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[upbeat holiday music]

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READER: 'Twas the night
before Christmas,

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and all through the house,
not a creature was stirring,

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{\an8}not even a...?
KIDS: Mouse!

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{\an8}READER: The stockings were hung
by the chimney with care,

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{\an8}in hopes that St. Nicholas
soon would be there.

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{\an8}The children were nestled
all snug in their beds

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{\an8}while visions of sugar plums
danced in their heads.

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{\an8}And Mama in her kerchief,
and I in my cap,

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{\an8}had just settled down
for a long winter's...?

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{\an8}KIDS: Nap!

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{\an8}When out on the lawn,
there arose such a clatter.

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{\an8}I sprang from my bed
to see what was the matter.

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{\an8}Away to the window
I flew like a flash,

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{\an8}drew open the shutter
and threw up the sash.

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{\an8}The moon on the breast
of the new-fallen snow

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{\an8}gave the lustre of midday
to objects below.

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{\an8}♪

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{\an8}TOWN CRIER: Hear ye, hear ye!

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{\an8}A charge of literary piracy

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{\an8}is to be tried on Christmas Eve

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{\an8}within the courts of
this fair city of Troy!

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{\an8}Wherein the descendants of
Major Henry Livingston Jr.

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{\an8}charge Clement Clarke Moore

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{\an8}of falsely claiming
authorship of the poem

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{\an8}"'Twas the Night
Before Christmas"!

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{\an8}HAYLEY: Jefferson's idea--
build up hype for the play!

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MADISON: He's
worried about hype?

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HAYLEY: He's a producer,
he's always worried.

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MADISON: It's actually
a pretty good idea, right?

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{\an8}LIVINGSTON: Such thin,
translucent writing paper.

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{\an8}Remarkable!

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{\an8}[laughs]

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{\an8}Some people take this
Victorian Stroll so seriously.

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{\an8}I mean, I guess that's why
we're doing the play here.

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{\an8}BETH: Great googly!

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{\an8}MADISON: Oh!

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{\an8}Hi, Edna!

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When my niece heard that
you were staying at my B&B,

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she just had to meet you.

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So, this is Beth.

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MADISON: Hi, Beth.

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You're Marly Wilkens!

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Well, I played a character
named Marly on TV,

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probably when I was about your
age, but my name is Madison.

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BETH: Great googly!
EDNA: Oh!

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[laughter]

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EDNA: And this is Hayley,
Madison's friend.

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They wrote the play together.

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HAYLEY: Hi, Beth.
BETH: Hi.

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EDNA: We are thrilled
that Connor Avery is starring!

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You two were so great together
in Christmastime Cupid.

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MADISON: Thank you.
EDNA: Oh!

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The kiss?
Right?

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Anyway, let's go get
some warm mince tarts, alright?

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MADISON: Okay, bye!
BETH: Look at the horse!

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EDNA: Uh-- it's a horse. Yeah...

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HAYLEY: That kiss?

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MADISON: Don't start.

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[instrumental
"Deck the Halls" playing]

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JOSIE: Dad, the taxi's here!

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CONNOR: We got a reindeer
at 12 o'clock.

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[makes airplane noises]

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JOSIE: [laughing]

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Do you have your toothbrush?

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CONNOR: Check.

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Do you have your lucky socks?

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Hmm, checkity-check.

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Snacks for the plane?

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Double-check.

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Wait--
there's one more thing!

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AVA: Got your toothbrush?
CONNOR: [groans]

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AVA: Go on, your car is outside.

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I'm gonna land
tonight in New York,

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I drive upstate,

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and I'm gonna be staying
at the hotel in Troy.

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AVA: And at this rate, you'll be
lucky if you make your flight.

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What is this?

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It's a gingerbread footprint
salt dough Rudolph head.

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CONNOR: Om nom!
JOSIE: Dad, don't eat it!

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It's a Christmas ornament.

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Oh!

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To hang on your tree
in New York.

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CONNOR: Thank you.

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You know,
we're gonna hang it up together

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when you and Nana
come visit me.

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If you ever make it there.

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Thank you, Ma!

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Love you.

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Alright, give me a hug, J-Bug.

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CONNOR: Ahh!

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I'm gonna miss you.

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Break a leg, Daddy.

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♪

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♪

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MADISON: Ooh!

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I'm sorry.
MOORE: Mind the grease.

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I beg your pardon?

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Oh, you're part of
the Victorian--

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Yes.
Um...

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Well, this is a play about
who really wrote the poem

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"'Twas the Night
Before Christmas."

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"An Account of a Visit
from St. Nicholas"!

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The poem was originally titled

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"An Account of a Visit
from St. Nicholas."

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Yes, it was!

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Okay.

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MADISON: Merry Christmas.

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Hey, Walter.

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I've got a great
potential series

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all lined up for you.

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You are going to love it.
It's a reboot of--

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MADISON: We've
already discussed this.

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Directing is my focus now.

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WALTER: But we make so much
money from your acting.

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MADISON: But it's not
about the money.

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Why are you trying to hurt me?

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MADISON: Look, you know
I need to stretch my wings.

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Isn't that what Icarus said,
right before...

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[whistles]
Boom!

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It's not about hubris, Walter.

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WALTER: Why not start
directing with a short

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like every other actor?

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Phone cameras
can do so much these days.

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Why does it gotta be a play?

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And in Upstate New York...

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where it's cold?

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Because the subject matter
means something to me.

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A poem about Santa Claus?

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Yes, a poem about Santa Claus.

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Okay, okay.

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I'm sure it'll be fine,
minus the lost revenue.

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I mean, you've got such
a stellar rep in this biz.

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Thanks.

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I'm sure it'll be fine
if it flops.

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I appreciate the support.
Goodbye, Walter.

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WALTER: Call if
you need anything...

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or change your mind.

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♪

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[sighs]

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HAYLEY: Madison?

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I got news. Ugh...

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Hey, what's going on?

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The Christmas movie I wrote,
"The Jolliest Holiday,"

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tons of last-minute changes
coming in fast and furious,

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and apparently both
the producers and director

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want me on set.

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What?!

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HAYLEY: Did I mention
it's in LA?

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'Cause... I have a flight
there this afternoon.

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MADISON: Ugh!

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Well, what does
that mean for our play?

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It means I won't
be here to help.

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I'm so sorry.

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No, I'm sorry you have
to deal with all of this.

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HAYLEY: It's okay.

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At least I don't have to
worry about our script.

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No, our script's
in really good shape.

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We're good.

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HAYLEY: I am just
a phone call away,

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and I will be back in time
for the Christmas Eve premiere.

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MADISON: Great.
HAYLEY: I think.

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MADISON: Hmm?
[door opens]

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HAYLEY: Um...

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To what should
my wandering eyes appear?

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Oh!

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MADISON: You made it!

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HAYLEY: Are you smiling?
MADISON: He smiled!

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You smiled first.

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Stop!
We already talked about this.

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[quietly]
I don't date actors.

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MADISON: Connor!

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[Cockney accent]
'Ello, ladies!

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Okay...

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Hi.

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HAYLEY: Hi, Connor.
CONNOR: Hi.

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It's cool, huh?

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Makes me feel like John Steed
from The Avengers.

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It's giving me
Dad from Mary Poppins.

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MADISON: Oh...
[laughs]

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And now I can't unsee it!

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MADISON: Which is
probably a good thing

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because it's an American poem
and you're playing an American.

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Is Lena here?

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I'm super curious
to meet my co-star.

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I kept trying to
look her up online

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but I just found a bunch of
hand modelling credits.

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Um, she is...

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She is...
HAYLEY: Here!

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MADISON: Oh!

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[posh English accent]
How do you do,

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fellow counsellor?

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CONNOR: Heh...

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Connor Avery.
LENA: [giggles]

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I was watching "My Fair Lady"
to, um...

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to get into character,

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and I just love Audrey Hepburn.
So posh.

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And I was thinking,
maybe that's how I should

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do my voice for the show.

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Yeah?

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MADISON: Actually, Lena--
hi.

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LENA: [gasps]

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MADISON: You play
a modern prosecutor,

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so no accents.

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That goes for you, too.

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[snaps fingers]
MADISON: Yeah.

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Oh my gosh,
Madison Rush, my director.

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I'm so honoured to meet you.
I'm such a big fan.

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Oh, thank you!

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LENA: Great googly!
MADISON: Uh, yeah.

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LENA: It's her catchphrase.
MADISON: Mm, yes.

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CONNOR: [chuckles]
Yeah.

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Actually, that was
a very long time ago.

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Yeah, I was in kindergarten, so...

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it was a really long time ago.

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Great!
Um, okay, I'm gonna...

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Yeah.

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I am so excited to be here!

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I could not believe it
when Jefferson told me

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I got the part!

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CONNOR: Amazing.

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MADISON: Everyone, if you
could just gather around...

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Let's go listen
to the director.

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MADISON: Hi.

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I just wanted to thank you all
for being a part of this

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unique theatrical experience

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that's part play
and part mock-trial.

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A jury, made up from
real audience members,

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will listen to both sides:

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Clement Clarke Moore,
represented by Connor Avery,

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and Henry Livingston Jr.,
represented by Lena DeLorean.

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And then during intermission,

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we'll render a verdict
to determine once and for all

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who really wrote "'Twas
the Night Before Christmas."

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Which has a lot of
meaning for this audience

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because the poem was
first published here in Troy

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anonymously back in 1823.

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So, let's do a read-through

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and then we'll get
to blocking, yeah?

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CONNOR: Alright.

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Uh, so, um...

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Where are the blocks?

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CONNOR: [inhales deeply]

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LENA: [reading awkwardly]
You think that I don't know

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that you only took this case...

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so that you could see me...

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again?

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You wish.

252
00:09:34,282 --> 00:09:36,451
That seems mean.
That's mean!

253
00:09:36,451 --> 00:09:39,162
Right?

254
00:09:39,162 --> 00:09:41,831
Uh, let's just keep reading.

255
00:09:42,999 --> 00:09:44,626
HAYLEY: We need to do something.

256
00:09:44,626 --> 00:09:46,586
Maybe I could take
the time on the flight

257
00:09:46,586 --> 00:09:48,338
to try to pare down
Lena's lines.

258
00:09:48,338 --> 00:09:50,090
So, she seems very sweet,

259
00:09:50,090 --> 00:09:52,759
but why was she cast?

260
00:09:52,759 --> 00:09:55,053
I guess you could say
we couldn't do the play

261
00:09:55,053 --> 00:09:56,179
without her.

262
00:09:56,179 --> 00:09:57,430
How do you mean?

263
00:09:57,430 --> 00:10:01,267
She's the producer's girlfriend.

264
00:10:01,267 --> 00:10:03,937
Jefferson was the only producer
that would back the play,

265
00:10:03,937 --> 00:10:06,606
as long as--
CONNOR: Lena got the part.

266
00:10:06,606 --> 00:10:08,608
MADISON: Right.
But you know what?

267
00:10:08,608 --> 00:10:12,362
I took this play
to give myself a challenge,

268
00:10:12,362 --> 00:10:16,658
and Lena is, well, a challenge.

269
00:10:16,658 --> 00:10:19,619
[laughs]
Yeah, she is!

270
00:10:19,619 --> 00:10:22,455
I admire your affinity
for understatement.

271
00:10:22,455 --> 00:10:26,001
[phone rings]
HAYLEY: Sorry.

272
00:10:26,001 --> 00:10:27,627
CONNOR: [sighs]

273
00:10:27,627 --> 00:10:29,504
Thanks again for doing this.

274
00:10:29,504 --> 00:10:31,131
Yeah, of course.

275
00:10:31,131 --> 00:10:32,298
Hey, how's Josie?

276
00:10:32,298 --> 00:10:33,800
CONNOR: She's good.

277
00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:35,593
And my mom's gonna
bring her out here

278
00:10:35,593 --> 00:10:38,179
as soon as she gets off school
for winter break.

279
00:10:38,179 --> 00:10:40,473
Oh... Connor.

280
00:10:40,473 --> 00:10:42,100
You should have told me no.

281
00:10:42,100 --> 00:10:46,604
She is gonna love the
Victorian Festival and the play.

282
00:10:46,604 --> 00:10:48,314
I hope so.

283
00:10:48,314 --> 00:10:51,151
HAYLEY: I gotta go back to
Edna's B&B and grab my luggage.

284
00:10:51,151 --> 00:10:53,319
Production just moved
my flight up by two hours.

285
00:10:53,319 --> 00:10:54,612
MADISON: What?

286
00:10:54,612 --> 00:10:56,072
HAYLEY: I feel like
I'm abandoning you.

287
00:10:56,072 --> 00:10:57,824
MADISON: You're not.
Go do your job.

288
00:10:57,824 --> 00:11:00,827
HAYLEY: Okay.
Just 'cause they pay me.

289
00:11:00,827 --> 00:11:02,579
Merry Christmas.
MADISON: Merry Christmas.

290
00:11:02,579 --> 00:11:03,955
HAYLEY: I love you.
MADISON: I love you.

291
00:11:03,955 --> 00:11:05,415
HAYLEY: Bye.
CONNOR: Merry Christmas.

292
00:11:05,415 --> 00:11:08,418
HAYLEY: Merry Christmas.

293
00:11:08,418 --> 00:11:10,670
CONNOR: [in lilting voice]
You only took this job...

294
00:11:10,670 --> 00:11:13,506
so that you could see me again.

295
00:11:13,506 --> 00:11:17,927
[both laugh]

296
00:11:19,721 --> 00:11:22,223
JEFFERSON: Madison!
Hey, Connor!

297
00:11:22,223 --> 00:11:24,267
Two of my favourites.

298
00:11:24,267 --> 00:11:25,477
MADISON: Oh...

299
00:11:25,477 --> 00:11:26,936
Hey, Jefferson.

300
00:11:26,936 --> 00:11:28,938
Hey, thanks again
for casting Lena.

301
00:11:28,938 --> 00:11:30,690
Girl just needs a chance,
you know?

302
00:11:30,690 --> 00:11:31,941
Like you need with this play.

303
00:11:31,941 --> 00:11:33,234
Oh.

304
00:11:33,234 --> 00:11:34,736
Yeah.

305
00:11:34,736 --> 00:11:36,321
I've actually been
thinking about the play.

306
00:11:36,321 --> 00:11:37,447
It's a great concept.

307
00:11:37,447 --> 00:11:38,573
Love the real jury part.

308
00:11:38,573 --> 00:11:39,783
MADISON: Okay...

309
00:11:39,783 --> 00:11:41,409
The romance isn't working.

310
00:11:41,409 --> 00:11:42,702
Not working?

311
00:11:42,702 --> 00:11:43,828
JEFFERSON: Yeah,
there's no chemistry.

312
00:11:43,828 --> 00:11:45,372
These are two former lovers,

313
00:11:45,372 --> 00:11:47,791
brought together in the court
of law over this debate.

314
00:11:47,791 --> 00:11:50,377
Instead, it's kind of...

315
00:11:50,377 --> 00:11:51,544
Eh.

316
00:11:51,544 --> 00:11:53,296
"Eh"?
Uh...

317
00:11:53,296 --> 00:11:55,048
I mean, don't worry
about the chemistry.

318
00:11:55,048 --> 00:11:58,385
Connor will bring the chemistry.

319
00:11:58,385 --> 00:11:59,886
JEFFERSON: Ah, I'm just saying

320
00:11:59,886 --> 00:12:02,138
that maybe you can bump it up
with a little something.

321
00:12:02,138 --> 00:12:04,641
And another thing, you gotta
up the good guy/bad guy angle.

322
00:12:04,641 --> 00:12:05,975
Good guy/bad guy angle?

323
00:12:05,975 --> 00:12:07,560
Yeah, audiences
want someone to root for,

324
00:12:07,560 --> 00:12:09,729
and someone to root against.

325
00:12:09,729 --> 00:12:10,939
But this town
has been debating

326
00:12:10,939 --> 00:12:12,482
who wrote this poem for years.

327
00:12:12,482 --> 00:12:14,067
We might alienate
half our audience.

328
00:12:14,067 --> 00:12:16,027
More like stir their passions.

329
00:12:16,027 --> 00:12:18,446
Oh, Jefferson,
we open in ten days.

330
00:12:18,446 --> 00:12:19,906
Yeah, that's plenty of time.

331
00:12:19,906 --> 00:12:22,075
CONNOR: Hey, look, I don't
wanna step on any toes here,

332
00:12:22,075 --> 00:12:23,743
but I think we should respect

333
00:12:23,743 --> 00:12:25,829
Madison and Hayley's
original vision.

334
00:12:25,829 --> 00:12:27,747
Mmm, yeah, we are, Connor.

335
00:12:27,747 --> 00:12:30,333
It's already
built into the story.

336
00:12:30,333 --> 00:12:32,752
Okay, look, on one side,
you got this Moore guy, right?

337
00:12:32,752 --> 00:12:35,171
He's a rich
Manhattan property owner

338
00:12:35,171 --> 00:12:37,424
who's against
all Christmas celebrations.

339
00:12:37,424 --> 00:12:40,468
Then on the other side
we got Henry Livingston Jr.

340
00:12:40,468 --> 00:12:41,594
He's a farmer.

341
00:12:41,594 --> 00:12:42,846
He's a family man.

342
00:12:42,846 --> 00:12:44,806
The man is a hero
of the Revolutionary War,

343
00:12:44,806 --> 00:12:46,891
who wrote these poems
for his children

344
00:12:46,891 --> 00:12:49,269
and then he had his
most beloved creation stolen

345
00:12:49,269 --> 00:12:50,812
by a real-life Scrooge.

346
00:12:50,812 --> 00:12:52,897
Well, we don't
know that for a fact.

347
00:12:52,897 --> 00:12:54,691
I mean, we do and we don't.

348
00:12:54,691 --> 00:12:56,234
JEFFERSON: Hey...

349
00:12:56,234 --> 00:12:58,236
Hey, not like they're gonna
come back and dispute it.

350
00:12:58,236 --> 00:12:59,320
Am I right?

351
00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:01,031
[laughs awkwardly]

352
00:13:01,031 --> 00:13:02,907
My agent is so gonna gloat.

353
00:13:02,907 --> 00:13:05,201
CONNOR: Are you gonna
make the changes?

354
00:13:05,201 --> 00:13:07,620
MADISON: I mean,
what if he's right?

355
00:13:07,620 --> 00:13:09,247
What if the romance is "meh"

356
00:13:09,247 --> 00:13:11,791
and the audience
does want someone to root for?

357
00:13:11,791 --> 00:13:13,376
Should we pick a side?

358
00:13:13,376 --> 00:13:16,129
I-I can't do that,
and direct the play,

359
00:13:16,129 --> 00:13:18,548
and somehow teach Lena
how to act in ten days.

360
00:13:18,548 --> 00:13:20,633
She doesn't need
to be Meryl Streep.

361
00:13:20,633 --> 00:13:23,595
She just needs to say her lines
and not bump into the furniture.

