0:00:43 > 0:00:51This film contains strong language.
0:02:29 > 0:02:30"January 11th, at 2:30pm..."
0:02:30 > 0:02:33You'll do your statement separately - this one's ours.
0:02:33 > 0:02:37"Following a verbal dispute in Brooklyn Bridge Park,
0:02:37 > 0:02:41"Zachary Cowan, age 11, and armed with a stick,
0:02:41 > 0:02:46"struck our son, Ethan Longstreet, in the face.
0:02:46 > 0:02:50"In addition to the swelling and bruising of Ethan's upper lip,
0:02:50 > 0:02:55"this act also resulted in two broken incisors,
0:02:55 > 0:02:58"including nerve damage to the right incisor."
0:02:58 > 0:03:00"Armed"?
0:03:01 > 0:03:03Armed. You don't like "armed"?
0:03:03 > 0:03:07Michael, what could we say? Carrying? Holding? Carrying a stick?
0:03:07 > 0:03:09- "Carrying", yeah. - "Carrying a stick".
0:03:09 > 0:03:11"Carrying"...
0:03:12 > 0:03:16It's ironic - we always thought Brooklyn Bridge Park was so safe.
0:03:16 > 0:03:18Compared to Hillside.
0:03:18 > 0:03:22True. We always said, Brooklyn Bridge Park, fine. Hillside, no way.
0:03:22 > 0:03:25Just goes to show you.
0:03:25 > 0:03:27Hey, thank you so much for coming!
0:03:27 > 0:03:30It's so much better than getting caught up
0:03:30 > 0:03:32in that adversarial mindset.
0:03:32 > 0:03:34Well, we thank YOU, really.
0:03:34 > 0:03:37There's no reason for us to thank each other.
0:03:37 > 0:03:41Luckily, some of us still have a sense of community, right?
0:03:41 > 0:03:44Though the kids haven't got that notion straight yet.
0:03:44 > 0:03:48- I mean, our kid.- Right, our kid.
0:03:54 > 0:03:56Those tulips are gorgeous.
0:03:56 > 0:03:59Oh, it's the florist up by Henry - you know, all the way up?
0:03:59 > 0:04:03- Oh, right!- They fly the bulbs right in from Holland,
0:04:03 > 0:04:0420 for a whole bunch.
0:04:04 > 0:04:06- That a fact?- Yeah.
0:04:06 > 0:04:10- Do you know it? All the way up? - Right, right.
0:04:10 > 0:04:14Well... So, what about the tooth with the damaged nerve?
0:04:14 > 0:04:15Oh. Well, we don't know yet.
0:04:15 > 0:04:19There's some question about the prognosis.
0:04:19 > 0:04:22Well, apparently, the nerve is not completely exposed.
0:04:22 > 0:04:23Only part of it is exposed.
0:04:23 > 0:04:27There's a part that's exposed and a part that's still protected.
0:04:27 > 0:04:29So now, they're not going to devitalise it.
0:04:29 > 0:04:32They want to give the tooth a chance.
0:04:32 > 0:04:34We would so love to avoid root canal.
0:04:34 > 0:04:36- Of course.- So there's an observation period
0:04:36 > 0:04:37while they give the nerve a chance to heal.
0:04:37 > 0:04:39Meantime, he's going to need caps.
0:04:39 > 0:04:42- You can't have implants until you're 18, anyway.- You can't.
0:04:42 > 0:04:45They can only do implants once they're done growing.
0:04:45 > 0:04:49Naturally. Well, we hope it all turns out all right.
0:04:49 > 0:04:50We can only hope.
0:04:50 > 0:04:53Listen, um...
0:04:53 > 0:04:56You know, he didn't want to tell on Zachary.
0:04:56 > 0:04:58No, he didn't want to tell.
0:04:58 > 0:05:03I mean, it was incredible to see this child with no face left, no teeth...
0:05:03 > 0:05:07- And he just wouldn't talk. - I can just imagine.
0:05:07 > 0:05:09He didn't want to tell on the kid.
0:05:09 > 0:05:11Like, his friends would say he was a snitch.
0:05:11 > 0:05:13Let's face it, Penny, it wasn't just a sense of honour.
0:05:13 > 0:05:16You could say that. Honour requires a social context...
0:05:16 > 0:05:19So how did you finally get Zachary's name?
0:05:19 > 0:05:22Well, cos we explained to Ethan
0:05:22 > 0:05:25that protecting this child was not going to help him.
0:05:25 > 0:05:28We told him, if this kid thinks he can get away with hitting people,
0:05:28 > 0:05:30- why should he stop?- That if we were that child's parents,
0:05:30 > 0:05:31we would want to know about this.
0:05:31 > 0:05:34- PHONE VIBRATES - Of course. - Yeah. Excuse me one second.
0:05:34 > 0:05:36Yes, Walter?
0:05:36 > 0:05:38Thanks for getting back to me.
0:05:38 > 0:05:41It's in this morning's Journal. I'll read it to you.
0:05:41 > 0:05:45"According to a study published by British journal Lancet..."
0:05:45 > 0:05:47"two Australian researchers have identified..."
0:05:47 > 0:05:49"neurological side-effects
0:05:49 > 0:05:52"of TW Pharma's anti-hypertension medication, Antril,"
0:05:52 > 0:05:55"including impaired hearing and ataxia."
0:05:56 > 0:05:59Who the hell does your press monitoring over there?
0:05:59 > 0:06:02Yeah, you're in deep shit.
0:06:03 > 0:06:05No, my problem is the ASM.
0:06:05 > 0:06:08You have an Annual Stockholders Meeting in two weeks.
0:06:08 > 0:06:10Did you schedule a contingency for litigation?
0:06:12 > 0:06:16Walter, Walter. Talk to PR and find out
0:06:16 > 0:06:19if it was picked up anywhere else and call me back.
0:06:19 > 0:06:20OK.
0:06:20 > 0:06:21Sorry.
0:06:21 > 0:06:23- So you're, like, a...- An attorney.
0:06:23 > 0:06:27- And yourself?- Houseware supply.
0:06:27 > 0:06:28Penny is a writer.
0:06:28 > 0:06:31She works part-time in a bookstore, mostly art books and history books.
0:06:31 > 0:06:36- A writer!- Well, I co-wrote a volume on Sabaean civilisation.
0:06:36 > 0:06:37Working with artefacts retrieved
0:06:37 > 0:06:40after the Ethiopia-Eritrea conflict.
0:06:40 > 0:06:43Right now I'm working on a book about the Darfur tragedy.
0:06:43 > 0:06:45You specialise in Africa?
0:06:45 > 0:06:48I'm interested in that part of the world, yes.
0:06:48 > 0:06:51- Do you have any other children? - There's Courtney, she's nine.
0:06:51 > 0:06:54She's very angry with her father right now.
0:06:54 > 0:06:56He got rid of the hamster last night.
0:06:58 > 0:07:00- You got rid of the hamster?- Yeah.
0:07:00 > 0:07:04Made such a racket at night. They sleep during the day.
0:07:04 > 0:07:09Ethan was going crazy, he couldn't take the racket that thing made.
0:07:10 > 0:07:13I don't mind telling you, I've been wanting to get rid of the thing
0:07:13 > 0:07:14for the longest time.
0:07:14 > 0:07:18- PHONE BEEPS - So I said, "That's it." I took it out and left it on the street.
0:07:18 > 0:07:19You left it on the street?
0:07:19 > 0:07:21I figured it was a gutter-sewer kind of animal.
0:07:21 > 0:07:23But it was scared out of its wits, out there, on the sidewalk.
0:07:23 > 0:07:26Truth is, they're not pets and they're not wild.
0:07:26 > 0:07:28Drop them in the middle of the forest, they're still unhappy.
0:07:28 > 0:07:32- Where are you supposed to put them? - So you just left him outside?
0:07:32 > 0:07:34Yeah, he did.
0:07:34 > 0:07:37And he tried to convince Courtney that the hamster ran away.
0:07:37 > 0:07:38Which, of course, she was not buying.
0:07:38 > 0:07:41- And this morning the hamster was gone?- Gone.
0:07:41 > 0:07:47- What about you? What do you do for a living?- Oh, I'm an investment broker.
0:07:49 > 0:07:53Let me... I'll just going to ask this directly.
0:07:53 > 0:07:56Er, could Zachary apologise to Ethan?
0:07:56 > 0:07:59Sure. It would be good if they talked.
0:07:59 > 0:08:03He's got to apologise, Alan. He has to actually say he's sorry.
0:08:03 > 0:08:05- Yeah, probably.- Well, IS he sorry?
0:08:05 > 0:08:08He doesn't realise how serious it was. He's 11 years old.
0:08:08 > 0:08:12- 11 is not a baby. - It's not an adult either.
0:08:12 > 0:08:15We forgot to ask you, you want some coffee or tea?
0:08:15 > 0:08:19Is there any cobbler left, Penny? She makes a mean cobbler!
0:08:19 > 0:08:20- Um, well...- You got espresso?- We do!
0:08:20 > 0:08:23- I wouldn't mind a cup. - A glass of water.
0:08:23 > 0:08:27Yeah. Espresso for me too, babe. And bring the cobbler. Come on, come on.
0:08:31 > 0:08:34Please, please have a seat.
0:08:34 > 0:08:37Didn't mean to rush you out. Here, here.
0:08:38 > 0:08:40- Thank you.- Yeah.
0:08:41 > 0:08:44HE SIGHS
0:08:47 > 0:08:49You got to taste this cobbler.
0:08:50 > 0:08:52Where's the cobbler?
0:08:58 > 0:09:00She put the cobbler in the fridge again.
0:09:00 > 0:09:03I don't know what language I'm supposed to speak to that woman in.
0:09:03 > 0:09:08- Nice couple.- Very.
0:09:08 > 0:09:11They're nice, right?
0:09:11 > 0:09:14- COFFEE GRINDER WHIRRS You tell everybody I'm a writer? - You ARE a writer. You wrote a book.
0:09:18 > 0:09:21Good cobbler is NOT easy to make.
