"(PEOPLE SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGES)" "(ORCHESTRAL MUSIC)" "(CHANTING)" "(PEOPLE SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGES)" "(ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYING)" "(JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING)" "NARRATOR:" "On September the 5th, 1977," "NASA launched the spacecraft Voyager." "Destination unknown." "Its only cargo a set of records curated by American astronomer Carl Sagan." "The collection was designed to last a billion years and potentially give extraterrestrial life a glimpse at humankind." "The records were printed in gold-plated copper to prevent corrosion," "and included international music, greetings in 59 languages, the crashing of an ocean wave, wind through an oak tree," " whale calls, - (WHALES SINGING)" " the human heartbeat, - (HEART THUMPING) and the sound of a kiss." "(KISSING SOUND)" "At around 12:15 p.m., Central Standard Time, just as Voyager approached the edge of our solar system, back on Earth, in an unremarkable suburb," "a pornographic website featuring young actresses in the roles of helpless hitchhikers." "However, the accumulation of malware had rendered his computer useless." "Don gave a brief thought to masturbating using only his imagination, but the sheer quality and variety of the Internet had left his brain an inferior substitute." "In order to access the limitless fountain of pornography that he had become accustomed to," "Don would have to use the only remaining computer in the house." "The one belonging to his 15-year-old son." "Y-O-U..." "P-O-R-N." "(SCOFFS)" "Don had purchased the computer for his son's birthday." "It was meant for homework." "Jesus." "(WOMAN MOANING)" "NARRATOR:" "He couldn't help think back to his own childhood when he discovered his father's secret stash of magazines while searching for a bicycle wrench in the garage." "He felt a sadness about not being a part of that moment for his son." "A moment he considered to be an intrinsic part of growing up." "Almost a passing of the torch." "(WOMAN CONTINUES MOANING)" "MAN ON PA:" "Good afternoon, teachers and students..." "Just a reminder to all students... (INDISTINCT CHATTER)" "(KEYS CLACKING)" "(CELL PHONES CHIMING)" "NARRATOR:" "Like many Texas high schools, the pride of East Vista was their football program." "The key to their junior varsity team winning district was sophomore running back Tim Mooney, a one-man scoring machine that had carried them to victory as a freshman." "Hey." "Of all the posters in this school, you had to deface mine." "I thought it was an improvement." "You think this is funny?" ""DTF?"" "I know what DTF means." "Tim?" "Come on back." "I just thought about it a lot and sports just sort of seem a little pointless." "Sports are not pointless, Tim." "These are the best years of your life!" "You don't just throw God's gifts away like that." "Well..." "But that's why you need football right now." "We need you on the team." "Have you told your father?" "Yeah, yeah, he knows." "Look." "We know you're having a tough year." "I'm sure everything with your parents..." "I'm sure your mom left a mighty big hole in your life at home." "How about I have a word with your teachers about easing up on your homework?" "How's that sound?" "(TEACHER BLOWING WHISTLE)" "You are seriously skinny this year." "Thanks." "I went on this super diet over the summer." "In my opinion it worked." "I mean, you look really great." "I tried not eating one summer, but my boobs dropped a size, so I quit." "Can't be having that." "(CELL PHONE CHIMES)" " You and Danny are so cute together." " Thanks!" "Right?" "Have you guys hooked up yet?" "Yeah!" "Yeah." "I mean, like, a little." "You know I'm not, like, a total slut." "It's a new era for women, okay?" "Just because" "I'm comfortable with my body and enjoy hooking up doesn't make me a slut." "Who do you hook up with anyway?" "Just this older guy I met when my mom and I were in Florida." "Yeah, okay." "(CELL PHONES CHIME)" "Check it out." "Oh, my God." " Was it gross?" " HANNAH:" "No." "It wasn't that bad." "It was kind of salty, I guess." "Did you let him, like, you know, finish in your mouth?" " Allison!" " HANNAH:" "Uh..." "Yeah." "How else would I know it was salty?" "Why would you even have him take a photo?" "I need to know what my audience is seeing." "Anyways, I'm just saying, it's..." "It's like, uh..." "There's like a natural progression." "And if you don't sleep with somebody soon you're gonna be completely retarded in bed when you're a junior and it counts." "(CELL PHONE CHIMES)" "My mom's here!" "See ya, bitches!" "Hi, baby!" "Oh!" "New outfit?" "Another request came in today, so I stopped at Hot Topic." " It's cute, right?" " Ooh!" "Okay, you've read through every solitary interaction" "I've had on every single website, Mom." "I think I'm safe from "the predators."" "Oh, really?" "What is this?" ""U R hawt." Who is Derrick G.?" "Um..." " A friend of a friend?" " He's an adult." "So?" "I can't help if some random guy finds my picture cute." "Jeez." "I can." "Are you serious?" "Well, now we don't have to worry about him being inappropriate." "Yeah, I'd really hate to get any more compliments, Mom." "It could really do a lot of permanent damage." "Honey, you know I just do this to keep you safe." "(SCOFFS) Whatever." "I love you, sweetie." "I love you, too." "Okay, let me see your phone." "NARRATOR:" "During these weekly spot-checks," "Brandy would divulge every username and password she employed online." "As an additional precaution," "Patricia installed a device that monitored all incoming messages and recorded every keystroke her daughter ever made." "(MACHINE BEEPING)" "We got six new subscribers today." "That's awesome!" "NARRATOR:" "The