10x04 - The Pick-Up Game

[bunniefuu]

[theme music]

"The fashionable resort--"

It's not what they called it last year.

"The fashionable resort had fallen on hard times

"So, it surprised to many that the owners went forward

"with $1,000,000 plus expansion "of the Lotus Point Harbor.

"It was a gamble that paid off, said Ka-- Karen MacKenzie

"when business picked up dramatically

"after the new harbor was unveiled.

"But was it really a, quote, 'gamble'

or was the deck stacked from the beginning?"

You know, they practically have you and Abby

selling drugs and cocaine to kids on the docks.

Well, at least everyone is safe.

Karen. I've been beat up, shot at.

The kids have been kidnapped and terrorized.

You've been slandered.

And all I get is, "Thank God you're alive."

I mean, I thought there was more to life than just that.

Me too.

What happened to the good guys around here?

Don't they win anymore? Every time I pick up a newspaper

or watch the news the bad guys come out on top.

Then don't pick up the paper or watch the news.

That's not a great solution.

Well, it's the best I could come up with on short notice.

And it's almost 8:30.

Now you'll be telling me to get dressed and go to work.

And shave.

This is disgusting.

God save us from bureaucrats

politicians in the press corps.

-Am I right? -Hey, no argument here.

[Howard] Mack. Believe me.

The people up in Sacramento

appreciate all the hard work that you're doing down here.

The governor sent you down here to hold my hand through this.

No. Just wanted me to tell you to...

Take it easy.

And to remind you that sometimes in order to get things done

we have to do something we don't like.

Look the other way.

Mack this is a friendly conversation.

It doesn't sound friendly, Howard.

Do you think I like being here?

I know you're a right guy and I appreciate that.

But you've lost sight...

of the fact

that we're all part of the same team.

[Howard] We all have to pull together.

So you're telling me that the next time these drug dealers

set up at Lotus Point just to look the other way,

don't say anything. Stand there and be stupid.

If I didn't know all the facts, and someone from my team

who had more knowledge than I did

made a suggestion to me, I'd listen to him.

That's a crock.

Don't you be a loose cannon

running around and sh**ting yourself

and God knows who else in the foot.

Don't go mixing metaphors, Howard.

Loose cannons can be put out of commission.

And thrown on scrap heaps.

Hey, Howard, last week a guy put a g*n to my head,

a real g*n, and tried to get me to play along with him.

Now, do you think that this lecture is gonna scare me?

This isn't a lecture, Mack.

This was friendly advice. And here's some more.

You should work on that temper of yours.

[phone ringing]

[birds chirping]

[inhales deeply]

-Hi, Val. -Oh!

How's it going?

Fine.

How about some serious calorie burning?

No thanks. Not today.

Now wasn't it you who told me

exercise was the best way to run off the blues?

I don't have the blues.

I just thought you'd want to get out of the house

for a few minutes.

Julie is in a spelling bee today at 3:00, I thought maybe

you'd wanna join me in the cheering section.

I can't leave the house empty.

I know you're worried about Jill Bennett

but I think you're safe.

You think I'm safe?

You don't have any idea.

I'm not saying she's not out to get you.

I'm just saying she'd be a fool to try anything

now that you've told everyone.

What?

I don't think she's going to try anything now.

Thank you.

You know, that's the closest that anybody's ever come

to saying that they believed me.

So you'll come?

No, I'm sorry, I can't.

You're gonna think this is crazy.

I've had to worry about people coming after my family and me.

You can't live your life in fear.

I can't help it.

I'm afraid, and I can't pretend that I'm not.

I gotta be ready...

[Frank] If there's anything I can do to help

anything at all you just let me know.

[eerie music]

[alarm buzzing]

Your appeal was denied.

We're drafting a new one.

We're also working on another judge.

Yeah, and lawyers get paid whether they win or lose.

Our office bills are on the tenths of an hour.

I can assure you you are not being overcharged.

