Betty.
Oh. Do me the honors?
You know, I think the best way
to go about this is to keep our cool.
The sale price is totally wrong.
You told him to set that price.
And then the appraiser confirmed it,
which means it should've been set higher.
Well, okay, maybe,
bur we can't get bogged down with that.
What we can do is get half of the asking
plus 20 grand for the repairs at your place,
and save our energy to fight another day.
This is happening, Betty.
I know. You keep telling me that.
He is selling it. He's selling our house.
No matter what I think or how I feel.
Here's what I recommend.
We spend as little time up there as possible.
We walk in, we skip the niceties,
you sign the papers, and we walk back out, okay?
I'm not going.
Not going where?
Up there.
Betty...
the most important thing in divorces
is picking your battles.
I don't know much about life, but I know this.
There will be times when you just can't win,
and you exhaust yourself and you bleed out trying,
and this whole situation is one of those times.
Unless you're Dan Broderick.
Even if you're Dan Broderick.
I promise. I promise.
I'm not going up there.
So technically, she's on the premises.
Technically still gets it done.
Yeah, well, if I've just blown a whole day
flying from Beverly Hills to San Diego
and my client wouldn't even get out of the car...
I'll just go down, get her signature,
come back up.
We'll call it shuttle diplomacy.
Okay, sure, or you could tell her to stop being ridiculous.
In 22 years of practicing family law,
I've seen a lot of things,
and pretty much all of them were more ridiculous
than she's being.
I may be wishing I was wearing more comfortable shoes,
but I have a duty to my client.
I know you understand that, Doug.
And since your client is also a lawyer,
I know he understands it too.
Okay, I checked.
It's all in order.
What did he say?
About what? About you being down here?
Nothing.
Okay.
Well, I have to think about it.
No, no, no.
I do before I sign something. I have to think about it.
It won't do any good.
It will only antagonize him.
He's already lost one buyer.
Betty, please listen to me.
I did.
You said, "Pick your battles."
Sorry, didn't you say that?
Maybe a little ridiculous now, Bob...huh?
Just a little.
You're starting to get it, aren't you?
Get what?
Betty.
Coral Reef was our first house, our only house.
The house we bought for our family.
I haven't felt safe since I left.
Now I'm supposed to just give it up
for half of what it's worth?
Oh wait, plus $18,000 to fix up a house I'm living in by myself
that Dan told me to buy so we could all live in it together.
I understand why you're angry.
I understand it, but that anger has to be controlled,
diverted though legitimate channels.
It has to be.
We need to concentrate on proceeding
from your separation into a divorce
and getting you the assets and support
that you're rightfully entitled to.
That's what we have to focus on.
I can't keep trying to justify the unjustifiable.
What time's your flight?
The window frames in the back are all rotted out,
and something's been chewing on the moldings in our room.
Plus thethe soggy wallpaper, madonna mia.
Why is there still hardly anything in here?
Where's the where's the armoire?
Where thethe nice side tables?
I asked for them, but Dan keeps saying
that I have to submit him a list of what I want
before he'll give me any of the furniture.
A list? Huh, what a prince.
How's he supposed to keep track of who wants what
and what goes where without some kind of list?
Also someone's foot's gonna go right through
that floor in the pantry.
Linoleum's spongy.
Dad, we bought the huge lot and the culdesac
and the view, not the house.
We knew this place was a teardown.
Right, but now Dan's in his own house.
So what's the plan now?
Yeah, will we be seeing the girls at all while we're here
or does Dan need some sort of list for that too?
You know, this whole place is a boondoggle.
I'm surprised he even let it happen.
Our own granddaughters.
The man has no respect for anything but himself.
Hello?
Hey, it's Bob Munro. I have bad news.
Oh, well, that's not the kind I like.
The Coral Reef house is sold.
I'm sorry.
Dan got a court order,
he went in front of a judge this morning.
And said what?
Didn't the judge ask where I was?
He used what's called a fourhour notice.
It lets him make his case
whether you're present or not
Which I wasn't.
And tell the judge you're being unreasonable.
I did warn you about
I'll be right back.
Where is he?
He went to the dry cleaners.
Mom, you can't be here.
I'm not trying to come inside his dump of a house.
You have to go.
