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 | Season 3 / Episode 13: - Post-Op Hope Murdoch Steadman: [over telephone] Hello? Elliot Weston: Hi. It's me. She's okay. Everything went fine. Hope Murdoch Steadman: Oh, thank God. It... it seemed like so long. I was starting to get worried. Is she awake? Elliot Weston: No, no. They're just taking her to Recovery. Hope Murdoch Steadman: Did the doctors say anything? Elliot Weston: No, well, I mean, they're real happy. It looked great, very 'contained.' How are the kids? Hope Murdoch Steadman: Oh, they - yeah, they're fine. They're fine. Uhm, Ethan's been a little cranky, but... well, wait, let me put him on. Here you go, Eth. Eth! You're mom's fine. She's doing great! Ethan Weston: [into the phone] Mom? Elliot Weston: No, no. It's me. Uh, listen, Mom's still asleep from the operation. But everything went great. I mean, it went great. She'll be home before you know it. Okay, pal? Ethan Weston: 'Kay. |
| Season 3 / Episode 13: - Post-Op Hope Murdoch Steadman: She didn't think it was anything. The doctor found it during a regular check-up. Melissa Steadman: Oh my God. Nancy. Chemotherapy? Radiation? What? Hope Murdoch Steadman: Yeah, probably some chemotherapy. I'm not sure. Melissa Steadman: Did they know at the book party? Hope Murdoch Steadman: Yep. Melissa Steadman: [clearly in shock] My God. Nancy! What about the kids? Hope Murdoch Steadman: I sat with the kids on Saturday. Melissa Steadman: Anything we can do for them? Hope Murdoch Steadman: No. I don't think so. |
| Season 3 / Episode 13: - Post-Op Hope Murdoch Steadman: [after a very long, very awkward silence] So, Nancy, how's the book coming? Nancy Krieger Weston: Well, it's only been in the stores for a week, you guys. Ellyn Warren: Oh! Your book! I saw it. I saw it! I was going by Wannamaker's and it was just sitting in the window as a - on display! Nancy's Sister Deborah: My kids were so thrilled they took theirs to school. Hope Murdoch Steadman: Oh, that is so cute! Ellyn Warren: Well, uhm, look, I've uhm, got a meeting that I'm twenty minutes late for, so I was just gonna say 'hi'... Nancy Krieger Weston: [polite] Hi. Ellyn Warren: ...and drop some banana bread over and just... Nancy Krieger Weston: [polite] Thanks. Ellyn Warren: [leaning in to give Nancy a kiss on the cheek, but not quite succeeding]... I don't know. 'Kay. Uhm, 'bye. Anyway, 'bye. Nancy Krieger Weston: 'Bye. Ellyn Warren: [tripping on her way out] Oh! Sorry. 'Bye. Hope Murdoch Steadman: [looking very embarrassed for Ellyn] 'Bye... Nancy's Sister Deborah: [after she departs] The Big C really gets 'em, huh? |
| Season 3 / Episode 13: - Post-Op Gary Shepherd: Stage One C? What is that? Good or bad? What does that mean? Melissa Steadman: It could be worse. It was very contained, but there were a small number of cells outside the ovary. Bad cells. Michael Steadman: It means she has to have chemo. Melissa Steadman: Yeah, mild course. Six to twelve cycles. Gary Shepherd: Oh, God. Melissa Steadman: She's going to be pretty sick. Hope Murdoch Steadman: Well. How do you know all this? Melissa Steadman: I called Vicky Mercer and Robby Schloss. Michael Steadman: You called Robby Schloss? Melissa Steadman: That's how scared I am. Gary Shepherd: Oh, God. Poor Nancy! Hope Murdoch Steadman: [visibly showing in her pregnancy] She must hate me every time she sees me. Melissa Steadman: Oh, Hope. Hope Murdoch Steadman: I mean she had a complete hysterectomy. They took out her ovaries and everything. Melissa Steadman: They didn't want anymore kids, did they? Gary Shepherd: Did they? Hope Murdoch Steadman: I don't think so, but they took everything out and she still might die. |
| Season 3 / Episode 13: - Post-Op Nancy Krieger Weston: [having opened the door to Hope] Hi. Hope Murdoch Steadman: Hi. I just wanted to bring this stuff by. Nancy Krieger Weston: Oh, you really gotta stop doing this. Hope Murdoch Steadman: Oh, it's okay. Nancy Krieger Weston: [holding up a bundle wrapped in aluminum foil with a bright red ribbon] Banana bread? Hope Murdoch Steadman: How did you know? Nancy Krieger Weston: Just guessed. Thanks. Hope Murdoch Steadman: It's okay. Nancy Krieger Weston: Come on in. You want some tea? Hope Murdoch Steadman: Oh, no, I've gotta go pick up Janey, and I just wanted to drop this stuff off... oh, and let you know that I'll take Ethan and Britty for dinner tonight. Nancy Krieger Weston: No, you don't have to do that for... Hope Murdoch Steadman: No, really. It's okay. I don't... Nancy Krieger Weston: [sharply] No! [then, looking at Hope who is a little taken aback] I know that you are just trying to help. I know everybody is just trying to help, but I don't need help with Ethan and Brittany. Hope Murdoch Steadman: Okay. I'm sorry. Nancy Krieger Weston: It's just... I want to be with them. Hope Murdoch Steadman: [realizing] I'm sorry. I didn't think. Nancy Krieger Weston: [feeling badly now] But if my vacuum cleaner needs repair or something like that, I'll give you a call. Okay? Hope Murdoch Steadman: [smiling] Okay. Nancy Krieger Weston: [as phone rings again] Damn. Hope Murdoch Steadman: [rushing out] I've gotta go anyway. I'll call you later. Nancy Krieger Weston: [seeing her friend to the door regretfully] Okay. Elliot Weston: [recorded on phone machine] Hi. We can't come to the phone right now, but please leave a message and we'll get back to ya. Gary Shepherd: [over phone machine] Nance, hi. It's Gary. Listen. Uh, this is our weekly night for junk food and we thought we'd just swing by and pick up Ethan and Brittany and take them out... |
| Season 3 / Episode 13: - Post-Op Elliot Weston: And the most impressive thing is how well, I mean no, honest to God, it's really selling. It's really selling. I mean - we got a preliminary report from the publishers and it's all computerized now so you can track exactly where it's selling, who's buying it, what breakfast cereals they eat in the morning... I mean it's great! No, it really is, and Nancy was... Elliot Weston: How long has she been asleep? Eleanor Krieger: About five minutes. Hope Murdoch Steadman: Poor baby. Elliot Weston: She tried to do too much today. Honey? Nancy Krieger Weston: [roused by Elliot] Oh. Oh, I'm sorry. I was tired. Elliot Weston: It's okay. Nancy Krieger Weston: What? Elliot Weston: It's okay. Nancy Krieger Weston: No, it is not okay. It's not okay to fall asleep during dinnertime. That is not okay. Hope Murdoch Steadman: We know you're tired. Nancy Krieger Weston: [irritated] Yes, I am tired. I have just had half of my insides removed, and I'm going to start chemotherapy in a week or two, so yes, I am tired. I'm tired of thinking. [looking around at them] What - why were you whispering? I mean, what were you talking about? Michael Steadman: We were just talking about how well your book's doing, Nance. Nancy Krieger Weston: Apparently. Gives new meaning to the words 'publish or perish', doesn't it? Nancy Krieger Weston: [breaking the awkward silence] Could I have some coffee? Hope Murdoch Steadman: [about to get up] Yeah. Sure. Michael Steadman: [already up] I got it. You want something in it? |
| Season 3 / Episode 13: - Post-Op Hope Murdoch Steadman: [as Grendal barks in the snow] Grendal! C'mon! Leave that squirrel alone, would you please? Good boy! C'mon! You silly dog! Good boy. C'mon! Nancy Krieger Weston: Does he ever catch 'em? Hope Murdoch Steadman: No, of course not! Nancy Krieger Weston: Oh, life is hard for a dog. Hope Murdoch Steadman: Oh, yeah, right. Nancy Krieger Weston: Deb left this morning. Hope Murdoch Steadman: You're going to miss her. Hope Murdoch Steadman: [looking at Nancy, uneasy] I'm sorry for not always knowing the right thing to say. Nancy Krieger Weston: No, that's all right. I don't know the right things to say either. Hope Murdoch Steadman: I mean. Just tell me if I say something stupid. It's just so scary. Nancy Krieger Weston: I know. Hope Murdoch Steadman: Are you scared? Nancy Krieger Weston: Are you kidding? Hope Murdoch Steadman: When I was about to have Janey. I don't know how to say this, but uhm... I felt like I was... Nancy Krieger Weston: [grinning broadly] Like you were in a permanent state of bliss? Hope Murdoch Steadman: Yeah, yeah. I was, but I, uhm... you know, besides all the happy stuff, underneath... Nancy Krieger Weston: [realizing] What? Nancy Krieger Weston: [when Hope doesn't answer right away] What? Hope Murdoch Steadman: [a bit lost in her thoughts] Uhm. I felt like I was going into this tunnel. And then the tunnel went way down, deep. And uhm, I couldn't turn back, I had to go through it and come out the other side, and it was about coming close to dying, and about having my body ripped apart, and blood and pain and, you know, because it's not about drugs, and doctors, and hospitals. It's about, uhm, blood, and