Enlightened

Helen.

You got a cold?

Oh, no, I'm just coughing.

You're sick, Amy.

No, I just got something in my throat.

Well, dot cough all over the food.

I'm just too tired to live.

If I didn't have the Gestapo all over me, I'd phone in sick.

My God, Amy. You look awful!

What?

Are you going to go to work like that?

Like what?

Well, I'm, I'm gonna put my shoes on!

What, my dress? What?

Okay, you are sick.

No, Mom. I'm just tired, okay?

You didn't sleep?

No.

Actually, I was up till three.

Maybe you should take a sleeping pill, I guess. That's what I do sometimes.

I wanted to be up, okay?

I had an e-mail to write, and it was a difficult e-mail.

I had to get it right.

Oh, honey. Don't write e-mails at night.

You get your imagination going, and you get ideas.

You said yourself that people at work think you're hyper.

It wasn't for work, okay? It was to Levi.

Okay, okay. I don't want to know.

Well, you'd be happy, actually.

Why?

What do you mean by that?

Okay, why would it make me happy?

I went over there the last time, and I saw a bunch of our photo albums

sticking under a pile of his crap.

So I sent him an e-mail, and I said, you know, I'd like my photo albums back.

They're just sitting under a pile of his old records.

Why would that make me happy? That doesn't make me happy.

Because I also said that I basically don't ever want to see him again.

What exactly does that mean?

Amy, don't make me chase you!

I just said that I basically can't handle it, all right?

It's not healthy for me to see him.

He's still using,

it's, it's too much, all right? He's a tempter. It's too tempting.

He's tempting you with drugs?

No, just the whole thing. It's just too much, okay?

Did he write you back?

At this point, what is there to say? I gotta go. I love you.

Ginger, you stay here and behave yourself.

Mommy'll be right back.

Helen?

Yes?

Carol Matthews.

Carol, hi!

How are you?

Well...

Oh my God!

My God! It's been, I don't... I don't know, years?

Yep, years. Yeah.

Well, you look just the same.

Oh, well you were always so great-looking.

Oh, thank you.

Well, you look just the same.

That's very kind of you. I don't feel the same.

I feel as if I could sleep for a year.

We just got back in from Grand Rapids last night.

Oh, is that where you're from? I forget.

Grand Rapids is where Lisa lives.

Ah.

Lisa went to Michigan, and she met a guy in school there

who is from Grand Rapids.

Michael. He's a lawyer. So, that's where they live.

And, I have two grand babies...

Ohhh.

Cooper and Connor.

Oh, great!

Twin grandsons. Oh...

They just turned seven, and I got pictures...

Oh!

I'm sorry, but you're gonna have to see the pictures.

Oh, great!

Um, here they are...

These are they boys when they were babies, of course.

Oh, precious.

So cute.

And here is Lisa now...

Where is she? There.

She's beautiful.

Thank you. She is beautiful, isn't she?

She's pregnant again,

and she's hoping for a girl,

But she doesn't want to know until they have it.

She wants to be surprised.

How do you feel about that?

I don't know. I mean...

Well, I think it's annoying.

I mean, as the grandmother, I want to know!

I want to know what to buy. Pink or blue, you know?

But, but it's fun.

And here is Jason and his wife.

Oh, handsome couple.

Thank you.

Nice family.

Thank you, they are. They live in San Diego.

I just hope they have a baby soon, because Lisa's kids are so far away,

and it's cold up there in Michigan.

- Yeah, it's cold in Michigan. - I don't like it.

Well...

So I keep urging them to do family vacations in Hawaii, you know?

Oh, nice.

So what about you, Helen? How are you?

I'm, I'm fine. Really fine.

Well, good, good. And what are you up to?

Just um, buying some groceries.

Well, yes. Yes, right.

But what else?

How, how's Amy?

Oh, Amy's great!

She, um, she's living with me now,

and I just love it.

Oh. Yeah.

Oh!

I didn't know that.

What happened?

She was married to that athlete, I thought?

Yeah, Levi.

Oh, yes, he was so handsome,

I remember that.

Yeah. Mmm.

Well, she was always a beautiful girl.

Thank you.

You know, Lisa was always jealous of Amy,

No...

because Amy was so tall, and all the boys liked her.

Lisa was always the shortest girl in school.

Except for the Asians.

But, what, what happened?

Well, they, they divorced. That was a while ago.

Oh. Was it, uh, was it messy? I mean, they didn't have kids, did they?

No, no.

He, uh, he had a problem with alcohol.

Oh, oh my God, I'm so sorry. That is so tough.

Yeah. But Amy has a great job!

Yes? Yeah, she works at Abaddonn.

Uh-huh.

She's been there fifteen years,

and they just moved her to a new department.

So she loves her job? Oh, yeah.

Well, that's great.

She, she took off for a couple of months, and she lost her place,

so that's why she's staying with me, it's just temporary.

Oh. So, no grand kids?

No.

Well, I, uh, well, I have...

Bethany.

She has a daughter. Three!

How is Bethany?

She's, uh, busy.