Finding Carter (2014–2015): Season 1, Episode 2 - The Birds - full transcript
Carter rebels against her biological mom, Elizabeth, with the help of her new friends but when Elizabeth tries to make amends, it backfires catastrophically.
When you were three years old,
you were abducted.
The woman you think is your
mother is not your mother.
She's your kidnapper.
Your real parents
are here.
Do you remember me at all?
No, I'm sorry.
You lose a child,
but you bring home
a stranger.
So your family...
you like 'em?
They're total strangers,
right?
But, oh, when the grandfather
hugged me,
it was like this spot
in my brain just went halogen.
Well, you're happy
she's back, right?
Yeah, of course
I'm happy.
There are things you don't know.
Things you should know.
I want to do it all differently
this time, Linden.
You could start by
calling me "Carter."
♪ Like Johnnie Walker licking my
lips, let it drip ♪
♪ I think I like it
♪ La-la-la-la
la-la-la ♪
♪ I think I like it
♪ La-la-la-la
la-la-la ♪
♪ Ha, ha, ha
♪ La-la-la-la
la-la-la ♪
♪ I think I like it
♪ La-la-la-la
la-la-la ♪
♪ Ha, ha, ha
Maximilian, Maximilian.
Gabe.
Oops.
I was not supposed
to do that.
You think this is cute?
This isn't cute,
you're high.
You're making
a fool of yourself.
I liked you better when
I thought you were dead.
Very funny.
She's having a seizure.
Hey, Evan, call 9-1-1.
Carter, I'm so sorry.
Call 9-1-1.
I didn't mean it.
♪ I woke up in a dream
♪ To a stream
I'd never seen ♪
♪ But something felt
♪ Familiar
♪ The someone...
I love you.
Love you more.
Not possible.
♪ See you here
♪ So this is where
♪ You live now
♪ This is where
you live now... ♪
Carter!
It's time to go!
Carter!
She wants
to make me yell.
I'm just giving her
exactly what she wants.
Not what I want.
If that still
matters for
anything around here.
You know what?
Bring that up at
family therapy tonight.
The last thing
I wanna do is spend
another hour of my life
talking about Carter.
That's the whole point
of family therapy.
Finding Carter has made
our lives very complicated.
This has been
a tough month.
I'm happy she's here.
We're all happy
she's here.
I'd be happier
if she were here.
I am.
Come on, we don't
wanna be late.
Carter, you can't go to
school in your pajamas.
Why not?
What difference
does it make?
Fine.
You take them.
Uh, no, I can't,
I've got that meeting
in the city today.
It's the editor
of "Vanity Fair."
They're looking for someone
to do a true crime column.
One like
Dominick Dunne.
So you never were gonna wear
your pajamas to school.
Nope.
You did that
just to annoy Mom?
No, I did that
to distract her.
This is what
I'm doing to annoy her.
Do you guys
want a ride?
Do not use her as
a role model, Grant.
Yeah, not when you've got
so many other great options.
♪ There you go
♪ There you stay
♪ Keeping low
♪ Never wanna play
♪ You've been
up and down, down ♪
♪ You've been low,
low, low ♪
♪ Pretending to not
♪ Feel alone
♪ Pretending to not
feel alone ♪
As you may know,
the school is reevaluating
its zero tolerance
program.
So, for the time being,
we are reinstating
our point system.
Boo.
Each one of you will
receive this booklet.
It's the list
of infractions
and the points
you will receive
as a result of
those infractions.
For example, Miss Gilroy,
eating in class, one point.
Please put away
that yogurt.
When you have
accumulated enough points,
you will begin
to lose privileges.
For example, five
points, no pep rally.
Ten points earns you
cafeteria cleanup.
15 points gives you
five Saturday detention.
15 points...
Mr. Sharkey.
Oh, dear Lord.
Oh, my God. I think she's
having a panic attack.
Yogurt.
Does she want my yogurt?
She can have my yogurt?
It's my Mom.
The last time
she saw her Mom,
the kidnapper Mom,
was in a yogurt shop.
She almost got
arrested by my Dad.
Take her to the office,
have her call her parents.
I'll call your Mom.
Don't bother.
Wait, so you're not...
And please stop calling
Elizabeth my Mom.
She is...
she is not my Mom.
So you faked
that whole thing.
Well, not the part where
I had to listen to you brag
about how your Dad almost
arrested the "kidnapper" Mom.
Please don't
refer to her as that,
she is just my Mom.
I'm sorry.
It gets confusing
sometimes.
Yeah, I know,
I'm sorry.
Well, thanks for
getting me out of there.
So bam, we just got
a whole day off school.
What do you wanna do?
Gabe, I'm not spending
the day with you.
Come on,
I've got my car.
We can go into the city.
I'll take you to see
the stairs from "The Exorcist."
Gabe, I can't even
say your name
without Taylor going blech
and walking out the room.
If she finds out I spent
the entire day with you,
she'll kill me.
How would she find out?
She'll never find out.
Taylor.
Well, I always wondered
what it would be like
to have a sister.
Now I know.
Who is that guy?
I see him everywhere.
Ofe? You never met Ofe?
Ofe?
Stands for
"One Freaking Eyebrow."
What's his real name?
Nobody remembers.
I don't even know
if he remembers.
Okay, so what you wanna
do is you wanna...
you wanna pick
a date, okay,
and then the buy-in's
gonna be ten dollars.
Winner takes home
three grand.
What if a year goes by,
and they don't catch her.
Then we start a new pool,
and the pot doubles.
Excuse me.
Ow, man!
Sorry, sorry.
That's my Mom.
I just lost a customer,
not your fault.
I do blame you,
however, Gabe.
I didn't know.
Oh, you knew.
We decided
not to tell him.
Right, that is
what we decided.
Tell me what?
I'm Ofe, by the way.
I'm Bird, we kind of
met at that party.
Remember, she's the one
that did that thing
with the shot glass.
Shot glass,
that was sweet.
I love that, I could never...
I'm afraid of fire.
Why have you got a photo
of my Mom in your briefcase?
This is my office.
I make book, I take bets,
sporting events mostly.
Anything from high school
matchups to pro ball,
pretty much full service.
I do straight, parlay,
teasers, sides.
I calculate
my own spreads,
if I may indulge in
a little humblebrag.
And from time to time, I come
up with a fun novelty pool.
So you're taking bets on
the date my Mom gets arrested.
If it makes you
feel any better,
most people are giving her
at least six months.
You're an ass.
I know, I'm sorry.
I feel really bad.
Maybe don't do the pool.
I don't feel that bad.
You know what,
it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter, she
promised me she'd be back.
I shouldn't
even be here.
Where are you going?
Somewhere I don't
have to think about
how much
my life sucks now.
If there even is
such a place.
There is.
Come on.
Wow, this is
all yours?
A 16th birthday present
from my parents.
If there had been a card,
it would've said,
"We love you,
now go away."