362
00:13:23,595 --> 00:13:24,971
MADISON: [laughs]

363
00:13:24,971 --> 00:13:27,390
CONNOR: Preferably
without an English accent.

364
00:13:27,390 --> 00:13:29,684
Oh, I want it to be
better than that, though.

365
00:13:29,684 --> 00:13:31,227
I want it to be good.

366
00:13:31,227 --> 00:13:32,645
I want to be good.

367
00:13:32,645 --> 00:13:35,231
You will be.

368
00:13:35,231 --> 00:13:37,650
And I'm gonna help you...
if you want me to.

369
00:13:37,650 --> 00:13:39,319
Yeah?

370
00:13:39,319 --> 00:13:41,488
I happen to be
a whiz at research.

371
00:13:41,488 --> 00:13:42,989
MADISON: You are?

372
00:13:42,989 --> 00:13:45,700
It's my secret superpower.

373
00:13:45,700 --> 00:13:47,619
CONNOR: If you want,
we can go to the library

374
00:13:47,619 --> 00:13:49,537
and get into the nitty-gritty
on Livingston and Moore,

375
00:13:49,537 --> 00:13:52,832
see if we can find our
good guy/bad guy angle there.

376
00:13:52,832 --> 00:13:56,169
I have already
asked so much of you.

377
00:13:56,169 --> 00:13:58,338
I don't mind.

378
00:13:58,338 --> 00:14:00,590
CONNOR: I am staying
in the smallest room

379
00:14:00,590 --> 00:14:04,094
at that hotel downtown,
and I am going to go stir-crazy.

380
00:14:04,094 --> 00:14:05,720
[sighs]

381
00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:07,681
CONNOR: I'll meet you
at the B&B...

382
00:14:07,681 --> 00:14:11,267
10 am?

383
00:14:11,267 --> 00:14:14,270
Okay, 10 am.

384
00:14:14,270 --> 00:14:15,563
It's a date.

385
00:14:15,563 --> 00:14:17,816
Well, not a date, of course.
CONNOR: Of course.

386
00:14:17,816 --> 00:14:19,359
MADISON: No, 'cause
I don't date actors.

387
00:14:19,359 --> 00:14:21,528
CONNOR: Yeah, me neither.

388
00:14:21,528 --> 00:14:22,696
Thank you, Connor.

389
00:14:22,696 --> 00:14:24,989
You're a really good friend.

390
00:14:24,989 --> 00:14:33,331
♪

391
00:14:33,331 --> 00:14:35,959
MADISON: How do I
personify Livingston

392
00:14:35,959 --> 00:14:37,544
as the hero in the courtroom?

393
00:14:37,544 --> 00:14:39,129
Or Moore.

394
00:14:39,129 --> 00:14:40,880
Well, Jefferson was
pretty adamant about making

395
00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:42,507
the Livingston the protagonist.

396
00:14:42,507 --> 00:14:44,718
So we're gonna
purposefully lead the jury?

397
00:14:44,718 --> 00:14:48,054
MADISON: Ugh, I don't know!

398
00:14:48,054 --> 00:14:51,057
I'll let you know
what Connor and I find.

399
00:14:51,057 --> 00:14:53,935
Are you seriously
decorating your hotel room?

400
00:14:53,935 --> 00:14:55,645
Yeah!
I brought it from Production.

401
00:14:55,645 --> 00:14:56,771
[laughs]

402
00:14:56,771 --> 00:14:58,314
HAYLEY: Helps
get me in the mood.

403
00:14:58,314 --> 00:15:00,483
What was that about Connor?
MADISON: What?

404
00:15:00,483 --> 00:15:03,737
HAYLEY: You said you'd let me
know "what Connor and I find."

405
00:15:03,737 --> 00:15:06,740
He's helping me do research.

406
00:15:06,740 --> 00:15:08,241
Carry your books to class.

407
00:15:08,241 --> 00:15:10,785
Aren't you too busy
for misguided innuendo?

408
00:15:10,785 --> 00:15:12,662
One should never be
too busy for innuendo.

409
00:15:12,662 --> 00:15:13,913
Misguided.

410
00:15:13,913 --> 00:15:15,623
You have your version,
I have mine.

411
00:15:15,623 --> 00:15:16,666
I'm hanging up now.

412
00:15:16,666 --> 00:15:20,045
Good luck!

413
00:15:20,045 --> 00:15:30,472
♪

414
00:15:30,472 --> 00:15:34,100
EDNA: [laughs] Let me
warm up that coffee for you.

415
00:15:34,100 --> 00:15:35,935
CONNOR: Thank you, Edna.
EDNA: Mm-hm!

416
00:15:35,935 --> 00:15:37,937
MADISON: You're here early.

417
00:15:37,937 --> 00:15:39,147
Good morning, Edna.

418
00:15:39,147 --> 00:15:40,607
EDNA: Good morning.

419
00:15:40,607 --> 00:15:42,776
Well, I insisted that Connor
come here for breakfast.

420
00:15:42,776 --> 00:15:44,402
You know what?

421
00:15:44,402 --> 00:15:46,571
The hotel where he's staying at,
it just has the worst buffets.

422
00:15:46,571 --> 00:15:48,114
Right?

423
00:15:48,114 --> 00:15:50,742
CONNOR: The waffles are perfect.
EDNA: You're perfect.

424
00:15:50,742 --> 00:15:55,288
♪

425
00:15:55,288 --> 00:15:58,541
Well, I see Charming Connor
is back in fine form.

426
00:15:58,541 --> 00:16:00,168
Ah, two years post-divorce,

427
00:16:00,168 --> 00:16:02,295
I'm really just trying to
put myself out there.

428
00:16:02,295 --> 00:16:04,047
Hmm, alright.
Well, I'll let Edna know.

429
00:16:04,047 --> 00:16:07,092
CONNOR: Oh, please do.

430
00:16:09,177 --> 00:16:10,595
CONNOR: Listen to this.

431
00:16:10,595 --> 00:16:12,722
"Many of Major Livingston's
poems were written

432
00:16:12,722 --> 00:16:16,142
"for his children and published
in New York papers and magazines

433
00:16:16,142 --> 00:16:20,897
"anonymously or under
quirky pseudonyms such as...

434
00:16:20,897 --> 00:16:23,817
"Senor Whimsicalo Pomposo."
MADISON: [laughs]

435
00:16:23,817 --> 00:16:26,111
"Livingston's grandson, Sydney,

436
00:16:26,111 --> 00:16:28,279
"claimed to have found
the original handwritten copy

437
00:16:28,279 --> 00:16:30,156
"of the Christmas poem
in his father's desk

438
00:16:30,156 --> 00:16:32,200
"with its original cross-outs,

439
00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:36,371
"but the manuscript was lost in
a house fire later that year."

440
00:16:36,371 --> 00:16:38,331
How convenient.

441
00:16:38,331 --> 00:16:40,667
[books slam]

442
00:16:43,003 --> 00:16:44,170
CONNOR: Hm.

443
00:16:44,170 --> 00:16:45,505
I've never heard that before.

444
00:16:45,505 --> 00:16:46,589
Where did you find this?

445
00:16:46,589 --> 00:16:48,091
Up in the stacks.

446
00:16:48,091 --> 00:16:50,510
Had to use the old
Dewey Decimal System.

447
00:16:50,510 --> 00:16:53,763
And I'm pretty sure I haven't
said "Dewey Decimal System"

448
00:16:53,763 --> 00:16:55,557
since I graduated law school.

449
00:16:55,557 --> 00:16:56,766
Law school?

450
00:16:56,766 --> 00:16:59,185
Wait, you're a lawyer?

451
00:16:59,185 --> 00:17:01,771
Well, I never actually
passed the bar anywhere,

452
00:17:01,771 --> 00:17:03,648
and that is a much longer story,

453
00:17:03,648 --> 00:17:06,359
and yours truly has a date
with the unauthorized biography

454
00:17:06,359 --> 00:17:08,778
of Clement Clarke Moore to find.

455
00:17:08,778 --> 00:17:10,030
We're focusing on Livingston.

456
00:17:10,030 --> 00:17:11,197
CONNOR: You are.

457
00:17:11,197 --> 00:17:12,699
I'm playing the guy
defending Moore,

458
00:17:12,699 --> 00:17:15,035
and I want to be prepared.

459
00:17:15,035 --> 00:17:17,871
Oh, you really
are a research nerd.

460
00:17:17,871 --> 00:17:20,290
CONNOR: Guilty!
MADISON: [laughs]

461
00:17:23,877 --> 00:17:25,211
[book slams onto table]

462
00:17:25,211 --> 00:17:27,881
Terribly sorry for
the disturbance, Miss.

463
00:17:27,881 --> 00:17:29,924
I always was a bit of a foozler.

464
00:17:29,924 --> 00:17:31,676
MADISON: A what?

465
00:17:31,676 --> 00:17:32,886
Foozler.

466
00:17:32,886 --> 00:17:36,473
Or klutz,
in the parlance of your time.

467
00:17:36,473 --> 00:17:38,683
Man, you take
this Victorian Stroll thing

468
00:17:38,683 --> 00:17:40,268
so seriously!

469
00:17:40,268 --> 00:17:42,937
My time is before
that of Queen Victoria.

470
00:17:42,937 --> 00:17:46,232
MADISON: A-ha.

471
00:17:46,232 --> 00:17:48,068
Have we met somewhere?

472
00:17:48,068 --> 00:17:49,319
LIVINGSTON: I don't believe
I've had the pleasure.

473
00:17:49,319 --> 00:17:51,196
Major Henry Livingston. Junior.

474
00:17:51,196 --> 00:17:52,614
At your service.

475
00:17:52,614 --> 00:17:55,742
Oh, you're one of
the Livingston cosplayers.

476
00:17:55,742 --> 00:17:57,077
I beg your pardon?

477
00:17:57,077 --> 00:17:58,661
MADISON: I saw a few
Livingstons out there.

478
00:17:58,661 --> 00:18:00,038
And Moores.

479
00:18:00,038 --> 00:18:02,582
And at least two or three
Sherlock Holmes.

480
00:18:02,582 --> 00:18:04,876
Rest assured, Miss...

481
00:18:04,876 --> 00:18:07,879
I am the genuine article.

482
00:18:07,879 --> 00:18:10,757
You really get into the spirit.

483
00:18:15,553 --> 00:18:17,263
That's it!

484
00:18:17,263 --> 00:18:19,516
Spirit, ghost!
LIBRARIAN: Shh!

485
00:18:19,516 --> 00:18:21,559
MADISON: [in a whisper]
Sorry, sorry!

486
00:18:21,559 --> 00:18:24,729
Livingston's ghost goes back
to testify at his own trial.

487
00:18:24,729 --> 00:18:29,025
Boom, personification!

488
00:18:29,025 --> 00:18:31,444
Do you know where
the Spark Street Theatre is?

489
00:18:31,444 --> 00:18:34,698
I am acquainted with
the establishment, yes.

490
00:18:34,698 --> 00:18:59,639
♪

491
00:18:59,639 --> 00:19:02,600
[phone chimes]

492
00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:06,563
♪

493
00:19:06,563 --> 00:19:08,982
[chuckles]

494
00:19:08,982 --> 00:19:15,655
♪

495
00:19:15,655 --> 00:19:17,782
MADISON: ...Connor's desk,
this whole half.

496
00:19:17,782 --> 00:19:19,576
Right, we'll do that.

497
00:19:21,995 --> 00:19:24,581
So many... pages.

498
00:19:24,581 --> 00:19:25,957
I love it.

499
00:19:25,957 --> 00:19:28,460
It's Law & Order meets
the Ghost of Christmas Past.

500
00:19:28,460 --> 00:19:30,211
JEFFERSON: It's Dickens
with a deposition.

501
00:19:30,211 --> 00:19:32,547
Thanks, Jefferson!

502
00:19:32,547 --> 00:19:34,924
JEFFERSON: So, who do you
got in mind for Livingston?

503
00:19:34,924 --> 00:19:37,010
MADISON: Um, I have
found someone.

504
00:19:37,010 --> 00:19:38,345
Someone inexpensive?

505
00:19:38,345 --> 00:19:40,138
MADISON: Yes.
JEFFERSON: Would I know them?

506
00:19:40,138 --> 00:19:42,015
No, he's actually local.

507
00:19:42,015 --> 00:19:43,641
LENA: Oh.
JEFFERSON: Even better!

508
00:19:43,641 --> 00:19:45,477
[phone buzzing]

509
00:19:45,477 --> 00:19:47,187
Gotta take this.
MADISON: Okay.

510
00:19:47,187 --> 00:19:49,606
JEFFERSON: Go for Jefferson.

511
00:19:49,606 --> 00:19:51,858
LENA: So what's his name,
the new guy?

512
00:19:51,858 --> 00:19:56,780
MADISON: Uh, he actually
likes to go by Livingston.

513
00:19:56,780 --> 00:19:59,699
So he's a, uh, method actor!

514
00:19:59,699 --> 00:20:01,201
MADISON: I'm not sure.

515
00:20:01,201 --> 00:20:04,037
He's a little difficult
to read, so...

516
00:20:04,037 --> 00:20:05,538
[chuckles]

517
00:20:05,538 --> 00:20:07,540
Well, when do we
get to meet him?

518
00:20:07,540 --> 00:20:09,376
MADISON: He should be here any--

519
00:20:09,376 --> 00:20:11,086
you know, actors aren't
the most punctual.

520
00:20:11,086 --> 00:20:13,213
LIVINGSTON: I am not an actor!

521
00:20:13,213 --> 00:20:15,382
I'm a map-maker
and surveyor by trade,

522
00:20:15,382 --> 00:20:19,552
and by avocation
an illustrator and poet.

523
00:20:19,552 --> 00:20:24,724
♪

524
00:20:24,724 --> 00:20:26,643
He's here!

525
00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:35,443
MADISON: Everyone,
meet Major Henry Livingston Jr.

526
00:20:35,443 --> 00:20:36,861
LIVINGSTON: At your service.

527
00:20:36,861 --> 00:20:38,822
MADISON: I think you'll find
that he is well-versed

528
00:20:38,822 --> 00:20:42,575
in all things Livingston
and able to ad lib when needed.

529
00:20:42,575 --> 00:20:43,827
Ad lib?

530
00:20:43,827 --> 00:20:46,079
Ad libbing, yeah?
Uh...

531
00:20:46,079 --> 00:20:47,288
MADISON: Uh, Sean,
our stage manager,

532
00:20:47,288 --> 00:20:48,623
will get you some new pages.

533
00:20:48,623 --> 00:20:50,250
SEAN: Yes, here you go.
MADISON: Thank you.

534
00:20:50,250 --> 00:20:52,252
Thank you, my good sir.

535
00:20:52,252 --> 00:20:54,713
I assure you, these shall
receive my utmost attention.

536
00:20:54,713 --> 00:20:56,423
JEFFERSON: Is this
our Livingston?

537
00:20:56,423 --> 00:20:58,717
Oh, welcome aboard, Major!

538
00:20:58,717 --> 00:21:01,011
I am loving this costume.

539
00:21:01,011 --> 00:21:02,387
Great detail.
Very lived-in.

540
00:21:02,387 --> 00:21:03,555
Is this his or ours?

541
00:21:03,555 --> 00:21:04,848
You know what?
Never mind.

542
00:21:04,848 --> 00:21:07,308
Just send me the number
to your tailor, will ya?

543
00:21:07,308 --> 00:21:10,353
You're a bit of butter
upon bacon, aren't you?

544
00:21:10,353 --> 00:21:12,897
Well, don't tell
my cardiologist!

545
00:21:12,897 --> 00:21:14,232
[chuckles]

546
00:21:14,232 --> 00:21:16,151
Oh, he's our good guy, yeah?

547
00:21:16,151 --> 00:21:18,069
Maybe just lighten
him up a little bit.

548
00:21:18,069 --> 00:21:20,238
MADISON: Hmm.
JEFFERSON: Thanks.

549
00:21:20,238 --> 00:21:22,115
Alright, let's get it
on its feet.

550
00:21:22,115 --> 00:21:24,117
Yeah?

551
00:21:24,117 --> 00:21:26,661
Major, would you mind
reading your pages?

552
00:21:26,661 --> 00:21:28,163
Certainly.

553
00:21:28,163 --> 00:21:32,459
[clears throat]

554
00:21:32,459 --> 00:21:33,710
[sniffs]

555
00:21:33,710 --> 00:21:37,672
♪

556
00:21:37,672 --> 00:21:38,673
[chuckles]

557
00:21:41,217 --> 00:21:43,219
Out loud?

558
00:21:43,219 --> 00:21:46,931
Ah.

559
00:21:46,931 --> 00:21:49,559
I was commissioned major
in 1775.

560
00:21:49,559 --> 00:21:51,436
The fiddle
was a great distraction

561
00:21:51,436 --> 00:21:55,148
when hostilities began.

562
00:21:55,148 --> 00:21:59,319
Hmm, those were
trying days, indeed.

563
00:21:59,319 --> 00:22:01,613
It seemed as though
everyone strove to find

564
00:22:01,613 --> 00:22:04,783
some lighthearted distraction
to devote their attention

565
00:22:04,783 --> 00:22:07,077
from the uncertainty
that surrounded us.

566
00:22:07,077 --> 00:22:11,790
Though I do often point
to that time as the quiet spark

567
00:22:11,790 --> 00:22:15,710
for my own creative endeavours
later in my life.

568
00:22:17,545 --> 00:22:20,090
MADISON: That was perfect!

569
00:22:20,090 --> 00:22:22,634
Really, that was great.

570
00:22:22,634 --> 00:22:24,803
Okay!

571
00:22:24,803 --> 00:22:41,319
♪

572
00:22:41,319 --> 00:22:42,779
[message notification]

573
00:22:42,779 --> 00:22:46,074
♪

574
00:22:46,074 --> 00:22:48,159
[message notification]

575
00:22:48,159 --> 00:22:56,835
♪

576
00:22:56,835 --> 00:23:00,005
MADISON: Something
smells amazing.

577
00:23:00,005 --> 00:23:02,507
Oh, you're here. Again.

578
00:23:02,507 --> 00:23:04,801
I may have volunteered
to help Edna yesterday

579
00:23:04,801 --> 00:23:07,345
for tomorrow night's
Victorian Stroll.

580
00:23:07,345 --> 00:23:09,848
Well, Saturday night
is the most important night

581
00:23:09,848 --> 00:23:13,018
of the festival, and Connor
just volunteered to help

582
00:23:13,018 --> 00:23:14,269
make cookies to give out.

583
00:23:14,269 --> 00:23:15,854
You bake?

584
00:23:15,854 --> 00:23:17,772
CONNOR: Yeah, I have
a seven-year-old daughter.

585
00:23:17,772 --> 00:23:20,066
I mean, baking cookies
is the easiest skill

586
00:23:20,066 --> 00:23:23,069
I've learned along the way.

