"Are you OK?" "Yeah." "God, I don't know what's wrong with me." "I might just be coming down with the flu, or something." "Don't tell me you're pregnant." "I'm not pregnant." "No express service between 34th and 14th Street." "We apologize for the inconvenience." "Parker!" "Parker, no!" "Hi, honey." "Hey, what are you still doing up?" "I've been waiting for you." "Ah." "You know, I think your man might make partner." "What does your wife get out of this partnership?" "Oh, wow." "God, you look beautiful." "More beautiful than usual?" "Maybe." "Maybe." "I'm pregnant." "Are you serious?" "I'm serious." "Are you sure?" "I'm sure." "I have four pregnancy tests that say I am." "Oh my God." "I love you." "I really think it's time we consider moving out of the city." "You know?" "Just like we always wanted." "You mean like you've always wanted." "Wait, you said, "I will never raise kids in this city. "" "I know." "I know." "But, I feel different now that I'm actually having one." "Well anyway, we should look at a couple of places." "Yeah?" "I've got the name of a good real estate agent." "Will you think about it?" "Maybe." "I'll think about it." "OK." "Ugh." "Get out of here now!" "Get out!" "Go!" "Leave!" "I've saved this property for last because I think it's really special." "Now, as you can see it's very private but just as commutable as the other homes we've looked at." "Wow." "It's really big." "It's spacious but don't let that put you off until you've seen it." "Wow." "It's beautiful." "This home was built with children in mind." "Do you plan on having any children?" "Actually I'm pregnant right now." "That's wonderful." "Congratulations!" "Thank you." "Thank you." "You have to admit this would make a perfect nursery." "Yeah." "With this much land so close to the city," "I'm sure it's out of our price range." "Isn't it?" "No." "Actually the owners are anxious to get the place off their hands as soon as possible." "Really?" "Their daughter went off to college, so they decided to move into the city." "I guess they felt like this was too much house for the two of them." "Come on." "We spoke about it." "Yeah, I know." "I know." "OK, it's finished." "Is it gonna work?" "Yeah." "Y eah?" "Yeah." "Go see for yourself." "Well?" "Does it work?" "It works." "Oh!" "No, no!" "What are you doing?" "It's a mouse." "There's a mouse." "It's a what?" "It's a mouse." "All right." "OK, I've got it." "Where is it?" "He went under the dresser." "Under here?" "Yeah." "OK." "OK, mousy, come on." "What are you doing with that?" "He's probably next door by now." "Can I write you a check?" "Yeah." "Yeah, you can write me a check." "Oh, good." "You moved into Jenny's old house?" "1620 Woodland Lane." "Oh." "Yeah, I guess I did." "That's Jenny's house." "She used to work here." "We were pretty decent friends." "Thanks." "Thank you very much." "Let me tell you, they didn't have the drugs back then that they do now." "I'm sure." "But Mom, I don't want the drugs." "I'm planning on having a natural birth." "You don't want the drugs?" "Nope." "What the hell are you talking about?" "Are you crazy?" "Who wouldn't want the drugs?" "Mom, you know the drugs are actually bad for the baby." "They aren't bad for the baby." "Y es, they are." "You'll be singing a different tune when the baby comes." "Trust me." "Yoga and all that breathing doesn't mean shit with a ten pound parasite coming out from between your legs." "It's true." "Why do you think you're an only child?" "Mom, you're scaring me." "Well, you should be scared." "You should be horrified." "I'd come but I don't even want to be reminded." "Thanks for the support, Mom." "Could you just hold on for one second?" "I want to put Parker downstairs." "He's been driving me up the wall lately." "OK." "Come here." "Oh God." "There you go." "Hi." "Mom, I need to go." "I'm actually cooking dinner for Steven tonight." "Cook?" "Did you move to a farm?" "What?" "They don't have delivery out there?" "I like cooking." "And Steven's been working really hard lately and he comes home like ten o'clock at night and I think he'd like a meal." "Well, I hope he doesn't plan on working these kind of hours when the baby comes." "He's going to take some time off when the baby comes." "OK." "Good." "It's great to talk to you." "You too, sweetie." "O K. T ake care of yourself, OK?" "You take