I don't want assurances I wanna get out of here.

Now, did you find the broad who had me put away?

We're doing our best to locate her.

Do better.

Put some more people on it.

[Vincent] You can bill me in tenths of an hour.

I want you to find the noble Dr. Sollars

and give her my regards.

Hi! What are you doing here?

I was just passing by.

Had this overwhelming urge

to make love to a bank executive.

Ooh.

Hold on that thought till tonight.

[phone ringing]

You got to get off in time to see Julie?

-Oh, yes. -Great.

-Do me a favor. -Name it.

I need Jill Bennett's bank statement

for the last three months.

Oh, I can't pull that up without approval.

Come on, all you gotta do is punch a couple of keys.

-Frank. -It'll only take two seconds.

-Did Mack ask you to do this? -No.

What is going on?

I spent ten years walking the beat.

I talked to a lot of crazy people and a lot of victims.

Val doesn't sound crazy to me.

[Pat inhales deeply]

I can't believe I'm doing this.

B-E-N-N-E-T-T

When did you say that you wrote that check, sir?

Oh, it must have been a couple of months ago.

I just want to make sure I'm not overdrawn.

Okay. I've got it.

Now, what am I looking for?

Any large cash withdrawals?

-$800. -When?

Ten days ago.

Just before she left town.

Frank. A lot of people take cash with them

just before they leave town.

Even though Karl Malden keeps warning us against?

This is an unique opportunity.

Lines like that make me nervous.

Sounds like you're trying to sell me swamp cleaning.

I've been working on this thing for months

but yesterday the host wife had a stroke

and now they're scrambling to find an alternative site

for this fund-raiser

Call that a unique opportunity?

Are you trying to suggest that this woman stroke

is my stroke of luck?

This is a legitimate organization.

Why do I want to save the Bay?

The city has an overburdened treatment system

dumping about a billion gallons of waste into the Bay every day.

The water there is crawling with bacteria

toxins, pollutants, you name it.

You can't swim in there or eat the fish.

I don't want to swim in there, nor do I wish to eat the fish.

Why do I want to save the Bay?

The environment is a very sexy issue right now.

People are more worried over toxic and nuclear waste

than they are about to b*mb.

This will help establish a new public image.

And how much is this sexy issue going to cost?

Not more than $50,000.

Good morning pops.

Pops.

Paige Matheson, I want you to meet Ted Melcher.

You'll get along with him. He wants to spend my money

faster than you do. Paige is my assistant.

-Pleased to meet you. -My pleasure.

Ted has arranged for me to... host a party this weekend.

-What kind of party? -Masquerade party.

We're all gonna go pretending to be environmentalists.

Come on, you gotta give people a chance to dress up

once in a while.

Yeah, what're you wearing?

Clean underwear.

[Paige laughs]

[soft music]

Why are you reading that?

Here, I want you to go to every vending machine

on Lotus Point and buy all the newspapers

-and bring them back to me. -All right.

[door closing]

This is a great way to start the morning.

We've had 35 cancellations and 22 early checkouts.

-We have to issue a statement. -Saying what?

Like the guy who was asked to be stopped beating his wife.

Any answer we give is gonna make us look guilty.

We tell the truth, we were blackmailed

because my children were kidnapped.

Mm-hm, and you didn't go to the police, the FBI, the CIA--

I did. They wouldn't listen.

The only chance you're going to have of selling that story

is to The Enquirer.

What we have to do is make a full disclosure.

Oh, you got a great reputation with the press.

Aren't you the one who buried a body under the playground?

Where do you get off being so judgmental?

You're the one who walked away from this place last year, Gary.

You were too busy with your horses

or too bored with Lotus Point to give a damn.

Now what do you want us to do? Right the whole place off?

If we don't turn this mess around

we're not going to have any choice.

[phone ringing]

-Cherubim. -May I have it in a sentence?

