Good Witch (2015–…): Season 4, Episode 8 - All Dressed Up - full transcript
Cassie sets out to track down Elizabeth Merriwick's original wedding dress, learning a bit from every woman who wore it. Grace and Noah hit a snag in their relationship as Abigail and Phil start to ramp up theirs.
- Previously on Good Witch...
- Who are you talking to?
- Noah. He's visiting his mom
in New York. I missed you.
- I missed you too.
- Noah!
- I always hear about
places with small town charm,
but this place actually
has it, and... I've decided
that this would be
the perfect place
to put my company's
headquarters.
- So that means you'd
be living in Middleton?
- Yeah!
- I'm gonna love you
as if each day was the only
one we had. I wrote down
when I wanted our
wedding day to be.
- That's less than
three weeks away.
- We better get to work.
- Good morning.
- Hello.
What's all this?
- Different things Sam and I
need to decide on
before the wedding.
Stephanie dropped
some cakes by for us to try,
and I am listening to a
band that Sam wants to hire
for the reception.
- I can't believe you're putting
together an entire wedding
in less than three weeks.
- Well, when you're ready to get
married, the answer is: why wait?
- I suppose you're gonna
ask me to do the flowers?
- Actually, we were
gonna hire someone else
and let you have the day off.
- Oh.
- Just kidding. Of course
we want you to do them.
- Well, because you want
people to be impressed.
Right?
- Right. Good morning, Phil.
- Morning.
- Hey.
- I heard you and
Abigail come in last night.
- Well, I told him he
didn't have to walk me
all the way home, but...
- Well, you were already home.
All I did was walk you
to your room, which is
right above mine, so it
wasn't that far of a walk.
- Well, it's still sweet of you
to make sure she got there.
Do you want some breakfast?
- Oh, no.
Thank you. I have
to get to City Hall.
- Oh.
- He's rezoning the old mill
because he wants to move his
company's headquarters here.
- Well, I hope things turn
out the way you want them to.
- Thank you. May I drop
you at the shop on my way?
- Absolutely.
- Hey, Phil.
- Morning.
- Oh, Abigail. I'm glad I
caught you. I was wondering...
- Sorry, Sam. That's my ride.
- I was hoping to talk with
her about doing the flowers
for the wedding.
- I already did,
and she is.
- Hmm.
Great. Oh, how'd
you like the band?
- Oh, sign them up. And...
Stephanie brought
by these cakes.
This one is my favourite.
- Hmm.
Oh, that is good.
So this wedding is
actually coming together.
- Piece of cake.
You know, I think we
should get our invitations out
before the end of the week.
- Yeah. I will try to finish
my list of people to invite.
- OK. I'll do mine too.
Then, all I have to do is
find the right dress to wear.
- You could wear jeans
and a t-shirt and still be
the most beautiful bride ever.
- I'm not wearing
jeans and a t-shirt.
- Can I wear jeans
and a t-shirt?
- No.
- I'm glad I asked you then,
before I showed up on the day.
- Fordham University
in New York?
- Yeah. They're
offering me a full ride.
- The coach even wants
Noah to start practicing
before he's officially enrolled.
- When are you gonna move there?
- As soon as we graduate.
- This is really great, Noah.
Congratulations.
- What's great? And
congratulations about what?
- Noah got accepted at
Fordham, to play baseball there.
- Oh! Well, that is great.
You know, when you're starting
for the White Sox someday,
I'm gonna want tickets
along the third baseline.
- White Sox?
No. My son's gonna be a Yankee.
- Well, then...
he's gonna lose to Chicago.
- We'll see.
- What is your very
favourite thing that I make?
- I like the
butterscotch milkshake.
- Well, then I'll bring one
of those on the house.
- Thanks, Stephanie.
- Have you
told Grace you're gonna be
going to school in New York?
- Not yet.
- Where are the colleges
she's thinking about?
- Nowhere near New York.
When are you gonna
tell her the news?
- Soon as I figure
out what to say.
- Hey, Mom.
- Hi, honey.
- Grandpa, what are you doing?
- I'm trying to get
this drawer open.
It's just stuck.
- You should try
to open it, Grace.
- I've already
given it quite a pull.
- Well, maybe it
needs a special touch.
- I can give it a try.
- Oh!
- Oh! Whoa!
I must have loosened it for you.
- That's probably it.
There's something inside.
It's an envelope.
How long do you think
it's been back there?
- Well, that's hard to tell.
That desk has been here
since I moved in.
- It might have been there
since Grey House was built.
- "My dearest
father and mother..."
It's signed "Elizabeth."
- Merriwick?
- It looks like it.
"By the time you read
this letter, I will have fled
to pursue a lifetime with
my one and only love."
- Oh, she must have
written that before she ran off
to marry Andrew Wymark.
Her father didn't approve,
so they had to elope.
- It says here that they planned
a wedding at Grey House.
- Oh, I didn't know they were
gonna have the ceremony here.
- And she already had her
dress made. Look, it describes it
right there.
- "I mostly regret
"that I shall never wear
the gown that was crafted
"so carefully for me.
"I only hope the
Netherton family
"is as joyed to see
their daughter Fiona
"walk the aisle as I longed
for you to see me."
- So she gave her
wedding dress away?
- To Fiona Netherton.
- What do you
think happened to it?
- I guess we'll have
to ask Fiona Netherton.
- George, that would have
been almost 100 years ago.
- But... she had to have
done something with her dress
after she got married.
- That's true.
I wonder if anyone
ever wore it after that.
What are you
hoping to find in here?
- I wanna find out who
married Fiona Netherton
so I can track down
their descendants.
- That information should
be in the census records,
and they're in the last filing
cabinet there, on the right.
- OK.
- But that's if you know the
year she was married exactly.
- I don't.
- Well then, that's gonna
make this a bit of a hunt.
So...
How goes the wedding planning?
- Oh, really well so far.
- You know, they do say that
the days leading up to a wedding
can be one of the most
stressful times in any relationship.
- Well, it hasn't been
for me and Sam.
- Oh. No conflict at all?
- Well, we both seem
to want the same things.
- Tom and I could hardly agree
on anything about our wedding,
including who we
wanted to be there.
- Oh. Well, we haven't decided
on exactly who we want there,
but I'm pretty sure Sam and
I can get on the same page.
- Hmm.
- What is all this stuff?
- Oh, in there? That's
mostly newspaper clippings.
Anything pertaining
to population, increases
and adjustments, you know. Birth
announcements, funeral notices.
- And wedding photos.
- But you know, if we don't know
the exact year, then I still
don't know how you're gonna
find what you're looking for.
- Well, I know
about when the wedding happened.
- About when?
Cassie, that means we could
be searching through who knows
how many clippings
before we find...
- I found it.
- What?! Oh!
Look at that dress.
- It really is beautiful.
- "Fiona Netherton
married Jonathan Powell
last week in a ceremony
at the Botanical Gardens."
- So Fiona Netherton
became Fiona Powell.
- Well, that's something
to go on at least.
- Yeah, it's a start.
- You know, that dress
would look gorgeous on you.
- It would be
perfect, wouldn't it?
If I can only figure
out where it is...
- Abigail.
- Hello.
- Hi. Where are you heading?
- I'm just on my
way to Grey House.
- Oh, that works out.
I'm going that way too.
- How did it go at City Hall?
- Oh... not so good.
I filled out form after form.
Then, they told me there's
a backlog, so I won't hear
about my rezoning request
until my application gets to the top
of some huge pile.
- How long is that gonna take?
- They said it could be months!
I was really hoping to get
things moving before then.
- You know, sometimes
in Middleton, things move
a lot faster than you'd think.
- So I'm just supposed to
wait around for something
magical to happen?
- That's one way of putting it.
- You know, I don't always
know exactly what you're saying,
but I sure love
watching you say it.
- Well, keep watching
just in case things
get even more interesting.
- Are you inviting any of
the old gang from New York?
- Yeah, I might. It'd be nice
to see Gavin and Pat again.
- Do they know that you're
gonna be taking the plunge?
- I don't know. I'll send 'em an
invite, see if they can make it.
- Did you guys enjoy lunch?
- I did...
'cause he paid.
- Oh. Thanks.
- Hey, did you tell Cassie
the news about Noah?
- Oh. Noah got
accepted into Fordham.
