He's always been a little too much like a band-aid, seeking out problems to stick himself to. That's what Michelle used to say, in her own words: that he couldn't just let anything be, that he always had to try and carry people. The truth is, Ted likes being a band-aid. But it often results in everyone around him being an open wound.

Rebecca, though. She won't let the band-aid anywhere near her. And when he looks up from the ground outside the karaoke bar and sees the concern in her face, the strength in the arms she always wears bare -- like she's ready to fight--, it occurs to him that he wouldn't mind being carried, just this once, if it's by her.