We resume where we left off: with a gobsmacked Jack staring in shock at the return of the prodigal Lynn. He manages to ask her what she's doing there. She's totally casual and breezy and apparently has no remorse or guilt or feelings about leaving Jack and ruining him for all other women, and shrugs that she wanted to come home, and Jack knows how she loves Thanksgiving. She exposits that she got the last flight to Elmo, all the others having been cancelled due to the weather. Lynn finally asks the obvious question of what Jack's doing there, and Jack stammers that he thought something was coming for him on the plane. Lynn obliviously asks whether he wants her to check with the pilot, but Jack says no. Lynn says she's going to go to the Chieftain and get something to eat (of the meal they finished eating like ten hours ago), and -- as casually and breezily as ever -- tells Jack to come with her so they can catch up. Does Lynn...know who she is?
From an anonymous hotel exterior, we cut to Marin, calling Jane from a pay phone inside. She's stuck in Seattle, having missed her connection, and accidentally checked her cell phone (with Jack's message on it, still unheard) in luggage that hasn't arrived with her. Jane urges Marin to call Jack and tell her how she feels, but Marin reminds Jane that Jack doesn't have a cell phone, besides which "it's not the same to say those things over the phone." Jane reassuringly says that Marin can tell him when she gets back to Elmo the day. Marin asks if Jane thinks it'll be okay, and Jane promises that nothing ever changes in Elmo. Dramatic Irony Alert! Sam, in bed beside Jane, groans that he heard that. There's some business with Marin congratulating Jane for getting her swerve on with Sam, and they hang up. Sam asks what's new with Jack and Marin, anxiously saying -- like a true, gossipy Elmonite -- that he doesn't want to be out of the loop, but Jane effectively distracts him by getting to third.
Chieftain. Everyone's dinner having concluded hours and hours earlier, the whole town of Elmo's doing the usual -- standing around, drinking, and shooting pool -- when Jack enters. Seeing him, Ben cheers, "Where's our girl?" Right on cue, Lynn enters behind Jack, and Ben backpedals, "Hey! Our...girl Lynn is here!" Lynn has hugs for Ben, and for Theresa, the latter of whom was evidently close to Lynn before Lynn skipped town. Theresa asks if Lynn is back, but she replies that she's just come to get some of her stuff, and is moving to Vancouver. Theresa sadly says that she thought Lynn was going to travel the world, but Lynn cheerfully (and mysteriously) says that her plans changed. She asks whether there's any dinner left, and Ben produces a foil-covered plate with "MARIN" Sharpied across it. And it's just that easy to be replaced in Elmo. Lynn settles down at the bar, asking, "Who's Marr-Rin?" Jerome says that she's a relationship coach. Lynn says that she can't wait to meet Marin, and Jerome cracks, "You two have a lot in common." Jack shuts him up with a look, and tells Lynn that Marin's out of town. Lynn asks if it's okay for her to eat Marin's leftovers, and everyone looks around shiftily, thinking of both the literal and figurative significance, until Jack finally tells Lynn to go ahead. Lynn asks Buzz what's new, and he tells her about Patrick, in case we'd forgotten. Theresa says she'll catch Lynn up, and pulls up a stool to give her the heavily edited version.
Across the bar, Ben and Jack have a whispered conversation about what the hell happened. Jack says that for his ex-girlfriend to get off the plane when he was expecting Marin was like "a karmic joke." Ben pours a fortifying shot (remember when Jack was totally wasted ten hours ago? Anyway), and Jack says it's frustrating to want to tell a person how you feel and get foiled in the attempt. He asks whether Ben told Theresa how he feels, and Ben says that she told him. Jack says that at least one of them will get what he wants tonight, and they clink on it.
Annie's apartment. Okay, this is dopey, so I'm going to shorthand it for you: Annie thinks that her first fight with Patrick means that their relationship is doomed to be like that of her parents, who've been together thirty-five years despite constant fighting. Because she likes Patrick so much, Annie has determined that the best course of action here is not to make up, but to break up. Patrick is confused and dismayed. I would think he'd be relieved to have one less crazy bitch in his life.
Jack's house. Lynn is still acting like she and Jack are fond acquaintances as she leadingly says she doesn't need to get her stuff tonight. Jack is businesslike as he tells her that he put all her stuff in one closet, not knowing whether she'd be back for it. She tries to change the subject, noting that he painted, and he's like, "I painted you out of my life, lady," and she seems to take the hint and goes to collect her shit.