This was supposed
to be an art studio.
Now it's like
the chocolate factory
from Willy Wonka,
only with booze and pot
instead of
Everlasting Gobstoppers.
I have Everlasting
Gobstoppers.
So you're an artist.
A great artist.
She did the Alice in Wonderland
mural in the cafeteria.
Really?
That's impressive.
Thanks.
Face of the Mad Hatter,
that's me.
No, it's Johnny Depp.
God, would it kill you
to one time say it's me?
♪ Why are you living
♪ What are you missing
Hey, can I borrow this?
I've got this family
therapy thing tonight,
and I think
it can be very useful.
Oh, family therapy, huh?
We tried that once,
me and my parents.
Really, did it work?
Oh, yeah,
we're closer than ever.
São Paulo is closer
than Dubai, right?
Ah, poor little
rich girl.
Smart, judgmental
cop's kid.
Help yourself.
This place is
bigger than the one
I used to live in
with my Mom.
Sorry about that
stupid pool, Carter.
I'm sorry you haven't
heard from her.
No chance she'll come back
to the yogurt store?
No, I doubt it.
Anyway, they fired me.
Apparently,
people don't like
to be under
police surveillance
while they eat yogurt.
That's fine, though,
I know she'll get in touch.
I just don't know
how the FBI's
got everything
but a camera up my ass.
Screw the FBI.
We could, actually.
It wouldn't even be that hard.
What do you mean?
So they're stalking
your phone, right?
In case your Mom
sends you a message.
So we get your Mom...
I mean, us pretending
to be your Mom to text you.
With burner phones.
Cheapo phones with
prepaid minutes.
You can get 'em
pretty much anywhere.
Including right here.
It's a side business,
I also sell glow sticks.
I do very well
at parties.
Okay, so what should
the message be?
Something a mother
would say to a daughter.
I know
what it would say.
"Love you more."
Love you more.
Phase one complete.
You wanted to say
to Carter.
I was really angry today
when I found out that
you went through my bag
and had taken my car keys.
I...
reacted immaturely.
I went into your room,
and I looked
through your closet,
and I found something.
I found the backpack.
The one that's packed like
you're ready to run away.
I can't do that again.
I can't come home one day
and find out that you're gone.
Please,
give me a chance.
How was that,
Elizabeth?
Not so bad.
I've always been able
to talk to Carter
when she wasn't there.
If we want her
to come to therapy,
we can't get mad at her
for not coming to therapy.
I wasn't going to.
Morning, sunshine.
Did you borrow my car
or just steal it?
I'm only asking
because it isn't here.
Carter,
get rid of that.
Your 12-year-old brother
is in the room.
Oh, come on, has he never
been to a sporting event?
Not many.
It's a joke,
it's a toy.
No, you know very well what
it is, it's an obscenity.
From, like,
the 1970s, geez.
Glad I didn't bring it
to family therapy last night.
No, instead, you just
decided not to show up.
Kids, you're taking
the bus this morning.
The bus?
I was gonna take them.
I hate the bus.
No, we have to
deal with this.
This... I'm a this now.
The bus is starting
to look pretty good.
Yeah.
You can borrow
my headphones.
I have headphones.
Not like these.
Thanks.
Look, I'm sorry,
I was with friends,
and I got
a little drunk,
and I thought I probably
shouldn't drive.
Especially since
it was your car.
So I got Gabe
to give me a ride.
See, she was
being responsible.
David...
she stole my car keys
out of my purse.
She got drunk, she skipped
a therapy session
that we
desperately need,
and now this is
how she talks to me?
How does any of this qualify
as being responsible?
You're right,
it doesn't.
I just want this thing
out of my house.
That seems kind of fair.
Okay.
That's Gabe, I asked him
to give me a ride.
It's leaving the house,
as you requested.
She put it on my car,
didn't she?
No.
No?
Oh, I'm surprised.
Yeah, me too.
Maybe she actually feels bad
about the whole thing.
How you doing?
Fine.
Really? 'Cause
you look stressed.
Kyle, you don't have to
keep checking up on me.
Okay, you can tell me that
we're not seeing each other,
but you can't tell me
to stop caring about you.
It hasn't been easy.
Okay, well,
maybe this will help.
Looks like Lori's been
in touch with Carter.
She's been getting text
messages from burner phones.
Any idea where she is?
We can't trace 'em,
but we can tell
they're local.
They're local?
Yeah.
Keep an eye on Carter.
Yeah.
Hey.
Is it okay
if I tape our interview?
Yeah.
Sure, ask me... okay.
So you're, uh,
Carter's real mother.
Elizabeth, right?
Detective Wilson.
Right.
I'm sorry,
Detective Wilson.
Is this, uh,
are we starting?
Yes.
Okay.
Before we start,
I just wanna say...
I really like Lori,
Carter's other Mom.
She is not
Carter's other Mom.
She is Carter's
kidnapper.
Yes, I just...
I thought you should know,
I have that thing where
I'm not objective.
I see what
Carter means about you.
Excuse me.
She says
you never laugh,
like, she's never heard
what you sound like
when you're laughing.
Not that this is funny,
this is not funny...
at all.
Like a funny situation,
it's not.
But she says you're,
like, one of those people
who brag,
"I never cry."
Only with you, it's...
"I never laugh."
Oh, man...
What else does
Carter say about me?
Hey.
Hey.
What's for dinner?
I'm starving.
Tilapia with
ginger and garlic.
Cool, as long as
it's not fish.
It's fish.
Taylor,
we have
our entire lives
to eat fish
and steamed veggies.
We have this
tiny, tiny window
where we can eat
onion rings
and milkshakes and...
Oh, my God,
I so want onion rings
and a milkshake
right now.
Hey.
What smells so good?
Fish.
Oh, see?
Fish can never
be the answer to,
"Mmm, what smells
so good?"
Well, I hope we have
enough for one more
because I brought home
a guest for dinner.
Well, there's
plenty because
I'm going out to eat.
Max, what are
you doing here?
Uh, Max, you should meet
the rest of the family.
This is Taylor, uh,
Carter's twin sister.
Hi.
Hey.
And Grant... Grant?!
This is Grant,
Carter's brother.
Dude.
What's up?
David!
Well,
he's probably working,
that's my husband,
he's a writer.
I invited Max to stay
for a couple of days.
You did?
Yes,
I thought
you'd enjoy it.
You cleared it with
your folks, right?
Yeah, I don't think
they believe me, though.
Cops don't usually
bring me home.
To their home... they don't
bring me to their home.
I'm confused, this morning
you were mad at me.
No, I wouldn't
call that mad.
Okay, I really would.
So what, then,
she just invited you here?
Yeah, you know, like,
invitation, subpoena.
What's going on?
The usual.
Okay, now I get it.
No, you don't, let me explain.
Yes.
You didn't bring him
here for me.
You brought him
here for you.
