Marshall is sitting at a table in a small bar. The atmosphere of the bar is calm and quiet. It is dark and
richly decorated. Marshall is sipping a single-malt while reading a book. Maggie's brother, Teddy,
approaches his table. Marshall is surprised but not shocked to see Teddy standing before him. He
knows that Teddy must be there as a messenger from Maggie. "Hello Teddy." Teddy pulls out the
adjoining chair and sits down. Marshall waves to the barmaid for a drink for Teddy. "Marshall." The
barmaid places a drink in front of Teddy. He takes a sip of the drink as Marshall closes the book and
devotes his attention to Teddy. "Mmmmm… nice." Marshall tips his glass towards Teddy. "So what
brings you by Theodore? What is my girl up too?" Teddy looks up with a smile. "Petrotrovich." A wave
of concern crosses his face. "What is she doing?" Teddy sits back and continues to sip the scotch. Even
Marshall is amazed as to how much he and Maggie are alike in demeanor. The way they carry
themselves, their gestures, it may as well be Maggie joining him for a drink. Teddy's accent is also
hidden. They were both raised to speak "American" by the Admiral. "Does she know what she is
doing?" Teddy smiles. "It's Mairin… she has a warrior's heart. You know that." Teddy's accent tinges
through. Marshall smiles at Teddy's description of his twin. They sit back and chat as they finish
drinks. It has been a long time since Marshall was around Maggie's family. Teddy was the only one who
knew about his relationship with Maggie. He didn't have to put on an act around Teddy. Teddy always
liked Marshall but he wasn't a terrible fan of the relationship but Maggie cares for him and that is good
enough.
Across town:
Gabrielle mixes and mingles among New York society at her latest function. She notices the
presence of a strikingly handsome man who has been in proximity to her all night. The man has dark
black hair, devastatingly ocean blue eyes and chiseled features. Gabrielle definitely wants to meet this
handsome man. Maggie's brother Patrick is playing his role to an Oscar worthy performance. He flirts,
flatters and makes Gabrielle swoon. He always had that magical way with women. Maggie knew he
would be the perfect lure. Before Gabrielle can react, she is in handcuffs in the back of car… and not in
the good way. The men with her flash their badges. "Awesome… just fucking awesome."
The Facility:
A very grumpy Gabrielle is sitting in an interrogation room as Maggie enters.
"Be nice or the closest you will ever get to the Caribbean again will be when I fly you to GITMO."
Maggie moves the chair to the wall and takes up a position directly in front of Gabrielle.
"I could let a lot of things slide Gabby. I deal with the best and worst of the human race on a daily basis…
but you… you hurt people I love… You sold out the country that I have literally walked through the fires
of hell to defend and protect. For what Gabby? Money… Hate to clue you in, sweetheart, you were
married to a fucking billionaire who worshipped the ground you walked upon so spare me the tale of
woe…" Maggie is pacing in front of Gabrielle with an intensity that no one in the room or outside the
room has ever seen from her.
"Classy Maggie… real Classy…" Gabby's tone is condescending.
"Gabby… I may know how to make a longshoreman blush but what I lack in class… I make up for in
fucking integrity… Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don't have brains enough to be
honest."
"How could you do this to me… to Juliette?" Gabrielle has her arms folded with a scowl on her face.
"I didn't do this to you… you did this to you. You made this choice, Gabby. It was of your own volition
and free will. You just never thought you would get caught. Now mind explaining to me why you need
revenge? The revenge that was your own undoing… revenge always proves to be its own executioner…
Gabrielle." Maggie turns towards her.
"On peut etre plus fin qu'un autre, mais non pas plus fin que tous les autres."
Behind the Glass:
"French?" Dani looks at Nico with an expression of confusion. "One may outwit another, but not all
others." Maggie walks out of the room. She leaves her to sit there for a while.
"You ready for this?" Rock stands in front of Maggie with his hand on the door.
"Who the hell would be ready for this…so …nope… but into the arena … open the pod doors, Hal."
Marshall has been brought in the room with Gabrielle. Maggie starts in on both of them with a fury
as soon as the door shuts behind her. Marshall is shocked by Maggie's tone.