Chieftain. In the kitchen, Ben says, "Lynn...!" Theresa says that it wouldn't be an Elmo Thanksgiving without a surprise, and Ben says he thought her kissing him was the surprise of the day. Theresa leans in for another smooch, and says that she was serious about wanting to try again. Ben, a little pissily, notes that she had no interest in him until he started dating Sara, and Theresa agrees that she was partly motivated by jealousy, but that really, it's just that she's ready for Ben now. She says that he was the first decent guy she was ever with, so she didn't know if he was "the one," or just the first good one. However, having met some other guys, she knows what else is out there, and none of them is Ben. She holds out her hand, and after a moment, Ben takes it. It's probably easier for him to pick the girl in the hand, rather than the one in the bush. Possibly literally -- it is Alaska.
Day after Thanksgiving. What the hell do people do in a town where there aren't any big sales?! Apparently, one thing they do is arrive by prop plane. Marin wheels her suitcase up a ramp and hops into her truck -- which starts without a problem, despite the supposed storm that contrivedly scuttled everyone's flights. And did I mention there's not a flake of snow on the ground? Because there isn't. In Alaska. In November.
Anyway, Marin pulls up at Jack's, all lit up with the anticipation of getting to tell him, any minute now, how much she loves him. She runs up to the door and knocks, and of course Jack is nowhere in sight, and of course Lynn comes to the door in nothing but a giant t-shirt, all groggy. Marin apologizes for waking her up -- hinting around, all "whoever you are" -- and Lynn introduces herself, showing off her tattoo in the process. Oh, and by the way, if I don't use an adjective to describe the way Lynn is behaving at any point, it's because you can pretty confidently slot in "oblivious" and be right.
After the credits, Marin tries to keep from losing her shit as Lynn chirps that she thinks she ate Marin's food last night. Marin's like, "...Great!" Lynn says that Jack isn't there, and Marin trips over her feet trying to get the hell out of there.
Oh, lord. So in New York, Jane and Sam are still in bed at what would be, let's say, noon or so. Not that there's anything wrong with that, I hasten to add. Anyway, Jane rolls over to see Sam awake and reading a piece of erotica she'd left on her nightstand. She gets all embarrassed about it, but Sam thinks it's hot that she fantasizes, and even hotter that she does it by reading. Problem solved -- they both like porn!
There's an establishing shot of Alaska at what looks like sunset, for some reason, and then Marin's stomping into the Inn, bitching at Patrick that just when she was about to declare her feelings for Jack, Lynn was at his house. Patrick gets all aglow at the news that Lynn has returned, and Marin rolls her eyes, all, "Of course you know Lynn." Patrick says that Lynn taught him how to ride a bike, and whistle, and pull taffy (literally, I hope), and at Marin's fallen face, he hastily adds that Marin has really pretty hair and an impressive hat collection. Marin stomps upstairs just as Patrick twigs, and asks, "You have feelings for Jack?" Marin babbles everything we already know, complaining that so much could have changed in just four days, when it takes a month for Elmo just to get nonfat peanut butter off a ferry. Patrick agrees that a lot can change in four days, and sadly tells Marin that he and Annie broke up. Marin gets out of her own ass for a second, returning to ask why. Patrick tells her how Annie doesn't believe in fighting, and Marin confidently tells him that healthy fighting is integral to a relationship, and that Patrick has to go fight with Annie again, to prove to her that she's worth fighting for. Patrick asks if that's what Marin's going to do with Jack, but Marin chooses to ignore that for now.
Mai's. Theresa shows up to buy back her engagement ring. Mai asks whether her change of heart is due to her remembering that she was married to a millionaire (heh), and Theresa says that she had a hard time accepting Ben's ring in the first place, but that she wants to show him that she loves him. Mai starts futzing around in a cabinet, chirping that she never thought that ring was right for Theresa, but could show her something more chunky. Once her back is turned, Theresa dully guesses, "You don't have the ring anymore, do you?" "Nope, just sold it online," says Mai blithely. Ha! Mai tells her, though, that the ring is just a symbol to let the world know she's married, and that maybe Theresa needs to think what it will take for her to know that she is. She also tries to offload a hideous vase, but Theresa's no longer in a shopping mood, apparently.