You see, it's not enough
that you're already
listening into
all of my phone calls
and checking my emails.
Now you have
to plant my friends
in my home to spy on me.
Come on, we're leaving.
Nice meeting you all,
I'm Max.
David.
You know what?
Now would be
the perfect opportunity
to put a bug
in my room.
♪ I'm so aware it's silent
♪ Blacked out
and unprotected ♪
♪ This all looked
different in the night ♪
♪ I tend to fall apart
♪ Just as
you're leaving ♪
♪ Dammit, I'm delicate
♪ I...
♪ Need to break again
♪ Oh, make me
delicate ♪
So how long
you gonna be here?
Uh, not sure.
Not like I brought
a lot of clean clothes.
But I did bring a lot
of dirty ones.
Man, I got this
fat pile of dirty dinghies
in the back seat of my car,
it's stinking.
Can you recommend
a good Laundromat?
Max, you can do
your wash at our place.
Bonus.
What about school and...
you go to school, don't you?
Uh, oh, yeah, um...
There's been some confusion
about my grade,
which grade I'm in, so I kind
of been home schooling...
without the schooling.
Oh.
Man, I already got interrogated
today by her mother.
His Dad's also a cop.
Yeah, in fact, his Dad is
the guy who followed me
that day I came
to visit you.
Nobody will be
following Carter
after my little
FBI sting.
We're sending Carter
texts from burner phones
to make it look like
they're coming from her Mom.
Oh.
Uh-huh, okay.
How's that going?
It's phase two,
now we find out.
I need a new phone.
Last one, then you
gotta start paying,
I'm not Amazon.
I get it, I get it.
You all free tomorrow
after school?
Yup.
Yup.
Always.
Good.
What are you writing?
Don't worry,
I got this,
I know how cops work.
They like to solve things,
figure stuff out.
Like Batman
and The Riddler.
Yeah, but you can't give 'em
anything that hard.
Captain?
Detective Wilson,
this is Grady Smith
from the FBI felony
kidnapping unit.
Kidnapping unit,
what's happening?
Carter's been getting
a series of texts
from untraceable
numbers.
We think it could be
coming from her kidnapper.
Now one by one,
they don't make any sense.
Then...
I line 'em up.
First word
of every sentence.
Mm-hmm, food court mall,
4:00 p.m. today.
It's a pretty basic code,
we're obviously not dealing
with a criminal
mastermind here.
All sent within
the last 24 hours.
We got undercovers
in place already.
We've already got eyes on
everyone going in or out.
Captain, I have to be there.
Detective,
we need you to keep
your daughter in your sight.
I can get my husband to
pick her up... I'm giving
that job to you.
I'll be there.
And I'll be there.
We've got this covered,
I assure you.
We will catch this woman.
You just take care
of your daughter.
Kyle, help me, please,
I have to be there.
You heard
what the Captain said.
Hey, I'm not gonna
let you lose Carter again.
Hey.
Where's Carter?
You don't actually think she's
been coming to school, do you?
What do you mean?
She's got everyone
thinking she's got
post traumatic
stress disorder,
and they send her home.
♪ You take Sally,
and I'll take Sue ♪
Mom!
♪ There ain't no difference
between the two ♪
That's our cue.
To the mall.
To the mall.
To the mall.
♪ They say it kills
but they don't know when ♪
Carter.
No, no.
Please, God, no.
What's going on?
What's going on?!
What's going on?
I don't know.
We have apples?
Yeah, I couldn't find
any peanut butter, though.
She keeps it
in the fridge.
That's weird.
Yeah.
I know, I'm sorry,
Captain, I'm sorry,
but she's not at school,
and she's not at home,
and her escape
backpack is missing.
All right,
you're here.
We've got every
possible access covered.
You two eyeball
this crowd.
On three.
She's not here.
I don't know, Kyle.
Something doesn't
seem right.
Looks like this message
was meant for you.
Good you were here
to get it.
Max.
Max, come here,
this is best thing ever.
Everything to you
is the best thing ever.
What is it?
Okay,
so Elizabeth thinks
I'm meeting my Mom
in this food court,
and she's looking around.
And she's looking
around and...
Am I right, isn't
that the best thing
you've ever seen?
Wait, wait, wait,
this is my favorite part,
it's my favorite part,
look at her face,
look at her face,
look at her face...
She looks...
she looks so sad.
Oh, my God, Max,
don't tell me
you feel sorry for her.
A little, look at her.
Max...
This woman...
the whole entire
reason you're even here
is because she is
obsessed with the idea
of putting
my Mom in jail.
She got me back,
okay, I am here.
Why don't you make
that your focus,
or how about just
being happy with that
and leaving my Mom alone?
I love my Mom, okay?
More than anyone or anything
in the whole entire world.
And I live with someone who
would kill her if she could.
Which she can't, but you
know what she can do?
She can put her
in jail for 20 years.
And that is what
Elizabeth lives for.
That is why she was in the food
court in the first place.
She knows how much
it would hurt me,
and she couldn't
care less.
Hey, look,
I'm sorry, I didn't...
I didn't think
to see it like that.
Yeah, well, that's the
problem, nobody does.
So then
you gotta tell them.
When, how?
Every conversation
I've ever had with Elizabeth
is her telling me
what I've done wrong.
My opinion does not
matter to her.
I wouldn't be
so sure about that.
I mean, when she was
interrogating me,
she never asked me
a single question about Lori.
All she wanted to do
was talk about you.
So, uh,
how does this work?
This is
a safe space.
We do only
two things in here.
We speak,
and we listen.
Would you like
to go first?
I didn't see
that coming.
And when we speak,
we do it so everyone can hear.
You can go first.
No, clearly the Doctor
finds you much more
fascinating than me.
The only fascinating thing about
me is that I'm your sister.
Taylor, the only thing
fascinating about me
is that I was abducted.
That's the only thing
anyone even really
knows about me
or cares about.
What would you
like us to know?
Well, I'm trying to
figure that out myself.
Can you talk
a little more about that?
Well, it's... it's hard
because...
because I have to do it
with everyone watching me.
I feel like some elephant
who accidentally
got assigned to the
penguin house, you know?
It's so obvious that
I'm an elephant.
But people
keep coming up to me
with a clipboard
and saying,
"Hmm, you know, according
to this, you're, uh,
you're actually a penguin."
Actually, I also feel like
that except in my version,
I'm an armadillo
and they're giraffes.
At least, the penguins
can see the elephant
but they don't even
know I'm down there.
I know you're down there.
Elizabeth,
you've been very quiet.
Uh, it's just...
it's just hard to hear
what terrible
parents we've been.
Not him, you.
What has he done
that I haven't?
Well, for starters, he's
never lied to my face.
He's not spying on me,
he's not recording
everything I say.
And with him,
I don't have to be
in a room like this
for him to listen to me.
I asked him not to write that
book, "Finding Carter,"
and he's not.
Do you have to do that,
rub it in my face?