"The angels and the archangels, Cherubim and Seraphim

all the heavenly hosts, sang the praises of the Lord."

Cherubim.

C-H-E-R...

A-B-I-M?

No, I'm sorry.

Natalie?

-Cherubim. -Cherubim.

C-H-E-R-U-B-I-M.

That's correct.

[applause]

Enough camera equipment here to sh**t a feature film.

[hushes] It's Julie's turn.

-Fibrocystic. -Fibrocystic.

F-I-B-R-O-C-Y-S-T-I-C.

[man #3] That's correct.

[applause]

[man #3] Christina.

What if she gets her picture in the paper?

This is a spelling bee.

She's not gonna be on the cover of a Newsweek.

[man #3] Mitrailleuse.

[Julie] May I have the definition?

[man #3] A brief loading machine g*n with the number of barrels.

Mitrailleuse.

[Julie] M-E...

T-R-A-I-L...

L-E-U-S-E.

[man #3] No.

[eerie music intensifies]

[phone buzzing]

Not in.

[Peggy] I've got Alice Higher on line one.

-Not in. -She called three times.

Peggy, read my lips, I'm N-O-T I-N.

Not in

I know it's not my place.

You're gonna say something anyway.

The Department of Consumer Affairs

needs your report by five o'clock this afternoon.

They can wait.

What do you want me to tell them?

Tell them that sometimes we have to do things

that we don't want to do and what they have to do is...

-Wait. -Urgh.

Will you finish the report by tomorrow?

-Maybe. -I'm the one they're pestering.

Peggy! Aren't you a team player? Get with the program.

If you wanna stick around here.

Well, I've got to tell them something.

Tell them I'm out. You can't reach me.

-Where are you going? -Out.

-Mack! -You can't reach me.

[Peggy scoffs]

[birds chirping]

[ball thumping]

-Not bad for a guy your age. -My age?

All right.

Guys of your age still play one-on-one?

-All the time. -Take a shot.

Tell you what. Play to fifty.

Loser pays the difference. Play a dollar point.

I don't know. Come on.

Okay.

[nostalgic music]

Nice shot.

I'm on. Thank you.

Oh, lighten up. I got to be able to swallow.

A sloppy necktie ruins the whole look.

So does strangulation.

You strike oil let me know.

Were you born messy or did you have to work at it?

Actually, it's a gift.

What do you think?

It's a start.

Thanks a lot for put me up.

No problem. We all have a hard time every now and then.

But don't you have any family?

Somebody you can call? Help you out?

Not anybody that's not connected to the mob.

I figure to keep safe of this,

I'm gonna keep out of sight and out of mind.

Feel like you're in a little trouble, do you?

-Why risk it? -Yeah.

So, what are you going to do?

I don't know. It all depends on how Olivia feels about me now.

Let me tell you something.

Don't wait around for some chick--

Hey. Hey. Olivia's not Paige. All right?

Yeah, fine. Just telling you. Look out for number one.

I'll tell you what I'm not going to do.

I'm not busting anymore heads.

I'm not handling any drugs or whatever.

I'm not going back to that.

I'll wash dishes for a living if I have to.

-I'm not going back. -Let me tell you something.

I have washed dishes for a living.

It's not the romantic career it's cracked up to be it.

I don't care. And I'll leave town if I have to.

If that's what it takes.

-What are you going to do? -I don't know. Look around.

Find out who's got the fattest bankroll.

[engine rumbling]

-That's fifty. -I know what it is.

[both breathing heavily]

Oh, look, you don't have to pay me all that.

No, no, We had a bet.

$25, $26, $27, $31.

-Thanks. Thanks for the game. -Nice game.

-How old are you? -16.

Nobody's 16.

Oh, yeah. Two points.

[car horn honking]

[uplifting music]

Hey! Two points for Magic Mackenzie.

Hey, Paige. Just in time for a game or what.

-You got to be kidding. -Oh, come on, it'll be fun.