- Oh, that's great!
- Yeah. They want him there
to start practicing as
soon as he can get there.
- Which is sooner than
you thought he'd be leaving.
- Yeah... I thought I'd have
at least until the
end of summer,
but he's going to be moving
as soon as he graduates now.
- And he hasn't told Grace yet.
- How do you know that for sure?
- She would have
told me right away.
It's gonna be hard
on both of them.
- Yeah, it is.
Well, I better get back to work.
- OK.
- What's that?
- Oh, it's a new piece
by James Cavell.
- Oh. I like it.
- Since when are you
into sculptures?
- Since I saw this
and said I like it.
- There's an exhibit going
on at the Daverson Gallery
at the old train station.
- Maybe I'll check it out.
- Yeah. I gotta go too. Bye.
- OK. Bye.
- See you.
- Noah! What are you doing here?
- There's something
we need to talk about.
- OK.
- Agnes!
- Cassie, yes.
Come in.
- Thank you.
Thank you so much
for letting me come over.
- Well, I've been in your shop a
few times and you were always
so helpful to me in there.
Walter, this is
Cassie Nightingale.
- Yes, Agnes told me
you were gonna drop by.
- Yes, thank you.
- You wanted to know something
about my mother's wedding dress?
- I was wondering if you knew
what happened to it.
- Well, you can see
for yourself.
- I can?
- Mm-hmm.
That's me, 62 years ago.
- Oh, wow. You looked beautiful.
- And you can see
how happy I was.
- Wow, that dress
seems so delicate.
- Mm-hmm, I thought so too,
but they made things
to last in those days.
I danced up a storm
and didn't break a stitch.
- Oh.
- The initials "E.M."
were sewn into the back
of the collar. My mother
told me that was her friend.
- Elizabeth Merriwick.
She was a relative of mine.
- There's also a pocket inside
where I put the love
letter Walter wrote me
the night before we wed.
- We both did that so we could
take them out and
read them to each other
on our first anniversary.
- What a beautiful thing to do.
Do you still have the dress?
- No. Our daughter-in-law
bought a dress of her own,
so I passed that on
to our granddaughter
when she got married. I
figured something that nice
shouldn't be packed
away in a box.
- Do you think she still has it?
- I don't know.
- Well, I would love to get
in touch with her and find out.
- I'll write down exactly
where you can find her.
- Thanks.
- Yeah, I remember
on that day thinking...
I could never love that woman
any more than I did right then.
But then the next day,
I loved her even more.
And the next day after that.
62 years' worth of days and...
each one stronger
than the day before.
- Thanks.
- When would you have to leave?
- The day after we graduate.
- So they must
really want you... bad.
- They do, yeah.
- So you're going.
- Yes, but...
you're still gonna
be in Middleton.
- I haven't decided
where I'm going to be yet
and... they've got
this thing called
technology now.
- You mean you don't have to
be in the same room as somebody
to have a conversation
with them and see their face?
- It's amazing.
We'll make it work.
And I really am happy for you.
- Have you seen any of his work?
- Uh, I'm not
really an art expert.
- Ah, well you
are gonna love it.
- Stephanie.
- Liam! This is Paul.
- Hi.
- Hi.
- I didn't know you
were a James Cavell fan.
- Well, I just
recently became one,
but I really like his stuff.
- Ah, I can't wait to see it!
- Well, have fun.
Nice to meet you.
- Yeah, you too.
- Bye!
- Madam Mayor?
- Oh, Abigail! Come in.
- Jared said you
were working, but...
- Well, you know what?
I could use a break.
I've been signing so
many documents, I feel like
my arm is going to fall off.
Everything from zoning permits
to variance requests
to... you know what, I
don't even know what this is.
- It looks like it could take
a long time to get through
every single one of those.
- Well, yes.
The wheels of justice turn
slowly; ditto city government.
What is it you wanted?
- Oh, it's nothing important.
Have you been
stuck in here all day?
- Uh-huh, and probably will
be for part of the night as well.
- You should open the windows,
let some fresh air in here.
- You know, that's
a very good idea.
I sometimes forget that
these things actually open
to the outside world.
OH! Oh! Oh, no! Oh! Ah! Oh!
That'll teach me to
try to think beyond
the confines of this office.
- I can put these
in order for you.
- I don't even know what order
they were in. You know what?
Whatever. I'll just
make a new pile
and work my way down.
Wait a minute.
Who's trying to
rezone the old mill?
Well, if somebody
wants to do something
with that dilapidated old thing,
the sooner the better.
- Do you want me to
take that out to Jared
so he can send it on
to the right department?
- Would you?
- Mm-hmm.
- Thank you. One less
thing I have to think about.
- And things will move
a lot faster that way.
- Oh.
- Well, the invitations
won't go out for a few days,
but you should still
probably save the date.
- If you want me at your
wedding, I'll be there.
- And there'll be a lot of
healthy food there, so you
can eat whatever you want.
- Sounds even better.
Have a good day.
- What?
- Nothing.
- No, that's your be-careful-
what-you're-getting-into look.
- You're going to be
setting a precedent
if you start inviting
your patients.
- Tim is not just a patient.
He's my accountant.
- I'm just saying if
you invite one patient,
people are going to
expect you to invite them all.
- I think I can manage to
keep the numbers reasonable.
Cassie.
- Hi.
- We were just talking about
the guest list for your wedding.
- How is yours coming?
- You know, I've added a few
names to the list,
and I am getting close
to finding Elizabeth
Merriwick's dress.
- Ah. Did you talk to that
woman you thought might have it?
- I did. She gave it to her
granddaughter who works
at a music store and I'm
going there this afternoon.
- Think you might find it there?
- Well, I'm gonna keep looking
until I do.
- I didn't know you'd have to go
to so much trouble just
to find the perfect dress.
- It's gonna be
worth it. You'll see.
- It's gonna be weird not
having you around anymore.
- Yeah. It seems like just
yesterday I moved to Middleton
and we didn't get along at all.
- The good old days.
- Yeah.
- Here you are.
- Hi.
- OK.
So, I printed out some dates
over the summer that we
might want to think about
visiting each other. The blue is
you coming here and the
red is me going to New York.
Actually, it's maroon, which is
Fordham's school colour.
- This is great. Thanks. Oh, we
have to circle one more weekend.
There's an exhibition
game in the spring
and they want me to
come down and play for it.
- Oh, then I will be there
to watch. When is it?
- The second Saturday of May.
- The second Saturday...
Oh.
- Is that not gonna work?
- No. No, it's
perfect. I'll be there.
- I can't believe the paperwork
for the rezoning got signed
so fast. How do you
think that happened?
- I don't know. Sometimes
things just breeze right through.
- Do you think City
Council will approve my bid?
- Phil... you're the only
person that wants this place.
They'll rubber stamp it
without even thinking about it.
- I hope so...
'cause I could get used to
being here for a long time.
- Feeling good for the
duet? I'll see you next week.
Can I help you?
- Uh, yes. Are you
Rachel Monroe?
- I am.
- I am Cassie Nightingale.
I was at your grandparents'
house yesterday.
- Grandma said you
might be stopping by.
- They showed me a picture
of your grandma in the dress
she wore at her wedding.
- Oh!
Didn't she look beautiful in
that? I mean, that's the reason
I wanted to wear it
when I got married.
- Aw. Well, it was made
for a relative of mine,
Elizabeth Merriwick.
- Her initials
were sewn into the collar.
- That's right.
And I was wondering...
do you still have it?
- I don't.
I got so many
compliments about it
on our wedding day,
and my husband's cousin
begged me if she could wear
it, and back then we didn't have
a lot of money, so
we decided that dress
would be our gift to her.
- That's very nice.
- You know, if you give me your
info, I can have my husband's
cousin get in touch with you.
- Yeah, that would be great.
- When are you getting married?
- In a couple of weeks.
- I remember our wedding day.
We filled the church
with everyone who had ever
been important in our lives.
My husband even invited
his first grade teacher.
- Mine was Mrs. Clippen.
- You never forget.
I will pass this along and
tell her what you're looking for.
- Thank you.
You sound very angelic.
- Thanks.
♪♪♪
- How long will you be gone for?
- Just a few days. The zoning
got approved so quickly, I
need to put a bunch of things
in motion. Get the Portland
offices thinking about the move
sooner rather than later.
