Alan Harper hovered behind him, clutching a bowl of low-fat popcorn. "You’re doing it wrong, Walden. You’re hovering over the button. You have to commit to the click."
As the episode started, the familiar theme song filled the room—though the "men" in the intro had changed, the spirit of the chaos remained. On screen, Alan was embroiled in his usual web of lies, trying to sneak around between Lyndsey and her ex-husband, Chris. Watch Two And a Half Men S09E06
Alan beamed, taking it as a compliment. "Exactly! Now, do you want to watch the next one, or should we go see if there's any of your expensive bourbon left?" Alan Harper hovered behind him, clutching a bowl
"I just want to watch the game, Alan," Walden sighed, his tall frame slumped on the sofa that used to belong to a very different, much more cynical man. You have to commit to the click
Walden smiled, finally feeling at home. "Bourbon. But only if you don't try to hide the bottle in the closet."
The living room of the Malibu beach house felt colder than usual, and not just because of the ocean breeze. Walden Schmidt, the billionaire who had recently bought the house to nurse a broken heart, was staring at the TV remote as if it were a complex piece of alien technology.