care of yourself." "Bye." "Parker!" "Come here, boy!" "Come on!" "It's time to eat!" "Come here!" "Come on!" "Parker!" "Parker." "How you doing?" "Oh God!" "No!" "Oh God!" "I am so sorry." "I had a nightmare of a phone call just as I was leaving." "You OK?" "I killed Parker." "What?" "I'm sorry." "How?" "Does this mean I'll be a horrible mother?" "Laura... it wasn't your fault." "It was an accident." "Why didn't I close the door to the laundry room?" "Why didn't I do that?" "Let's get some sleep, eh?" "I'm sorry." "I know." "I know." "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry." "Oh!" "Oh no!" "Oh no!" "Is there something wrong?" "Don't worry." "Everything's gonna be all right." "She's fine." "Everything's fine." "Laura." "Actually, she's asleep right now but, uhm, they're just gonna keep her in for a few more days because of the c-section." "You OK?" "Yeah, I'm, I'm a little tired." "You'll be able to rest as soon as you feed her." "We advise our mothers who've had a c-section to breastfeed on their sides because your abdominals are going to be sore for awhile." "It takes some practice." "You can do it." "I don't think she wants it." "No, oh, you've got to be really- careful to make sure that her mouth is on it." "You don't want to starve your baby to death, thinking she's feeding when she's not." "I've seen it happen." "Ah." "See?" "Now, from here on out everything's pretty much downhill." "There you go." "Oh God." "Hey." "Hi." "Hello." "Hello, little one." "Hello, my little one." "No." "Oh-oh-oh." "How long you been up?" "Uh, I don't know." "What time is it?" "It's about six thirty." "I don't even think I slept." "I heard those mice again." "Oh Jesus." "Look, I'll call the exterminator." "I'll make sure someone gets out here today." "OK?" "OK." "OK." "I've got to go." "I've got to go, sweetheart." "Oh." "Here we go." "There we go." "See you." "When are you coming home?" "I'll call." "God!" "Is there something wrong?" "I assure you it's perfectly normal." "I, I, it's just that" "Just use the ointment I prescribed and you should be fine." "Really." "Now, if you'll excuse me, I've really got to go." "O K, bye." "You got a rodent problem?" "Hello?" "Hi." "Why'd you call so early?" "I didn't." "Yeah." "Like around four I got your message." "Oh, oh." "Are you OK?" "Mom, how did you feel after you gave birth to me?" "How did I feel?" "I felt like shit." "You did?" "How else are you supposed to feel after you've just had a baby?" "So, what, you've got the blues or something?" "It's like I have so much anxiety." "I'm just worried about every little stupid thing." "Yeah well, don't worry." "It goes away." "You'll be fine." "It does?" "It's one of those aspects of having a baby that people fail to mention." "Hormones, they're horrible." "It's weird." "I feel like I'm going crazy." "You're not going crazy." "Excuse me." "Basement?" "There's only room for one crazy person in this family and I already got the job." "I promise you, it'll get better soon." "You just need to get some sleep." "At least five hours." "How am I supposed to do that?" "The baby eats like every two hours." "I'm not going to do that." "He has a really stressful job." "OK?" "He can't get up like ten times in the middle of the night." "And you can?" "You guys should take turns." "So he has a job." "He goes and does his job." "Then he comes home and he has another job." "He's the father." "The mother isn't the only one who's responsible for the child." "Mom..." "can I call you back?" "OK." "I'm sorry." "No problem." "I'm just glad you were around." "I laid some traps even though I didn't see any droppings." "But you never know." "They say if you got one mouse you got forty." "Like I said, mice like to run up and down the pipes." "So if I were you, I wouldn't leave your diary in the utility closet." "Mice like to eat that kind of stuff." "What diary?" "I just assumed it was yours." "It looked kind of girlie." "If you'll just sign there, Ma'am." "Thank you." "And you call me if you hear anything else." "OK, I will." "Oh God!" "Help!" "Help!" "Help!" "Help!" "What are you talking about?" "You are kidding me?" "Don't tell me that." "Why is he springing this shit on us now?" "This is meant to be finished." "This is meant to be a deal." "I can't believe this." "Look John, It's a little bit late in the day for