Jack's house. Jack appears in the kitchen to find Lynn wrapping breakables in paper, trying to ingratiate herself by saying that she made coffee. Jack doesn't really seem to want any of her joe, and after she thanks him for letting her sleep on his couch the night before, Lynn finally seems to appreciate the situation, saying that she knows it's "funky." "'Funky'?" says Jack contemptuously. Lynn promises that she'll be gone soon, and as he makes to leave, she remembers to tell him that Marin was there. Jack manages not to click his heels in excitement, and takes off.
In New York, Sam and Jane are taking a walk, on streets remarkably unmobbed for Black Friday. Possibly because it's really September, and they're in Gastown, but anyway. Jane enthuses that New York in autumn is perfect, but that if he were there in summer when the A/C is broken, he'd get a very different impression. Sam asks if that means she's inviting him back, but before they can follow up on this question, Jane runs into a friend, Margery. They blah about some book party that's coming up. Sam goes to put his hand on Jane's hip, but she actually slaps it away. Margery finally notices Sam, and gives Jane a look like, "Who's the beefcake?" Jane ignores the look, and Sam introduces himself, taking off his glove to shake. Jane ends the encounter in a hurry, and once she and Sam have turned their backs, we see Margery appraising Sam from behind and apparently not finding him lacking. Sam asks Jane, "What was that?" Jane awkwardly apologizes for the "work talk," but Sam explains that he wants to know why Jane didn't introduce him. Jane waves off the question, saying that he'll probably never see Margery again, and that, for the week that he's in town, she wants to keep Sam all to herself. Man, and just when they'd bonded over her smut, too. Trouble in urban paradise!
Jack comes looking for Marin at the Inn, but Patrick says that she went for a bike ride in order not to "lose her mind -- her words." I don't think she has the quad strength for the ride that would require.
Jack finds Marin on the one road in Elmo, riding without a helmet. He pulls over and climbs out of his car, already looking at her voraciously, but Marin's trying to be cool, saying that she met Lynn. Jack says that Lynn told him she had. Marin says that she's pretty: "Quite a surprise. Not the pretty part, the old girlfriend part." Jack -- not taking his eyes off Marin; James Tupper is really selling the way you can just stare at someone you love because the mere sight of him or her makes you so happy -- says that Lynn surprised him too. "How exciting for you," says Marin, totally calm, like there may have been a cut scene where she prepared for this bike ride by chasing four Valium with a bottle of wine. Jack seriously tells Marin that it's not like that with Lynn, and that she's just there for the day to get her stuff. Marin gets a bit jittery at this: "So it's not--" "It's nothing, except incredibly bad timing," says Jack. Marin shuffles and shifts at this. Jack says, "I've been dying to see you." "You have?" breathes Marin. He asks if she didn't get his message, and she explains about her phone: "What did it say?" Jack repeats the message, but with fewer words, leaning in to kiss the hell out of her -- even whirling her around and pressing her into the side of the car. It's so hot. Marin can't stop smiling, even as they're kissing...
...and then Jack and Marin kiss through the break. He pulls away long enough to say he was stupid about her book excerpt, and that he loved it once he read it. Marin also hates that they fought: "Kiss me again." He obliges, and then asks, if she didn't get his message, why she'd come over. She grins that she had some stuff to tell him, but that it can wait. They kiss some more, and then the spell is broken by the honk of a passing car. Jack presses his forehead to Marin's and says that Lynn will be gone the day, and that he'll make her dinner at his house then, so they can talk. Marin is down with this plan. For some reason, even though it's a holiday and they're out in the middle of nowhere and could just get into his car together and go park on a road and make out all afternoon, Jack gets back into the car and makes to leave. Marin asks again what the message said, and Jack grins flirtatiously and replies, "I'll tell you tomorrow." He pulls off, leaving Marin beaming. And slightly sexually frustrated.
Chieftain. Buzz washes up in the bathroom, splashing water in his eyes, but that apparently does nothing to mitigate the blurriness he's experiencing.
Mai has come to pick Buzz up, and tests him by asking how many fingers she's holding up. Hey, no fair -- her fingers are camouflaged with animal print! Anyway, she tells Buzz he just needs glasses, but he doesn't want to see a doctor who'll tell him what he already knows -- that he can't fly anymore. Buzz morosely says that this is the beginning of his great decline -- after his eyesight, his "good looks" will go . Mai essentially tells him he's being stupid, but does so nicely.