-Fun? For you it's fun. -Yeah!

Me playing basketball is silly.

-Come on, humor me. -Oh, I don't know how to play.

It's easy. If I take a shot

then you have to take the same shot.

Loser spells out horse, H-O-R-S-E.

If I take a shot and miss, then you sh**t.

Then I have to match what you sh**t.

I'll spot you two letters. H-O, you're up.

-What? -Take a shot.

Your shot.

Well, this can't be any stranger

than the rest of my day.

Nice shot.

Here, hold my purse.

This is Rick Barry's stuff, under hand.

Yo!

Okay, so now...

You've got H-O-R.

-Right? -Yeah, H-O-R.

Okay.

What're you gonna do? Basket is that way, Paige.

-Okay. -Good shot.

-Do that. -You've played this before.

I have not.

All right! Mack!

You're up.

Anyway, anyway, anyway.

-Ready? -Ready.

This doesn't bother you, does it?

-I won't be in your way. -You're such a jerk.

Don't talk to your father like that. sh**t.

Hey.

My turn now.

You've got to match what I do so pay close attention.

-Oh! -Are you okay?

I'm fine. Good.

Stuff like this means a lot to guys your age, doesn't it?

What do you mean, stuff like this?

Winning, being in charge, in control.

Like it matters to you, right?

That's how you almost got yourself k*lled in Mexico.

Do I threaten you?

I mean, does someone my age threaten you?

Or is it just that I remind you of how old you are?

Paige.

If you want advice on how to handle the older generation

don't talk so much.

[ball thumping]

[dramatic music]

-Hi. -Hi.

What happened to you?

I turned it the wrong way.

-When? Where? -Mexico.

Oh, that looks awful.

Honey, you have to...

put it a little higher,

Don't-- It'll be fine.

Don't make a fuss. Come on.

-There we go. -How'd it go at work?

We issued a press release, telling our side of the story.

Probably end up in the back page, if they print it at all.

Newspapers, always bury retractions.

Yeah, they put our mistakes on the front page

and the others on the back.

Whole world is not gonna end so well.



because they see it as a way out.

Industry dumping whatever in rivers and up in the sky

and everyone from stockbrokers to ticket takers.

Cheat just for an extra buck.

I'll never forget watching TV when I was a kid

and seeing these reports on the police

turning hoses on the marches in Selma, Alabama.

And I thought, God, this is terrible.

I mean, it's just, I've never seen anything like that.

Ugly racism, and that racism would be a thing of the past

when I became an adult.

All the wrongs being righted.

You've always tried to right wrongs.

That's why I love you, Mack Mackenzie.

Yeah, and what did it get me?

Everyone says I have an attitude problem.

Well, then...

Why don't you just get up off your attitude

and I'll help you upstairs?

-Come on. -No.

No. Thank you.

Don't you know guys my age like to be

in charge of the situation?

Be in control?

[dramatic music]

Good night, mom.

Good night, honey. Hey, listen, come here.

You were terrific up there today.

-Thanks. -You're welcome.

-Good night, daddy. -Sweet dreams, honey.

[grunts]

How many times have I told her

determination and hard work pay off?

How many times have I told her

never let anyone tell her she can't do something.

She can't win.

-Frank. -We can't afford any publicity.

Okay, honey.

Where do we draw the line on this thing?

We keep her out of the school play.

We tell her she can't play sports

or we tell her she can play sports but just not that good.

I hope she loses the semi final.

That's awful.

To hope your own daughter loses.

No, honey.

That's not awful.

You're just trying to save her life.

[emotional music]

Yes, that's correct. Thank you very much.

Hi, I'm interested in opening a new account.

Okay, have a seat.

Just moved to town. So many things to take care of.

So are you interested in a checking account,

savings account, or both?

Checking account.

My name is Donnelly. Vincent Donnelly.

Well, it's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Donnelly.

No, no. Pleasure's mine.

