YEAR 2030
LIVING ROOM
(Daughter and Son sitting on couch)
Future Ted: Kids, before I met your mother, when I was still out there searching, I learned something valuable, that love is not a science.
Daughter: Wow, that was a great story, Dad.
Son: We're gonna go watch TV.
(Daughter and Son get up and leave)
Future Ted: You see, sometimes in life, you just have to accept that certain things can't be explained. And that's kinda scary.
(Daughter and Son return to sit on couch)
BAR
(year 2005; Ted, Barney and Robin sitting around table; Lily and Marshall run in)
Marshall: Oh my God.
Lily: I know, I'm still shaking.
(Lily grabs Barney's drink and drinks from it)
Barney: What the? Haha, joke's on you, I have a cold.
Robin: Are you guys OK? Marshall (yelling over to bartender): Another round and back it up for me and Lily.
Ted: What happened?
Marshall: We saw something, up in the apartment.
Lily: Something bad.
(flashback to Lily and Marshall entering apartment while kissing)
Marshall: I don't know what it is, but margaritas make me sexy.
Lily: Oh, mucho sexy. You quiero Marshall.
(Marshall and Lily hug and kiss, Lily looks over and sees something and looks scared)
Lily: Oh my God.
(Lily and Marshall scream and run out of the apartment)
(cut back to present scene in bar)
Ted: What was it?
Marshall: Only the craziest, meanest looking mouse you've ever seen.
Lily: Mouse? Sweetie, that wasn't a mouse. That was a huge cockroach.
Marshall: Baby, it was a mouse. It had a whiskers.
Lily: But those things coming out of his head, those were antennae
Barney: Marshall ran away from a cockroach.
Marshall: It, it was a mouse.
Barney: Oh, yeah, sorry, my bad. You're a man.
