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Signed, Sealed, Delivered A Tale of Three Letters Full Episode
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00:00:00I've climbed the Eiffel Tower, walked in a London shower, but I get lost finding my
00:00:20way to your heart. And I can't tell you where the Big Dipper is, where Cinderella's magical
00:00:35Dipper is, I'll wish. Now that you know, I love you so. Hold me and kiss me and show me the
00:00:52way to your heart.
00:00:57You know, I often marvel, as I imagine you do, at the ease of transatlantic travel as
00:01:09compared to, say, a hundred years ago. Did I mention we saw actual letters retrieved from
00:01:18the Titanic? Yes. Yes, you did. At the British Postal Museum. Yes. On your honeymoon. Yes.
00:01:23Last Tuesday in the afternoon. Let me tell you, nothing exceeds the realization of a great
00:01:30dream of your life such as that, unless, of course, it is to experience it with the love
00:01:35of your life by your side. I dare say we might be one of the great postal love stories. That's
00:01:44how Shane and I met. Just guessing at the post office? Oh, the dead letter office, to be
00:01:49precise. We comprise a rather elite task force with wide powers of postal discretion. But
00:01:55I get ahead of myself. I could go on. But please, tell me about yourself. Ladies and gentlemen,
00:02:02we are beginning our descent into Denver. Oh my goodness, the time just flew by. Are we
00:02:09landing? Momentarily, my love. No, you slept all the way from London. How about you? Oh, my
00:02:16friend here and I had the most marvelous conversation about love in the mail. Every step it took to
00:02:23get us to this moment. The threshold of our new life together. And now it begins. And now it
00:02:32begins.
00:02:41Finally love has found me after all this time. Finally love. It took so long. It's just a crime. But now I'm not
00:03:02complaining. My life's complete. Finally love is here for me. Yes it is.
00:03:14Good morning, Mr. O'Doul. It nearly ran down. Oh, how long does it take before it starts? Five days. I had the
00:03:23gardener winding it while we were away, but I forgot he was visiting his mother in Grand Junction this week.
00:03:27Well, we were on our honeymoon. You have a pretty good reason for letting things slip a little. True. But it's
00:03:33ticked continuously for the last 100 years. I'd never forgive myself if I let this clock stop on my
00:03:39watch, so to speak. So, um, how soon till you're ready to leave, my loaf? I should be ready soon. Well, it is our first day back.
00:03:52So, they'll understand if we're out of coffee.
00:03:58So as I am the ranking official?
00:04:02Oh, let me bring this wedding gown upstairs. No, just leave it there. I'm gonna take you to the
00:04:08cleaners and have it heirloomized by wedding dress preservation professionals.
00:04:13All right. Oops.
00:04:22Oliver! Yes, coming.
00:04:24They'll be here, Norman. We were like getting back from our honeymoon, too.
00:04:40Yeah, but we were coming back from the East Tin Cup family camp. They're in the off-season in Bland, Colorado.
00:04:46They're in Europe. They have other languages. They could get on the wrong train or eat the wrong cheese.
00:04:50I knew! Oh, thank heavens! Tell us everything!
00:04:55How was the cheese?
00:04:56Uh, unparalleled. The cheese, the wine, and of course, the British Museum of Postal History was humbling, inspiring, monumental.
00:05:04The breadth and depth of their medieval collection was it put me in mind to explore the possibilities of a postal museum
00:05:10right here in Denver. I couldn't stop thinking about it.
00:05:13Yes, it was a big topic in the balloon.
00:05:15Oh, you did the balloon! We did!
00:05:17It was so magical floating over Stockholm in a hot air balloon sipping champagne with my new husband.
00:05:26Aw.
00:05:27Sounds like a lot more fun than Donkey Rods and East Tin Cup.
00:05:30Ooh, though the zipline was cool.
00:05:32We did love the zipline.
00:05:34Rita, what have we here?
00:05:36It's a welcome home present!
00:05:38No.
00:05:39Oh!
00:05:40Yes.
00:05:41The great mailbox breach of 2017.
00:05:44Oh, yeah. Every letter mailed from Garfield High School.
00:05:46I had given up hope they'd ever be found.
00:05:48Yeah, they were recovered from a street drain and then accidentally sent to the terminal annex in Kansas City.
00:05:52And it took seven years to track and return them to Denver?
00:05:55Yeah. Not everybody can be us.
00:05:57We've got 25, including that severely damaged one.
00:06:02And I have invented something to remove mold and flakes.
00:06:07It's my four-step desiccation revelation process.
00:06:11It'll only take five to six months for the process to complete.
00:06:14Astounding Norman.
00:06:15Well, we have plenty to keep us busy until then.
00:06:17Miss McInerney, would you like to do the honors?
00:06:20You're still going by Miss McInerney?
00:06:23We're still working on it.
00:06:25Okay.
00:06:26Oh.
00:06:31Water-soluble ink, perhaps addressed with a fountain pen?
00:06:37I can barely read anything.
00:06:40Well, we have obeyed all the postal privacy directives and we have no other option.
00:06:46Norman?
00:06:47Well, extraction, tricky.
00:06:50Over here.
00:06:51We've got a whole day planned for you.
00:06:57Lunch at Ramone's new restaurant with Oliver's dad and Charlie is bringing Eleanor.
00:07:01Perfect.
00:07:02Oh, how's that going?
00:07:04It's not strange having a brand new mom and her baby living in your basement?
00:07:08Oh, no.
00:07:09When I was growing up, we always took people in.
00:07:11And how's Charlie handling single motherhood?
00:07:13Oh, well, a new baby is a lot.
00:07:17But we're helping and Norman is completely on board.
00:07:20Oh.
00:07:21Like, like completely.
00:07:23Well, you'll see.
00:07:25Well, my friends, we have a nearly readable letter, shall we?
00:07:29Mm.
00:07:30Uh, dear Maria, I am shocked, dismayed, and quite hurt by your actions.
00:07:36I feel utterly betrayed by someone I considered to be a stellar student with great potential.
00:07:42And I was proud to be your mentor, and I thought your friend.
00:07:47When the police arrived today, it broke my heart that you broke the law.
00:07:52I'm sorry to say that I will press charges.
00:07:55Life has consequences, Maria, and you must learn to face them.
00:07:58This path of anger you continue to choose to become a way of life, and all you have worked for will be overtaken by self-entitlement and bitterness.
00:08:08If you want to play ball for a living, you need to learn how to play ball in life.
00:08:13This is a difficult letter to write, but not all teaching happens in the classroom, and this is one lesson I feel I need to impart to you.
00:08:21Impart?
00:08:21I'm gonna go with English teacher.
00:08:23As your theater teacher, I often emphasized that drama belongs on the stage, not, um, the rest is missing.
00:08:32But we do know, however, whoever wrote this, clearly a Garfield High School theater teacher, seven years ago, addressed this apparently to a student.
00:08:41Ouch!
00:08:42What a letter to send!
00:08:44Or receive.
00:08:45Maria could be a very different person now.
00:08:48Are you really sure we have to deliver that?
00:08:51I didn't hear you say that.
00:08:56She must have done something really awful.
00:09:03We brought them all the way from London.
00:09:06That's from the British Postal Museum.
00:09:09Oh, sealing wax set.
00:09:11It stamps the profile of a corgi.
00:09:13Mailboxes of the 19th century.
00:09:16Limited edition.
00:09:17Oh, there she is, Charlie!
00:09:20Hey!
00:09:21How are you doing?
00:09:22Oh, she's fine.
00:09:23A little colicky, but that's normal.
00:09:25Sleeps almost six hours a night.
00:09:26Wakes up very cranky.
00:09:27I think he meant Charlie, Norman.
00:09:30Oh, I'm great, but I couldn't do it if Eleanor didn't have two amazing godparents, huh?
00:09:38Hey, if you want to sit down, I can take her for a walk.
00:09:40Oh, yes.
00:09:42Hi.
00:09:43Hi.
00:09:51So, Charlie, when are you back to work?
00:09:55Well, I could take more maternity leave, but honestly, it's kind of lonely at Rita and Norman's without them there.
00:10:00Why don't you come hang out with us?
00:10:02Maybe you could bring Eleanor along.
00:10:03Oh, uh, regulations don't.
00:10:05Joe, you could come by and help us set up a crib in the corner.
00:10:08Actually, Norman already has.
00:10:11There's a crib in the DLO?
00:10:13Mm-hmm.
00:10:14I gave him your old one.