[eerie music]

[tense music]

Val.

Gary, what are you doing here?

Nice to see you too.

Does Jill know you're here?

I had some papers to take over to Karen,

and I saw the truck. You have a party?

No, these are just groceries. Thank you very much.

No, Jill doesn't know I'm here. Hauling up for the winter?

I don't think that's funny.

Sorry.

[car engine starts]

How you doing?

What do you want?

I want to know if there's anything I can do.

-Do? -To help.

Yes.

You can help me by realizing

that I have been telling you the truth, okay?

[phone ringing]

-Hello? -Hi, Val. It's Jill.

I've been looking for Gary. Is he there?

No, he's not.

That was Jill looking for you.

-What? -I don't know why.

But I don't want her to know that you were here.

Please just go and don't come back.

Go on.

I am not going to let you fall apart again.

She is never going to leave me alone

as long as you're anywhere near me.

[tense music]

Get out.

[man #3] Aggrieved. Troubled or distressed in spirit.

Aggrieved.

Aggrieved.

A-G-R-I-E...

V-E-D.

Incorrect.

Julie.

-[man #3] Aggrieved. -Aggrieved .

A-G-G-R-I-E-V-E-D.

Correct

Next word. Chondrule.

May I have a definition please?

A rounded granule of cosmic origin

often found embedded in meteoric stones.

-[man #3] Chondrule. -Chondrule.

C-H-O-N-D-R-U-L-E.

Correct

That's the end of the fifth round.

We'll take a 15 minute break before we start the last round.

The winner goes to state wide competition.

And she's smart enough to do it.

I know.

I know I can win. I just know it.

I know you can.

You know, I didn't dispel my own words.

But I listen to all the others and I didn't miss one.

Honey.

I wouldn't ask you to do this

unless it was absolutely necessary.

What?

But if you win?

Then your picture will be in the paper.

I'll just ask them not to take my picture.

We can't afford the publicity.

You have to lose.

You can't expect Gary not to come here anymore.

I can, and I do, as long as Jill is around.

But she could be with him for years.

I can't help that.

What about Bobby and Betsy?

How long are they gonna be at Lilimae's?

I don't know. It's up to social services.

But at least I know they're safe where they are now.

Karen did you come over here to make me feel better?

Because you're only making me feel worse.

Tell me what I can do.

I don't know.

[sobbing] I don't know.

[sighs]

Everything she did was so perfect.

Maybe we can talk this through step by step,

and maybe I'll see something that you missed.

No, Karen, I can't. I can't go over it again.

Look, you asked me to go to San Francisco with you.

I'll go. Okay? We'll go together.

-No. -You can't live like this.

Do you think it's unjustified?

No, I didn't say that.

Well, that's what everybody else thinks.

They all think that I went crazy

before when my babies were stolen.

Now they think I've gone crazy again.

I know you're not crazy.

Look...

I don't understand this.

But if you keep withdrawing, if you keep pushing away...

all the people who love you...

then Jill has succeeded.

Hasn't she?

I'm already getting some very positive feedback.

Such as?

I have two inquiries about your availability

to speak at other fund-raisers.

-Do they want me or my money? -They want your money.

But to get it they have to take you.

And the more they take you,

the more visible you become.

It's so nice to be loved for who you are.

Well. It's not all money. Take you for example.

You're a very successful businessman

who puts the environment ahead of profits.

At least that's the way I sell you.

Are they buying it?

Most of them do.

What about the ones who don't?

They wanna know what's in it for you.

Why you're doing it now?

-What're you telling them? -What can I tell them?

You never told me.

I'm getting to that stage in my life

where I can't bear to open a newspaper or turn on a tube,

because every time I do, I see a story...

about someone being appointed to office,

usually it's someone I know, and more often than not,

they're a dope.

It's kind of like Calvin Trillin said,

"I've gotten to the age

"where people I know, people I grew up with,

are being put in charge."