587
00:23:23,069 --> 00:23:25,196
EDNA: Tomorrow we could
assemble the gingerbread houses

588
00:23:25,196 --> 00:23:26,781
and then we could frost them.

589
00:23:26,781 --> 00:23:30,035
CONNOR: If my boss
lets me out on time.

590
00:23:30,035 --> 00:23:31,703
Are you staying here tonight?

591
00:23:31,703 --> 00:23:34,831
Oh, he's staying
through the holidays!

592
00:23:34,831 --> 00:23:36,583
I insisted.

593
00:23:36,583 --> 00:23:38,752
EDNA: A last-minute
cancellation, fortunately.

594
00:23:38,752 --> 00:23:40,211
Yeah.
Well, I mean, that hotel

595
00:23:40,211 --> 00:23:41,796
that he's staying at, I mean,

596
00:23:41,796 --> 00:23:45,216
that's just like a shoebox and
it has about as much charm...

597
00:23:45,216 --> 00:23:46,718
I'm so excited.
MADISON: Oh.

598
00:23:46,718 --> 00:23:48,136
Wow.

599
00:23:48,136 --> 00:23:49,971
CONNOR: Here.
MADISON: Ooh!

600
00:23:49,971 --> 00:23:51,598
Hello, Frosty.

601
00:23:51,598 --> 00:23:53,725
You're really making
yourself at home, huh?

602
00:23:53,725 --> 00:23:58,063
I could probably get you
a matching apron, if you like.

603
00:23:58,063 --> 00:24:00,357
Are you flirting with me?

604
00:24:00,357 --> 00:24:03,651
Do you want me to be?

605
00:24:03,651 --> 00:24:07,322
...Yes?

606
00:24:07,322 --> 00:24:08,865
[laughs]
Sorry!

607
00:24:08,865 --> 00:24:09,991
Aah!

608
00:24:09,991 --> 00:24:11,993
I am having such a hard time

609
00:24:11,993 --> 00:24:13,536
writing the romance
part of this play.

610
00:24:13,536 --> 00:24:15,372
I mean, am I so out of practice

611
00:24:15,372 --> 00:24:16,873
that I can't even write
banter anymore?

612
00:24:16,873 --> 00:24:20,126
Can I help?

613
00:24:20,126 --> 00:24:21,878
Tell me something romantic.

614
00:24:21,878 --> 00:24:23,672
CONNOR: Our kiss
in "Christmastime Cupid"

615
00:24:23,672 --> 00:24:25,548
was our favourite
on-screen kiss.

616
00:24:31,638 --> 00:24:36,184
I meant, like,
tell me a romantic story.

617
00:24:36,184 --> 00:24:40,939
Yeah!
Well, okay!

618
00:24:40,939 --> 00:24:42,315
That's embarrassing.

619
00:24:42,315 --> 00:24:46,361
No, no, it was a great kiss,
and a great...

620
00:24:46,361 --> 00:24:48,113
BOTH: Movie kiss.

621
00:24:48,113 --> 00:24:49,739
Right, that's what I was saying.

622
00:24:49,739 --> 00:24:53,034
MADISON: Yeah.
CONNOR: Yeah.

623
00:24:53,034 --> 00:24:54,953
[phone rings]

624
00:24:54,953 --> 00:24:57,122
Ah...

625
00:24:57,122 --> 00:24:58,707
It's Josie.
MADISON: Mm-hm.

626
00:24:58,707 --> 00:25:01,668
CONNOR: West Coast, bedtime.

627
00:25:03,962 --> 00:25:06,172
CONNOR: Hey, J-Bug!

628
00:25:06,172 --> 00:25:08,258
Hope you're being
good for Grandma.

629
00:25:10,677 --> 00:25:12,178
{\an8}You look like an elf.

630
00:25:12,178 --> 00:25:14,139
{\an8}Like, not the ones
at the houses;

631
00:25:14,139 --> 00:25:16,641
you look like the ones
that do, like, the jobs

632
00:25:16,641 --> 00:25:19,519
and make the toys
and cook the food for Santa.

633
00:25:19,519 --> 00:25:21,938
CONNOR: What do you
want for Christmas?

634
00:25:21,938 --> 00:25:23,565
JOSIE: Hmm.

635
00:25:23,565 --> 00:25:25,233
I honestly don't know.

636
00:25:25,233 --> 00:25:26,776
I want to be with you.

637
00:25:26,776 --> 00:25:29,237
CONNOR: I want
to be with you, too.

638
00:25:29,237 --> 00:25:30,780
See you soon.

639
00:25:30,780 --> 00:25:33,324
JOSIE: Goodnight!
CONNOR: Bye.

640
00:25:33,324 --> 00:25:35,618
[gavel bangs]

641
00:25:35,618 --> 00:25:37,328
JUDGE: Court is in session.

642
00:25:37,328 --> 00:25:39,998
[clears throat]

643
00:25:39,998 --> 00:25:41,458
Hmm.

644
00:25:41,458 --> 00:25:45,587
Y-you tes-- testified
that you wrote...

645
00:25:45,587 --> 00:25:49,299
"'Twas the Night Before
Christmas" in 1823 as...

646
00:25:49,299 --> 00:25:51,468
an entertainment.

647
00:25:51,468 --> 00:25:52,927
Entertainment?

648
00:25:52,927 --> 00:25:54,346
MADISON: Yeah.

649
00:25:54,346 --> 00:25:55,638
LENA: Uh, for...

650
00:25:55,638 --> 00:25:58,808
your children and...
that you...

651
00:25:58,808 --> 00:26:03,355
know it-- it was never
your intention...

652
00:26:03,355 --> 00:26:06,816
to see it...

653
00:26:06,816 --> 00:26:08,651
published!

654
00:26:14,616 --> 00:26:17,035
Uh...
Major?

655
00:26:17,035 --> 00:26:20,121
That's your line.

656
00:26:20,121 --> 00:26:22,415
Yes, that's correct.

657
00:26:22,415 --> 00:26:25,752
A... lot of people...

658
00:26:25,752 --> 00:26:30,674
have criticized your clams...

659
00:26:30,674 --> 00:26:32,884
<i>Claims</i>!

660
00:26:32,884 --> 00:26:35,011
LENA: "Claims,"
that makes more sense.

661
00:26:35,011 --> 00:26:37,347
Because you never...

662
00:26:37,347 --> 00:26:38,640
before...

663
00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:41,434
declared author-ships.

664
00:26:41,434 --> 00:26:43,228
Ship...

665
00:26:43,228 --> 00:26:45,313
Sorry!
Uh...

666
00:26:45,313 --> 00:26:48,900
What is your response?

667
00:26:48,900 --> 00:26:52,112
LIVINGSTON: I never wanted
a name put to it at all.

668
00:26:52,112 --> 00:26:54,906
My poem is a celebration
of Christmas magic.

669
00:26:54,906 --> 00:26:58,368
I wanted my children,
all children,

670
00:26:58,368 --> 00:27:00,620
to experience that magic,

671
00:27:00,620 --> 00:27:03,665
as if it might have come from
St. Nicholas himself.

672
00:27:03,665 --> 00:27:07,711
When it comes to my poetry,
my family, and my heart,

673
00:27:07,711 --> 00:27:10,296
I would not sell you a dog.

674
00:27:10,296 --> 00:27:12,090
Sell a dog, sell...

675
00:27:12,090 --> 00:27:13,550
Sell a dog?
That's...

676
00:27:13,550 --> 00:27:15,719
That's not in my--
that's not in my script!

677
00:27:15,719 --> 00:27:18,138
CONNOR: No, no, it's okay.
Just... just go with it.

678
00:27:18,138 --> 00:27:19,139
LENA: [confused muttering]

679
00:27:19,139 --> 00:27:21,099
MADISON: Yeah.

680
00:27:21,099 --> 00:27:23,226
LENA: I'm so sorry, I'm just...
I'm really nervous.

681
00:27:23,226 --> 00:27:25,437
I really want to be good,
for you, for this.

682
00:27:25,437 --> 00:27:27,105
But, um, my mind feels like

683
00:27:27,105 --> 00:27:28,940
it's just going
a million miles a minute.

684
00:27:28,940 --> 00:27:31,443
And I knew my lines, I did,
I knew all of my lines,

685
00:27:31,443 --> 00:27:33,445
but now there are
way more lines!

686
00:27:33,445 --> 00:27:35,655
And this new guy in here,
I mean,

687
00:27:35,655 --> 00:27:37,198
he's just making up
all his own lines.

688
00:27:37,198 --> 00:27:39,200
He's coming in with
his accent, his clothes--

689
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:41,119
I know.
I know, I know.

690
00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:42,412
Are you gonna fire me?

691
00:27:42,412 --> 00:27:45,874
No.

692
00:27:45,874 --> 00:27:50,837
If Jefferson wasn't
the producer?

693
00:27:50,837 --> 00:27:52,630
MADISON: Lena...
LENA: I get it.

694
00:27:52,630 --> 00:27:55,383
I really thought
I would be better.

695
00:27:55,383 --> 00:27:57,927
But I can act.
I can, I promise.

696
00:27:57,927 --> 00:28:00,263
It's just...
it's been a while.

697
00:28:00,263 --> 00:28:02,098
How long?

698
00:28:02,098 --> 00:28:05,310
Freshman year of college,
I was Ado Annie in Oklahoma!

699
00:28:05,310 --> 00:28:07,270
Okay!

700
00:28:07,270 --> 00:28:09,397
LENA: Should I...
I mean, should I maybe...

701
00:28:09,397 --> 00:28:10,648
sing my lines?
MADISON: No!

702
00:28:10,648 --> 00:28:12,275
No, no, no.
No singing.

703
00:28:12,275 --> 00:28:13,902
Please.

704
00:28:13,902 --> 00:28:16,154
LENA: It's just I'm feeling
really self-conscious

705
00:28:16,154 --> 00:28:19,783
because it feels like
they're all looking at me

706
00:28:19,783 --> 00:28:21,493
like I don't know
what I'm doing,

707
00:28:21,493 --> 00:28:25,622
and... and it just kind of makes
my brain shut off until I...

708
00:28:25,622 --> 00:28:29,125
don't know what I'm doing.

709
00:28:29,125 --> 00:28:32,379
You know, I used to
get like that, too.

710
00:28:32,379 --> 00:28:33,672
LENA: You did?
MADISON: Yeah.

711
00:28:33,672 --> 00:28:35,757
How did you get over it?

712
00:28:35,757 --> 00:28:37,634
Well, my dad had this...

713
00:28:37,634 --> 00:28:41,680
this technique that...

714
00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:43,181
You know what?

715
00:28:43,181 --> 00:28:46,685
How do you feel
about gingerbread?

716
00:28:46,685 --> 00:28:49,187
In what way?

717
00:28:49,187 --> 00:28:51,439
Come with me.
Come on.

718
00:28:55,026 --> 00:28:59,155
So, this is the overall vision
of what we want to accomplish.

719
00:28:59,155 --> 00:29:00,532
CONNOR: Hmm.

720
00:29:00,532 --> 00:29:02,242
Mm-hm.

721
00:29:02,242 --> 00:29:04,536
I... I thought this
was an acting lesson.

722
00:29:04,536 --> 00:29:06,079
MADISON: It is.

723
00:29:06,079 --> 00:29:09,165
So, do you have an overall
vision for your character?

724
00:29:09,165 --> 00:29:11,584
I think so.

725
00:29:11,584 --> 00:29:13,712
MADISON: Can you tell me
some elements of her

726
00:29:13,712 --> 00:29:15,046
that you think are important?

727
00:29:15,046 --> 00:29:20,218
LENA: Um, I think that
she is someone who...

728
00:29:20,218 --> 00:29:22,095
believes in the truth!

729
00:29:22,095 --> 00:29:23,722
And is truth
her cornerstone?

730
00:29:23,722 --> 00:29:25,724
LENA: Yes.
MADISON: Great.

731
00:29:25,724 --> 00:29:28,393
Okay, so the gingerbread
is the cornerstone

732
00:29:28,393 --> 00:29:29,602
of the gingerbread house, right?

733
00:29:29,602 --> 00:29:32,731
At least for our purposes here.

734
00:29:32,731 --> 00:29:34,315
Sure, yeah.

735
00:29:34,315 --> 00:29:36,192
MADISON: Okay, so if
truth is her cornerstone,

736
00:29:36,192 --> 00:29:38,028
pointing her
in the right direction,

737
00:29:38,028 --> 00:29:42,240
what is the element that
binds those truths together?

738
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:44,200
Sugar?

739
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:47,078
♪

740
00:29:47,078 --> 00:29:49,372
She couldn't have gone
very far in her search

741
00:29:49,372 --> 00:29:50,957
for the truth without...?

742
00:29:50,957 --> 00:29:53,418
Money!

743
00:29:53,418 --> 00:29:56,254
MADISON: Hmm.
Um...

744
00:29:56,254 --> 00:29:57,630
Tenacity?

745
00:29:57,630 --> 00:29:58,882
Yeah, that too. Yeah.

746
00:29:58,882 --> 00:30:00,300
MADISON: Alright, tenacity.

747
00:30:00,300 --> 00:30:04,054
So we are gonna make
the royal icing our tenacity.

748
00:30:04,054 --> 00:30:07,766
So if these two pieces
are the truth,

749
00:30:07,766 --> 00:30:11,186
can you recall some lines
of the play that represent

750
00:30:11,186 --> 00:30:14,272
your character's quest
for the truth?

751
00:30:14,272 --> 00:30:16,107
LENA: 'Twas the Night Before--
MADISON: Wait, wait.

752
00:30:16,107 --> 00:30:18,693
I want you to do that while
putting this together.

753
00:30:18,693 --> 00:30:21,112
Okay?
Just trust me.

754
00:30:21,112 --> 00:30:23,281
♪

755
00:30:23,281 --> 00:30:24,532
Oop!

756
00:30:24,532 --> 00:30:26,284
Okay.

757
00:30:26,284 --> 00:30:30,080
[clears throat]

758
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:31,122
Uh...

759
00:30:31,122 --> 00:30:34,125
"'Twas the Night
Before Christmas"

760
00:30:34,125 --> 00:30:38,672
was published anonymously
in the Troy Sentinel in 1823.

761
00:30:38,672 --> 00:30:41,341
It wasn't until 1844,

762
00:30:41,341 --> 00:30:44,803
after the poem
had already become popular,

763
00:30:44,803 --> 00:30:48,515
that Clement Clarke Moore
claimed authorship of it.

764
00:30:48,515 --> 00:30:51,142
Why the wait?
Was he shy?

765
00:30:51,142 --> 00:30:54,854
Or was it because
the poem's true author,

766
00:30:54,854 --> 00:30:59,734
Henry Livingston Jr.,
had already passed away?

767
00:30:59,734 --> 00:31:04,155
I am here to say
that it's the latter.

768
00:31:04,155 --> 00:31:10,453
♪

769
00:31:10,453 --> 00:31:11,663
What?

770
00:31:11,663 --> 00:31:15,333
That was line-by-line perfect.

771
00:31:15,333 --> 00:31:16,835
I didn't get nervous!

772
00:31:16,835 --> 00:31:18,670
MADISON: No, because you were
concentrating on something

773
00:31:18,670 --> 00:31:21,172
other than just the words,
you see?

774
00:31:21,172 --> 00:31:23,758
Okay, so when you need
to remember that section

775
00:31:23,758 --> 00:31:25,844
of the dialogue,
you think of these two pieces

776
00:31:25,844 --> 00:31:27,846
and you remember
the lines that go with them.

777
00:31:27,846 --> 00:31:30,432
What if someone
ad libs again?

778
00:31:30,432 --> 00:31:32,392
Then you think of
this gingerbread house

779
00:31:32,392 --> 00:31:36,104
and you respond from
who your character is:

780
00:31:36,104 --> 00:31:38,606
truth-seeking and tenacious.

781
00:31:38,606 --> 00:31:41,693
She believes that Livingston
is the real author who wrote

782
00:31:41,693 --> 00:31:43,028
"'Twas the Night
Before Christmas,"

783
00:31:43,028 --> 00:31:45,321
not Moore, and she's
gonna prove that.

784
00:31:45,321 --> 00:31:46,865
Respond from there.

785
00:31:46,865 --> 00:31:48,074
Yeah?
LENA: Yeah.

786
00:31:48,074 --> 00:31:49,367
[laughs]

787
00:31:49,367 --> 00:31:52,370
Great!

788
00:31:52,370 --> 00:31:55,331
Alright, next section.

789
00:31:55,331 --> 00:31:58,043
[instrumental "King Wenceslas"
playing]

790
00:31:58,043 --> 00:32:03,381
[indistinct chatter]

791
00:32:03,381 --> 00:32:11,723
♪

792
00:32:11,723 --> 00:32:13,725
Hello!

793
00:32:13,725 --> 00:32:15,518
Two houses?

794
00:32:15,518 --> 00:32:16,811
CONNOR: Three, actually.

795
00:32:16,811 --> 00:32:19,356
EDNA: [laughs]
Okay!

796
00:32:19,356 --> 00:32:20,982
CONNOR: Lena went
a little overboard.

797
00:32:20,982 --> 00:32:22,776
EDNA: I can see that.

798
00:32:22,776 --> 00:32:25,236
Uh, but we won't say no!

799
00:32:25,236 --> 00:32:26,738
Thank you.

800
00:32:26,738 --> 00:32:29,532
All proceeds from the bake sale
go to planting more trees

801
00:32:29,532 --> 00:32:33,244
in downtown Troy, so thank you
both, and thank you, Lena.

802
00:32:33,244 --> 00:32:35,372
Absolutely.

803
00:32:35,372 --> 00:32:37,415
EDNA: Are you two
going to stick around,

804
00:32:37,415 --> 00:32:39,834
or do you have more work
to do on the play?

805
00:32:39,834 --> 00:32:42,128
I actually do have
one more scene to write,

806
00:32:42,128 --> 00:32:44,839
but I honestly think I'm just
too exhausted to do it tonight.

807
00:32:44,839 --> 00:32:46,675
EDNA: Well, in that case,

808
00:32:46,675 --> 00:32:48,927
you should take one little
stroll around the festival.

809
00:32:48,927 --> 00:32:50,929
It's... it's
really quite special.

810
00:32:50,929 --> 00:32:54,224
MADISON: Mm!
CONNOR: I'm game.

811
00:33:00,230 --> 00:33:02,273
MADISON: Thank you.
CONNOR: Ooh!

812
00:33:02,273 --> 00:33:04,818
MADISON: Whoa!

813
00:33:04,818 --> 00:33:07,278
Yes!
CONNOR: A-ha-ha!

814
00:33:07,278 --> 00:33:10,740
BOTH: Cheers.

815
00:33:10,740 --> 00:33:12,033
Mmm!

816
00:33:12,033 --> 00:33:13,952
CONNOR: Mmm!
MADISON: Mmm, that is so good!