That wasn't even about you,
that was about me and him.
I've been married to this man
for 17 years, Carter.
You just met him. Yes,
it was between you and him.
But it was also
between him and me.
Let's open the
discussion back up.
I'd like to go back to what you
were saying to your mother.
Oh, please don't
use that word.
My mother is not here.
I can't see her,
I can't talk to her.
She is not my mother, and she
will never be my mother
because she is the person
who is hunting my mother.
Hey, armadillo.
Hey, elephant.
Well, I guess
that'll teach you
to invite me to
family therapy again.
I think it could help.
Well, I can tell you
that kind of stuff
is a lot more fun
when you're high.
Taylor's right, don't
use me as a role model.
Last time, Ma... Elizabeth
made this whole speech
to your empty chair.
She described the day she came
home and you weren't there.
It sounded pretty...
horrible.
Yeah, I'm sure it did.
And how she's afraid
she'll have to
go through it again.
Will she?
Will I?
Grant... I don't know.
I would tell you
if I did.
But the not knowing
is just as hard for me.
But you wanna go, right?
If Lori showed up.
She's my mother.
And I'm your brother and
Taylor's your sister,
and you have a Dad now.
That's not enough
for you, is it?
You'd still leave us.
I can't answer that.
You already did.
She found your escape
backpack... Elizabeth.
What?
It's gone.
Carter wait.
She took it.
No, no, she didn't.
This woman is insane.
She is insane.
She tells me she is
scared I'll leave,
but then she does absolutely
everything in her power
to push me away from her.
She lies to me,
she spies on me,
she steals from me.
She has absolutely no idea what
this might be like for me,
and she is deliberately
trying to make me mad.
Well, guess what,
it worked, I'm mad.
And she is not gonna
like me when I'm mad.
But not with the
cooking or anything.
Or maybe with the cooking,
actually.
But I'll just start being
really like nice and polite,
like I really
want this to work.
And then I'll just
start doing little things
like hiding her stuff,
like her reading glasses
or her driver's license or,
ooh, her Detective shield.
And then I'll, um,
I'll just start cutting
little holes in her clothes.
Carter?
Have you ever
heard the saying
that holding on to anger
is like swallowing poison
and hoping the other
person will die?...
No.
But you heard it
right now.
When I said it.
What's your point?
Okay, well, how about
instead of thinking
about ways to make
Elizabeth miserable,
you find a way
to make you happy.
Why take the long way when
there's a shortcut?
I'm just saying.
Molly?
You ever tried it?
No. I did it, once...
it was not for me.
I was in much too good a mood
for much too long a time.
While you,
on the other hand,
have been unhappy
for a while now.
I just think you
could use a vacation.
And don't worry,
it's very pure and very safe.
Yes, we get it
from this guy, Crash.
If drug dealers
were on Yelp,
he would be getting
five stars.
You know,
for drug dealers.
That's a potentially
huge idea.
I'm not taking it alone.
You won't.
♪ Wanna live, wanna live
like Johnnie Walker ♪
♪ Licking my lips
let it drip ♪
♪ I think I like it
♪ La-la-la-la la-la-la
♪ I think I like it
♪ La-la-la-la la-la-la
♪ Ha, ha, ha
♪ La-la-la-la la-la-la
♪ I think I like it
♪ La-la-la-la la-la-la
♪ Ha, ha, ha
I hate to say it, man.
Are you good enough
to take no for an answer?
I can't.
You can't?
There's a million chicks
who'd love to go out with you.
They're not her.
I wish I had your problems.
Whoo!
Now I'm supposed to
tell her she's grounded?
I love the job
of nerd sister.
Ha-ha!
Yeah, she probably
won't be ready to leave
for about six hours,
my best guess.
My Mom does not
wanna hear that.
Maximilian, Maximilian.
Gabe.
Hi.
♪ I got you, Gabe ♪
Anytime, anywhere.
♪ I think I like it
♪ La-la-la-la la-la-la
♪ I think I like it
♪ La-la-la-la la-la-la
♪ Ha, ha, ha
Oops.
I was not
supposed to do that.
Gosh, you look
so much like Elizabeth
when you pull that face.
Doesn't she
look like Elizabeth
when she pulls
that face?
Do you think
this is cute?
This isn't cute...
you're high.
You're making
a fool of yourself.
I liked you better when I
thought you were dead.
Very funny.
She's having a seizure.
Hey, call 9-1-1.
Carter!
I'm so sorry!
Call 9-1-1.
I didn't mean it!
Come on, come on.
Call 9-1-1, man!
Don't leave me, Carter.
I can't lose you again.
Carter.
Carter.
Mom?
I'm here.
Don't leave me, Carter.
I'm right here.
I'm right here.
How long have I been here?
Three years.
Three years?
I'm kidding, but...
You've been out
for a while.
But not a coma, right?
Technically, a coma.
I was in a coma?
It was a little coma.
Just long enough to
scare us all to death.
Why does all the fun
stuff happen to you?
Abduction,
seizure, coma.
I kissed Gabe, didn't I?
Oh, yes,
you certainly did.
Taylor...
I really don't like him.
Except, you do...
which is fine with me.
Or it will be, maybe.
Just get better.
Guys, let's let her
get some rest.
I'll call your folks,
let 'em know she's up.
Thank you.
I'm not staying but I...
I, I just wanted
to give you this.
♪ Well I knew what
I didn't want to know ♪
♪ And I saw where
I didn't want to go ♪
♪ So I took the path less
traveled on ♪
♪ And I'll let my stories be
whispered when I'm gone ♪
♪ When I'm gone
♪ When I'm gone
♪ When I'm gone
♪ Ooh
Hey, armadillo.
Hey, you're up.
What are you doing here?
I should've
told you this sooner.
Because then maybe
you wouldn't be here.
Elizabeth didn't
take your backpack.
I did.
You did?
I didn't want you
to leave.
But I really don't
want you to die.
I just... I want you to
be someplace you're happy.
And I get
that it's not here.
I put a burner phone
in here.
So call me.
David, oh, my God.
A coma, how is she?
She's fine,
absolutely fine.
Oh, thank God... That would
not be good for anyone
if she overdosed on drugs
her first month home.
So what's the good word?
What's the great word,
you mean?
People are loving...
loving your sample chapter.
But now, between this YouTube
video and the coma, oh.
You ain't even heard
our family therapy session.
She is not my mother and she
will never be my mother.
Because she is the person
who is hunting my mother.
That's Eliza... she's talking
about Elizabeth?
This next book of yours,
"Finding Carter"...
it's gonna be huge.
♪ And it's what I deserve
♪ It's what I deserve
Lori Stevens has not
left the state.
Whatever happened to that alias
list you were putting together?
She looks like this?
Yeah.
She lives in the building?
That is a blond-haired,
blue-eyed piece
of raw sewage.
We need to set some boundaries.
Such as?
Such as a curfew.