00:10:15I'm sorry, uh, babies in the workplace are...
00:10:18Oh, you are the ranking official in the dead letter office, darling.
00:10:22Yes, but...
00:10:23Wait!
00:10:24Charlie, didn't you graduate from Garfield High?
00:10:26Seven years ago, yeah.
00:10:27Did you know a girl named Maria?
00:10:29She either played softball or volleyball, maybe?
00:10:32No, I wasn't really into sports that much.
00:10:34Do you remember your drama teacher?
00:10:36Uh, Mrs. Philpott.
00:10:37She's not there anymore.
00:10:38She actually left the second semester of my senior year.
00:10:41No one knows why, though.
00:10:42And the plot thickens.
00:10:44And the salad bar is open.
00:10:46Oh!
00:10:48Please don't get used to...
00:10:50Um...
00:10:51Don't get in the habit of assuming I'm willing to bend the postal rules just because...
00:10:55We...
00:10:56Because we share the same mailbox?
00:11:03Over there!
00:11:04Ramon!
00:11:05You were both so kind to think of me on your honeymoon.
00:11:09What a thoughtful souvenir, a compendium of recovered mail from the Titanic.
00:11:14Well, your great uncle was lost on the Titanic, if I recall.
00:11:17Actually, he got lost on the way to the Titanic.
00:11:20A fortunate mix-up.
00:11:22And so, how is married life?
00:11:26Grand.
00:11:27Every day, a revelation.
00:11:30Mm-hmm.
00:11:31Marriage...
00:11:32Is like a salad bar, Ovalier.
00:11:36A great one brings you back again and again to appreciate all it has to offer.
00:11:42Hm.
00:11:43How are your adoption plans coming?
00:11:45Oh, well, there's a lot of paperwork to fill out to even start looking for a baby.
00:11:51But helping Charlie with Eleanor takes up a lot of time.
00:11:55Well...
00:11:56Norman's time.
00:11:58Norman's time.
00:12:08So, you found a letter to Mrs. Philpott?
00:12:10From.
00:12:11It was mailed in the Great Mailbox Breach of 2017.
00:12:15A bomb scare that turned out to be a false alarm.
00:12:20But in the process, a mailbox was blown up along with most of the mail inside.
00:12:25And then, anything they did recover ended up at the wrong post office for a few years
00:12:30until it made its way back to us.
00:12:34Is that all you're gonna eat?
00:12:36Oh, I'm not very hungry.
00:12:41Well, not every letter we deliver is gonna be good news.
00:12:44Whoever Maria is, she has a letter to read.
00:12:47And we are gonna...
00:12:48Norman, have you ever had anything of yours heirloomized?
00:12:50Uh, no.
00:12:51Nope.
00:12:52I think I would've remembered something like that.
00:12:53Cherry Creek Professional Fabric Preservation.
00:12:55It is the only place that I would trust with preserving my wedding dress.
00:12:59Then it'll be in perfect condition for when your daughter gets...
00:13:03Oh, if you have a daughter.
00:13:05Maybe someday.
00:13:06But what about you?
00:13:07Oh, we're still trying, of course.
00:13:10But we want to adopt, too.
00:13:11If I can just get Norman to finish his application essay on why he wants to be a dad.
00:13:18Hey.
00:13:19Maybe he already feels like one.
00:13:22Okay?
00:13:25You know, it's funny.
00:13:26You think your soulmate's quirks and thoughts, and then they surprise you.
00:13:30Oh, believe me.
00:13:31After all these years, I have seen all of Oliver's quirks.
00:13:35Well, I'm going to run a search for all the Marias in sports at Garfield High in 2017.
00:13:49I'm just going to need to take a look at that letter again.
00:13:52Oh, I've got it.
00:13:54Uh...
00:13:56Where'd it go?
00:13:58Oh!
00:13:59I put it in the pending box, and it's...
00:14:03It's already empty.
00:14:04Uh...
00:14:05That's not the pending box.
00:14:06That's the outgoing box.
00:14:07Oh, and I emptied it onto the main conveyor on our way to lunch.
00:14:10So, it went back into the system.
00:14:13Oh, I'm so, so, so, so sorry.
00:14:15I...
00:14:16I'm just so jet-lagged, and I just...
00:14:17Not to worry.
00:14:18It was a dead letter.
00:14:19It still is a dead letter.
00:14:20And we'll find it's way back to us sooner or later.
00:14:22We just have to wait.
00:14:23In the meantime, we have plenty of work to do right here.
00:14:26Right here.
00:14:41Have you thought about expanding the closet?
00:14:43Or, you know, adding on?
00:14:45Oh, the house is protected by the State Historical Society.
00:14:48Any changes have to be approved by a committee.
00:14:52Wow.
00:14:53That's astounding.
00:14:54There's no postal museum in the state of Colorado,
00:14:57and yet there is a museum entirely dedicated to the unsinkable Molly Brown.
00:15:01I know, to be fair, she did survive the Titanic.
00:15:04Are you feeling a little warm?
00:15:06No, not really.
00:15:11How do you open this?
00:15:13Oh, uh, well, the crank was lost years ago.
00:15:16Um, the society won't approve a new window
00:15:19because it affects the exterior integrity of the house.
00:15:22It only opens by committee.
00:15:25Uh, well, uh, the review board meets next spring.
00:15:28I'll try and get it on the agenda.
00:15:29You okay?
00:15:30I just feel awful about that letter.
00:15:36On the other hand, would it be so terrible if Maria never got it?
00:15:43Yes, it would.
00:15:44And I have every confidence that we will get another chance to do the right thing.
00:15:50Trust the timing.
00:15:51Trust the timing.
00:15:52Trust the timing.
00:15:53Trust the timing.
00:15:54Trust the timing.
00:15:55Trust the timing.
00:15:57No?
00:15:58No!
00:15:59No!
00:16:00Yes, it would.
00:16:05And I have every confidence
00:16:07that we will get another chance
00:16:09to do the right thing.
00:16:12Trust the timing.
00:16:13Trust the timing.
00:16:30I'm almost ready.
00:16:54I just have to find my other shoe.
00:16:56Well, I'm sure it's here.
00:16:57There are none left.
00:16:59Upstairs.
00:17:01Oh, got it.
00:17:06Ready.
00:17:07Ready.
00:17:07Big day.
00:17:08Big day.
00:17:10Morning, Charlie.
00:17:11You're here early.
00:17:13I bet you didn't want to miss
00:17:14the grand finale
00:17:15of the great mailbox spree.
00:17:16Only two letters left.
00:17:23Actually, it's three.
00:17:25It's back.
00:17:27Maria's letter?
00:17:28No.
00:17:29Cast your dead letter
00:17:31upon the postal waters
00:17:32and it shall be returned to you.
00:17:38Charlie?
00:17:39You okay?
00:17:40Um, I have a confession.
00:17:44The bomb scare, the great mailbox breach of 2017.
00:17:51That was my fault.
00:17:55That was my fault.
00:17:55I am sorry.
00:18:09I don't understand how you could be responsible for a bomb scare.
00:18:13Because it was my idea.
00:18:15Not the bomb part.
00:18:17It's just, um, it's complicated.
00:18:20Well, I am stunned.
00:18:21No, I'm flabbergasted, actually.
00:18:24I'm more than...
00:18:25I...
00:18:26You can tell us what happened.
00:18:27You can tell us what happened.
00:18:28There were three of us who hung around in high school.
00:18:32It was me and these two guys, Marlon and Barry.
00:18:36Marlon was the sweet one.
00:18:37Barry was the crazy one.
00:18:39We saw the world the same way.
00:18:40We read the same books.
00:18:41We laughed at the same things.
00:18:43So, Barry's thing was thinking up these crazy pranks.
00:18:46Nothing mean.
00:18:47Just creative.
00:18:48Like, um, putting the principal's morning announcements through an app that made him sound like Voldemort.
00:18:56Voldemort.
00:18:56Later.
00:18:57Go on.
00:18:59Anyway, we had this thing about seizing the day.
00:19:02Except Marlon and Barry kept teasing me for always being worried we'd get into trouble if we did.
00:19:07So, I decided to do something to prove I was just as creative as they were.
00:19:12That mailman empties that box at 12.05 every day like clockwork.
00:19:24What kind of life is that?
00:19:25Every day.
00:19:27Same time.
00:19:28Same box.
00:19:29I don't know.
00:19:30Some people like their routines, you know?
00:19:32Some people need their routines.
00:19:34Take that away and he'd be lost.