website had been the idea of a local talent agent." "Each time she received an email or a new subscriber," "Hannah felt a little bit more like a celebrity." " You sure you're comfortable?" " Yeah." "Okay." "Here we go!" "(CAMERA CLICKS)" "(INDISTINCT CHATTER ON TV)" "Hey, Dad." "Tim Mooney quit." "No kidding?" "Brutal." "What kind of mother abandons her family for California?" "(SIGHS)" "I've got, like, a pretty hard test tomorrow so I'm gonna go study." "Yeah, "studying."" "What are you talking about?" "You know, you're gross." "He's 15." "That's all I did when I was 15." "Yeah, that I believe." "So, how you feeling?" "About what?" "(WHISPERING) Oh, stop, he's right there." "DON:" "He can't hear us." "What, right now?" " It's been almost two months." " No, it hasn't!" "Last time was after that barbecue at your sister's." "Okay, fine." "We'll do it tomorrow." "But it's gotta be quick." "Don't worry, it will be." "(KEYS CLACKING)" "NARRATOR:" "Chris Truby began surfing pornography at the age of 10 with a simple search of the word "boobs."" "This somewhat innocent query led to a series of clicks, and within an hour of his first search," "Chris was watching a short video entitled" ""Titty Fucking Cum Queen."" "He might have thought this video to be unusual had it not already been viewed by three million others." "By age 15," "Chris found it difficult to achieve an erection without viewing a level of deviance that fell well outside societal norms." "Hey, baby." "You're going to listen to everything I say and follow all of my instructions." "Understand?" "Now, grab that cock." "Mmm." "Don't squeeze too tight." "Not yet." "MAN:" "There she is!" "Practice run late?" " Shepherd's pie." " Yup, we got your favorite." "Uh, I'm gonna do my homework." "I'll grab something later." "MAN:" "I'll make her up a plate." "(KNOCKING ON DOOR)" "Here you go, sweetie." " Thank you." " Dig in." "Let me know if you want seconds." "(COMPUTER CHIMING)" "RAY:" "So did you clean up her Internet?" "Yes, honey, I cleaned up her Internet." "(INHALING)" "(SIGHS)" "(GAME CHARACTERS GRUNTING)" "NARRATOR:" "Since quitting football," "Tim had invested over a thousand hours with his guild-mates on various dungeons." "An incomprehensible amount of time for his father to imagine." "A man who had been a first-string tailback himself," "Kent had nurtured his son to play since his fledgling days in pee-wee." "Football served as a common language for which they had no substitute." "MAN ON TV:" "Remember when you saw her for the first time?" "Kissed her lips?" " Touched her soft skin?" " (BEEPS)" "Do you remember when you said "I do" and meant it?" "Well, we do, too. we know that nothing lasts forever." "And so if you are ready, if you are truly ready, then we are happy to bring you back to those" ""Remember When" experiences with someone new, someone exciting, someone anxious to rekindle their own." "Ugh." "NARRATOR:" "On September 27th, 2013, after 36 years of space travel, the Voyager finally exited our solar system and entered uncharted territories." "But not before taking this photo of Earth from 3. 7 billion miles away." "(CAMERA CLICKS)" "Yes, this is us." "(KEYS CLACKING)" "DONNA:" "Who are you texting?" "HANNAH:" "Just a friend from school." "DONNA:" "Uh-oh, "just a friend from school"?" "I think my daughter is texting a boy." "So what's his name?" "HANNAH:" "I'm pretty sure you can let me text without the inquisition." "(CELL PHONE VIBRATES)" "(CELL PHONE BEEPS)" "(CELL PHONE VIBRATES)" "(CELL PHONE BEEPS)" "(CELL PHONE VIBRATES)" "(CELL PHONE BEEPS)" "(CELL PHONE VIBRATES)" "(CELL PHONE BEEPS)" "(CELL PHONE VIBRATES)" "(CELL PHONE BEEPS)" "(CELL PHONE VIBRATES)" "Look who's back for more." "I know what's been going through that dirty little mind of yours." "Have you been following my instructions like a good little boy?" "Good." "(CELL PHONE VIBRATES)" "(POP MUSIC PLAYING)" "Um, hi!" " Hi!" " Hi, what is all this?" "We're doing a national talent search for kids, ages 6 to 16, who have an interest in acting." "Oh." "Do you have any performing experience?" "(GIGGLING)" "This is, like, perfect!" "The application includes just standard profile information." "And we are also going to want her to write an essay on where she sees herself in 10 years." "NARRATOR:" "Hannah knew that her future would include a large house with a swimming pool in Los Angeles, an expensive car with tinted windows to prevent paparazzi from snapping photographs as she went shopping, and an attractive boyfriend who would be famous," "but perhaps not quite as famous as her." "She mentioned all of this in her essay." "You were so pretty up there!" "How cool would that be!" "To, like, actually be on a TV show?" "Pretty cool." "When I think of all the auditions and rejection and dinners and drinks when I lived in LA..." "For you, it could be as simple as filling out a form." "(CELL PHONE CHIMES)" "(LAUGHS)" "Uh..." "Hey, what's up?" "Um..." "Nothing." "I just thought I'd sit with you, if it's okay." "Yeah..." "Okay." "So that took courage." "It's no big deal." "I just came over and sat down." "I mean quitting football." "Oh." "Yeah, I guess so." "How'd you know about that, anyway?" "Seriously?" "Like, everybody knows." "There's an article and everything." "Why..." "Why'd you quit?" "I just realized..." "It didn't matter." "Well, just like that?" "Do you know Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan?" "Uh..." "I've heard of Carl Sagan." "It's just..." "It's about how..." "We're just made up of billions of molecules." "Like, the same molecules that have been around since the Big Bang." "And they'll be around until eventually the universe crunches into nothing." "I find that comforting." "Okay." "The actions of, like, Hitler, Gandhi," "Jesus Christ, mean