- Well, before you go...
I got something for you.
I was dropping flowers off at
Cassie's shop and I saw that
and it made me think of you.
- "Hidden Treasures
of the Pacific Northwest."
- It's full of hidden
architectural gems in
the area. Did you know
the architect who designed
the Columbia River Bridge
put an outline of a rose
in the concrete moorings?
That was his wife's name.
- Artists have different
ways of signing their work.
Thank you.
- You're welcome.
- I'll be back
before you know it.
- I'll know it.
Come back soon, OK?
- I will.
- Oh, I'm so looking forward
to hearing this author talk!
- What books of
his have you read?
- Uh, all of them.
I didn't know he was in town
though until I saw his poster
in Cassie's shop.
- Hmm.
- Yeah. Liam! Hi.
- Stephanie!
And it's Paul, right?
- Yeah. Yeah, hi.
- Good to see you.
So, which of you is the
Christopher Riley fan?
- That would be her.
- Oh. Yeah.
- Ah. Well, I never thought
I'd get so into historical fiction,
but his World War II
trilogy made me a believer.
- Well, have you seen
him speak before?
- Twice.
- Oh. Well, it's my first time.
- Oh, you're gonna love him.
- OK, folks. Come on in!
- Oh. Well, I'll see you inside.
- OK. Yeah.
- Yeah.
- How goes the
hunt for that dress?
- I feel like I'm
getting closer.
The music teacher gave me
the name of her husband's cousin,
but I found out that she
gave the dress to a friend.
- I didn't realize wedding
dresses got passed around
so much.
- This one did
because it was special,
and all the women who wore it
wanted it to be shared.
- Hmm.
Who was the last one to have it?
- Uh, Karen Zarish was the name
I was given, but her
friend lost track of her
just after she got
married, so I'm gonna go
to the last known address
where she lived tomorrow.
- Huh. You know
what? I've got a light day.
Why don't we go together?
- Ooh, it's bad luck
for the groom to see the
wedding dress before the wedding.
- I thought that was just
about seeing the bride in it.
- You can never be too careful.
- I'll look the other way.
- OK.
- Plus, it'll give us time
to go over the guest list.
- Oh, I should warn you,
I've added a few names to mine.
- Yeah, mine too. Turns out
people actually like me and
wanna see me pledge my life
to the woman I love.
- You shouldn't be so nice,
'cause then you wouldn't
have this problem.
- Yeah, I should rethink
my whole personality.
- Stephanie?
- Oh! Hi, Grace.
Don't you just love this place?
I was just at a book
reading and thought I'd pop in
to see if they had anything
new on my way home.
You looking for
something special?
- No. I was just gonna see
if they could sell this dress
that I bought for prom.
- Why are you
selling your prom dress?
- Because Noah and I
were supposed to go together,
but he has a game that weekend
in New York and I promised
him that I would go watch him play.
- You're already
thinking that far ahead?
- Yeah. Things are
moving faster than I thought.
- Hi. Can I help you?
- Do you sell
dresses on consignment?
- We sure do.
- OK, then I would
like to consign this.
Is that the right word?
- It is.
Oh, this is gorgeous.
- Thanks.
- I'm sure it'll
sell in no time.
- It really is beautiful.
I bet it looked good on you.
- Yeah. It did.
♪♪♪
- Here you go.
- Oh, thank you.
- Abigail! I'm glad you're here.
Another bid just
came in for the old mill
that your boyfriend
is trying to purchase.
- We're already calling
Phil Abigail's boyfriend?
- Well, what am I supposed
to call him? Her... man pal?
- I didn't know anyone else
was even interested in the mill.
- Well, no one was until
it got rezoned so quickly.
And by law, the city is
required to consider all bids.
- Well, who's the other bidder?
- Oh, some out-of-town investors
who want to repurpose it for
mixed use. You know, shops
and theatres and condominiums.
- But Phil already submitted
a proposal to
make it office space!
- Well, I don't care what people
do with it as long as the city
gets paid, which is why I intend
to call Phil to see if he wants
to resubmit a higher bid
before the City Council meets
to consider all the offers.
- You don't have to
call him about that.
- Are you sure?
The other bidders
seem very determined.
- It's just I don't... things
have been going so smoothly,
I wouldn't want Phil to think
there was anything complicated
about buying the mill.
- Well, I don't know
why anyone would want to
buy a haunted old mill anyway.
- Well, that's just
some silly story.
- Then how do you explain
what happened to me?
- What happened?
- Well, one night back in
high school, I was there
with some friends
and... we saw them.
The tulips growing
in a heart shape
just like the legend says.
- Tulips growing
inside the mill?
- In the very spot where that
lady is said to have laid down
every night waiting for
her husband to return.
- Hmm.
- I don't care what anyone does
with that place. I am never
stepping foot in there again.
- Fine. Then I guess I'll
just have one less customer.
- Your sandwich is up, Noah.
Here you go, with extra avocado
to help power your swing.
- Avocados do that?
- They are full of healthy fats
to bulk you up.
Now, I'm gonna get
a little credit for every
home run you hit.
- I'll make sure they
mark that in the stats.
- We're gonna miss
seeing you around here.
- Oh, I'm not going
anywhere for a while.
- I know, but it still
seems a little too soon.
Grace told me about the
exhibition game you're going to.
- She told you about that?
- Yeah, I ran into her down
at the consignment shop
when she was trying
to sell her prom dress.
Guess the dance is
the same night, so...
- What? She won't be going?
- Well, it seems she'd
rather be with you instead.
You know what?
I am gonna get you
some carrot cake too.
It's good for your eyes,
so you don't lose sight
of all those high
fly balls in the lights.
- Thanks.
- Are you sure this
is the right address?
- It's the one I was given.
- Well, nobody's
living here now.
- Can I help you find something?
- Hi. Yeah, we were looking
for somebody that we thought
might live here.
- Karen Zarish.
- Mrs. Zarish. I remember her.
She and her husband owned
the house that was there
when I was a kid, but they moved
after the fire.
- Oh, there was a fire?
- It was pretty scary.
They just barely
made it out but lost everything.
- Oh.
- Everything?
- That lot's been vacant ever
since the Zarishes moved away,
until about two months ago.
- Do you know
where they moved to?
- Sorry, we just
barely knew them.
- Well, thanks.
- What kind of flowers
are those?
- Cyclamens.
- They're a beautiful colour.
- As you can see, the
potential of the space
is virtually unlimited.
Now, it would make
a wonderful destination
for dining and entertainment,
especially for someone
who had the foresight
to buy a condominium here.
- Do you know
who the original designer was?
- Actually, I don't,
but there are architectural
surprises around every corner.
Has she told you
about the ghost?
This mill comes with its
very own restless spirit.
- Nobody told us that this
structure would be haunted.
- Oh, well that's just
an old wives' tale.
- It's the tale of an
angry and rejected wife.
They say that when
her spirit is strongest,
white tulips grow in the
very spot where she died
as a symbol of
her eternal grief.
- Well, we don't need
to concern ourselves
with myths and legends.
Now, the next thing I want to
show you is a space that could
serve as a courtyard.
And so it's just up here,
if you'll follow me
through this room.
As you can see on your left,
they've preserved some of
the original mill machinery
that adds to the
rustic feel of the room,
and leads directly to the...
tulips.
- Wow. You'd have to check
the story, but I'm pretty sure
that this is the exact spot
where she laid down every night
waiting for her
husband to return.
I don't know about you,
but I wouldn't want to live
in a haunted mill. And
I can't imagine anyone
would want to buy
a condo here either.
- Hey, when you moved
here from New York,
weren't you kind
of dating a girl?
- Janine. Yeah.
- Well, whatever
happened with you and her?
- Well, we... we tried
to keep things going,
but then it just
kind of fizzled out.
- Why?
- It wasn't fair to her.
I was here in this new place,
and I didn't want to stop her
from living her life, so...
we just flipped things
back to us being friends.
- Hmm.
- I hope you're gonna
throw it harder than that
when you're at Fordham.
- Of course I will...
because I'll be throwing at
somebody who can actually catch.
- Oh, OK. OK.
- Are you doing OK?
- Yeah, I'll be all right.
- I know how much
you wanted that dress.
- I'll find something to wear.
