"Skate to the open ice, guys." "Come on now." "All right, attaboy." "Attaboy, guys." "Move it around." "Move the puck, guys." "No standing around." "Move to an open space." "Hey, Sarah... watch this." "Hey, watch it, kid!" "No, no." "No, don't go." "No, don't go there." "No." "No, just leave it." "No, no, don't go." "Move, guys." "Give him room." "Just leave it." "Just leave it there." "Leave what where, fella?" "What happened?" "You hit your head." "It hurts." "Yeah, I bet." "Listen, I need you to go with Coach Miller." "He'll take you by the hospital, okay?" "Okay, you guys, that's enough hockey for today." "It's getting slick out there anyway." "Let's go." "That was a pretty good practice today." "We are looking very good." "Hold my legs!" "Hold my legs!" "Where the hell is he?" "!" "I can't see him!" "Where is he?" "He's here." "He's right here." "Pull me back." "Pull me back." "Pull." "Pull me back." "Pull, pull, pull." "Give me my skate." "Break!" "Break!" "Break!" "Come here, come here." "Pull." "Pull!" "Pull!" "God... pull!" "Just leave it there." "Guess they didn't hear you." "People, when we look at a tree from below," "We see bunches of leaves, without composition, without organization, randomly spread all over the branches." "But... nothing in nature is random." "From above, we can see that each leaf has chosen the absolute perfect position on the tree to gain exposure to sunlight." "This is nature's tapestry, people." "And it absolutely never fails to astonish." "Mr. Smith?" "Ah, Mr. Pelson." "We're here learning about photosynthesis today." "We're also going to learn about insurance today if you don't get down from there right now." "Okay, I just wanted them to see the tree from the sun's point of view, sir." "Mr. Sandman" "Bring me a dream" "Make him the cutest that I've ever seen" "Give him two lips like roses and clover" " And tell him..." " Oh my God." "Ms. Bracknell, you got to see this." "This is where it all started right up In the trees." "Know what I mean?" "It would make me feel better about paying the electric bill if you used the classroom once in a while." "Dave, they will never look at a tree the same way again." "I promise." "I'm sure glad you're not Lars the janitor." " Lars was just here." " Hmm." "He doesn't kiss nearly as well as you do." " Open your mouth." " What?" "Open your mouth!" "What is that, tangerine?" "Satsuma mandarin." "Your taste of the day." "Everybody should experience a new taste everyday." " Tomorrow..." " Don't..." "I want you to surprise me." "Keep surprising me, Sarah." "You ready?" "hello, Mrs. Bracknell." "Busted." "Very impressive." "Please extend my compliments to the janitorial staff for their stocked inventory." "Aren't you late for a diploma?" "Get out of my hallway." "To never ever" "Can I..." "Today's self-appointed architects, the conglomerates and the moneychangers who worship gold... even as they tear down every holy tradition, infiltrating our governments, our universities, the media." "Listen to what Founding Father and our second President" "John Adams wrote." ""Our Constitution was made only for a moral..."" "Johnny, I didn't hear the front door." "Trying to boost your ratings again?" "Never hurts to try to see ourselves as others do." "Gene, have you see my glasses?" "I can't find them any..." "Johnny." "Mother." "Have you checked the kitchen near the phone?" "No, I didn't." "I thought you were going to the carnival" " with Sarah tonight." " I am." "I'm on my way to pick her up." "I thought I'd stop by and talk you into joining us." "I didn't realize you had... company." "You are welcome to join us, Reverend." "I promise not to take you anywhere near the hootchie-cootchie shows." "The hootchie-cootchie shows are my bread and butter." "Without sin, no one would need me." "How do you do that?" "He seems to have a knack for finding anything I lose." "Thanks for the invitation but we've got so much to do for tomorrow." "Your mother's been a godsend to the Alliance." "Oh, yes, I know." "Good night, Mother." "Stay away from the hootchie-cootchie shows." "I'll try." "I will try." "He walks 10 miles on his hands." "He can bite a silver dollar in half." "He's the one, the only..." "Ever wonder why Reverend Purdy makes you so uncomfortable?" "Beside the fact that he's soaking my mom for a ton of money?" "I don't know, I just get one of those feelings whenever I'm around that guy." "They're not always right, your feelings." "Your mom's no fool." "I'm sure she knows what she's doing with her money." "And besides, he's probably really good In bed." "I wouldn't know and I wouldn't want to know." "This is a rip-off." " Come on, Austin." " No, the whole thing is rigged." "State certified, son." "We