817
00:33:13,952 --> 00:33:17,080
Pretty sure that's not
from the Victorian Era.

818
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:20,500
I am so fine not diving into
that time period right now.

819
00:33:20,500 --> 00:33:22,502
This is delicious.

820
00:33:22,502 --> 00:33:23,962
Mmm!

821
00:33:23,962 --> 00:33:26,172
CONNOR: Mmm.

822
00:33:26,172 --> 00:33:29,634
MADISON: So, who do you think
our Livingston really is?

823
00:33:29,634 --> 00:33:33,138
CONNOR: My money's on him being
a history teacher in real life.

824
00:33:33,138 --> 00:33:34,597
MADISON: Too obvious.
CONNOR: Yeah?

825
00:33:34,597 --> 00:33:35,765
MADISON: Yeah.

826
00:33:35,765 --> 00:33:38,435
Who do you think he is?

827
00:33:38,435 --> 00:33:40,562
A retired spy...

828
00:33:40,562 --> 00:33:42,981
who still likes to put on
different personas.

829
00:33:42,981 --> 00:33:45,567
What, like a
centuries-dead poet?

830
00:33:45,567 --> 00:33:47,652
Perfect cover, yeah?

831
00:33:47,652 --> 00:33:50,530
CONNOR: Yeah.

832
00:33:50,530 --> 00:33:52,615
You know, that was
some seriously impressive

833
00:33:52,615 --> 00:33:54,993
teaching technique
you used back there on Lena.

834
00:33:54,993 --> 00:33:56,369
MADISON: Hmm.

835
00:33:56,369 --> 00:33:58,371
It was a trick my dad taught me

836
00:33:58,371 --> 00:34:00,457
when I first started on
"Bet Your Bottom Dollar."

837
00:34:00,457 --> 00:34:03,501
Association, chunking,
and visualization.

838
00:34:03,501 --> 00:34:06,004
Break down large chunks
of content into smaller parts

839
00:34:06,004 --> 00:34:07,630
to make it easier to remember,

840
00:34:07,630 --> 00:34:11,885
and then associate those pieces
with a particular image.

841
00:34:11,885 --> 00:34:13,762
CONNOR: Gingerbread?
MADISON: Gingerbread.

842
00:34:13,762 --> 00:34:15,055
And then when
it's time to recall,

843
00:34:15,055 --> 00:34:17,182
you pull up that image
and the words will come.

844
00:34:17,182 --> 00:34:19,100
CONNOR: Huh.
MADISON: Yeah.

845
00:34:19,100 --> 00:34:20,727
CONNOR: Was your dad an actor?

846
00:34:20,727 --> 00:34:21,811
MADISON: Mm...

847
00:34:21,811 --> 00:34:23,188
No.

848
00:34:23,188 --> 00:34:26,066
Uh, actually,
he was a cognitive psychologist.

849
00:34:26,066 --> 00:34:28,568
And he loved the theatre,

850
00:34:28,568 --> 00:34:30,445
and he took me to see
"The Nutcracker"

851
00:34:30,445 --> 00:34:32,864
when I was barely four,
and that was it.

852
00:34:32,864 --> 00:34:34,449
I loved it.

853
00:34:34,449 --> 00:34:36,910
And he took me to voice,
ballet, stage combat.

854
00:34:36,910 --> 00:34:38,328
Nice!

855
00:34:38,328 --> 00:34:41,081
Yeah, I loved
everything about it.

856
00:34:41,081 --> 00:34:44,459
The smell of the grease paint,
the imagination,

857
00:34:44,459 --> 00:34:46,544
but mostly because it
was our thing, you know?

858
00:34:46,544 --> 00:34:48,713
Mm-hm.

859
00:34:48,713 --> 00:34:51,216
I was 11 when he passed away.

860
00:34:51,216 --> 00:34:54,469
It was season two
of me playing Marly Wilkens,

861
00:34:54,469 --> 00:34:57,722
and... I know
he was so proud of me,

862
00:34:57,722 --> 00:35:00,433
but I always had this feeling
that he wanted me to go back

863
00:35:00,433 --> 00:35:01,726
to the theatre.

864
00:35:01,726 --> 00:35:05,271
Maybe even Broadway, someday.

865
00:35:05,271 --> 00:35:07,816
He'd have loved that.

866
00:35:07,816 --> 00:35:09,901
You're back doing theatre now.

867
00:35:09,901 --> 00:35:12,028
Years later.

868
00:35:12,028 --> 00:35:14,906
You could have kept doing TV,
a great career,

869
00:35:14,906 --> 00:35:16,741
but you took a risk.

870
00:35:16,741 --> 00:35:18,868
I admire that.

871
00:35:18,868 --> 00:35:22,997
MADISON: Yeah?
CONNOR: Yeah.

872
00:35:22,997 --> 00:35:25,750
Thanks.

873
00:35:25,750 --> 00:35:32,716
♪

874
00:35:39,472 --> 00:35:41,599
CONNOR: Reindeer, reindeer,
please, please.

875
00:35:41,599 --> 00:35:44,602
Oh, perfect. Yeah.

876
00:35:44,602 --> 00:35:45,812
[funny voice]
Hello.

877
00:35:45,812 --> 00:35:47,272
How are you?

878
00:35:47,272 --> 00:35:49,441
[normal voice] Oh, I'm great.
Thank you for asking.

879
00:35:49,441 --> 00:35:51,109
MADISON: That's very sweet.

880
00:35:51,109 --> 00:35:53,194
Thank you!

881
00:35:53,194 --> 00:35:54,362
MADISON: Thanks for
letting me tag along.

882
00:35:54,362 --> 00:35:56,281
I think I actually
started to blink in time

883
00:35:56,281 --> 00:35:57,782
with the cursor this morning.

884
00:35:57,782 --> 00:36:00,118
Well, anytime you need
a distraction, I'm your man.

885
00:36:00,118 --> 00:36:03,538
MADISON: Thanks.

886
00:36:03,538 --> 00:36:05,749
CONNOR: [funny voice]
And I'm your reindeer!

887
00:36:05,749 --> 00:36:07,042
[whooshing wind noise]

888
00:36:07,042 --> 00:36:09,169
MOORE: He is a charlatan!

889
00:36:10,462 --> 00:36:12,255
I'm sorry?

890
00:36:12,255 --> 00:36:16,009
You cannot allow this
mockery to go unchallenged.

891
00:36:16,009 --> 00:36:18,136
[laughs]

892
00:36:18,136 --> 00:36:19,596
I am so lost.

893
00:36:19,596 --> 00:36:21,431
Livingston.

894
00:36:21,431 --> 00:36:23,433
You are the one
to defend the truth

895
00:36:23,433 --> 00:36:28,605
and end this fallacy for good.

896
00:36:28,605 --> 00:36:30,607
MADISON: You gonna
get that for Josie?

897
00:36:30,607 --> 00:36:32,525
CONNOR: Uh...

898
00:36:32,525 --> 00:36:33,443
Uh--

899
00:36:36,613 --> 00:36:38,823
Uh...

900
00:36:38,823 --> 00:36:41,493
Yeah!
I think I will.

901
00:36:41,493 --> 00:36:45,789
Okay.

902
00:36:45,789 --> 00:36:47,791
You good?

903
00:36:47,791 --> 00:36:50,251
Yeah!

904
00:36:54,881 --> 00:37:00,679
♪

905
00:37:00,679 --> 00:37:03,890
EDNA: Oh, there you are!

906
00:37:03,890 --> 00:37:05,475
CONNOR: Good morning, Edna.

907
00:37:05,475 --> 00:37:08,645
EDNA: Well,
I will have you know,

908
00:37:08,645 --> 00:37:11,981
your gingerbread houses
were the talk of the table.

909
00:37:11,981 --> 00:37:13,441
CONNOR: [chuckles]

910
00:37:13,441 --> 00:37:15,652
EDNA: They raised three times
as much as expected.

911
00:37:15,652 --> 00:37:18,071
That's great, Edna.

912
00:37:18,071 --> 00:37:19,906
Something wrong, hun?

913
00:37:19,906 --> 00:37:22,409
Uh, yeah, just...

914
00:37:22,409 --> 00:37:25,161
champagne problems, as they say.

915
00:37:25,161 --> 00:37:27,706
My agent sent me a project
with a direct offer.

916
00:37:27,706 --> 00:37:29,332
Oh, no.

917
00:37:29,332 --> 00:37:31,543
And it's the week
before Christmas,

918
00:37:31,543 --> 00:37:33,837
and you can't
do the play and you--

919
00:37:33,837 --> 00:37:35,755
No, I can do the play.

920
00:37:35,755 --> 00:37:39,467
It starts in early January
and films in Lithuania.

921
00:37:39,467 --> 00:37:40,510
Oh!

922
00:37:40,510 --> 00:37:42,345
Well, that is
a beautiful country.

923
00:37:42,345 --> 00:37:43,930
CONNOR: It is.

924
00:37:43,930 --> 00:37:47,726
And I've always loved travelling
for work, it's just...

925
00:37:47,726 --> 00:37:49,894
I don't want to be that far away
from my daughter anymore.

926
00:37:49,894 --> 00:37:52,105
It's not like when
she was little and I could just

927
00:37:52,105 --> 00:37:53,732
pack her up
and bring her with me.

928
00:37:53,732 --> 00:37:55,316
EDNA: I get it.

929
00:37:55,316 --> 00:37:57,235
Priorities change, especially
when you become a parent.

930
00:37:57,235 --> 00:37:59,195
You know, when I met my husband,

931
00:37:59,195 --> 00:38:01,656
he was the pilot
and I was the flight attendant,

932
00:38:01,656 --> 00:38:03,992
but once our
first child came along,

933
00:38:03,992 --> 00:38:05,744
we made some changes.

934
00:38:05,744 --> 00:38:07,203
The B&B?

935
00:38:07,203 --> 00:38:09,080
EDNA: My sister owns
the bakery in town,

936
00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:12,000
so it just made sense
to settle here.

937
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:13,626
And, well, it was a big change

938
00:38:13,626 --> 00:38:15,295
and it was
certainly challenging,

939
00:38:15,295 --> 00:38:18,381
but it was the right choice
for our family.

940
00:38:18,381 --> 00:38:21,426
Lives evolve, right?

941
00:38:21,426 --> 00:38:25,221
Sometimes reinventing yourself
can be a really good thing.

942
00:38:25,221 --> 00:38:27,098
Like what Madison's doing.

943
00:38:27,098 --> 00:38:29,184
I mean, who knows.

944
00:38:29,184 --> 00:38:31,102
Maybe you could become
a lawyer for real.

945
00:38:31,102 --> 00:38:34,522
[both laugh]
CONNOR: Hmm.

946
00:38:34,522 --> 00:38:38,860
♪

947
00:38:38,860 --> 00:38:40,028
HAYLEY: Gingerbread?

948
00:38:40,028 --> 00:38:41,946
MADISON: Three houses' worth.

949
00:38:41,946 --> 00:38:43,865
HAYLEY: I'm so gonna steal
that for my next movie.

950
00:38:43,865 --> 00:38:45,367
MADISON: Connor said
you would say that.

951
00:38:45,367 --> 00:38:47,118
Connor did, did he?

952
00:38:47,118 --> 00:38:49,788
MADISON: No, no,
don't even start.

953
00:38:49,788 --> 00:38:51,456
You brought up his name,

954
00:38:51,456 --> 00:38:53,333
for the fifth time
in the last four minutes.

955
00:38:53,333 --> 00:38:54,709
{\an8}MADISON: Hayley...
HAYLEY: What?!

956
00:38:54,709 --> 00:38:57,003
{\an8}I'm not saying
you're going steady.

957
00:38:57,003 --> 00:38:58,505
{\an8}MADISON: [sighs]
HAYLEY: Are you?

958
00:38:58,505 --> 00:39:00,340
{\an8}I'm just teasing you.

959
00:39:00,340 --> 00:39:01,841
{\an8}I'll stop.
No more Connor jokes.

960
00:39:01,841 --> 00:39:03,426
Thank you.

961
00:39:03,426 --> 00:39:05,637
So, have you finished
those 14 pages of notes yet?

962
00:39:05,637 --> 00:39:06,971
Yeah.

963
00:39:06,971 --> 00:39:08,807
And now I have nine new ones.

964
00:39:08,807 --> 00:39:10,975
The director and producers
have different visions.

965
00:39:10,975 --> 00:39:12,310
Wow.

966
00:39:12,310 --> 00:39:13,645
HAYLEY: I reminded
them last night

967
00:39:13,645 --> 00:39:15,939
that this is a movie about
Santa Claus on vacation,

968
00:39:15,939 --> 00:39:17,315
not Jake in Chinatown.

969
00:39:17,315 --> 00:39:19,359
{\an8}So no early return to Troy?

970
00:39:19,359 --> 00:39:21,778
{\an8}HAYLEY: Sorry.
MADISON: No, it's okay.

971
00:39:21,778 --> 00:39:23,071
[alarm clock rings]

972
00:39:23,071 --> 00:39:25,490
HAYLEY: And that marks
the end of my 15-minute

973
00:39:25,490 --> 00:39:28,326
human interaction break.
Knock 'em dead out there.

974
00:39:28,326 --> 00:39:32,205
You too. Bye.

975
00:39:32,205 --> 00:39:33,415
[sighs]

976
00:39:38,294 --> 00:39:41,297
You think I don't know?

977
00:39:41,297 --> 00:39:45,093
You only took this case because
you knew you would see me again.

978
00:39:47,721 --> 00:39:49,472
Oh...
That was-- that was good!

979
00:39:49,472 --> 00:39:51,141
LENA: Yeah?
Really, you think so?

980
00:39:51,141 --> 00:39:52,142
JEFFERSON: Oh, yeah!

981
00:39:52,142 --> 00:39:53,435
Uh-huh!

982
00:39:53,435 --> 00:39:55,311
Wait, what's with
the gingerbread?

983
00:39:55,311 --> 00:39:57,856
I'm learning my lines.

984
00:39:57,856 --> 00:40:00,400
Actors are weird.

985
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:01,901
You called me an actor.

986
00:40:01,901 --> 00:40:03,194
Well, because you are.

987
00:40:03,194 --> 00:40:05,905
No one's ever
called me an actor before.

988
00:40:05,905 --> 00:40:09,701
Lena, my dear,
if I didn't believe in you,

989
00:40:09,701 --> 00:40:11,870
I never would have backed
this poem trial story.

990
00:40:11,870 --> 00:40:14,039
I mean, what do I know
about putting on plays?

991
00:40:14,039 --> 00:40:15,373
I'm a film guy.

992
00:40:15,373 --> 00:40:18,084
I did this
so you'd believe in you.

993
00:40:18,084 --> 00:40:20,712
That might be the sweetest thing
you've ever said to me.

994
00:40:20,712 --> 00:40:22,088
JEFFERSON: I can't wait
for the world

995
00:40:22,088 --> 00:40:23,715
to see you up on that stage.

996
00:40:23,715 --> 00:40:26,968
And... you know
who could be the first?

997
00:40:26,968 --> 00:40:28,762
Sophia Farentino.

998
00:40:28,762 --> 00:40:31,389
Sophia Farentino,
the Broadway producer?!

999
00:40:31,389 --> 00:40:33,183
No, you're kidding.
Are you kidding?

1000
00:40:33,183 --> 00:40:34,392
I'm working on it.

1001
00:40:34,392 --> 00:40:36,227
Oh, thank you!
You're the best!

1002
00:40:36,227 --> 00:40:37,562
I can't wait!
I'm so excited.

1003
00:40:37,562 --> 00:40:39,147
Thank you, thank you, thank you.

1004
00:40:39,147 --> 00:40:41,566
I've gotta finish
learning my lines.

1005
00:40:41,566 --> 00:40:43,151
JEFFERSON: Gingerbread!

1006
00:40:46,446 --> 00:40:48,907
MADISON: Oh,
wrapping Josie's presents?

1007
00:40:48,907 --> 00:40:50,033
You need help?

1008
00:40:50,033 --> 00:40:51,951
Sure.

1009
00:40:55,455 --> 00:40:58,833
"A Guide to Legal Research"...

1010
00:40:58,833 --> 00:41:01,252
"Great Debates
in Criminal Law"...

1011
00:41:01,252 --> 00:41:04,005
Wow, Josie is very advanced.

1012
00:41:04,005 --> 00:41:06,466
CONNOR: Those are mine.
MADISON: Hmm!

1013
00:41:06,466 --> 00:41:08,301
What can I say,

1014
00:41:08,301 --> 00:41:10,261
I'm inspired
by Livingston's acting method.

1015
00:41:10,261 --> 00:41:11,846
MADISON: Mm.

1016
00:41:11,846 --> 00:41:12,806
Hm.

1017
00:41:15,266 --> 00:41:16,476
So, the thing is,

1018
00:41:16,476 --> 00:41:18,853
I always wanted to be a lawyer.

1019
00:41:18,853 --> 00:41:20,605
Yeah, you mentioned
something about that.

1020
00:41:20,605 --> 00:41:22,774
My mom was a single mom.

1021
00:41:22,774 --> 00:41:25,235
We didn't grow up
with a lot of resources.

1022
00:41:25,235 --> 00:41:28,071
I did get some scholarships,
but it was still a stretch.

1023
00:41:28,071 --> 00:41:31,449
Ironically, law school was how
I wound up being an actor.

1024
00:41:31,449 --> 00:41:33,201
I don't understand.

1025
00:41:33,201 --> 00:41:34,619
A good lawyer
needs to be able to

1026
00:41:34,619 --> 00:41:36,371
think on his feet, right?

1027
00:41:36,371 --> 00:41:40,291
Change course
at the drop of a hat.

1028
00:41:40,291 --> 00:41:42,502
So I signed up for
an improv class.

1029
00:41:42,502 --> 00:41:44,629
I was the only law student
in the group.

1030
00:41:44,629 --> 00:41:46,673
And one night,
a casting agent comes in there

1031
00:41:46,673 --> 00:41:48,842
and she offers
to take me for a commercial.

1032
00:41:48,842 --> 00:41:50,010
And you got it?

1033
00:41:50,010 --> 00:41:51,511
I did.

1034
00:41:51,511 --> 00:41:54,472
I paid for that whole
next semester in cash.

1035
00:41:54,472 --> 00:41:55,807
It felt good.

1036
00:41:55,807 --> 00:41:57,767
And then what,
acting just took over?

1037
00:41:57,767 --> 00:41:59,894
Well, before I knew it,
I had met Regina

1038
00:41:59,894 --> 00:42:02,522
and Josie had come along,
and the fastest way for me

1039
00:42:02,522 --> 00:42:05,650
to support my family
was to just keep going forward.

1040
00:42:05,650 --> 00:42:08,903
On the road that
you accidentally chose.

1041
00:42:08,903 --> 00:42:12,115
Or the road that
accidentally chose me.

1042
00:42:14,993 --> 00:42:18,496
So then, what are
you doing with this?