0:09:23 > 0:09:26- What do you sell? - Decorative hardware...
0:09:26 > 0:09:29Door locks, handles, copper fittings...
0:09:29 > 0:09:33And kitchen equipment - pots and pans...
0:09:34 > 0:09:35Is that a good living?
0:09:35 > 0:09:39You know, it's not like we had any banner years or anything.
0:09:39 > 0:09:40It was tough starting out.
0:09:40 > 0:09:42But long as I'm out there every morning,
0:09:42 > 0:09:45with my sample case and catalogue, it's a living.
0:09:45 > 0:09:49Although the cast-iron roasting pans do pick up around the holidays.
0:09:50 > 0:09:52When you saw the hamster was terrified,
0:09:52 > 0:09:54why didn't you bring it home?
0:09:54 > 0:09:57Cos I don't touch those things.
0:09:57 > 0:09:59You put it on the sidewalk.
0:09:59 > 0:10:01It was in the cage. I flipped it on its side.
0:10:01 > 0:10:03No way I'm touching those things!
0:10:03 > 0:10:05- Sugar?- No, no sugar.
0:10:05 > 0:10:09- So, what kind of cobbler you make? - Apple and pear.
0:10:09 > 0:10:11Apple and pear?
0:10:11 > 0:10:14Yeah, it's a...you know, it's a little recipe of mine.
0:10:14 > 0:10:16It's a shame it's cold.
0:10:16 > 0:10:19Apple and pear, that's new to me.
0:10:19 > 0:10:21Apple and pear is a classic.
0:10:21 > 0:10:23- Of course, there's a twist to it. - Oh, really?
0:10:23 > 0:10:27You have to cut the pear thicker than the apple, because they cook faster.
0:10:27 > 0:10:30- Oh, right!- She's not telling you the REAL secret.
0:10:30 > 0:10:32Let them taste it!
0:10:32 > 0:10:33Very good, VERY good.
0:10:35 > 0:10:37- Mm! Delicious!- Gingerbread crumbs!
0:10:37 > 0:10:40Oh, my God!
0:10:40 > 0:10:44It's just a souped-up old-school recipe - his mother gave me the idea.
0:10:44 > 0:10:46Gingerbread, fantastic!
0:10:47 > 0:10:51At least we get a new recipe out of this, right?
0:10:51 > 0:10:54I wish my son didn't have to lose two teeth in the process.
0:10:54 > 0:10:55Right, that's what I meant.
0:10:55 > 0:10:59- You have a novel way of expressing it.- No. I... - PHONE VIBRATES
0:10:59 > 0:11:00Excuse me.
0:11:00 > 0:11:02Yeah, Walter?
0:11:04 > 0:11:07No. No letters to the editor.
0:11:09 > 0:11:11You'll just fan the flames.
0:11:13 > 0:11:15Was it scheduled? Yeah...
0:11:17 > 0:11:20What are these disorders? What's ataxia?
0:11:23 > 0:11:25And in normal doses?
0:11:27 > 0:11:29How long have you known this?
0:11:30 > 0:11:32And in all that time you haven't recalled it?
0:11:33 > 0:11:35What are we talking about in revenues?
0:11:37 > 0:11:38Oh, oh, I see.
0:11:41 > 0:11:42OK.
0:11:44 > 0:11:49- Alan! We're all waiting for you. - Yeah, right. One second.
0:11:50 > 0:11:51Dennis?
0:11:51 > 0:11:53'Did you talk to him?'
0:11:53 > 0:11:56They've known about the risks for 2½ years.
0:11:58 > 0:12:00An internal report,
0:12:00 > 0:12:04but undesirable side-effects are not established.
0:12:04 > 0:12:07No precautionary measures and they didn't schedule a reserve.
0:12:07 > 0:12:09Nothing in the annual report.
0:12:09 > 0:12:12'I can't believe it. What are the symptoms?'
0:12:12 > 0:12:14Come on. Lack of balance, jerky gait, the works.
0:12:14 > 0:12:17Basically, you look like you're drunk.
0:12:17 > 0:12:18HE SNORTS WITH LAUGHTER
0:12:20 > 0:12:23Roughly half a billion in revenues.
0:12:25 > 0:12:27You there?
0:12:27 > 0:12:28'Yeah. What will I do?'
0:12:28 > 0:12:30Deny.
0:12:30 > 0:12:33That dumb-shit wanted us to write a letter to the editor.
0:12:33 > 0:12:35No way we're writing a letter.
0:12:35 > 0:12:38On the other hand, if we see this is getting picked up,
0:12:38 > 0:12:40we could do a press release.
0:12:40 > 0:12:42Like somebody's spreading false rumours
0:12:42 > 0:12:44two weeks out from the ASM kind of thing.
0:12:44 > 0:12:47He's calling me back.
0:12:49 > 0:12:50OK.
0:12:53 > 0:12:56I've been so busy, I hardly had time for lunch.
0:12:56 > 0:12:58Oh, help yourself, help yourself!
0:13:01 > 0:13:03- Here.- Oh, no, thanks!- Go on, go on!
0:13:04 > 0:13:08I know I have no manners. Where were we?
0:13:08 > 0:13:12We were saying it would be so much nicer if me met some other way.
0:13:12 > 0:13:15- This cobbler - your mother, huh? - HIS mother.
0:13:15 > 0:13:17It's my mother's recipe but Pen made it.
0:13:17 > 0:13:21- Your mother doesn't use apples and pears.- No.
0:13:21 > 0:13:25- She's about to have an operation, poor thing.- Oh, really? What for?
0:13:25 > 0:13:27- Her knee.- She's going to get
0:13:27 > 0:13:29a polyethylene and metallic prosthesis.
0:13:29 > 0:13:32And she's all worried what's going to be left of it
0:13:32 > 0:13:35- after the cremation. - Michael, don't be mean.
0:13:35 > 0:13:38She doesn't want to be buried beside my father. She wants to be cremated,
0:13:38 > 0:13:41and put upstate, next to her mother, who's all alone.
0:13:41 > 0:13:45A couple of urns jabbering away on the shores of Lake Sebago.
0:13:49 > 0:13:52We're very touched by how generous you're being.
0:13:52 > 0:13:55We realise how you're trying to smooth things out here
0:13:55 > 0:13:57instead of making them worse.
0:13:57 > 0:13:59- Please, it's the least we could do. - Yeah.
0:14:01 > 0:14:05No, come on. So many parents just take their kid's side,
0:14:05 > 0:14:07acting like children themselves.
0:14:07 > 0:14:10If Ethan had broken two of Zachary's teeth,
0:14:10 > 0:14:13I'm thinking Alan and I might have had more of a knee-jerk reaction.
0:14:13 > 0:14:16- I'm not sure we would see the big picture.- Sure you would.
0:14:16 > 0:14:18She's right. I'm not so sure.
0:14:18 > 0:14:19You would. Because we all know
0:14:19 > 0:14:22this could have happened the other way around.
0:14:22 > 0:14:24What does Zachary say about this?
0:14:24 > 0:14:26How is he experiencing it?
0:14:26 > 0:14:29He doesn't talk much. A little overwhelmed, I guess.
0:14:29 > 0:14:32But he realises that he disfigured his schoolmate?
0:14:32 > 0:14:37No. No, he doesn't realise that he DISFIGURED his schoolmate.
0:14:37 > 0:14:40Why do you say that? Of course Zachary realises.
0:14:40 > 0:14:43He realises that this violent behaviour is unacceptable,
0:14:43 > 0:14:45not that he disfigured his schoolmate.
0:14:45 > 0:14:48You don't like the word but I'm afraid the word is appropriate.
0:14:48 > 0:14:50My son did not disfigure your son.
0:14:50 > 0:14:51Your son disfigured our son!
0:14:51 > 0:14:54Come back after school, look at his mouth and teeth.
0:14:54 > 0:14:56- Momentarily disfigured. - His mouth will be fine
0:14:56 > 0:14:57when the swelling goes down.
0:14:57 > 0:15:01As for the teeth, we'd be willing to chip in for the best dental care.
0:15:01 > 0:15:02We got insurance for that.
0:15:02 > 0:15:04What we want is for the boys to patch it up,
0:15:04 > 0:15:06make sure nothing like this ever happens again.
0:15:06 > 0:15:09- Let's set up a meeting. - Yeah. Exactly.
0:15:09 > 0:15:10Should we be there?
0:15:10 > 0:15:13They don't need coaching. Let them work it out like men.
0:15:13 > 0:15:15Like men? Alan, don't be ridiculous.
0:15:15 > 0:15:17On the other hand, maybe we don't need to be there.
0:15:17 > 0:15:20Maybe it's better if we WEREN'T there, right?
0:15:20 > 0:15:22The issue is not whether we are there or whether we are not there.
0:15:22 > 0:15:26The issue is, do they want to talk about this, do they want to work this out?
0:15:26 > 0:15:27- Ethan does.- Does Zachary?
0:15:27 > 0:15:30- We won't give him a choice. - It has to come from him.
0:15:30 > 0:15:32Zachary acts like a thug,
0:15:32 > 0:15:35we're not going to wait around for him to see the light.
0:15:35 > 0:15:39If Zachary sees Ethan in a punitive context, because he's forced to,
0:15:39 > 0:15:42I just don't see anything positive coming out of that.
0:15:42 > 0:15:44Mrs Longstreet, our son is a maniac.
0:15:44 > 0:15:48If you hope he'll suddenly and spontaneously get all apologetic,
0:15:48 > 0:15:49you're dreaming.
0:15:49 > 0:15:52Look, I'm sorry, but I really do have to get back to the office.
0:15:52 > 0:15:54Nancy, you stay. You'll let me know what was decided.
0:15:54 > 0:15:56I'm no use to anyone anyway.
0:15:56 > 0:15:59Women always think you need the man, you need the father,
0:15:59 > 0:16:00like it would do any good.
0:16:00 > 0:16:03I'm really sorry, but I can't stay either.