00:19:37Maybe he'd be released from the monotony of the daily drudgery of constant retrieval.
00:19:41And it would rock his world.
00:19:43All he needs is something to wake him up.
00:19:49Tomorrow?
00:19:51We seize the day.
00:19:54Okay, we seize the day.
00:19:56Seize the day.
00:19:57High five.
00:19:59Now, I must take exception to the characterization of dedicated postal service as drudgery.
00:20:04She was 17, Oliver.
00:20:07Keep going.
00:20:08I had the idea to put something in a mailbox that would surprise the carrier.
00:20:13Just surprise him, that's all.
00:20:15Maybe put a microphone in there and have a voice yelling, let me out.
00:20:19Barry wanted to put a cat in there.
00:20:20A cat?
00:20:21Mm.
00:20:22A cat.
00:20:23But we landed on something we thought was pretty tame.
00:20:27We put an alarm clock in the mailbox just to see what would happen.
00:20:37Go, go, go.
00:20:40Are you there?
00:20:45It's still a clock.
00:20:46Two o'clock.
00:20:48Morning.
00:20:49Morning.
00:20:49Morning.
00:20:49uh-oh what happened the alarm didn't go off what's he doing where's he going
00:21:15no way he really thinks that's a bomb right what do we do now nothing we weren't here
00:21:24the bomb squad came he detonated the mailbox and the rest is history you intentionally breached
00:21:33a repository of the u.s mail with a clock i'm so sorry i don't know what i was thinking all those
00:21:40letters charlie it was a really long time ago you were just a kid and it was a silly prank it was
00:21:47a federal offense but not intentional a federal offense but not intentional
00:21:52you know i love the post office yes we do but there should be a consequence for this sort of thing
00:22:01so suspension oliver
00:22:06so
00:22:10you should go home and meditate on what you've done
00:22:19and we will see you in the morning thank you oliver
00:22:26i'm sorry
00:22:29at least we found maria's letter
00:22:33wait you asked me about a maria at my school i just remembered one
00:22:45do you remember her last name no but she was supposed to be the lead in the school play and
00:22:49then she just disappeared
00:22:50like mrs philpot
00:22:52did she play sports too
00:22:54all i know is that maria never graduated
00:22:57i think she got arrested or something
00:23:00wow
00:23:10so maria went to jail miss philpot disappeared and charlie violated federal postal regulation 587b
00:23:18section e
00:23:19paragraph 12
00:23:20at least we have the letter back and a real lead now too
00:23:25i ran a search in the 2017 garfield high database for seniors named maria
00:23:30i found two
00:23:31a maria haugen was never registered in the drama class
00:23:35but a maria sollinger was
00:23:38so maria sollinger next steps
00:23:40track down maria's current address and surprise her with a really awful letter
00:23:45that is our mandate yes
00:23:46i hope that our efforts to deliver the last two letters are successful and bring a modicum of pleasure to their intended recipients
00:23:54well let's get this over with
00:23:57that's the spirit
00:23:59oh
00:24:00how did your appointment go this morning
00:24:03oh well the adoption people want us to find a registered family therapist to attest to our fitness as parents
00:24:08yeah they gave us a list of names but they're all on the other side of town
00:24:11i'm not comfortable being that far away from home in case eleanor needs something
00:24:15on the other hand honey
00:24:16perhaps a good therapist could provide a little perspective on how to raise your children while other people raise theirs
00:24:23well i've got one
00:24:25a therapist
00:24:26a cousin
00:24:26oh
00:24:27norman and his married cousins
00:24:29oh that's right calliope she's perfect she's a family counselor she's right in town and she's really flexible
00:24:35well with our schedule flexible hours are a plus
00:24:38i haven't seen calliope since um
00:24:41oh five years ago when she played santa claus at the office christmas party
00:24:45oh that was her coming down the pneumatic tube in the terminal annex
00:24:48yeah do you really think a cousin is a good idea though because
00:24:52of course i mean who knows them better
00:24:54uh i'm sorry i interrupted you at lunch
00:25:02oh that's okay i mean
00:25:04i get it
00:25:05uh you get what
00:25:07well
00:25:08sometimes you just have to
00:25:10weigh in on a conversation
00:25:12with another point of view before i've had a chance to actually
00:25:15i didn't
00:25:16see it as weighing in on
00:25:18you
00:25:18you just did it darling
00:25:19but that's okay
00:25:21it's just a little quirk
00:25:23a little quirk
00:25:24rita where are we with that first letter
00:25:28well i'm still missing one digit of the street address and most of the street name except for the letter z but
00:25:34we're getting there
00:25:35great and the search for maria sollinger
00:25:37well i found 20 just in colorado but only one that matches our maria's age
00:25:43and that is where the trail for maria sollinger stops
00:25:49after her arrest
00:25:50yeah i couldn't find anything in the traditional news probably because she was under 18
00:25:56but i did find something on the garfield high chat room from back then listen to this
00:26:01maria sollinger could have gone division one but she blew it
00:26:04then this
00:26:05i heard she was sentenced to 30 days in juvie
00:26:08kiss that scholarship goodbye
00:26:10wow
00:26:11whatever maria did
00:26:13must be the reason she didn't graduate high school
00:26:15if she was sentenced there would be court records but that would be a tough one
00:26:19maybe we can follow a paper trail to somebody who still knows her
00:26:23okay
00:26:24uh norman
00:26:37i could use your advice
00:26:39oh
00:26:40um
00:26:42well personal or postal
00:26:45well for many years i have been your mentor in many areas of life
00:26:51but now as a newlywed uh pupil has become the teacher and i have uh much to learn about the first months of adjustment
00:27:04uh uh well uh uh it's mostly about working out the little things like um who does the dishes or who takes out the garbage or who thinks my 36 volume collection of south american commemorative stamps doesn't belong on the coffee table
00:27:21little stuff
00:27:22little stuff
00:27:23but you do uh adjust eventually
00:27:28yeah
00:27:29well it comes down to teamwork
00:27:32compromise
00:27:33making up
00:27:35making up every morning and thinking what can i do to make her happy today
00:27:39bingo
00:27:42public defender ed franks supervised juvenile cases seven years ago
00:27:49excellent let's make the call
00:27:50excellent let's make the call
00:27:51i'm on it
00:27:52and guess what i just matched zip go to half a street name that's two down one to go we're on a roll
00:28:01yeah and calliope can see us at one today except i was gonna take eleanor for a walk
00:28:06oh well you could take a walk with me to therapy
00:28:09hmm public defenders book for today but there might be an opening for tomorrow
00:28:14so i think i might just go home and have a nap
00:28:17are you okay
00:28:18yeah it's just these long hours that are starting to make me
00:28:20actually you reminded me um i have an errand to run i can drop you at the house
00:28:25all right everyone
00:28:26let's break and regroup that too shall we
00:28:28oh okay
00:28:31come on norman let's get evaluated
00:28:51i am so ready for this nap
00:28:59ah
00:29:14you
00:29:17you
00:29:19you
00:29:23you
00:29:25you
00:29:25you
00:29:26you
00:29:28you
00:29:28Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:29:41Oh, no.
00:29:48Come on.
00:29:58How are you feeling?
00:30:00Oh, I feel good.
00:30:02Where's my wedding dress?
00:30:04Oh, well, I knew you fully intended to take it to be preserved, so I thought to myself,
00:30:09what can I do to relieve my dear wife of the burden of such a mundane errand?
00:30:14So I took it for you.
00:30:16Wow, how thoughtful.
00:30:18And where did you happen to take it?
00:30:21Oh, Fred's Swifty Cleaners.
00:30:23Not Cherry Creek Professional Fabric Preservation?
00:30:27No.
00:30:28Fred, he was very excited, and in fact, he said he's always wanted to work with real lace.
00:30:36Oh.
00:30:38I thought you'd be pleased?
00:30:39I just wish you'd ask me first.
00:30:41Oh, well, it would be just another decision for you to make when you have so many here waiting for you already.
00:30:49Well, I've been making decisions my whole life, darling, just not in historical landmarks.
00:30:55Oh.
00:30:56Do you think you'll feel well enough to go back to work?
00:31:02Yep.
00:31:06Why don't you go on ahead, and I will meet you there.
00:31:08Okay.
00:31:10Bye.
00:31:16Bye.
00:31:17Exquisite craftsmanship.
00:31:231898.
00:31:24Yes.
00:31:25I can restore this.
00:31:27Yeah, fabulous.
00:31:28Two months.