pain, and uhm, brushing real close to dying. I'm not saying I know what you're going through, I'm just trying to understand. I mean, maybe - maybe your tunnel is different. I mean, maybe it... oh, maybe it's not even a tunnel. I'm sorry. Nancy Krieger Weston: [as Hope gives up and walks away] It is a different tunnel. And it's so deep that I keep screaming and yelling and no one seems to be able to hear me. Hope Murdoch Steadman: I'll try to hear. Nancy Krieger Weston: This is what it is. I mean, this is one thing. I get this feeling, right here, this panic? Ethan... I mean, Ethan is big. He's out in the world everyday, and I've done my work with him. You know, the real work. But Britty. I mean, she's still a baby somehow, she's still a part of me. Now if I die, I mean that would be horrible for Ethan, but he will survive. I mean, it'll be a burden, but he will survive. But Britty, if I die... well, I'll be abandoning her. She's not whole yet. She won't understand. She'll just think that I walked out on her. Hope Murdoch Steadman: [swallowing a sob] Oh, God. Nancy Krieger Weston: She won't remember me. Ethan will. But Britty will not remember me. |
| Season 3 / Episode 12: - Another Country Gary Shepherd: [all while Elliot watches Nancy quietly] Why would I make something like that up? Seriously. I swear. I put them both in front of her, right? Runaway Bunny and Ulysses. Michael Steadman: And let me guess: she went right to Ulysses? Gary Shepherd: Right. Susannah Hart: And put it in her mouth. You forgot to mention that, right? Michael Steadman: So big deal. Listen. Janey, by the time she was five months old had eaten most of the major early work of Saul Bellow, up to and including 'Henderson the Rain King', but hey, I don't like to brag. Hope Murdoch Steadman: Oh, I'm sure Emma's as bright as a button, Gary. Nancy Krieger Weston: Hey, hey, what was that woman on the Lucy Show that was always bragging about her kids? Susannah Hart: [definitively] Caroline Appleby. The kid's name was 'Stevie.' Gary Shepherd: [turning to her, clearly surprised] I... I thought you hated pop culture? Susannah Hart: Lucy isn't pop culture. Lucy is God. |
| Season 2 / Episode 15: - Be a Good Girl Hope Murdoch Steadman: [entering and interrupting Michael and Melissa] Excuse me, but Janey would like to see her aunt Melissa. Immediately. Melissa Steadman: Immediately? Oh, ho, God! What a push kid. All right, I'm coming. Start getting cute! Michael Steadman: [hugging her, reassuring] Okay. |
| Season 2 / Episode 15: - Be a Good Girl Hope Murdoch Steadman: [entering the kitchen with Nancy, Michael, and Melissa as they gather up dessert fixings] Oh, I don't know. It's like my mother and father. They live on a golf course and, you know, they could be out and having a perfectly good game and then, you know, driving along and a meteor falls on them and they're killed instantly. Hope Murdoch Steadman: [looking at them] Painlessly! I mean, not now, you know, in ten years... Hope Murdoch Steadman: [seeing their expressions] Okay, twelve! Come on! |
| Season 2 / Episode 15: - Be a Good Girl Melissa Steadman: She was never, you know, your standard perfect pie-crust grandma. I used to go to her store after school? She'd drop whatever she was doing. We'd go for ice cream or we'd go for a walk. Or she'd say, 'C'mon, let's get outta here. We'll go to the movies and hit the Chinaman. My treat.' I was fat. I looked like uh... Little Lotta. I didn't have any friends. But she was my friend. Hope Murdoch Steadman: [putting a reassuring arm across Melissa's shoulders] She'll be okay. Melissa Steadman: [changing the subject, eyeing the dessert fixings] This is dessert? Make Your Own Sundae? You're reading Readbook again, Hope. Hope Murdoch Steadman: I'm a busy woman. You want wedding cake? Get married. Melissa Steadman: [to them] Help yourself. |