0:16:03 > 0:16:04My husband has never been
0:16:04 > 0:16:06much of an "I'll-push-the-stroller" type daddy.
0:16:06 > 0:16:09That's too bad, it goes by so fast.
0:16:09 > 0:16:11Mike loved taking care of the kids.
0:16:11 > 0:16:14- He had a ball pushing that stroller. - Yeah, sure.
0:16:14 > 0:16:17So... What do we decide?
0:16:17 > 0:16:20Oh. Could you come over to our place at about 7:30, with Ethan?
0:16:20 > 0:16:227:30 all right?
0:16:22 > 0:16:25- Well, if you want my opinion... - Yes...please.
0:16:25 > 0:16:29- I think Zachary should come over here.- Yeah, I agree.
0:16:29 > 0:16:31The victim shouldn't be the one who makes the trip.
0:16:31 > 0:16:36- I can't be anywhere at 7:30.- Who needs you? You're useless, right?
0:16:36 > 0:16:41- Seriously, I think it's important for his father to come.- Not tonight.
0:16:41 > 0:16:43Hello. Can you hear me?
0:16:43 > 0:16:46- Tomorrow?- I'm sorry. Can you hear me now?
0:16:49 > 0:16:52There's not a word in the annual report.
0:16:52 > 0:16:55But the risk wasn't officially established. There's no proof.
0:16:55 > 0:16:57Call me back.
0:16:57 > 0:17:01- Tomorrow?- Tomorrow I'm in Washington.
0:17:01 > 0:17:04- You have business in Washington? - At the Pentagon.
0:17:04 > 0:17:07Look, the main thing is to get the kids to talk.
0:17:07 > 0:17:10I'll come over to your place at 7:30 with Zachary
0:17:10 > 0:17:12and we'll let them talk it through.
0:17:12 > 0:17:15What? You don't seem convinced.
0:17:15 > 0:17:18If Zachary hasn't acquired any accountability skills,
0:17:18 > 0:17:21they'll just glare at each other, it will be disaster.
0:17:21 > 0:17:24Accountability skills? What are you talking about?
0:17:24 > 0:17:26I'm sure your son is not a maniac.
0:17:26 > 0:17:28Zachary is NOT a maniac.
0:17:28 > 0:17:31- Yes, he is.- Alan, don't be an idiot. Why are you saying that?
0:17:31 > 0:17:32He's a maniac.
0:17:32 > 0:17:35- How does he explain what he did? - He won't talk about it.
0:17:35 > 0:17:38- He SHOULD talk about it.- That's a lot of "should", Mrs Longstreet.
0:17:38 > 0:17:41He should come here, he should talk about it, he should feel sorry.
0:17:41 > 0:17:43I'm sure you're much more evolved than we are.
0:17:43 > 0:17:47We're trying to get up to speed, but in the meantime try to indulge us.
0:17:47 > 0:17:50Hey, hey, hey, come on! What happened here?
0:17:50 > 0:17:53This isn't what we're all about.
0:17:53 > 0:17:56- I was talking about Zachary, about HIM.- I got that.
0:17:56 > 0:17:58Alan!
0:17:58 > 0:18:01You want some more coffee? Some real coffee?
0:18:01 > 0:18:02Coffee.
0:18:04 > 0:18:05Thank you.
0:18:06 > 0:18:10- Coffee, all right. - It's OK, Pen, I'll get it.
0:18:10 > 0:18:12DOG BARKS
0:18:47 > 0:18:49I see you're an art enthusiast.
0:18:49 > 0:18:51Yes.
0:18:54 > 0:18:56- Bacon?- Yes, Bacon.
0:19:14 > 0:19:18- Cruelty and splendour. - Chaos. Balance.
0:19:22 > 0:19:26- Is Zachary interested in art? - Not as much as he should be.
0:19:26 > 0:19:27Your children are?
0:19:27 > 0:19:31Well, we try to make up for the lack in the school curriculum.
0:19:31 > 0:19:32Right.
0:19:32 > 0:19:36We try to take them to concerts and galleries.
0:19:36 > 0:19:39I really believe that culture can be such a powerful force for peace.
0:19:39 > 0:19:41You're so right.
0:19:41 > 0:19:43Is cobbler cake or pie? This is an important question.
0:19:43 > 0:19:48I was in the kitchen, thinking, "Why should pizza be a pie?"
0:19:48 > 0:19:51Oh, here, don't leave this miserable little piece. Go ahead, go ahead.
0:19:51 > 0:19:54Here, go on, you have that.
0:19:54 > 0:19:57Cobbler's a cake. There's no crust on the bottom, can't be a pie.
0:19:57 > 0:19:59You're a gourmet chef.
0:19:59 > 0:20:04I like to cook. It's something you have to do out of love or not at all.
0:20:04 > 0:20:08The way I see it, if there's no crust on the bottom, then it's not a pie.
0:20:08 > 0:20:10So, how about you guys? You have other kids?
0:20:10 > 0:20:13I have another son by a former marriage.
0:20:16 > 0:20:20You know, I was wondering. I know it's not important but...
0:20:20 > 0:20:23Do you know what were they arguing about?
0:20:23 > 0:20:24Cos Ethan won't say a word.
0:20:24 > 0:20:26Ethan wouldn't let Zachary be a part of his gang.
0:20:26 > 0:20:29- Ethan has a gang? - And he called him a snitch.
0:20:29 > 0:20:31Did you know that Ethan had a gang?
0:20:31 > 0:20:33No.
0:20:33 > 0:20:35But I'm thrilled to hear it!
0:20:35 > 0:20:37- Why are you thrilled? - Cos- I- had one.
0:20:37 > 0:20:39- I was the leader.- So was I.
0:20:39 > 0:20:40What does the leader of a gang do?
0:20:40 > 0:20:42You know, you got five, six guys
0:20:42 > 0:20:46who, like you, are willing to sacrifice themselves for you.
0:20:46 > 0:20:49- Like in Ivanhoe. - Exactly, like in Ivanhoe.
0:20:49 > 0:20:51Who even knows about Ivanhoe any more?
0:20:51 > 0:20:54So it's another role model. Like Spider-Man or whoever.
0:20:54 > 0:20:57Well, apparently you know more about this than we do.
0:20:57 > 0:21:00I guess Zachary wasn't quite as silent as you first said.
0:21:00 > 0:21:02So, um, why did he call him a snitch?
0:21:04 > 0:21:07Forget it, silly question, right? What's the point? No-one cares.
0:21:07 > 0:21:10We're not going to get into these children's quarrels.
0:21:10 > 0:21:12- It's none of our business.- Right.
0:21:12 > 0:21:14What IS our business is this unfortunate incident.
0:21:14 > 0:21:16Violence is our business.
0:21:16 > 0:21:18When I was the leader,
0:21:18 > 0:21:21I beat up Jimmy Leach in a fair fight, and he was bigger than me.
0:21:21 > 0:21:26- What does that have to do with anything, Michael?- No, nothing.
0:21:26 > 0:21:28This is not a fair fight, these boys weren't fighting.
0:21:28 > 0:21:33- Right, I was just remembering something.- It's not VERY different.
0:21:33 > 0:21:36- Excuse me, I'm sorry, there's a difference.- There is a difference.
0:21:36 > 0:21:38What's the difference?
0:21:38 > 0:21:40Me and Jimmy Leach agreed to fight.
0:21:40 > 0:21:42- Did you mess him up?- A little.
0:21:42 > 0:21:44Enough about Jimmy Leach.
0:21:45 > 0:21:49- Do you mind if I talk to Zachary? - Of course not.
0:21:49 > 0:21:51I would never do it without your permission.
0:21:51 > 0:21:54No, talk to him. That's completely fine with us.
0:21:54 > 0:21:57- And good luck with that. - Stop it, Alan.
0:21:58 > 0:21:59Why do you say that?
0:21:59 > 0:22:01- Mrs Longstreet...- Penelope.
0:22:01 > 0:22:04I think we'll do better if we're on a first-name basis.
0:22:04 > 0:22:07Penelope, you're acting on the desire to educate...
0:22:07 > 0:22:09I don't talk to him if you don't want me to.
0:22:09 > 0:22:12Go ahead, lecture him, talk to him, do whatever you want.
0:22:12 > 0:22:16I don't understand how you feel so uninvolved here.
0:22:16 > 0:22:18- Mrs Longstreet...- Penelope.
0:22:18 > 0:22:21Penelope, I'm very involved here.
0:22:21 > 0:22:24- My son injured another child... - Deliberately.
0:22:24 > 0:22:27See, that's the kind of thing that irks me. We KNOW deliberately.
0:22:27 > 0:22:29That's what makes all the difference.
0:22:29 > 0:22:32The difference between what and what? We're only talking about one thing.
0:22:32 > 0:22:34Our kid picked up a stick and hit your kid. That's why we're here.
0:22:34 > 0:22:38- Fruitless.- Right, she's right. This kind of talk is fruitless.
0:22:38 > 0:22:40Why do you feel you need to slip in the word "deliberately"?
0:22:40 > 0:22:43What kind of lesson are you trying to teach me?
0:22:43 > 0:22:45All right, this is getting silly.
0:22:45 > 0:22:48My husband is all stressed out over work stuff.
0:22:48 > 0:22:49I'll come back here tonight with Zachary
0:22:49 > 0:22:51and we'll let them work it out naturally.
0:22:51 > 0:22:54- I'm not stressed out in the least. - Well, I am.
0:22:54 > 0:22:57- There's no reason to be stressed out.- Yes, there is. - PHONE VIBRATES
0:22:57 > 0:22:58Yeah?
0:23:01 > 0:23:04Well, no comment. No comment.
0:23:06 > 0:23:08No comment!
0:23:11 > 0:23:14What? If you recall it, you're admitting liability!
0:23:15 > 0:23:20Recalling Antril would be admitting your liability!
0:23:20 > 0:23:22Christmastime in the school play...
0:23:22 > 0:23:26- What did Zachary play? Zachary played...- Ebenezer Scrooge.
