"IRV:" "Sometimes we don't know our own strength." "It can be hard to tell just how much weight you can safely bear or how much will crush you." "I'd like to think you can shoulder as big a burden as you believe you can." "That it's all a matter of will." "Certainly a comforting thought." "Away not three months the girl accumulates a lifetime's worth of possessions." "Somebody ought to tell her there just is not room enough for this much refuse." "IRV:" "well, maybe not now, harold." "HARRY:" "Perhaps not." "well, private, it's been a hell of a ride." "Grandma." "Oh, if you make me cry" "IRV:" "None of that for me, little girl." "Oh, come on, Irv, you know you're gonna miss me." "Ha, ha." "And I'm serious about the TiVo." "You can't be a VCR man forever." "[CHUCKLES]" "AII right, I guess this is it." "TOMMY:" "Dr. Abbott." "Um, I don't expect you to forgive me or even like me." "But I'm hoping you can at Ieast accept a thank you." "You saved my Iife." "It was my daughter who saved your life." "AII I did was show up." "Make it quick." "It's been two days." "Didn't you wanna make sure I was okay?" "I called the hospital." "They said you were released yesterday." "So were you gonna leave a forwarding address or just going for a clean getaway?" "I'm just going home." "That's good." "Yeah." "well, um..." "..." "I'II give you a call." "Let you get settled in." "No, don't." "I think we both know that we can't keep doing this, Tommy." "Look, Amy I screwed up." "I know that." "I never should've taken you to that party." "We never should've done that crap." "This thing has been a serious wake-up call." "And I'm glad." "I hope that you get the help that you need." "No, Amy, I don't need help." "I just" "I just need you." "I can't be that person for you anymore." "It was just a slip." "One slip, one night." "That's not who I am." "It wasn't." "It was three months of lies." "So what?" "What, I'm not good enough for you anymore?" "What are you gonna do, you'II go back to mommy and daddy?" "You're gonna go back to being little miss perfect, is that it?" "well, you can't." "You won't be able to." "Not after us." "I gotta go." "Take care of yourself, Tommy." "IRV:" "Other times, it's hard to remember you had any strength at all." "Then you can only hope to have someone to remind you you were once fierce and able." "Are you okay?" "Yeah." "Let's go home." "This is boring." "Boring?" "Are you kidding me?" "This is fun." "You gotta do it like I told you." "Throw it really hard." "He's late, Andy." "only five minutes." "You doing okay?" "Yeah." "well, maybe he's not coming." "Maybe he changed his mind about the whole thing." "I mean, it's possible?" "I gotta go to the bathroom." "AND Y:" "Stay." "I'II take him." "NINA:" "Oh, thank you." "Hi." "Hi." "You look good, Nina." "Thanks." "Thank you." "So is that it?" "Is that all we're gonna do?" "You have nothing else to say?" "Come on, Nina, don't." "It's hard enough." "You've no idea how hard it is." "Daddy's here." "Hey, look at you." "You've grown a foot." "Dr. Brown, nice to see you." "hello, carl." "His, uh, toothbrush is in the pouch but, uh, the game starts at 9." "They said" "To be there at 8:30." "I know." "SAM:" "Come on." "Let's go play." "Come on, Daddy." "Bye, honey." "I'II see you tomorrow." "She hasn't said the words?" "EPHRAM:" "She doesn't need to." "I couId tell by the way she looked." ""Go away." "Come back when you're older or taller or just somebody else."" "She has very expressive eyes." "well, this is good." "So, uh, you know, you're still holding some cards." "What cards?" "I have no cards." "You could break up with her first." "I mean, sure, you're gonna miss out on a Iot of pity sex but sometimes pride comes before your nads." "Not often, it happens." "You're missing the point." "I don't wanna break up with her." "I'm preserving a relationship with Madison." "If that was a possibility, you'd be there with hand on boob." "You don't think I can fix things?" "You tackled her guitarist." "You got kicked out of the club that gave her a paying gig." "I don't think God could fix this." "See you later." "You can't keep avoiding my, Bright." "Our rooms are two feet away from each other." "He was using my room as his own personal gym." "Can you believe that?" "EPHRAM:" "No comment." "Yeah, sorry, not your problem." "It's just been a really crappy day." "I'm sure it must be weird coming home after all this time." "Everything will get back to normal soon enough." "That's one way to look at it." "Tommy had a different take on the whole thing." "well, I'm sure he had a good point in his own special way." "You don't have to." "We broke up this morning." "You did?" "Yeah." "Are you okay?" "Yeah, I think so." "I kind of saw