- Hmm.
- But I did find some
other things that I want.
I loved the colour of
the flowers we saw today
for our wedding, the cyclamens.
- Hmm.
- And...
I would like a harpist to play.
And I learned about this great
idea where we write each other
letters the night
before we get married
and we read them on
our first anniversary.
- I love that. All of that.
- And it doesn't matter
what I end up wearing,
because everyone's
gonna be looking
at the good-looking
groom standing next to me.
- Where are you gonna find him?
Oh, wait. That's me.
♪♪♪
- Here you go.
Oh, good morning.
- Well, it was
before Martha called. Those
people who wanted to buy
the mill, they changed their
minds when they thought
it might be haunted.
- Oh, does that mean Phil
is gonna get it for sure?
- No. They decided they still
wanna buy it, but now they
wanna tear it down and build
luxury townhomes. I thought
when they saw the tulips I planted,
they'd give up and go running.
- You planted tulips?
- Is that what I said?
- Uh, yeah. Exactly that.
- Well, it was in memory
of that poor woman
who haunts the place. Now, no
one's gonna remember her at all.
- Doesn't the city council
still have to approve
which bid to accept?
- Yes, but the other
offer is higher than Phil's,
and it's too late to
submit a new one.
- Good morning.
- Yeah, whatever.
- So I woke up this morning
and realized I'm all out of eggs.
- Oh.
- And bread and coffee...
- Well, I have all that
around here somewhere.
- Good. I did manage
to add another page
to my guest list though.
- Another whole page?
- Yeah. That thing's like the
Blob, it just keeps growing.
- Yeah, mine's starting to
look kind of Blob-like too.
Is that really how we
want our wedding to be,
with so many people there
that we hardly have time
to connect with any of them?
- Well, maybe we should
start over. Just write down
the people that we're sure
we want there.
- Yeah, then we can compare
our lists when we're done.
- Yeah. Hey, you made waffles!
Good. I'm out of those too.
- So, how far is New
York from Middleton?
- 921 miles.
- OK, so that's not so far.
I mean, if I had a car that
went 900 miles per hour.
- You know, Grace...
you don't have to put
your life on hold for me.
- I'm not putting
my life on hold.
- You already decided
not to go to the prom.
- How did you know that?
- It's a small town.
Everybody talks.
- Yeah, I mean,
I... I just decided.
I mean, if you're
not going to be here,
then who am I gonna go with?
- You could go with a
group of friends, or...
I don't know. Somebody.
- But I wanted to go with you.
- And I want you to go.
- Yeah.
I... guess I could do that.
- Good.
You know, Grace...
things are gonna change.
Eventually.
- ♪♪ Forget our troubles ♪
- I know.
Just not right now. OK?
- ♪ We make believe ♪
- OK.
- ♪ We could do most anything ♪
♪ We thought we could fly ♪
- Where are you going?
- You know, I still haven't
been able to get you
all the way around.
- That is because that's
never going to happen.
- And that sounds like
a challenge.
- ♪ We believed ♪
♪ We could achieve
almost anything ♪
- It's not gonna happen.
- Let me try again.
- No, no, no!
- That was a bad one.
Just give me a push.
- ♪ We believed ♪
♪ That we're not here ♪
♪ But that's what made us pay ♪♪
♪♪♪
Very well, then.
The motion passes.
The Middleton seal will
be changed ever so slightly
to more accurately reflect
our history. Let it be so.
Now, onto the next order
of business, voting to decide
which bid to approve
for the old mill.
- Madam Mayor.
- Abigail?
This is a closed meeting.
- Have you approved
the bid for the mill yet?
- We were just about to.
- Well, I think you're gonna
wanna hear what I have to say.
- Well, I guess I could go
against protocol since I'm
the one that makes it up.
Come with me. Take five.
Now, what is it
that is so urgent
that it just couldn't wait?
- Well, I went back to
the mill to dig up the tulips
that I planted...
- You planted those?!
- OK, I might have done
a little bit of gardening.
But that's not the
reason that I'm here.
I was in the mill,
looking around,
sad that they were
tearing it down,
and I saw something
that I hadn't seen before.
- The mill woman's ghost?
- No. Something better.
- A bird carving?
- The same bird carving that
Franklin Potts used to hide in
all the buildings he designed.
- I thought Franklin Potts
only designed buildings
on the West Coast,
very famous buildings.
- I guess he designed
one in Middleton too.
- Well, if a renowned architect
like Franklin Potts designed
the old mill, then that would
make it an historic landmark.
- Which is something
you can't tear down...
so I guess the city would
have to accept the only bid
that proposed to
leave the exterior intact.
- And that would be
Phil Sturgess' plan...
- Is it? Hmm.
Well, it looks like it's a
good day for him then.
- We have to stop
meeting like this.
- Yes.
You know, you forget
how small Middleton is
until you go out and
see the same people
over and over again.
- Right.
Are you here with Paul?
- Oh, no.
We hung out a couple of times,
but we didn't really connect.
He would definitely
not be interested
in seeing someone
play the classical guitar.
- Well, then that's his loss.
- Yeah.
Oh, thank you.
So, should I save you a seat?
- Oh, uh...
- Are you ready to go inside?
- Just about.
Stephanie, this is Krista.
- Oh.
Uh, hello.
- Hi.
- Would you like
something to drink?
- No, thanks.
- OK. I'll take one. Thanks.
- Ahem.
- It was nice to meet you.
- You too.
- Enjoy.
- OK.
♪♪♪
Phil.
You're back.
- Yeah.
Um...
- I have some big news.
- I kind of have some news too.
- You won the bid.
- I what?
- For the mill.
You can put your company
headquarters there.
- Oh. I wasn't sure that was
gonna get approved so quickly.
- Well...
things just kind of
happen in Middleton.
- Yeah, but, um...
I found a place
in, uh... Portland.
- A place for what?
- For my company's headquarters.
- I didn't know you
were even looking.
- I wasn't... really, but
I found this campus
that's just perfect.
I mean, it's laid out
in exactly the way I want
my company to grow,
and Portland already has
the infrastructure of talent
for me to staff things up.
- But you said you
really liked Middleton.
- I did. I mean, I... I do.
But this is what's best
for my company, so...
- So you're gonna be leaving.
- Tomorrow morning.
I'm... I'm sorry, Abigail.
I know we kind of had
something started here, but...
I have investors to think about
and people who work for me.
- Of course.
- But I like you... a lot.
- But you have to do what's
best for your company.
- Right.
- OK then.
- OK. Um...
Thank you for everything,
and if you're ever in Portland...
- I probably won't be.
Do you wanna start?
No. You go.
- OK. I have Nick first.
- And Grace.
- And then Liam,
Abigail and Stephanie.
- Yeah, they were
next on my list.
- OK. And Eve, Martha and Tom.
- All right.
And Brandon, Tara and Laurie.
- Yeah, I have them too.
And then I put down
Olympia and your foster mom.
- I have your sister
and your parents.
- And... we wrote down
all the same people.
- Oh! Look at that.
- So we can send out
invitations tomorrow.
- We can, now that we're
on exactly the same page.
Grace, hey. Did you and
Noah have a good time
at the park?
- I guess.
- You know, I'm gonna get going.
Just make sure we have all the
contact information we need, OK?
- OK. See you soon.
- Bye.
Well, what's going on?
- Nothing.
I mean, Noah and
I just started talking
about how things were
gonna be after we graduate.
- And how are they gonna be?
- I don't know.
- Well, you've still got the
rest of your senior year.
- Yeah...
and he said that he wants
me to still go to the prom
with some of my friends.
- Oh, yeah, you should.
That'll be fun.
- Yeah, if I can
find a dress like the
one I already got rid of.
- What?
- Oh, I took the one
that I had bought to that
new store to have it sold.
- Oh. Hmm. Well, we
should go there together
and see if we can find it.
- You think it'll
still be there?
- I think we'll find
things we both like.
- Yeah.
- OK.
- Oh, hello. You're back again.
- Hi. Yes, I am, and I'm hoping
that you still have that
dress that I brought you.
- I'm pretty sure I do,
although I don't remember
exactly where I hung it.
- If it is in here,
I will find it.
- OK.
- Thank you.
- OK. Well, let's look.
Now, why don't you look in here?