Jack's/Celia's. Patrick shows up with a cream pie of some kind. He explains to Annie that it's her own whole pie, but that they can't have any until they've had a fight. Once they've fought, she'll know that fighting sometimes is okay. He sets it down, and tells her, "Go." She doesn't seem quite ready yet, so Patrick starts instead, saying that he wishes she'd been more sensitive to the fact that it was his first Thanksgiving with his new family. "And me!" squeaks Annie. "But your mother said 'stay,' so of course you did." Patrick tells her not to drag his mother into this, and Annie spits, "Why not? You always do." Patrick comments that for someone who doesn't fight, Annie has "a lot of moves." Annie reminds Patrick that she gave up her whole life to stay in Elmo with Patrick. There's a digression about her queer ceramic cats, and then Annie crosses her arms and says that maybe she should go back to New York. "Maybe you should," says Patrick, plainly having lost control of this whole exercise, adding that then he'll have his mother's pie to himself. Annie is disgusted to learn that Patrick can't even make his own pie, and he defensively says that he can, but that Celia's tastes better. Annie picks it up and, of course, slams it right into Patrick's face, whereupon the detritus sort of scatters across the floor, including a metallic clatter -- the engagement ring he'd hidden in it. Patrick bends over to pick up the ring, but before Annie can take back any of the things she said, he mopes out, pie-encrusted.
After the break, Patrick finds Theresa and gives her his ring. Seems like kind of an extreme way to get back at Annie, but...oh. He's the one who bought Theresa's ring. Theresa's thrilled that Patrick was going to propose to Annie, but he indicates that it wasn't so great after all. Theresa says she's sure he and Annie will work things out, but Patrick doesn't know how you can with a girl who's responded to your proposal by throwing a pie in your face. Theresa's like, "Eh?" Patrick admits that it didn't happen in that order. Patrick wistfully wishes Theresa better luck with the ring than he had -- or that she had, the first time. Theresa does too. I have to say, for coming from a millionaire, that ring is pretty janky.
At the radio station, Marin has a frustrating call with the airline about her lost bag, but hangs up as Patrick enters, moping about Annie. Marin tries to assure him that he and Annie just had a minor misunderstanding, but Patrick pouts that Annie's Irish, which means things tend to escalate. Hate crime! He tells Marin she's up, and she tells her listeners that she had a terrible time getting back to Elmo, and that her missed connection threw her off. "Missed connections" becomes the metaphor around which the rest of the episode will be arranging itself, in case you were worried that there wouldn't be one.
Chieftain. Annie droopily enters and orders a spritzer. Buzz moves down the bar to ask if she's okay, noting that she left Thanksgiving dinner in a hurry. Annie says that she and Patrick broke up. Buzz asks why, and Annie says that Patrick almost proposed, and she kind of shut him down. Buzz is disappointed, saying that he knows she made Patrick happy. Annie murmurs that he made her happy too, but that she doesn't think they can come back from their fight. Buzz says that "Love means never having to say you're sorry" is bullshit; love means having to apologize all the time. Annie seriously seems to think that Patrick will never be able to look at her without remembering the things she said in the fight, whereas I'm pretty sure Patrick could easily be distracted by a butterfly or shiny chocolate coin.
Jack's/Celia's. Ben shows up officially to get the Chieftain's liquor license renewed, and unofficially to nose around about Jack and Marin. Jack tells Ben that Lynn will be leaving that afternoon, and that he's making dinner for Marin. Ben asks if it's really over between Jack and Lynn, and Jack says it is. Ben asks him, about that, whether he's considered why Lynn showed up in person to get her stuff, when she could have just had Jack send it. Ben suggests that although Jack might be done with Lynn, she may not be done with him. Jack looks a bit alarmed at this possibility.
Marin, all happy and excited, shows up at Jack's house. She starts to say she knows she's early...and then hears Lynn inside, telling her to come in. Marin enters, confused, and sees Lynn, hunched over on the couch. Marin asks if she's okay, and Lynn breathlessly says that she's "all cramped up": "What if something's wrong with the baby?" Okay, the way she just blurts this out as though what's happening in her uterus is not just public knowledge but no big deal, makes me like the character a lot less than I did the first time through these episodes. Even if she doesn't know that Jack and Marin are an item, it's still a douchey way of making the announcement. Marin, her face going hard, says, "You're pregnant?" Lynn asks Marin to take her to the hospital.