it coming, Iike we were forcing things." "And then that whole thing happened." "I'm sure that you heard." "Yeah, I think pretty much everybody heard." "It sounded pretty scary." "Yeah." "But it's okay." "It's for the best." "How are things with you, the Madison thing?" "Good, good." "I mean, you know, she's been real busy with the band and stuff." "But other than that, it's been really good." "well, good." "It's good to know that one of us made a relationship work this year." "Can I, uh--?" "That's okay." "You sure?" "Yeah." "So I take it the Fun Zone wasn't so fun?" "Nope." "The Fun Zone was definitely not a fun zone." "I've never seen Nina so nervous." "[KNOCKING ON DOOR]" "I knew he was up to something." "I couId tell from the way he was acting this morning but I never" "I'm gonna kill him, Andy." "I swear to God, I am going to kill him." "What happened?" "He's asking for sole custody of Sam." "What?" "He can't do that." "NINA:" "That's what I said." "apparently, he can." "He got a promotion last month." "He's making tons of cash." "I can't compete with that." "He's enrolled Sam in some fancy private school." "I wasn't even gonna ask for alimony." "I'm such an idiot." "I'm gonna lose Sam, aren't I?" "No, you're not." "There's more to parenting than how much you make." "And one visit isn't gonna make up for all of his neglect." "Kids are smart." "They can see through that." "Yeah, and the courts may be changing but this is still a small, conservative county." "The odds of any judge giving sole custody to a single, gay father" "I mean, it's a Iong shot." "You don't need to worry." "I'm telling you." "AND Y:" "She's right, Nina." "No one's gonna take Sam away from you." "You're gonna win this case." "Right." "[DOORBELL RINGING]" "Hey." "Hi." "Come on in." "I'm still working on a little anger, give me a second." "Yeah, take your time." "Freezing my ass off outside a police station was not as cool as getting my band signed by a manager." "It wasn't the way I thought the night would go." "I know." "I'm sorry." "What made me mad though was when you didn't call." "You said you would call." "I didn't think you wanted me too." "I thought you were saying that to be nice." "well, you thought wrong." "I wanted you to call so that we could talk, you know?" "That's one of the things I Iike about us." "We don't play games." "You tell me how you feel." "I know exactly where we stand." "Oh, that's my problem." "I say too much." "No filter." "You should have called." "If not calling was the reason you're gonna break up with me" "Who said I'm breaking up with you?" "You did." "The other day, you" "I'm just gonna stop talking now." "Look, I'm not gonna lie to you." "This relationship is hard." "Maybe a little harder than most but so what?" "That's the way relationships get, right?" "That's how they are." "Yeah, I guess." "So we work on it." "How pathetic are we if we just bail at the first sign of trouble?" "It's not me." "I know it's not you." "No, not at all." "Me neither." "At least I don't want it to be me." "Maybe it has been me in the past." "There's good stuff here." "There's stuff that I think is worth saving." "What I mean is I know that we have things to work out but I'm willing to try, if you are." "Yeah, I mean, I think trying is definitely the right thing to do here." "That's much better than that other not trying thing." "I think that's bad." "Okay." "Good." "This is good." "This is great." "So we'II just back it up a couple notches, regroup, maintain hope." "Remain cautiously optimistic." "Ha, ha." "Here's a little hint for you, though." "Mm-hm." "If you forget my birthday, it's over." "What, you got a birthday coming up?" "Funny." "Laughing." "[LAUGHING]" "PAGE:" "Brad and Eric are coming tonight." "We can fit in my car but we might have to sit on laps." "I'II take Eric's lap." "Where you guys going?" "Hey, Page." "Uh, they opened this drive-in diner where the deli used to be." "It's gonna be the place to be from now on." "Yeah, um, I heard about that." "So you guys are all going?" "Sounds like fun." "What are you doing here?" "I was thinking about joining class again." "But I don't know if Mrs. Baxworth wiII" "We heard you OD'd, had to go to the emergency room, get your stomach pumped." "That is so gross." "That didn't exactly happen." "See, no track marks." "Ha, ha." "Are you really going out with Tommy CaIIahan?" "No, we broke up, actually." "Are we supposed to be sad for you?" "[SCHOOL BELL RINGING]" "No, I was just telling you in case you were wondering..." "...or curious or whatever." "We weren't." "Oh, so it is true." "Someone wrote Amy Abbott on the class role and I thought it was a joke." "welcome back, sweetie." "Oh!" "Where you've been must have