"You are dead and you are going to jail … Yet you two have still managed to create a situation so fucked up
beyond recognition that there is no exit strategy that does not completely and totally suck on every
conceivable level…" Maggie's voice is roaring from her body. Gabrielle and Marshall's eyes are
transfixed on her. "The Pittman vs. Pittman score card is officially even… now the two of you are going
to sit here until you figure out some way together or apart to spare Juliette a lifetime of drugs, alcohol
and fucking shock therapy. You brought a child into this world… it is time for both of you to shut up,
grow up and start considering someone other than yourselves…and fucking fix this…"
Dani and Nico stand at the glass in total and utter shock at what Maggie just did.
Maggie walks out and slams the door. She leans against it for a moment breathing heavy. She
composes herself and goes to another room to talk to Juliette. She opens the door and sits in the chair
across from Juliette. She can see the apprehension in Juliette's eyes.
"Jules, I know what it is like to lose someone you love but you have a chance to… well you have a second
chance. I also know what it is like not to have that second chance. Go in there and tell you love him…
tell him you hate him… You have the opportunity… don't waste it… just tell him… whatever. We all slip
and fall. That is not what matters. What matters is knowing where you stand when
you get up. We are all damaged goods baby girl… Every last one of us. No one escapes this world
without trauma. Don't mess with imperfection. You want to go in?"
"Yes." Juliette looks at Maggie and takes a deep breath. Maggie puts her arm around her. "Give them
hell, Baby Girl."
Maggie walks into where Nico and Dani are. She pulls the cords on the blinds. "Do you know
what you are doing? She sits on the table next to Nico. "Think perhaps their marriage stood a better
chance if there were not four of us in it?" Nico looks at her. There is a lot of truth to her words. Nico
wraps his arm around Maggie's shoulders and kisses her on the head. Dani sits across from Maggie. "I
thought you loved Marshall?" Maggie looks up at her. "I do… enough to let go. What is it that you say?
Doing the right thing ain't always the easy thing. Juliette needs an opportunity to be more than just a
future statistic." Maggie figits for a moment. " Dani, love is when one person knows all of your
secrets… deepest, darkest, most dreadful secrets of which no one else in the world knows and yet in the
end that one person does not think any less of you; even when the rest of the world does… They still
love each other… that is worth another chance."
"So what happens now? Gabby is up for treason and Marshall is dead?" Nico looks at Rock and Maggie.
Rock speaks first. "The secrets that Gabrielle sold were worthless. We made sure that she never knew
anything worthwhile. Garbage." Nico is surprised. He does not break his gaze. "For how long?" Rock
and Maggie look at him. "For the last decade." Nico is shocked. "You two have known this for a
decade?" Rock and Maggie look at each other. "We admit nothing and demand video."
"What are you going to do about Marshall? A resurrection is a bit hard to pull off…" Dani joins the
conversation. Maggie glances at Nico before speaking.
"Well, he has been only mostly dead…. There is a big difference between all dead and mostly dead…
Mostly dead is still slightly alive. With all dead there is only really one thing to do…"
"and what is that?" Dani does not yet recognize the quote.
"Go through his pockets and look for change." Maggie smiles at Nico… The Princess Bride.
"Dani… she is quoting the "Princess Bride." Nico taps her on the back of the head for teasing Dani.
"My sweet billionaire planned his death… he can plan his resurrection." Rock is leaning against the wall
across from all of them. "Plus there isn't a fed in the house." Nico looks up at Rock. His suspicions have
been confirmed. It's a mouse trap. Maggie basically punked a whole hell of a lot of people … as she
has said so many times… Sometimes the universe needs a manual adjustment… even when it doesn't
know it needs an adjustment. In her own little warped way… she hit the rest button.
"So you okay?" Nico pulls on her shoulders. Maggie smiles as she slides off the table to her feet.
"Neeks… Trust me in this life, the one thing that I have learned to do is to bounce." She leans in and
kisses him on the cheek and whispers in his ear. "Don't screw up what you have my love… she is what
you need." Nico reaches up and touches Maggie's face and kisses her forehead. "Loves you, baby girl."
