Fern, Baze and others in “Home Inspected”

Look, an ambush is not the way to win your child back.

I know. Before you say anything else, you have got to hear me out, okay? (pauses, turns to Cate) Go ahead.

Okay, so I'm not a soccer mom, and he, he can barely spell PTA.

Don't even know what it is.

Yeah. But we're here, and...okay, we're just not gonna go anywhere until you approve us.

Cate, listen--

No, you listen. I gave her up 16 years ago because someone in your department promised me that there would be someone great to adopt her, and no one did, and if you would have left her with us 16 years ago, how can you not leave her with us now? She has been in seven foster homes, and she has hated every single one of them. Are they really that much better than our homes? Are we that much worse? Because we can make room for her.

Get batteries. Not fight on the lawn. Look, we don't have it all worked out yet, you know?

We can give her the one thing that no one else ever has: love