0:23:26 > 0:23:29- ..accused of accounting irregularities...- Ebenezer Scrooge.
0:23:29 > 0:23:32If you want them to haul you out of the meeting...
0:23:32 > 0:23:34LOUDLY: Michael, do you remember when he played Scrooge?
0:23:34 > 0:23:38- Sure.- He was wonderful.
0:23:38 > 0:23:40He had that nightcap on. He was very funny.
0:23:40 > 0:23:43Let's talk about the victims after the stockholders' meeting...
0:23:43 > 0:23:47What did Ethan play? He played the... er, one of the kids.
0:23:47 > 0:23:49- One of the Cratchits. - The Cratchit kids, that's right.
0:23:49 > 0:23:53We can't recall a drug because three guys can't walk a straight line!
0:23:53 > 0:23:57For the time being, don't make a move.
0:23:58 > 0:24:01All right, call you right back.
0:24:07 > 0:24:08RINGING TONE
0:24:08 > 0:24:12They're in panic mode. They have the media breathing down their necks.
0:24:12 > 0:24:14All right.
0:24:14 > 0:24:17I want a press release that doesn't sound defensive at all.
0:24:17 > 0:24:19Just the opposite. Go for the jugular.
0:24:19 > 0:24:23Something like, "TW Pharma is a target."
0:24:23 > 0:24:25"Attempt at manipulation of the stock price
0:24:25 > 0:24:27"two weeks before the stockholders' meeting."
0:24:28 > 0:24:30"Where did this study come from anyway?"
0:24:30 > 0:24:34"How does this suddenly drop out of a clear blue sky?" etc.
0:24:34 > 0:24:35Not one word about the health issue.
0:24:35 > 0:24:39Just one question - who is behind the study? Who?
0:24:41 > 0:24:42Fine.
0:24:42 > 0:24:45Pharmaceutical companies - the worst, right?
0:24:45 > 0:24:47Profit, profit, profit.
0:24:47 > 0:24:51Nobody said you should listen to my conversation.
0:24:51 > 0:24:55Well, nobody said you should have it under my nose.
0:24:55 > 0:24:59I'm totally forced to have it here. Against my will, believe me.
0:24:59 > 0:25:02They just peddle this shit, right? No-one is responsible.
0:25:02 > 0:25:05In any therapeutic advance, there are benefits and there are risks.
0:25:05 > 0:25:10Yeah, I know. Still, you got some funny line of work.
0:25:11 > 0:25:14- What does that mean? - Michael, it's none of our business.
0:25:14 > 0:25:17- It's a funny line of work. - What about you, what do you do?
0:25:17 > 0:25:21- I got a normal job. - Oh, what's a NORMAL job?
0:25:21 > 0:25:24- I told you, I sell pots and pans. - And door handles.
0:25:24 > 0:25:27And flush mechanisms. And lot of other stuff.
0:25:27 > 0:25:30"Flush mechanisms" - I like that. That's interesting.
0:25:30 > 0:25:31Alan!
0:25:32 > 0:25:35I find that interesting. Flush toilets are interesting.
0:25:35 > 0:25:36Why not?
0:25:36 > 0:25:39- How many different kinds do you have?- There's two basic kinds.
0:25:39 > 0:25:41You got your push button and your handle operated.
0:25:41 > 0:25:44- Yeah, right. - Depends where your water line is.
0:25:44 > 0:25:46- I see.- It either comes from the side near the top,
0:25:46 > 0:25:47or it comes from the bottom.
0:25:47 > 0:25:51- Right.- One of my store managers is an expert. I could introduce you.
0:25:51 > 0:25:53But you'll have to hump it out to Jamaica, Queens.
0:25:53 > 0:25:55You seem like you know your business pretty well.
0:25:55 > 0:25:58Are you planning on sanctioning Zachary in any way?
0:25:58 > 0:26:01You two can have your plumbing discussion some other time.
0:26:01 > 0:26:04- I don't feel well. - What's the matter, are you all right?
0:26:04 > 0:26:08- Oh, you do look pale, honey. - You're all white, yeah.
0:26:12 > 0:26:15- Nauseous. - Some Reglan, we got some Reglan?
0:26:15 > 0:26:19- No. I'll be fine. - Coke. What you need is a Coke.
0:26:35 > 0:26:36It's not cold.
0:26:39 > 0:26:40- It's not cold.- Thank you.
0:26:40 > 0:26:44Just little sips. The Coke wasn't in the fridge.
0:26:44 > 0:26:46All right.
0:26:46 > 0:26:48Have him call me back. Tell him right away.
0:26:50 > 0:26:53Is Coke good for that? It's more for diarrhoea, isn't it?
0:26:53 > 0:26:55No, not only.
0:26:55 > 0:26:56Better?
0:27:00 > 0:27:02I think so.
0:27:02 > 0:27:04Mrs Longstreet...
0:27:06 > 0:27:09If we decide to reprimand our child,
0:27:09 > 0:27:12we'll do it in our own way and on our own terms.
0:27:12 > 0:27:15- Absolutely.- What absolutely?
0:27:15 > 0:27:17He's their kid, they're free to do as they see fit.
0:27:17 > 0:27:19- I don't agree. - You don't agree about what, Penny?
0:27:19 > 0:27:22- They're not free. - Is that right? Go on.
0:27:22 > 0:27:24- PHONE VIBRATES - Sorry. Yeah?
0:27:25 > 0:27:27Right.
0:27:27 > 0:27:32But don't forget, nothing has been proven here, nothing is certain.
0:27:32 > 0:27:34Don't fuck this up.
0:27:34 > 0:27:36If we don't get this right, Walter will be out on his ass
0:27:36 > 0:27:37in two weeks, and so will we.
0:27:37 > 0:27:41Enough, Alan! Enough with the cellphone already!
0:27:41 > 0:27:43The here and now, goddammit!
0:27:43 > 0:27:45- SHE BELCHES - Call me back and read it to me.
0:27:45 > 0:27:48What the hell is wrong with you, screaming at me like that?!
0:27:48 > 0:27:49Dennis heard every word!
0:27:49 > 0:27:51Good! I'm sick of that fucking cellphone,
0:27:51 > 0:27:53every minute of every day!
0:27:53 > 0:27:55Listen, you should be thanking me for agreeing to come here.
0:27:55 > 0:27:57Really?!
0:27:57 > 0:27:59- I'm going to throw up. - No, you're not.
0:27:59 > 0:28:01- I am.- You want to use the bathroom?
0:28:01 > 0:28:05- Nobody's forcing you to stay.- She's right, nobody's forcing you to stay.
0:28:05 > 0:28:09- I'm dizzy.- Stare at a point in space. Stare at a point in space.
0:28:09 > 0:28:12- Hey, you can see part of the EL from here. Cool!- Get away from me.
0:28:12 > 0:28:15- Leave me alone. - Should she go to the bathroom?
0:28:15 > 0:28:17Go to the bathroom if you have to throw up.
0:28:17 > 0:28:20- Give her some Reglan. - It can't be the cobbler, can it?
0:28:20 > 0:28:22- No, I made it yesterday! - Don't touch me!
0:28:22 > 0:28:24Take it easy, Doodle.
0:28:24 > 0:28:26Come on, don't get all bent out of shape over nothing.
0:28:26 > 0:28:30My husband feels that anything to do with the house, the school,
0:28:30 > 0:28:32- the backyard, is my domain. - I do not.
0:28:32 > 0:28:37You do so. And I can understand why. It's all so excruciatingly boring.
0:28:37 > 0:28:39It's excruciating.
0:28:39 > 0:28:41If it's so excruciating, why have children in the first place?
0:28:41 > 0:28:45Maybe Zachary's picking up on that lack of interest.
0:28:45 > 0:28:48- What lack of interest?! - You just said yourself!
0:28:50 > 0:28:52Go get a bucket, go get a bucket!
0:29:01 > 0:29:03That stupid bitch.
0:29:03 > 0:29:06You should have gone to the bathroom. This is ridiculous.
0:29:06 > 0:29:07- Your suit took a hit.- What?
0:29:07 > 0:29:09It couldn't be the cobbler. That much I know.
0:29:09 > 0:29:12It's not the cobbler, it's nerves. This is just nerves.
0:29:12 > 0:29:14Do you want to clean up in the bathroom?
0:29:17 > 0:29:19Oh, my God, my Kokoschka.
0:29:23 > 0:29:26- Give her some Reglan. - She can't keep anything down.
0:29:26 > 0:29:28Where's the bathroom?
0:29:29 > 0:29:31I'll show you.
0:29:37 > 0:29:38This is nerves, just nerves.
0:29:51 > 0:29:52Thank you.
0:29:52 > 0:29:54Like I always say,
0:29:54 > 0:29:56you can't get over something while you're under it.
0:29:56 > 0:30:00With me, it's the back of my neck. Gets all blocked up back here.
0:30:01 > 0:30:04- What do we do with the Kokoschka? - We can clean it.
0:30:04 > 0:30:07Try Lysol. Problem is going to be drying it.
0:30:07 > 0:30:10Maybe plain water and put some cologne on there.
0:30:10 > 0:30:13- Cologne?- I got some of that Kronos I never use.
0:30:13 > 0:30:15The paper will warp.
0:30:15 > 0:30:18We'll blow-dry it, then put some books on top
0:30:18 > 0:30:22to flatten it out. Maybe iron it like dollar bills.
0:30:22 > 0:30:25- Oh, God!- I'll buy you another one.
0:30:25 > 0:30:28There is no other one. It's been out of print for years.
0:30:28 > 0:30:30- I'm so sorry.- We can save it.
0:30:30 > 0:30:32Pen, let me do this.
0:30:32 > 0:30:34It's a reprint from the catalogue of the 1957 show in London.
0:30:34 > 0:30:37Go get the blow-dryer and the cologne from the bathroom cabinet.
0:30:37 > 0:30:41- Her husband is in the bathroom! - He's not on the can!
0:30:41 > 0:30:44I got most of it off. Just a little bit left on the Dolgans.