absolutely nothing, then..." "It's no big deal if I don't play football." "It's no big deal if I come over here and I sit at your table." "NARRATOR:" "There were many other things that Tim wished to share with Brandy," "Most notably, that his mother had left him and his father for California at the beginning of the summer and had kept in touch mainly through Facebook." "But he resisted." "While he knew, cosmically, that nothing mattered, he also realized that something about talking to Brandy did matter, at least to him." "And this was enough." "(PEOPLE CHEERING)" "(MARCHING BAND PLAYING)" "So, what do you think the chances are of Timmy coming back out?" "Yeah, I don't know." "His heart just didn't seem to be into it, you know?" "I'm hoping it's a phase, but this divorce has been, you know, it's been rough on both of us." "I know you have no perspective, fresh wounds and all, but right now you can hit anything." "Yeah, well..." "I'm just not in the hitting mood, you know." "Oof!" "What a waste." "(ALL CHEERING)" "CHEERLEADERS:" "Red, red, go, white, white!" "White, white." "Go, red, red!" "Red, white." "DONNA:" "Cute." "CHEERLEADERS:" "Red, white, white, all together, let's fight!" "Go red, red..." "(SIGHS)" "(KEYS CLACKING)" "(BOY GRUNTS)" "(WHISTLE BLOWS)" "(GROANING)" "God!" " (CELL PHONE CHIMES)" " Hope you can make it, ma'am." "Ready?" "Hut." "(OFFICIAL BLOWS WHISTLE)" "(ALL CHEERING)" "Hey!" "Hey, you were, uh..." "You were pretty awesome out there." " Thanks." " You're cute, too. (KISSES)" "Shouldn't have been that close." "TEACHER:" "All right, guys, hey." "Here we go." "What I want you to do is look at this number and tell me what it means to you." "Yeah, go ahead." "It's the day the terrorists attacked the World Trade Center?" "That's right, Regina." "Other than the attack on Pearl Harbor, it's the only time a foreign force attacked anything on U.S. soil." "So what I want you to do is, I want you to pair off and you're gonna find someone to interview that remembers that day." "All right, on Friday, we're gonna give a presentation on how that day changed our country." "(INHALING)" "(BREATHES DEEPLY)" "NARRATOR:" "Allison Doss had developed a crush on Brandon Lender in seventh grade." "It had been her greatest hope that he would be her first kiss." "Brandon remained the object of Allison's affection despite having once said, within earshot," ""I'd fuck her if I could find the hole."" "WOMAN ON COMPUTER:" "Mmm, watch me." "I can tease you right back." "(MOANING)" "(SIGHS)" "(LAPTOP BEEPING)" "(CLICKING)" "DON:" "Mmm." "Mmm..." "(SIGHS)" "Perky." "No tattoos." "Pussy is..." "(EXHALES)" "(LAUGHS)" "PATRICIA:" "So, Liz, I'm hoping you got a chance to implement some of the Internet safety protocol we talked about last week." "LIZ:" "Um, yeah." "Uh, I think we're doing good." "I think my kids are safe." "So, you have all your daughter's passwords?" "Oh, hi." "Sorry to interrupt." "Uh, my name's Kent." "Is this about the video games and stuff?" "Oh, yeah, have a seat." "Hi, Kent." "Welcome." "Donna, why don't you tell us what brought you here tonight?" "Thanks." "Um, well, my daughter is getting to an age where she's starting to develop." "And, you know, I was just wondering, um, what the laws were about what you can and can't post on the Internet." "That's an excellent question." "Because in our state, the laws are far more lenient than they should be." " They are?" " Yeah." "If someone is sending photos to your daughter..." "Well, um..." "Yes, but I'm also actually wondering about if..." "If she were to send her own." "Like, if she were to take a picture of herself in a bathing suit or underwear or, you know..." "Oh, I see." "Donna, I know our kids aren't thinking about their futures." "Hannah's very driven." "I bet she is." "Before you go, I want to give you a pamphlet about the dangers of selfies." "Great." " Thanks, that's helpful." " DONNA:" "Okay." "(BEEPS)" "CHRIS:" "Okay." "Um..." "Uh..." "Did you guys know anyone who was, um, inside?" "Like, in it?" "Like actually inside one of the buildings?" "No..." "We had friends who were in New York, but no one got hurt." "Somehow that didn't make it any less scary." "Um, how..." "How did you guys, like, find out that 9/11 was happening and everything?" "Oh, yeah, did you get a text or what?" "HELEN:" "No." "There were no texts." "The reason we got cell phones was to make sure we could get ahold of each other in case it ever happened again." "Yeah, that's when everything changed." "Yeah." "Okay." "Where..." "Where was I?" "You were in your room." "Sleeping." "We didn't know if we should wake you." "Yeah, we wanted to hide it from you as long as possible." "And what were you guys doing?" "Honey?" "Want to take this one?" "Yeah, we were, uh, getting ready for work." "I'm pretty sure that we need some poster board or something to put this on." "Uh, yeah." "But not, like, with the Twin Towers blowing up or whatever or anything." "No, I don't know, with like some, uh, police officers or" " firemen." " Totally patriotic." "I like that one." "He's hot." "CHRIS:" "Gonna have to clear my history after this." "What kind of things you got hidden in your history?" "Oh, you know, just photos and things for inspiration." "(CELL PHONE CHIMES)" "(HANNAH SIGHS)" "Shit." "I gotta go." "Well, I'll just finish this." "Here." "(KEYS CLACKING)" "Bookmark this shit for the next time you need inspiration." "PATRICIA:" "And, Kent?" "You said something about video games?" "Uh, yeah, my son's pretty into them." "They're very dangerous." "It doesn't matter what you read, how many studies claim that they're harmless," "I can show you better studies that claim the contrary." "Well, he's on the computer a lot." "Guild Wars, I think?" "That's one of the worst ones." "A