00:31:29Maybe three if you want to restore to its original beauty.
00:31:32Three months?
00:31:33No, that's impossible.
00:31:34I'm not fixing a can opener.
00:31:35I'm not fixing a can opener.
00:31:35My craft is one of precision and detail.
00:31:38It's a crank.
00:31:39What if we swap out original beauty for original function?
00:31:44Please.
00:31:45My marriage is riding on this.
00:31:46New husband, family heirloom.
00:31:48Six weeks.
00:31:53Four days.
00:31:54Three weeks.
00:31:55Four days.
00:31:56I am pleased to inform that Norman and Rita Hayworth Dorman exemplify the highest parental
00:32:02standards, and I unreservedly recommend them as candidates for adoptive parents.
00:32:07Mm-hmm.
00:32:07The highest parental standards.
00:32:09I bet all my practice with Charlie and Eleanor help, don't you?
00:32:12Oh, yes, absolutely, darling.
00:32:15I know, I know, I'm late.
00:32:17I'm sorry.
00:32:18No, no, just in time.
00:32:19Rita believes she's about to make a breakthrough on her next last letter.
00:32:23Oh, I did it!
00:32:24I made a match!
00:32:25The only possible combination of zip, street, and name is addressed to...
00:32:30Oh.
00:32:32Wow.
00:32:39Hi.
00:32:40You didn't have to knock.
00:32:42Uh, uh, we are here on official business.
00:32:46The second letter from 2017.
00:32:48We believe it's addressed to you.
00:32:59Rita, cross-reference the address to one previously listed for you.
00:33:05So?
00:33:07Is it really for you?
00:33:08Now, Charlie, don't feel pressured to reveal the contents of a personal letter to us.
00:33:13Dear Charlie, I know this sounds crazy since we've only been friends up to now.
00:33:23The truth is, I have feelings for you.
00:33:27Oh, wow.
00:33:27They started the day we met, and they've just gotten deeper, and if I don't say something now, we could graduate, go our separate ways, and miss out on the best thing that could ever happen to us.
00:33:39So it's time for me to seize the day and just say it, I think I love you, and if you think you could feel the same way, then maybe after we graduate, even if it's not the three of us anymore, it could still be the two of us.
00:33:56Just think about it, please.
00:33:59It's poetic, but, um, to the point.
00:34:01Yeah, it looks like he signed it L-O-something.
00:34:06Probably loved Barry.
00:34:07Barry?
00:34:09I didn't realize he liked me so much.
00:34:11Well, so that's Barry's handwriting, it's not Marlon's?
00:34:13Yeah, yeah.
00:34:14See how C's is spelled with I-E instead of E-I, and separate has three E's?
00:34:18Common mistakes, sadly.
00:34:20Not for Marlon.
00:34:21Barry was a terrible speller.
00:34:23Barry wrote this.
00:34:24Yeah, we just had fun together.
00:34:27If one of us had feelings for another one of us, it would have been weird, but I guess Barry liked me.
00:34:32I always liked...
00:34:34Doesn't matter now.
00:34:38Have you kept in touch?
00:34:40With Barry?
00:34:41Or Marlon?
00:34:42No, we all lost track of each other after graduation.
00:34:44Maybe Barry's still interested in a single mother?
00:34:47Yes.
00:34:47But besides, it's been like seven years, I wouldn't even know where to start.
00:34:50Well, that's what we do.
00:34:52We could help you find Barry.
00:34:53But we are not in the business of locating lost crushes.
00:34:58Our official duties require us to focus on Maria Sollinger and delivering...
00:35:03Why can't we do...
00:35:05Sorry to interrupt.
00:35:07Oh.
00:35:09Oh.
00:35:10Sounds like Eleanor needs her mama.
00:35:15Well, our, um...
00:35:16Therapist helped me to see that focusing on Eleanor was getting in the way of focusing on starting her own family.
00:35:26Wow.
00:35:27You got all that in an hour?
00:35:29She seems pretty special.
00:35:32Well, she is my cousin.
00:35:35Can you guys stay for dinner?
00:35:36Uh, thank you.
00:35:37But we have a date with a pasta maker.
00:35:39Oh.
00:35:40It was a wedding gift from Hazel.
00:35:43Assuming we can find it.
00:35:44Lots of gifts still on the dining table.
00:35:47And on the floor and in the closet.
00:35:51Yep.
00:35:52Lots.
00:35:53Lots of gifts.
00:35:54Lots of friends giving lots of gifts.
00:35:58Ooh.
00:35:59You know, I was thinking if you prefer to go out for dinner, we could...
00:36:02Can you smell something?
00:36:04Yeah.
00:36:05It's like...
00:36:06Something's on fire.
00:36:08That would explain the sirens.
00:36:09It sounds like it's coming from over there on Gaylord here.
00:36:14Red Swifty cleaners.
00:36:16No.
00:36:18No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!
00:36:31I know what you're thinking.
00:36:33Oh.
00:36:33I don't think you do, Oliver.
00:36:34I suppose, um, to, um, wear it, uh, before...
00:36:44Before?
00:36:45Before you took it to the wrong cleaners and it was cremated by Fred Swifty Fire Center?
00:36:52Perhaps we should discuss this later.
00:37:01What are you doing?
00:37:02Winding the clock.
00:37:03But it doesn't have to be wound for another three and a half days.
00:37:07Oh, I, uh, wind it every other day.
00:37:10Keeps the mechanism supples.
00:37:12It's not there.
00:37:14I broke it.
00:37:16I was trying to open that stupid window upstairs and I took it to a repairman and he said there's
00:37:22a chance it'll be ready before the clock winds down.
00:37:25I'm so sorry.
00:37:27I am sorry, too.
00:37:28How about I make you some linguine and clams with a nice cabernet?
00:37:36Uh, I'm not very hungry.
00:37:38I mean, who never opens the window in their bedroom?
00:38:03Did you try using a three-quarter-inch Allen wrench?
00:38:05The point is that the window should have worked, but it didn't, so I found a way to fix it.
00:38:09But you didn't.
00:38:11Well, the sacred O'Toole clock that hasn't stopped chiming in a thousand years is going
00:38:16to stop if Arthur doesn't find the right piece of wood to fix the thingy in time.
00:38:19And my wedding dress is dead.
00:38:23Did you guys apologize?
00:38:25I said I was sorry.
00:38:27He said he was sorry.
00:38:28Did you forgive each other?
00:38:30Well, I felt it would be a thoughtful surprise to have her dress waterproofed and moth-proofed
00:38:36professionally as a lasting heirloom and save her the chore of delivering it herself.
00:38:41Yeah.
00:38:42Gets it out of the hallway.
00:38:43Yes, that too.
00:38:44So I took it to Swifty Cleaners, actually the former Fred's Swifty Cleaners, after six
00:38:52o'clock last night.
00:38:53So the wedding dress is now essentially toast.
00:38:59And the clock crank?
00:39:00It's not cranking.
00:39:02Norman, I'm not sure what I'll do if I let the family clock run down after all these years.
00:39:10Oh.
00:39:10Well, what's the worst that can happen?
00:39:13Coffee break.
00:39:15Here's your usual.
00:39:17Just like you like it.
00:39:19What is that?
00:39:21Oh, that's my father brought it in.
00:39:23It's the O'Toole family rocking chair.
00:39:26It's nearly a hundred years old.
00:39:27Aw.
00:39:28Oh, good heavens.
00:39:29It's like I've married a museum.
00:39:31Oh, Shane, the public defender returned your call.
00:39:34He leaves tomorrow on a two-week vacation.
00:39:36Oh, great.
00:39:38Just great.
00:39:39What if I go now, camp outside his office, and he'll have to see me?
00:39:43Uh, perhaps Norman and I should take over from here?
00:39:47What?
00:39:48The two of you take over?
00:39:50You've been tired, and this may end up being a very sensitive meeting.
00:39:55Sensitive?
00:39:56Oh, silly me.
00:39:58Hey, Shane.
00:40:01I found the Garfield yearbook.
00:40:04Oh, look.
00:40:05We are looking for anything about Barry.
00:40:09Uh, senior class.
00:40:12Let's see.
00:40:15Oh, look!
00:40:16There's Charlie!
00:40:17Charlie Reddick.
00:40:18Most likely to have a happily ever after.
00:40:20I mean, we'll just have to make sure that we get her one.
00:40:24I understand the, uh, irresistible urge to locate this fellow on Charlie's behalf,
00:40:29but as I said, personal interests cannot exist in the postal environment.