run an honest game." "You set tough odds against winning, don't you?" " You his family?" " Teachers at his school." "Look, the odds are posted." "Maybe the young man here could use a little tutoring in math." "Nothing personal here." "All right, don't be shy." "Get lucky." " You have any money left?" " No." "I'll stake you." "Oh, a whole quarter." "Tonight's big spender, ladies and gentlemen." "Well, well, well, what have we here?" "Shall we go?" "Let's give her a spin and see what happens." " Feeling lucky tonight?" " Feeling very lucky tonight." "Let's see what happens." "In the hall when you go crying" "For the man..." "Twice is luck, once is a fluke." " Okay, we'll let it ride." " "Let it ride," he says." "But they catch you at the water" "And the mourners are all singing" "As they drag you by your feet" "But the hangman isn't hanging" "And they put you on the street" "You go back, Jack, do it again heel turning round and round" "You go back, Jack, do it again..." "In nine years, I've never seen a run like that." "Never." "Nothing personal." "Yeah." "The wheel's closed." "I believe that's mine." "Put the rest in a college fund, okay?" "Two?" "Three?" "Come on, give me a number." "Don't you get any kind of feeling at all when we're like this?" "Yeah, I have all sorts of nice feelings." "I'm starting to have one of those feelings right about now." "Johnny, come on." "I want to know." "How many kids are we gonna have?" "I see... 10, 15." "How about our own family hockey team?" "don't put your money on that one, pal." "I don't want to wait." "I want to elope." "Think about it, 30 years from now," "I'll be that old, funny biology teacher." "You'll be headlining at the Grand Ole Opry." "Think about what a pair we'll make." "I can't believe it." "It's just all happening so fast." "Fast?" "Sarah, I've loved you all my life." "You sure took your time making your move." "I wanted to ask you to junior prom, but I was so intimidated... by your newly-developed breasts." "What?" "Come here, let's make a hockey team." "Hey, listen, Why don't I go rent us so me movies for a rainy afternoon?" "Love you." "The wheel of fortune turns." "Round and round it goes." "Where it stops, no one knows." "Good morning, Mr. Cavis, and how are we feeling today?" "Are we ready for our sponge bath, Mr. Smith?" "I know you thought I'd never ask." "Anyway, after this," "I'm gonna give you a nice smooth shave." "Lord, you're awake!" "Something's wrong." "Something's wrong." "It's okay, you were in an accident." "Dr. Tran, room 14, stat!" "There's no bandages." " No, no, you look fine." " What happened?" "I can't believe it." "Look who's here." "Johnny's awake." "It's very good to meet you, Johnny." "I'm Dr. Tran." "Am I..." "am I okay?" "You're in a long-term hospital care facility." "You sustained some serious brain damage." "As opposed to unserious brain damage?" "I can't move my legs." "With physical therapy you'll be fine." "The muscles have atrophied." "Atrophied?" "Atrophied?" "Atrophied?" "Doctor, last night I was in a car." "You've been in a coma for six years." "Six years?" "We had very little hope you'd ever awaken, let alone retain any sort of cognitive abilities." "Your condition was complicated by scar tissue from an earlier injury, perhaps suffered in childhood?" "Do you recall?" "There'll be plenty of time for questions later." "We need to run tests as soon as possible." "Elaine, why don't you clean him up and let's get started?" "Welcome back." "Don't you go feeling embarrassed or anything." "I've been washing you head-to-toe for six years now." "I hope this isn't too hot." "There's still time." "There's still time." "What?" "There's still time." "Maggie!" " Maggie." " That's my daughter's name." " How do you know that?" " Your daughter's screaming!" "Maggie!" "Maggie!" "Somebody help her." "There's been a gas explosion in your house and your babysitter's hurt." "Your babysitter's hurt." "Hurry!" "Oh, Dr. Tran." "The patient was asking about his mother and fiancee." "His mother's dead." "I'd rather not tell him right away." "Check his admission records for the fiancee's name." " We should try to find her." " Okay." "The little girl's safe." "The neighbor looked out the window when Elaine called and smoke was coming out of the house." "Doc, what's happening to me?" "The house is only a mile away." "Maybe you heard the fire engine that had been dispatched?" "But I called her daughter by her name." "Elaine talks about Maggie to all her patients." "The body doesn't stop working when you're in a coma." "I was in the little girl's bedroom, Doctor." "Your brain is still trying to cope with severe trauma." "There'll be consequences and this may just be one... a