couple in China played Guild Wars so much they neglected their baby and it died of dehydration." "I'm sure that's, uh, an extreme example, no?" "I can show you how to uninstall the game." "Uh, you know, I was really just looking to see if you knew what the game was like." "I do know what it's like, Kent." "It's a virtual world." "Your son has created an avatar of himself." "An avatar is an icon" " or a representation..." " I saw the movie, yeah." "Well, then you know that an avatar is often demonic or evil-looking." "When he's plugged in, your son thinks that that world, the world of Guild Wars, is the real world." "Our world doesn't matter anymore." "His friends don't matter." "School doesn't matter." "You don't matter." "DONNA:" ""All I know is, you don't matter, Kent."" " (LAUGHING) I don't matter!" " "You don't matter."" ""Your truck doesn't matter." "Your son doesn't matter!" ""And that is why I have installed a camera" ""in my daughter's brain and a seven-digit PIN code" " "on her vagina." " (KENT LAUGHS)" ""And if you'd like, I can show you all how to do it."" "Hey, um..." "Do..." "Do you want to go out to dinner or something or... (STAMMERING) Or drinks?" "Or coffee?" "Or what?" "I think I went through everything" " you could do on a first date." " (CHUCKLES)" "A date." " Is that cool?" " Yeah." " Yeah?" " Yeah." "(LAPTOP BEEPS)" "(SIGHS)" "(SIGHS)" "(KEYS CLACKING)" "KENT:" "Hey, buddy." " How's it going?" " Hey, Dad." "Did you, uh..." "Did you have a good night?" "Yeah, we just did a dungeon." "Oh." "(LAPTOP BEEPS)" "Did you win?" "Yeah." "All right, well..." "Don't stay up too late, okay?" " Okay." " All right." "(TIM SIGHS)" "DON:" "It's weird, huh?" "How long ago that all seems?" "HELEN:" "Mmm." "Yeah, a school report." "How old are we?" "(WHISPERS) I love you." "I love you." "You remember what we were doing that morning, right?" "Yeah." "Come on." "(DANCE MUSIC PLAYING)" "(CELL PHONE VIBRATING)" "(TIM SIGHS)" "Do you ever get nervous?" "About what?" "No." "I just think 'cause..." "How come you didn't respond to my message?" "What message?" "I wrote you on Facebook, like..." "Listen, you can be honest with me." "Are you sure it was me?" "Yeah, pretty sure." "(SIGHS)" " Fuck." " What?" "Uh, my mom." "She checks my Facebook, my emails, my texts." "She must have just deleted it before I even saw it." "Isn't that, like, against the law or something?" "She thinks she's protecting me." "Is she watching us right now?" "(CHUCKLES)" "No." "She just tracks me online." "Seems a little psycho." "Um..." "I have a secret." "A Tumblr account." "And it's, like, the only place I can go to where I can just be myself." "It's not even really me." "Sometimes I just cut and paste stuff from other sites or write something just to see what it feels like to type the words." "How does it make you feel?" "At first, it's kind of like I'm wearing a costume." "And then, after long enough," "I..." "I just forget that it's not me." "Um..." "Here." "Nobody knows about it." "Not even my mom." "So if you get a message from that account, you know it's me." "My mom ran off to California with this douchebag named Greg Cherry." "(SIGHS)" "They just got engaged." "She hasn't told my dad." "(SIGHS)" "It's fucked." "Well," "I'm sorry." "(ROCK MUSIC PLAYING)" " CAL:" "Hey, ladies." " Oh, my God." "Fuck off." "I didn't know your brother was friends with Brandon Lender." "Oh, yeah." "I guess." "I mean, they're both starters on the varsity squad or something, so, I don't know." "He's a big old bitch, if you ask me." " Your brother or Brandon?" " Oh, they're both bitches." "Yeah." "Wasn't Brandon a total dick to you last year?" "That was last year." " (DOOR OPENS)" " I mean, we were freshmen." " And now you're smokin'." " (DOOR SHUTS)" " He done fucked up." " Oh, my God, who cares!" "Let's just watch Breaking Amish." "Please?" "I'm gonna go to the bathroom." "Okay, we literally watch that every time we come over." "RORY:" "Uh, yeah, Brooke, we're gonna keep watching it till my DVR wears out and dies." "I don't even know why they make other TV shows anymore." " Hey." " Hey." "Where's everybody else?" "They went to the store." "They needed mas beverages." "(CHUCKLES)" "You can sit down if you want." "So, you must have went on, like, a Biggest Loser diet or some shit over summer, huh?" "Just kind of started watching what I ate." "Yeah?" "Well, it shows." "You're, like, a serious piece." "Have you hooked up with anyone yet?" "A little." "Yeah?" "Totally could now." "Cool." "Thanks." "Wait, um..." "Should we..." " Like..." " Oh, yeah." "So, uh, the first time, it's gonna hurt a little bit, but it's just something you kinda have to do to get it over with." "You know what I'm saying?" "Right." "Um..." "Maybe we should just, like, you know..." "Okay, look." "We can stop if you want, but eventually you're gonna have to do it." "But I'm not like a rapist or some shit, so..." "Okay." "No, no, it's okay." "Okay." "Yeah." "(BED CREAKING)" "(ROCK MUSIC PLAYING)" "(LAUGHING)" "I'm gonna head out and see my sister this afternoon." "You know how she gets with all her complaining, she'll probably want to talk my ear off until we're both drunk on red wine and pass out." "So I think I'll just end up staying the night." "Just want to give you a heads up." "Okay." "Maybe..." "I'll call Kent, go out" " for some beers tonight." " Yeah." "You haven't done that in a while." "I'm sure he could use the company." "(LAUGHS)" "Good idea." "Yeah, I should be able to get something like that together for you immediately." "Thank you." "Okay." "Okay, thank you." "Talk soon." "I'm gonna be on TV!" "First they need a video of you doing some acting, cheerleading, stuff around the house..." "Mom, this is it." "Well, honey, it's a next step." "NARRATOR:" "Despite