York for 20 bucks.
- You don't need to help me. - Yes, I do.
Did Shana ask you to come to New York?
- Ever even mention it? - No.
Back in the old days, following a woman across country
and showing up at her door may have been considered romantic.
Nowadays, I think it's pretty much considered a felony.
- I'm not stalking her. - Then what are you doing?
I've invested two years in this relationship.
I'm not gonna throw away two years.
If I break up with her now, then all that time's for nothing.
If you break up with her? "If"?
She told me I was free to pursue other people.
It's not a break-up, not completely.
Why don't you just look at it as a break?
Take a break and focus on you and what you want.
I want to go to New York.
Uh-huh.
Where are you going?
I'm gonna go find either one of my parents and apologise
for not listening every time they gave me advice.
[RINGS]
- Hello? - Hi, is Shana around?
Sorry, she and Brett went to the library.
The library?
On a Friday night at midnight?
I don't know how the libraries are at little colleges in America's villages,
but here at the big universities, in the big cities,
libraries are open till 2 a.m.
If it's not too much trouble when Shana gets in,
would you tell her that I'm coming to the city?
I want to see big buildings and take a ride
- on that underground train. - No problem.
I just talked to Mary, she's pretty down.
I had no idea she was so set on playing for the WNBA.
I don't think Mary wants to play pro ball,
she just doesn't want to go to Crawford next year.
I didn't know that either.
I thought she felt lucky to still be going to college next year
after the year she's had this year.
- What are you doing? - Oh, nothing really.
I'm just sort of
puttering with this old clock.
I don't want to be just Mom.
You're not just Mom.
No, no. I am just Mom.
But you're not just Dad because you have a job that people know is a job.
Yeah, I have a job as a minister, which, until Simon pointed out to me,
is the job I thought I was supposed to have.
Oh, you know you were meant to be a minister.
You can't let Simon get to you like this.
And you can't let Lucy get to you like this.
When did the kids' opinions get to be more important than ours?
I don't know.
Let's just go to bed and try to forget what they said.
MOLLY [ON PHONE]: I forgot to say thanks
for helping out the team today.
No problem. I enjoyed it.
I really enjoyed it too.
Are you gonna be at practice Monday?
Yep, I'm gonna be there every day after school as long as they need me.
[CHUCKLES]
Is that all you wanted, Molly?
No.
I wanted to ask you
if you could play basketball with me tomorrow.
But it makes me feel funny to ask you,
because you probably have lots of things to do on Saturday,
and don't have time.
It's okay, I'm available.
Great.
Do you want to come over to my house?
Or could I come over to your house?
My dad could bring me, he already said.
Fine. Then come on over.
Is there anything else?
- Mary? - Yeah.
You're my hero.
No, I'm not.
Believe me, I'm nobody's hero.
MAN 1: The queen. MAN 2: There she is.
MAN 3: The queen. MAN 4: Hail to the queen.
WOMAN 1: Long live the queen. WOMAN 2: Yes.
MAN 5: Her Majesty.
MAN 6: She's the queen. MAN 7: Your Highness.
WOMAN 3: We bow to you.
MAN 8: This way please. WOMAN 4: Yes.
MAN 9: Bow before you.
SIMON: Ruthie. Ruthie! Ruthie, hey.
You better get up if you want pancakes.
Where are my loyal subjects?
What are you talking about?
Wow. I'm gonna be the Queen of England.
- Yeah, sure you are. - I am.
Look, Mary dreamed she was gonna play for the pros.
And she's not gonna play for the pros.
We don't know that.
- It still could happen. - I doubt it, Your Majesty.
And if you don't get up, I'm eating your pancakes.
Off with your head.
- Why can't we just talk about it? - We don't have to talk about it.
I understand, you don't want to be just Mom.
I don't want to be just Mom either.
And I don't have to be just Mom.
- I dreamed I'm the Queen of England. - Uh-oh.
That's probably because you watched those tapes on the queen yesterday.