You said I had to be home
by 10:00.
You didn't say I couldn't
have friends over.
You can never have anything to do with
him again... do you understand me?
you were abducted.
The woman you think is your
mother is not your mother.
She's your kidnapper.
Your real parents
are here.
Do you remember me at all?
No, I'm sorry.
You lose a child,
but you bring home
a stranger.
So your family...
you like 'em?
They're total strangers,
right?
But, oh, when the grandfather
hugged me,
it was like this spot
in my brain just went halogen.
Well, you're happy
she's back, right?
Yeah, of course
I'm happy.
There are things you don't know.
Things you should know.
I want to do it all differently
this time, Linden.
You could start by
calling me "Carter."
♪ Like Johnnie Walker licking my
lips, let it drip ♪
♪ I think I like it
♪ La-la-la-la
la-la-la ♪
♪ I think I like it
♪ La-la-la-la
la-la-la ♪
♪ Ha, ha, ha
♪ La-la-la-la
la-la-la ♪
♪ I think I like it
♪ La-la-la-la
la-la-la ♪
♪ Ha, ha, ha
Maximilian, Maximilian.
Gabe.
Oops.
I was not supposed
to do that.
You think this is cute?
This isn't cute,
you're high.
You're making
a fool of yourself.
I liked you better when
I thought you were dead.
Very funny.
She's having a seizure.
Hey, Evan, call 9-1-1.
Carter, I'm so sorry.
Call 9-1-1.
I didn't mean it.
♪ I woke up in a dream
♪ To a stream
I'd never seen ♪
♪ But something felt
♪ Familiar
♪ The someone...
I love you.
Love you more.
Not possible.
♪ See you here
♪ So this is where
♪ You live now
♪ This is where
you live now... ♪
Carter!
It's time to go!
Carter!
She wants
to make me yell.
I'm just giving her
exactly what she wants.
Not what I want.
If that still
matters for
anything around here.
You know what?
Bring that up at
family therapy tonight.
The last thing
I wanna do is spend
another hour of my life
talking about Carter.
That's the whole point
of family therapy.
Finding Carter has made
our lives very complicated.
This has been
a tough month.
I'm happy she's here.
We're all happy
she's here.
I'd be happier
if she were here.
I am.
Come on, we don't
wanna be late.
Carter, you can't go to
school in your pajamas.
Why not?
What difference
does it make?
Fine.
You take them.
Uh, no, I can't,
I've got that meeting
in the city today.
It's the editor
of "Vanity Fair."
They're looking for someone
to do a true crime column.
One like
Dominick Dunne.
So you never were gonna wear
your pajamas to school.
Nope.
You did that
just to annoy Mom?
No, I did that
to distract her.
This is what
I'm doing to annoy her.
Do you guys
want a ride?
Do not use her as
a role model, Grant.
Yeah, not when you've got
so many other great options.
♪ There you go
♪ There you stay
♪ Keeping low
♪ Never wanna play
♪ You've been
up and down, down ♪
♪ You've been low,
low, low ♪
♪ Pretending to not
♪ Feel alone
♪ Pretending to not
feel alone ♪
As you may know,
the school is reevaluating
its zero tolerance
program.
So, for the time being,
we are reinstating
our point system.
Boo.
Each one of you will
receive this booklet.
It's the list
of infractions
and the points
you will receive
as a result of
those infractions.
For example, Miss Gilroy,
eating in class, one point.
Please put away
that yogurt.
When you have
accumulated enough points,
you will begin
to lose privileges.
For example, five
points, no pep rally.
Ten points earns you
cafeteria cleanup.
15 points gives you
five Saturday detention.
15 points...
Mr. Sharkey.
Oh, dear Lord.
Oh, my God. I think she's
having a panic attack.
Yogurt.
Does she want my yogurt?
She can have my yogurt?
It's my Mom.
The last time
she saw her Mom,
the kidnapper Mom,
was in a yogurt shop.
She almost got
arrested by my Dad.
Take her to the office,
have her call her parents.
I'll call your Mom.
Don't bother.
Wait, so you're not...
And please stop calling
Elizabeth my Mom.
She is...
she is not my Mom.
So you faked
that whole thing.
Well, not the part where
I had to listen to you brag
about how your Dad almost
arrested the "kidnapper" Mom.
Please don't
refer to her as that,
she is just my Mom.
I'm sorry.
It gets confusing
sometimes.
Yeah, I know,
I'm sorry.
Well, thanks for
getting me out of there.
So bam, we just got
a whole day off school.
What do you wanna do?
Gabe, I'm not spending
the day with you.
Come on,
I've got my car.
We can go into the city.
I'll take you to see
the stairs from "The Exorcist."
Gabe, I can't even
say your name
without Taylor going blech
and walking out the room.
If she finds out I spent
the entire day with you,
she'll kill me.
How would she find out?
She'll never find out.
Taylor.
Well, I always wondered
what it would be like
to have a sister.
Now I know.
Who is that guy?
I see him everywhere.
Ofe? You never met Ofe?
Ofe?
Stands for
"One Freaking Eyebrow."
What's his real name?
Nobody remembers.
I don't even know
if he remembers.
Okay, so what you wanna
do is you wanna...
you wanna pick
a date, okay,
and then the buy-in's
gonna be ten dollars.
Winner takes home
three grand.
What if a year goes by,
and they don't catch her.
Then we start a new pool,
and the pot doubles.
Excuse me.
Ow, man!
Sorry, sorry.
That's my Mom.
I just lost a customer,
not your fault.
I do blame you,
however, Gabe.
I didn't know.
Oh, you knew.
We decided
not to tell him.
Right, that is
what we decided.
Tell me what?
I'm Ofe, by the way.
I'm Bird, we kind of
met at that party.
Remember, she's the one
that did that thing
with the shot glass.
Shot glass,
that was sweet.
I love that, I could never...
I'm afraid of fire.
Why have you got a photo
of my Mom in your briefcase?
This is my office.
I make book, I take bets,
sporting events mostly.
Anything from high school
matchups to pro ball,
pretty much full service.
I do straight, parlay,
teasers, sides.
I calculate
my own spreads,
if I may indulge in
a little humblebrag.
And from time to time, I come
up with a fun novelty pool.
So you're taking bets on
the date my Mom gets arrested.
If it makes you
feel any better,
most people are giving her
at least six months.
You're an ass.
I know, I'm sorry.
I feel really bad.
Maybe don't do the pool.
I don't feel that bad.
You know what,
it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter, she
promised me she'd be back.
I shouldn't
even be here.
Where are you going?
Somewhere I don't
have to think about
how much
my life sucks now.
If there even is
such a place.
There is.
Come on.
Wow, this is
all yours?
A 16th birthday present
from my parents.
If there had been a card,
it would've said,
"We love you,
now go away."
This was supposed
to be an art studio.
Now it's like
the chocolate factory
from Willy Wonka,
only with booze and pot
instead of
Everlasting Gobstoppers.