In her truck, Marin asks Lynn whether she needs anything -- air, music. Lynn asks Marin just to keep talking to her. And then, in the silence that follows (the first time Marin's ever been at a loss for words -- certainly the first time she's declined to talk when directly invited to), Lynn says that Jack doesn't know about the baby. "Oh my God," babbles Marin, but Lynn adds that it's not his baby. Marin smiles a tiny bit in relief as Lynn goes on to say that all Jack wanted was for her to settle down in Elmo and have his babies, and now she's moving to Vancouver to have someone else's: "It's ironic, right?" "It's a twist," Marin agrees. Lynn adds, "At the time, it just seemed like this huge, insurmountable thing between us, you know?" Marin ruefully says that she does, as though she's already thinking that the baby that did happen is going to be a huge, insurmountable thing between Marin and Jack instead. Lynn says that of course Marin would know, being a relationship coach. Marin shrugs that she isn't really doing that anymore. Lynn nosily asks why Marin was looking for Jack, and she says she was following up on a message he left her. "Are you guys dating?" asks Lynn possessively. Marin tells the technical truth, which is that they aren't; they're just friends. Lynn says that Jack is a great friend. "Yeah," Marin agrees sadly. Lynn says that Jack always said Lynn would make a great mother: "The minute you think you're going to lose something, it suddenly becomes the most important thing in your life, you know?" Marin knows. OH HOW SHE DOES KNOW.
Classic TV Cliché Alert! Theresa washes dishes at the Chieftain, and since we saw her put her ring back on earlier, we know all too well that she's going to lose it down the drain. Ben walks in, and she lies that it's just a slow drain. Once he leaves the room again, the ring is gone. Gone!
Doctor's office. Buzz has cataracts. He's going to be totally fine. Phew.
New York. Jane is getting ready to go out to this work party. Sam picks up the invitation and says that he'll go get dressed. Jane briskly tells him not to; the party will be boring, and he doesn't have to go. She's just going to make an appearance, and then she'll come home and they'll order in Chinese food. Sam, getting kind of pissed, says that he flew across the country (two, to be precise) because he thought she was so awesome, and she doesn't even want to introduce him to her friends. She tries to wave that off, but he reminds her about Margery. Jane dismissively says that Margery is no one he need be concerned about -- she's a closet Republican! Ew, gross! Sam asks, then, why Jane isn't going to take him to the party, and Jane reluctantly says that she doesn't think he'll fit in with the people who'll be attending: "They're horrible! I know, I'm one of them." Sam pouts that he's like her romance novels: "I'm the dirty secret you hide in your apartment." Jane has no response to all the truth Sam's laying down on her, so she just stammers that she's late. Sam pouts. It's okay, Sam. You can just withhold sex. Other housewives have been doing it for years.
Hospital. Marin hands Lynn off to a nurse in the ER. As she's wheeled away, Lynn calls back to Marin, asking her to call Jack. "And tell him what?" Marin calls back. Explosive herpes?
Inn. Annie enters, with a pie. She promises Patrick, who's sitting at the desk, that she won't hit him with it. Setting it down on the desk, she says she's sorry: "I want to fight again!" Patrick looks miserable as he tells her he had the whole thing planned out, with the first pie: she was supposed to cut into the first slice and find the ring; he was going to make sure she didn't accidentally eat it. Annie enthusiastically says that sounds beautiful, and tells him they can do it now: "I'll be surprised, I swear!" Patrick tells her that he doesn't have the ring anymore. "You...don't?" says Annie, getting inkling of how much she's fucked everything up. Patrick tells her that when they had a fight, her instinct was to break up, while his was to give her a ring; he thinks her instinct was right. Ouch. Annie, devastated, runs out into the night.
Chieftain. Ben decided to try to fix the sink after he saw Theresa having problems with it earlier, and has found her ring. She literally breathes a sigh of relief at the sight of it. Ben asks if she's wearing it again, and she coyly says that she was trying it on for size. She comments that she hadn't worn it in a long time, and Ben exposits that he was just glad to have been able to get it on her in the first place, after she'd turned down his proposal twice. Theresa meaningfully says, "I'm ready to try and [sic] be the person you saw in me." Ben replies, "That new person shouldn't wear that old ring." Theresa says she wanted to show him that she really means yes. Ben jokes that they can call it "a really strong 'maybe.'" She chuckles, and he tells her to get rid of the ring -- she can sell it to Mai or something. She relents, putting it in her pocket.
Boring book party. Margery winds up an anecdote with a queer "Obama/Osama" punchline. Jane laughs fakely and wanders away, calling Sam at her apartment. He asks what she's doing, and she says that the party sucks. He asks if she's leaving, but she tells him that she wants him to come, since the party needs "someone real" -- because that's not too condescending. Still, Sam is touched, and says he's on his way.