0:30:49 > 0:30:51HAIRDRYER WHIRRS
0:30:54 > 0:30:55Excuse me!
0:31:18 > 0:31:20- Are you feeling better?- Yeah.
0:31:20 > 0:31:24- Should I spray? - Where's the blow-dryer?
0:31:24 > 0:31:25He's drying his pants.
0:31:25 > 0:31:29All right, we'll wait. We'll put the Kronos on there last.
0:31:29 > 0:31:33- Can I use the bathroom too? - Yes, of course. Of course.
0:31:39 > 0:31:41I don't know what to say...
0:31:42 > 0:31:44I am so sorry.
0:31:51 > 0:31:53SHE KNOCKS THE DOOR
0:31:53 > 0:31:56Bring the blow-dryer when you're done, please.
0:31:56 > 0:31:58God!
0:31:59 > 0:32:01Unbelievable!
0:32:02 > 0:32:04Un-fucking-believable.
0:32:05 > 0:32:10- Her cobbler is horrible. - You stuffed your face!
0:32:11 > 0:32:14Look at my day. I have to get some food in me SOMETIME.
0:32:23 > 0:32:26SHE GARGLES
0:32:26 > 0:32:28Oh, God.
0:32:28 > 0:32:30Freaking nightmare!
0:32:32 > 0:32:34He better watch it, he's got me right on the edge.
0:32:34 > 0:32:37- She's horrible!- Hmm, less.
0:32:37 > 0:32:39She's so fake.
0:32:39 > 0:32:42- She doesn't bother me as much. - They're both horrible.
0:32:42 > 0:32:45Why do you keep taking their side all the time?
0:32:45 > 0:32:47- Sorry.- I don't take their side. What's that supposed to mean?
0:32:47 > 0:32:50What the hell are we doing here?
0:32:50 > 0:32:54- I hope you're kidding. - Why do you argue with her?
0:32:54 > 0:32:56We'd have been out of here a long time ago
0:32:56 > 0:32:58if you didn't bicker over every word.
0:32:58 > 0:33:02You'd rather I was a sheep, like her husband?
0:33:02 > 0:33:05- You think it was the cobbler? - Of course it was.
0:33:08 > 0:33:10A little warm Coke and...bang!
0:33:14 > 0:33:17You mitigate. You're trying to reconcile everything.
0:33:17 > 0:33:18- I'm not!- You are!
0:33:18 > 0:33:20You had a gang and you were the leader,
0:33:20 > 0:33:23and they can do whatever they want with their son.
0:33:23 > 0:33:25Their son is a threat to Homeland Security.
0:33:25 > 0:33:29When a kid is a menace to society, it's everybody's business.
0:33:29 > 0:33:32I can't believe that she barfed all over my books!
0:33:32 > 0:33:36When you know you're going to toss your cookies, you take precautions.
0:33:36 > 0:33:40Oh, the Foujita!
0:33:40 > 0:33:42It's disgusting...
0:33:42 > 0:33:44I was right on the edge with that toilet-flushing shit.
0:33:44 > 0:33:47- You were incredible. - I held my own, right?
0:33:47 > 0:33:51Incredible. "Jamaica, Queens", that was genius.
0:33:51 > 0:33:54- Little piece of shit. What does he call her again?- Doodle.
0:33:54 > 0:33:57- THEY GIGGLE - Yeah, right. Doodle...- Doodle!
0:33:57 > 0:33:59Yeah, I call her Doodle.
0:34:01 > 0:34:04Oh, I'm sorry. We didn't mean anything.
0:34:04 > 0:34:08It's so easy to make fun of other people's pet names.
0:34:08 > 0:34:11Michael, what do we call each other? I'm sure it's worse, right?
0:34:11 > 0:34:15- Here, you wanted the blow-dryer. - Thanks.
0:34:15 > 0:34:18We call each other Darjeeling, like the tea.
0:34:20 > 0:34:23A lot more embarrassing, if you ask me.
0:34:23 > 0:34:26- How's she feeling, is she feeling better?- Yeah, better.
0:34:26 > 0:34:31Yeah, I... I reacted badly. I'm ashamed.
0:34:31 > 0:34:33- Really.- Here.
0:34:33 > 0:34:37I made a big deal about the catalogue.
0:34:37 > 0:34:40I don't really know why I did that.
0:34:40 > 0:34:42You get so absurdly attached to these things,
0:34:42 > 0:34:44you don't even know why, really.
0:34:44 > 0:34:46- Pull it taut. - But hold on to the other side.
0:34:46 > 0:34:49I know, I got it, just pull it. Pull it cos there's wrinkles.
0:34:49 > 0:34:52- The corners are wet. - I know, I'll get the corners.
0:34:52 > 0:34:55- It's going to tear. - He's right, it going to tear.
0:34:55 > 0:34:57- OK, here.- It's dry enough.
0:34:57 > 0:35:00You put cologne on those and I'll finish this one.
0:35:03 > 0:35:05- Where does Doodle come from?- Sorry.
0:35:05 > 0:35:08Yankee Doodle? Cheez Doodle?
0:35:08 > 0:35:11No, it's a song from Guys and Dolls that goes, "Doodle oodle oodle oo."
0:35:11 > 0:35:13Oh, yeah, I know that one.
0:35:13 > 0:35:15# I love you a bushel and a peck
0:35:15 > 0:35:20# You bet your pretty neck I do A-doodle-oodle-oo-do... #
0:35:20 > 0:35:22- Yeah. - Ours is from our honeymoon in India.
0:35:22 > 0:35:26We called each other Darjeeling instead of darling.
0:35:26 > 0:35:27So stupid.
0:35:28 > 0:35:32- Maybe I should check on her? - Yeah, you do that, Darjeeling.
0:35:32 > 0:35:34Oh, Nancy!
0:35:35 > 0:35:37I was worried about you. Are you feeling better?
0:35:37 > 0:35:40Yeah, better, I think so.
0:35:40 > 0:35:43If you're not sure, stay away from the coffee table.
0:35:46 > 0:35:50I left a towel in the bathtub. I didn't know where to put it.
0:35:50 > 0:35:51Perfect.
0:35:53 > 0:35:56You cleaned up? I am so sorry.
0:35:56 > 0:35:58Everything is fine. All is well.
0:35:58 > 0:36:02I'm sorry, I wasn't there for you. I was so focused on my Kokoschka.
0:36:02 > 0:36:04That's all right.
0:36:04 > 0:36:07- No, I behaved poorly.- Please.
0:36:15 > 0:36:19In the bathroom, I was thinking.
0:36:20 > 0:36:21Yes?
0:36:21 > 0:36:24Maybe we glossed over the...
0:36:27 > 0:36:31- Well, I mean...- What? What is it?
0:36:31 > 0:36:32Well...
0:36:32 > 0:36:36- Name-calling is a kind of abuse. - Sure.
0:36:36 > 0:36:38- Depends.- Right, depends.
0:36:38 > 0:36:42Zachary has never been a violent child. He must have his reasons.
0:36:42 > 0:36:44Like getting called a snitch.
0:36:44 > 0:36:46- PHONE VIBRATES - Excuse me.
0:36:48 > 0:36:49Yeah, Walter.
0:36:54 > 0:36:57As long as there are no victims on the panel. No victims.
0:36:57 > 0:37:00I don't want you sitting down with victims.
0:37:00 > 0:37:04Deny, deny, deny. If we have to, we'll sue the Journal.
0:37:04 > 0:37:07We'll e-mail you the draft of the press release.
0:37:07 > 0:37:10Walter, I'm sorry, I got to go.
0:37:10 > 0:37:13Call me a snitch, it gets a rise out of me.
0:37:13 > 0:37:15- Unless it's true.- What?
0:37:15 > 0:37:17You know, if the shoe fits.
0:37:17 > 0:37:20- You think my son is a snitch? - Come on, I'm joking around.
0:37:20 > 0:37:23- So is yours anyway. - What do you mean, so is ours?
0:37:23 > 0:37:25- He snitched on Zachary. - We coaxed it out of him.
0:37:25 > 0:37:27We're completely off point here.
0:37:27 > 0:37:29Maybe you coaxed, but he did snitch on him.
0:37:29 > 0:37:31- Nancy...- Nancy what?
0:37:31 > 0:37:35- You think my son is a snitch? - I don't think anything.
0:37:35 > 0:37:37Well, if you don't think anything, don't say anything.
0:37:37 > 0:37:39Don't make insinuations.
0:37:39 > 0:37:41Nancy, there's no reason to lose our cool here.
0:37:41 > 0:37:43Michael and I have gone out of our way
0:37:43 > 0:37:45to be fair-minded and conciliating.
0:37:45 > 0:37:48- Not SO fair-minded.- Oh, really?
0:37:48 > 0:37:50Superficially fair-minded.
0:37:50 > 0:37:52Doodle, I have to go.
0:37:52 > 0:37:54So go, coward.
0:37:54 > 0:37:58Nancy, right now I'm in danger of losing my most important client.
0:37:58 > 0:38:01So this caring parent crap and the bickering that goes along with it...
0:38:01 > 0:38:05- My son lost two teeth. Two incisors. - We got that, right.
0:38:05 > 0:38:08- One of them permanently. - He'll get new teeth.
0:38:08 > 0:38:10Better ones! No-one chewed his ear off!
0:38:10 > 0:38:13It was a mistake not to consider the source of the problem.
0:38:13 > 0:38:15There is no source.
0:38:15 > 0:38:17There's an 11-year-old kid who hits people, with a stick!
0:38:17 > 0:38:20- Armed with a stick. - We took that word out.
0:38:20 > 0:38:23- You took it out because we asked you to.- We took it out without argument.
0:38:23 > 0:38:25A word which deliberately establishes intent
0:38:25 > 0:38:28without any hint of a misunderstanding.
0:38:28 > 0:38:29Which excludes childhood.
0:38:29 > 0:38:31I don't think I can stand this tone any more.
0:38:31 > 0:38:34We're not quite on the same page, you and I. Right from the start.