I have Everlasting
Gobstoppers.
So you're an artist.
A great artist.
She did the Alice in Wonderland
mural in the cafeteria.
Really?
That's impressive.
Thanks.
Face of the Mad Hatter,
that's me.
No, it's Johnny Depp.
God, would it kill you
to one time say it's me?
♪ Why are you living
♪ What are you missing
Hey, can I borrow this?
I've got this family
therapy thing tonight,
and I think
it can be very useful.
Oh, family therapy, huh?
We tried that once,
me and my parents.
Really, did it work?
Oh, yeah,
we're closer than ever.
São Paulo is closer
than Dubai, right?
Ah, poor little
rich girl.
Smart, judgmental
cop's kid.
Help yourself.
This place is
bigger than the one
I used to live in
with my Mom.
Sorry about that
stupid pool, Carter.
I'm sorry you haven't
heard from her.
No chance she'll come back
to the yogurt store?
No, I doubt it.
Anyway, they fired me.
Apparently,
people don't like
to be under
police surveillance
while they eat yogurt.
That's fine, though,
I know she'll get in touch.
I just don't know
how the FBI's
got everything
but a camera up my ass.
Screw the FBI.
We could, actually.
It wouldn't even be that hard.
What do you mean?
So they're stalking
your phone, right?
In case your Mom
sends you a message.
So we get your Mom...
I mean, us pretending
to be your Mom to text you.
With burner phones.
Cheapo phones with
prepaid minutes.
You can get 'em
pretty much anywhere.
Including right here.
It's a side business,
I also sell glow sticks.
I do very well
at parties.
Okay, so what should
the message be?
Something a mother
would say to a daughter.
I know
what it would say.
"Love you more."
Love you more.
Phase one complete.
You wanted to say
to Carter.
I was really angry today
when I found out that
you went through my bag
and had taken my car keys.
I...
reacted immaturely.
I went into your room,
and I looked
through your closet,
and I found something.
I found the backpack.
The one that's packed like
you're ready to run away.
I can't do that again.
I can't come home one day
and find out that you're gone.
Please,
give me a chance.
How was that,
Elizabeth?
Not so bad.
I've always been able
to talk to Carter
when she wasn't there.
If we want her
to come to therapy,
we can't get mad at her
for not coming to therapy.
I wasn't going to.
Morning, sunshine.
Did you borrow my car
or just steal it?
I'm only asking
because it isn't here.
Carter,
get rid of that.
Your 12-year-old brother
is in the room.
Oh, come on, has he never
been to a sporting event?
Not many.
It's a joke,
it's a toy.
No, you know very well what
it is, it's an obscenity.
From, like,
the 1970s, geez.
Glad I didn't bring it
to family therapy last night.
No, instead, you just
decided not to show up.
Kids, you're taking
the bus this morning.
The bus?
I was gonna take them.
I hate the bus.
No, we have to
deal with this.
This... I'm a this now.
The bus is starting
to look pretty good.
Yeah.
You can borrow
my headphones.
I have headphones.
Not like these.
Thanks.
Look, I'm sorry,
I was with friends,
and I got
a little drunk,
and I thought I probably
shouldn't drive.
Especially since
it was your car.
So I got Gabe
to give me a ride.
See, she was
being responsible.
David...
she stole my car keys
out of my purse.
She got drunk, she skipped
a therapy session
that we
desperately need,
and now this is
how she talks to me?
How does any of this qualify
as being responsible?
You're right,
it doesn't.
I just want this thing
out of my house.
That seems kind of fair.
Okay.
That's Gabe, I asked him
to give me a ride.
It's leaving the house,
as you requested.
She put it on my car,
didn't she?
No.
No?
Oh, I'm surprised.
Yeah, me too.
Maybe she actually feels bad
about the whole thing.
How you doing?
Fine.
Really? 'Cause
you look stressed.
Kyle, you don't have to
keep checking up on me.
Okay, you can tell me that
we're not seeing each other,
but you can't tell me
to stop caring about you.
It hasn't been easy.
Okay, well,
maybe this will help.
Looks like Lori's been
in touch with Carter.
She's been getting text
messages from burner phones.
Any idea where she is?
We can't trace 'em,
but we can tell
they're local.
They're local?
Yeah.
Keep an eye on Carter.
Yeah.
Hey.
Is it okay
if I tape our interview?
Yeah.
Sure, ask me... okay.
So you're, uh,
Carter's real mother.
Elizabeth, right?
Detective Wilson.
Right.
I'm sorry,
Detective Wilson.
Is this, uh,
are we starting?
Yes.
Okay.
Before we start,
I just wanna say...
I really like Lori,
Carter's other Mom.
She is not
Carter's other Mom.
She is Carter's
kidnapper.
Yes, I just...
I thought you should know,
I have that thing where
I'm not objective.
I see what
Carter means about you.
Excuse me.
She says
you never laugh,
like, she's never heard
what you sound like
when you're laughing.
Not that this is funny,
this is not funny...
at all.
Like a funny situation,
it's not.
But she says you're,
like, one of those people
who brag,
"I never cry."
Only with you, it's...
"I never laugh."
Oh, man...
What else does
Carter say about me?
Hey.
Hey.
What's for dinner?
I'm starving.
Tilapia with
ginger and garlic.
Cool, as long as
it's not fish.
It's fish.
Taylor,
we have
our entire lives
to eat fish
and steamed veggies.
We have this
tiny, tiny window
where we can eat
onion rings
and milkshakes and...
Oh, my God,
I so want onion rings
and a milkshake
right now.
Hey.
What smells so good?
Fish.
Oh, see?
Fish can never
be the answer to,
"Mmm, what smells
so good?"
Well, I hope we have
enough for one more
because I brought home
a guest for dinner.
Well, there's
plenty because
I'm going out to eat.
Max, what are
you doing here?
Uh, Max, you should meet
the rest of the family.
This is Taylor, uh,
Carter's twin sister.
Hi.
Hey.
And Grant... Grant?!
This is Grant,
Carter's brother.
Dude.
What's up?
David!
Well,
he's probably working,
that's my husband,
he's a writer.
I invited Max to stay
for a couple of days.
You did?
Yes,
I thought
you'd enjoy it.
You cleared it with
your folks, right?
Yeah, I don't think
they believe me, though.
Cops don't usually
bring me home.
To their home... they don't
bring me to their home.
I'm confused, this morning
you were mad at me.
No, I wouldn't
call that mad.
Okay, I really would.
So what, then,
she just invited you here?
Yeah, you know, like,
invitation, subpoena.
What's going on?
The usual.
Okay, now I get it.
No, you don't, let me explain.
Yes.
You didn't bring him
here for me.
You brought him
here for you.
You see, it's not enough
that you're already
listening into
all of my phone calls
and checking my emails.
Now you have
to plant my friends
in my home to spy on me.
Come on, we're leaving.