this." "Y eah." "Sorry to interrupt, John." "I'm gonna have to call you back." "OK?" "Bye-bye." "Hey, darling, hey." "Where's mommy?" "Sh, sh, sh." "All right, all right." "Laura!" "Laura!" "Laura!" "Laura!" "Laura!" "Laura!" "Steven, I'm in the basement!" "Open the door!" "Jesus." "What happened?" "O K. All right." "I have to feed her!" "I have to feed her!" "I practically abandoned her." "Laura, she's fine." "She's never gonna forgive me." "There's nothing to forgive." "Anyway, she's a baby." "She forgave you the moment you fed her." "I think she thinks I'm a bad mother." "Listen to me." "Listen." "You're a great mother." "I'm not." "I'm a terrible mother." "Can I help you?" "Are you Mrs. Davis?" "Yes." "I am Mrs. Kasperian." "Your husband sent me." "He said you need helper." "Steven... called you?" "He's very good man." "He knows it's not easy to be a mother." "I'm not looking for any help right now." "Well, he sent me." "Maybe you would like to telephone him." "I wait." "All right, I'll call him." "You can come in." "Thank you." "Is your mother coming?" "No." "Thank God she doesn't want to fly." "Where is she?" "She's in Los Angeles." "Are you from there?" "Yes." "When I had my first baby, I wanted to go home to Mother." "I was very scared." "But she convinced me to stay here." "Outside this country, many mothers and babies don't make it." "Here, very few women have troubles." "Oh, look." "She's sound asleep." "Would you like me to put her in the crib for you?" "No." "She's very beautiful." "Shall I go on folding?" "Sure." "Always so much laundry." "Mrs. Davis?" "Baby is sleeping upstairs." "You should get some rest too." "I will." "I'm going now." "Thank you." "You're welcome." "You get some rest." "Did you remember to call Mrs. Kasperian about baby sitting tonight?" "You didn't forget about the party tonight, did you?" "I didn't." "I called her." "She's coming." "Good." "Good." "It's all right." "You had me scared there for a minute." "Oh, can you make sure that you show up on time?" "It's just that we're considered to be one of the hosts and I want to make sure that we greet everyone as they come in." "Oh my God." "How's your mouse problem?" "They're doing great." "They are so good." "Hey, do you remember that girl that you told me about?" "I think I found something of hers and I was wondering if I could reach her." "Uhm, I don't have a number but she went to NYU." "I'm sure you can just call their directory." "What was her name again?" "Jenny." "Ugh." "Wait a minute." "Wait a minute!" "Oh my God!" "Jesus Christ!" "All right." "Where is she?" "Where is she?" "Oh my God." "Oh my God!" "Oh my God." "Oh my God!" "Oh my God!" "Oh my God!" "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry." "Mrs. Davis?" "What you do to your hair?" "Oh no." "Oh no!" "Will you take her?" "Yes." "Of course." "She'll be fine." "It's all right." "It's all right." "Little one." "She's fine." "Oh, little one." "Oh, little one." "Is everything all right, Mrs. Davis?" "Yeah." "Yeah, I'm" "I'm fine." "Thank you." "You're welcome." "I'm glad I could help." "You are not happy, Mrs. Davis." "Why do you say that?" "You remind me a little of myself." "When I had my first baby, I wasn't happy either." "I didn't feel the way I thought a mother should feel." "Really?" "I had first baby here in the States." "I was too far from home." "I was very lonely." "And I had no one to help me." "I couldn't eat, I couldn't sleep," "I worried about the baby all the time." "I had many thoughts of death," "I had terrible dreams, even more terrible thoughts." "My mother thought someone put evil curse on me." "What did you do?" "I prayed a lot." "Did it help?" "No." "I went to someone people said was good at removing evil curses." "She told me that when a mother has a baby, she's cut in two pieces." "One piece is baby, one piece is mother." "But sometimes baby takes too much." "Baby steals mother's soul and mother begins to die." "How did you overcome those feelings?" "I got my soul back." "Hello?" "Hi." "Hi!" "I was wondering if you'd left yet." "Uh, uh, where?" "Oh, Lord, tell me you didn't forget, you promised." "Oh God, yes, I know, I know." "I'll be there!" "Well, did you call Mrs. Kasperian?" "Uhm, yeah, she's here." "OK, can you hurry?" "Oh." "I really" " I really don't feel like I'm up for it, though." "Look, all