- Just one of them. - Well, what did you learn
that made you think you would truly wanna be the Queen of England?
Hello? She lives in a castle with a bunch of dogs.
And people have to do anything she tells them,
and bow and curtsy to her.
You should probably watch the other two tapes.
You need to do a lot of research on someone
before you decide you want to be them.
Or before you decide you don't want to be them.
[DOORBELL RINGS]
- Hi, Mary. - Oh, hey, kiddo.
I'm glad you could make it.
I'm off to meet Coach Cleary. I'm going to the driving range
to hit a few balls but I'll be back in a couple of hours.
Molly said she wasn't sure whether she should be here this morning
because you said something that confused her last night.
Why didn't you want to be my hero?
[SIGHS]
It's not that I don't want to be your hero.
I don't deserve to be your hero.
It's a long story. I haven't had a great year.
I'm aware of that.
Maybe you're being a little too hard on yourself.
Or not hard enough.
You ready?
Have a good time. Do your best.
I will.
I'm gonna take Happy for a walk.
Uh, okay, but before you do that, you might want to find your father
- and talk to him. - I talked to him all day yesterday.
And all you got out of it is that he could have gone
to Canada to avoid the draft.
- So? - So your Dad was trying to tell you
how he became a minister and why he loves doing what he does.
And you made him question whether or not he was ever meant to do it.
You're kidding. I did that?
Simon, you're a young man now.
You're not a little boy anymore. What you say matters.
Find your Dad and talk to him.
I woke up and you weren't there.
Do I have to tell you when I go out now?
No, it's just that I've never known you to leave so quietly.
I figured if I woke you up, I'd get another lecture.
Is that why you're here, for another lecture?
No, we just had a problem with the fax machine in the emergency room,
which I took care of. I just wanted to make sure it was still working.
- So you talked to Shana? - No, I didn't talk to Shana.
But I left a message that I plan to visit.
Well, I'll say one thing for you, you are persistent.
I'll see you back at the apartment.
Need some help?
Oh, thanks. I'd love a five-minute break.
- I've got a phone call to make. - At your service.
- By the way, I'm Matt Camden. - Pleased to meet you, Matt. I'm Jake.
- Ah. Are you new? - Do I look new?
[CHUCKLES]
I just never seen you before.
How long have you been working here?
Nine months.
Oh, well, I've been here almost 39 years.
Yeah, I work all over the hospital.
Fill in wherever I'm needed.
I've done about every lousy job there is to do here.
Now, that's what I wanted to do, be a doctor.
I'm in premed at Crawford.
Well, that's where I graduated from.
- You graduated from Crawford? - Yep. Premed.
I even went a year to USC Medical School.
Oh, but then I got married and had kids.
I couldn't make a go at medical school with all that responsibility.
But you graduated from college, right?
Yep.
Oh, I didn't always do this.
See, I worked in the lab for years.
But you get older, gigs get harder to get,
and the opportunities are fewer and farther between.
Well, I've got to make that phone call.
Right.
WOMAN [OVER PA]: Paging Sarah Esserman.
[KNOCKING]
Come in.
[SIMON SIGHING]
- I'm sorry if I did something wrong. - You didn't do anything wrong.
You just made me think about my life, that's all.
- It's a good thing. - I guess I hurt your feelings
when I said I didn't want to do what you do.
It's more the way you said it.
As if being a minister were ridiculous.
But it is ridiculous, for me.
I don't like to deal with other people's problems.
I feel sorry for them, but I don't have a lot of patience.
And I can't stand being around sick people
because I'm always afraid they'll die.
And I wouldn't want to stand up in church
and talk about God because I feel like it's so personal and close to my heart
that I'd have trouble saying things out loud without getting all weepy.
You're good at what you do.
Really, the world would be much worse off if you had gone to Canada.
I'm gonna let that draft dodger thing drop.
Thanks.
It's okay, you don't have to explain.