treated you well." "You're just skinny as a twig." "AII right, everyone, up on your feet." "I want to see piles and I want to see them now." "And five, six, seven, eight." "Turn up your hips and not your feet." "When I finally came out, it was like this huge burden lifting." "Like everything had been cloudy and all of a sudden, I couId see." "I felt better physically." "I started connecting with people again." "I wasn't ashamed or afraid." "And I don't know." "I guess I got my confidence back." "That's when I got the job." "How long have you been employed at Carnahan Systems?" "Just under a year." "I bought the house last month when they made me vice-president." "And your salary is $ 1 20,000 a year, correct?" "plus pension and health." "Sam's on the policy, also on my Iife insurance." "I started a college fund last year." "I've already got a place for him at LampIighter which is right by my house." "Thank you." "Your witness." "Mr. Feeney, what's your son's favorite book?" "well, there's probably more than one." "Sam loves to read." "Hmm." "Can you tell me the name of his teacher?" "Again, he's got a Iot of them." "So pick one." "tell me the name of just one of the teachers who spends time educating your son." "I, uh, can't recall." "DIANE:" "You don't know anything about Sam's life, do you, sir?" "Ever since you walked out on him over a year ago." "Look, maybe I can't sit here right now and tell you every detail about Sam's day-to-day life but that's what this is all about." "I wanna be a part of it again." "I wanna be there when he wakes up, when he comes home from school to tuck him in at night." "I've missed too much." "I just wanna share everything with him." "Have you shared that you're gay?" "This is redundant." "We already know about Mr. Feeney." "We know." "That wasn't the question." "I was asking about Sam." "Besides, I believe he opened the door." "I'II ask you again, Mr. Feeney." "Does your son know that you're gay?" "I don't know." "Have you told him?" "Not yet." "He's only 6." "We talk about cartoons or playstation or what he wants on his pizza." "If I were dating a woman, I wouldn't tell him." "He's not ready." "There are things he's too young to understand or care about." "And when will he be old enough?" "I don't know." "Four or five years, maybe." "Is that how long it will take for you to get comfortable with being a gay father?" "should your son suffer because you're ashamed of your--?" "STEPHEN:" "Objection." "OverruIed." "I'm not ashamed of anything." "Why is it when a person says they're gay their sexuality suddenly becomes the defining thing about them?" "I'm gay." "I'm also a republican." "I haven't told Sam about that either." "I thought the question here is what's best for Sam not who's gay and who's not." "You don't believe the fact that you're gay will have any effect on Sam's life?" "I didn't say that." "What I'm saying is, I don't think it'II have any effect on my ability to be a good parent." "Of course I'm gonna tell my son, Miss Shumacher when he's ready." "Can we please get some frozen yogurt now?" "You'd help me get the perfect gift for Madison." "Yeah, but I didn't think it wouId take this long." "well, what about this?" "It's a pot." "EPHRAM:" "I know." "She cooks all the time." "It's perfect, right?" "But it's a pot." "What, so, no?" "Okay, no." "Are you guys gonna get married?" "What?" "[STAMMERING] I don't know." "I mean, I-- That's a Iong, long, long way off." "please don't ask questions like that, okay?" "[PHONE RINGING]" "hello." "WHEELER:" "Is this the jailbait?" "Who's this?" "WHEELER:" "It's Mindy, Madison's friend." "I stole your number from her cell." "Nothing scary about that." "Oh, chiII out." "I'm not stalking you." "I'm calling about Maddy's 21 st birthday." "Yeah, I'm working on that now." "WHEELER:" "I heard about the schmancy dinner, she'll love it." "But you've gotta move it up for me." "Why?" "What's going on?" "WHEELER:" "Tracy and I wanna throw her a party." "You know, invite all her buds, make a mess, molest a stripper." "I'm kidding about the stripper." "Too expensive." "We can decorate while you're out, you bring her back, everyone yells surprise." "You know, she has a heart attack and we all get wasted." "Sounds like fun." "What time should we be there?" "Not sure yet but I'II call you." "Oh, and she's clueless as a playboy Bunny so don't spill the beans." "No problem." "AII beans shall remain unspiIIed." "It's $500 but the man said it was the best." "Where's your wallet?" "So you were the one who decided not to put Sam on ritalin?" "well, I was his treating physician and I didn't feel that it was indicated." "Sam is a bright, curious, energetic kid." "He can be hard to control sometimes but he's