1043
00:42:18,496 --> 00:42:20,832
I told you,
I'm researching my role

1044
00:42:20,832 --> 00:42:25,253
as Moore's defence counsel.

1045
00:42:25,253 --> 00:42:27,922
So, how's the romance polish?

1046
00:42:27,922 --> 00:42:29,424
MADISON: Hmph!

1047
00:42:29,424 --> 00:42:32,344
It's much easier making
Livingston the good guy than...

1048
00:42:32,344 --> 00:42:34,679
writing that.

1049
00:42:34,679 --> 00:42:36,848
Yeah, I was gonna
ask you about that.

1050
00:42:36,848 --> 00:42:39,351
Have you given any thought
to having the ghost of Moore

1051
00:42:39,351 --> 00:42:41,686
give his testimony?

1052
00:42:41,686 --> 00:42:44,022
It seems only fair.

1053
00:42:44,022 --> 00:42:47,275
We open in three days!

1054
00:42:47,275 --> 00:42:49,277
Just pass me the tape.

1055
00:42:49,277 --> 00:42:50,445
CONNOR: Okay.
MADISON: Please.

1056
00:42:50,445 --> 00:42:52,947
And a bow.
Thank you!

1057
00:42:58,912 --> 00:43:00,872
Checking in.
How's it going?

1058
00:43:00,872 --> 00:43:02,749
It's going.

1059
00:43:02,749 --> 00:43:05,210
And hopefully we're gonna get
through a full rehearsal today.

1060
00:43:05,210 --> 00:43:06,419
WALTER: Hopefully?

1061
00:43:06,419 --> 00:43:07,837
We've had a few hiccups,

1062
00:43:07,837 --> 00:43:09,547
but I think everything
is smoothed out now.

1063
00:43:09,547 --> 00:43:11,007
I hope so!

1064
00:43:11,007 --> 00:43:12,967
Some of your fan sites
have already gotten wind

1065
00:43:12,967 --> 00:43:14,803
of your new phase.

1066
00:43:14,803 --> 00:43:17,555
Even some pics of you out there
in some English period setting?

1067
00:43:17,555 --> 00:43:19,224
It's the Victorian Stroll.

1068
00:43:19,224 --> 00:43:21,935
I told you, it happens
every year here in Troy.

1069
00:43:21,935 --> 00:43:23,311
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1070
00:43:23,311 --> 00:43:25,730
Hey, did you get that email,
uh, about the producers?

1071
00:43:25,730 --> 00:43:28,024
Yes, Walter, I did.
WALTER: And...?

1072
00:43:28,024 --> 00:43:30,819
MADISON: And I'm concentrating
on directing.

1073
00:43:30,819 --> 00:43:33,405
We've discussed this.
A lot.

1074
00:43:33,405 --> 00:43:35,031
For how long?

1075
00:43:35,031 --> 00:43:36,950
Just let me get through
one production

1076
00:43:36,950 --> 00:43:39,494
and then we can
talk again, okay?

1077
00:43:39,494 --> 00:43:41,413
I'm worried, Maddy.

1078
00:43:41,413 --> 00:43:42,789
Why?

1079
00:43:42,789 --> 00:43:44,624
WALTER: What if
something goes wrong?

1080
00:43:44,624 --> 00:43:47,002
I mean, you've
bitten off a lot here.

1081
00:43:47,002 --> 00:43:49,254
Writing with Hayley
and directing

1082
00:43:49,254 --> 00:43:51,589
for a one-night-only play.

1083
00:43:51,589 --> 00:43:55,135
Theatre isn't exactly
your regular field, Maddy.

1084
00:43:55,135 --> 00:43:56,803
I can do this, Walter.

1085
00:43:56,803 --> 00:43:59,514
I can.

1086
00:43:59,514 --> 00:44:01,850
Uh, look, I have to go.

1087
00:44:01,850 --> 00:44:03,018
Hi!

1088
00:44:03,018 --> 00:44:04,811
There she is,
our fearless leader,

1089
00:44:04,811 --> 00:44:06,271
Madison Rush herself.

1090
00:44:06,271 --> 00:44:07,814
Uh-oh, now I'm nervous.

1091
00:44:07,814 --> 00:44:10,316
JEFFERSON: Ha, yes,
and she's hilarious, to boot.

1092
00:44:10,316 --> 00:44:13,319
Now, Madison Rush, I want
you to meet one of the finest

1093
00:44:13,319 --> 00:44:16,614
theatrical producers of the
21st century, Sophia Farentino.

1094
00:44:16,614 --> 00:44:17,991
SOPHIA: That's a bit much, Jefferson.

1095
00:44:17,991 --> 00:44:19,284
JEFFERSON: Alright.
Well, than how about

1096
00:44:19,284 --> 00:44:20,535
a Broadway legend?

1097
00:44:20,535 --> 00:44:21,786
SOPHIA: That'll do.

1098
00:44:21,786 --> 00:44:23,788
It's so nice to meet you.

1099
00:44:23,788 --> 00:44:25,832
Jefferson has said such
wonderful things about you

1100
00:44:25,832 --> 00:44:27,625
and this play.
MADISON: Oh!

1101
00:44:27,625 --> 00:44:29,127
Well, that's fantastic.
Thank you.

1102
00:44:29,127 --> 00:44:30,920
I'm excited to see it.

1103
00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:33,340
Great, well, we'll see you
on Christmas Eve.

1104
00:44:33,340 --> 00:44:35,258
JEFFERSON: Hmm, yes, about that.

1105
00:44:35,258 --> 00:44:37,344
Uh...

1106
00:44:37,344 --> 00:44:38,511
[quietly]
Watch the rehearsal?

1107
00:44:38,511 --> 00:44:40,055
Have you lost your mind?

1108
00:44:40,055 --> 00:44:41,514
JEFFERSON: But she knows
it's a rehearsal!

1109
00:44:41,514 --> 00:44:43,058
MADISON: Our first
full run-through,

1110
00:44:43,058 --> 00:44:45,352
provided we actually make it
all the way through this time.

1111
00:44:45,352 --> 00:44:46,811
Oh, well,
this is just semantics.

1112
00:44:46,811 --> 00:44:49,647
It is really, really,
really rough, Jefferson.

1113
00:44:49,647 --> 00:44:50,982
Did you tell her that?

1114
00:44:50,982 --> 00:44:52,692
Well, you know,
maybe not three reallys' worth

1115
00:44:52,692 --> 00:44:54,319
of rough, but she knows
that we're still

1116
00:44:54,319 --> 00:44:55,320
in the polishing phase.

1117
00:44:55,320 --> 00:44:56,738
No, not polishing.

1118
00:44:56,738 --> 00:44:58,531
We don't even know
where Livingston is.

1119
00:44:58,531 --> 00:45:00,367
Then text him!

1120
00:45:00,367 --> 00:45:01,659
MADISON: Ugh!

1121
00:45:01,659 --> 00:45:03,036
Sean didn't get
his contact info.

1122
00:45:03,036 --> 00:45:04,829
He doesn't think
the guy has a phone.

1123
00:45:04,829 --> 00:45:06,456
He doesn't have a...

1124
00:45:06,456 --> 00:45:08,958
Do you think this guy
does cosplay all year round,

1125
00:45:08,958 --> 00:45:10,877
or is it like after Christmas
he just goes back

1126
00:45:10,877 --> 00:45:12,003
to being an assistant manager?

1127
00:45:12,003 --> 00:45:14,172
It doesn't matter.
He's not here now!

1128
00:45:14,172 --> 00:45:16,841
Okay, well, hopefully
he gets here soon.

1129
00:45:16,841 --> 00:45:20,637
Sophia Farentino is considering
taking our little production

1130
00:45:20,637 --> 00:45:23,098
to one of her Off-Broadway
farm team theatres.

1131
00:45:23,098 --> 00:45:25,308
Maybe eventually
the Great White Way itself.

1132
00:45:25,308 --> 00:45:26,685
I know, I'm not a theatre guy,

1133
00:45:26,685 --> 00:45:30,730
but even I know
that this is a big deal.

1134
00:45:32,691 --> 00:45:34,984
CONNOR: So she's here now?
MADISON: Yes.

1135
00:45:34,984 --> 00:45:37,696
It's her only chance to see it
before she leaves for Vienna.

1136
00:45:37,696 --> 00:45:39,739
CONNOR: Well,
then let's go for it.

1137
00:45:39,739 --> 00:45:41,866
It's not ready!

1138
00:45:41,866 --> 00:45:45,286
CONNOR: Madison,
you're a great director.

1139
00:45:45,286 --> 00:45:47,789
Trust your instinct.

1140
00:45:47,789 --> 00:45:49,541
MADISON: [claps hands]
Alright, everyone!

1141
00:45:49,541 --> 00:45:52,168
Okay, uh, so...

1142
00:45:52,168 --> 00:45:55,672
we have a special guest
of Jefferson's here

1143
00:45:55,672 --> 00:45:59,926
to watch our very first
full run-through,

1144
00:45:59,926 --> 00:46:03,471
so let's go for the goal of
smooth and professional, okay?

1145
00:46:03,471 --> 00:46:04,889
Alright, let's do this.

1146
00:46:04,889 --> 00:46:06,099
ACTOR: Woo!
MADISON: Yes.

1147
00:46:06,099 --> 00:46:07,225
SEAN: Curtain up in
two minutes, everyone.

1148
00:46:07,225 --> 00:46:10,854
Places.

1149
00:46:10,854 --> 00:46:14,566
Hey, you good?

1150
00:46:14,566 --> 00:46:15,942
You got this.

1151
00:46:15,942 --> 00:46:17,652
Alright?

1152
00:46:17,652 --> 00:46:18,737
Sophia, after you.

1153
00:46:18,737 --> 00:46:22,615
Thank you, Jefferson.

1154
00:46:22,615 --> 00:46:23,950
JEFFERSON: Best seats
in the house, right?

1155
00:46:23,950 --> 00:46:26,286
[laughs]

1156
00:46:36,796 --> 00:46:38,590
There's still no sign
of Major Livingston.

1157
00:46:38,590 --> 00:46:40,008
Have you tried
his dressing room?

1158
00:46:40,008 --> 00:46:41,718
Yes, ma'am.
It's empty.

1159
00:46:41,718 --> 00:46:44,095
Well, we're gonna
have to wing it.

1160
00:46:44,095 --> 00:46:45,013
SEAN: Okay.

1161
00:47:05,658 --> 00:47:16,795
♪

1162
00:47:16,795 --> 00:47:18,380
"'Twas the Night
Before Christmas"

1163
00:47:18,380 --> 00:47:22,342
is one of the most famous poems
in American history.

1164
00:47:22,342 --> 00:47:25,845
It was published anonymously
in the Troy Sentinel newspaper

1165
00:47:25,845 --> 00:47:28,848
on December 23rd, 1823,

1166
00:47:28,848 --> 00:47:31,226
and it has gone on
to become something that

1167
00:47:31,226 --> 00:47:34,229
nearly everyone
can happily recite.

1168
00:47:34,229 --> 00:47:35,480
LENA: Yet the one
question that...

1169
00:47:35,480 --> 00:47:36,981
That's her.
That's Lena!

1170
00:47:36,981 --> 00:47:38,775
LENA: ...no one can
successfully answer is,

1171
00:47:38,775 --> 00:47:41,319
who really wrote it?

1172
00:47:41,319 --> 00:47:44,823
LENA: Tonight, we're going
to answer that question.

1173
00:47:44,823 --> 00:47:47,951
Only...
it's not who you may think.

1174
00:47:47,951 --> 00:47:49,994
For though the poem
has been attributed

1175
00:47:49,994 --> 00:47:52,163
to Clement Clarke Moore,

1176
00:47:52,163 --> 00:47:56,167
it wasn't until nearly 20 years
after the poem was published

1177
00:47:56,167 --> 00:47:58,003
that Moore claimed it
by including it

1178
00:47:58,003 --> 00:47:59,838
in a book of his poems,

1179
00:47:59,838 --> 00:48:02,716
after it had already
become famous

1180
00:48:02,716 --> 00:48:06,845
and after its true author
had passed away.

1181
00:48:06,845 --> 00:48:09,305
LENA: Tonight, I intend to
set the record straight

1182
00:48:09,305 --> 00:48:13,018
and prove to you all
that the poem's rightful author

1183
00:48:13,018 --> 00:48:15,520
is Major Henry Livingston Jr.,

1184
00:48:15,520 --> 00:48:19,399
who will finally get his due.

1185
00:48:19,399 --> 00:48:21,860
Thank you.

1186
00:48:21,860 --> 00:48:25,488
You're up, counsellor.

1187
00:48:25,488 --> 00:48:28,742
MADISON: [exhales]
CONNOR: [clears throat]

1188
00:48:28,742 --> 00:48:30,994
Every time verses
of the beloved poem,

1189
00:48:30,994 --> 00:48:32,412
"'Twas the Night
Before Christmas,"

1190
00:48:32,412 --> 00:48:33,663
have been published,

1191
00:48:33,663 --> 00:48:34,873
they've been
under the authorship

1192
00:48:34,873 --> 00:48:38,376
of Clement Clarke Moore.

1193
00:48:38,376 --> 00:48:41,713
LENA: Mr. Evans, in your expert
opinion as Lead Historian

1194
00:48:41,713 --> 00:48:43,840
for the Troy Historical Society,

1195
00:48:43,840 --> 00:48:46,217
do you believe
that Clement Clarke Moore

1196
00:48:46,217 --> 00:48:49,679
is the true author of
Twas the Night Before Christmas?

1197
00:48:49,679 --> 00:48:52,724
I do have a hard time believing
Clement Moore wrote it.

1198
00:48:52,724 --> 00:48:54,142
And why is that?

1199
00:48:54,142 --> 00:48:55,894
MR. EVANS: Well, for one,
the style,

1200
00:48:55,894 --> 00:48:57,187
and subject matter,

1201
00:48:57,187 --> 00:48:59,856
is not consistent
with Moore's work,

1202
00:48:59,856 --> 00:49:02,067
whereas it is very much
true to the poems

1203
00:49:02,067 --> 00:49:03,735
Major Livingston wrote
at the time.

1204
00:49:03,735 --> 00:49:05,236
Livingston's cue's
in four minutes.

1205
00:49:05,236 --> 00:49:07,280
LENA: Is there any other reason

1206
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:09,491
you have a hard time believing
Moore wrote the poem?

1207
00:49:09,491 --> 00:49:11,910
Clement Clarke Moore
was known to be...

1208
00:49:11,910 --> 00:49:13,995
Ah, how should I say?

1209
00:49:13,995 --> 00:49:15,955
A bit of a curmudgeon.

1210
00:49:21,961 --> 00:49:23,963
LENA: Ladies and gentlemen,
the facts of this case

1211
00:49:23,963 --> 00:49:26,216
are centuries old,

1212
00:49:26,216 --> 00:49:30,887
so I have sent a subpoena back
in time to the great beyond,

1213
00:49:30,887 --> 00:49:33,848
requesting the very spirit

1214
00:49:33,848 --> 00:49:37,435
of Major Henry Livingston Jr. himself.

1215
00:49:37,435 --> 00:49:40,980
CONNOR: Your honour,
aside from my obvious objection

1216
00:49:40,980 --> 00:49:43,566
to calling witnesses
that aren't even alive,

1217
00:49:43,566 --> 00:49:47,362
I object to counsel's delusions
that they even have the ability.

1218
00:49:47,362 --> 00:49:49,406
JUDGE: Let's see
where this goes.

1219
00:49:49,406 --> 00:49:52,200
Counsellor,
call your next witness.

1220
00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:55,161
Your honour,
I call the spirit

1221
00:49:55,161 --> 00:50:00,834
of Major Henry Livingston Jr.

1222
00:50:00,834 --> 00:50:05,505
The spirit of
Major Henry Livingston Jr.!

1223
00:50:11,261 --> 00:50:14,514
[rumbling noise]
[wind howls]

1224
00:50:18,476 --> 00:50:20,562
Oh, nice effect.

1225
00:50:20,562 --> 00:50:22,397
Uh, thanks.

1226
00:50:31,031 --> 00:50:32,991
Sir, would you state
your name for the record?

1227
00:50:32,991 --> 00:50:34,784
Major Henry Beekman Livingston.

1228
00:50:34,784 --> 00:50:35,994
Junior.

1229
00:50:35,994 --> 00:50:37,746
Your honour, I object.

1230
00:50:37,746 --> 00:50:39,289
Grounds?

1231
00:50:39,289 --> 00:50:41,750
So many, I'm not even
really sure where to start.

1232
00:50:41,750 --> 00:50:44,669
Certainly a problem with calling
witnesses back from the dead

1233
00:50:44,669 --> 00:50:47,756
is that they have no incentive
to tell the truth.

1234
00:50:47,756 --> 00:50:52,677
Sit down, counsellor.

1235
00:50:52,677 --> 00:50:55,597
LENA: Major, would you
please tell the court,

1236
00:50:55,597 --> 00:50:58,308
how did you support
yourself after the war?

1237
00:50:58,308 --> 00:51:00,977
I farmed my land,
and we had a boat dock

1238
00:51:00,977 --> 00:51:02,896
through which
we supplied merchant sailors

1239
00:51:02,896 --> 00:51:04,898
travelling the Hudson.

1240
00:51:04,898 --> 00:51:07,067
LENA: You've led
quite a remarkable life.

1241
00:51:07,067 --> 00:51:09,861
Tell me, at any point
did you ever write poems

1242
00:51:09,861 --> 00:51:10,862
for your children?

1243
00:51:10,862 --> 00:51:12,405
I certainly did.

1244
00:51:12,405 --> 00:51:15,200
Were any of these poems
about Christmas, perhaps?

1245
00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:18,203
Oh, yes, there was
a particular favourite of mine.

1246
00:51:18,203 --> 00:51:20,288
Could you recite
a little of that for us?

1247
00:51:20,288 --> 00:51:22,457
LIVINGSTON: Why, certainly.

1248
00:51:22,457 --> 00:51:24,542
"When what to my
wondering eyes should appear

1249
00:51:24,542 --> 00:51:28,129
"but a miniature sleigh
and eight tiny reindeer.

1250
00:51:28,129 --> 00:51:31,216
"With a little old driver,
so lively and quick,

1251
00:51:31,216 --> 00:51:34,469
"I knew in a moment
it must be St. Nick."

1252
00:51:34,469 --> 00:51:37,222
MOORE: I cannot believe
what I am hearing.

1253
00:51:37,222 --> 00:51:41,226
What that man is saying
is a patent lie!

1254
00:51:41,226 --> 00:51:44,771
I cannot stand by and abide
this skulduggery any longer!

1255
00:51:44,771 --> 00:51:46,147
[in a whisper]
Who is that?

1256
00:51:46,147 --> 00:51:47,232
I know you.

1257
00:51:47,232 --> 00:51:49,109
Of course you know me!

1258
00:51:49,109 --> 00:51:53,154
I am your client,
Clement Clarke Moore.

