Mothers and Daughters Page #3
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?
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,
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,
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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?
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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