in kindergarten." "What do you mean, hard to control?" "well, that's overstating it a bit." "I mean, he can be a handful." "Nina does a great job with that." "STEPHEN:" "As his physician, you see him for regular check-ups?" "Yes, and immunizations, the occasional cold." "AII the routine stuff." "And the broken arm he sustained on the accident on February 7th?" "He went to the emergency room." "tell the court what happened that day." "I mean, from the best of your recollections, of course." "well, in typical little boy fashion, he" "Without the commentary, thank you." "Sam tried to drive the family car." "He drove it into a pole." "STEPHEN:" "And you saw the accident happen?" "No." "I heard a crash, I ran outside and I found Sam in the car." "And Sam was unsupervised and alone when you found him." "AND Y:" "No, Nina was in the house." "STEPHEN:" "So he was alone?" "He had gotten out without her noticing." "That happens to the best of us." "How long after this accident did it take Miss Feeney to dash from the house?" "Seconds, a minute?" "Not long." "Let me help you here, doctor." "According to the insurance adjustor notes, two other neighbors witnessed the event." "You sent your son in to get Mrs. Feeney out." "Is that true?" "Yes." "STEPHEN:" "The accident was loud enough to draw you out but not Mrs. Feeney?" "I mean, her child had crashed a car into a pole and she didn't hear it?" "She'd fallen asleep." "asleep?" "She was exhausted from working." "STEPHEN:" "well, it's a good thing that she has you for a neighbor." "Thank you, no more questions." "council, it's been a Iong day." "Let's hold off on redirect until morning." "You're excused until tomorrow, sir." "We're adjourned." "[PAPERT BANGS GAVEL]" "Honey?" "If you can believe it, Irv just brought yet more of Amy's things." "He swears this is the Iast." "Of course he said as much before." "My goodness." "How clean." "Yeah, I've been after her for years to take down all these posters." "Now that she did, I'm kind of sorry to see it all go." "Yeah, including this?" "That I won't miss." "Listen, I'm gonna take this stuff down to the garage just in case." "Okay." "You let her unpack that." "She can do it later." "Yeah." "EPHRAM:" "Must've left them when I picked you up." "It's okay." "We have plenty of time." "I'm sure there's an opening act, right?" "You know what?" "I thought that I Ieft the lights on." "Surprise." "CROWD:" "Surprise." "[LAUGHING]" "We got you." "Oh, my God, your face is so red right now." "Wait, what, when?" "How did you do this?" "WHEELER:" "You know, I toil." "And I get by with a little help from your friends." "Wait, you knew about this?" "AII part of my master plan." "So we're not going to any concert?" "There is no concert." "It's a good thing you look stuff up." "MADISON:" "My God, I can't believe you." "Mad, come here, come see what Natty got you." "Come on." "I'II hook you up with some tequila shots." "Oh, that's all right." "I, uh, got my ID confiscated." "Uh, dude, no one's gonna card you here." "Yeah, I gotta drive later." "I'd rather just keep it between the lines, so...." "Your call." "If you change your mind, the bar's in the bathroom." "You know, tight quarters." "WOMAN [ON SPEAKER] :" "Twenty-three, order 23, pick up." "You came." "I thought it sounded like fun." "WOMAN:" "Twenty seven, order 2 7, pick up." "Do you guys have any room at your table?" "I couId buy an extra basket of fries or onion rings or something." "Let me just say that I'm sorry." "I know that I kind of disappeared for a while and I wasn't the best friend in the world." "But I wanna change that, try to work on things, you know?" "Wow, you're really desperate, aren't you?" "Maybe I shouldn't have come." "Or maybe you shouldn't have ditched us in the first place." "I didn't ditch you, Page." "One day, we're talking on the phone." "The next, Laynie's your new best friend and you won't wave to me in the halls." "well, I didn't see you calling me." "I didn't see any of you pick up the phone or do one kind thing after colin died." "You just wanted me to keep on doing what I always did:" "plan the parties, go to the mail, fight for the best dance costume." "I couldn't." "I thought you'd understand that." "I'm sorry." "Were your druggie friends more understanding?" "I'm just trying to get my Iife back." "well, you can't have it back." "[KNOCKING ON DOOR]" "I am so sorry." "It's okay." "I don't know what happened." "He was asking me all these questions and then the next thing I know, it just came out." "I feel awful." "If you already hate me" "I don't hate you." "Look, I'm gonna fix this, Nina." "I will do whatever it takes to make it right." "I'm not mad, Andy." "I mean, I might be someday but right now, it's" "When