I'll look in the back.
- Mm-hmm. OK.
♪♪♪
Oh, yes!
Mom?
- Mm-hmm?
- I think I found something.
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♪♪♪
♪♪♪
- Who are you talking to?
- Noah. He's visiting his mom
in New York. I missed you.
- I missed you too.
- Noah!
- I always hear about
places with small town charm,
but this place actually
has it, and... I've decided
that this would be
the perfect place
to put my company's
headquarters.
- So that means you'd
be living in Middleton?
- Yeah!
- I'm gonna love you
as if each day was the only
one we had. I wrote down
when I wanted our
wedding day to be.
- That's less than
three weeks away.
- We better get to work.
- Good morning.
- Hello.
What's all this?
- Different things Sam and I
need to decide on
before the wedding.
Stephanie dropped
some cakes by for us to try,
and I am listening to a
band that Sam wants to hire
for the reception.
- I can't believe you're putting
together an entire wedding
in less than three weeks.
- Well, when you're ready to get
married, the answer is: why wait?
- I suppose you're gonna
ask me to do the flowers?
- Actually, we were
gonna hire someone else
and let you have the day off.
- Oh.
- Just kidding. Of course
we want you to do them.
- Well, because you want
people to be impressed.
Right?
- Right. Good morning, Phil.
- Morning.
- Hey.
- I heard you and
Abigail come in last night.
- Well, I told him he
didn't have to walk me
all the way home, but...
- Well, you were already home.
All I did was walk you
to your room, which is
right above mine, so it
wasn't that far of a walk.
- Well, it's still sweet of you
to make sure she got there.
Do you want some breakfast?
- Oh, no.
Thank you. I have
to get to City Hall.
- Oh.
- He's rezoning the old mill
because he wants to move his
company's headquarters here.
- Well, I hope things turn
out the way you want them to.
- Thank you. May I drop
you at the shop on my way?
- Absolutely.
- Hey, Phil.
- Morning.
- Oh, Abigail. I'm glad I
caught you. I was wondering...
- Sorry, Sam. That's my ride.
- I was hoping to talk with
her about doing the flowers
for the wedding.
- I already did,
and she is.
- Hmm.
Great. Oh, how'd
you like the band?
- Oh, sign them up. And...
Stephanie brought
by these cakes.
This one is my favourite.
- Hmm.
Oh, that is good.
So this wedding is
actually coming together.
- Piece of cake.
You know, I think we
should get our invitations out
before the end of the week.
- Yeah. I will try to finish
my list of people to invite.
- OK. I'll do mine too.
Then, all I have to do is
find the right dress to wear.
- You could wear jeans
and a t-shirt and still be
the most beautiful bride ever.
- I'm not wearing
jeans and a t-shirt.
- Can I wear jeans
and a t-shirt?
- No.
- I'm glad I asked you then,
before I showed up on the day.
- Fordham University
in New York?
- Yeah. They're
offering me a full ride.
- The coach even wants
Noah to start practicing
before he's officially enrolled.
- When are you gonna move there?
- As soon as we graduate.
- This is really great, Noah.
Congratulations.
- What's great? And
congratulations about what?
- Noah got accepted at
Fordham, to play baseball there.
- Oh! Well, that is great.
You know, when you're starting
for the White Sox someday,
I'm gonna want tickets
along the third baseline.
- White Sox?
No. My son's gonna be a Yankee.
- Well, then...
he's gonna lose to Chicago.
- We'll see.
- What is your very
favourite thing that I make?
- I like the
butterscotch milkshake.
- Well, then I'll bring one
of those on the house.
- Thanks, Stephanie.
- Have you
told Grace you're gonna be
going to school in New York?
- Not yet.
- Where are the colleges
she's thinking about?
- Nowhere near New York.
When are you gonna
tell her the news?
- Soon as I figure
out what to say.
- Hey, Mom.
- Hi, honey.
- Grandpa, what are you doing?
- I'm trying to get
this drawer open.
It's just stuck.
- You should try
to open it, Grace.
- I've already
given it quite a pull.
- Well, maybe it
needs a special touch.
- I can give it a try.
- Oh!
- Oh! Whoa!
I must have loosened it for you.
- That's probably it.
There's something inside.
It's an envelope.
How long do you think
it's been back there?
- Well, that's hard to tell.
That desk has been here
since I moved in.
- It might have been there
since Grey House was built.
- "My dearest
father and mother..."
It's signed "Elizabeth."
- Merriwick?
- It looks like it.
"By the time you read
this letter, I will have fled
to pursue a lifetime with
my one and only love."
- Oh, she must have
written that before she ran off
to marry Andrew Wymark.
Her father didn't approve,
so they had to elope.
- It says here that they planned
a wedding at Grey House.
- Oh, I didn't know they were
gonna have the ceremony here.
- And she already had her
dress made. Look, it describes it
right there.
- "I mostly regret
"that I shall never wear
the gown that was crafted
"so carefully for me.
"I only hope the
Netherton family
"is as joyed to see
their daughter Fiona
"walk the aisle as I longed
for you to see me."
- So she gave her
wedding dress away?
- To Fiona Netherton.
- What do you
think happened to it?
- I guess we'll have
to ask Fiona Netherton.
- George, that would have
been almost 100 years ago.
- But... she had to have
done something with her dress
after she got married.
- That's true.
I wonder if anyone
ever wore it after that.
What are you
hoping to find in here?
- I wanna find out who
married Fiona Netherton
so I can track down
their descendants.
- That information should
be in the census records,
and they're in the last filing
cabinet there, on the right.
- OK.
- But that's if you know the
year she was married exactly.
- I don't.
- Well then, that's gonna
make this a bit of a hunt.
So...
How goes the wedding planning?
- Oh, really well so far.
- You know, they do say that
the days leading up to a wedding
can be one of the most
stressful times in any relationship.
- Well, it hasn't been
for me and Sam.
- Oh. No conflict at all?
- Well, we both seem
to want the same things.
- Tom and I could hardly agree
on anything about our wedding,
including who we
wanted to be there.
- Oh. Well, we haven't decided
on exactly who we want there,
but I'm pretty sure Sam and
I can get on the same page.
- Hmm.
- What is all this stuff?
- Oh, in there? That's
mostly newspaper clippings.
Anything pertaining
to population, increases
and adjustments, you know. Birth
announcements, funeral notices.
- And wedding photos.
- But you know, if we don't know
the exact year, then I still
don't know how you're gonna
find what you're looking for.
- Well, I know
about when the wedding happened.
- About when?
Cassie, that means we could
be searching through who knows
how many clippings
before we find...
- I found it.
- What?! Oh!
Look at that dress.
- It really is beautiful.
- "Fiona Netherton
married Jonathan Powell
last week in a ceremony
at the Botanical Gardens."
- So Fiona Netherton
became Fiona Powell.
- Well, that's something
to go on at least.
- Yeah, it's a start.
- You know, that dress
would look gorgeous on you.
- It would be
perfect, wouldn't it?
If I can only figure
out where it is...
- Abigail.
- Hello.
- Hi. Where are you heading?
- I'm just on my
way to Grey House.
- Oh, that works out.
I'm going that way too.
- How did it go at City Hall?
- Oh... not so good.
I filled out form after form.
Then, they told me there's
a backlog, so I won't hear
about my rezoning request
until my application gets to the top
of some huge pile.
- How long is that gonna take?
- They said it could be months!
I was really hoping to get
things moving before then.
- You know, sometimes
in Middleton, things move
a lot faster than you'd think.
- So I'm just supposed to
wait around for something
magical to happen?
- That's one way of putting it.
- You know, I don't always
know exactly what you're saying,
but I sure love
watching you say it.
- Well, keep watching
just in case things
get even more interesting.
- Are you inviting any of
the old gang from New York?
- Yeah, I might. It'd be nice
to see Gavin and Pat again.
- Do they know that you're
gonna be taking the plunge?
- I don't know. I'll send 'em an
invite, see if they can make it.
- Did you guys enjoy lunch?
- I did...
'cause he paid.
- Oh. Thanks.
- Hey, did you tell Cassie
the news about Noah?
- Oh. Noah got
accepted into Fordham.
- Oh, that's great!
- Yeah. They want him there
to start practicing as
soon as he can get there.
- Which is sooner than
you thought he'd be leaving.