"Loves you more, Neeks." She turns away from him. She smiles at Dani. "Where are you going?" She
smiles. "To get very drunk…. Very, very drunk… my Rock of Love… take me to a bar or lose me
forever…bring me my brothers...for we shall need someone to carry us out of thy watering hole."
Maggie speaks with the comical exaggeration appropriate to her exit.
Rock puts his arm around Maggie and opens the door exposing her brothers hanging out in the next
room. Nico watches Maggie walk out. Dani walks over and sits next to him.
She notices Nico's expression. She touches his leg. "What has your wheels turning? Is she going to be
okay?" Nico kisses Dani on the cheek. "Time for Maggie to finally take her sister's advice." Dani is
trying to figure out what that means. Nico looks at her expression and clarifies. "The best way to get
over a boy is…" Dani finishes his sentence. "with another boy. You have someone in mind?" Nico takes
Dani's hand. "I just might." Nico sends several texts.
Ray Jay and Lindsey head home in Dani's car, while Dani and Nico head out to meet the rest for a well-
deserved drink. As they walked up to the bar, Dani is surprised to see Matt and TK waiting for them.
She thinks to herself how awkward this could be with her patient… ex-lover… and lover… yep got
awkward covered here but what the hell with everything else that has happened… this would be almost
freaking normal.
Maggie, Paddy, Teddy and Rock are gathered around a table having an animated conversation. Dani and
Nico join them followed by Matt and TK. Nico handles the introductions. "Matt Donnally, Terrance King
meet Patrick and Theodore O'Brien." The two men stand up and shake hands with Matt and TK. Nico
and Rock pull up more chairs. "Teddy… Paddy… Matt… TK." Rock nods to the waitress for more glasses,
beer, and whiskey. Once everything is settled, the O'Brien trio raise their glasses for the family toast.
"May we get what we want (Paddy)… May we get what we need (Teddy)… but never, what we
deserve (Maggie)." Nico laughs… it has been a long time since he has heard that. The others join the
toast. Matt gazes at Maggie across the table. Gone are the tactical clothes, she is dressed casually in
jeans and a sweater. Her hair is in a simple pony tail. Matt really likes when she is dressed in this simple
style… very natural. Her brothers are also now in simple dress. Dani looks at Maggie and her brothers
sitting in a row. The fiery redhead between her pitch haired book ends. Surprisingly, they do look like
they belong to each other. Their bond is obvious. The animated laughter, the jokes, the banter… She
thinks for a moment and hopes that someday her own children will have this kind of relationship with
each other. The stories have begun. Matt and TK are thoroughly engrossed in the stories. Matt looks
up at Paddy with a question. "So all of you are adopted… all seven of you?"
"Yes, we are all adopted… not so much a family… more like hostages." Paddy smiles and tips his glass
towards him. "Imagine our surprise when on a cold Christmas Eve so many years ago… five young
O'Briens… gathered around the Christmas Tree… waiting… anticipating…. could our wish come true…
and then Mom and Dad walk in with these two… Imagine our disappointment… we thought we were
getting a puppy. Siblings… we don't need no more stinking siblings." Both Teddy and Maggie whack
him on the back of the head simultaneously. The conversations get even more animated.
TK asks Teddy if he wants to partner to play pool. Teddy agrees and follows him over to the tables.
Rock has decided that he has had enough for the evening and bids everyone adieu.
Maggie looks over at Nico as she observes TK and Teddy. Nico comments to Maggie. "They seemed to
have hit it off." Maggie moves closer to Nico occupying Teddy's chair. "Do you think TK knows that our
Teddy bear is… gay?" Maggie watches their interaction. "I don't think TK came equipped with Gaydar."
Dani whacks Nico out of instinct for the "gaydar" label. Nico is amused by the tap from Dani. Matt
notices the empty pitchers and grabs one of them to get another for the table. Maggie grabs the other
and follows him up to the bar. Matt is very pleased when Maggie ends up next to him. He has been
trying to figure out a way to talk to her all night. He motions to the bartender who takes the pitchers.