Nice meeting you all,
I'm Max.
David.
You know what?
Now would be
the perfect opportunity
to put a bug
in my room.
♪ I'm so aware it's silent
♪ Blacked out
and unprotected ♪
♪ This all looked
different in the night ♪
♪ I tend to fall apart
♪ Just as
you're leaving ♪
♪ Dammit, I'm delicate
♪ I...
♪ Need to break again
♪ Oh, make me
delicate ♪
So how long
you gonna be here?
Uh, not sure.
Not like I brought
a lot of clean clothes.
But I did bring a lot
of dirty ones.
Man, I got this
fat pile of dirty dinghies
in the back seat of my car,
it's stinking.
Can you recommend
a good Laundromat?
Max, you can do
your wash at our place.
Bonus.
What about school and...
you go to school, don't you?
Uh, oh, yeah, um...
There's been some confusion
about my grade,
which grade I'm in, so I kind
of been home schooling...
without the schooling.
Oh.
Man, I already got interrogated
today by her mother.
His Dad's also a cop.
Yeah, in fact, his Dad is
the guy who followed me
that day I came
to visit you.
Nobody will be
following Carter
after my little
FBI sting.
We're sending Carter
texts from burner phones
to make it look like
they're coming from her Mom.
Oh.
Uh-huh, okay.
How's that going?
It's phase two,
now we find out.
I need a new phone.
Last one, then you
gotta start paying,
I'm not Amazon.
I get it, I get it.
You all free tomorrow
after school?
Yup.
Yup.
Always.
Good.
What are you writing?
Don't worry,
I got this,
I know how cops work.
They like to solve things,
figure stuff out.
Like Batman
and The Riddler.
Yeah, but you can't give 'em
anything that hard.
Captain?
Detective Wilson,
this is Grady Smith
from the FBI felony
kidnapping unit.
Kidnapping unit,
what's happening?
Carter's been getting
a series of texts
from untraceable
numbers.
We think it could be
coming from her kidnapper.
Now one by one,
they don't make any sense.
Then...
I line 'em up.
First word
of every sentence.
Mm-hmm, food court mall,
4:00 p.m. today.
It's a pretty basic code,
we're obviously not dealing
with a criminal
mastermind here.
All sent within
the last 24 hours.
We got undercovers
in place already.
We've already got eyes on
everyone going in or out.
Captain, I have to be there.
Detective,
we need you to keep
your daughter in your sight.
I can get my husband to
pick her up... I'm giving
that job to you.
I'll be there.
And I'll be there.
We've got this covered,
I assure you.
We will catch this woman.
You just take care
of your daughter.
Kyle, help me, please,
I have to be there.
You heard
what the Captain said.
Hey, I'm not gonna
let you lose Carter again.
Hey.
Where's Carter?
You don't actually think she's
been coming to school, do you?
What do you mean?
She's got everyone
thinking she's got
post traumatic
stress disorder,
and they send her home.
♪ You take Sally,
and I'll take Sue ♪
Mom!
♪ There ain't no difference
between the two ♪
That's our cue.
To the mall.
To the mall.
To the mall.
♪ They say it kills
but they don't know when ♪
Carter.
No, no.
Please, God, no.
What's going on?
What's going on?!
What's going on?
I don't know.
We have apples?
Yeah, I couldn't find
any peanut butter, though.
She keeps it
in the fridge.
That's weird.
Yeah.
I know, I'm sorry,
Captain, I'm sorry,
but she's not at school,
and she's not at home,
and her escape
backpack is missing.
All right,
you're here.
We've got every
possible access covered.
You two eyeball
this crowd.
On three.
She's not here.
I don't know, Kyle.
Something doesn't
seem right.
Looks like this message
was meant for you.
Good you were here
to get it.
Max.
Max, come here,
this is best thing ever.
Everything to you
is the best thing ever.
What is it?
Okay,
so Elizabeth thinks
I'm meeting my Mom
in this food court,
and she's looking around.
And she's looking
around and...
Am I right, isn't
that the best thing
you've ever seen?
Wait, wait, wait,
this is my favorite part,
it's my favorite part,
look at her face,
look at her face,
look at her face...
She looks...
she looks so sad.
Oh, my God, Max,
don't tell me
you feel sorry for her.
A little, look at her.
Max...
This woman...
the whole entire
reason you're even here
is because she is
obsessed with the idea
of putting
my Mom in jail.
She got me back,
okay, I am here.
Why don't you make
that your focus,
or how about just
being happy with that
and leaving my Mom alone?
I love my Mom, okay?
More than anyone or anything
in the whole entire world.
And I live with someone who
would kill her if she could.
Which she can't, but you
know what she can do?
She can put her
in jail for 20 years.
And that is what
Elizabeth lives for.
That is why she was in the food
court in the first place.
She knows how much
it would hurt me,
and she couldn't
care less.
Hey, look,
I'm sorry, I didn't...
I didn't think
to see it like that.
Yeah, well, that's the
problem, nobody does.
So then
you gotta tell them.
When, how?
Every conversation
I've ever had with Elizabeth
is her telling me
what I've done wrong.
My opinion does not
matter to her.
I wouldn't be
so sure about that.
I mean, when she was
interrogating me,
she never asked me
a single question about Lori.
All she wanted to do
was talk about you.
So, uh,
how does this work?
This is
a safe space.
We do only
two things in here.
We speak,
and we listen.
Would you like
to go first?
I didn't see
that coming.
And when we speak,
we do it so everyone can hear.
You can go first.
No, clearly the Doctor
finds you much more
fascinating than me.
The only fascinating thing about
me is that I'm your sister.
Taylor, the only thing
fascinating about me
is that I was abducted.
That's the only thing
anyone even really
knows about me
or cares about.
What would you
like us to know?
Well, I'm trying to
figure that out myself.
Can you talk
a little more about that?
Well, it's... it's hard
because...
because I have to do it
with everyone watching me.
I feel like some elephant
who accidentally
got assigned to the
penguin house, you know?
It's so obvious that
I'm an elephant.
But people
keep coming up to me
with a clipboard
and saying,
"Hmm, you know, according
to this, you're, uh,
you're actually a penguin."
Actually, I also feel like
that except in my version,
I'm an armadillo
and they're giraffes.
At least, the penguins
can see the elephant
but they don't even
know I'm down there.
I know you're down there.
Elizabeth,
you've been very quiet.
Uh, it's just...
it's just hard to hear
what terrible
parents we've been.
Not him, you.
What has he done
that I haven't?
Well, for starters, he's
never lied to my face.
He's not spying on me,
he's not recording
everything I say.
And with him,
I don't have to be
in a room like this
for him to listen to me.
I asked him not to write that
book, "Finding Carter,"
and he's not.
Do you have to do that,
rub it in my face?
That wasn't even about you,
that was about me and him.
I've been married to this man
for 17 years, Carter.
You just met him. Yes,
it was between you and him.
