How It All Goes Down
- Calvin and Beth have dinner.
- Calvin thinks about how he has been married to Beth almost twenty-one years, yet she is still "a marvelous mystery" (4.1) to him. What kind of mystery? A Sherlock Holmes mystery? Miss Marple? Scooby-Doo?
- Beth wants to go on a trip for Christmas this year. Maybe Yugoslavia. Or London. (If you're planning a trip these days, choose London. It still exists.)
- But Calvin doesn't think they should travel for Christmas this year.
- With Conrad fresh from the hospital, Calvin thinks the timing is wrong.
- Beth insists it would be good to get away…away from her uber-busy tennis-and golf-playing lifestyle.
- Beth thinks if they don't go now, they'll never go, because Calvin will blame himself and Beth for what Conrad did for the rest of eternity.
- Ruh-roh, Ralvin. That escalated quickly.
- Calvin insists everything is all right, but Beth disagrees.
- Back at the office, Calvin goes over some paperwork with Ray, his business partner.
- Then Calvin thinks to himself that he lied to Beth at lunch.
- The lie is that Calvin said everything is all right, but everything isn't all right. Calvin blames himself for Conrad's behavior.