- Yeah... I thought I'd have
at least until the
end of summer,
but he's going to be moving
as soon as he graduates now.
- And he hasn't told Grace yet.
- How do you know that for sure?
- She would have
told me right away.
It's gonna be hard
on both of them.
- Yeah, it is.
Well, I better get back to work.
- OK.
- What's that?
- Oh, it's a new piece
by James Cavell.
- Oh. I like it.
- Since when are you
into sculptures?
- Since I saw this
and said I like it.
- There's an exhibit going
on at the Daverson Gallery
at the old train station.
- Maybe I'll check it out.
- Yeah. I gotta go too. Bye.
- OK. Bye.
- See you.
- Noah! What are you doing here?
- There's something
we need to talk about.
- OK.
- Agnes!
- Cassie, yes.
Come in.
- Thank you.
Thank you so much
for letting me come over.
- Well, I've been in your shop a
few times and you were always
so helpful to me in there.
Walter, this is
Cassie Nightingale.
- Yes, Agnes told me
you were gonna drop by.
- Yes, thank you.
- You wanted to know something
about my mother's wedding dress?
- I was wondering if you knew
what happened to it.
- Well, you can see
for yourself.
- I can?
- Mm-hmm.
That's me, 62 years ago.
- Oh, wow. You looked beautiful.
- And you can see
how happy I was.
- Wow, that dress
seems so delicate.
- Mm-hmm, I thought so too,
but they made things
to last in those days.
I danced up a storm
and didn't break a stitch.
- Oh.
- The initials "E.M."
were sewn into the back
of the collar. My mother
told me that was her friend.
- Elizabeth Merriwick.
She was a relative of mine.
- There's also a pocket inside
where I put the love
letter Walter wrote me
the night before we wed.
- We both did that so we could
take them out and
read them to each other
on our first anniversary.
- What a beautiful thing to do.
Do you still have the dress?
- No. Our daughter-in-law
bought a dress of her own,
so I passed that on
to our granddaughter
when she got married. I
figured something that nice
shouldn't be packed
away in a box.
- Do you think she still has it?
- I don't know.
- Well, I would love to get
in touch with her and find out.
- I'll write down exactly
where you can find her.
- Thanks.
- Yeah, I remember
on that day thinking...
I could never love that woman
any more than I did right then.
But then the next day,
I loved her even more.
And the next day after that.
62 years' worth of days and...
each one stronger
than the day before.
- Thanks.
- When would you have to leave?
- The day after we graduate.
- So they must
really want you... bad.
- They do, yeah.
- So you're going.
- Yes, but...
you're still gonna
be in Middleton.
- I haven't decided
where I'm going to be yet
and... they've got
this thing called
technology now.
- You mean you don't have to
be in the same room as somebody
to have a conversation
with them and see their face?
- It's amazing.
We'll make it work.
And I really am happy for you.
- Have you seen any of his work?
- Uh, I'm not
really an art expert.
- Ah, well you
are gonna love it.
- Stephanie.
- Liam! This is Paul.
- Hi.
- Hi.
- I didn't know you
were a James Cavell fan.
- Well, I just
recently became one,
but I really like his stuff.
- Ah, I can't wait to see it!
- Well, have fun.
Nice to meet you.
- Yeah, you too.
- Bye!
- Madam Mayor?
- Oh, Abigail! Come in.
- Jared said you
were working, but...
- Well, you know what?
I could use a break.
I've been signing so
many documents, I feel like
my arm is going to fall off.
Everything from zoning permits
to variance requests
to... you know what, I
don't even know what this is.
- It looks like it could take
a long time to get through
every single one of those.
- Well, yes.
The wheels of justice turn
slowly; ditto city government.
What is it you wanted?
- Oh, it's nothing important.
Have you been
stuck in here all day?
- Uh-huh, and probably will
be for part of the night as well.
- You should open the windows,
let some fresh air in here.
- You know, that's
a very good idea.
I sometimes forget that
these things actually open
to the outside world.
OH! Oh! Oh, no! Oh! Ah! Oh!
That'll teach me to
try to think beyond
the confines of this office.
- I can put these
in order for you.
- I don't even know what order
they were in. You know what?
Whatever. I'll just
make a new pile
and work my way down.
Wait a minute.
Who's trying to
rezone the old mill?
Well, if somebody
wants to do something
with that dilapidated old thing,
the sooner the better.
- Do you want me to
take that out to Jared
so he can send it on
to the right department?
- Would you?
- Mm-hmm.
- Thank you. One less
thing I have to think about.
- And things will move
a lot faster that way.
- Oh.
- Well, the invitations
won't go out for a few days,
but you should still
probably save the date.
- If you want me at your
wedding, I'll be there.
- And there'll be a lot of
healthy food there, so you
can eat whatever you want.
- Sounds even better.
Have a good day.
- What?
- Nothing.
- No, that's your be-careful-
what-you're-getting-into look.
- You're going to be
setting a precedent
if you start inviting
your patients.
- Tim is not just a patient.
He's my accountant.
- I'm just saying if
you invite one patient,
people are going to
expect you to invite them all.
- I think I can manage to
keep the numbers reasonable.
Cassie.
- Hi.
- We were just talking about
the guest list for your wedding.
- How is yours coming?
- You know, I've added a few
names to the list,
and I am getting close
to finding Elizabeth
Merriwick's dress.
- Ah. Did you talk to that
woman you thought might have it?
- I did. She gave it to her
granddaughter who works
at a music store and I'm
going there this afternoon.
- Think you might find it there?
- Well, I'm gonna keep looking
until I do.
- I didn't know you'd have to go
to so much trouble just
to find the perfect dress.
- It's gonna be
worth it. You'll see.
- It's gonna be weird not
having you around anymore.
- Yeah. It seems like just
yesterday I moved to Middleton
and we didn't get along at all.
- The good old days.
- Yeah.
- Here you are.
- Hi.
- OK.
So, I printed out some dates
over the summer that we
might want to think about
visiting each other. The blue is
you coming here and the
red is me going to New York.
Actually, it's maroon, which is
Fordham's school colour.
- This is great. Thanks. Oh, we
have to circle one more weekend.
There's an exhibition
game in the spring
and they want me to
come down and play for it.
- Oh, then I will be there
to watch. When is it?
- The second Saturday of May.
- The second Saturday...
Oh.
- Is that not gonna work?
- No. No, it's
perfect. I'll be there.
- I can't believe the paperwork
for the rezoning got signed
so fast. How do you
think that happened?
- I don't know. Sometimes
things just breeze right through.
- Do you think City
Council will approve my bid?
- Phil... you're the only
person that wants this place.
They'll rubber stamp it
without even thinking about it.
- I hope so...
'cause I could get used to
being here for a long time.
- Feeling good for the
duet? I'll see you next week.
Can I help you?
- Uh, yes. Are you
Rachel Monroe?
- I am.
- I am Cassie Nightingale.
I was at your grandparents'
house yesterday.
- Grandma said you
might be stopping by.
- They showed me a picture
of your grandma in the dress
she wore at her wedding.
- Oh!
Didn't she look beautiful in
that? I mean, that's the reason
I wanted to wear it
when I got married.
- Aw. Well, it was made
for a relative of mine,
Elizabeth Merriwick.
- Her initials
were sewn into the collar.
- That's right.
And I was wondering...
do you still have it?
- I don't.
I got so many
compliments about it
on our wedding day,
and my husband's cousin
begged me if she could wear
it, and back then we didn't have
a lot of money, so
we decided that dress
would be our gift to her.
- That's very nice.
- You know, if you give me your
info, I can have my husband's
cousin get in touch with you.
- Yeah, that would be great.
- When are you getting married?
- In a couple of weeks.
- I remember our wedding day.
We filled the church
with everyone who had ever
been important in our lives.
My husband even invited
his first grade teacher.
- Mine was Mrs. Clippen.
- You never forget.
I will pass this along and
tell her what you're looking for.
- Thank you.
You sound very angelic.
- Thanks.
♪♪♪
- How long will you be gone for?
- Just a few days. The zoning
got approved so quickly, I
need to put a bunch of things
in motion. Get the Portland
offices thinking about the move
sooner rather than later.
- Well, before you go...
I got something for you.
I was dropping flowers off at
Cassie's shop and I saw that
and it made me think of you.