-And that scares me. -So it's the fear of death.

What?

You're leaping back into political life

because you're afraid of death.

What are you, Woody Allen?

[Karen] Wrong color.

That's it. I quit.

-I'm not going. -You have to go.

-It's for a good cause. -=Look, Karen.

I'm a born against cynic, okay? I don't believe in good causes.

I don't even know why Sumner is so interested

in polluted waters when he's the one

who's probably polluting them anyway.

We have to put in an appearance.

I want everybody to see that we're alive and well.

Damage control.

I'm not giving up on Lotus Point,

no matter what Gary says.

Here, try this.

How did Lotus Point come to afford a table at this event?

-Abby bought it. -Abby?

-MM-hm. -Oh, what'd she do?

Lend Lotus Point the money at a 25% interest rate?

Out of her own pocket, no strings attached.

She bought it two weeks ago, before Sumner was involved.

Next you'd be telling me, "She's gonna move to India

and work with Mother Teresa."

I think she blames herself for Olivia's suicide attempt.

She just... She wants to make up for it.

Yeah, well, next time you invite her here for dinner,

I'm still counting the silverware when she leaves.

Hey, wait, wait, wait, wait.

What do you mean that you don't trust me?

You lied about who you were, where you're from, what you did.

I mean, is there anything that you didn't lie about?

Mm-hm. I never lied about you.

I see.

You want me to apologize about my entire past? Fine?

I apologize.

Now let me make it up to you.

And up to you, and up to you.

Tonight after that benefit of yours.

Apology accepted.

But invitation declined.

I've got to go. I'm going to be late.

[man #3] Lipoprotein.

Lipoprotein.

L-I-P-O-P-R-O-T-E-I-N.

Correct.

-What is she doing? -Winning.

[man #3] Brian.

-Ferruginous. -Ferruginous.

[Brian ] F-E-R-R-U-G-I-N-O-U-S.

[man #3] Correct.

Anaphylaxis.

A-N-A-P-H-Y-L-A-X-I-S.

Correct.

[man #3] Back to you, Julie.

Gibberellin.

May I have definition please?

Any of several substances of plant origin

used to promote stem growth in plants.

[man #3] Gibberellin. Gibberellin.

[sobbing] Gibberellin.

G-I-B-B-E-R...

E-L-I-N

[sobs]

[man #3] I'm sorry, Julie, that's incorrect.

Brian.

[dramatic sad music]

Gibberellin.

Gibberellin.

[Brian] G-I-B-B-E-R-E-L-L-I-N.

-[man #3] Correct. -Honey, I'm so sorry.

[man #3] Cheryl.

-I knew there were two L's. -I know.

[man #3] Enchiridion.

E-N-C-H-I-R-I-D-I-O-N.

[man #3] Correct.

-It's not fair. -No, it's not.

-[man #3] Balmacaan. -[girl #1] Balmacaan.

B-A-L...

M-A-K-A-N.

C-A-A-N.

[dramatic emotional music]

[uplifting music]

High estimates a little over a year

you'll be able to eat the fish and swim in the Bay

with no problem at all.

Well.

You almost look as if you belong here.

I think it's my snappy thread.

Excuse me, Terry Marie Rye has agreed

to give you lead paragraph in her column.

-What's that gonna cost? -Nothing.

She's a strong conservationist.

She believes in the cause, and I think she thinks you're cute.

Cute, huh?

It must be those snappy threads.

Could be the teeth.

Well, it's not nice to tease.

I'll keep that in mind while I'm out there circulating.

The larger the donations, the larger the headlines, right?

-Terry Marie Ray. -Rye.

You did a nice job on his wardrobe.

Thank you.

His type needs a lot of personal attention.

Really?

He's getting ice.

Scotch on the rocks.

Nice speech.

.Thanks. -You're welcome.

Sounded like a guy I used to know about 20 years ago.

Who's that?