0:38:34 > 0:38:38Mr Cowan, it is incredibly frustrating
0:38:38 > 0:38:40to be continually upbraided
0:38:40 > 0:38:43For something we ourselves admitted was a mistake.
0:38:43 > 0:38:45Like the word "armed" wasn't right, we took it out.
0:38:45 > 0:38:48Strictly speaking, it certainly applies.
0:38:48 > 0:38:50Zachary was verbally abused, and overreacted.
0:38:50 > 0:38:52If I'm attacked, I defend myself.
0:38:52 > 0:38:55Especially when I'm all alone against a whole gang.
0:38:55 > 0:38:58Well, YOU'VE certainly perked up since you tossed your cookies.
0:38:58 > 0:39:00Do you realise how crude that is?
0:39:00 > 0:39:03We're all decent people. All four of us.
0:39:03 > 0:39:05I don't know how we got so carried away, losing our tempers.
0:39:05 > 0:39:06It's totally unnecessary.
0:39:06 > 0:39:08Michael, stop it, stop mitigating.
0:39:08 > 0:39:12We're only superficially fair-minded. Why should we be fair-minded at all?
0:39:12 > 0:39:14- I'm not going to be led down that path.- What path?
0:39:14 > 0:39:17The path those two little shits led us down! All right?
0:39:17 > 0:39:19- I'm afraid Pen doesn't see things that way...- Penelope.
0:39:19 > 0:39:22- Sorry.- So Ethan is a shit now?
0:39:22 > 0:39:24That really takes the cake.
0:39:24 > 0:39:28- That's it. I really have to leave now.- Yeah, so do I.
0:39:28 > 0:39:31Go, go. I give up.
0:39:32 > 0:39:34PHONE RINGS
0:39:34 > 0:39:35Hello?
0:39:37 > 0:39:39Oh, hi, Ma.
0:39:39 > 0:39:42No, we got some friends over, but go ahead.
0:39:45 > 0:39:48Yes, you just do whatever the doctors tell you to do.
0:39:48 > 0:39:50Yes.
0:39:56 > 0:39:58The what?
0:40:00 > 0:40:04Antril? You're...you're taking Antril...
0:40:04 > 0:40:06Wait. Hold on a second.
0:40:06 > 0:40:08Antril? That crap of yours, is Antril?
0:40:08 > 0:40:11- My mother's taking it. - Thousands of people take it.
0:40:11 > 0:40:16Mum, listen, stop taking that one right away. You hear me? Right now.
0:40:16 > 0:40:21Just... Do what I tell you, I'll explain later.
0:40:23 > 0:40:27Mum, you tell Dr Perlstein that I said you can't take it.
0:40:29 > 0:40:30Good.
0:40:32 > 0:40:34Why red?
0:40:34 > 0:40:36So WHO can see you?
0:40:37 > 0:40:40Mom, that's ridiculous. Mom...
0:40:40 > 0:40:44I have to call you back. I told you, we have company.
0:40:44 > 0:40:47OK. I love you. Bye-bye.
0:40:50 > 0:40:53She got red crutches in case she gets hit by a truck.
0:40:53 > 0:40:55In case she wanders out on the street at night.
0:40:55 > 0:40:57They're giving her Antril for her blood pressure.
0:40:57 > 0:41:01If she's taking it and she looks normal, I'll take her deposition.
0:41:01 > 0:41:03Didn't I have a scarf?
0:41:03 > 0:41:05I don't like that attitude of yours.
0:41:05 > 0:41:07If my mother shows even the slightest symptom,
0:41:07 > 0:41:10my name will be at the top of a class-action suit.
0:41:10 > 0:41:12- We'll have one anyway. - I should hope so!
0:41:12 > 0:41:14Doing the right thing is futile.
0:41:14 > 0:41:15Honesty is just stupidity.
0:41:15 > 0:41:17It just weakens you. You let your guard down.
0:41:17 > 0:41:21OK, let's go Nancy. That's enough sermons and lectures for one day.
0:41:21 > 0:41:24Go ahead, go. But let me tell you this,
0:41:24 > 0:41:27now that I know you two, I'm not surprised...
0:41:27 > 0:41:30what's his name - Zachary - may have behaviour issues.
0:41:31 > 0:41:33- When you killed that hamster... - Killed?
0:41:33 > 0:41:35- Killed.- I killed the hamster?
0:41:35 > 0:41:38Yes. You do everything you can to make us feel guilty.
0:41:38 > 0:41:40You stake out the moral high ground
0:41:40 > 0:41:43as your own, but you yourself are a murderer.
0:41:43 > 0:41:45I definitely did not kill the hamster.
0:41:45 > 0:41:47Worse. You just left it out there,
0:41:47 > 0:41:50trembling with fear in a hostile environment.
0:41:50 > 0:41:53That poor critter was probably eaten by a dog or a rat.
0:41:53 > 0:41:55- She's right about that. - What do you mean, she's right?
0:41:55 > 0:41:59I mean, it's horrible, what must have happened to that poor animal!
0:41:59 > 0:42:01I thought the hamster would be happy to be free.
0:42:01 > 0:42:04I thought he'd go running around in the gutter, happy as a clam!
0:42:04 > 0:42:06- He didn't.- You just left him there!
0:42:06 > 0:42:10I can't touch those things, OK? I can't touch anything of that family.
0:42:10 > 0:42:12- Christ, Penny, you know that! - He's afraid of rodents.
0:42:12 > 0:42:14Yes, I have a fear of rodents.
0:42:14 > 0:42:16And I have a fear of reptiles.
0:42:16 > 0:42:18Anything down close to the ground, that's it, all right?
0:42:18 > 0:42:22What about you? How come YOU didn't go downstairs and get it?
0:42:22 > 0:42:23Because I didn't know!
0:42:23 > 0:42:26Michael said this morning that the hamster ran away.
0:42:26 > 0:42:29So I went right out, I went all the way around the block.
0:42:29 > 0:42:31I went to the basement!
0:42:31 > 0:42:33Penelope, it is completely unfair
0:42:33 > 0:42:36that all of a sudden I'm in the hot seat about this hamster thing.
0:42:36 > 0:42:39That you just had to tell them about. That's a family issue.
0:42:39 > 0:42:40That doesn't concern anybody but us,
0:42:40 > 0:42:43and it's got nothing to do with this situation here!
0:42:43 > 0:42:45And I can't believe I'm being called a murderer in my own house!
0:42:45 > 0:42:48What does your house have to do with the price of tea in China?
0:42:48 > 0:42:50My house! I opened the door!
0:42:50 > 0:42:53The door is wide open in a spirit of reconciliation.
0:42:53 > 0:42:55To a couple of people who should be a little grateful!
0:42:55 > 0:42:58Keep right on stroking your own ego, it's beautiful.
0:42:58 > 0:43:01- So you have no remorse? - No! I have no remorse.
0:43:01 > 0:43:04That animal was disgusting and I'm glad it's gone.
0:43:04 > 0:43:06- Michael, that's ridiculous. - What's ridiculous?
0:43:06 > 0:43:08What, have YOU lost your mind too?
0:43:08 > 0:43:10Their son beats the shit out of Ethan
0:43:10 > 0:43:11and you're in my face over a hamster?
0:43:11 > 0:43:14What you did with that hamster was wrong and you can't deny that.
0:43:14 > 0:43:16I don't give a shit about the hamster!
0:43:16 > 0:43:18You'll have to give a shit when your daughter get home!
0:43:18 > 0:43:20Bring her on! I'm not going to be told how to act
0:43:20 > 0:43:24- by a nine-year-old snot-nose brat! - I agree with him there, 100%.
0:43:24 > 0:43:27That's pathetic.
0:43:27 > 0:43:29Watch it, Penelope, watch it.
0:43:29 > 0:43:32I've kept my shirt on up till now, but you're pushing me over a line.
0:43:32 > 0:43:34- And Ethan?- What about Ethan?
0:43:34 > 0:43:38- Is he sad too?- Ethan's got other things on his plate, if you ask me.
0:43:38 > 0:43:41- Ethan wasn't so attached to Nibbles. - Nibbles?
0:43:41 > 0:43:44What kind of pussy name is that anyway?!
0:43:44 > 0:43:48If you feel no remorse, why should our son?
0:43:48 > 0:43:53You know what? All this consultation and consideration shit -
0:43:53 > 0:43:56I'm sick to death of it. We were nice to you. We bought tulips.
0:43:56 > 0:43:57My wife dressed me up as a liberal,
0:43:57 > 0:44:01but the fact is I got no patience for this touchy-feely bullshit.
0:44:01 > 0:44:06- I'm a short-tempered son of a bitch.- We all are.
0:44:06 > 0:44:10No, I'm sorry. We are not ALL short-tempered sons of bitches.
0:44:10 > 0:44:12- Not you, of course. - No, not me! Thank God!
0:44:12 > 0:44:15Not you, Darjeeling, not you.
0:44:15 > 0:44:17You're so evolved. You never go off half-cocked.
0:44:17 > 0:44:21- Why are you being so aggressive with me?- I'm not being aggressive. I'm being honest.
0:44:21 > 0:44:23Yes, you are being aggressive!
0:44:23 > 0:44:25You put this little bash together and I let you recruit me...
0:44:25 > 0:44:27- You let me recruit you?- Yes.
0:44:28 > 0:44:30That is so disgusting.
0:44:30 > 0:44:32No, it's not. You're an advocate for civilised behaviour,
0:44:32 > 0:44:35- that's fine with me.- Yes, I'm an advocate for civilised behaviour,
0:44:35 > 0:44:37you bet I am! At least somebody is!
0:44:37 > 0:44:41You think it's better to be a son of a bitch?
0:44:41 > 0:44:43Nobody said that, nobody criticised you for that!
0:44:43 > 0:44:45- YOU did!- We did not.
0:44:45 > 0:44:47What was I supposed to do?! Was I supposed to sue you?
0:44:47 > 0:44:48Never speak to you again
0:44:48 > 0:44:51and tear you apart through the insurance company?
0:44:51 > 0:44:53- Stop it, Penny.- Stop what?!