Did you know that when the queen was my age,
she didn't have to go to school? They sent the teachers to her.
And did you know that she beat her two sisters out of the job for queen?
Keep watching.
It's not that I don't think you're smart. You're the smartest woman I know.
You can do everything.
And you're smart enough to do anything.
I love you and I admire you.
But come on,
who wants to be their own mother?
I mean, if you think about it?
When you think about it, who really knows their own mother?
You've only known me for 16 years.
I'm not just a mom.
I'm a person, a woman, a wife.
And like anyone else, I have dreams.
- Dreams? - Yeah.
There's much more I want to do in life.
My life's not over.
Really?
So tell me about one of your dreams.
Okay.
When Matt was a baby and your father had just gotten assigned to Glenoak,
I wanted to start a cooperative at the church.
So that I could bring together
the women who get accused of just staying home to bake cupcakes,
with the women who get accused of
abandoning their children to go to work.
More than 20 years have passed.
And the women are still divided into the same two groups.
- But that's not your fault. - No.
But wouldn't it be nice
if some of the moms who stayed at home, could take in one or two kids
with their own after school.
Look after them, so that the moms who work outside the home
could save some money on child-care.
Or, wouldn't it be nice
if the moms who worked outside of the home could help the other moms
with whatever special skills they might have.
Or even just donate
a little of their salary to help build that church child-care centre.
Well, that's a great idea.
Have you ever told Dad about it?
No.
Well, why not?
Because if I did, I might actually have to do it.
And I'm not sure I actually can.
It's okay to dream, it's important to dream.
But it's also important to know the difference
between dreams and reality.
And how to make a dream a reality.
Who taught you how to play basketball?
- You're really good. - My dad.
What does your dad do? What kind of work?
He finds girls who play basketball.
It's called a scout. He's the scout for the WNBA.
He's a scout for the pros?
Aha.
So I was right.
It's good to be right.
- They're all down there. - All?
Mom, Dad, Coach Cleary, Mr. Connelly.
- What did you hear? - I was too nervous to listen.
But you know what Mom and Dad are saying.
They're saying I should go to college.
And I don't want to go to college. Not if I can play pro ball.
But if they want you to play pro ball,
why didn't Molly's dad just talk to you about it?
Because obviously, he wanted to tell Mom and Dad first.
When Dad called Coach Cleary he didn't seem to know
- anything about it either. - Hello? It's supposed to be a surprise.
Otherwise, he would have said something yesterday.
I just find the whole thing kind of odd.
Yeah, well, I find you kind of odd.
I just don't know why you're so sure about this offer.
- My dream. - Oh, yeah, the dream, yeah. Um...
Maybe you shouldn't leave home without me.
I'm really not looking forward to this.
I guess I should be the one to let her know.
No. I don't think you should be the one to tell her.
Well, I don't think I should be the one to tell her.
- Me? JACK: No,
I want Molly to tell her.
- Can you give me 15 minutes? - You sure about that, Jack?
Yes, I'm sure.
Do you want me here?
That's okay.
We'll want to talk to Mary alone after she gets the news.
Okay.
[BAND PLAYING ON TV]
[BABBLING]
What happened?
Did you know that the Queen of England works?
I'd assume there was some work to it, yeah.
Why would anyone assume there was work involved?
All the people are supposed to work for her.
No. She works for all the people.
I'll say. She never gets a chance to play with her dogs
or ride her horses or see her kids.
I don't think she's too upset about that.
It's a good thing Mom gave me those tapes.
I would have been heading for a major disappointment.
So are Mom and Dad gonna let Mary take the basketball job
- or not? - I don't know.
They're still in their big conference.
What are you guys doing?
Ruthie just decided that she doesn't want to be the Queen of England.
What do you wanna be when you grow up?
- I want to be Mom. - Want to be? You are Mom.
No, not yet.
But if I turn out to be half the woman my mother is that'll be fine with me.