days of trying," "Chris Truby struggled to become fully aroused while navigating Hannah Clint's website." "(DRILL WORKING)" "He couldn't imagine suggesting the kinds of explicit fantasies he had witnessed online to her, and feared he had come to rely on them." "In an effort to fix what should come naturally to any 15-year-old boy," "Chris employed a technique designed to help men reassociate arousal with traditional intercourse." "So, I was gonna go to Lauren's house to watch a movie." "Now?" " Yeah." " It's late." "Well, how're you gonna get there?" "I was just gonna take my bike." "No, I'll take you." "You seem like you're doing important work." "I don't wanna distract you or anything." "I can just go." "Okay." "Okay." "But take your phone, honey." "So I can track you." "Got it." "(SIGHS)" "Ooh." "Okay." "(FUNKY MUSIC PLAYING)" "Angelique?" "Angelique?" "MAN:" "Are you "BoredWife"?" "Yeah." " Hi." " Hi." ""SecretLuvur"?" "(HELEN LAUGHS)" " Oh, God." " At your service." " You must be Don." " Hi." "You're cute." "Thank you." "Do you want to sit, Don?" "Okay." "Sure." "(BOTH LAUGHING)" "I don't really know how this is all supposed to go down." "Well, we can finish our drinks and then we can go on our date." "I'll have a cosmo." " Excuse me." "The lady would like a cosmo." " I heard her." " So much for incognito." " Yeah, right?" "Have you never done this before?" "No, I don't do this kind of thing." "No, no, no." "I..." "I mean, is this what we're..." "Is this okay?" "Oh, you're more than okay." "I know you said that on the phone, but a lot of guys just say that." "Why?" "Why would they do that?" "They think it makes me feel special." "That's just so weird." "I don't know." "I mean, maybe this is just too crazy." "No, no, no, look, look." "I don't want you to think that you have to do anything tonight." "There are no rules to this kind of thing." "But you seem really nice." "And you're fine as hell." "It is, isn't it?" "It's your first time." "Isn't it obvious?" " You want to go upstairs?" " Thank you." "So, um, you're a photographer?" "Hmm?" "I see you, um, taking photos at the games and stuff." "Mmm." "No, it's just a hobby." "We use the photos on Hannah's acting website." "Oh." "Well, she's lucky she has a mother who's, you know, "in the business."" "Tell me about it." "I got my first headshots by this guy" " up in Garland." " Yeah." "What a creep." "Told me not to forget my swimsuit and aerobics outfit." "I hope you told him to fuck off." "(LAUGHING)" "I wish." "I was 18." "I didn't know." "I hate those photos." "Well, at least, you know," "Hannah has someone to keep her out of trouble, right?" "Yeah." "I suppose." "She's actually up for this reality show." "Wow." "Yeah." "It's kind of a talent search." " Could be fun." " Yeah." "It's in Hollywood, so if she gets it maybe she'll meet her father." "(DONNA LAUGHS NERVOUSLY)" "He was this producer that I met when I went out there to be a star." "Oh, yeah, got it." "I came back five months pregnant with this Mercedes that he bought me and a monthly child support check." "To be fair, he never missed a payment on either of them." "Mmm." "Hollywood's loss, I guess." " Isn't that where Lydia moved?" " Yeah, she's, um, going out with some, uh, guy named Greg Cherry. (CHUCKLES)" "Really, I mean "Greg Cherry"?" "What kind of name is that, you know?" " It's a pretty lame one." " It is." "So when did you start thinking differently about her?" "Honestly?" "I know this is gonna..." "Sound like a pickup line or something, but, um, meeting you was kind of a big deal for me." "I mean, um, you know, for the past year" "(SIGHS) pretty much every night I'd just go to bed and watch TV and" "wonder what she was doing." "But for the past week," "I go to bed and wonder what you're doing." "I'm sorry." "That was way too much, wasn't it?" "No." "It was actually pretty great." "I've slept with guys for less." " Oh." " (BOTH LAUGHING)" "(CLEARS THROAT) Sorry." "Do you wanna hear about what I do for a living or something?" "You can tell me if you want to." "I'm an account services manager at Stanley." "And what does an account services manager do?" "I coordinate daily service sales activities regarding distributors." "I also, uh, manage relationships with various accounts and" "I occasionally assist with marketing programs relating to distributors." "It sounds really complicated." "Nah, it isn't." "Oh, wow." "You have such a huge dick!" "NARRATOR:" "Don presumed his penis to be of an average size." "If his dick had, in fact, been huge, he would probably have heard about it by this point." "HELEN:" "Oh." "You like that?" "Do you?" "Yeah." "What's the matter?" "You a scared little girl?" "A little." "No." "I'm excited." "(CHUCKLES)" "I want it." "Where do you want it?" "In my mouth." "Mmm..." "Maybe half of it?" "No." "I want it all." "I want..." "I want that big penis of yours." " Um..." " (CHUCKLES)" " That's right." " I want it." "I want your dick." "Oh, attagirl." "I want you to destroy me with your big fucking cock." "Oh, fuck, yeah." "(YAWNS)" "You still in here?" "Yes, I am." "You've been at it for hours." "I know." "I can't find anything." "We're lucky." "Then maybe you should take it easy on her for a while." "Maybe I'll just call her and make sure everything's okay at Lauren's, and then I'll..." "You just checked her entire computer, right?" "Doing whatever it is you do, checking her email or MySpace." "You said yourself she's clean as a whistle." "Just let her be a teenager tonight." "That was cool." "Yeah." "(ANGELIQUE SIGHS)" " Was that okay?" " Yeah, you were great." "So, you still have a little over half an hour left if you want to take a break, go again..." "You think maybe we could just lie in the bed together and maybe you put your head on my chest