Eric Mabius credited as playing...
Oliver O'Toole
- Oliver O'Toole: [Finds Shane in the chapel] Well, I uh, certainly didn't expect to find you in here.
- Shane McInerney: Neither did I.
- [Fighting tears]
- Shane McInerney: I was just so... grateful.
- Oliver O'Toole: When I was up on that mountain, I was so afraid. I was afraid I was going to lose my dad. Afraid I might not get off the mountain. Afraid that I had waited too long to start my life over. Every woman in my life who truly mattered has broken my heart. So I learned to stop taking chances because I never wanted to feel that way again. But last night when I thought I might not see the sunrise I started to pray. I prayed for the chance to live long enough to be here right now to tell you that I hope our first date isn't our last. That life is too short to only drink YooHoo. That I'm ready to try a bee pollen ginger kumbacha smoothie...
- Shane McInerney: [Interrupts] Kombucha
- Oliver O'Toole: Kombucha. And I'm also ready to tell you I know you don't believe in miracles...
- Shane McInerney: [Interrupts with a hand to his check] You'd be surprised what I'm starting to believe.
- Oliver O'Toole: [Takes her hand and kisses it] Thank you for saving my life.
- Shane McInerney: Did Oliver ever tell you his divine delivery theory?
- Joe O'Toole: Uh-uh.
- Oliver O'Toole: I didn't know I had one.
- Shane McInerney: You know that we don't find the dead letters they find us just in time to be delivered. I call it Oliver's divine delivery theory.
- Joe O'Toole: You guys believe every letter that finds you is on some supernatural schedule?
- Oliver O'Toole: Yes.
- Shane McInerney: Well some of us believe and some of us are open to it.
- Oliver O'Toole: Miss McInerney, what's all this?
- Shane McInerney: What you said today about passports and visas and preparing for the journey.
- Oliver O'Toole: It was a metaphor too far, perhaps, yes.
- Shane McInerney: Oliver you made us think about things that people don't like to think about. And yet somehow you didn't make it scary, you just made it matter.
- Oliver O'Toole: Oh well thank you.
- Shane McInerney: I'm not a church person like you are. But what I do know is that you need to spend quality time with your dad. And you can't wait to lose a bet to do that.
- Oliver O'Toole: Oh I don't intend to lose the bet.
- Shane McInerney: But it doesn't matter. Because even if you win you still lose. I don't get to have that ginger kombucha smoothie with Eleanor now because I thought I had time. And your dad's not that old but you've lost so much time with him already. So I've packed your bags.
- Oliver O'Toole: You're sending me to camp?
- Shane McInerney: This was my dad's, it's not new, it's got everything you need, it's got a bedroll, sleeping bag, flashlight, first aid kit, the whole shebang, suitable for bonding.
- Oliver O'Toole: Miss McInerney, what about our dinner?
- Shane McInerney: Oliver don't worry. I'm not going to go back to Montaldo's without you.
- [Oliver smiles]
- Shane McInerney: Now I called your dad and he's going to wait for you...
- Oliver O'Toole: ... I don't know what to say. Yes I do. What is, uh kumbatcha?
- Shane McInerney: [Smiles] Kombucha. And let's just say it's the complete opposite of YooHoo.
- Oliver O'Toole: I will see you on Monday...
- [as he's walking away]
- Oliver O'Toole: ... Shane.
- Oliver O'Toole: Dad.
- Joe O'Toole: Yeah?
- Oliver O'Toole: There's been too much leaving in this family. Let's not do that anymore.
- Joe O'Toole: Got it.
- Oliver O'Toole: It's sort of a divine delivery perhaps?
- Shane McInerney: Okay. But if we're going to do this I say forget protocol, forget privacy code 10-1p, we read the letter and let the miracles begin. Well unless... you would rather go camping instead?
- Norman Dorman: Camping? Oliver doesn't like to live outside.
- Rita Haywith: Not on purpose anyway.
- Oliver O'Toole: That nurse said Shane and Dale are waiting.
- Joe O'Toole: Shane and Dale, huh? Good luck with that.
- Joe O'Toole: So I need to uh, make a confession.
- Oliver O'Toole: Okay?
- Joe O'Toole: Yesterday you asked me if you've ever been in these woods before and you have.
- Oliver O'Toole: When?
- Joe O'Toole: You were about seven or eight and you kept begging your mom and me to take you hiking in the mountains. So we did. And you loved it, you loved the freedom, the birds, you kept running out ahead of us to protect us from the bears.
- Oliver O'Toole: Huh.
- Joe O'Toole: And then you ran out so far ahead that we lost you. And we started calling out and things got scary, we panicked and she blamed me and I blamed her and well, we got in a fight, not our first one, but something about being out alone in the forest made it seem so much more raw and bitter than it had ever been before. Like there was nothing civilized there to make us hold back and we said some awful stuff. And then we looked around and there you were standing there watching us, absolutely brokenhearted. I could never get you to come back to the mountains after that. You were so afraid your mom and I would start fighting again. You were always trying to protect us from the bears. You even asked me if there was a way for you to go to the forest without actually going to the forest. So I, well...
- Oliver O'Toole: That's why you got me "Bird Songs of the Rocky Mountains".
- Joe O'Toole: It was either that or Evergreen air freshener. Your mother left us a few weeks later. And it wasn't my fault and it definitely wasn't yours. But I think all these years the little boy deep down inside of you believed it was. And you've lost a lot of time and you've missed a lot of love. And look at how long it took you to come back to the forest. Don't wait for the pain to go away Ollie. Just, just leave it here on the mountain, okay son? Then go back and start over.