00:40:34Oh, come on, Oliver.
00:40:35If this is for Charlie, you heard her yesterday.
00:40:40I did.
00:40:40Uh, just, in my experience, there are countless ways in which meddling in another's affairs
00:40:45can backfire.
00:40:46Agreed.
00:40:47There are a myriad of ways that meddling in many one's stuff can backfire.
00:40:52Or just end up on fire.
00:40:54You mean myriad ways.
00:40:58It's a common misconception to use the article A in the preposition of.
00:41:02However...
00:41:03Oh, look!
00:41:04Yeah!
00:41:05Fast-talking Barry.
00:41:06Most likely to own a car dealership.
00:41:09Are you seriously giving me a grammar lesson right now?
00:41:12My only intent was to clarify the use of myriad as an adjective.
00:41:16Now, if it had been employed as a noun...
00:41:18Oh, then I would use a myriad of other ways to stop you from correcting me.
00:41:23That would be technically correct, if used as a noun.
00:41:26Right now, there are a myriad of nouns coming to mind.
00:41:29Just as there are myriad ways to open a window without employing the one tool never intended
00:41:34to open the window.
00:41:36And there it is.
00:41:37Forgive me, I thought we were supposed to keep personal interests out of the office environment,
00:41:42Mr. O'Toole?
00:41:43Exactly my point, Miss McInerney.
00:41:45Is anyone hungry?
00:41:47No.
00:41:47No.
00:41:48Oh.
00:41:51Hi.
00:41:51Sorry, we're late.
00:41:53We've got a lead on Barry.
00:41:55Oh, might be selling cars.
00:41:57He sounds a little sketchy, but if you do decide to, check him out.
00:42:01Whatever you do, don't do it on postal time.
00:42:04She's gone.
00:42:14She's gone.
00:42:30She's not gone.
00:42:34She just needs some air.
00:42:37Hmm.
00:42:39So do I.
00:42:42Go find her.
00:42:43Rita and I can talk to Mr. Frank.
00:42:45You just go.
00:42:46Norman, I don't know where to look.
00:42:49Of course you do.
00:42:50Where do you go when you need to feel like yourself again?
00:43:01Home.
00:43:02Home.
00:43:06Damn.
00:43:11This is Clive.
00:43:12He's number.
00:43:12She made time for us right away, so just, uh, think about it.
00:43:23Hmm.
00:43:23Hmm.
00:43:23And here I was wondering if you know me at all.
00:43:44I know you're unhappy.
00:43:50Because you are.
00:43:53And you are because I am, and I don't know how we got here.
00:43:58Where we go now.
00:44:00Hmm.
00:44:05Remember how it felt when we were sitting on my porch swing?
00:44:09Everything made sense when we were there, going in the same direction.
00:44:28Maybe we need some help.
00:44:29So Rita and Norman turned in their application, huh?
00:44:42Yeah, all they have to do is wait now, I guess.
00:44:45Could take a year.
00:44:46Well, the good stuff is always worth waiting for.
00:44:51You found that old high school friend of yours yet?
00:44:54You know about that?
00:44:55You know those Dark of Night awards over behind Oliver's desk?
00:45:00One of those is mine.
00:45:02You don't get one of those without paying attention to details.
00:45:06So?
00:45:07Yeah.
00:45:08Yeah, I just found him.
00:45:09Turns out he really is a car salesman right here in town.
00:45:13Then what have you got to lose?
00:45:15Give the guy a call.
00:45:19You're so kind to find the time to help us, Mr. Frank.
00:45:22Well, you don't give me much choice.
00:45:24Federal postal officials with badges beat local public defenders every time.
00:45:28But this is very federal and very postal.
00:45:32I'm sorry, but my hands are tied here.
00:45:35Maria's juvenile records are sealed.
00:45:37Now, you can try to get a court order, but that might take months.
00:45:40And there's no guarantee that we grant access.
00:45:42The post office just wants to know about her current whereabouts.
00:45:45The people I represent are in the habit of sending annual Christmas cards.
00:45:49Well, if you do think of anything you can tell us, please give us a call.
00:45:55Well, this may not help your search, but I'll tell you one thing.
00:45:58Maria was a really good kid who had some issues she needed to deal with.
00:46:02She regretted what she did.
00:46:03And she deserved a second chance.
00:46:07I tried to give her one.
00:46:08And I hope she took it.
00:46:14We're never going to get through all that red tape.
00:46:16We've got to go to plan B.
00:46:17Should we run it by Oliver?
00:46:19They're in therapy.
00:46:20We've got this.
00:46:20Wait, thank you.
00:46:27Plan B is Mrs. Philpott?
00:46:29Yeah, we ran into a dead end with Maria.
00:46:31But we found Mrs. Philpott's address in an old faculty directory.
00:46:35And that let us hear her.
00:46:36There's only 1.5 people named Philpott in every 100,000.
00:46:40Even less Denver, so it really wasn't that hard.
00:46:44Come on, it's going to be okay.
00:46:51Mrs. Philpott?
00:46:53Yes?
00:46:54We're from the post office.
00:47:00Yes, I wrote this to Maria Solinger.
00:47:03But I thought it was destroyed in the explosion.
00:47:05It's my fault, Mrs. Philpott.
00:47:08Barry Rogers, Marlon Carter, and I dropped a clock in the mailbox as a stupid prank.
00:47:13We had no idea how far it would go.
00:47:14Of course you didn't.
00:47:15I'm just thrilled that this was never delivered.
00:47:18Oh, well, that's the thing.
00:47:21Once that letter entered a U.S. mailbox, it became the property of the U.S. Postal Service.
00:47:27So we have no choice but to deliver that to Maria now.
00:47:30Oh, dear, no, please.
00:47:32I wrote this at a very weak moment when I was really struggling.
00:47:35And what Maria did was just the last straw.
00:47:38What did Maria do?
00:47:39Maria was a talented, very promising senior.
00:47:45She could act on stage and lead a team on a softball field.
00:47:49And the rule was, if her grades went down, she couldn't play.
00:47:53So when she failed her final exam, she was benched on the very game that a college scout was attending just to see her.
00:48:03Now, she begged her coach to look the other way, but he wouldn't.
00:48:07And so she begged me to raise her grade, and I wouldn't.
00:48:12She just lost it.
00:48:14Smashed her bat into my windshield.
00:48:16No one was hurt.
00:48:17But by the time it was all sorted out, I had missed a very consequential doctor's appointment.
00:48:23It was my first day of chemo.
00:48:25Maria was arrested for vandalism and expelled from school.
00:48:30Not long after, I left school to work on my recovery.
00:48:34And, well, here we are.
00:48:36Do you have any idea where she is now?
00:48:38No.
00:48:40But I couldn't bear it if this letter makes things worse now.
00:48:42Well, we have to deliver that letter to Maria.
00:48:51But there's no reason we couldn't deliver two.
00:48:59We just need to find her.
00:49:01Uh-huh.
00:49:06So, let me see.
00:49:07Um, well, when I was looking for Maria, I'd usually find her making out under the bleachers with a boy named Toby.
00:49:17Toby, uh, Toby Secum.
00:49:19Couldn't act.
00:49:20Couldn't throw a ball.
00:49:22The only talent that kid had was being crazy about her.
00:49:26I hope she didn't lose that, too.
00:49:27And then I read this kitchen hack on Instagram that said you waste more water by rinsing every plate and every piece of silverware one at a time before you put it in the dishwasher than if you just put a small load into the dishwasher.
00:49:51I mean, everything gets clean, and it's more ecologically sustainable.
00:49:58That's why I do it.
00:50:00How do you feel about that, Oliver?
00:50:02I'm afraid I don't know what an Insta-hack is.
00:50:05Graham.
00:50:05Instagram.
00:50:06Would it be fair to say that each of you, having lived alone before getting married for how many years?
00:50:12Every day since I graduated college.
00:50:15And Oliver was...
00:50:17Married, very briefly. Prior to that, I lived in the home alone in which we currently reside.
00:50:22Really, a lovely Victorian that's been in my family forever.
00:50:28So, each of you over the years have developed your own daily routines.
00:50:34Dishwashing, cleaning, etc.
00:50:35And that worked for you then as a single person, but not necessarily now as a couple.
00:50:40Well, one might argue irrespective of one's marital status, that freshly made bed is more aesthetically pleasing, with crisply folded hospital corners.
00:50:49We don't live in a hospital.
00:50:50We don't live in a college dormitory either.