or something?" "Yeah, that's fine." "SECRETLUVUR:" "Damn, baby, that was something." "(INDISTINCT CHATTER)" "Call me tomorrow." "BRANDY:" "Hey." "She never called." "What?" "That's weird." "Maybe there's something wrong with my phone." "I should call my mom and make sure she's okay." "Relax." "Maybe she's having sex or something with your dad." "Huh." "(FOOTSTEPS)" "(LIGHT CLICKS)" "(DOOR SHUTS)" "(SIGHS)" "WOMAN ON PA:" "As a reminder, next weekend is our arch-rival, Irving." "We want a sea of red and blue when we go up against the Aardvarks." "Go, Olympians!" "Go, Olympians!" "TANNER:" "Dumb bitch." " What was that?" " I said we lost because of you, fag." "How could you have lost because of me if I wasn't even there?" "That's why it's your fault, you fuckface." "We could lose district." " Who cares?" " DANNY:" "Everybody cares." "Everybody!" "All right, yeah, whatever." "Ah!" "God." " (KIDS GASPING) - (EXCLAIMS)" "(GRUNTING)" "(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)" "(GRUNTING)" "TIM:" "Fucker!" "Fuck you!" "Fuck you!" "So what do you want to know?" "What do you want to tell me?" "What's important in your life right now?" "I don't..." "Um, my dad wants me to play football." "DOCTOR:" "Mmm-hmm." "How do you feel about football?" "I don't know, it just seems kind of pointless to me." "Okay." "Uh, what are some of the things that aren't pointless?" "I don't know." "I play Guild Wars." "Is that a Nintendo game?" "Uh, no, it's an MMORPG." "It's a role-playing game online." "You play with millions of other players." "Oh." "And you're probably pretty good at this game, right?" "Yeah, I guess." "It's not really about skill." "It's more about how much time you put into it, you know." "Hmm." "And, uh, the people you play this with, they're your friends from school?" "Oh, no." "No." "They're just my friends from the game." "Like, I've never actually met them in R. L." "R. L.?" "R. L.?" "In real life." "Do you have friends in R. L.?" "Um, no." "Uh..." "I used to have a lot, but once I stopped playing football" "I sort of lost most of them." "There's a girl, though." "Oh, nice." "Is she in R. L.?" "Uh, yeah." "She's pretty cool." "Hmm." "Have you seen Pale Blue Dot?" "Is that a movie or a video game?" "No, it's, uh..." "It's this thing, this YouTube video." "And it basically challenges our existence and whether or not we matter." "Do you believe anything matters?" "(SIGHS)" "On a grand scale?" "Uh..." "I think if I disappeared tomorrow, the universe wouldn't really notice." "(EXHALES)" "(INDISTINCT CHATTER)" "What?" "Can I show you something?" "Uh, yeah, well, I'm kind of busy." "Just send me a pic." "(PHONE CLICKING)" "(CELL PHONE VIBRATES)" "What's up?" "I only have a minute, but I just wanted to make sure you weren't chained up in the basement or something." "Oh, and this." "(STALL DOOR OPENS)" "(THUDDING)" "(SIRENS WAILING)" "(INDISTINCT CHATTER)" "(MACHINE BEEPING)" "(WOMAN TALKING INDISTINCTLY OVER PA)" "WOMAN:" "Hey, baby." "(SNIFFLING)" "What happened?" "We don't know, baby." "The doctor said someone found you at school." "You were bleeding." " DR. STERN:" "Hi." " I feel fine." "I'm Dr. Stern." "How are you feeling, Allison?" "Okay, I guess." "Am I, like, okay, though?" "Short answer is yes." "Long answer is, it's a little more complicated." " Okay, what does that even mean?" " Let him talk." "It means I need to tell you a few things that might seem a little shocking." "But just keep in mind your daughter's gonna be fine." " Okay." " Okay." "Allison, you had what's called an ectopic pregnancy" " and it spontaneously aborted." " What?" " What?" "You were pregnant?" " How can that even happen?" " I'm sorry, Daddy." " Don't "Daddy" me!" "DR. STERN:" "The most important thing to remember is your daughter's okay." "Um, there was a fertilized egg growing in one of Allison's fallopian tubes." "This can be quite dangerous, especially if it ruptures." "It can be life-threatening." "You're actually lucky that it ended on its own." "You seem to be malnourished, and I believe that's why your body wasn't able to handle the pregnancy." "Can I go home?" "Yeah, but I'd like to keep you overnight for observation." "We're gonna keep you on some fluids for hydration and keep you monitored." "If you all need anything, please have a nurse page me." "Are you angry with me?" "(STAMMERING) I can't believe..." "I just..." "I need a little air." "HANNAH: (ON COMPUTER) I'm Hannah Clint and I'm all about keepin' it cooking." "And I'm all about cheering." " This is pretty great." " Yeah, uh..." "It's still too long, though." "So, I was thinking maybe we could cut some of the dancing" " since it's similar to the cheering." " No." "No, the dance is important." "Okay, I'll just make some cuts here and there then." "Cool." "You are actually pretty good at this." "Maybe I can take you with me one day." "You could be my personal editor." "Wait, my parents are still up." "We can be quiet." "One sec." "(LOCKS DOOR)" "Do you want me to help?" "No." "Uh, one sec." "(WRAPPER CRACKLING)" " That's good." " Okay." "HANNAH:" "Mmm." "Do..." "Do you want me..." "One sec." "Are you gonna move or I..." "Yeah." "Don't you have to, like, have sex?" " I'll move then." " No, wait." "(HANNAH GROANS)" "Put it back in." "CHRIS:" "Fuck... (CHRIS PANTING)" "Is there something I'm doing wrong?" "No." "I don't know." "I'm sorry." "I guess I should text my mom then." "Lucky fucker!" "How are those titties?" "Did you get your dick between them?" " No." " Dude." "What a waste." "Jesus, dude, when were you gonna tell me?" "Well, you know, I was trying to keep it on the D. L." "You can show me photos of trannies but you can't tell me you nailed Hannah Clint?" "(INDISTINCT CHATTER)" "Hey." "Hey." "So, like, what's the deal?" "What do you