DR. BROWN: I'm just straightening up.
JULIA: Admit it. The Great Doctor Brown can't sit still. What you need to do is settle down with a good book.
DR. BROWN: What? Like Madame Bovary? There's some light summer fair.
JULIA: How about your son?
DR. BROWN: Listen, that argument tonight was not my fault. Did you hear the way he talked to me?
JULIA: He's a teenager, Andy. Sarcasm is how they express their affections.
DR. BROWN: Well, he's got a funny way of expressing it.
JULIA: Oh, and your way isn't? You. You take one week of family vacation a year, and you spend it cleaning the garage, the kitchen...
DR. BROWN: I asked him to go out on the boat with me today. He didn't want to go, OK? I was going to teach him how to drive it.
JULIA: Teaching him something isn't the only way to get to know him.
DR. BROWN: When I was his age, I would have killed for my father teach me to drive a boat. I would have killed for us to have a boat.
JULIA: I swear to God. One day, you two are going to understand each other if it's the last thing I ever do.
DR. BROWN: Huh. Well, if that's your goal, you're going to be around a while.
[Dr. Brown looks over to the Feeney house next door, realizing there is someone there. Julia has disappeared. Nina Feeney waves at Dr. Brown.]
DR. BROWN: Hey, Nina.
NINA: Evening, Andy.
[A long lull in the conversation.]
DR. BROWN: Sometimes, I remember conversations with my wife.
NINA: And this one?
DR. BROWN: The talk we had last year. We had a house in the Hamptons. She'd take the kids for the summer. Me, I was there a total of three weeks in five years. And yourself? I assume you're not out here, talking to a deceased spouse.
NINA: No. Just enjoying the warm night.
DR. BROWN: Which is unseasonably warm, considering we had a snow storm last week.
NINA: Oh, it's the Fall Thaw.
DR. BROWN: Excuse me?
NINA: Welcome to one of Everwood's many oddities.
DR. BROWN: It's a Fall Thaw?
NINA: With a legend behind it, no less. Once a year, like clock work, we get a fall heat wave that lasts around a week or so when the town whips up a festival to celebrate it.
DR. BROWN: I gotta stop you before this gets any weirder.
NINA: Oh, you think that's weird? Last week, we got a doctor who doesn't charge anybody.
[Nina starts to get up.]
NINA: Good night, Andy.
DR. BROWN: Night, Nina.
[Cut to Everwood's Main Street. Next day. The camera pans over a banner hanging over the street reading "Everwood Fall Thaw Festival". One end of the banner is being tied to the side of Dr. Abbott's practice.]
NARRATOR: The next day as the temperature climbed; so did the town's excitement. Looking around, it was almost impossible to imagine anyone in Everwood not happy about the recent turn in temperature. Notice I said "almost."
[The camera rests on Dr. Abbott, who has just pulled up to his office and is getting out of his car. He notices the young man tying the banner up.]
DR. ABBOTT: You there! Yes, sign boy, I'm talking to you. If you're gonna hang that banner off the side of my building make sure that it doesn't chip the paint. That is Benjamin Moore Latex. It's the Rolls Royce of exterior coating.
[The guy hanging the banner looks perplexed as Dr. Brown pulls up in the background.]
DR. BROWN: Morning, Doctor. Happy Thaw!
