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Moral Hazard
(Season: 2 Episode: 15)
First Aired: 5/4/2008
Nora: Ojai's going to be okay. They're merging with Walker Landing. And Holly made it happen. Can you believe it? I never thought I'd actually be grateful to her.
Justin: She was lying, Mom.
Nora: No, no, no. They signed the papers. I was there.
Justin: Not about the business. About Rebecca being our sister.
Nora: What?
Justin: It was all a lie. She took a test. Dad wasn't her father. She's not a Walker. She never was.
Rebecca: Maybe you're incapable of loving anybody. I mean, look how everybody leaves you.
Holly: You sent him away, didn't you - David. That's why he left.
Rebecca: You know, at least he cared. He knew what that family meant to me. I walked into that house and looked at those photographs - some lost girl looking for roots - and they accepted me, and they loved me.
Holly: Yeah, you know, you are right. I cannot compete with the Walkers.
Rebecca: No, you can't compete. You're not a mother. Not like Nora.
Holly: Nora had a husband and a family and money. I scraped together everything for us. I took care of you every single day of your life. Do you know I wasn't much older than you when I got pregnant? Can you imagine that? Being here by yourself and trying to support a child? But I did it. And if I had to give up some of my dreams, so be it. Because from then on, I put you first. And now you have the audacity to treat me like a second-class citizen? And I allowed it, because I knew that it was not easy for you. But I am done with that. From now on, if you want to hurt me, you hurt me from somewhere else. I want you out of this house.
Sarah: This is Dad's legacy, Mom. He put me in charge. He left it up to me.
Nora: Well, maybe he shouldn't have, Sarah. Ojai was his company, not yours. You should never have been pressured to walk in his footsteps. He never gave you that choice. He picked you. From the time you were a little girl, he saw something in you. And I... I let him have you. Sarah, listen to me. If Ojai goes down, maybe it's a good thing. Maybe it's time to let it go. And then, finally, you could be your own person.
Sarah: I am, Mom. Dad didn't force this on me. I wanted it. I always did.
Nora: (to Sarah) Unfortunately? Unfortunately? No, no, "unfortunately" is "oops, I dented the car fender. I spilled red wine on the sofa." Unfortunately is not "I ruined Ojai."
Tommy: (about Sarah) She was sleeping with Graham, okay? She lost all objectivity. Those are the facts. I'm sorry.
Sarah: You're not above sleeping with an employee yourself, Tommy.
Tommy: She was an office manager, okay? I wasn't making multi-million-dollar deals with her.