mean?" "I mean, we haven't even talked since last night and now you're, like, going around spreading a rumor that we had sex?" "(SCOFFS)" "I'm pretty sure we did have sex, and I might have told some of my friends." "So I guess, you know, that's the deal." "I really don't think that was sex." "Would you rather I tell everyone" " that you couldn't?" " No!" "I don't know why you're saying anything to anyone." "Because I thought that you were my best shot." "So I just told everyone that I lost it, and they..." "They think that I lost it, then I pretty much did, right?" "That is so screwed up." "Whatever." "Okay, so I mean, like, what's the deal?" " What do you mean?" " I mean, with us?" "Like, what's the deal with us?" "(SCOFFS)" "There is no deal." "Okay?" "I'm pretty sure you're, like, a weird guy who has some serious sexual issues, and" "I'm just not into dealing with it." "I mean, I don't..." "I don't know, we can talk if you want, but I don't really see the point." "Whatever." "I know." "(SIGHS)" "(DON SIGHS)" "(PRINTER WHIRRING)" "(INDISTINCT TALKING ON TV)" "Hey, come on." "Top Chef is coming up." "Hey, I'm gonna head out to my sister's again tonight." "You good to fend for yourself dinnerwise?" "You've been going up there a lot lately." "Is..." "Is everything okay?" "Yeah." "Yeah, uh..." "You know, she's..." "She's just got a lot on her plate, you know, with work and..." "I don't know, I think she just needs her sister's ear." "Of course." "You want me to give you a ride?" "Oh, no, you don't..." "You don't need to do that." "We, uh..." "Just go out with your friends. (SIGHS)" "Go have fun!" "I want you to be happy." "(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)" "Oh, my gosh!" "How are you?" " I'm fine." "Really." " You okay?" "Are you sure?" " What happened?" " Nothing." "It was stupid, really." " BROOKE:" "But you're fine?" " ALLISON:" "Yeah." "(CELL PHONE BEEPS)" " I was so worried about you." " Oh, you don't need to be." "(CELL PHONE BEEPS)" "(CELL PHONE RINGING)" "Los Angeles." "Hello." "WENDY:" "Hi." "This is Wendy Gruding from" "America's Next Big Celebrity." "I'm looking for Donna?" "Speaking." "Hi, Miss Clint, I'm just calling to inform you that unfortunately we're unable to invite your daughter, Hannah, to Los Angeles." "Oh, no." "Um..." "Is there anything, uh..." "Hannah was..." "If you could just meet her, I know that I could..." "Hannah's audition was really terrific." "Frankly, it was one of our best." "But our clearances came across a modeling website." "Uh, yeah." "Yes, um..." "Yeah, I think that we, um..." "Yeah, we were putting up some of Hannah's acting and her headshots just to show her versatility, which..." "Are you familiar with the content of her site?" "Well, I mean, some of the photos are a bit..." "These kids these days, it's..." "It's not the same from when you and I were that age!" "Our producers found that the materials on your daughter's site, the photos might be deemed by our network as unwholesome." "Was there a particular photo?" "Because it'd be very..." "We answer to our advertisers and they're very risk-averse." "Anything that could possibly be thought of as unseemly..." "I mean, I mean, we could..." "We could take down the site." "It'd be so simple." "We live in a time when there is simply no such thing." "All it takes is one download." "Why would anyone download..." "We really wish you and your daughter the very best of luck." "But, you know, kids are emailing photos and texting." "And it's hardly unique, I have to say..." "It's unique to sell them." "Wha..." "I don't know what you're..." "But I mean, we never, uh..." " I would never..." " We wish you the best of luck." "Okay." " Thank you." " (LINE DISCONNECTS)" "(PEOPLE CHEERING)" " Did I do something?" " No, no, no." "(SNIFFLING) No, I don't know what to..." "Can I get you..." "I haven't done this for a while, so if I..." "If you know, listen, there's some protocol that I'm supposed to follow..." "No, no, no." "No, it's about Hannah." "Oh." "It was just supposed to be a place for photos and her resume and clips from plays." " What are you talking about?" " Her website." "Oh." "And then one day I got a message from a stranger." "A fan of Hannah who wanted to pay for a modeling session." "I knew it wasn't normal, but the photos were..." "I mean, they..." "It was the same thing as catalogue work." "So," "I added a tab to the bottom of the website that said "Private Photo Shoots."" "Jesus!" "I never let her read any of the emails." "But the acting classes and, you know, it's... (SNIFFLES)" "I took photos of my daughter." "And they were meant..." "I don't know how we got there, but..." "I just had to tell you that." "Why?" "Because I thought if I never..." "If I never talked about it, I wasn't doing anything wrong." "Donna, you're the first woman that I've..." "You know, since my wife left me." "Maybe we should just..." "Slow things down." "(INDISTINCT CHATTER)" "(CELL PHONE BEEPS)" "(CELL PHONE BEEPS)" "(CAR DOOR OPENS)" "(CAR DOOR SHUTS)" " Did you get some good shots?" " (SIGHS)" "Actually, I didn't bring my camera." "I just came to talk to Kent." "You're so on his jock!" "Hey, what is up with that TV show?" "I mean, I'm pretty sure they said they were gonna let us know by, like, the end of the week, and it's pretty much the end of the week." "So, I don't know..." "What do you think the deal is?" "(BREATHES DEEPLY)" "We didn't get it." "Why?" "I don't..." "I mean..." "I don't get it." "I mean, I'm pretty sure" "I must have been one of the best ones." "What..." "Did they not like the video or something?" "Honey, they didn't like our website." "Well, then screw them." "I thought about it, and they're right." "I took down the site." "You what?" "What about all of my fans?" "If you wanna act, you