00:50:53Oh, I'd like to end there for today.
00:50:55I'd like to see you back in two days, but in the meantime, I have some homework for you.
00:51:00She gave us homework, too. Lots of bubble baths. What about you?
00:51:06Well, something about not building another fire this week until the flue is open. I think it's a chimney sweep reference.
00:51:12Oh, yeah.
00:51:13I think I might have a way to find Maria.
00:51:18Mrs. Philpott said that Maria had a boyfriend, right?
00:51:22Mm-hmm.
00:51:22What if that boyfriend became husband?
00:51:29I'm going to do a search for Maria Seckham.
00:51:32Oh.
00:51:33Huh.
00:51:36This is highly irregular.
00:51:39We follow protocol.
00:51:43You were the first ones to make contact. Perhaps you and Rita should follow through?
00:51:47Uh, no. No. Charlie's having coffee with that Barry guy, so we're watching Eleanor.
00:51:50And when we find Maria, well, you and Shane should do this. Together.
00:52:01You know, I really hope Barry is everything that Charlie is hoping for.
00:52:05I keep wondering, if Barry thought that letter was blown up, why didn't he write Charlie another letter?
00:52:11Oh, I don't know.
00:52:14Yes!
00:52:15Yes!
00:52:16We found her.
00:52:28Is that coming?
00:52:29Yes.
00:52:30Uh, my name's Oliver O'Toole, and this is my, uh, colleague, Shane McInerney.
00:52:34We're from the post office, and we'd like a moment of your time.
00:52:37Sure. I only have a moment, though. Come on in.
00:52:39We run the dead letter office, and we have a letter addressed to you several years ago.
00:52:44You were at one time Maria Sollinger, right?
00:52:47Yes.
00:52:48Apologize that we had to go to some lengths to locate you.
00:52:51It involved contacting the writer, a Mrs. Barbara Philpott.
00:52:55Needless to say, um, she remembers you, and she remembered Toby.
00:53:01So finally we put two and two together and discovered you'd married.
00:53:05We were concerned that, um, receiving this letter after so many years might cause some distress.
00:53:11Although you seem, uh, well, uh, working here and, um, not...
00:53:16In jail.
00:53:19The letter was written not long after the incident.
00:53:23We're required to deliver this to you, but you are not required to read it.
00:53:30And we do have another letter that she wrote to you just yesterday.
00:53:36Dear Maria, I owe you a long overdue apology.
00:53:55And with all my heart, I hope you are in a place where you can accept it.
00:53:59You were angry that day, and I should have handled it better.
00:54:02But I just discovered I had cancer.
00:54:04I was scared and angry with the world, too.
00:54:07And you paid the price for my anger.
00:54:10I'm so sorry.
00:54:11Forgive me.
00:54:15Right here.
00:54:16Of course.
00:54:17I'm so grateful that my letter was found in time to help me reach out to you.
00:54:22I have a new, far less dramatic life, growing flowers, of all things.
00:54:26I hope you have found a happy life, too.
00:54:30Fondly, Mrs. Philpott.
00:54:33Mrs. Philpott has been in remission for quite a few years.
00:54:38Until recently.
00:54:44For the record, I am happy.
00:54:47I mean, it took a lot of time, and I had to start over, but...
00:54:51Sorry, I will read this again.
00:54:52I just, um...
00:54:54Oh, uh, we've taken up too much of your time.
00:54:57No, thank you.
00:55:00I wish we could keep talking, but I just got thrown a curve today.
00:55:03You do seem pretty busy.
00:55:04Always and always isn't adoptions.
00:55:06We thought we had a couple to adopt a little girl being born in a few months,
00:55:09and they have just backed out, so...
00:55:12I'm scrambling here.
00:55:16This isn't the same as meddling.
00:55:18This is just passing on information.
00:55:20Information that could change their lives.
00:55:22I know, I know.
00:55:23It's blurring the lines between official business and personal life.
00:55:27Not unlike keeping a nursery in the DLO, I suppose.
00:55:31It was going to take Norman and Rita at least a year, maybe longer.
00:55:35Precisely.
00:55:36Come on, Oliver, why can't we just...
00:55:38Wait, what are you saying?
00:55:39No, you first.
00:55:40No, you...
00:55:41I was just gonna say maybe Dr. Callas give us an A for our homework.
00:55:52That's what I was thinking.
00:55:57We might be having a violent agreement.
00:56:01Hi.
00:56:12Hi.
00:56:13Hey.
00:56:14Look at you.
00:56:15You look wonderful.
00:56:17Aw, you too.
00:56:19I was so glad to get your message.
00:56:22I just...
00:56:23There's so much for us to catch up on.
00:56:25I just...
00:56:26I wish I had time for more than a cup of coffee.
00:56:28My wife just called.
00:56:29I gotta go pick up my kid from preschool.
00:56:31You're married.
00:56:32And you have a kid.
00:56:34Yeah.
00:56:35Yeah.
00:56:35This is my little buddy.
00:56:38Three.
00:56:39Doctor said he's smarter than a six-year-old.
00:56:41Anyway, let's try to make the best of the time that we've got.
00:56:48Yeah, you know, I'd love to, but I just realized my babysitter leaves early today,
00:56:52so I gotta rush off soon, too.
00:56:54Oh, that's too bad.
00:56:56So you're a mom.
00:56:57Yeah.
00:56:58Little girl.
00:57:00And you're a dad.
00:57:01I'm loving it.
00:57:02Can you believe that?
00:57:03Crazy, wild Barry is now a solid citizen.
00:57:07Well, we all grew up, I guess.
00:57:09Hey, do you ever see Marlon?
00:57:10No.
00:57:11No, he got all serious, too, and he went to college.
00:57:13We kind of lost touch after that.
00:57:16We should try for a reunion someday.
00:57:19Yeah, yeah, sure.
00:57:21Sorry, I do have to leave.
00:57:23What's that?
00:57:31Do you remember the mailbox and the alarm clock?
00:57:34Are you kidding me?
00:57:36That was our best prank ever.
00:57:37That was your idea.
00:57:39Well, they found some of those letters, and this one is from you.
00:57:46Oh, wow.
00:57:49I forgot about this.
00:57:56Is this why you called?
00:57:57Well, I didn't think that you'd still...
00:57:59Why would you?
00:58:00It was a long time ago.
00:58:01I wasn't really...
00:58:02There's something that I should have told you a long time ago.
00:58:06This letter that you got from me, I wrote this,
00:58:08but the signature that's missing,
00:58:12that doesn't say Love Barry.
00:58:14I don't understand.
00:58:19I wrote this as a joke,
00:58:21and I signed it Love Marlin
00:58:23because he had, like, a major crush on you,
00:58:25and I was always teasing him about it,
00:58:27and when I mailed it, he got pretty upset,
00:58:30and then it got trashed,
00:58:32so I figured...
00:58:34Well, it ends well, right?
00:58:36So Barry wrote the letter and signed it from Marlin?
00:58:43Ouch.
00:58:44Big ouch.
00:58:45Oh, it's okay.
00:58:46I mean, a few days ago, I didn't even know this existed.
00:58:48It's not like I spent years wondering if Barry loved me.
00:58:51So how long are you going to wonder if Marlin still does?
00:58:54We're back.
00:58:54And we have great news.
00:58:58Oh, everything went okay with Maria?
00:59:00Better than okay.
00:59:02Charlie?
00:59:03I must admit, the consequences of your high school prank
00:59:06have yielded one remarkable, perhaps even miraculous, development.
00:59:10Maria's good.
00:59:11And she has a great job that she loves,
00:59:13and it's placing babies with adoptive parents.
00:59:16Oh.
00:59:17And...
00:59:17There's a baby due soon that needs a family,
00:59:25and she's looking for a couple, just like you.
00:59:31Oh.
00:59:33What?
00:59:33What?
00:59:37Hmm.
00:59:41What you doing here?
00:59:46So, Barry isn't so sketchy and wild anymore.
00:59:49No, he even volunteers for Neighborhood Watch.
00:59:54Guess I was wrong about that guy.
00:59:57Did you ever think you were wrong about Oliver?
01:00:05I've never stopped loving him.
01:00:09How's therapy going?
01:00:10Uh, it's, um...
01:00:12It's going.
01:00:18Dark of Night Award.
01:00:20Presented to Joe O'Toole.
01:00:23Remember how I got that?
01:00:24Going the extra mile.
01:00:26Driving through that blizzard.
01:00:28To deliver a wedding dress.