- "Hidden Treasures
of the Pacific Northwest."
- It's full of hidden
architectural gems in
the area. Did you know
the architect who designed
the Columbia River Bridge
put an outline of a rose
in the concrete moorings?
That was his wife's name.
- Artists have different
ways of signing their work.
Thank you.
- You're welcome.
- I'll be back
before you know it.
- I'll know it.
Come back soon, OK?
- I will.
- Oh, I'm so looking forward
to hearing this author talk!
- What books of
his have you read?
- Uh, all of them.
I didn't know he was in town
though until I saw his poster
in Cassie's shop.
- Hmm.
- Yeah. Liam! Hi.
- Stephanie!
And it's Paul, right?
- Yeah. Yeah, hi.
- Good to see you.
So, which of you is the
Christopher Riley fan?
- That would be her.
- Oh. Yeah.
- Ah. Well, I never thought
I'd get so into historical fiction,
but his World War II
trilogy made me a believer.
- Well, have you seen
him speak before?
- Twice.
- Oh. Well, it's my first time.
- Oh, you're gonna love him.
- OK, folks. Come on in!
- Oh. Well, I'll see you inside.
- OK. Yeah.
- Yeah.
- How goes the
hunt for that dress?
- I feel like I'm
getting closer.
The music teacher gave me
the name of her husband's cousin,
but I found out that she
gave the dress to a friend.
- I didn't realize wedding
dresses got passed around
so much.
- This one did
because it was special,
and all the women who wore it
wanted it to be shared.
- Hmm.
Who was the last one to have it?
- Uh, Karen Zarish was the name
I was given, but her
friend lost track of her
just after she got
married, so I'm gonna go
to the last known address
where she lived tomorrow.
- Huh. You know
what? I've got a light day.
Why don't we go together?
- Ooh, it's bad luck
for the groom to see the
wedding dress before the wedding.
- I thought that was just
about seeing the bride in it.
- You can never be too careful.
- I'll look the other way.
- OK.
- Plus, it'll give us time
to go over the guest list.
- Oh, I should warn you,
I've added a few names to mine.
- Yeah, mine too. Turns out
people actually like me and
wanna see me pledge my life
to the woman I love.
- You shouldn't be so nice,
'cause then you wouldn't
have this problem.
- Yeah, I should rethink
my whole personality.
- Stephanie?
- Oh! Hi, Grace.
Don't you just love this place?
I was just at a book
reading and thought I'd pop in
to see if they had anything
new on my way home.
You looking for
something special?
- No. I was just gonna see
if they could sell this dress
that I bought for prom.
- Why are you
selling your prom dress?
- Because Noah and I
were supposed to go together,
but he has a game that weekend
in New York and I promised
him that I would go watch him play.
- You're already
thinking that far ahead?
- Yeah. Things are
moving faster than I thought.
- Hi. Can I help you?
- Do you sell
dresses on consignment?
- We sure do.
- OK, then I would
like to consign this.
Is that the right word?
- It is.
Oh, this is gorgeous.
- Thanks.
- I'm sure it'll
sell in no time.
- It really is beautiful.
I bet it looked good on you.
- Yeah. It did.
♪♪♪
- Here you go.
- Oh, thank you.
- Abigail! I'm glad you're here.
Another bid just
came in for the old mill
that your boyfriend
is trying to purchase.
- We're already calling
Phil Abigail's boyfriend?
- Well, what am I supposed
to call him? Her... man pal?
- I didn't know anyone else
was even interested in the mill.
- Well, no one was until
it got rezoned so quickly.
And by law, the city is
required to consider all bids.
- Well, who's the other bidder?
- Oh, some out-of-town investors
who want to repurpose it for
mixed use. You know, shops
and theatres and condominiums.
- But Phil already submitted
a proposal to
make it office space!
- Well, I don't care what people
do with it as long as the city
gets paid, which is why I intend
to call Phil to see if he wants
to resubmit a higher bid
before the City Council meets
to consider all the offers.
- You don't have to
call him about that.
- Are you sure?
The other bidders
seem very determined.
- It's just I don't... things
have been going so smoothly,
I wouldn't want Phil to think
there was anything complicated
about buying the mill.
- Well, I don't know
why anyone would want to
buy a haunted old mill anyway.
- Well, that's just
some silly story.
- Then how do you explain
what happened to me?
- What happened?
- Well, one night back in
high school, I was there
with some friends
and... we saw them.
The tulips growing
in a heart shape
just like the legend says.
- Tulips growing
inside the mill?
- In the very spot where that
lady is said to have laid down
every night waiting for
her husband to return.
- Hmm.
- I don't care what anyone does
with that place. I am never
stepping foot in there again.
- Fine. Then I guess I'll
just have one less customer.
- Your sandwich is up, Noah.
Here you go, with extra avocado
to help power your swing.
- Avocados do that?
- They are full of healthy fats
to bulk you up.
Now, I'm gonna get
a little credit for every
home run you hit.
- I'll make sure they
mark that in the stats.
- We're gonna miss
seeing you around here.
- Oh, I'm not going
anywhere for a while.
- I know, but it still
seems a little too soon.
Grace told me about the
exhibition game you're going to.
- She told you about that?
- Yeah, I ran into her down
at the consignment shop
when she was trying
to sell her prom dress.
Guess the dance is
the same night, so...
- What? She won't be going?
- Well, it seems she'd
rather be with you instead.
You know what?
I am gonna get you
some carrot cake too.
It's good for your eyes,
so you don't lose sight
of all those high
fly balls in the lights.
- Thanks.
- Are you sure this
is the right address?
- It's the one I was given.
- Well, nobody's
living here now.
- Can I help you find something?
- Hi. Yeah, we were looking
for somebody that we thought
might live here.
- Karen Zarish.
- Mrs. Zarish. I remember her.
She and her husband owned
the house that was there
when I was a kid, but they moved
after the fire.
- Oh, there was a fire?
- It was pretty scary.
They just barely
made it out but lost everything.
- Oh.
- Everything?
- That lot's been vacant ever
since the Zarishes moved away,
until about two months ago.
- Do you know
where they moved to?
- Sorry, we just
barely knew them.
- Well, thanks.
- What kind of flowers
are those?
- Cyclamens.
- They're a beautiful colour.
- As you can see, the
potential of the space
is virtually unlimited.
Now, it would make
a wonderful destination
for dining and entertainment,
especially for someone
who had the foresight
to buy a condominium here.
- Do you know
who the original designer was?
- Actually, I don't,
but there are architectural
surprises around every corner.
Has she told you
about the ghost?
This mill comes with its
very own restless spirit.
- Nobody told us that this
structure would be haunted.
- Oh, well that's just
an old wives' tale.
- It's the tale of an
angry and rejected wife.
They say that when
her spirit is strongest,
white tulips grow in the
very spot where she died
as a symbol of
her eternal grief.
- Well, we don't need
to concern ourselves
with myths and legends.
Now, the next thing I want to
show you is a space that could
serve as a courtyard.
And so it's just up here,
if you'll follow me
through this room.
As you can see on your left,
they've preserved some of
the original mill machinery
that adds to the
rustic feel of the room,
and leads directly to the...
tulips.
- Wow. You'd have to check
the story, but I'm pretty sure
that this is the exact spot
where she laid down every night
waiting for her
husband to return.
I don't know about you,
but I wouldn't want to live
in a haunted mill. And
I can't imagine anyone
would want to buy
a condo here either.
- Hey, when you moved
here from New York,
weren't you kind
of dating a girl?
- Janine. Yeah.
- Well, whatever
happened with you and her?
- Well, we... we tried
to keep things going,
but then it just
kind of fizzled out.
- Why?
- It wasn't fair to her.
I was here in this new place,
and I didn't want to stop her
from living her life, so...
we just flipped things
back to us being friends.
- Hmm.
- I hope you're gonna
throw it harder than that
when you're at Fordham.
- Of course I will...
because I'll be throwing at
somebody who can actually catch.
- Oh, OK. OK.
- Are you doing OK?
- Yeah, I'll be all right.
- I know how much
you wanted that dress.
- I'll find something to wear.
- Hmm.
- But I did find some
other things that I want.
I loved the colour of
the flowers we saw today
for our wedding, the cyclamens.