1259
00:51:54,155 --> 00:51:56,700
Oh, great googly.

1260
00:52:02,205 --> 00:52:15,760
♪

1261
00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:18,096
Your honour,
I call Clement Clarke Moore

1262
00:52:18,096 --> 00:52:19,514
to take the stand.

1263
00:52:19,514 --> 00:52:20,932
Should we stop this?

1264
00:52:20,932 --> 00:52:24,811
No, let's roll with it,
see what Connor does.

1265
00:52:24,811 --> 00:52:38,074
♪

1266
00:52:38,074 --> 00:52:39,701
CONNOR: Mr. Moore.
MOORE: Hmph!

1267
00:52:39,701 --> 00:52:42,328
Please, tell us
about the circumstances

1268
00:52:42,328 --> 00:52:43,872
surrounding
your writing the poem.

1269
00:52:43,872 --> 00:52:45,290
Certainly.

1270
00:52:45,290 --> 00:52:48,335
One Christmas Eve in 1822,

1271
00:52:48,335 --> 00:52:50,503
I was out shopping
for the Christmas turkey

1272
00:52:50,503 --> 00:52:52,505
in Greenwich Village.

1273
00:52:52,505 --> 00:52:55,008
While riding in my
one-horse open sleigh,

1274
00:52:55,008 --> 00:52:57,635
I looked at my driver.

1275
00:52:57,635 --> 00:53:00,764
He was a sort of
roly-poly merry fellow,

1276
00:53:00,764 --> 00:53:03,975
and it was the image
of him in the moonlight,

1277
00:53:03,975 --> 00:53:05,852
with the snow falling,

1278
00:53:05,852 --> 00:53:09,522
that inspired me
to hurry home and write.

1279
00:53:11,608 --> 00:53:14,027
What was it you wrote
when you returned home?

1280
00:53:14,027 --> 00:53:16,613
I wrote the 56 lines of poetry

1281
00:53:16,613 --> 00:53:20,116
known as
"A Visit from St. Nicholas."

1282
00:53:20,116 --> 00:53:24,829
Better known today as "'Twas
the Night Before Christmas."

1283
00:53:24,829 --> 00:53:27,624
CONNOR: Hmm.

1284
00:53:27,624 --> 00:53:29,959
Why didn't you sign your name
to it or claim credit

1285
00:53:29,959 --> 00:53:31,252
after it had been published?

1286
00:53:31,252 --> 00:53:33,880
MOORE: Oh, it was just
a trifle that I'd written

1287
00:53:33,880 --> 00:53:37,258
for my children to read to them
on Christmas Day.

1288
00:53:37,258 --> 00:53:39,552
Ah, I certainly
didn't expect or want it

1289
00:53:39,552 --> 00:53:42,055
to be shared publicly!

1290
00:53:42,055 --> 00:53:44,391
Least of all with my name on it.

1291
00:53:44,391 --> 00:53:46,393
That would have been
an embarrassment

1292
00:53:46,393 --> 00:53:49,688
for a gentleman.

1293
00:53:49,688 --> 00:53:52,399
Then why did you claim
credit to it 20 years later?

1294
00:53:52,399 --> 00:53:54,442
Mostly at the behest
of my children.

1295
00:53:54,442 --> 00:53:57,570
I was about to publish
a book of poetry

1296
00:53:57,570 --> 00:54:01,991
and they requested
I include it, for them.

1297
00:54:01,991 --> 00:54:07,080
That doesn't sound
very curmudgeonly to me.

1298
00:54:07,080 --> 00:54:08,164
[in a whisper]
Good job.

1299
00:54:10,792 --> 00:54:12,585
CONNOR: [clears throat]
LENA: Okay.

1300
00:54:12,585 --> 00:54:14,796
CONNOR: Your witness, counsellor.

1301
00:54:21,344 --> 00:54:23,722
[in a whisper]
Come on, Lena.

1302
00:54:23,722 --> 00:54:27,934
LENA: Just, um,
a few questions, Mr. Moore.

1303
00:54:27,934 --> 00:54:30,687
Have you heard people
describe you on the stand?

1304
00:54:30,687 --> 00:54:32,522
I have.

1305
00:54:32,522 --> 00:54:36,109
LENA: And how did...

1306
00:54:36,109 --> 00:54:38,028
How did that make you feel?

1307
00:54:38,028 --> 00:54:40,697
MOORE: It does not
represent who I am.

1308
00:54:40,697 --> 00:54:44,367
It is true that in my work,
I objected to writings

1309
00:54:44,367 --> 00:54:48,705
that glorified
irresponsible activities--

1310
00:54:48,705 --> 00:54:53,209
tobacco, alcohol, dancing,
irresponsible practices.

1311
00:54:53,209 --> 00:54:55,128
But...

1312
00:54:55,128 --> 00:54:58,965
I believe a writer should be
careful with his words

1313
00:54:58,965 --> 00:55:02,010
not to romanticize wicked

1314
00:55:02,010 --> 00:55:05,347
and harmful pursuits.

1315
00:55:05,347 --> 00:55:07,766
Like smoking, perhaps?

1316
00:55:07,766 --> 00:55:10,810
Precisely like smoking!

1317
00:55:10,810 --> 00:55:16,149
Then why would you write about
St. Nicholas smoking a pipe?

1318
00:55:16,149 --> 00:55:18,485
MOORE: Uh...

1319
00:55:18,485 --> 00:55:20,111
I-I did not think--

1320
00:55:20,111 --> 00:55:24,157
LENA: "The stump of a pipe
he held tight in his teeth,

1321
00:55:24,157 --> 00:55:28,536
"and the smoke, it encircled
his head like a wreath."

1322
00:55:28,536 --> 00:55:32,415
I was struggling to find
something that rhymed properly

1323
00:55:32,415 --> 00:55:36,961
with "wreath,"
so I set upon "teeth."

1324
00:55:36,961 --> 00:55:41,007
And as I thought more,
I remembered my driver

1325
00:55:41,007 --> 00:55:45,512
from that evening,
who had a short, stubby pipe.

1326
00:55:45,512 --> 00:55:49,182
LENA: But you didn't have
to include that, did you?

1327
00:55:49,182 --> 00:55:53,395
Unless, of course,
someone less bothered by smoking

1328
00:55:53,395 --> 00:55:55,730
actually wrote the poem.

1329
00:55:55,730 --> 00:55:57,524
A-ha!

1330
00:55:57,524 --> 00:56:02,320
[tense music]

1331
00:56:02,320 --> 00:56:04,531
♪

1332
00:56:04,531 --> 00:56:07,325
This is not over!

1333
00:56:07,325 --> 00:56:11,579
Not yet it's not.

1334
00:56:11,579 --> 00:56:14,708
MADISON: And that is where
we will end the rehearsal!

1335
00:56:14,708 --> 00:56:17,752
In the actual play,
the jury will deliberate

1336
00:56:17,752 --> 00:56:20,130
during intermission
and then render a verdict,

1337
00:56:20,130 --> 00:56:24,551
which will be as much
of a mystery to us

1338
00:56:24,551 --> 00:56:26,636
as it will be to the rest
of the audience.

1339
00:56:26,636 --> 00:56:28,513
Okay, great job, everyone!

1340
00:56:28,513 --> 00:56:30,390
Yeah!
Good, yeah, okay.

1341
00:56:30,390 --> 00:56:32,267
Ah!

1342
00:56:37,897 --> 00:56:40,066
MADISON: I told you
you could do it!

1343
00:56:40,066 --> 00:56:41,776
LENA: Well, thanks to you!
MADISON: No!

1344
00:56:41,776 --> 00:56:43,486
The gingerbread thing
was really helpful

1345
00:56:43,486 --> 00:56:44,988
and the smoking thing
just kind of like

1346
00:56:44,988 --> 00:56:46,281
popped into my head!
MADISON: That's good!

1347
00:56:46,281 --> 00:56:47,574
Who is the new guy?

1348
00:56:47,574 --> 00:56:48,742
I thought you knew him.

1349
00:56:48,742 --> 00:56:50,285
CONNOR: No, I've
seen him around,

1350
00:56:50,285 --> 00:56:52,037
but I thought he was part of
the whole Victorian Stroll.

1351
00:56:52,037 --> 00:56:53,079
MADISON: Victorian Stroll, right.

1352
00:56:53,079 --> 00:56:54,289
LENA: Like Livingston.
CONNOR: Yes!

1353
00:56:54,289 --> 00:56:55,749
MADISON: Where is Livingston?

1354
00:56:55,749 --> 00:56:57,584
He better show up for
the Christmas Eve performance.

1355
00:56:57,584 --> 00:56:59,586
Yeah, and the Moore ghost, too.

1356
00:56:59,586 --> 00:57:01,171
Oh no, please!

1357
00:57:01,171 --> 00:57:03,423
Hey, Sean, did we get
the guy playing Moore's info?

1358
00:57:03,423 --> 00:57:05,050
No, ma'am.
When I went to look for him

1359
00:57:05,050 --> 00:57:06,926
and Livingston,
they were both gone.

1360
00:57:06,926 --> 00:57:08,011
MADISON: Oh!

1361
00:57:08,011 --> 00:57:09,471
CONNOR: Those guys
are really method.

1362
00:57:09,471 --> 00:57:12,432
JEFFERSON: Friends,
colleagues...

1363
00:57:12,432 --> 00:57:13,933
[in a whisper]
Thespians!

1364
00:57:13,933 --> 00:57:16,853
That new ghost was genius!
Tell me you got him for free.

1365
00:57:16,853 --> 00:57:17,937
You know what?
It doesn't matter.

1366
00:57:17,937 --> 00:57:19,397
Unless you paid a lot,
then it does.

1367
00:57:19,397 --> 00:57:20,690
MADISON: No, actually, I--
JEFFERSON: Doesn't matter.

1368
00:57:20,690 --> 00:57:21,775
You know what?
It's great.

1369
00:57:21,775 --> 00:57:23,068
MADISON: Okay.
JEFFERSON: It's great.

1370
00:57:23,068 --> 00:57:25,028
And do you want to know
what else was great?

1371
00:57:25,028 --> 00:57:27,947
Sophia Farentino
loved what she saw.

1372
00:57:27,947 --> 00:57:30,200
There's nothing concrete but
it's looking really positive.

1373
00:57:30,200 --> 00:57:32,786
And you, my darling,

1374
00:57:32,786 --> 00:57:34,913
...were incredible!
LENA: [in a whisper] Oh, stop.

1375
00:57:34,913 --> 00:57:36,456
JEFFERSON: You were so good!
LENA: I was pretty good.

1376
00:57:36,456 --> 00:57:37,791
JEFFERSON: Yeah!

1377
00:57:37,791 --> 00:57:40,418
LENA: I didn't know what
I was gonna do, either...

1378
00:57:42,212 --> 00:57:43,755
CONNOR: Mm-hm...

1379
00:57:44,756 --> 00:57:46,508
MADISON: [chuckles]

1380
00:57:46,508 --> 00:57:47,967
[sighs]

1381
00:57:47,967 --> 00:57:50,470
CONNOR: Josie and my mom
will be here tomorrow.

1382
00:57:50,470 --> 00:57:52,055
Is that what she looks like now?

1383
00:57:53,348 --> 00:57:54,808
She has grown up so fast.

1384
00:57:54,808 --> 00:57:56,518
I know every parent says that.

1385
00:57:56,518 --> 00:57:58,311
MADISON: No, no, no, no...

1386
00:57:58,311 --> 00:57:59,896
She was such a little girl

1387
00:57:59,896 --> 00:58:02,107
when she used to
come to set two years ago.

1388
00:58:02,107 --> 00:58:03,817
CONNOR: [sighs] I know.
MADISON: Wow.

1389
00:58:03,817 --> 00:58:06,569
And, you know, I've tried
to be there as much as I can

1390
00:58:06,569 --> 00:58:08,697
and I still feel like
I've missed out.

1391
00:58:08,697 --> 00:58:12,992
Hmm, so that's what
the law books are really about.

1392
00:58:12,992 --> 00:58:15,704
Maybe.

1393
00:58:15,704 --> 00:58:18,498
I mean, lawyers don't have to
travel as much for work.

1394
00:58:18,498 --> 00:58:21,501
Hmm, yeah.

1395
00:58:21,501 --> 00:58:25,839
You know one of the things
I admire about you the most?

1396
00:58:25,839 --> 00:58:28,008
You could have coasted
for a long time

1397
00:58:28,008 --> 00:58:31,386
being the "Great googly!"
girl...

1398
00:58:31,386 --> 00:58:34,681
but you reinvented yourself.

1399
00:58:34,681 --> 00:58:38,476
First with the movies,
now with this.

1400
00:58:38,476 --> 00:58:40,645
It's inspiring.

1401
00:58:40,645 --> 00:58:43,189
Inspiring?

1402
00:58:43,189 --> 00:58:46,109
Wow, I don't think anyone's
ever said that to me before.

1403
00:58:46,109 --> 00:58:49,529
I find that
impossible to believe.

1404
00:58:49,529 --> 00:58:55,535
♪

1405
00:58:55,535 --> 00:59:00,749
Tell me something romantic.

1406
00:59:00,749 --> 00:59:04,169
Looking at you right now,

1407
00:59:04,169 --> 00:59:07,464
I feel like my heart is
gonna beat out of my chest.

1408
00:59:07,464 --> 00:59:11,259
♪

1409
00:59:11,259 --> 00:59:14,304
Same.

1410
00:59:14,304 --> 00:59:18,975
♪

1411
00:59:18,975 --> 00:59:22,103
[sighs]

1412
00:59:22,103 --> 00:59:27,150
♪

1413
00:59:30,111 --> 00:59:32,072
♪

1414
00:59:33,573 --> 00:59:37,869
♪

1415
00:59:37,869 --> 00:59:40,789
EDNA: What do they say
about watched kettles?

1416
00:59:40,789 --> 00:59:42,916
Uh, that they miss their kids?

1417
00:59:42,916 --> 00:59:48,421
[laughs]

1418
00:59:48,421 --> 00:59:50,048
[quietly]
Oh, good!

1419
00:59:50,048 --> 00:59:51,800
CONNOR: Oh, hey!
JOSIE: Dad!

1420
00:59:51,800 --> 00:59:55,220
J-Bug!
Aww!

1421
00:59:55,220 --> 00:59:56,721
I missed you so much.

1422
00:59:56,721 --> 00:59:57,847
JOSIE: I missed you.

1423
00:59:57,847 --> 00:59:59,265
[rumbling noise]

1424
00:59:59,265 --> 01:00:01,434
What's that?

1425
01:00:01,434 --> 01:00:03,937
CONNOR: Ah, a little surprise.

1426
01:00:03,937 --> 01:00:08,233
I figured we could do
a little decorating.

1427
01:00:08,233 --> 01:00:10,735
Josie...

1428
01:00:10,735 --> 01:00:15,407
I believe this should be
the first one on the tree.

1429
01:00:15,407 --> 01:00:19,744
JOSIE: Yes!
CONNOR: Okay.

1430
01:00:19,744 --> 01:00:23,164
Oh, Josie, Mom,
you remember Madison.

1431
01:00:23,164 --> 01:00:26,251
AVA: Of course we remember her!
JOSIE: Hi!

1432
01:00:26,251 --> 01:00:28,128
AVA: How are you, Madison?
Nice to see you again.

1433
01:00:28,128 --> 01:00:29,754
So nice to see you
again as well.

1434
01:00:29,754 --> 01:00:31,214
I'm glad you guys could make it.

1435
01:00:31,214 --> 01:00:33,258
AVA: We're excited to
see your Christmas play.

1436
01:00:33,258 --> 01:00:36,428
MADISON: Thank you.
JOSIE: Are there reindeer?

1437
01:00:36,428 --> 01:00:37,804
[snaps]
Hello?

1438
01:00:37,804 --> 01:00:40,724
That's what we forgot--
the reindeer!

1439
01:00:40,724 --> 01:00:42,434
[laughs]

1440
01:00:42,434 --> 01:00:46,312
♪

1441
01:00:46,312 --> 01:00:48,356
JOSIE: Dad, are we going to
the Christmas costume

1442
01:00:48,356 --> 01:00:49,649
festival thing?

1443
01:00:49,649 --> 01:00:51,568
We're absolutely
going to the Christmas

1444
01:00:51,568 --> 01:00:54,070
costume festival thing!

1445
01:00:54,070 --> 01:00:56,364
But we gotta finish
this tree first.

1446
01:00:56,364 --> 01:00:59,325
Well, I'm gonna--
it was good to see you.

1447
01:00:59,325 --> 01:01:00,618
No, join us.

1448
01:01:00,618 --> 01:01:01,953
MADISON: Oh...

1449
01:01:01,953 --> 01:01:03,788
CONNOR: We could use your help.

1450
01:01:03,788 --> 01:01:05,623
Oh, no, it's a family thing.

1451
01:01:05,623 --> 01:01:06,875
I couldn't.

1452
01:01:06,875 --> 01:01:08,293
CONNOR: Come on...

1453
01:01:08,293 --> 01:01:09,544
Join us.

1454
01:01:09,544 --> 01:01:10,920
Oh, come on, join us!

1455
01:01:10,920 --> 01:01:12,797
MADISON: Okay!
AVA: Good!

1456
01:01:12,797 --> 01:01:15,550
[upbeat music]

1457
01:01:15,550 --> 01:01:18,803
<i>♪ Ooh... ♪</i>

1458
01:01:18,803 --> 01:01:20,972
<i>♪ There's something
about Christmas ♪</i>

1459
01:01:20,972 --> 01:01:23,350
<i>♪ That makes me grin
from ear to ear ♪</i>

1460
01:01:23,350 --> 01:01:25,643
<i>♪ Listen close
and I'll tell you why ♪</i>

1461
01:01:25,643 --> 01:01:28,021
<i>♪ It's my favourite
time of year ♪</i>

1462
01:01:28,021 --> 01:01:30,857
<i>♪ Oh, yeah...
Candycanes and mistletoe ♪</i>

1463
01:01:30,857 --> 01:01:33,360
<i>♪ Time with friends
and all that snow ♪</i>

1464
01:01:33,360 --> 01:01:35,403
<i>♪ When it's done,
don't want it to go ♪</i>

1465
01:01:35,403 --> 01:01:38,156
<i>♪ It's my favourite
time of year! ♪</i>

1466
01:01:38,156 --> 01:01:42,994
<i>♪ But no Christmas feels right
without you by my side ♪</i>

1467
01:01:42,994 --> 01:01:44,829
<i>♪ Ooh, ooooh... ♪</i>

1468
01:01:44,829 --> 01:01:49,668
<i>♪ So, baby come home
for Christmas ♪</i>

1469
01:01:49,668 --> 01:01:52,170
<i>♪ So, baby come home ♪</i>

1470
01:01:52,170 --> 01:01:54,130
<i>♪ Don't you know
it's Christmas ♪</i>

1471
01:01:54,130 --> 01:01:55,382
<i>♪ Don't you know... ♪</i>

1472
01:01:55,382 --> 01:01:57,342
<i>♪ A roaring fire
and candlelight ♪</i>

1473
01:01:57,342 --> 01:01:59,427
<i>♪ And all I need
is you here tonight ♪</i>

1474
01:01:59,427 --> 01:02:00,845
ALL: Cheers!

