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You think <u>I</u> didn't have some dirty words for that little putz? You think <u>I</u> couldn't figure out some low blows?
You weren't passing 'em out.
Well, maybe <u>your</u> version of growing up is 'Just win, baby'.
See, in that crisis, I saw an opportunity. For some <u>real</u> growth.
Oh please.
Shut the fuck up. <u>I</u> didn't go behind <u>your</u> back.
Doing the <u>right</u> thing. Knowing who you <u>are</u>, inside. Not <u>caving</u> to peer pressure, or <u>lowering</u> yourself to that level, <u>steering</u> your <u>own</u> course...
She wasn't steering her own course, she was steering <u>yours</u>.
Well, that's what parenting is <u>about</u>, little girl. They are <u>pleading</u> to know how they are supposed to do it. And you sure as hell <u>showed</u> her.
And there will come <u>another</u> moment. When the stakes are <u>really</u> there. And she will look back on this. And remember how good it felt. How easy it was.
And she'll fight back again. God help me, what have I done.
You've turned her into you. And I may not get another chance. To turn her back.
<u>That's</u> what it is. And that's <u>all</u> it is.
Thanks for coming out.
Neutral ground. What's up?
She likes a Stolie, no ice.
Double.
What's this about? Because we <u>fought</u>?
Don't flatter yourself. I always liked that line.
I love Luke, I love the children. But there is more to life than even love...
No, there isn't.
And I have looked down the road. At what my life will be. And I can't handle it.
I never wanted to be a mom. Then, sharing it with you was one thing. Carrying it alone, the rest of my life...
Is scary. But you want it. Gimme some truth here.
Well, it's the Jack Kennedy Syndrome, huh? You die young, you always look golden. Perfect. The memory kind of burnishes the image, and...
Come on, a wuss like me? The stiff who wouldn't help her own daughter fight back?
Maybe I was wrong on that one.
You're lying.
I lost him. I was panicked.
You are lying, you never lost that kid for 4 <u>seconds</u>, you could find him from a <u>coma</u>, there is no WAY!
I was running around like a chicken with my head chopped off. Doing my imitation of you.
Ben never mentioned it.
He only remembers I <u>found</u> him. My point is, telling you this story would have been the kindest, most helpful thing I could ever have done for you.
Why didn't I?
Uh. You hate my guts?
With good reason. They fucking worship you as it is.
What do I have that you don't?
Everything. You're...the Earth Mother incarnate...
You're the hip and fresh.
You ride with Annabelle...
You'll learn.
You know every story, every wound, every memory, their whole life's <u>happiness</u> has been wrapped up in <u>you</u>, every moment...
I have their past.
Now Edna says you shortchanged your last meds. You can do presents and be comfortable at the same time, y'know.
Just want to be a little sharper. For a few minutes.
You know, there's nothing you have to say. Because they know your heart. You don't have t...
Just sit me up. Nice and tall. Bring Benjamin first.
Planning on getting
Remarried. There is no move.
Are you here?
I'm here.
Because you don't really seem here.
I'm here. I've got a case where they're this close to sequestering the jury but have I answered the goddamn thing?!
Something's up wi...
You think I didn't get that?
I've been with someone for quite some time, and didn't feel it was appropriate for her to move in too quickly. But after a lot of thought and careful discussion with her and the kids I might add she moved in last month.
Since our divorce Luke has seen a number of different women in three short years and without a lot of warning for the kids, he's now living with a woman half his age
Rachel's not half my age.
We're not discussing your age.
Well, we're not discussing Rachel's age either.
They want to be with you Luke, they go to your house to be with their father.
Jackie, they come to be part of my life. Rachel <u>is</u> part of that life.
Napalm.
Except for last Thursday when Rachel forgot to pick them up
Jackie, she was five minutes late
Thank you Mrs. Franklin. Jackie? This has been very valuable for us. And I'll have a serious talk with Annabelle tonight.
It's Wednesday night. She's at my house. I'll talk to her.
I'll call from work. We can have a conference call.
You tried that last week and we were on hold fortyfive minutes...
You ask me that counselor's making a mountain out of a molehill...
I'm worried.
Me too.
Luke, I need to switch next Friday for Thursday, so why don't you take the weekend... ...that way you'll be there, and I'll pick up Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
Fine. But I wanted to take the kids to work with me on Wednesday so I'll take Wednesday, and you can pick up that Thursday, Friday after soccer, and Saturday before riding.
Easy enough.
Good...Well...Take care.
Just outside the big top, we're almo...
You're WHERE?
At the Big Apple Circus, it's the only big top I know. I <u>said</u> I'd get 'em back tonight...
Jackie, <u>we</u> were taking them water skiing for the <u>whole</u> weekend!
...until the plan changed, when Jessie's mom gave us these tickets. What, Rachel. 'forgot' I told her?
Our children.
Do you realize what could have hap pened to your son today? How lucky we are the police found him before some lunatic did? He could have been...
But he hasn't. He wandered off. I know it's terrifying. I can imagine how you felt when that call came But it happens.
Not to me.
Jackie, you've made mistakes We all make mistakes
I'm not gonna wait around to see the next one. I'm not gonna watch my kids fall through the cracks of this arrangement. I'm seeing a lawyer.
Jackie stop. We promised we never go there.
We've broken a lot of promises, haven't we Luke?
Called him. We set an ap...
Don't do this.
You're saying, don't make the kids a football, don't put them through a war. But I'm doing this for <u>their</u> wellbeing.
Partly. But partly, you're mad.
You know the kids aren't really in danger. This is about Rachel, and you're right, I'm disappointed in her learning curve, and...
<u>Slugs</u>. Have faster learning curves. <u>Trees</u>, even.
I'm afraid she's going to walk.
And I'm supposed to care.
Still, please.
Annabelle showed me the new dress. She's amazing in it.