vivid hallucination." "A hallucination that just happened to come true?" "He mind I s no t really preco gnltlve." "It plays tricks occasionally to make us think so." "We know less about the brain that any other organ." "What seems clear is that your brain has found a new way to work." "It's taking a detour around the damage and tapping into a region of the brain humans don't normally use to handle sensory perception." "In anyone else, this part of the brain might be considered a dead zone." "In your brain, the dead zone is suddenly very much alive." "He die here." "Please." "Take to America." "I can't." "There's no more room." " We're not allowed." " He die here." "John..." "Johnny!" "What's wrong?" "Please..." "he die here." "All right." "We gotta move." "We got orders." "That's it, let's go." "She's alive." "Your mother's alive." "My mother was killed by communist mortar fire in April 1975 during the fall of Saigon." "No, I'm telling you, she's alive." "She's alive." "Doc, what's happening to me?" "What happening to me?" "I'll give you something to help you rest." "No, no, I want Sarah." "I want Sarah." "It's 10 to 8:00." "You're going to be late." "Not tuna fish again." "You love my tuna fish." "I trade it with other kids at school, but the value goes down with the same thing every day." "You trade my tuna fish?" "For what?" "Good stuff." "He trades my tuna fish." "Don't trade your mother's tuna fish." "Tuna fish, backpack, go." "What's wrong?" "Another woman's body was found in North County." "Looks like we got a serial killer out there." "I want you inside before it gets dark, okay?" "Oh, I was suppose to go by the school tonight to pick up some things." "I'm serious." "All right, sport." "Let's go." "Hello?" "My maiden name was Bracknell, yes." "Why?" "Steven, thank you." "Good morning." "Schedule a meeting of the Political Action Committee to go over the candidates in the mid-term elections." "I want them to meet Greg Stillson." "He's an impressive young man running for Congress in the second district." "Mike, I'm so sorry to keep you waiting." "I can't think of a nicer place to wait." "Yo u've do ne re markable thing s here." "E've do ne re markable thing s here." "God knows, without your legal counsel, none of this would be possible." "In that regard, there's news about Vera Smith's son." "Well, we knew it was just a matter of time." "We'll hold the services here, of course." "He's regained consciousness." "I believe the National Party is going in directions that are not..." "Let me get this straight." "They elected a wrestler as governor?" "Oh yeah." " Step left." " Okay." "Who's president now?" "George Bush." "Step right." "George Bush?" "Bush again?" "The son." "Long, long story." "Damn, you missed OJ too, didn't you?" "OJ, OJ." "OJ Simpson?" " Yeah." " Let me guess." "Ambassador to the U N?" "Not exactly." "Listen, enough, man." "I'm tired." "Come on, give me one more..." " Don't, I told you." " What?" "Look, how am I supposed to do rehab on you without touching you, Big John?" "I give one heck of a deep tissue massage." "That's okay." "I told you I'm not much of a message person, all right?" "Come on, man, I'm tired." "What else?" "Mark McGwire and Barry Bonds set new home run records." "A brother is the baddest golfer to ever play the game, name of Tiger Woods." "We landed on Mars, cloned a sheep," "Bill Clinton was busted for getting head in the Oval Office from a 22-year-old intern, and Regis Philbin is the biggest star in prime time." "Right." "I had brain damage, I'm not stupid, okay?" "Come on, give me one more..." " Don't worry about the water." " What about the water?" "He has been having some delusional episodes." "Poor boy's brains were spread over the side of the road." "We could scarcely expect anything else." "I think you'll be surprised how well he's doing." "I want him to have the best therapy available." "The Faith Heritage Alliance is prepared to support him if he has to stay here the rest of his life." "It's the least we can do after everything Vera did for us." "A week ago I would have said that was likely." "Today, I'm not so sure." "But if he's delusional..." "We don't know how serious it is yet." "We may be able to treat his condition through drugs or psychotherapy." "Matter of fact, I was just about to run an experiment with him." "Experiment?" "To see if we can observe how his brain" " process these delusions." " May I watch?" "Actually, it would be better if..." "Doctor, I am the boy's legal guardian, and I guess it would be accurate to say that I am paying for this experiment." "We're ready for you, Doctor." "Maybe afterwards, Johnny and I can sit down, make some plans for his future." "Allison, Reverend