I can't be on a doorstep? Stop it.
You know what he's gonna say. Come on.
So then let him say it!
You don't have to do his dirty work for him.
Mom, please go, please? Mom, it's gonna be bad!
I'm not going anywhere, and I know how it's gonna be.
Leave, Betty.
How can a house we own...
Have your lawyer explain. Be sold without my consent?
You're in violation of a court order.
Orders, and you know it.
Betty, get out of the car. Dad.
Get out of the car. Dad! Stop, Dad!
Call 911! Stop! Stop it!
Hey, get back in the house! Call 911!
Stop!
Stop it!
My daughter, she's inside
in the house with my other daughter.
I'm Dan Broderick, I'm the homeowner.
Dr. Broderick.
Okay, and how do you know this woman?
She's my wife. We are separated.
I have an order of protection
keeping her off of this property.
And you want that order enforced?
I know you guys have your own protocol
for these sorts of calls,
but in this particular situation,
in my own personal opinion,
I think it would be better if she went in for observation
instead of... Like a hospital, you mean?
Look, she's clearly not in control of herself.
I think she should be under someone's care.
Scripps might take her. Maybe.
Sharp Mesa Vista's too far.
I don't have admitting privileges,
but once you figure out where she's gonna land,
just give me a call and I'll have someone meet you.
Off the car, ma'am.
Arms out straight.
Arms straight.
Cross 'em for me. Come on, kids, inside.
Let's go. Jenny, come on.
Watch your head, ma'am.
Tracy, come on! Inside!
I mean, you're trying to wait me out, but you can't.
I don't have anything to say.
I'm sure that's not true.
Okay, fine, I don't have anything to say
about why I'm here.
All right, is there something you would like to say?
I would like to say that I'm not the crazy one, he is.
All right? Your exhusband.
He's still my husband, but yes.
Can you tell me what you mean?
Okay, can you talk about
driving your car into his house?
No, yes, that is a crazy thing.
I did do that.
That was a crazy thing and I did it,
but I'm not crazy.
You're gonna have to say I am, though,
or you'll be in big trouble. What do you mean?
Dan told the cops who brought me here that he's a doctor,
but he isn't one.
I mean, he has an MD from Cornell,
but he's never practiced. All right.
Once he got his medical degree,
he went to Harvard Law School,
and now he specializes in malpractice litigation,
meaning he sues actual doctors for a living.
So many careers over because of him.
And now, all he has to do to get a defendant to settle
is make a phone call...
because Dan Broderick never loses.
So if he wants you to tell people I'm crazy?
You will.
Mrs. Broderick?
I have a Dan Broderick on the phone for you.
You can take it in Claudia's office.
Hi.
What do we do here, Bets?
What do we do?
What settles this? Money?
Half of asking plus 18 grand? That was your number.
Should we not have agreed to it?
Did that make you think you should ask for more?
How are the boys?
They're upset. So were the girls.
I want to see them.
25. Does 25 do it?
If 25 means 40. 40?
Since all the money I have is controlled by you,
withheld or denied by you,
I could always obviously use more.
I could also use just
a little bit of the respect and fairness
you'd show a stranger on the street.
Excuse me?
Um, we just got disconnected.
Can I just quickly call back and
You're on a 72hour hold. No outgoing calls.
Hello? Dad, it's me.
Where are you? At the house.
When did you leave? Dan came and got the boys,
and we went to the airport right after.
I got called back East.
It was still warmish when we left,
and your mom's in bed.
Basically hasn't gotten out since we got back.
Can I talk to her?
She definitely won't come to the phone.
Okay.
How could you do that?
I didn't do it to you.
You shamed yourself, Betty Anne.
That shames us.
Everything you do, you do to us.
We had nothing, but we were young
and smart, and ambitious.
Dan was so smart.
I was smart too and I was pretty, and fun.
But I was a good girl.
I followed the rulebook.
You don't lie, you don't cheat, you don't steal.
You get married, you have kids,
you send your kids to the best schools,
then you become a grandma.
You show love to everyone
even if you can't stand them.
The rulebook only works if your husband follows it too.
Ladies!
Hi! Hi, Betty!
How was your weekend?
Great! It's great!
How was yours?
Dan had me committed to a psych ward.