I asked you to do was to come on time, and to look nice, and smile." "And now what?" "You're telling me you can't even do that?" "All right." "I'll be there." "You know I wouldn't ask" "I'll be there in an hour." "Good." "Great." "Thanks." "Bye." "I'll see you soon." "Bye." "Oh no." "Oh no." "Is that Steven's wife?" "Yes." "She just had a baby." "I mean, it changes you." "There's no question but... we're really happy." "I'm sorry, excuse me." "Why didn't you tell me it was black tie?" "What did you do to your hair?" "I know." "OK?" "I had a really hard day." "All right?" "You've no idea what" "Steven." "Hey." "I'm glad to see you let the little lady out of the house." "It wouldn't be a party without Laura." "I just love what you've done with your hair." "So vanguard." "Thank you." "How's the kid?" "We hear she is the most beautiful child in company history." "Yes, where is she?" "She's at home with the babysitter." "Oh!" "Well, we're all dying to see her." "You should've brought her along." "I can't believe you left her at home." "I'm gonna call her right now." "Do you have a phone?" "Yeah, yeah." "Of course." "Thank you." "It's so great to see you guys." "Glad you made it." "I love your dress." "Thanks." "She'll be right back." "Is everything all right?" "Yeah, good." "What is she doing?" "!" "Hey!" "I was looking for you." "I want to go home." "What are you talking about?" "I'm just gonna go home." "Laura." "Laura!" "Laura!" "Hi." "Hi." "Where's the baby?" "She's upstairs sleeping." "Why didn't you answer the phone?" "I didn't hear it." "I must have been upstairs." "I'm so sorry." "I'm gonna go check on her." "Is everything OK?" "Everything's fine." "Is everything OK?" "Didn't you hear everybody talking about me?" "No." "What are you talking about?" "At the party." "All the coworkers." "You didn't hear all the awful things they were saying about me?" "Right." "So is that why you stormed out?" "No." "I went and I called and no one picked up the phone." "Well, I think," "I think you owe me an apology." "You knew how important this was to me." "But no, you show up late." "And you look a mess." "And then, you're there for ten minutes before you storm out." "I'm sorry." "I was worried about the baby." "Oh no!" "Steven!" "Don't take the baby without telling me!" "Oh my God, you're bleeding." "Oh God." "Have you had excessive vaginal bleeding?" "No." "Have you started having sex again?" "No." "How often do you bathe?" "I take showers." "Sometimes more than once." "Well, your stitching seems to have gotten infected." "I don't want to take anything 'cause, uhm," "I'm still breastfeeding and I don't want to hurt the baby." "This won't hurt the baby." "It's just antibiotics." "Take them three times a day and everything should be fine." "And you're also having problems sleeping?" "Yeah." "I'm having a lot of anxiety and I'm feeling" "Take two of these right before you want to go to sleep." "Oh, the breastfeeding." "Here." "This will be better." "Maybe start out taking half, see how it does." "H uh." "Hello, Mrs. Davis." "I can't get her to stop crying." "I don't know what's wrong with her." "I fed her and then I changed her." "And she just won't stop!" "Maybe I could try." "Sometimes all you need is a different person." "How did you do that?" "How did you stop her crying?" "I, I don't know." "Maybe you could go up, take a little rest." "Yeah." "Oh." "Oh." "[baby gurgles." "Oh little one." "Here we go." "No!" "No!" "No!" "What are you doing?" "I find this knife in baby's crib." "I don't believe you." "I protect your baby." "Step away from the crib!" "No." "Get away from the crib!" "You need help!" "Get the hell out of my house!" "I'm going to kill you!" "It's OK." "It's OK." "Thank God the baby's OK." "Did she say anything when you confronted her?" "I asked her to step away from the crib and she wouldn't move." "I have to tell you, Mrs. Davis," "I've known Mrs. Kasperian for a long time and I just can't imagine she'd harm a baby." "Well, then why did she have a knife in the baby's room?" "I don't know." "We're going to go and talk to her." "Hey, how are you?" "Hi." "Cigarettes?" "I'm sorry, it's none of my business." "Did you ever get in contact with Jenny?" "You said she left something at the house." "So I was just wondering how she was doing." "I gotta call her." "I'm gonna call her