| Season 2 / Episode 14: - New Job Michael Steadman: I just... I want to explain, okay? It's just that the timing of this has been so weird. Hope Murdoch Steadman: Well, I'll try to plan the next miscarriage better. Michael Steadman: Wait a second. Hope? Now wait a second. Hope Murdoch Steadman: What? Michael Steadman: Look. Things are out of control right now. I mean, neither of us has a handle on anything. So sometimes it just... it gets hard to figure out priorities. Hope Murdoch Steadman: No. Your priority is your new job. Michael Steadman: So what did you want me to do? Did you want me not to take it, Hope? Hope Murdoch Steadman: Of course not. Michael Steadman: Okay, so then if I take it I have to do it well, right? Because if I don't do it well, and I mean really well, I mean excel at it, then I'm out, you understand that, right? Michael Steadman: [grabbing Hope by the arm when she tries to walk away] Wait a minute. Hope Murdoch Steadman: [pulling her arm away from him] Fine. Go ahead. Excel at it. What do you want me to say? Michael Steadman: Okay. Look. I know that it's not that simple. Hope Murdoch Steadman: No. You make it simple. You couldn't be there today because Drentell walked into your office. You couldn't say 'excuse me, Miles, I have an appointment'? If you walked into his office, he would leave. No, you couldn't be there, thinking you were going to lose your job because you had an appointment at your daughter's school? Michael Steadman: No! That's not fair. Hope Murdoch Steadman: No, it is that. I mean that's what your priorities are: job, money, family, in that order, and that's doesn't even include throwing sports in there. Michael Steadman: Those are not my priorities. Damn it, Hope, see? You don't even know my priorities. I have responsibilities. I mean... I'm the provider here, Hope! Hope Murdoch Steadman: I have a job, excuse me! Michael Steadman: Okay, you could have been the provider, okay? But we chose to do it this way. And that... that's fine. Okay? I don't have a problem with that. But that means I have a responsibility. Don't make a face at me, Hope! So if I'm out of work for two months. And I find a job... Hope Murdoch Steadman: You don't even like this job. Michael Steadman: ...and I find a job. And I see a chance to breath again. And not have to worry about a budget, or what a new baby needs, everything that goes with a new baby, then your damned right I'm going to work hard at it. Hope Murdoch Steadman: We don't have a new baby. Michael Steadman: Yeah. But we were going to. And we were living off our savings. And we had a mortgage rate that seemed to go up every month. We had bumped-up car insurance rates... Hope Murdoch Steadman: And the baby's liabilities outweighed its assets. Michael Steadman: No, Hope! That's not what I'm saying. Hope Murdoch Steadman: No, no! Fine. Fine! This was a bad time for me too. I didn't want this baby either. |
| Season 2 / Episode 14: - New Job Hope Murdoch Steadman: You remember when Daddy and I told you about the new baby? Janey: Yeah. Hope Murdoch Steadman: Well. There isn't going to be a new baby. Something went wrong and there wasn't anything we could do, it just didn't work out. And uhm... now it makes Mommy and Daddy sad. But we have you and we love you... and someday we'll have a new baby. Huh? Cause you'd really like to have a little brother or a sister, wouldn't you? You could teach it everything. About Softy Bunny and ice cream... Janey: And Daddy? Hope Murdoch Steadman: ...and Daddy. |
| Season 2 / Episode 14: - New Job Michael Steadman: No, no, just to be, you know, just to be in a place where there were empty drawers to fill up, and all these people with expectations and I could worry about not failing because that's easy to worry about. Because if I worried about, you know... oh, God... it just... I just wanted this baby so much, you know? I just really wanted this baby so much. So I just had to push it away. Hope Murdoch Steadman: Why? Michael Steadman: I don't know. Because... because there just wasn't room for all that. I guess. |
| Season 2 / Episode 14: - New Job Michael Steadman: Tell me. Hope Murdoch Steadman: No. Michael Steadman: Please? Hope Murdoch Steadman: What? That I feel like a failure? Because my body failed? Michael Steadman: It wasn't you, Hope. Hope Murdoch Steadman: You know, and I... and I see when you look at me, and I think you blame me. Michael Steadman: How could I blame you? Hope Murdoch Steadman: Because I let you down. You didn't lose this baby, I did. And I don't want to go through this again. And I don't want to think that every time we make love, we're going to be afraid. And that I'll think about it. Michael Steadman: It's too soon, Hope. It takes time. Hope Murdoch Steadman: But I don't feel like there is time. Michael Steadman: Shhhhhh... Hope Murdoch Steadman: I want you to make it all better. Michael Steadman: Listen to me. Listen. We'll make another baby. Hope Murdoch Steadman: But it won't be this baby. Michael Steadman: No, it won't. Michael Steadman: [holding Hope as she breaks down and weeps against him] Shhhhhh... |
