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I'm overwhelmed now.

Oh, well, you just wait!

You have no idea.

All right. Goodbye.

Bye-Bye.

Honey, we got to call

the doctor.

What's wrong?

There was just a little bit of blood.

A little bit of blood?

Yeah.

Hi, dr. Campbell?

It's Maggie royal.

Yeah, I, um... I-I started

bleeding a little bit,

And I'm worried that

there's something wrong.

It was just, wh...

Kind of red around the edges.

38 weeks.

Oh.

Okay.

Thank you.

I someone had told me that.

Uh, okay.

Yeah, I will... I will...

I will come in first thing.

Thank you. Sorry.

Thank you.

Geez. What?

I lost my mucus

plug... apparently.

You're gonna have to

help me out on that one.

You got to read a book!

Maggie.

It means the baby is coming.

Now?

Well, probably not now.

But, um, he wants me to go in

And get checked

tomorrow morning.

Right.

Tomorrow morning is

the Ned Johnson thing.

Got to nail that, so...

I mean, I can move it

Or skip it and try to have

my dad do it and come.

No, don't worry about it.

No, I can go.

No, it's fine.

All I need you to do is ask.

No, I'm done asking, Aaron.

Well, that's

a very mature response.

What's the point

in asking you to do anything?

You always say no,

so I don't ask you anymore.

I need you to use

your words because,

Despite my remarkable powers of perception,

I can't read your mind.

Oh, okay. I'll use my words...

I can handle it.

You can handle it,

or you want me to come,

But you can't ask me to come?

Don't lawyer me!

I'm worried.

I haven't felt him move today.

I know. I know.

I...I just,

when I saw the blood, I...

Did the doctor say it was okay?

Yes.

It's okay. It's okay.

I'm sorry.

I'm sure he's just tired.

It's getting crowded

in there, right?

Yeah.

It's okay.

I promise, okay?

Okay.

Look, I know

he's got the personality

Of wallpaper at times.

A few awkward years

in high school, dad.

Don't hold it against me

forever.

But Christopher

is a top-Notch doctor.

Yeah, and we are

thrilled, Ned,

To have him join the team.

And we think you made

the right decision

Stepping aside

to make room for your son.

What gave you the notion

I was stepping aside?

Uh, Ned. Uh, my son and I,

we build surgery centers.

We make money

because we're good at our job.

The day we stop being good at

our job, we don't make money.

Are you implying that

I'm no longer good at my job?

No. No one's saying that.

In the last three years,

There's been major complications

From three different

routine colonoscopies,

The last one almost resulting

in the loss of a man's life.

He was fine.

Well, he...

He walked away.

Dad, I became a doctor

Because I wanted to

be just like you.

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