Purdy will be joining you in the observation room." "Will you show him the way?" "Thank you." "Please." "Goodness, what are all those wires for?" "We're gonna monitor his brain activity." "After what the boy's been through it's amazing there's any activity left to measure." "It's a bona fide miracle, rl ght befo re o ur eyes." " Is everything ready?" " Yes, Doctor." "Johnny..." "I'd like you to meet my uncle, my mother's brother." "Yesterday you told me she was alive, remember?" "My uncle was with her in Saigon when she died." "Yes, many were killed that day." "I saw my sister die in front of my eyes." "What you saw was not real." "Your brain is struggling to distinguish real sensory input from these fantasies or dream images." "This is probably a result..." "It was a different woman." "The woman you saw killed was not your sister." "Bruce, tomorrow, really." "I'm too tired." "Yo, Mr. Rip Van Winkle, you've been asleep for the last six years." "I barely got six hours of sleep last night, so I don't want to hear any complaints about being tired, all right?" "Johnny." "As you can see, I put on my tux." "You look fine." "I didn't know if I should come... but I really wanted to." "I'm really glad you did." "You still teaching?" "Subbing now and then." "I left to do something with my music." " Oh, good for you." " Yeah." "I wrote a couple of country songs." "But uhm... it didn't work out." "So much for being the next Shania." "Shania Twain." "she's a big country music star." "I'll bring you one of her CDs." "Do you know what CDs are?" "Yeah." "CDs were around back then." "Yeah, I thought..." "I wasn't sure." "Wow, it's so pretty here." "Don't you hate talking to sick people?" "Don't... please." "You never know what to say." "Just try and be cheerful, I guess, right?" "Oh God, Johnny." "You bought a house?" "How did you know?" "Well, it stands to reason... after six years." "Do you have a family now, Sarah?" "You must've gotten married by now." "Honey, will you help me out with this?" "The laundry put so much starch in the collar" "I can't even find one darn button hole." "They told me that you'd never come out of it, that you'd just..." "slip away." "I couldn't wait, Johnny." "I just feel so terrible about it, so guilty." "Do you love him?" "What do you say we do a little snowboarding tonight?" "There's six inches of new powder on the mountain." "He's a wonderful man... and a wonderful father." "You did the right thing, Sarah." "His name's Walt Bannerman." "He's the Sheriff of Penobscot County." "Maybe we should talk about something else." "Do you have any kids?" "Just one." "A boy." "What's his name?" "Johnny." "He's a hockey player." "Does he know?" "No." "No, Wait and I have, we've raised him as our own child." "Listen, if you're worried that I'm going..." "No, I'm gonna tell him now." "I mean, of course." "No, no." "Listen to me." "You made this life for yourself, Sarah." "I love you." "All I can give you is your freedom." "We've known each other all our lives." "And that's not going to change." "It has to." "I'm so sorry." "I'm only saying that we should..." "No." "A few days at the shore will do you good." "I'm not going to Atlantic City, all right?" "Okay, okay." "That Indian casino in Connecticut is closer." "Just one day." " No." " A few hours?" "Damn it, Johnny." "Your talent and my 20 bucks..." "I'd just as soon forget about my new talents." "I want to get back to my old talents." "I want to be a teacher again." "Man, how can your whole world change and the neighborhood you grew up in stay just as you left it?" "What's this?" "A little homecoming present." "Something from me to you." "I'm still not going to Atlantic City, all right?" " Gloves." " No, no, no." "Leather gloves, my brother." "I figure, you don't want to touch anyone, you might as well look good not touching them." "I see how it is." "I've been out of touch for six years" " now I can't dress myself?" " Somebody has to look out for you." "Thanks, man." "I'll grab the bag." "Hi." "Hi." "What are you doing here?" "I brought someone I want you to meet." "We don't have to tell him everything." "I just..." "I want him to know you." "Johnny!" "Come here." "I want you to say hi to someone." "Hey, man, how are you doing?" "You know what?" "We have the same name." "Hey, Mom, could we go now?" "Yeah, you can go now." "It's good to meet you, Johnny." "Well, we'll be back." "Welcome home." "Nice family." "Yeah." "Somebody else's." "Should've given him some cake..." "Yeah, here." "Come on, man." "Do that biofeedback thing like I taught you, come on." "Nice slow breaths." "Come on, breathe." "Breathe." "Call Allison." "Call Allison." "Call Allison and warn her." "Hello?" "Hello?" "Hello?"