I was in that room listening to those words, I couldn't believe it." "I couldn't beIieve" "I couldn't believe that you were talking about me." "AII you did was tell the truth." "When I heard it, all I couId think was:" ""Anybody who would let that happen to her son doesn't deserve him."" "Maybe carl's right." "Maybe I'm not the best person to take care of Sam anymore." "What are you talking about?" "It was my mistake." "If you're gonna get mad at someone, get mad at me." "yell at me." "What should I think?" "Look at me." "I'm working my ass off in three jobs." "I never have time for Sam." "When I do, I'm too tired to do anything but snap at him." "I have completely missed the point." "No, no, that's exactly the point." "You are willing to do anything to make a life for him." "But what good is that if I can't even keep him safe?" "I wouldn't give me custody either." "It was an accident, Nina." "It could have happened to anyone." "So I have a cousin in Denver who owns a couple restaurants." "He's always complaining that he can't find a good floor manager." "So, uh, one thing I do know is the restaurant business." "Denver?" "What are you talking about?" "half the house is mine." "carl agreed to that." "So if I can get a good price and get some good work I should be able to afford a place in his neighborhood." "Wait a minute." "hold on a second." "You're talking about moving?" "You love this town." "I know." "But if carl takes Sam, it's" "I have to be near him, Andy." "And let's face it, there's nothing keeping me here anymore." "well, you can't just leave." "I'd" "I mean, everybody in this town is crazy about you." "You" "Andy." "well, just promise me you won't make a decision about it right now." "This isn't over yet." "feels like it is." "[SIGHS]" "You guys were talking about me." "Irv brought by the remainder of your things today." "I took it upstairs and opened it for you and, uh" "Your birth control pills were there." "Oh." "You know I wasn't rummaging through your personal effects with any idea of finding something." "I was not looking for anything." "No, it's okay." "I don't blame you." "In any case, since I did find them, I feel a conversation is in order." "I'm not sleeping with anybody." "And I didn't sleep with Tommy, if that's what you guys are wondering." "Can I go upstairs now?" "I'm not sure we're done yet." "honestly, Dad, there's nothing to discuss." "I thought it was a good idea." "But as it turns out, everything that I think is a good idea is actually really wrong." "And, um, I thought I couId get my Iife back but I was wrong." "Now, I have no friends and Bright hates me." "Just tell me what you want me to do." "I'II do it." "You want me to throw out the pills, I will." "Just" " I'm tired." "I wanna go to bed, okay?" "Of course." "Get some rest." "Maybe we all share some blame in this." "I'm sorry that you got so desperate that you had to go those clinics instead of coming to us." "I didn't go to a clinic, Dad." "What?" "Amy, who gave you the pills?" "[ROCK MUSIC PLAYING ON CD PLAYER]" "WOMAN:" "Hey, can I get one?" "Hey, so how was dinner?" "Did you guys have fun?" "Uh, the food sucked but at Ieast the atmosphere was bad." "Sorry." "I kind of forced you to have the geriatric dinner." "It's hard to get your groove on at 6:00." "That was the least of our problems." "At least she's having fun now." "I'd feel bad if her entire birthday was a bust." "I'm sure it wasn't as bad as you think." "She really digs you, you know." "She talks about you all the time." "Yeah?" "You kind of love her, don't you?" "Yeah, you have that face." "I remember when I had the face." "Derek Senn." "We called him demigod because he was godlike." "I met him freshman year, we dated for six months." "The most amazing six months of my Iife." "And then he decided he had to bike around South America so he dropped out." "We said goodbye at the airport, I haven't heard from him." "It was pretty much the worst pain I ever felt." "Why does everybody feel the need to tell me how awful their first love was?" "I don't know." "I guess because they're always awful and amazing and usually over before they start." "Uh, we're out of beer, people." "This party is on the move." "We're going to the Rhythm Room." "That's okay." "Uh, no ID, remember?" "Don't worry." "Mindy can get you in." "She's great at that." "That's all right." "I'd, uh, rather not get carded in front of all those people." "It's stupid but" "WHEELER:" "AII right, it's okay." "I don't have to go." "Are you kidding?" "No, go." "It's your birthday." "Have fun." "I've got a math test tomorrow anyway." "But I wanted to spend tonight with you." "well, so did I but" "Here we are again." "Let's go, birthday girl." "The