Gregory Sumner.

What, are we waltzing down memory lane here?

Just thinking about how things have changed.

We're getting on in years, Gregory.

What is this? I'm not ready for a home.

You're not going to see 30 something again.

Who says I want to see 30 something?

Or maybe you like muscles that cramp

and ankles that turn out.

The only kind of physical activity I'm interested in

doesn't involve the angles.

Remember what we used to do after a party like this?

I never got invited to parties like this.

Yeah, close a couple of bars

and then take home the waitresses.

Well, I'm game for that.

You think we could get Karen as the designated driver?

No problem. But you'd be asleep by 11.

Oh, you assume.

These days, Gregory, I don't assume anything.

You get in trouble that way.

I don't mind a little trouble now and then.

Helps keep you awake.

I wonder if people think our being here

is the sound of our innocence.

-No. -Maybe.

People always like to believe the worst about other people.

What's he after.

-Who? -Sumner.

What makes you think he's after anything?

Come on, this is Gregory Sumner,

the man behind the toxic waste dumps at Lotus Point.

Laura had to practically break his arm

to get him started on the... Now he wants to save the Bay.

Maybe he's changed, Gary. People do change, you know.

Who says Sumner's people?

I admit he's made mistakes in the past,

but why don't we give him the benefit of the doubt?

You want to give him the benefit of the doubt?

It's possible we don't know him as well as we think we do.

I'm gonna get a dessert.

What's the matter with her?

She fall on her head or something?

When she says people can change,

she's talking about herself.

She's the one that wants the benefit of the doubt.

She's trying her best to be nice.

What's she after?

-Hi. -Hey.

You've done some job here.

Oh, I can hardly take all the credit.

You better take as much credit as you can get.

You know, that sounds like something Greg Summer would say.

Yeah, it does.

Well, what's it like working for this guy?

You know, I haven't figured him out yet.

Welcome to the club.

I mean just as I think he's gonna go one way,

he goes the other.

It's almost as if he gets...

a perverse delight out of being on contrary.

Paige.

If you want to get through to Gregory Sumner,

you have to be as contrary and outrageous as he is.

Oh, this is great.

Well, honey, it's the same one

that they were offering in the contest.

I'm so sorry.

-We both are. -It's just as good.

Honest. Thanks.

Now, that is, typewriter has a spelling checker,

but I guess you won't be needing that.

You know...

when you grow up, you're going to look different

and you'll be able to do anything that you want.

You won't have to worry about anybody recognizing you.

I promise.

But you look the same.

They'll always be after you.

[emotional music]

Oh.

My honey, my precious.

All of a sudden, Abby's Joan of Arc

and Sumner's Jacques Cousteau.

And Val's Chicken Little?

[scoffing] That's a cheap shot.

Sorry.

It's just she makes me nervous.

I keep expecting her to come jumping out of nowhere

like Sissy Spacek and Carrie.

She scares me.

Well, then don't call over there anymore.

Don't call over there?

I don't call Val.

She's the last person I wanna talk to.

You didn't call over there today?

-No. -Looking for me?

No.

[dramatic tense music]

I thought I heard someone splashing around out here.

-You mind? -No, no, go right ahead.

I'm a big believer in exercise.

I looked for bathing stuff, but I couldn't find one.

I can see that.

I didn't think you'd be able to.

Well, I have great night vision.

Carrots, you know?

Well, why don't you join me?

Oh, I never swim in shark infested waters.

Ooh.

I couldn't find a towel.

[narrator] Next on Knots Landing.

Are you going to get dressed?

What's the point?

Mr. Melcher, what's the prognosis on your client?

Let's say no one wants him to marry their daughter.

Are you married?

[Vincent] Isn't that the famous doctor Samantha Sollars

and her intrepid husband, Detective Jerry?

You're in trouble because we know who you are.

You were here last week.

Opening deposit $150.

Today I go through those doors with a $100,000.

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