Mothers and Daughters Page #3

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know, rain on your parade,

but um...

My ex and I we tried to give it

another shot for the boy's sake.

You have a son?

And I thought you

hated your ex.

Hate is a strong word.

You said, I hate my ex.

Well...

I hated the fact that I

had to get married with

her because she

was, you know...

Right.

But Hal is here now, and I

need to be a decent dad.

I'm sorry.

Oh!

The truth is, you

stole my thunder.

I was gonna dump you, but

then you come in here with

this great news and now

I can't be mad at you.

Phew!

Well, I gotta go.

K.

Bye.

Oh.

-Bye.

-K.

[melancholic music]

[sirens]

[phone rings]

[phone rings]

[exhales]

-Hey.

-What are you doing?

Can't sleep.

Me too.

Milk?

No, thanks.

Oh my gosh.

You coming?

I'm gonna watch some

C-Span actually.

Well, better than milk.

[phone rings]

[phone vibrates]

Hey.

Hi, Pete.

Hey.

Thank you for calling.

You okay?

Yeah, I just uh...

I don't know how I'm

supposed to feel right now.

Mad, confused, sad.

Million questions.

Everything I guess.

Yeah, I guess

that sums it up.

Um...

Beth doesn't know I'm

calling you, but--

Oh, please.

I can't.

I can't talk to

her right now.

-I just--

-I know, but...

Do not defend her.

Jesus.

She had thirty-three years

to tell me this and she,

she waits until my

mother's funeral to tell

me that the woman I'm

grieving is not my mother,

who is my grandmother.

And she's not my sister,

she's my mother.

I-I...

It's a lot

to take in, huh?

I can't.

I don't know how to wrap

my head around this.

Well, it's a tough one.

I've wrapped my head

around it for a long time.

Yeah, I was uh, I was

wondering if you knew.

If you knew this whole

time and you just...

Yeah, you just

uh, never told me.

You know what, Becca?

Just hold on a second

cause this is a hard thing.

What? What is hard for you?

Look, you remember I came

back from the war,

I started dating Beth.

Right?

Yeah, you met at the VFW

Christmas dance thing.

Yeah, well...

Yeah, we met at a dance, but

it was a high school dance.

I was 17 and Beth was 15.

And your grandmother

wouldn't let me see Beth

anymore after

she got pregnant.

She blamed me.

I went off and joined the

army to get as far away as

I could and--

-Seriously?

-Just listen to me.

What?

But I was not trying to get

away from Beth or from you.

I was never running

away from you.

What are you telling me?

You're my daughter, too.

How could you do this?

How could you both do this?

All of these years, why?

Because it was the only way

that Alice, that your...

That your grandmother

would allow us to be in

your life at all.

Look, I missed the first

ten years of your life.

And as soon as I got

out of the army, I came

straight home and I

married Beth and we stayed

in that house and we were

around you as much as we

possibly could be.

How could you

do this to us?

I mean, how could

you do this to Tony?

That poor kid.

I'm sorry.

I'm very, very sorry.

But you gotta know this

is torture for us, too.

This was torture

for me, you know.

And I didn't love

you any less.

I mean, maybe it was

different on that outside.

Maybe it looked different

on the outside.

But you know, inside you

were always my girl.

No, I um...

I feel like the earth has

just dropped out beneath me.

I can't...

Well, it has, sweetie, but

you are not gonna sink.

I promise.

We're not gonna let you.

Oh, don't you

promise me anything.

I don't believe a

word you say to me.

I don't wanna talk

to you anymore.

Don't call me.

-Tell Beth not to call me.

-Becca, please.

I will have someone proxy for

me at the will reading.

Becca, you--

[somber music]

[blowing nose]

[camera shutter]

Beth.

He's at Becca's.

He went to Becca's.

Why did she send that

to you and not me?

She's still mad at you.

And...

I think it's good they

spend some time alone now.

She's worried about him.

What do you mean?

Did you talk to her?

Yeah, we spoke last night.

Did you tell her?

I had to.

Give me your keys.

Jesus.

[melancholic music]

[sneezes]

Just have a seat, please.

I haven't seen

you in a while.

Yeah, I figured with all

this weird Asian pig virus

thing going around that I

should probably come in.

Okay.

Still a non-smoker?

Drinks per week.

Depends on the week.

Um, three to five.

Okay.

You definitely

have a fever.

And considerable

inflammation.

Uh, no strep.

Probably the flu.

Oh!

Says you got a

birthday next week.

[laughs]

37?

Okay, so children maybe.

Children? No.

No, no. No.

I, uh, I don't even

have a houseplant.

No, I travel way too much

and when I'm home,

my hours are insane.

I don't even have a dog

and I'd really like a dog.

Look, Rigby, you're gonna

have to find a new doctor.

Oh, geez.

I am really sorry I didn't

come in for the flu shot

-this last year.

-No, no, no.

You don't understand.

I'm not an obstetrician.

You're pregnant.

What?

No, that's impossible.

Look, we'll have to

confirm with a blood test.

No, but we always

used a condom.

You ever wonder what's on

the other side of that 97%

effective.

Welcome to the 3%.

How long do I have?

Jesus, it's not

a death sentence.

No, it's a life sentence.

-What?

-Okay, okay.

I can see you're

stressed out.

I'm gonna write you an

antiviral for the flu.

And here's the

name of a great OB.

Right.

Good luck.

[somber music]

Now can you show me which

one is the red one.

[honking]

[music]

That was pretty stupid,

you know.

I know.

Beth's going

crazy right now.

I know.

I just couldn't

be around them.

Kids are supposed to

lie to their parents.

Not the other way around.

Yeah, well...

It's so screwed up.

[knocking]

Tony.

Can you give us a second?

No.

No, I don't wanna

do this now.

I wanted to tell you

every single day.

My hands were tied.

I don't believe that mom

or grandma or whatever the

hell I'm supposed

to call her now.

I don't believe that she

would want this for us.

There's a lot you don't know

about your grandparents.

Well, apparently my whole

life is based on a lie so...

Make that times two.

Is it a lie that

we love you?

Both of you?

I wasn't strong enough

to stand up to her.

I wasn't.

But she was my mother

and I was 15 and scared.

She took Peter

away from me.

I can't handle this.

I have a trial in two days

that I'm not prepared for

so I can't do this

with you today.

Okay.

You know where I am.

Come on, Tony.

You know what, Becca, this

really isn't a tragedy.

It's not.

It's actually the first

time I've been able to

breathe in thirty years.

[door closes]

Hey, if you'd ever

gotten pregnant,

would you have

considered termination?

What a terribly strange

thing to ask me.

What do you mean?

What do you mean,

what do I mean?

Well, what are

you asking me?

What are you

trying to say?

Well, what do you

think I'm saying?

You think I'm saying that

I wanna have a baby?

Seriously look, if I

wanted to have a baby with

you, I'd tell you, I wanna

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