Betty, what?
He did? As in you couldn't leave?
Not for three days I couldn't.
Why would he do that? I justI can't even
He sold Coral Reef.
Wait, I thought he needed your signature for that.
He just went to court
and had a judge declare me an obstruction.
Betty, you loved that house.
God, I loved that house.
I loved it so much,
that when I found out it was gone,
I crashed my car into Dan's new one.
Carolyn said something about that.
I'm sure a lot of people said a lot of things,
but just so you know, the door came off the hinges,
but there wasn't a scratch on it or on my car.
He still could've driven it, but Dan dragged me out of it
and told the cops to take me to the booby hatch
because he's a doctor. But he's not a doctor.
Can he say that? Can he do that?
He's not supposed to, but who's gonna stop him?
I'm a woman being divorced in AmericaI have no rights.
I'm an obstruction.
I am! A judge said so.
So wonderful to see you. I know!
Now I have to go shop
because I have nothing in the house for the kids
since I was in a padded cell all weekend.
Hello?
It's Bob Munro. How are you?
Fine. How are you?
I've got this bill here that I don't understand.
Something about structural damage to Dan's front door
because you drove your car into it?
There was no structural damage.
What's going on down there, Betty?
Nothing! Uh, something.
I overacted, okay? You did it on purpose?
Hey, he knew if he sold that house, something would happen.
Hehe can pay for it.
Um, I really don't recommend taking that position.
Well, I don't care!
The other reason I'm calling was to talk about my retainer.
My understanding was that Dan would be paying the 10k.
Well, I would hope so. But he's not.
He says that you need to pay it.
With what?
He'll be reimbursed by the court for paying it, won't he?
He would, but he's still saying it has to be you
so that you'll be invested in what's happening,
in practical terms.
Okay, so it's like a lesson I need to learn, is that it?
II don't know.
I don't know either,
but I know this wasn't my idea.
And I don't pay for things that I don't want.
Hi, Mom. Hi!
Hi, hi, hi!
We missed you. You too.
Go inside. Go inside.
Okay. Okay.
Hi.
You all right?
Where are your parents?
Really?
When did they leave?
Right after you picked up the boys.
You told them where I was, Dan.
What did you think they would do?
I just thought they'd at least...
That's awful. I'm sorry.
Thank you.
Are you?
Am I what? Am I sorry?
Bets, what are we gonna do?
We could do nothing.
I mean, we don't have to do anything.
So what, we're just gonna keep going like this?
Is that what you want? It's not what I want.
I don't want things to be like this.
What if we just, um...
not a doover, but a reset.
A clean slate.
I know I could use one, I'm sure you could too.
You could take the kids to Keystone.
Night skiing, sleigh riding.
Stay where ever you want.
Uh, River Run. You love that place.
I mean, they have school.
Well, just get them some extra homework assignments.
I mean, that's what we did when we went to Yosemite.
It was fine, right?
Thank you, that's very generous.
You're welcome.
We just need to break this pattern we've gotten into
for both our sakes.
We also have to try remember that actions have consequences.
I can remember that if you can.
I have a great memory.
That's not fair. Her baby's due the 28th.
Wait, so you're gonna have a substitute teacher
right before finals? Yeah.
No, Miss Van Acker's doing it.
Right, she's subbing.
Right, so that's not a real sub
because she works in the upper school too.
Wait, Miss Van Acker the Latin teacher
is gonna teach precalc?
She taught it at her old school!
Remember last time we came here
and Anthony almost broke the drag lift?
Yeah, I do.
I thought it was falling off.
Well, this suite is a lot nicer
than the one we had last time.
Well, remember, last time there was a wedding here.
That's why Daddy had them put us on the other side,
so you guys wouldn't be up all night.
Oh, yeah. The wedding.
Yeah, I remember I lost my ski
and Dad had to piggyback me down the hill.
That wasn't here. That was Wolf Creek.
Yes, it was. It was still Colorado.
God. Oh...
remember when Mom brought a whole suitcase
of just cheese and bread?
Oh, yeah!
And her fondue pot. Her fondue pot!
Dad will eat anything dipped in fondue.
And you forgot all of our skis too.
$10,000.
That's his retainer? He must be good.
Well, Beverly Hills.