Mai brings Buzz home, post-cataracts surgery. She helps him in -- he's still wearing those huge-ass old-man sunglasses, of course -- and he asks her to bring him a beer. She tartly tells him that if he can find the fridge when he's blacked out, he should be able to find it with his sunglasses on. Buzz complains that she's not giving him any special treatment after his surgery, and she tells him he's not an invalid. Buzz tells her he's not the man she married, either. Mai tells him that she's getting old, too, and isn't all that psyched to have him see her clearly for the first time in who knows how long. Buzz, tickled, asks whether she's really worried about that, and she admits, "Well, no. I have many beauty secrets and I look fabulous." Hee! She tells him she may be less secure in the years to come, though, but tells him she doesn't want to go back in time; she likes what they have now. Buzz antsily says that he needs to get back into his plane, but Mai stops him. Might be easier to stop him with a beer.
Hospital. Jack finds Marin in the waiting room, and gruffly asks what's wrong. Marin says that Lynn should tell him, but Jack urgently tells Marin that she needs to. After a moment, Marin relents: "She's pregnant." "No," says Jack, horrified. "No. She doesn't look--" "It's early," says Marin, explaining how pregnancy to THE BIOLOGIST. But it turns out he did know how pregnancy works; he just needed reassurance that Lynn wasn't pregnant with his baby. Once he has it, he staggers into a chair, staring straight ahead. Marin, standing to him, tells Jack she doesn't know what to say. He doesn't either. She asks if he wants her to stay. He does. And she decides the best way to reassure him is to sit down twelve miles away from him.
Inn. Patrick eats Annie's pie (LITERALLY, sickos) in front of an old movie. Theresa comes in, eagerly takes a forkful, and tells him how good it is. Patrick pouts that "it tastes like broken dreams." Really? I would have guessed blueberry. After a moment, she produces the ring. Patrick tells her he doesn't need it anymore, but Theresa insists, telling him, "You'd be surprised how things can change." In just four days. When you've missed your connection. Etc.
Hospital. Lynn walks out to the waiting room, looking rough. Jack walks up to meet her, and she starts crying, telling him, "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry." He hugs her and cradles her head, while back on the couch, Marin studies her hands, tasting broken dreams of her own. Thanks a lot, anonymous dude who knocked up Lynn. Anyway: Lynn cries that she was scared, and Jack says she'll be okay. "What am I going to do?" sobs Lynn. Jack, making her look at him, tells her, "We'll figure something out." Marin's like, "Awesome, now they're a 'we.'" After a moment, she gets up and walks out, leaving the new family to sort itself out.
In front of the hospital, Marin's buttoning her coat when Jack comes out. He apologizes about dinner, and comments that this wasn't how their night was supposed to go. Marin agrees. Jack says they'll have to have a rain check: "I have to get her home and into bed." "Bad choice of words," says Marin quietly. Jack chuckles mirthlessly. Marin says she's going to go: "You've got it from here." Jack nods. Oh, he's got it, all right.
Inn. Marin enters to find Patrick at the desk. He's managed to forget his own troubles long enough to be happy for her that her bag has arrived from the airline: "Big day!" "Big day," repeats Marin mopily, taking it up to her room.
In the Presidential Suite, Marin pulls out her phone and calls her voicemail. Her voice-over says, "The thing about a missed connection is that once you've realized you've missed it, it's already gone."
Patrick studies the ring as Marin goes on: "You can't go back in time and make it all better."
By the water, Ben and Theresa happily joke around. "All you can do is move forward, and try your best to make new memories to overtake the old ones."
Sam, all dolled up, grins at Jane as he walks into the boring party. Jane kisses him, in front of God and everybody, and proudly introduces him around. "Kiss new people to overtake your old fears."
"And sometimes, if you're very lucky, the old people can become new again." Buzz takes off his gigantic sunglasses. "Everything comes into focus." His eyes unblur as Mai vamps a little in front of him, and then playfully takes off running away from him. Aw.
"And you can imagine what your future could be." Jack helps Lynn into his house.
Back in the Presidential Suite, Marin finally gets to hear Jack's message. We watch her heart breaking as she curses Lynn's stupid fetus. "Until the past comes back and knocks you off your feet." And onto your ass. I hate to be manipulated by TV and stuff, but...poor Marin.