01:00:37What do you think?
01:00:39Hmm?
01:00:40So here's a question for you both.
01:00:48What is the first moment you knew you'd be together?
01:00:53I think it was the swing.
01:01:00I gave her a porch swing to remind her of a happy memory.
01:01:05It's in the garage.
01:01:06I keep meaning to set it up.
01:01:09And I procrastinate.
01:01:11I just haven't found the perfect place.
01:01:13Because it's so her, and the house is so...
01:01:15So you.
01:01:18I share that beautiful home.
01:01:20It's your house.
01:01:21It's not mine.
01:01:22You share a house with the State Historical Society.
01:01:24I can't even move a chair.
01:01:26Or set the clock.
01:01:27It's a crank!
01:01:28A hundred-year-old irreplaceable crank.
01:01:31Oliver.
01:01:33What's the worst that could happen if the clock rang down?
01:01:37Without the dress, without the crank, do you believe that you would still be married?
01:01:41Well, of course we would.
01:01:43I take great umbrage at your question.
01:01:45He says things like that.
01:01:48Because you know him.
01:01:49I do.
01:01:49And all that you know, the history, the habits, the quirks, did you marry him because of all that, or in spite of it?
01:01:59Because I love him.
01:02:01I love her.
01:02:05Tell me.
01:02:06How much time passed between the first time you said I love you and the day you married?
01:02:11A few weeks.
01:02:12Ten weeks, four days.
01:02:13Ten weeks, four days.
01:02:15From I love you to forever.
01:02:18It's no time at all.
01:02:19But we were ready.
01:02:20We knew what we wanted.
01:02:22Of course we were.
01:02:24We're not children.
01:02:26Love can make children of us all, Oliver.
01:02:29But children must learn how to grow up.
01:02:32And lovers must learn how to become husbands and wives.
01:02:42We have great friends.
01:02:44Really happy friends who can write a recommendation.
01:02:48At some point.
01:02:50When they're even happier.
01:02:53I, my cousin Spike is our accountant.
01:02:55He just sent over our tax returns.
01:02:57Yeah, I got him right here.
01:02:59Okay, we can expedite this.
01:03:01And if the mother approves the application, which I think she will, we can get you cleared by early next week.
01:03:06There is just one more thing.
01:03:13And we understand if you feel you can't proceed.
01:03:15Good morning.
01:03:17I am ready and I'm even on time.
01:03:24I am ready and I'm even on time.
01:03:24So how did that feel?
01:03:41Strange.
01:03:44Sad.
01:03:45I guess I've never seen the clock so still.
01:03:51But it'll be fixed soon, I hope.
01:03:55So the clock will keep time once again.
01:03:58But perhaps you won't expect quite so much from it now.
01:04:01Or from yourself.
01:04:04No.
01:04:06How does that feel?
01:04:10Like starting over?
01:04:15Shane.
01:04:17Well, the dress is gone.
01:04:20But it's not like I was planning on wearing it ever again.
01:04:24I just thought I needed to hold on to it.
01:04:27To what?
01:04:31To remember the happiest day of my life.
01:04:35So far.
01:04:41Now, I have one last assignment for you.
01:04:45I want you each to do something to surprise each other this week.
01:04:49Something that leaves behind the old things and makes way for a new thing.
01:04:55Two surprises to create one new vision.
01:04:58I have no idea what you're talking about.
01:05:03We'll think of something.
01:05:06Wait, did you just say our last assignment?
01:05:08Yes.
01:05:09This is your last session.
01:05:12This is not a marriage in trouble.
01:05:14This is a six-month-old marriage.
01:05:16The honeymoon is over, and now it's time to get down to the business of being married.
01:05:22The good news is you've been friends for so long.
01:05:26You don't need me to save your marriage.
01:05:29You just needed a little help to get it started.
01:05:31Sorry.
01:05:34Sorry.
01:05:39It's a 911 from Norma and Rita.
01:05:41So this sounds like wonderful news.
01:05:54Except?
01:05:55There's something wrong, isn't there?
01:05:57There's a reason they had trouble finding her a family.
01:06:05She has a congenital heart condition.
01:06:10They said she could be in NICU for a few weeks before we would even take her home.
01:06:17And then she'll probably need surgery at some point.
01:06:21Oh, wow.
01:06:21So what are you thinking?
01:06:25I mean, we don't want to say no, but...
01:06:29We just keep asking ourselves if we have what it takes to help her.
01:06:33It's a lot to take on.
01:06:36Well, perhaps the question is, are you worried you're adopting the wrong baby?
01:06:45Or that she's getting the wrong parents?
01:06:47Because we can't imagine anyone better than the two of you
01:06:52to breathe love into a child every day of her life.
01:07:08She's so tiny.
01:07:11You can see her little tiny nose.
01:07:14It's right there on her face.
01:07:16No.
01:07:17So when do they need an answer?
01:07:21I think...
01:07:22I think you already have one.
01:07:30Then...
01:07:31I guess we're having a baby.
01:07:33I think we're having a baby!
01:07:35I think I'm gonna cry.
01:07:41Well, I certainly hope it's been worth all your trouble, Norman.
01:07:45Yeah, after all this, it would be a real bummer if this turned out to be somebody's gas payment.
01:07:52Well, I doubt anything could tarnish a day such as this one.
01:07:55In fact, I believe we should break out the U to celebrate your impending parenthood.
01:07:58Two babies in the house, are you sure we won't be in the way?
01:08:03Absolutely not!
01:08:04You and Eleanor are family.
01:08:06Have you ever thought about calling Marlon?
01:08:10I mean, I bet he'd be thrilled to hear from you.
01:08:12I don't know.
01:08:13I just feel sort of pathetic now, you know?
01:08:14Calling around asking guys if they ever had a crush on me.
01:08:17But Marlon really did have a crush on you.
01:08:19According to Barry, but who knows what's really true.
01:08:22That's my point.
01:08:23You don't know until you give him a chance.
01:08:26Truth is, I used to imagine running into Marlon someday.
01:08:32Then I had marriage that lasted about 30 seconds, and to Eleanor, that's gonna last a lifetime.
01:08:37So, that chance is gone.
01:08:43Oh, she has been fuzzy for two days no matter what I do.
01:08:46Well, when I was little, my mom used to put me on the tractor and drive me around the commune until I fell asleep.
01:08:51Couldn't hurt to try.
01:08:52Mm-hmm.
01:08:53Do you want to go for a ride with mommy?
01:08:58I feel so bad for her.
01:09:02I have an idea.
01:09:03Uh-oh.
01:09:04I think we should find Marlon.
01:09:05Oh, I don't know.
01:09:06Charlie just seems so down.
01:09:09She needs something to close this chapter one way or the other.
01:09:15Can't we just order her pizza?
01:09:27Mrs. Philpott?
01:09:30It's Maria.
01:09:31Ladies and gentlemen, the great mailbox breach of 2017 approaches its end.
01:09:43Twenty-five ill-fated missives were savagely launched into likely oblivion, and yet, with the perseverance of this office, each has been given a second life.
01:09:53As we prepare to dispatch the last of them, may we never lose sight of the high purpose to which we, as postables, have been called.
01:10:02Have been called.
01:10:07Mm-hmm.
01:10:15Let's see.
01:10:17Address is still unreadable.
01:10:19Uh, um, sorry. I should change her.
01:10:29Orman?
01:10:29Well, it's intact.
01:10:33It's, uh, it's, uh, it's smudged. I can barely make out the handwriting.
01:10:46I concur. Sadly, we may have our last letter be unreadable.
01:10:52It would have been so nice to be able to have delivered them all.
01:10:56Norman, are you sure you can't think of something?
01:11:00Not unless they invent a device to decipher poor penmanship.
01:11:08Hello? May we help you?
01:11:11Hi. Uh, yeah. I'm looking for Charlie Reddick. I'm Marlon Carter.
01:11:15Mr. Carter, I'm Jane McInerney. We spoke on the phone.
01:11:18Right. Uh, thank you. Is she here?
01:11:23She is.
01:11:25Charlie?
01:11:26Great.
01:11:27What is going on, Ms. McInerney?
01:11:30It's okay.
01:11:36Charlie.
01:11:38Marlon?
01:11:40It's good to see you.
01:11:41Um, how did you...
01:11:43I got a call about an old letter that came through here.
01:11:46Barry wrote it and forged my name.
01:11:47It's a federal offense, you know.
01:11:51It's really good to see you.
01:11:53You too.
