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Once and Again

Unfinished Business

Season 1, Episode 17, Aired Mar 06, 2000

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Lily and her family cope with a life-altering accident.

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Shane Edelman

Dr. Scheck
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Julie Paris

Drama Teacher
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Asher Gold

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Shane West

Eli Sammler
Sela Ward

Lily Brooks Manning
Billy Campbell

Rick Sammler
Susanna Thompson

Karen Davies Sammler
Julia Whelan

Grace Manning
Evan Rachel Wood

Jessie Sammler

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By sh811a, Apr 20, 2009

I'll admit this episode is not easy for me to watch. There have been a of episodes that deal with this conept but very few that have done it right. It is always the last thing you would think would happen, but when it does happen it hits you emotionally hard.

This episode sort of hit a bit close to home, since I had a grandfather that suddenly got really sick, the emotions they all went throught were about the same as mine and a few of my family members. I really like certain moments with all of them every character was feeling the motions. Grace we see is in distress feeling it might have been her fault because she didn't see there was something wrong with her grandfather sooner but the truth of the matter is it's never anyone's fault there really was no way she could of see it happen, these things just happen. Lily and Judy just as much since they are losing their father. Their mother who is going to lose her husband. And suprising with Jake, there was one moment where Judy conforts him we actually see Jake crying because he feels he could be losing a father.

I even liked that monologue Rick said to Lily about loss of his father and what he felt and he is right, that fact other people had to endure loss doesn't make it easier or bearable it only makes it more painful and worse knowing that fact. The pacing of the episode also felt right because it was the same kind of speed I felt in that predicament where everything felt like it was moving slowly and that is what always got to me just the waiting, you know what's to come but there is just that small part of you wanting something good to happen but it doesn't and that's what hurts.

And of course we see the final confession and words from Phill and at the end of that I couldn't help but tear up after that. Goodbye Phil.moreless
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- Lily: He really loved you, you know that. Grace: It was kinda hard to miss.
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- Lily: How did you handle this at fourteen? Rick: Who says I handled it?
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- Lily: Do you have any coffee? Judy: Not unless elves made it.
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- Jake: (to Grace) Honey, you're too big for daddy to pick up anymore, okay.
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- Lily: I like men, I really do. They're like these big messy creatures who are so oblivious with each other. They just have to act like everything is okay all the time.
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- Lily: I don't think I'm ever going to answer the phone again.
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- Phil: It'll take more than a mid-sized to kill me. Jake: I don't doubt it for a moment.
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- Lily: If you ever want to know how you were raised, just watch your parents with your children.
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- Lily: Judy, please don't be mean to me. My life is off the map.
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- Grace: You want to watch me faint on stage when I forget my lines? Phil: I'll shout them out to you. Grace: That's what I'm afraid of.
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- Shane West (Eli Sammler), Susanna Thompson (Karen Davies Sammler) and Evan Rachel Wood (Jessie Sammler) do not appear in this episode.
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- Jennifer Crystal Foley makes a first appearance as Christie Parker, a character that would go on to become a regular in the upcoming season.
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- Once and Again writer/producer Marshall Herskovitz appears in this episode as the doctor with bad news.
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