| Season 2 / Episode 13: - Michael Writes a Story Hope Murdoch Steadman: Why would he call, if it wasn't about a job? Michael Steadman: Probably just to taunt us. You don't know this man, Hope. Hope Murdoch Steadman: Yeah, but if he called... I mean it indicates interest and it could mean a job. Michael Steadman: Listen. Speculation is pointless with Miles Drentell. The guy is like a bear, you know? You can never tell what he's thinking. Hope Murdoch Steadman: [wistfully] Oh, a job. I can stop playing leapfrog with the Visa cash advances. Oh, and I can stop worrying about them taking the baby to pay for the delivery room. Michael Steadman: Here it is. Yeah, I should probably read this, huh? Hope Murdoch Steadman: Is the workshop going to interfere with the job at DAA? Michael Steadman: Read my lips: there is no job at DAA. |
| Season 2 / Episode 13: - Michael Writes a Story Hope Murdoch Steadman: Hi. Michael Steadman: Hi. Hope Murdoch Steadman: What's cooking? Michael Steadman: Chicken Ohmygosh. It used to be Chicken Paprikosh but then I realized we don't have any paprika. Hope Murdoch Steadman: Pretty damned sneaky of you being nice to me when I'm angry at you. Michael Steadman: Yeah. Is it working? Hope Murdoch Steadman: Not yet. Michael Steadman: I don't want this to come as a shock to you or anything, but, uhm, sometimes I can be pretty thoughtless. Hope Murdoch Steadman: I wish it was a shock. Michael Steadman: Look. I didn't want you to see me crawl to Drentell. I didn't want you to see me turn into somebody other than the man that you married. Hope Murdoch Steadman: It wouldn't have made any difference to me. Michael Steadman: Oh. Well, maybe that's part of what was bothering me. I made promises to you. I don't want you to let me off the hook. I don't want you to... to settle for ten cents on the dollar. Hope Murdoch Steadman: [distracted, looking through work papers] My husband, the Blue Light Special. Michael Steadman: I'm going in to talk to Miles tomorrow. Hope Murdoch Steadman: Is that something you want to do? Michael Steadman: Yes, I want to do it. Because it's time I do it. Hope Murdoch Steadman: [turning to him] And what about the writing? Michael Steadman: The writing. I could take workshops from now till Doomsday. I could wear down enough pencils to make a forest. But I could never make a sentence that means half as much to me as you do. |
| Season 2 / Episode 12: - Deliverance Nancy Krieger Weston: C'mon, you're telling me we can't get back to the car and there's no phone? Oh, man, Ethan is gonna go nuts. We have gotta figure out a way to get out of here. Hope Murdoch Steadman: Oh, they'll figure it out. Nancy Krieger Weston: You know what they're going to figure out? That we're dead on the highway is what they're going to figure out. Oh, this is so weird. Ellyn Warren: Oh, you guys, I am so sorry. This is all my fault and I am really sorry. Hope Murdoch Steadman: It's not your fault. Ellyn Warren: Of course it's my fault. My God, I wouldn't go in the cave, I get us lost, now we can't even get back tonight. You're all mad, and I am really really sorry. Nancy Krieger Weston: No, no, it's not that we're not mad, it's just something that happened. Ellyn Warren: You should be mad. My God, I'm a jerk. Don't treat me like I'm some invalid child. Melissa Steadman: [setting down hiking pack gruffly] Listen. Ellyn. We know where we are. Now we can either camp out here tonight and wait until the cave opens in the morning, or we can scream at you. Which do you want? Ellyn Warren: I just want you to be honest with me, okay? Melissa Steadman: Okay. It's your fault. Does that make you feel better? |
| Season 1 / Episode 8: - Weaning Hope Murdoch Steadman: [arriving home] Amy! Hi! Janey? Amy: We're in here. She loves Van Morrison. Hope Murdoch Steadman: Do you want to dance, munchkin? Do you want to dance with Mommy? Yeah. Okay honey, it's you and me. Van Morrison: [playing while Hope dances with Janey and they move into the sun room]... Sail right round all the seven oceans... drop it straight into the deep blue sea... she's as sweet as Tupelo honey... she's an angel of the first degree... she's as sweet, she's as sweet as Tupelo honey... just like honey, baby... from the bee. |
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