cab is here." "call me later, okay?" "Come on." "DIANE:" "So Mrs. Feeney is trustworthy?" "I guess the best way to answer that is I leave my kids with her all the time." "I wouldn't do that if I didn't trust her completely." "So Mrs. Feeney has provided care for your children in her home?" "I worry that my daughter is comfortable in her house than she is in her own room." "And the incident you described yesterday didn't make you feel less inclined to do so?" "No, not at all." "DIANE:" "Thank you." "could I--?" "Can I say one more thing, please?" "Your Honor" "relax, counsel." "There's no jury here." "Now, as I said, I Iive next door to Nina and I've seen her go through a Iot this year." "She was in an impossible situation." "She was left alone without resources and without help." "Yet in spite of that, she didn't just survive, she flourished and continued to be there for all of her friends, myself included." "And Nina is my best friend and believe me, I haven't had many best friends." "She loves this place." "She doesn't wanna leave here." "But she's already made plans to move to Denver in case she loses today." "To be near her son." "And I hope she doesn't have to do that." "Your Honor, I know you're here to determine the best interests of this child and I know it faIIs outside of my jurisdiction as a doctor but I have to tell you that it is in the best interests of anyone to live in Nina's company and be a part of her life." "please." "please don't take her and Sam away from us." "We need her here." "I need her here." "We're going to object to all of that." "It's nonresponsive to the question." "If there even was a question." "overruled." "[SCHOOL BELL RINGING]" "Yeah?" "Is that cool with you?" "I thought you were at dance class." "I'm not going." "Bright, I'm tired and I just wanna go home, okay?" "No, you don't." "You want to go to class but you're scared." "I'm not scared." "I'm not." "BRIGHT:" "Look, it's your life." "You get to decide what to do with it, not them." "I can't go in there." "Yeah, you can." "Come on." "You're the best dancer in the school." "You shouldn't just give up what you love because some asshats made you feel bad." "Screw them, they'II come around." "How do you know?" "You haven't." "You were there, you saw what they did." "You didn't do anything about it." "BRIGHT:" "That's because I was still mad." "If you wanna know the truth, I'm still pissed off." "You seriously messed up my senior year which only happens once or like, twice." "If you're still mad, then why do you even care?" "BRIGHT:" "Because it was messed up, what Page did to you." "You know I don't like seeing you being treated that way, you know?" "I mean, I can treat you Iike that but if everyone else starts doing it, where's the fun in that?" "[CHUCKLES]" "They'II get over it, Amy." "You just" " You gotta stay in their face about it, okay?" "You gotta be you." "Go." "Be yourself." "Annoying, seIf-righteous, a pain-in-the-ass, you." "WOMAN:" "Five, six, seven, eight." "Keep talking." "Keep talking." "WOMAN:" "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight." "I didn't wanna open it without you." "I'm sorry." "I just had to go." "MADISON:" "You're not the one who should be sorry." "It's me." "I shouldn't have gotten so drunk." "I didn't realize I was" "What, are you kidding me?" "It was your 21 st birthday." "I think it's allowed." "In fact, I think it's mandatory." "You wanna go first or should I?" "No, I will." "I can't." "well, at Ieast we tried." "I mean, at the end of the day, we really tried." "I know." "I just wish that there was something that I couId change or that we could change, I mean if there was anything that we could actually do to save this thing, I'd do that." "In a heartbeat." "You know that, right?" "If only my parents would have had sex four years earlier." "Damn them." "You're the most amazing guy, Ephram." "please don't do that." "please." "I have to." "Don't." "There's a part of me that did fall, really truly fall." "And I know you didn't feel it and I'm sorry that you didn't but it was there and I need you to know that and believe it." "Here." "No." "It's for you." "I can't." "I know that if I open this, it's gonna be perfect." "It's just gonna make me sadder because you're so perfect." "So I can't, Ephram." "You want to tell della or should I?" "DeIia." "It's all right." "I mean, I can tell her if you want me to." "It doesn't matter." "No, I'II do it." "I'II" "I'II come by later or tomorrow, maybe." "I'II figure out what to say." "I gotta go." "See you." "BAILIFF:" "AII rise." "PAPERT:" "please be seated." "In the matter of Feeney v. Feeney, the court has made its decision." "Having considered the pleadings, evidence and arguments of