tomorrow." "Thanks." "Good to see you." "OK." "Bye." "New York University student directory." "I'm looking for a Jenny Foster." "Uh, she goes to school there." "OK, one moment please." "I'm sorry, we have no record of a Jennifer Foster attending school here." "Hello?" "The earth, the dirt, the blackness inside." "Nothing in this room makes me feel welcome." "How am I ever going to tell them about this?" "I hear voices." "Desperate." "Are they my voices or someone else's?" "I feel so cold in here." "I'll be right back." "O K?" "I'll be right back." "Police." "Someone is breaking into my house!" "Ah!" "Ah!" "I called the police!" "They're gonna be here any second!" "Ahh!" "I want my baby!" "Ah!" "Ah!" "I don't know what she looked like." "What's going on?" "Your wife called about an intruder." "Someone tried to break in?" "Yes." "Jesus." "What happened?" "There was a woman and she was outside and then she came inside and then she was coming upstairs and" "She was gonna take the baby." "Was it Mrs. Kasperian?" "I don't think it was Mrs. Kasperian." "You know she threatened Laura with a knife." "No, she didn't threaten me with a knife." "You know what I mean." "We talked to her earlier." "You talked to her?" "You just talked to her?" "You didn't arrest her?" "It wasn't Mrs. Kasperian." "Are you sure?" "Yeah." "No." "I mean, it wasn't it didn't look like her but" "I don't know. she looked more like me then," "I don't know." "I want to put the baby to bed." "Can I talk to you for a second?" "Yeah." "Yeah, sure." "Look, I know your wife's really upset." "But I'm going to be honest with you." "Her story doesn't add up." "Maybe she's a little lonely out here by herself and worked herself up into a frenzy." "I've seen it before." "Are you telling me you think my wife called you just to get some attention?" "Are you out of your mind?" "I'm just saying that I don't see anything that leads me to believe that anyone other than your wife was here." "I talked to Mrs. Kasperian." "She said she found the knife already in the baby's crib." "And you believe that?" "M r." "Davis, I don't know what to believe." "That's my point." "Well, gentlemen, thanks for coming out." "Now look, I am not saying" "Good night, gentlemen." "Call us if you need us." "Are you O K?" "I don't know what's going on." "It's OK." "Everything's going to be all right." "But I..." "I saw her." "I know." "I believe you." "Let's get some sleep." "Shhhh." "Yeah, look, I just need a few days." "OK?" "I mean, Jake can take care of things." "I mean, he can always call me if he needs me, anyway." "Yeah." "Yeah, yeah." "I know." "I know." "Well, uh, look, I'll deal with that on Monday" "Oh my God!" "Ah!" "Oh." "Excuse me, do you have any books on curses?" "You mean like witchcraft?" "Yeah." "My personal favorite." "Get off!" "Get off!" "Get off!" "No!" "No!" "Get off!" "Laura!" "I gave her something that will help her sleep." "Well, what's wrong with her?" "It's too early to tell." "We're going to keep her here and monitor her behavior." "She may be suffering from Postpartum Psychosis." "You're starting to look like yourself again." "The doctors say it's time to come home." "Where's the baby?" "She's fine." "Your mother's with her right now." "I'm sorry." "Don't say sorry." "I ' m sorry." "I didn't really mean" "I didn't want to hurt her." "I don't want to hear you say "sorry" anymore." "OK?" "It's over." "It happened." "It doesn't matter." "You know?" "Yeah, I'm happy you're here." "Good." "I miss you." "I'm right here, sweetheart." "I'm right here." "OK?" "We just got to get you better." "Hi, Mom." "Hi, sweetie." "She's beautiful." "Yes, she is, isn't she?" "How are you feeling?" "I feel better." "Thank you for coming." "I didn't realize how much I could use your help." "Well, if you told me how cute she was" "I would have been on the first plane here." "Well you know, now that Steven is taking a month off, and you're going to be here for a while," "I thought maybe I would start dancing again." "Well, that's a great idea." "That's a girl." "It's great to see you dancing again." "You look beautiful." "Where's the baby?" "Uh, I think she's still sleeping." "Hm." "I'll go check on her." "Hm." "Good morning, sweetheart." "Good morning." "Where's Jessica?" "Who's Jessica?" "Laura, where's the baby?" "What baby?" "Jessica!" "Jessica!" "Jessica!"