can act." "We will get you into every theater program that we can." "But that show and the website, that's not what you want to do." "Yes, it is." "Mom, it is!" " It's everything that I want to do!" " No, baby, you're better than that stupid show" " and you're better than the website." " No, I'm not!" " No, you have to put it back up." " I can't." "Yes, you can." "Just push a fucking button!" "I've allowed you certain flexibility, but right now I have to be your mom." "No, you're being a selfish bitch." "It's gone!" "I deleted it." "(LAPTOP BEEPS)" "(BREATHING DEEPLY)" "(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)" "Jameson, rocks." "Oh, God. (LAUGHS)" "(EXHALES)" "PATRICIA:" "I wouldn't bother." "I changed your passwords." "Why would..." "What is wrong with you?" "You don't seem to understand how dangerous it is on there." "The only thing that's dangerous in this house, Mom, is you!" "I'm protecting you." "From what, having a normal life?" "Give me your phone." "No." "You can give me your phone or I can call and cancel the service and remote swipe all the crap you put on there." "It's not like you haven't already read all of it, anyway." "What's going on, Dad?" "Great group of, uh, friends you play with there." "Had some real nice things to say about having sex with your mother." "You don't understand." "They're just jokes, okay." "Yeah, Selkis..." "That's how you pronounce his name?" ""Silk-eez"?" "Yeah, he prefers to have reverse cowgirl so he doesn't have to look your mother in the face." "I wasn't supposed to know, okay." "I figured you weren't, either." " What the hell's that mean?" " I saw an album on Facebook." "She posted it, and I caught it before she blocked me." "She corrected it, like, within a few minutes." "She wasn't trying to hurt us." "She didn't want to hurt us?" "She abandoned us!" " She abandoned you." " Oh, really?" "She got a bedroom for you out there in California?" "Hmm?" "Did you get your wedding invite yet?" "She abandoned us!" "Your mom's gone." "Yeah, she's gone." "She got bored with the scenery and split." "So it's just you and me, and that's how it's gonna be." "Probably forever." "All right, Dad, whatever." "And you're playing football next year." " No, I'm not." " Oh yeah, you are." "No, I'm not!" "I understand you needed the year to, you know, have your space and stuff, but you belong on that team." "I don't even fucking like football, Dad." "Okay?" "I like Guild Wars!" "Fuck that stupid game." "It's a waste of time." "No, that's all it is, is time!" "And I've put in months of my life and I..." " I'm invested now, okay?" " Not anymore, you're not." "Because I canceled it." "You mean, you deleted the application?" "Okay, I'll reinstall it." "Thanks, Dad." "No, you won't." "I called my credit card company and told them to delete your account." "So, it's gone." "What?" "Why would you do that?" "Because, whether you like it or not," "I'm doing this for your own good." "(CELL PHONE VIBRATES)" "(LAPTOP BEEPS)" "(SIGHS)" "(CELL PHONE VIBRATES)" "(LAPTOP BEEPS)" "(CELL PHONE VIBRATES)" "(LAPTOP BEEPS)" "(CELL PHONE VIBRATES)" "(LAPTOP BEEPS)" "(CELL PHONE VIBRATES)" "(LAPTOP BEEPS)" "(KNOCKS) Brandy?" "Brandy?" "(CAR LOCK BEEPS)" " Where's Tim?" " In his room." "Hey!" "Tim!" "Tim!" " Oh, my God." " Oh, Christ!" " Oh, shit!" " Get a phone!" "(SIRENS WAILING)" "(MACHINE BEEPING)" "(SOBBING)" "(GLASS SHATTERING)" "(MACHINE BEEPING)" "(SOFTLY) Hey, Dad." "I'm so sorry." "It's okay." "You're really beautiful, you know that?" "(SIGHS)" "(DOOR OPENS)" "(DOOR CLOSES)" "I'd like to explain last night." "I don't know how we got here." "I just..." "It's like we slipped, and before we knew it the whole reason we started dating or... had a family just..." "What do you want?" "I don't..." "But I..." "I don't..." "Cheddar?" "Swiss?" "Scallions?" "Tomatoes?" "I don't know what I was looking for when I went online..." "Chives?" "I could do turkey bacon." "I understand you're upset." " I just..." " I just want to know what you'd like in your eggs." "Don, we need to talk about this." " I've made mistakes." " So have I." "Oh, yeah." "So have I." "Probably worse than you." "I don't know, Helen..." "That's just it." "What's..." "What's just it?" "Well, we could sit here and tell each other everything we've ever done." "Shit, everything we've ever thought." "It might take a while." "But, yeah, we could clear everything up and go to sleep tonight with some pretty vivid pictures in our heads." "Or you could just tell me what you want for breakfast." "NARRATOR:" "Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan." ""That's home." "That's us." ""On it everyone you love, everyone you know," ""everyone you ever heard of," ""every human being who ever was" ""lived out their lives." ""Every young couple in love," ""every mother and father, hopeful child," ""every saint and sinner in the history" ""of our species lived there" ""on the mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam." ""How frequent their misunderstandings," ""how fervent their hatreds." ""Our imagined self-importance," ""the delusion that we have some privileged" ""position in the Universe" ""are challenged by this point of pale light." ""Our planet is a lonely speck" ""in the great enveloping cosmic dark." ""In all this vastness, there is no hint" ""that help will come from elsewhere" ""to save us from ourselves." ""Like it or not," ""for the moment, the Earth is where we make our stand." ""There is perhaps no better demonstration" ""of the folly of human conceits" ""than this distant image of our tiny world." ""It underscores our responsibility" ""to deal more kindly with one another" ""and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot," ""the only home we've ever known."" "(BALLAD PLAYING)"