0:44:53 > 0:44:57- You're blowing this all out of proportion.- I don't care!
0:44:57 > 0:45:01You do everything you can to escape the pettiness and you just end up
0:45:01 > 0:45:03humiliated and completely alone!
0:45:03 > 0:45:05Yes, Walter?
0:45:08 > 0:45:10Well, let them prove it.
0:45:10 > 0:45:12Prove it!
0:45:15 > 0:45:18From where I sit, the best thing for us to do...
0:45:18 > 0:45:19We're born alone and we die alone!
0:45:19 > 0:45:21Who wants a little Scotch?
0:45:23 > 0:45:25Walter, I'm in a meeting right now.
0:45:25 > 0:45:28I'll call you when I get back to the office.
0:45:28 > 0:45:30That's the thing. I'm living with a totally negative person.
0:45:30 > 0:45:32- Who's negative?- Me.
0:45:32 > 0:45:34This was the worst possible idea!
0:45:34 > 0:45:36We should never have had this meeting.
0:45:36 > 0:45:38- I told you so.- You told me so?- Yeah.
0:45:38 > 0:45:40You told me we should have never this meeting?
0:45:40 > 0:45:43- I didn't think it was a very good idea.- It was a good idea.
0:45:43 > 0:45:45Oh, come on. Who wants a little?
0:45:45 > 0:45:47You told me you didn't think it was a good idea?
0:45:47 > 0:45:49- As I recall.- As you recall!
0:45:49 > 0:45:52- Maybe just a little slip. - Don't you have to go?
0:45:52 > 0:45:55At this point in the game, I might as well have a little drink.
0:45:57 > 0:46:00You tell me that we didn't both agree on this!
0:46:00 > 0:46:02Calm down, Penelope, this is going nowhere.
0:46:02 > 0:46:05Who said not to touch the cobbler this morning?
0:46:05 > 0:46:08Who said we should leave some for the Cowans? Who said that?!
0:46:08 > 0:46:10That was very nice of you.
0:46:10 > 0:46:12What's that got to do with anything?
0:46:12 > 0:46:14What do you mean, what's that to do with anything?
0:46:14 > 0:46:17- Guests are guests. - You're lying, you're lying!
0:46:18 > 0:46:21You know, my wife actually had to drag me here today.
0:46:21 > 0:46:24When you grow up with a certain John Wayne idea of manhood,
0:46:24 > 0:46:28the impulse in this kind of situation is not to talk it through.
0:46:28 > 0:46:33- I thought the role model was Ivanhoe.- Same basic concept.
0:46:33 > 0:46:36- Another aspect.- Another aspect!
0:46:36 > 0:46:38Just how much are you going to humiliate yourself?
0:46:38 > 0:46:41I can see I dragged HIM here for nothing.
0:46:41 > 0:46:45What did you expect, Doodle? That IS a ridiculous nickname.
0:46:45 > 0:46:50Some revelation about universal values? This scotch is unbelievable.
0:46:50 > 0:46:52Right? See that? 18 years old, single malt,
0:46:52 > 0:46:55from a little place in Scotland still grows their own barley.
0:46:55 > 0:46:57What about the tulips? Who got them?
0:46:57 > 0:47:01All I said was, "Boy, it's too bad we didn't get any tulips."
0:47:01 > 0:47:04I didn't say anything about going all the way up to Henry Street at dawn.
0:47:04 > 0:47:07Don't get all bent out of shape over this, Penelope, it's not worth it.
0:47:07 > 0:47:10HE got the tulips! Him and only him!
0:47:12 > 0:47:14WE don't get a drink, huh?
0:47:15 > 0:47:18Penelope and I would like a drink too.
0:47:29 > 0:47:33Pretty funny when you think about it.
0:47:33 > 0:47:34A devotee of Ivanhoe and John Wayne
0:47:34 > 0:47:37but he's scared to pick up an itty-bitty mouse.
0:47:37 > 0:47:42- Stop it with the hamster. Stop. - She's right, it's laughable.
0:47:42 > 0:47:44- And hers?- I don't think that will be necessary.
0:47:44 > 0:47:46- Pour me a drink, Michael.- No.
0:47:46 > 0:47:48- Michael...- No!
0:47:48 > 0:47:50What is wrong with you, Michael?
0:47:54 > 0:47:57Fine, fine. Drink. What does it matter?
0:47:58 > 0:48:00Is drinking bad for you or something?
0:48:00 > 0:48:02No, no, it's great for me.
0:48:02 > 0:48:04SHE SOBS
0:48:06 > 0:48:08Now, I don't know...
0:48:12 > 0:48:15- Mr Cowan...- Alan.
0:48:15 > 0:48:17Alan...
0:48:17 > 0:48:20See, you and I didn't exactly hit it off.
0:48:20 > 0:48:23I live with a man who has decided
0:48:23 > 0:48:28once and for all that life is synonymous with mediocrity.
0:48:28 > 0:48:29It's very hard to live with a man
0:48:29 > 0:48:32who's walled himself inside that idea,
0:48:32 > 0:48:34who doesn't want to change anything,
0:48:34 > 0:48:36who doesn't get excited about anything...
0:48:36 > 0:48:39What are you telling them this for? He could care less.
0:48:39 > 0:48:44You have to believe, you have to believe in some possible correction.
0:48:44 > 0:48:47He's the last guy on earth you should be telling this to.
0:48:47 > 0:48:50I'll talk to anybody I damn well please!
0:48:50 > 0:48:53- PHONE RINGS - Who the fuck is that now?
0:48:59 > 0:49:00Hi, Ma.
0:49:03 > 0:49:06He's fine. He got his teeth knocked out but he's fine.
0:49:07 > 0:49:10He's in pain, it hurts, but it'll pass.
0:49:10 > 0:49:13Ma, I told you I have company. I'll call you back, remember?
0:49:14 > 0:49:15Yeah, bye.
0:49:15 > 0:49:18- He's still in pain?- No.
0:49:18 > 0:49:20Then, why do you worry your mother?
0:49:20 > 0:49:22He has to worry her, he can't help himself.
0:49:22 > 0:49:26OK, Penelope, that's enough. What is this drama-queen bullshit?
0:49:26 > 0:49:30Penelope, nobody cares about anything outside himself.
0:49:30 > 0:49:34Sure, we'd all like to believe in some kind of possible correction,
0:49:34 > 0:49:35one we could author ourselves,
0:49:35 > 0:49:38completely free of selfish consideration.
0:49:38 > 0:49:41Like you're writing this book on Darfur...
0:49:41 > 0:49:43Which I think is great!
0:49:43 > 0:49:46I understand how you might say, "OK, I'll pick a massacre,
0:49:46 > 0:49:49"history is full of them, and I'm going to write a book."
0:49:49 > 0:49:51Everybody has to save himself somehow.
0:49:51 > 0:49:53I'm not writing this book to save myself.
0:49:53 > 0:49:56You haven't read it, you don't even know what's in it!
0:49:56 > 0:49:59Whatever.
0:49:59 > 0:50:02My God, the odour of Kronos is killing me.
0:50:02 > 0:50:05- It fucking reeks! - You didn't exactly skimp.
0:50:05 > 0:50:09- I'm so sorry.- It's my fault. I sprayed like a madwoman.
0:50:09 > 0:50:11You know...
0:50:12 > 0:50:14Why can't things be easier?
0:50:14 > 0:50:19Why does everything have to be so exhausting?
0:50:19 > 0:50:22You think too much. Women think too much.
0:50:22 > 0:50:24THERE'S an original response(!)
0:50:24 > 0:50:26I don't know what that means, to think too much.
0:50:26 > 0:50:29And I don't understand how you can go on living
0:50:29 > 0:50:31with no moral sense of the world.
0:50:31 > 0:50:33Look at me, I'M living!
0:50:33 > 0:50:35Michael, shut up.
0:50:35 > 0:50:38Miserable complicity! Just disgusting.
0:50:38 > 0:50:40What happened to your sense of humour?
0:50:40 > 0:50:43- I don't have a sense of humour, and I don't want one.- If you ask me,
0:50:43 > 0:50:46the couple is the worst ordeal God ever inflicted on us.
0:50:46 > 0:50:48Ah, marvellous.
0:50:48 > 0:50:49The couple and the family.
0:50:49 > 0:50:52No-one is forcing you to air this in front of us, Michael.
0:50:52 > 0:50:54And I might add, it's a little indecent.
0:50:54 > 0:50:57- That doesn't bother him. - You agree with me, don't you?
0:50:57 > 0:51:01Look, this is all... beside the point.
0:51:01 > 0:51:06- Alan, say something. - He has a right to his ideas.
0:51:06 > 0:51:08- That doesn't mean he has to advertise them.- Yeah, maybe.
0:51:09 > 0:51:11We don't care about their marriage.
0:51:11 > 0:51:14We're here about a problem with the kids. We don't care about their marriage.
0:51:14 > 0:51:17- Yes, except...- Except what? - It's related.
0:51:17 > 0:51:18Of course it's related.
0:51:18 > 0:51:22Ethan's getting two of his teeth broken is related to our marriage?
0:51:22 > 0:51:24- Of course it is. - Sorry, I don't follow you.
0:51:24 > 0:51:27Take a step back and look at the situation we're in.
0:51:27 > 0:51:31Children suck the life out of you and leave you old and empty.
0:51:31 > 0:51:32That's the law of nature.
0:51:32 > 0:51:36You see these young couples laughing all the way to the altar.
0:51:36 > 0:51:39You think, "They don't know." Poor fuckers have no idea.
0:51:39 > 0:51:42They're happy. Nobody tells you about THIS stuff in the beginning.
0:51:42 > 0:51:43I got this army buddy of mine,
0:51:43 > 0:51:45going to have a kid with his new girlfriend.
0:51:45 > 0:51:49I say to him, "A kid at OUR age? What are you, stupid?"
0:51:49 > 0:51:51"You got ten, fifteen good years left
0:51:51 > 0:51:54"before you get cancer or have a stroke,
0:51:54 > 0:51:56"and you're going to saddle yourself with a fucking kid?"