Matt turns around to Maggie. "Hey… thanks for tonight." Maggie looks at him quizzically. "For what?"
"Everything." He smiles at her and moves in closer for privacy. "You are a hell of a woman Maggie
O'Brien." She looks up at Matt with a smile and shakes her head. "Oh my dear, Matt you don't know
me that well." He pays the bartender and turns back towards Maggie. He moves closer to her. She
notices his cologne and breathes it in as he lifts her chin to raise her eyes to look directly at him. "Your
name is Mairin Mairead. You were born in Belfast. Your birthday is Christmas Day. You have a twin
brother." He pauses to look around for a moment.
"You are youngest of the seven children of a Navy Admiral and a debutante. You went to prep school
then to Harvard where you studied psychology and played field hockey. You were married when you
were younger. You love the opera and museums. You are a benefactor of the Museum of Natural
History. You love peonies and Kilarney roses. Your favorite perfume is Chanel No. 5. You clean up nice
but are kind of sexy when you are dirty. You would die for your country and kill for your friends and
family. Put all of that together and I think that you are one of the most beautiful and intriguing women
that I have ever encountered. If the sex is anything like it is in my imagination, I will likely worship the
ground you walk upon. If you want children, I will probably fall head over heels in love with you. But
really, I just want to know if you would have dinner with me?" Matt loves the look on Maggie's face …
the shocked sweet smile as she is looking up at him with her eyes blinking a she absorbs everything has
said. She looks down for a moment. "That is probably the most original pick up line I have ever
heard, Mr. Donnally." She looks down for a moment before saying more. "You googled me?" Matt
touches the side of her face. "I googled you." Maggie leans in toward him. "I am one of seven. I want
a houseful of kids by whatever means. If my mother hears one word of that statement, I will have you
on the first flight to GITMO… because it would be an act of terrorism. So why don't we start with
dinner… and then we can talk about the sex." She runs her hand down the side
of his face, with a wickedly cute and sexy look on her face, tapping him on the chin. She turns and
picks up one of the pitchers and walks towards TK and Teddy.
While Matt and Maggie are at the Bar:
From a distance Nico is casually watching the interaction between Matt and Maggie. "Matt always
reminded me of someone. He takes a sip of his whiskey. "I always thought it was just that he reminded
me of someone from the service or something like that." He gages Dani's expressions. "Then I saw
something the other day."
"What did you see?" Dani asks him as she glances towards the bar. Nico makes a motion towards the
bar . "That…" She can see it. The obvious attraction, the spark and sparkle between Matt and Maggie.
It hits her like a bolt of lightning. It doesn't hurt. It doesn't… well anything. It makes her smile. Oh my
God she thinks to herself. It happened. I'm over him. I am happy for them. I care about both of them.
I am happy to see them together. Holy crap, Maggie's sister was right. The easiest way to get over a
boy… is with another boy. "He reminds you of Ben?" Paddy asks. Nico nods. "I haven't seen that look
on her face… in a long long time." Paddy notices it too. "Me, either, brother… me either but on that
note, I had better head back or my wife is going to kick my ass." Dani looks up at him. "To Boston?"
Paddy laughs. "Got a plane… It was very nice to meet you Dani. If this sailor gives you any trouble
you just call me… there are four of us to kick his ass… six if you count his ex and her sister." He winks at
Dani. Nico gets up and gives him a hug. "Good to see you Paddy." Paddy responds. "Don't be a stranger,
Nico… you're still family."
Paddy walks up to Maggie and gives her a kiss.
"Do you think what Maggie said about love was true?" Nico laughs. "Dani that was not Maggie's
theory on love… She was quoting Ben Franklin." Dani looks at him for a moment. "Really?"
Nico laughs. "Really, the Harvard education makes her a well of interesting quotations." He leans into
her. "So are you ready to head home for the evening." Dani looks him with a soft smile. She has no
desire to watch Maggie and Matt flirt up a storm with each other. She is happy for them but one step
at a time… one step at a time. "Definitely."