The Fitzgerald Family Christmas Page #3

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"and on the birthday

of immortal mercy

we will shut out nothing."

Mr. Charles Dickens.

Great sentiment.

But I think you know how my mother

feels about the English, right?

[Both chuckle]

Now go.

Let me know

how it all turns out.

- Will do. Great to see you.

- [kisses]

All right.

GERRY:

Try to have a good holiday.

I'm trying.

[whispers]

Well, look, how is she doing?

[whispers]

She's good, she's good.

I think the holidays get her

a little down sometimes.

You know, I used to come by

and visit all the time but...

I guess I gotta

make more of an effort.

- Yeah, that would mean a lot to her.

- Yeah.

You should definitely visit.

All right, and, um...

What's your deal?

You're here with her all the time or...?

Yeah, yeah. Definitely.

So, so if you come visit,

I'll see you.

All right, great.

- I will definitely do that then.

- All right. Okay.

Uh, Mrs. G, happy holidays.

- I love you.

- Love you, too.

I might come by again,

maybe, uh, tomorrow.

Just check in on you.

All right,

see you tomorrow.

- All right.

- Okay.

- Good to meet you.

- You, too.

- Bye-bye.

- Bye.

Hey, baby.

How did it go?

It didn't.

What happened?

I thought it was a done deal.

So did I.

What did they say?

They didn't say sh*t.

They just don't have any spots

open, that's it.

I don't understand,

I thought your brothers...

Oh, what does it matter

what happened?

The point is that they have no work,

end of story.

Let's go inside, have a beer

and get ready to go to my mom's, huh?

Yeah, I'm not going

to your mom's tonight.

What are you talking about?

It's her birthday, you have to go.

It's bad enough I got to

spend the day

with your a**hole brothers

on Christmas.

JJ, why are you being like this?

[exhales deeply]

FX:
This is it. This is us.

- FX:
Right here's good.

- ABBIE:
Oh, my God.

- ABBIE:
This house is insane.

- FX:
Oh, thank you.

- ABBIE:
This is bigger than my college.

- FX:
Oh, thanks. Yeah, it's not bad.

SHARON:
No, it's not bad at all.

Oh, no, no. I got it.

FX:
Yeah, okay. Is this yours?

ABBIE:
I can't believe

how big this house is.

- Ah. Well, let me give you the grand tour.

- Oh, thank you.

You ain't seen nothin' yet.

QUINN:

So, what's this guy do for a living?

SHARON:
I don't know. Nothing.

It's just, uh, family money.

- Family money?

- Yeah.

I'm not familiar with that concept.

ABBIE:
So do you have a pool?

Uh, we got a pool and a pond.

Pond's good for you.

- You didn't think I'd know that, did you?

- That's good.

Now come this way, come here.

[Indistinct]

So, what do you think?

What?

My girl. The girl.

Oh, I think she's great.

Well, I'm glad you approve, 'cause

I'm gonna propose this weekend.

Pr-Propose what?

Propose marriage.

[Gasps] What?

Really?

You just met her, didn't you?

Yeah, but I'm gonna propose

tomorrow night, Christmas Eve.

What is she,

like, 12 years old?

You should talk, you and

Money Bags Methuselah over here.

Yeah, true, but I'm not looking

to get married, far from it.

You know, when baby's all growsed up,

you're gonna realize.

When you know, you know.

FX:
Hey, guys. Come on up.

- [Phone rings]

- [Sharon sighs]

[ring]

- Hello?

- CONNIE:
Hey, Mom.

So I have some bad news.

I'm not gonna be able

to come over tonight.

What's wrong?

Are you crying?

No, no. No, I just, uh...

I bought you a cake and I'm not

gonna be able to bring it over,

so I feel bad.

I don't care about the cake.

Why are you crying?

It's nothing. It's just, uh...

Uh, JJ didn't get that job so...

Look, look, baby.

Why don't you come over and--

and stay with me tonight.

Okay?

No, I should stay here.

I'll, uh, I'll talk to you tomorrow, okay?

Have a happy birthday.

- [Phone beeps]

- [sniffles]

Well, looks like

it's just you and me, kid.

So I heard.

Look, Mom, the reason that I wanted

everybody out here tonight--

and for the record,

I am furious with all of them--

was, there is something the family

needs to make a joint decision about.

Then we'll discuss it at Christmas.

Nah, it can't wait till then.

It's...

It's about Dad.

What about Dad?

Well, he wants to spend Christmas

with us here at the house.

Gerry, as I told him

when he walked out on me,

on us, 20 years ago,

the man will never set foot

in this house again.

I know, I know.

But in his defense, all right,

he has had a pretty tough year.

Yeah, and I've had a tough life.

Mom, his company went belly-up.

I mean, he lost almost everything.

Good, good. I'm glad.

He deserves it.

Yeah. Well, then you'll love to hear

that his divorce with Carol

got real nasty and...

Now that is a birthday gift.

I'm gonna celebrate with a beer.

[laughs]

So, you're not even gonna

consider it,

- are you?

- Nah.

What about the Christmas spirit?

Why don't you just give it

a little bit of time,

think about it

and then make a decision.

- Okay.

- All right.

- I'll think about it.

- Good.

Okay,

I've thought about it.

And the answer is still no.

Now that that's settled,

I think you should go down

to the restaurant and check on things.

The restaurant can wait.

Come on, it's your birthday.

I appreciate everything

you're doing, Gerry.

But I'm not asking you.

I'm telling you.

Okay.

I got it.

Happy birthday, gorgeous.

- GERRY:
Hey, Brian.

- Hey. What's up, Gerr?

KK, how we doing tonight?

Eh, pretty quiet,

given it's the holidays.

But that's to be expected.

All right. Well, look, maybe we'll, uh,

close up early tonight, all right?

Sounds good.

I'll be in the office if you need me.

Oh, yeah, and, KK,

if my mom calls make sure

you put the call through, all right?

No problem, Gerr.

- Hey!

- Hey!

- I know you.

- Yeah, yeah.

- How are you?

- I'm good. Thank you for asking.

Good. Gerry.

We have met.

Right. Nora.

I'm Mrs. McGowan's nurse.

- Of course.

- She, uh...

said I should just stop by

while I'm waiting for my train.

- Speaks highly of the joint.

- Oh.

Well, what time is your train?

- Oh, in 10 minutes from now. So, yeah...

- Oh, sh*t.

I know, I've been here for a while.

Well, you know they run every hour.

They do.

So if you wanted

to catch the next one

maybe you could stay

and you could have a drink?

Thought you'd never ask.

It was complete insanity.

Because you gotta remember

we had nine people living

in a three-bedroom house.

Good Lord.

Bloody Irish.

[chuckles] So actually it was

a good thing that our father left.

We really needed the extra space.

Whoa, back up. You shared a room

with three of your sisters?

Yeah. Four sisters in a room

about the size of this coffee table

right here.

And our oldest sister Dottie,

she used to bring her boyfriends

back from college

[whispers] and have sex

with them in the room,

while we were all there sleeping.

- Did she really?

- Yeah.

- I never heard that.

- Yeah, she did.

And I've got the emotional scars

to prove it.

You know I'd like to meet

this sister of yours.

No, I don't think you would.

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