About this episode
Watch on Philo! - Philo.tv/DTH CozyEarth.com - promo code HALLMARK for up to 40% off your order Lucy is a hotshot divorce attorney who gets a letter with good news—she just made partner! She gets a call from her sister, who accuses her of avoiding their mom. Lucy isn't planning on going home for Christmas, but her mom tells her she's going to get her room ready, just in case. Her sister, Alexa, says she sent her a box of some random stuff—framed photos, including one from the first Christmas after their dad died. Alexa asks her one more time to please come home for Christmas. Lucy says she'll think about it. And she goes to think about it by playing pool with her assistant, but all she really wants to do is WORK!!! After a long day, she goes across the street to a diner. Right as she’s about to go to town on some pancakes, a guy named Matt comes up to her and says, “LUCY?!?!” He sits down, and they catch up. They were friends in high school, and she gets an update on everything—from his failing Broadway career to his failing marriage. He asks if she’s coming home for Christmas, and she says, “Oh no, I haven’t been home in years.” He responds, “Same ol’ Lucy.” She’s like, “WTF does that mean?” He says, “Oh, you avoid the people who are closest to you, including me. I thought you knew that.” He asks if she ever thinks about what could have been had things turned out differently. She says, “No, I’ve literally never done that…YET!” After he leaves, a nosy waitress sits down and asks Lucy if she could do her life over again, would she? Lucy replies, “Nah, hard pass.” But as Lucy starts to look around the diner, she notices that everyone is with someone else but her. So, she looks up Matt on social media and accidentally likes an old picture. Her life is essentially over! She calls an Uber, and guess who the Uber driver is? NOSEY WAITRESS! The steering wheel is on the wrong side of the car, and Lucy's phone is set to military time… and that’s just kind of the way things go sometimes. Lucy falls asleep in the backseat, and as they go over a bridge, her phone begins to glitch out. Suddenly, she’s home. Not her current home, but her childhood home. In the moment of frenzy, she forgets her phone in the car. She goes inside and sees a dog that looks just like her childhood dog but thinks they must've just gotten the same breed. But when she wakes up the next day to “Kiss Me,” she knows something is off. She is fine without her glasses and has bangs… she runs outside to grab the paper… it’s December of 1999! Her driver is out there and explains the rules: This is a Christmas gift for her, but she can’t change anything or it will change her future. Enjoy 1999! She goes inside and sees her mom baking and realizes how much she missed that. She goes outside and runs into Matt, who is her boyfriend, and he tells her, “I’ll see you tonight for the thing.” She has no idea what he’s talking about, so she goes to talk to her old best friend, Nadine, who is also a sci-fi fan, and just tells her the truth. She convinces Nadine she’s from the future, and Nadine is 100% on board for helping Lucy figure out why she’s back. She thinks it’s because she botched her first kiss with Matt. So Nadine encourages her to go kiss him ASAP! Lucy realizes that she might be sharing too much about the future when the letterhead of her partner letter goes away. So she goes to meet up with Matt and immediately kisses him, and more letterhead disappears. Her driver shows up and tells her to just relive the memories; don’t try to change anything. And nothing says relive the memories like THE REINDEER GAMES! They win, ‘cause duh. Lucy realizes she’s having an absolute blast with Matt, and it’s causing more of her letter to disappear. She goes home and is shocked when her grandparents show up—she hasn’t seen them in a long time and gets a little misty-eyed. Her grandparents warn her and her sister to prep for Y2K. Lucy goes to check on her mom, who is working like crazy in the kitchen, and she has to sit down. Lucy gives her mother great advice and lets her know that they’re all in it together and grief isn’t going to pass in a day. This causes more of her letter to vanish. Lucy keeps having heavy-hitting conversations one after another. When she sees her sister is struggling too, she goes and tells her that she knows she’s into girls. She tells her to come out when she’s ready, but her mom will be her biggest supporter. She apologizes for not being there for her when she needed her the most but tells her that she’s proud of her. Naturally, this causes more of her letter to disappear. She goes to hang out with Matt, and they almost kiss again, but they don’t. She sees that her letter is almost gone entirely. So she goes to talk to the driver and tells her that she wants to make sure she goes back to her life as it was—and she finds out that she just has to make it to Christmas Eve. She goes to see Matt in a play and quickly realizes why he didn’t make it as an actor. He runs to meet up with her after the play and tells her that he really wants to make things work with her but can sense her pulling away. She goes to do what she always would do when she needed to think—she plays some pool with her grandpa. She asks if he would change anything about his life, and he says no—everything he’s done, including the mistakes, has led to this moment right now. He wouldn’t want to miss out on that. Lucy realizes she doesn’t want to go back to her old life. She rushes to bring a mix CD to Matt and tells him that she loves him and wants to be with him forever. They kiss, and her entire new life flashes before her eyes—college, weddings, kids, Matt’s surprisingly successful acting career. Suddenly, Lucy breaks the kiss and has her glasses back. She’s back in the present, but everything is better than Lucy could have imagined—she’s really with Matt! She’s now an estate attorney. And she’s so happy. As she’s about to walk into her mom’s house, she looks out and sees her driver, and she says THANK YOU!!! Watch the show on Youtube - www.deckthehallmark.com/youtube Interested in advertising on the show? Email bran@deckthehallmark.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.