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Episode Transcript
Written by Mitchell Hurwitz and Jim Vallely.
George Michael: Well, Dad... I like it here.
Michael: What the hell is going on with you lately? I wanted to watch, uh... Hindsight, and, and you weren’t there. I want to pack up and desert the family and-and you don’t want to. Is it this new girlfriend?
George Michael: No... It’s because of the family. I like the family. I mean, if we leave, who’s gonna take care of these people?
Michael: I don’t know. The state or the police. Maybe the Magician’s Alliance will pick up some slack.
Michael: No. Hey. That’s gonna be them and they’re gonna want something. We’re not answering.
George Michael: Hello?
Michael: Oh, hey, where’s Pop-Pop?
Maeby: Room 212.
Narrator: And that’s when Maeby decided that perhaps she could use her uncle to make her cousin jealous.
George Michael: Hey, Dad, wait up.
Maeby: That was a waste of time.
Michael: How’s he doing?
Dr. Fishman: He’s hanging in there. He keeps trying to get this IV out of his arm. I don’t understand why. It’s just glucose.
Michael: We’re all trying to stay away from sugar.
Lindsay: He’s going to be okay— right, Michael?
Michael: Absolutely. Absolutely. You all right?
G.O.B.: I’ll handle this one, Michael. Don’t you worry. It will take a lot more than a heart attack to kill that old bear. Old bear! He likes the honey. He never got a chance to see my bee business take off.
Michael: Come on, now, Dad’s going to be around another 30 years, G.O.B. Your business, uh, might not.
G.O.B.: You’re a good brother, Michael. Heart attack never stopped old Big Bear.
Michael: Hey, hey. Come on, G.O.B. Everybody, I’m, I’m very sorry. Okay? I-I feel awful. I should have been here. I’m the one that was supposed to take that polygraph test and then I just turned on him, then this happened. But never again. Okay? I will never ever leave this family no matter what.
Lucille: You should have been here.
Michael: I feel like I covered that.
Lucille: Well, you didn’t say it.
Michael: I feel awful. I should have been here.
Dr. Fishman: Excuse me, Mr. Bluth. We lost him.
Dr. Fishman: He just, uh... got away from us. I’m sorry.
Michael: Can we go in there?
Dr. Fishman: If you want. Not a lot to see.
Michael: Maybe not for you, but for us...
Narrator: And that’s when the family realized that George Sr. wasn’t dead, but was fleeing the country that he loved so very much.
Michael: Pack your bags.
Narrator: On the next season of Arrested Development, the family grapples with the news they had just heard...
G.O.B.: Why would a doctor say he’s gone when he means he’s escaped?
Lucille: Oh, God, I’ve missed bread.
G.O.B.: What’d you say? He leapt out the window.
Narrator: ...Maeby’s life gets a little more complicated...
This is a copy of the scene from the Pilot when George Michael suggests a kiss. In that scene, they were drinking orange soda while playing Go Fish; here they are drinking orange juice while playing Go.