1475
01:02:00,845 --> 01:02:04,516
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!

1476
01:02:04,516 --> 01:02:08,436
<i>♪ So baby, come home ♪</i>

1477
01:02:08,436 --> 01:02:09,604
AVA: Alright, honey!

1478
01:02:09,604 --> 01:02:10,855
MADISON: I know,
she's so excited.

1479
01:02:10,855 --> 01:02:12,691
[laughter]
MADISON: Lena, hi!

1480
01:02:12,691 --> 01:02:14,109
CONNOR: Hey.

1481
01:02:14,109 --> 01:02:16,736
Oh, hi!

1482
01:02:16,736 --> 01:02:19,572
Are you okay?

1483
01:02:19,572 --> 01:02:21,199
Can we talk?

1484
01:02:21,199 --> 01:02:24,703
Sure.
Hey, I'll catch up with you all.

1485
01:02:24,703 --> 01:02:26,162
Sure...
Sure.

1486
01:02:30,166 --> 01:02:31,626
LENA: You know
one of the reasons

1487
01:02:31,626 --> 01:02:34,170
I wanted to do the play
is that Jefferson told me

1488
01:02:34,170 --> 01:02:35,880
that you would be directing it.
MADISON: Really?

1489
01:02:35,880 --> 01:02:38,466
I've been a fan of yours
for so long

1490
01:02:38,466 --> 01:02:40,552
and I really wanted
to learn from you.

1491
01:02:40,552 --> 01:02:42,762
Thank you.

1492
01:02:42,762 --> 01:02:45,056
But is something going on?

1493
01:02:45,056 --> 01:02:48,101
Jefferson filmed part of
my performance the other night

1494
01:02:48,101 --> 01:02:51,062
and he sent it to
a producer friend of his

1495
01:02:51,062 --> 01:02:54,274
who is filming a movie,
thinking that if he liked it,

1496
01:02:54,274 --> 01:02:56,526
maybe I would get a small part.

1497
01:02:56,526 --> 01:02:58,069
Yeah, that's a great idea.

1498
01:02:58,069 --> 01:03:02,115
LENA: And so I shot an audition
and I sent it in...

1499
01:03:02,115 --> 01:03:04,617
and...

1500
01:03:04,617 --> 01:03:06,411
I got the second lead role.

1501
01:03:06,411 --> 01:03:07,912
What?
Congratulations!

1502
01:03:07,912 --> 01:03:10,123
LENA: Well, I wouldn't have
gotten it without your help.

1503
01:03:10,123 --> 01:03:12,625
No, I bet that's not true.

1504
01:03:12,625 --> 01:03:14,085
I think we both know better!

1505
01:03:14,085 --> 01:03:16,129
The only thing
I ever helped you with

1506
01:03:16,129 --> 01:03:19,924
was your confidence.

1507
01:03:19,924 --> 01:03:22,635
LENA: Hmm.

1508
01:03:22,635 --> 01:03:25,305
Well, why don't
you seem happier?

1509
01:03:25,305 --> 01:03:29,809
Because it starts filming
on December 27th.

1510
01:03:29,809 --> 01:03:31,770
O... oh.

1511
01:03:31,770 --> 01:03:36,191
In New Zealand.

1512
01:03:36,191 --> 01:03:37,692
So I-I...

1513
01:03:37,692 --> 01:03:39,319
I have to leave today.

1514
01:03:39,319 --> 01:03:41,613
Well...

1515
01:03:41,613 --> 01:03:43,073
Wha...?

1516
01:03:43,073 --> 01:03:46,326
♪

1517
01:03:49,329 --> 01:03:51,790
JEFFERSON: I'm sorry, I never
actually considered second lead.

1518
01:03:51,790 --> 01:03:53,208
And our play?

1519
01:03:53,208 --> 01:03:54,959
JEFFERSON: Whatever you want,
I'm gonna support.

1520
01:03:54,959 --> 01:03:56,252
You know, money's paid for.

1521
01:03:56,252 --> 01:03:58,463
Let the show go on...
if you like.

1522
01:03:58,463 --> 01:03:59,506
Without our lead actress?

1523
01:03:59,506 --> 01:04:00,715
Jefferson!

1524
01:04:00,715 --> 01:04:02,092
You have to understand,

1525
01:04:02,092 --> 01:04:04,135
I only agreed to support
this play because of Lena.

1526
01:04:04,135 --> 01:04:06,096
I love that girl so much.

1527
01:04:06,096 --> 01:04:08,223
Hey, my first priority
is to do right by her.

1528
01:04:08,223 --> 01:04:10,684
I get that, but what about
the rest of us, okay?

1529
01:04:10,684 --> 01:04:13,520
Everyone who has worked
so hard on this production.

1530
01:04:13,520 --> 01:04:15,772
And what about
Sophia Farentino, huh?

1531
01:04:15,772 --> 01:04:18,149
She's not gonna take a show
to Broadway that's never

1532
01:04:18,149 --> 01:04:19,859
even been performed once.

1533
01:04:19,859 --> 01:04:22,779
I'm truly sorry.

1534
01:04:22,779 --> 01:04:24,864
[sighs]

1535
01:04:24,864 --> 01:04:27,117
♪ Good King Wenceslas
looked out,

1536
01:04:27,117 --> 01:04:29,536
on the Feast of Stephen. ♪

1537
01:04:29,536 --> 01:04:34,165
♪ When the snow lay round about,
deep and crisp and even. ♪

1538
01:04:34,165 --> 01:04:36,751
♪ Brightly shone
the moon that night,

1539
01:04:36,751 --> 01:04:39,212
though the frost was cruel... ♪

1540
01:04:39,212 --> 01:04:41,131
CONNOR: So, she can't
still do the play?

1541
01:04:41,131 --> 01:04:42,882
MADISON: It's already
Christmas Eve in New Zealand

1542
01:04:42,882 --> 01:04:44,384
and she's gotta
fly to California,

1543
01:04:44,384 --> 01:04:46,094
pack, and then fly to Auckland,

1544
01:04:46,094 --> 01:04:47,971
and basically be situated
in three days.

1545
01:04:47,971 --> 01:04:49,305
So, no, she can't do the play.

1546
01:04:49,305 --> 01:04:51,016
No, she can't do the play.

1547
01:04:51,016 --> 01:04:53,518
However, she did offer to try,
which I appreciated.

1548
01:04:53,518 --> 01:04:55,353
CONNOR: You turned her down?
MADISON: Of course.

1549
01:04:55,353 --> 01:04:57,188
This is way too good
of an opportunity

1550
01:04:57,188 --> 01:04:59,524
for somebody just starting out.

1551
01:04:59,524 --> 01:05:01,234
Well, what do we do then?

1552
01:05:01,234 --> 01:05:02,610
Nothing.

1553
01:05:02,610 --> 01:05:05,363
We don't have a lead actress
and we open in a day.

1554
01:05:05,363 --> 01:05:09,534
This is literally a disaster.

1555
01:05:28,887 --> 01:05:30,680
[sighs heavily]

1556
01:05:33,683 --> 01:05:36,561
I'm sorry, Dad.

1557
01:05:36,561 --> 01:05:40,857
I tried.

1558
01:05:40,857 --> 01:05:42,692
[sighs]

1559
01:05:47,739 --> 01:05:50,450
Here you are.

1560
01:05:50,450 --> 01:05:53,119
Hayley?

1561
01:05:56,915 --> 01:05:58,750
How are you here?

1562
01:05:58,750 --> 01:06:00,460
I was already on the way back

1563
01:06:00,460 --> 01:06:02,629
when Jefferson called
to tell me.

1564
01:06:02,629 --> 01:06:04,964
My play is ruined, Hayley.

1565
01:06:04,964 --> 01:06:06,508
HAYLEY: No, it isn't.

1566
01:06:06,508 --> 01:06:09,094
We don't have a lead actress.

1567
01:06:09,094 --> 01:06:11,096
HAYLEY: Then we're gonna
have to use our understudy.

1568
01:06:11,096 --> 01:06:13,098
[laughs] Understudy?
We don't have an understudy!

1569
01:06:13,098 --> 01:06:14,265
We couldn't afford
an understudy!

1570
01:06:14,265 --> 01:06:16,935
Madison, we have an understudy.

1571
01:06:16,935 --> 01:06:19,938
No.

1572
01:06:19,938 --> 01:06:21,439
No!

1573
01:06:21,439 --> 01:06:23,483
The whole reason
I chose to do this play

1574
01:06:23,483 --> 01:06:25,276
was so I could step away
from acting.

1575
01:06:25,276 --> 01:06:27,320
The whole reason you
chose to do this play

1576
01:06:27,320 --> 01:06:29,280
was so that you could reinvent
yourself as a director.

1577
01:06:29,280 --> 01:06:31,449
That doesn't mean
you can't act, too.

1578
01:06:31,449 --> 01:06:33,952
Bring a little part of
the old you into the new you.

1579
01:06:33,952 --> 01:06:35,662
Nothing comes from nothing.

1580
01:06:35,662 --> 01:06:37,706
Did you just quote
"Sound of Music" to me?

1581
01:06:37,706 --> 01:06:40,875
Yeah.
You weren't supposed to notice.

1582
01:06:40,875 --> 01:06:43,294
This is your baby, Mads!

1583
01:06:43,294 --> 01:06:46,089
The Christmas show
that meant so much to you.

1584
01:06:46,089 --> 01:06:48,091
CONNOR: These are the pulleys.

1585
01:06:48,091 --> 01:06:50,468
They help bring up the curtains,
which is the most

1586
01:06:50,468 --> 01:06:54,431
amazing feeling when
you're standing, like...

1587
01:06:54,431 --> 01:06:57,475
CONNOR: Oh...
Oh, hey.

1588
01:06:57,475 --> 01:06:58,727
MADISON: Hey.

1589
01:06:58,727 --> 01:07:00,687
Just showing her the office.

1590
01:07:00,687 --> 01:07:03,690
I love it.

1591
01:07:03,690 --> 01:07:04,691
Ah!

1592
01:07:08,862 --> 01:07:10,947
We'll get out of your way.

1593
01:07:10,947 --> 01:07:13,241
No, stay.

1594
01:07:13,241 --> 01:07:15,535
It's a magical place.

1595
01:07:17,203 --> 01:07:20,582
Order in the court!

1596
01:07:20,582 --> 01:07:23,335
HAYLEY: So...

1597
01:07:23,335 --> 01:07:25,754
What about the play?

1598
01:07:25,754 --> 01:07:29,632
♪

1599
01:07:29,632 --> 01:07:31,885
MADISON: Hey, Josie.

1600
01:07:31,885 --> 01:07:36,181
You know what my dad used to
tell me about being up here?

1601
01:07:36,181 --> 01:07:40,268
"Do it because you love it."

1602
01:07:40,268 --> 01:07:41,519
Climb every mountain.

1603
01:07:41,519 --> 01:07:42,937
Ford every steam.
MADISON: No, no.

1604
01:07:42,937 --> 01:07:44,439
No.
Stop.

1605
01:07:44,439 --> 01:07:45,648
HAYLEY: Follow the rainbow?

1606
01:07:45,648 --> 01:07:47,275
MADISON: Nope, nope.

1607
01:08:00,080 --> 01:08:02,207
[exhales deeply]

1608
01:08:02,207 --> 01:08:04,292
[clears throat]

1609
01:08:04,292 --> 01:08:05,835
[knock on door]

1610
01:08:05,835 --> 01:08:07,253
Walter?

1611
01:08:07,253 --> 01:08:09,089
WALTER: I am here to support
my favourite client.

1612
01:08:09,089 --> 01:08:10,715
MADISON: [laughs]

1613
01:08:10,715 --> 01:08:12,008
Really?
And who is that?

1614
01:08:12,008 --> 01:08:13,343
WALTER: Oh, funny.

1615
01:08:13,343 --> 01:08:15,595
These are beautiful.
Thank you.

1616
01:08:15,595 --> 01:08:17,347
Sure, I'd rather you
be acting full-time, but--

1617
01:08:17,347 --> 01:08:19,182
Thank you, Walter.

1618
01:08:19,182 --> 01:08:21,476
I know that in your own way,
you mean well.

1619
01:08:21,476 --> 01:08:23,144
WALTER: I also
told the TV producers

1620
01:08:23,144 --> 01:08:25,522
that you weren't interested.

1621
01:08:25,522 --> 01:08:27,607
You did?

1622
01:08:27,607 --> 01:08:29,693
I haven't seen you
this passionate about something

1623
01:08:29,693 --> 01:08:32,320
in a long, long time.

1624
01:08:32,320 --> 01:08:34,030
You know, when Ben was sick,

1625
01:08:34,030 --> 01:08:35,865
he asked me to look out for you.

1626
01:08:35,865 --> 01:08:38,284
I know.

1627
01:08:38,284 --> 01:08:40,453
I suppose I just always
figured he meant financially,

1628
01:08:40,453 --> 01:08:43,039
you know, for security, but...

1629
01:08:43,039 --> 01:08:45,500
maybe I can do a better job

1630
01:08:45,500 --> 01:08:48,628
in a lot of other ways,
too, creatively.

1631
01:08:48,628 --> 01:08:50,880
Thank you, Walter.

1632
01:08:50,880 --> 01:08:54,509
Go make him proud.

1633
01:08:59,014 --> 01:09:02,350
JOSIE: [funny voice]
I hope you have a great show!

1634
01:09:02,350 --> 01:09:03,768
Thank you, Comet.

1635
01:09:03,768 --> 01:09:05,854
JOSIE: I'm Prancer!

1636
01:09:07,772 --> 01:09:09,566
Yeah, of course you are.

1637
01:09:09,566 --> 01:09:11,693
Thank you, Prancer's friend.

1638
01:09:11,693 --> 01:09:13,069
You're welcome.

1639
01:09:13,069 --> 01:09:14,112
Oh, is that your script?

1640
01:09:14,112 --> 01:09:17,115
CONNOR: Mm-hm.

1641
01:09:17,115 --> 01:09:18,992
AVA: New York?

1642
01:09:20,785 --> 01:09:23,329
I'm exploring my options.

1643
01:09:23,329 --> 01:09:25,790
I always thought you'd
make an excellent lawyer.

1644
01:09:25,790 --> 01:09:28,460
I remember.

1645
01:09:28,460 --> 01:09:31,379
AVA: There's some really great
dance schools in New York.

1646
01:09:31,379 --> 01:09:33,757
JOSIE: [singing to herself]

1647
01:09:33,757 --> 01:09:35,759
Go, Prancer, let's go...

1648
01:09:35,759 --> 01:09:44,768
[crowd chatter]

1649
01:09:44,768 --> 01:09:47,979
♪

1650
01:09:47,979 --> 01:09:49,439
SEAN: Hey.
MADISON: Hey.

1651
01:09:49,439 --> 01:09:50,815
So, our jury's been panelled.

1652
01:09:50,815 --> 01:09:52,400
I went through our line
of ticketholders

1653
01:09:52,400 --> 01:09:53,693
and I selected nine volunteers.

1654
01:09:53,693 --> 01:09:54,778
And the tenth?

1655
01:09:54,778 --> 01:09:56,446
Mrs. Prescott
didn't give me a choice!

1656
01:09:56,446 --> 01:09:58,740
EDNA: No chance
I'm gonna miss my chance

1657
01:09:58,740 --> 01:10:00,575
to be up close
and personal with this!

1658
01:10:00,575 --> 01:10:02,369
MADISON: [chuckles]
Okay, thank you.

1659
01:10:04,162 --> 01:10:05,330
MADISON: Ooh!
CONNOR: Oh!

1660
01:10:05,330 --> 01:10:07,040
You look beautiful.

1661
01:10:07,040 --> 01:10:08,083
Thank you.

1662
01:10:13,588 --> 01:10:16,174
I can't find
Moore or Livingston.

1663
01:10:16,174 --> 01:10:18,218
[sighs]
Of course not.

1664
01:10:18,218 --> 01:10:19,636
Do you want to go forward

1665
01:10:19,636 --> 01:10:21,721
as if they're gonna
be called or just...

1666
01:10:21,721 --> 01:10:24,307
revert back to the original
version without them?

1667
01:10:24,307 --> 01:10:26,893
If they don't show,
we'll just...

1668
01:10:26,893 --> 01:10:28,812
CONNOR: We'll improv.
MADISON: We'll improv.

1669
01:10:28,812 --> 01:10:30,105
Yeah, we'll improv!

1670
01:10:30,105 --> 01:10:31,690
SEAN: Yeah?
Yeah...

1671
01:10:31,690 --> 01:10:33,024
Yeah, um...
MADISON: Okay.

1672
01:10:33,024 --> 01:10:34,484
Okay, Lena messengered
this over.

1673
01:10:34,484 --> 01:10:36,820
She wanted me to give it to you
before the show, okay?

1674
01:10:36,820 --> 01:10:37,946
Okay, thank you.

1675
01:10:37,946 --> 01:10:40,990
SEAN: [loudly]
Okay, places, everyone!

1676
01:10:40,990 --> 01:10:43,910
MADISON: [chuckles]

1677
01:10:43,910 --> 01:10:45,078
Break a leg!

1678
01:10:45,078 --> 01:10:46,371
MADISON: Oh, thank you.

1679
01:10:46,371 --> 01:10:48,081
HAYLEY: You, too!

1680
01:10:48,081 --> 01:10:48,998
MADISON: Okay...

1681
01:10:55,171 --> 01:10:56,840
[exhales]

1682
01:11:02,470 --> 01:11:06,307
Okay, curtain.

1683
01:11:06,307 --> 01:11:10,520
[applause]

1684
01:11:14,607 --> 01:11:16,484
"'Twas the Night
Before Christmas"

1685
01:11:16,484 --> 01:11:19,863
is one of the most famous poems
in American history.

1686
01:11:19,863 --> 01:11:23,033
Published anonymously in
the Troy Sentinel newspaper

1687
01:11:23,033 --> 01:11:26,369
on December 23rd, 1823,

1688
01:11:26,369 --> 01:11:28,413
it has gone on
to become something

1689
01:11:28,413 --> 01:11:32,083
that nearly everyone
can happily recite.

1690
01:11:32,083 --> 01:11:33,835
Yet the one question

1691
01:11:33,835 --> 01:11:38,423
that no one can
successfully answer is:

1692
01:11:38,423 --> 01:11:40,884
who really wrote it?

1693
01:11:40,884 --> 01:11:43,428
Well, tonight, we're
going to answer that question,

1694
01:11:43,428 --> 01:11:48,391
and the truth may surprise you.