But it was also
between him and me.
Let's open the
discussion back up.
I'd like to go back to what you
were saying to your mother.
Oh, please don't
use that word.
My mother is not here.
I can't see her,
I can't talk to her.
She is not my mother, and she
will never be my mother
because she is the person
who is hunting my mother.
Hey, armadillo.
Hey, elephant.
Well, I guess
that'll teach you
to invite me to
family therapy again.
I think it could help.
Well, I can tell you
that kind of stuff
is a lot more fun
when you're high.
Taylor's right, don't
use me as a role model.
Last time, Ma... Elizabeth
made this whole speech
to your empty chair.
She described the day she came
home and you weren't there.
It sounded pretty...
horrible.
Yeah, I'm sure it did.
And how she's afraid
she'll have to
go through it again.
Will she?
Will I?
Grant... I don't know.
I would tell you
if I did.
But the not knowing
is just as hard for me.
But you wanna go, right?
If Lori showed up.
She's my mother.
And I'm your brother and
Taylor's your sister,
and you have a Dad now.
That's not enough
for you, is it?
You'd still leave us.
I can't answer that.
You already did.
She found your escape
backpack... Elizabeth.
What?
It's gone.
Carter wait.
She took it.
No, no, she didn't.
This woman is insane.
She is insane.
She tells me she is
scared I'll leave,
but then she does absolutely
everything in her power
to push me away from her.
She lies to me,
she spies on me,
she steals from me.
She has absolutely no idea what
this might be like for me,
and she is deliberately
trying to make me mad.
Well, guess what,
it worked, I'm mad.
And she is not gonna
like me when I'm mad.
But not with the
cooking or anything.
Or maybe with the cooking,
actually.
But I'll just start being
really like nice and polite,
like I really
want this to work.
And then I'll just
start doing little things
like hiding her stuff,
like her reading glasses
or her driver's license or,
ooh, her Detective shield.
And then I'll, um,
I'll just start cutting
little holes in her clothes.
Carter?
Have you ever
heard the saying
that holding on to anger
is like swallowing poison
and hoping the other
person will die?...
No.
But you heard it
right now.
When I said it.
What's your point?
Okay, well, how about
instead of thinking
about ways to make
Elizabeth miserable,
you find a way
to make you happy.
Why take the long way when
there's a shortcut?
I'm just saying.
Molly?
You ever tried it?
No. I did it, once...
it was not for me.
I was in much too good a mood
for much too long a time.
While you,
on the other hand,
have been unhappy
for a while now.
I just think you
could use a vacation.
And don't worry,
it's very pure and very safe.
Yes, we get it
from this guy, Crash.
If drug dealers
were on Yelp,
he would be getting
five stars.
You know,
for drug dealers.
That's a potentially
huge idea.
I'm not taking it alone.
You won't.
♪ Wanna live, wanna live
like Johnnie Walker ♪
♪ Licking my lips
let it drip ♪
♪ I think I like it
♪ La-la-la-la la-la-la
♪ I think I like it
♪ La-la-la-la la-la-la
♪ Ha, ha, ha
♪ La-la-la-la la-la-la
♪ I think I like it
♪ La-la-la-la la-la-la
♪ Ha, ha, ha
I hate to say it, man.
Are you good enough
to take no for an answer?
I can't.
You can't?
There's a million chicks
who'd love to go out with you.
They're not her.
I wish I had your problems.
Whoo!
Now I'm supposed to
tell her she's grounded?
I love the job
of nerd sister.
Ha-ha!
Yeah, she probably
won't be ready to leave
for about six hours,
my best guess.
My Mom does not
wanna hear that.
Maximilian, Maximilian.
Gabe.
Hi.
♪ I got you, Gabe ♪
Anytime, anywhere.
♪ I think I like it
♪ La-la-la-la la-la-la
♪ I think I like it
♪ La-la-la-la la-la-la
♪ Ha, ha, ha
Oops.
I was not
supposed to do that.
Gosh, you look
so much like Elizabeth
when you pull that face.
Doesn't she
look like Elizabeth
when she pulls
that face?
Do you think
this is cute?
This isn't cute...
you're high.
You're making
a fool of yourself.
I liked you better when I
thought you were dead.
Very funny.
She's having a seizure.
Hey, call 9-1-1.
Carter!
I'm so sorry!
Call 9-1-1.
I didn't mean it!
Come on, come on.
Call 9-1-1, man!
Don't leave me, Carter.
I can't lose you again.
Carter.
Carter.
Mom?
I'm here.
Don't leave me, Carter.
I'm right here.
I'm right here.
How long have I been here?
Three years.
Three years?
I'm kidding, but...
You've been out
for a while.
But not a coma, right?
Technically, a coma.
I was in a coma?
It was a little coma.
Just long enough to
scare us all to death.
Why does all the fun
stuff happen to you?
Abduction,
seizure, coma.
I kissed Gabe, didn't I?
Oh, yes,
you certainly did.
Taylor...
I really don't like him.
Except, you do...
which is fine with me.
Or it will be, maybe.
Just get better.
Guys, let's let her
get some rest.
I'll call your folks,
let 'em know she's up.
Thank you.
I'm not staying but I...
I, I just wanted
to give you this.
♪ Well I knew what
I didn't want to know ♪
♪ And I saw where
I didn't want to go ♪
♪ So I took the path less
traveled on ♪
♪ And I'll let my stories be
whispered when I'm gone ♪
♪ When I'm gone
♪ When I'm gone
♪ When I'm gone
♪ Ooh
Hey, armadillo.
Hey, you're up.
What are you doing here?
I should've
told you this sooner.
Because then maybe
you wouldn't be here.
Elizabeth didn't
take your backpack.
I did.
You did?
I didn't want you
to leave.
But I really don't
want you to die.
I just... I want you to
be someplace you're happy.
And I get
that it's not here.
I put a burner phone
in here.
So call me.
David, oh, my God.
A coma, how is she?
She's fine,
absolutely fine.
Oh, thank God... That would
not be good for anyone
if she overdosed on drugs
her first month home.
So what's the good word?
What's the great word,
you mean?
People are loving...
loving your sample chapter.
But now, between this YouTube
video and the coma, oh.
You ain't even heard
our family therapy session.
She is not my mother and she
will never be my mother.
Because she is the person
who is hunting my mother.
That's Eliza... she's talking
about Elizabeth?
This next book of yours,
"Finding Carter"...
it's gonna be huge.
♪ And it's what I deserve
♪ It's what I deserve
Lori Stevens has not
left the state.
Whatever happened to that alias
list you were putting together?
She looks like this?
Yeah.
She lives in the building?
That is a blond-haired,
blue-eyed piece
of raw sewage.
We need to set some boundaries.
Such as?
Such as a curfew.
You said I had to be home
by 10:00.
You didn't say I couldn't
have friends over.
You can never have anything to do with
him again... do you understand me?