Hey, you're on recon, you have to go find out what's happening with Mary.
I'd hate to see Mary leave.
But someday she will.
Yeah, someday she will.
We all will.
Yeah, by the time you leave they probably won't even notice.
Ah, come on, you know I love you.
[PHONE RINGS]
MAN [ON PHONE]: Hello? - Is Shana there?
Shana isn't here. She's at the library.
- Is this Matt? - Yeah, it's Matt.
What time does your bus get into town?
Heh. I guess that passes for humour in the big city.
Hey, man, I'm sorry. It's just that you've called here 27 times.
And I hate to keep telling you that Shana isn't here. But she's not here.
She's in premed. She studies.
She goes to the library. What can I tell you?
If all you guys are in premed
and everyone's always at the library studying,
how come you're always at home answering the phone?
- Because I got kicked out. - Oh, sorry.
I'll tell her you called, again.
Thanks.
And tell her I'm not coming to visit.
I think that's best.
You decided not to go to New York?
[SIGHS]
I was never gonna go to New York, we both know that.
No, I knew that. You didn't know that.
You know, I talked to this old guy at work today.
Something he said made me think twice about it.
I really do need to get serious about school.
Ooh. Hallelujah.
Yeah, I signed up to work as an orderly today.
Get more hours, earn more money. Get more of a feel for what's going on
- outside the world of hospital food. - Good for you.
No, good for you.
You paid that old guy to tell me that story
about dropping out of med school.
How did you know?
Because it was a totally lame story and a little too coincidental.
He confessed. Now, I figured if you went through all that trouble
to try to get through to me, I should start listening.
- Want to go to the library? - Why not?
We make a nice couple.
You say the sweetest things.
Pizza?
You realise you'll basically be moving out?
Yeah, I realise.
And you'll be giving up your opportunity to go to college?
Or delaying.
A couple of years in the WNBA and I can pay my way through college.
I should write that down. That is a big selling point.
Maybe Mom and Dad won't even try to stop you.
Maybe they think it's a good idea.
They're not gonna think this is a good idea.
You know what? I'm almost 18,
and when it comes down to it, they have to let me do this.
This is my life.
[KNOCKING]
Molly's here to see you.
Good luck. I love you.
I think I made a mistake.
I make a lot of mistakes.
What mistake?
Oh, no.
- You're dad isn't a pro scout? - No, he is.
That's good. What mistake?
Did I say that he wants you to play pro ball?
Not in so many words, but...
Because if I did, I'm really sorry.
He doesn't want me to play pro ball.
No.
How could that be?
Why would Coach Cleary have me coach--?
Girls like me.
Because I saw you play in high school
and that's when I decided that you're my hero.
Molly's very responsible. When she's done something wrong
or something that hurts someone, she likes to handle it herself.
It gives her a lot of confidence.
Molly didn't say you wanted to draft me.
Uh, she told me you were a scout and I jumped to the wrong conclusion.
I didn't make a mistake?
- No. I made the mistake. JACK: Molly,
I owe you an apology.
I'm so sorry, kid.
- It's okay. - No, it's not okay.
Yes, it is. Everyone makes mistakes.
I should have told Mary I was a scout in the first place.
And that Molly was a big fan of Mary's.
It's not that you're not WNBA material,
I just don't think you're WNBA material yet.
I hope you land on a college team
and we can work something out in the future.
You've got a lot of potential.
Thanks, that means a lot to me.
So I'll see you on practice Monday afternoon?
Thanks, Mary. Good night.
We know you're disappointed.
Yeah, I am.
But don't underestimate my ability to come back.
After spending some time with Molly and seeing
how hard she has to work at things,
I realise that I'm gonna have to work a little bit harder
if I really want my dreams to come true.
She's amazing.
Inspiring.
Hey.
I want to talk to you about a dream I've had for years.
Well, I can't wait to hear it.
- Did Simon talk to you? - Yeah.
And?
And the flip side of doubt is faith.