counsel the court is of the opinion that it's in the best interests of the minor child samuel David Feeney that respondent Margaret Nina Feeney be designated primary care parent subject to a reasonable and standard parenting time awarded to petitioner and determined at a future date." "Your son is staying with you." "Thank you, counsel." "DIANE:" "welcome." "NINA:" "Andy, thank you so much." "It was all you." "It was all you." "See you outside." "NINA:" "Okay." "well congratulations." "You win." "I never wanted this fight to begin with." "We don't have to argue anymore." "We don't have to talk if that's what you want." "That's not what I want, Nina." "I never meant to be your enemy." "I just wanted to be with Sam again." "I offered you that and you wanted more." "I know." "And I'm sorry." "I thought I was doing the right thing, I really did." "Then yesterday, when Andy was talking about the accident, I was so happy." "I thought I couId win." "I didn't even think about what you went through that night or what Sam went through." "I was just happy you made a mistake." "That's when I realized I wasn't thinking about who the better parent was." "This whole time I just missed him." "Yeah, he missed you too." "Anyway, tell Sam I'm happy for him." "tell him yourself." "You have him this weekend." "[KNOCKING ON DOOR]" "AND Y:" "harold." "Did you hear about Nina?" "I was going next door to celebrate." "You wanna come?" "HARRY:" "Did you really think I've become such a bad father that I wouldn't find out?" "Find out what?" "You gave Amy birth control pills." "I'd Iike you to tell me what the hell you were thinking." "well, she came to me." "We discussed it." "I couldn't just send her away." "That's what you should have done." "If I had done that, she would have just gone to someone else." "I thought you'd rather she have someone who would look after her, talk to her." "You have no idea what I would rather." "How could you not come to me?" "I don't know what to say." "She asked me not to tell you." "She wouldn't have come to you if she didn't think she was doing something wrong." "She wasn't doing anything wrong." "She made a responsible decision, the right one for her." "She thought it through carefully." "She considered her reasons and her options." "You raised a very smart young woman." "She's not a woman." "To you, she's not." "She's 1 6." "Sixteen." "You know the Iaw as well as I do." "She merits confidentiality." "As a doctor, I had no choice." "I have no interest in your thoughts." "You should have come to me as your friend." "I know the laws." "As surely as I know I would break them without hesitation if your son came to me." "I stood behind you when this town blamed you for colin Hart's death." "I believed in your judgment." "I told my sister that you were a decent man worthy of her heart." "I may not have liked you but I respected what you were." "I admired the doctor enough that I couId forgive the man." "well, not anymore." "I am through with you." "From this day forth, stay away from my family." "Keep out of their lives." "And you best keep your distance from me." "And if I don't make myself clear, I encourage you to test me." "Hey, you." "EPHRAM:" "Hey." "I was just picking up a little food." "You, uh, going for a walk?" "Yeah." "I was at the bookstore, looking at books." "Pretty much the same stuff there was last week." "tell me about it." "That copy of Seabiscuit's been in the window since I moved." "I'm thinking about buying it just to see whatever they put up next." "You want a ride home?" "I got my car." "actually, you wanna walk?" "Kind of feel like walking for a little bit." "Where we going?" "Nowhere." "Sounds good." "So how are things at home?" "Getting any better?" "A little." "school on the other hand is gonna be a torture zone until I graduate." "In fact, I'II give you a dollar to sit with me at lunch." "deal." "You're supposed to say it's free." "I know an opportunity when I see one." "You're sad." "A little." "Did something happen?" "Madison and I broke up." "What?" "When?" "About an hour ago." "The other day, you said that everything was fine." "I thought" "Yeah." "Yeah, I know." "I lied a little bit." "Don't ask me why." "Why?" "I don't know." "Uh, I thought that if I pretended everything was great it wouId actually be great." "Projecting hope?" "It worked for Seabiscuit." "[CHUCKLES]" "I'm sorry." "Yeah, me too." "I know how much you liked her and she seemed really great but" "But what?" "But if she was dumb enough to let you go, she mustn't have been that perfect." "She's gonna be really upset when she realizes what she gave up." "Trust me." "I say we keep walking until we run out of fries." "We can always buy more fries." "[ENGLISH SDH]"