1695
01:11:48,391 --> 01:11:50,060
Counsellor?

1696
01:11:50,060 --> 01:11:52,103
Your turn.

1697
01:12:01,363 --> 01:12:03,782
Ladies and gentlemen
of the jury,

1698
01:12:03,782 --> 01:12:06,451
for almost two centuries
there's only been one name

1699
01:12:06,451 --> 01:12:08,119
on the front cover of the book,

1700
01:12:08,119 --> 01:12:10,789
"'Twas the Night
Before Christmas":

1701
01:12:10,789 --> 01:12:13,041
Clement C. Moore.

1702
01:12:13,041 --> 01:12:15,710
Never in all the years he was
alive did any publisher

1703
01:12:15,710 --> 01:12:18,088
ever dispute this fact.

1704
01:12:18,088 --> 01:12:21,174
It was only afterwards,
in the fog of time,

1705
01:12:21,174 --> 01:12:23,927
that questions arose.

1706
01:12:23,927 --> 01:12:26,513
For people who did not know
Mr. Moore but judged

1707
01:12:26,513 --> 01:12:30,016
his capabilities
based on pure speculation,

1708
01:12:30,016 --> 01:12:33,645
I say we end such speculation
and give back Mr. Moore

1709
01:12:33,645 --> 01:12:37,732
his good name by rendering
the right and true verdict:

1710
01:12:37,732 --> 01:12:42,445
that the author was
Clement Clarke Moore.

1711
01:12:42,445 --> 01:12:45,532
[gavel bangs]

1712
01:12:45,532 --> 01:12:47,784
<i>♪ Our favourite time of year ♪</i>

1713
01:12:47,784 --> 01:12:51,246
<i>♪ There's miles of bright-light
diamonds all around ♪</i>

1714
01:12:51,246 --> 01:12:53,748
<i>♪ Ooh-oooh... ♪</i>

1715
01:12:53,748 --> 01:12:58,753
<i>♪ Like music to my ears,
there's laughter in the air ♪</i>

1716
01:12:58,753 --> 01:13:01,631
<i>♪ My heart beats to
the rhythm of the sound ♪</i>

1717
01:13:01,631 --> 01:13:04,009
<i>♪ Ooh-oooh... ♪</i>

1718
01:13:04,009 --> 01:13:06,803
<i>♪ Let's celebrate good times
(Good times) ♪</i>

1719
01:13:06,803 --> 01:13:09,347
<i>♪ Make a memory tonight ♪</i>

1720
01:13:09,347 --> 01:13:12,100
<i>♪ Dance for the Yuletide ♪</i>

1721
01:13:12,100 --> 01:13:16,813
<i>♪ Come on, everyone,
let's celebrate good times ♪</i>

1722
01:13:16,813 --> 01:13:18,898
MADISON: You think I don't know?

1723
01:13:18,898 --> 01:13:21,109
The only reason
you took this case

1724
01:13:21,109 --> 01:13:24,446
was because you knew
you'd see me again.

1725
01:13:24,446 --> 01:13:26,614
Guilty as charged.

1726
01:13:34,205 --> 01:13:35,665
[in a whisper]
Yeah...

1727
01:13:41,921 --> 01:13:44,174
Your honour,
I call to the stand

1728
01:13:44,174 --> 01:13:47,552
Major Henry Livingston.

1729
01:13:51,222 --> 01:13:54,392
[exhales]

1730
01:13:54,392 --> 01:13:56,311
HAYLEY: Anything?
SEAN: Nothing.

1731
01:13:56,311 --> 01:14:02,317
♪

1732
01:14:02,317 --> 01:14:05,362
[strange rumbling]

1733
01:14:05,362 --> 01:14:09,657
[dramatic music]

1734
01:14:09,657 --> 01:14:12,369
[rumbling continues]

1735
01:14:12,369 --> 01:14:18,583
♪

1736
01:14:20,043 --> 01:14:22,170
Did you do that?

1737
01:14:22,170 --> 01:14:24,381
Cool!

1738
01:14:24,381 --> 01:14:26,675
♪

1739
01:14:26,675 --> 01:14:28,093
You're not Henry Livingston.

1740
01:14:28,093 --> 01:14:29,886
MOORE: No, indeed.

1741
01:14:29,886 --> 01:14:33,098
Major Livingston
was unfortunately detained.

1742
01:14:37,227 --> 01:14:39,604
Anybody got anything?

1743
01:14:44,651 --> 01:14:48,488
CONNOR: Uh, counsellor?

1744
01:14:48,488 --> 01:14:50,323
Perhaps I could
speak with my client?

1745
01:14:50,323 --> 01:14:51,991
MADISON: By all means, counsellor.

1746
01:14:54,369 --> 01:14:55,620
CONNOR: Good evening, sir.

1747
01:14:55,620 --> 01:14:58,123
Please introduce yourself
to the court.

1748
01:14:58,123 --> 01:15:01,418
I am Clement Clarke Moore,

1749
01:15:01,418 --> 01:15:03,753
scholar and author.

1750
01:15:03,753 --> 01:15:05,463
And you wrote poetry?

1751
01:15:05,463 --> 01:15:07,674
MOORE: I wrote
a great deal of poetry,

1752
01:15:07,674 --> 01:15:10,719
much of which was high-minded.

1753
01:15:10,719 --> 01:15:14,556
It is ironic that the poem
that I am best remembered for

1754
01:15:14,556 --> 01:15:18,727
is one I scratched out
one Christmas Eve.

1755
01:15:18,727 --> 01:15:21,021
CONNOR: Mr. Moore, please
tell us about the circumstances

1756
01:15:21,021 --> 01:15:22,647
surrounding
your writing the poem.

1757
01:15:22,647 --> 01:15:24,941
MOORE: Certainly.

1758
01:15:24,941 --> 01:15:29,779
One Christmas Eve, while riding
in my one-horse open sleigh,

1759
01:15:29,779 --> 01:15:31,906
I looked to my driver.

1760
01:15:31,906 --> 01:15:34,617
He was a roly-poly,
merry fellow,

1761
01:15:34,617 --> 01:15:36,870
stubby pipe
clenched in his teeth,

1762
01:15:36,870 --> 01:15:39,205
and it was the image of him,

1763
01:15:39,205 --> 01:15:42,417
with the moon shining
and the snow falling,

1764
01:15:42,417 --> 01:15:45,211
that inspired me.

1765
01:15:45,211 --> 01:15:47,047
Upon arriving home,

1766
01:15:47,047 --> 01:15:51,051
I wrote out the verses
that we now discuss.

1767
01:15:51,051 --> 01:15:55,805
And yet...
it wasn't until 1837

1768
01:15:55,805 --> 01:16:00,643
that you took credit
for its authorship.

1769
01:16:00,643 --> 01:16:01,936
Why is that?

1770
01:16:01,936 --> 01:16:04,856
MOORE: I had more
scholarly ambitions.

1771
01:16:04,856 --> 01:16:08,610
It had been a source of teasing
among my more academic friends

1772
01:16:08,610 --> 01:16:12,072
that I had written
this children's poem,

1773
01:16:12,072 --> 01:16:16,201
but one of my friends seemed to
have let the cat out of the bag.

1774
01:16:16,201 --> 01:16:20,914
So I ultimately chose
to admit my authorship.

1775
01:16:20,914 --> 01:16:22,665
CONNOR: I'm gonna
ask you directly,

1776
01:16:22,665 --> 01:16:25,335
as you are under oath,

1777
01:16:25,335 --> 01:16:29,506
who authored "'Twas the Night
Before Christmas"?

1778
01:16:29,506 --> 01:16:32,842
I did, sir.

1779
01:16:32,842 --> 01:16:34,886
No further questions.

1780
01:16:38,348 --> 01:16:40,975
Actually, your honour,
I have a few questions.

1781
01:16:40,975 --> 01:16:44,145
Questions that have bothered me

1782
01:16:44,145 --> 01:16:48,108
since my dad
used to read me this poem.

1783
01:16:48,108 --> 01:16:52,195
What exactly is a sugar plum
and how do they dance?

1784
01:16:52,195 --> 01:16:54,155
[audience laughs]

1785
01:16:54,155 --> 01:16:57,450
They were a favourite
treat of my children.

1786
01:16:57,450 --> 01:16:59,536
They only danced
in the imagination.

1787
01:16:59,536 --> 01:17:01,538
MADISON: Huh.

1788
01:17:01,538 --> 01:17:06,876
You said you wrote the entirety
of the poem on Christmas Eve.

1789
01:17:06,876 --> 01:17:09,004
Exactly how long
did that take you?

1790
01:17:09,004 --> 01:17:11,256
MOORE: Three hours.
MADISON: Three hours?

1791
01:17:11,256 --> 01:17:13,842
And yet, sir,
unlike your other poems,

1792
01:17:13,842 --> 01:17:17,470
you wrote it in anapestic meter.

1793
01:17:17,470 --> 01:17:20,390
It fit the subject matter.

1794
01:17:20,390 --> 01:17:25,020
You wrote in an unfamiliar meter
in a matter of hours.

1795
01:17:25,020 --> 01:17:27,897
I find that
difficult to believe,

1796
01:17:27,897 --> 01:17:30,316
especially given the subject
matter as a children's verse,

1797
01:17:30,316 --> 01:17:33,570
which is also not your forte,
and it involves smoking,

1798
01:17:33,570 --> 01:17:36,281
which you admit to abhorring.

1799
01:17:39,200 --> 01:17:43,246
Have people not doubted you
before, Ms. Rush?

1800
01:17:43,246 --> 01:17:45,999
Placed you
in a well-defined perception

1801
01:17:45,999 --> 01:17:48,043
based on limited information

1802
01:17:48,043 --> 01:17:52,672
that you ultimately found
profoundly inaccurate?

1803
01:17:52,672 --> 01:17:54,132
Well...

1804
01:17:54,132 --> 01:17:58,053
MOORE: Ms. Rush, you and others
have researched me

1805
01:17:58,053 --> 01:18:00,764
and Major Livingston
through books and articles

1806
01:18:00,764 --> 01:18:02,807
and presumed to know us.

1807
01:18:02,807 --> 01:18:06,144
You yourself are known
to a great many

1808
01:18:06,144 --> 01:18:08,396
through the written words
of people

1809
01:18:08,396 --> 01:18:10,398
who have never met you.

1810
01:18:10,398 --> 01:18:15,320
Would you say that
their depictions are accurate?

1811
01:18:15,320 --> 01:18:16,946
No.

1812
01:18:16,946 --> 01:18:20,700
Then in this,
we are in accord.

1813
01:18:20,700 --> 01:18:24,120
Yes, I was a professor
of divinity, and yes,

1814
01:18:24,120 --> 01:18:27,290
I primarily wrote books
of an academic nature,

1815
01:18:27,290 --> 01:18:31,961
and yes, I could, at times,
be considered a curmudgeon.

1816
01:18:31,961 --> 01:18:35,215
But I am also a man
who loved his children

1817
01:18:35,215 --> 01:18:38,051
and loved to see
the joy of Christmas

1818
01:18:38,051 --> 01:18:40,887
through their wondrous eyes.

1819
01:18:40,887 --> 01:18:44,974
Loved it so deeply
that I was inspired

1820
01:18:44,974 --> 01:18:48,228
one snowy evening
many years ago.

1821
01:18:51,690 --> 01:18:52,982
Thank you.

1822
01:18:52,982 --> 01:18:57,278
MOORE: I'm sure you,
like Mr. Avery,

1823
01:18:57,278 --> 01:19:01,241
must understand what it's like
to have more than one interest

1824
01:19:01,241 --> 01:19:03,743
in one's pursuits.

1825
01:19:03,743 --> 01:19:05,995
Is that not so?

1826
01:19:21,886 --> 01:19:24,681
Court is adjourned
while the jury deliberates.

1827
01:19:24,681 --> 01:19:28,685
[applause]

1828
01:19:28,685 --> 01:19:32,147
MADISON: [sighs]

1829
01:19:32,147 --> 01:19:33,773
Did you just throw your case?

1830
01:19:33,773 --> 01:19:35,442
MADISON: I think I did.

1831
01:19:35,442 --> 01:19:37,861
But that's what felt like
the truth and, as you know,

1832
01:19:37,861 --> 01:19:39,237
my character is a truth-seeker.

1833
01:19:39,237 --> 01:19:41,406
Uh, nah, he got you with
the "more than one pursuit"

1834
01:19:41,406 --> 01:19:43,616
speech, didn't he?

1835
01:19:43,616 --> 01:19:45,118
Madison.

1836
01:19:45,118 --> 01:19:46,745
Sophia?

1837
01:19:46,745 --> 01:19:48,329
I thought you were
supposed to be in--

1838
01:19:48,329 --> 01:19:49,873
In Vienna?
I will be later tonight.

1839
01:19:49,873 --> 01:19:51,166
MADISON: Ah!

1840
01:19:51,166 --> 01:19:53,043
But when Jefferson
called me to tell me

1841
01:19:53,043 --> 01:19:55,503
you were going to take over
the lead role, I had to be here.

1842
01:19:55,503 --> 01:19:57,255
Oh, wow!

1843
01:19:57,255 --> 01:19:59,299
Thank you.
SOPHIA: It was wonderful.

1844
01:19:59,299 --> 01:20:02,761
I mean, Lena did
a terrific job in the role,

1845
01:20:02,761 --> 01:20:04,804
but you, my dear,
took it even further.

1846
01:20:04,804 --> 01:20:06,848
I especially loved

1847
01:20:06,848 --> 01:20:08,975
all the flirtation
between the two leads.

1848
01:20:08,975 --> 01:20:10,685
Yeah, well, me too.

1849
01:20:10,685 --> 01:20:11,895
It's new.

1850
01:20:11,895 --> 01:20:13,813
It's delightful.

1851
01:20:13,813 --> 01:20:15,815
Please keep it in
for future performances.

1852
01:20:15,815 --> 01:20:17,317
Future?

1853
01:20:17,317 --> 01:20:21,237
SOPHIA: I want to sponsor
the play annually in Troy.

1854
01:20:21,237 --> 01:20:23,073
Thank you so much!
I don't--

1855
01:20:23,073 --> 01:20:25,116
SOPHIA: And let's talk
in the new year

1856
01:20:25,116 --> 01:20:26,826
about other possibilities.

1857
01:20:26,826 --> 01:20:29,746
I could use a director
of your skills.

1858
01:20:29,746 --> 01:20:32,248
Well, I look forward to it.

1859
01:20:32,248 --> 01:20:35,460
SOPHIA: Merry Christmas.
MADISON: Merry Christmas.

1860
01:20:37,962 --> 01:20:40,382
Ah!
[both laugh]

1861
01:20:40,382 --> 01:20:41,591
[bell ringing]

1862
01:20:41,591 --> 01:20:44,094
TOWN CRIER: Hear ye, hear ye!

1863
01:20:44,094 --> 01:20:47,806
The jury has returned
with a verdict!

1864
01:20:47,806 --> 01:20:49,391
So who do you think
it's gonna be?

1865
01:20:49,391 --> 01:20:51,351
I dunno, but my dad's
a good lawyer.

1866
01:20:51,351 --> 01:20:53,478
Oh, you're so sweet!
[chuckles]

1867
01:20:57,649 --> 01:20:59,567
Okay, lights on one...

1868
01:20:59,567 --> 01:21:01,111
Curtain...

1869
01:21:01,111 --> 01:21:05,240
[applause and cheering]

1870
01:21:08,451 --> 01:21:11,579
Thank you, darling.

1871
01:21:11,579 --> 01:21:15,583
Hmm...

1872
01:21:15,583 --> 01:21:19,045
It appears that the jury has
become hopelessly deadlocked

1873
01:21:19,045 --> 01:21:22,132
in our allotted time.

1874
01:21:22,132 --> 01:21:25,468
The verdict is 9 to 1...

1875
01:21:25,468 --> 01:21:29,055
for...

1876
01:21:29,055 --> 01:21:30,807
Clement Clarke Moore.

1877
01:21:30,807 --> 01:21:35,645
[applause]

1878
01:21:39,899 --> 01:21:41,276
Well, I guess this means

1879
01:21:41,276 --> 01:21:42,652
you'll have to
come back next year.

1880
01:21:42,652 --> 01:21:45,238
[laughter]

1881
01:21:45,238 --> 01:21:50,493
What do you say, counsellor?

1882
01:21:50,493 --> 01:21:52,829
No objection.

1883
01:21:52,829 --> 01:21:54,873
JUDGE: Court is adjourned.

1884
01:21:54,873 --> 01:21:56,041
[gavel bangs]

1885
01:21:56,041 --> 01:22:01,546
[applause and cheering]

1886
01:22:06,551 --> 01:22:09,095
MADISON: Thank you to everyone
for coming out tonight

1887
01:22:09,095 --> 01:22:11,723
and being a part of
our first performance

1888
01:22:11,723 --> 01:22:13,516
of "Trial Before Christmas."

1889
01:22:13,516 --> 01:22:16,144
And now, it's only fitting
that we say to you...

1890
01:22:16,144 --> 01:22:18,521
ALL: Merry Christmas
to all...

1891
01:22:18,521 --> 01:22:21,524
And to all a good night!

1892
01:22:21,524 --> 01:22:33,828
[applause]

1893
01:22:36,081 --> 01:22:38,208
There was no Christmas party
in Poughkeepsie.

1894
01:22:38,208 --> 01:22:40,627
Oh, it's tomorrow.

1895
01:22:40,627 --> 01:22:42,420
You cheated!

1896
01:22:42,420 --> 01:22:43,546
Prove it!

1897
01:22:43,546 --> 01:22:45,006
I will...

1898
01:22:45,006 --> 01:22:46,966
Next year.

1899
01:22:46,966 --> 01:22:50,762
[whooshing sound]

1900
01:22:54,182 --> 01:22:55,975
MADISON: I love
Christmastime in New York.

1901
01:22:55,975 --> 01:22:57,811
CONNOR: I know.

1902
01:22:57,811 --> 01:23:00,105
I can't wait to
be here full-time.

1903
01:23:00,105 --> 01:23:02,982
What do you mean?

1904
01:23:02,982 --> 01:23:04,943
CONNOR: Well, I thought
I'd move to New York

1905
01:23:04,943 --> 01:23:06,820
and pass the bar, so I--
MADISON: I know.

1906
01:23:06,820 --> 01:23:08,446
Would you just kiss me already?

1907
01:23:08,446 --> 01:23:15,453
♪

1908
01:23:15,453 --> 01:23:17,372
I thought you didn't
date actors.

1909
01:23:17,372 --> 01:23:20,333
Good thing you're
a convincing lawyer, hm?

1910
01:23:20,333 --> 01:23:23,920
♪

1911
01:23:23,920 --> 01:23:27,924
Merry Christmas.

1912
01:23:27,924 --> 01:23:31,720
♪

1913
01:23:32,804 --> 01:23:57,746
♪