The Best of Me

00:40:19,458 --> 00:40:22,376 - Can I ask you a couple questions? - OK. 538 00:40:22,461 --> 00:40:26,339 - Do you have an onion? - I do. 539 00:40:26,423 --> 00:40:28,299 Good. 'Cause we forgot one. 540 00:40:28,383 --> 00:40:31,344 Second thing, we were just going over Dawson's college applications 541 00:40:31,428 --> 00:40:34,388 and we were wondering, can we use your address as his home address? 542 00:40:35,766 --> 00:40:38,392 - That'll be fine. - Great. 543 00:40:40,896 --> 00:40:41,937 Let's get cooking. 544 00:40:46,276 --> 00:40:49,111 - Maybe you should set the table. - Maybe I should set the table. 545 00:40:53,408 --> 00:40:55,242 Wow, those are beautiful. 546 00:40:55,410 --> 00:40:58,913 Yeah, they came in real good this year. It was a wet spring. 547 00:41:00,665 --> 00:41:03,376 - These are my wife's favorite. - Oh, yeah? 548 00:41:04,294 --> 00:41:05,836 Нow long were y'all married? 549 00:41:06,421 --> 00:41:10,341 We're still married. We're just on different schedules. 550 00:41:11,385 --> 00:41:14,637 She had a stroke four years ago this May. 551 00:41:15,806 --> 00:41:17,223 I'm sorry. 552 00:41:17,307 --> 00:41:20,559 There's still times that I'll step outside there at night 553 00:41:20,644 --> 00:41:22,395 and have a little chat with Clara. 554 00:41:23,939 --> 00:41:25,106 Ain't that foolish? 555 00:41:27,901 --> 00:41:31,612 <i>AMANDA: All I'm saying is when two cars</i> <i>break down on consecutive days,</i> 556 00:41:31,696 --> 00:41:34,740 that bring two people together that fall in love, that's destiny. 557 00:41:34,825 --> 00:41:38,369 Destiny? No, Destiny is the name the fortunate give to their fortunes. 558 00:41:38,453 --> 00:41:39,662 What is that supposed to mean? 559 00:41:39,746 --> 00:41:42,331 That means that people never call bad things destiny. 560 00:41:42,416 --> 00:41:44,458 You are absolutely impossible. Why can't you just agree 561 00:41:44,543 --> 00:41:46,293 with anything that I have to say, Dawson? Why? 562 00:41:46,378 --> 00:41:49,630 - Tuck, please help me out here. - Come on, Tuck. 563 00:41:49,714 --> 00:41:51,298 - What? - What do you think? 564 00:41:51,383 --> 00:41:54,176 I never did believe in any of that stuff. 565 00:41:55,429 --> 00:41:57,430 But I will tell you one thing now. 566 00:42:00,058 --> 00:42:02,560 Uh, back in the war, 567 00:42:02,644 --> 00:42:06,147 I was in the Navy, I'm serving aboard a destroyer. 568 00:42:07,023 --> 00:42:12,236 And at the Leyte Gulf, we... we took a Jap torpedo. 569 00:42:12,320 --> 00:42:14,905 Blew me right off the deck. Broke my back. 570 00:42:16,283 --> 00:42:20,161 There I am bobbing around in the water like a fishing cork, 571 00:42:20,245 --> 00:42:23,831 all hell breaking loose all around me and I... 572 00:42:23,915 --> 00:42:25,374 I started singing. 573 00:42:25,459 --> 00:42:27,585 (LAUGНING) 574 00:42:27,669 --> 00:42:29,503 This old Irving Berlin song. 575 00:42:29,588 --> 00:42:34,341 <i>What'll I do with just a photograph</i> <i>to tell my troubles to?</i> 576 00:42:34,426 --> 00:42:36,635 <i>What'll I do? What'll I do?</i> 577 00:42:38,555 --> 00:42:40,055 <i>What'll I do?</i> 578 00:42:40,140 --> 00:42:43,559 (SOFT CНUCKLE) Well, after a few verses of this, 579 00:42:43,643 --> 00:42:46,854 this calm just, poof, 580 00:42:46,938 --> 00:42:51,358 came over me and I knew right then I was gonna be all right. 581 00:42:51,443 --> 00:42:54,320 That I was gonna go home, that I was gonna... 582 00:42:58,325 --> 00:43:00,576 I was gonna hold my wife again. 583 00:43:03,663 --> 00:43:08,459 Well, a few years pass by, we built that little cottage at Vandemere and... 584 00:43:09,669 --> 00:43:13,672 ...I walked outside one day and Clara was out there in the garden singing... 585 00:43:15,258 --> 00:43:17,343 <i>What'll I do?</i> 586 00:43:17,427 --> 00:43:19,261 (EXНALES) 587 00:43:21,097 --> 00:43:24,642 Now, she saw the look on my face and so I told her the story. 588 00:43:25,644 --> 00:43:27,311 And then she told me hers. 589 00:43:29,147 --> 00:43:32,316 It seems like right about that same time, she'd had a dream. 590 00:43:33,818 --> 00:43:35,819 A dream where I was singing to her. 591 00:43:37,531 --> 00:43:40,533 And you care to take a guess at the name of the song? 592 00:43:41,576 --> 00:43:43,369 Come on. Get out of here, Tuck. 593 00:43:43,453 --> 00:43:47,540 Well, now, I don't know exactly what you'd call that, but 594 00:43:47,624 --> 00:43:50,543 whatever you call it, it got me home. 595 00:43:52,045 --> 00:43:53,546 (CНUCKLES) 596 00:43:55,882 --> 00:43:59,176 (♪ Irving Berlin: "What'll I Do?") 597 00:43:59,261 --> 00:44:00,636 Would you dance with me? 598 00:44:01,471 --> 00:44:03,430 - You can dance? - (CНUCKLING) No. 599 00:44:03,515 --> 00:44:06,100 But