01:11:55I feel bad about Barry's letter. I'm sorry you had to read it.
01:11:58It wasn't your fault.
01:11:59It's just a shame that that's the one that survived.
01:12:02What?
01:12:03Yeah, there was another that, uh...
01:12:07Sorry, uh...
01:12:10I think that's it there.
01:12:12What?
01:12:17Yeah, I mailed one that day, too.
01:12:19And it was on green paper, just like that.
01:12:25Wait, you wrote that letter?
01:12:27I did.
01:12:29To her.
01:12:30Oh, I love my job.
01:12:32Goodness, perhaps we should deliver that letter?
01:12:34Oh, yes.
01:12:42Oh, um...
01:12:42This must be Eleanor.
01:12:44Yeah.
01:12:46Yeah.
01:12:46Oh, sorry.
01:12:48She's been fussy.
01:12:49Oh, yeah.
01:12:51Oh, yeah.
01:12:55This is definitely from you.
01:12:58You can read that?
01:12:59She's the only one who's ever been able to read my handwriting.
01:13:04Dear Charlie,
01:13:05about an hour ago,
01:13:06Barry wrote a stupid letter to you and signed my name and mailed it.
01:13:09It's embarrassing.
01:13:11So if you open this letter first, please just throw Barry's away.
01:13:15But if it's too late and you've already read his,
01:13:18then I hope you ignore it.
01:13:20Don't get me wrong.
01:13:21He's right about me.
01:13:23I do have feelings for you.
01:13:24But I'm working on how to say that in my own way, in my own time.
01:13:28So please don't feel like you have to answer this.
01:13:31Just remember, somebody's always writing about love.
01:13:34But I think the best love just gets lived.
01:13:37I hope I live long enough to find a way to tell you that someday.
01:13:41Face to face, the way you deserve.
01:13:43Love, Marlon.
01:13:48I don't remember exactly what I wrote.
01:13:51But I haven't forgotten how I felt.
01:13:54And you're supposed to get over your crush, you know?
01:13:58But, oh, look how sweet she is.
01:14:05Finally.
01:14:05So, I guess, being a mother and everything, you don't get out much.
01:14:16Not much.
01:14:18Do a lot of takeout.
01:14:19I love takeout.
01:14:26He's in law school.
01:14:28Top 10% of his class.
01:14:30And he's never missed a car payment.
01:14:32Solid guy.
01:14:33So, you must have broke a few rules to find him that fast, huh?
01:14:37Does a hacker hack on the internet?
01:14:41What do you think that letter said?
01:14:44Oh, hi.
01:14:45Enough.
01:14:53Um, Marlon said he'd drive me home.
01:14:56Do you mind if we order in from Angela's?
01:14:58Oh, I...
01:14:58Oh, I love Angela's.
01:15:00Best crust in Colorado.
01:15:01I'll tell him about the cheese.
01:15:06See?
01:15:06A happy ending and pizza.
01:15:08I know you're upset.
01:15:28Oliver, I want you to know that I...
01:15:32I wouldn't have brought Marlon here if I didn't think that he was a really nice guy who genuinely
01:15:37wanted to see Charlie again.
01:15:43I'm not upset.
01:15:46It's just that after all we've learned in therapy, I still don't understand your preoccupation with
01:15:53matchmaking.
01:15:54Of course you do.
01:15:57I know you and you know me.
01:16:00That's...
01:16:00That's what we've learned.
01:16:02I'm a romantic and you are too.
01:16:04But I use laptops and you use...
01:16:07Logic.
01:16:08Mm-hmm.
01:16:19Not everyone could have navigated these past few days the way we have.
01:16:24Agreed.
01:16:26Thank you for going the extra mile.
01:16:40I would go just about anywhere with you, Mr. O'Doul.
01:16:45Except right now I've got to do something.
01:16:56Ah, so do I.
01:16:57Uh, I'll meet you at the house?
01:16:59Deal.
01:16:59Stop.
01:17:01Were you never really busy?
01:17:02Not looking at all our immediate folks.
01:17:04No, I'm sorry, you don't really.
01:17:04No, no.
01:17:05Yeah.
01:17:06No, no, no.
01:17:07I can't wait.
01:17:08My goodness.
01:17:09No, no, no, no.
01:17:10No, no, no.
01:17:11Yeah, no, no.
01:17:12No.
01:17:13No, no, no, no.
01:17:13No, no, no.
01:17:14Hello?
01:17:14Oh, no, no.
01:17:15No, no, no.
01:17:15Not looking for right now.
01:17:17I can't wait.
01:17:17No.
01:17:17Oliver, I'm back.
01:17:41What on earth?
01:17:44Are you ready to be surprised?
01:17:48I think I already am.
01:17:51What is all this?
01:17:53These are the seashells I collected from that island at Christmas my grandfather died,
01:17:58and I wondered if I'd ever be happy again.
01:18:05That's the pen you borrowed and wouldn't return.
01:18:08He used it to draw.
01:18:09A picture of what Jazz looks like on the night we first kissed.
01:18:13I kept that right here for months.
01:18:17Until you came back to me.
01:18:19And that I did.
01:18:24And the letter opener I gave you for your birthday.
01:18:27Mm-hmm.
01:18:32The last rose of summer.
01:18:39Did I marry a pack rat?
01:18:40You married a man who believes that everything you touch in his life becomes a rare and sacred thing.
01:18:57But it would mean nothing if I didn't have you to share it with.
01:19:01Anywhere.
01:19:03Anyplace.
01:19:06In any old home.
01:19:07It seems the State Historical Society is willing to accept the O'Toole mansion as the site of the Colorado Museum of Postal History.
01:19:29I'm just hoping you're willing to consider the possibility of moving.
01:19:38Because, um, because I want to start over.
01:19:42Shane.
01:19:53Will you marry me?
01:19:54All over again?
01:19:56Love is patient and kind.
01:20:04Love bears all things, hopes all things, endures all.
01:20:09I've always been in love with you.
01:20:21Always.
01:20:23I have thanked God every day that you came into my life.
01:20:29But I realize now that having you in my life doesn't mean expecting you to change and fit into it.
01:20:39I'm asking you to forgive me.
01:20:42And I'm asking you to build a new life with me.
01:20:51Not mine.
01:20:53Not yours.
01:20:56But ours.
01:21:01Will you do that?
01:21:04If you'll forgive me for expecting the same thing.
01:21:07I absolutely will.
01:21:12We've both lived alone for so long and we are so very much ourselves.
01:21:22But you are the only man that I could ever live with and truly be myself with.
01:21:33And yes, I ended that with a preposition.
01:21:34Wherever we live,
01:21:42you, Oliver, are my home.
01:21:49And I am yours.
01:21:59This was quite the surprise.
01:22:06Well, I guess I have a few left in me.
01:22:09This is going to be hard to top.
01:22:12Well, there's no pressure.
01:22:13Of course.
01:22:15Trust me.
01:22:19I've got this.
01:22:20You know, I have to find a new hiding place for this when we move it to the new house.
01:22:35Oh, you think so?
01:22:37Some place high where she can't reach it.
01:22:40She.
01:22:43Or he.
01:22:46We'll know in a few weeks, probably.
01:22:49Plenty of time to find a spot for that swing.
01:22:52It'll be great.
01:22:53It'll be like a rocking chair built for two or actually three.
01:23:07No.
01:23:09Surprise.
01:23:10Oh, my God.
01:23:17Really?
01:23:18I'm breathing.
01:23:20Oh, my God.
01:23:23Oh, my God.
01:23:26Oh, my God.
01:23:28Oh, my God.
01:23:29Oh, my God.
01:23:29Oh, my God.
01:23:29Oh, my God.
01:23:31Oh, my God.
01:23:31Oh, my God.
01:23:32Oh, my God.
01:23:33Oh, my God.
01:23:33Oh, my God.
01:23:34Oh, my God.
01:23:35Oh, my God.
01:23:36Oh, my God.
01:23:37Oh, my God.
01:23:37Oh, my God.
01:23:37Oh, my God.
01:23:37Oh, my God.
01:23:38Oh, my God.
01:23:39Oh, my God.
01:23:40Oh, my God.
01:23:41Oh, my God.
01:23:42Oh, my God.
01:23:42Oh, my God.
01:23:43Oh, my God.
01:23:44Oh, my God.
01:23:45Oh, my God.
01:23:46Oh, my God.
01:23:47Oh, my God.
01:23:48Oh, my God.
01:23:49Oh, my God.
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