[Cut to the Brown living room. Ephram is on the sofa. Delia is opposite him holding a camcorder.]
DELIA: Do I just push it?
EPHRAM: Yeah. Pull the start and hit this red button.
[Dr. Brown arrives home.]
DELIA: OK.
EPHRAM: You ready?
[Delia notices her father.]
DELIA: DAD!
DR. BROWN: Hey, what are you guys up to?
[Ephram has the camera.]
DELIA: Ephram had an idea. We're making a tradition.
DR. BROWN: A whole tradition? What, pray tell, is this tradition?
DELIA: We record ourselves saying the very best thing that happened to us this year. Isn't that fun?
DR. BROWN: Sounds like it. [to Ephram] Could I have my credit card back?
DELIA: And I said, when me and Edna made it home with no gas in the tank, so I know God exists even though he didn't take the cookies.
DR. BROWN: Excellent choice, Delia. What about you, Ephram?
EPHRAM: I haven't gone yet.
DR. BROWN: Well, don't let me stop you.
DELIA: Wait! I want you to be holding the grateful book for me, OK?
EPHRAM: Sure.
DELIA: I'll go get it.
EPHRAM: [holding the camera up] And what about you, Dad?
DR. BROWN: Me?
EPHRAM: Yes, you're next.
[Dr. Brown sits on the seat opposite his son.]
EPHRAM: What's the best thing that happened to you this year?
DR. BROWN: The best thing that happened to me this year... [beat] is that I met my son.
[Ephram looks up at him and wasn't expecting that. Dr. Brown smiles at him and he returns the smile.]
[The scene merges into Amy at her house. She puts the CD on. "You Mean Everything To Me" by Shawn Mullins is the first track. She smiles.]
LYRICS: I've been on the road too long / And I've been stuck inside a song / But our passion's like a rose
NARRATOR: Once upon a time, in a far away kingdom. There lived not one, but two kings.
[Cut to Main Street. A man dressed as Santa, whom I'll assume is Robert from before, is collecting money on the sidewalk. Dr. Abbott purposely avoids him as he walks past.]
NARRATOR: One, who knew not what he had.
[Cut to Dr. Brown at home reading a grateful book.]
NARRATOR: One, doomed to remember what he had lost.
[Cut to Edna hanging decorations with Delia helping her.]
NARRATOR: And there lived a fearless giantess and a wood sprite who loved to play in her shadows. Moon glow illuminating her eyes.
[Irv walks in and kisses Edna.]
NARRATOR: There even was a wizard who knew how to tame wild things.
[The camera pans into the tree and cuts to Ephram sitting in the library staring at Amy who is on the other side. She looks over to him briefly.]
NARRATOR: And a handsome prince and a beautiful princess who could not know how their fates were destined to cross.
[Cut to the Abbotts at dinner.]