- Hmm.
- And...
I would like a harpist to play.
And I learned about this great
idea where we write each other
letters the night
before we get married
and we read them on
our first anniversary.
- I love that. All of that.
- And it doesn't matter
what I end up wearing,
because everyone's
gonna be looking
at the good-looking
groom standing next to me.
- Where are you gonna find him?
Oh, wait. That's me.
♪♪♪
- Here you go.
Oh, good morning.
- Well, it was
before Martha called. Those
people who wanted to buy
the mill, they changed their
minds when they thought
it might be haunted.
- Oh, does that mean Phil
is gonna get it for sure?
- No. They decided they still
wanna buy it, but now they
wanna tear it down and build
luxury townhomes. I thought
when they saw the tulips I planted,
they'd give up and go running.
- You planted tulips?
- Is that what I said?
- Uh, yeah. Exactly that.
- Well, it was in memory
of that poor woman
who haunts the place. Now, no
one's gonna remember her at all.
- Doesn't the city council
still have to approve
which bid to accept?
- Yes, but the other
offer is higher than Phil's,
and it's too late to
submit a new one.
- Good morning.
- Yeah, whatever.
- So I woke up this morning
and realized I'm all out of eggs.
- Oh.
- And bread and coffee...
- Well, I have all that
around here somewhere.
- Good. I did manage
to add another page
to my guest list though.
- Another whole page?
- Yeah. That thing's like the
Blob, it just keeps growing.
- Yeah, mine's starting to
look kind of Blob-like too.
Is that really how we
want our wedding to be,
with so many people there
that we hardly have time
to connect with any of them?
- Well, maybe we should
start over. Just write down
the people that we're sure
we want there.
- Yeah, then we can compare
our lists when we're done.
- Yeah. Hey, you made waffles!
Good. I'm out of those too.
- So, how far is New
York from Middleton?
- 921 miles.
- OK, so that's not so far.
I mean, if I had a car that
went 900 miles per hour.
- You know, Grace...
you don't have to put
your life on hold for me.
- I'm not putting
my life on hold.
- You already decided
not to go to the prom.
- How did you know that?
- It's a small town.
Everybody talks.
- Yeah, I mean,
I... I just decided.
I mean, if you're
not going to be here,
then who am I gonna go with?
- You could go with a
group of friends, or...
I don't know. Somebody.
- But I wanted to go with you.
- And I want you to go.
- Yeah.
I... guess I could do that.
- Good.
You know, Grace...
things are gonna change.
Eventually.
- ♪♪ Forget our troubles ♪
- I know.
Just not right now. OK?
- ♪ We make believe ♪
- OK.
- ♪ We could do most anything ♪
♪ We thought we could fly ♪
- Where are you going?
- You know, I still haven't
been able to get you
all the way around.
- That is because that's
never going to happen.
- And that sounds like
a challenge.
- ♪ We believed ♪
♪ We could achieve
almost anything ♪
- It's not gonna happen.
- Let me try again.
- No, no, no!
- That was a bad one.
Just give me a push.
- ♪ We believed ♪
♪ That we're not here ♪
♪ But that's what made us pay ♪♪
♪♪♪
Very well, then.
The motion passes.
The Middleton seal will
be changed ever so slightly
to more accurately reflect
our history. Let it be so.
Now, onto the next order
of business, voting to decide
which bid to approve
for the old mill.
- Madam Mayor.
- Abigail?
This is a closed meeting.
- Have you approved
the bid for the mill yet?
- We were just about to.
- Well, I think you're gonna
wanna hear what I have to say.
- Well, I guess I could go
against protocol since I'm
the one that makes it up.
Come with me. Take five.
Now, what is it
that is so urgent
that it just couldn't wait?
- Well, I went back to
the mill to dig up the tulips
that I planted...
- You planted those?!
- OK, I might have done
a little bit of gardening.
But that's not the
reason that I'm here.
I was in the mill,
looking around,
sad that they were
tearing it down,
and I saw something
that I hadn't seen before.
- The mill woman's ghost?
- No. Something better.
- A bird carving?
- The same bird carving that
Franklin Potts used to hide in
all the buildings he designed.
- I thought Franklin Potts
only designed buildings
on the West Coast,
very famous buildings.
- I guess he designed
one in Middleton too.
- Well, if a renowned architect
like Franklin Potts designed
the old mill, then that would
make it an historic landmark.
- Which is something
you can't tear down...
so I guess the city would
have to accept the only bid
that proposed to
leave the exterior intact.
- And that would be
Phil Sturgess' plan...
- Is it? Hmm.
Well, it looks like it's a
good day for him then.
- We have to stop
meeting like this.
- Yes.
You know, you forget
how small Middleton is
until you go out and
see the same people
over and over again.
- Right.
Are you here with Paul?
- Oh, no.
We hung out a couple of times,
but we didn't really connect.
He would definitely
not be interested
in seeing someone
play the classical guitar.
- Well, then that's his loss.
- Yeah.
Oh, thank you.
So, should I save you a seat?
- Oh, uh...
- Are you ready to go inside?
- Just about.
Stephanie, this is Krista.
- Oh.
Uh, hello.
- Hi.
- Would you like
something to drink?
- No, thanks.
- OK. I'll take one. Thanks.
- Ahem.
- It was nice to meet you.
- You too.
- Enjoy.
- OK.
♪♪♪
Phil.
You're back.
- Yeah.
Um...
- I have some big news.
- I kind of have some news too.
- You won the bid.
- I what?
- For the mill.
You can put your company
headquarters there.
- Oh. I wasn't sure that was
gonna get approved so quickly.
- Well...
things just kind of
happen in Middleton.
- Yeah, but, um...
I found a place
in, uh... Portland.
- A place for what?
- For my company's headquarters.
- I didn't know you
were even looking.
- I wasn't... really, but
I found this campus
that's just perfect.
I mean, it's laid out
in exactly the way I want
my company to grow,
and Portland already has
the infrastructure of talent
for me to staff things up.
- But you said you
really liked Middleton.
- I did. I mean, I... I do.
But this is what's best
for my company, so...
- So you're gonna be leaving.
- Tomorrow morning.
I'm... I'm sorry, Abigail.
I know we kind of had
something started here, but...
I have investors to think about
and people who work for me.
- Of course.
- But I like you... a lot.
- But you have to do what's
best for your company.
- Right.
- OK then.
- OK. Um...
Thank you for everything,
and if you're ever in Portland...
- I probably won't be.
Do you wanna start?
No. You go.
- OK. I have Nick first.
- And Grace.
- And then Liam,
Abigail and Stephanie.
- Yeah, they were
next on my list.
- OK. And Eve, Martha and Tom.
- All right.
And Brandon, Tara and Laurie.
- Yeah, I have them too.
And then I put down
Olympia and your foster mom.
- I have your sister
and your parents.
- And... we wrote down
all the same people.
- Oh! Look at that.
- So we can send out
invitations tomorrow.
- We can, now that we're
on exactly the same page.
Grace, hey. Did you and
Noah have a good time
at the park?
- I guess.
- You know, I'm gonna get going.
Just make sure we have all the
contact information we need, OK?
- OK. See you soon.
- Bye.
Well, what's going on?
- Nothing.
I mean, Noah and
I just started talking
about how things were
gonna be after we graduate.
- And how are they gonna be?
- I don't know.
- Well, you've still got the
rest of your senior year.
- Yeah...
and he said that he wants
me to still go to the prom
with some of my friends.
- Oh, yeah, you should.
That'll be fun.
- Yeah, if I can
find a dress like the
one I already got rid of.
- What?
- Oh, I took the one
that I had bought to that
new store to have it sold.
- Oh. Hmm. Well, we
should go there together
and see if we can find it.
- You think it'll
still be there?
- I think we'll find
things we both like.
- Yeah.
- OK.
- Oh, hello. You're back again.
- Hi. Yes, I am, and I'm hoping
that you still have that
dress that I brought you.
- I'm pretty sure I do,
although I don't remember
exactly where I hung it.
- If it is in here,
I will find it.
- OK.
- Thank you.
- OK. Well, let's look.
Now, why don't you look in here?
I'll look in the back.
- Mm-hmm. OK.
♪♪♪
Oh, yes!
Mom?
- Mm-hmm?
- I think I found something.
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