0:51:56 > 0:51:59- That's not really what you think. - Yes, it is.
0:51:59 > 0:52:00Of course it is. I think even worse.
0:52:00 > 0:52:03Yeah, you're debasing yourself, Michael.
0:52:03 > 0:52:05- HE LAUGHS - Is that right?
0:52:05 > 0:52:07Stop crying, Penelope.
0:52:07 > 0:52:09Only makes it worse.
0:52:11 > 0:52:12Of course, of course.
0:52:13 > 0:52:15- Excellent, isn't it?- So excellent.
0:52:15 > 0:52:19- Could I interest you in a cigar? - No cigars in the house!
0:52:19 > 0:52:22- Too bad.- WHat, you're going to smoke a cigar now, Alan?
0:52:22 > 0:52:26I do what I want, Nancy. If I want to smoke a cigar, I smoke a cigar.
0:52:26 > 0:52:28I won't smoke it because I don't want to upset Penelope,
0:52:28 > 0:52:32who's already on edge, to put it mildly.
0:52:32 > 0:52:36Oh, quit sniffling like that, she's right.
0:52:36 > 0:52:39When women cry, men are pushed to their breaking point.
0:52:39 > 0:52:42Although unfortunately, I must say
0:52:42 > 0:52:45- that Michael's point of view is completely justified. - PHONE VIBRATES
0:52:45 > 0:52:46Yeah.
0:52:47 > 0:52:49Yeah, sure, go ahead.
0:52:50 > 0:52:53Put "New York" and a specific time of day.
0:52:53 > 0:52:55It's unbearable!
0:52:55 > 0:52:58The time you send it. It has to be hot off the press.
0:53:00 > 0:53:03No, not "questions" - "deplores". "Questions" is wishy-washy.
0:53:03 > 0:53:06I live with this night and day.
0:53:06 > 0:53:09- One second.- Our lives are chopped up by the cellphone.
0:53:09 > 0:53:12- Nancy, this is very important. - It's always very important.
0:53:13 > 0:53:16What's happening somewhere else is always more important.
0:53:16 > 0:53:18Not "strategy". "Scheme".
0:53:18 > 0:53:23"A scheme surfacing two weeks from the company's posting," etc.
0:53:23 > 0:53:27In the street. At the dinner table. Everywhere.
0:53:28 > 0:53:33"A study" in quotes. Put the word "study" in quotes.
0:53:33 > 0:53:37I don't even protest anymore. Unconditional surrender.
0:53:38 > 0:53:41- I feel like I'm going to vomit again.- Where's that bucket?
0:53:41 > 0:53:44How am I supposed to know?
0:53:48 > 0:53:51Then, just quote me.
0:53:51 > 0:53:54- Can you stand over the bucket, please?- Pen!
0:53:54 > 0:53:58What?! We're already set up to handle this now.
0:53:58 > 0:54:02According to TW Pharma attorney Alan Cowan.
0:54:04 > 0:54:09AP, Reuters, major newspapers, trade journals, the whole shebang.
0:54:12 > 0:54:14- What's wrong? - She's going to throw up again.
0:54:14 > 0:54:17- You're so caring, it's touching. - I'm worried.
0:54:17 > 0:54:19I didn't get that, my mistake.
0:54:19 > 0:54:23Oh, come on, Nancy, will you? You and I don't have to do this.
0:54:23 > 0:54:24Their marriage is going downhill,
0:54:24 > 0:54:26we don't have to try to compete with them.
0:54:26 > 0:54:29What gives you the right to say our marriage is going downhill?
0:54:29 > 0:54:31What gives you the right?
0:54:31 > 0:54:33PHONE VIBRATES
0:54:33 > 0:54:34Yeah, Walter.
0:54:34 > 0:54:39Yeah, I just had it read back. They're sending it over to you.
0:54:40 > 0:54:43Manipulation. Manipulation of the stock price.
0:54:43 > 0:54:46Walter, I'll call you back in a minute.
0:54:46 > 0:54:48- I didn't say it. Steven did. - Michael.
0:54:48 > 0:54:50HE SNIGGERS
0:54:50 > 0:54:54- I won't let you judge our family. - Then, don't judge our son either.
0:54:54 > 0:54:57That's different! Your son brutalised our son!
0:54:57 > 0:55:01They're young, they're kids - kids roughhouse in the playground.
0:55:01 > 0:55:04Always have, always will, it's a rule of nature.
0:55:04 > 0:55:06- No, it isn't!- Sure it is.
0:55:06 > 0:55:09It takes a little education to substitute the rule of law for violence.
0:55:09 > 0:55:13The origin of law, as you, of course, know, is brute force.
0:55:13 > 0:55:17Maybe if you're a cavemen, but not in this world.
0:55:17 > 0:55:21- Tell me about this world! - Boring! This conversation is boring.
0:55:21 > 0:55:24Penelope, I believe in the god of carnage.
0:55:24 > 0:55:27The god whose rule has been unchallenged since time immemorial.
0:55:27 > 0:55:30You're interested in Africa, right?
0:55:30 > 0:55:33- NANCY VOMITS - What's the matter? - Don't worry about me.
0:55:33 > 0:55:35- Nancy!- I'm just fine.
0:55:37 > 0:55:39See, I just got back from the Congo.
0:55:39 > 0:55:42They got kids there, trained to kill at the age of eight.
0:55:42 > 0:55:45In the course of their childhood, they might kill hundreds of people.
0:55:45 > 0:55:50They kill with a machete, a shotgun, a Kalash, a thumper.
0:55:50 > 0:55:54So obviously, when my kid busts some other kid's tooth, even two teeth,
0:55:54 > 0:55:57with a bamboo switch by the sandbox,
0:55:57 > 0:55:59I'm not quite as shocked and indignant as you are.
0:55:59 > 0:56:02- Well, you should be.- Thumper.
0:56:02 > 0:56:06- That's why they call a grenade launcher.- That's what- I- call it.
0:56:06 > 0:56:08- You all right?- Just fine.
0:56:10 > 0:56:13- What's wrong with her? - It's bile, it's nothing.
0:56:13 > 0:56:19Don't you tell me about Africa! I know all about suffering in Africa.
0:56:19 > 0:56:20I don't doubt it.
0:56:20 > 0:56:22That's all I've been thinking about for months!
0:56:22 > 0:56:25Don't get her started on this, please!
0:56:27 > 0:56:30- You know I'm actually starting to like you.- Shut up!
0:56:30 > 0:56:33Talk about commitment to world peace and stability!
0:56:33 > 0:56:34Shut the fuck up, Michael!
0:56:34 > 0:56:39- Are you sure about that? - Very sure. Do me some good.
0:56:39 > 0:56:46We live in New York. We don't live in Kinshasa! We live in New York City!
0:56:46 > 0:56:49With the customs of western society.
0:56:49 > 0:56:53So what happens in a Brooklyn playground is about western values!
0:56:53 > 0:56:58To which, like it or not, I happen to subscribe.
0:56:58 > 0:57:01Beating your husband must be one of those customs, then, huh?
0:57:01 > 0:57:05- I'm warning you, Michael!- She was all over you like a bad rash!
0:57:05 > 0:57:08If I were you, it would melt my heart.
0:57:08 > 0:57:11He's making fun of you, do you believe it?
0:57:11 > 0:57:12I don't care about this...
0:57:12 > 0:57:15No, really. Morally, you're supposed to overcome your impulses
0:57:15 > 0:57:18but there are times you don't want to overcome them.
0:57:19 > 0:57:22I mean, who wants to say a "Hail Mary" when having sex?
0:57:22 > 0:57:26- Can you buy this scotch around here? - This one, not very likely, no.
0:57:27 > 0:57:28Thumper!
0:57:29 > 0:57:32- Thumper, really?- Yeah. Thumper.
0:57:32 > 0:57:33That's what it's called.
0:57:34 > 0:57:38- Why don't you just say grenade launcher?- Because that's a term.
0:57:38 > 0:57:42Just like they say "Kalash" and not Kalashnikov or AK-47.
0:57:42 > 0:57:44- Who is "they"?- That's enough, Nancy, that's enough.
0:57:44 > 0:57:49Hotshot firebrands like my husband, you got to understand,
0:57:49 > 0:57:52it's hard for them to get excited about what happens down the block.
0:57:52 > 0:57:53Exactly.
0:57:53 > 0:57:58I don't see why. I don't see why.
0:57:58 > 0:57:59We're all citizens of the world.
0:57:59 > 0:58:03I don't see why we shouldn't have some sense of community.
0:58:03 > 0:58:07Penelope, enough with the highfalutin claptrap!
0:58:07 > 0:58:10Ugh! I'm going to kill him. PHONE VIBRATES
0:58:10 > 0:58:11Yeah?
0:58:15 > 0:58:18She's right! It's unbearable after a while.
0:58:18 > 0:58:21"Brazen". A brazen attempt to... There you go.
0:58:21 > 0:58:24He signed off on the rest?
0:58:25 > 0:58:27Sure.
0:58:28 > 0:58:30What were we talking about? Thumpers?
0:58:30 > 0:58:35We were saying that, despite my husband thinks,
0:58:35 > 0:58:39whether it happens here or the other side of the world,
0:58:39 > 0:58:42we all have to be collectively concerned.
0:58:42 > 0:58:44"Collectively concerned".
0:58:44 > 0:58:48Nancy, it's absurd to drink in your condition.
0:58:48 > 0:58:51WHAT condition? I'm perfect.
0:58:51 > 0:58:55- Now, that's interesting... - PHONE VIBRATES
0:58:55 > 0:58:57Yeah?
0:58:57 > 0:59:00No, no interviews before we get this release out.
0:59:00 > 0:59:05Mr Cowan, can you please put an end to this nerve-racking conversation?
0:59:05 > 0:59:10The stockholders won't give a shit. The stockholders...
0:59:10 > 0:59:13Nancy, what are you... Are you out of your fucking mind?
0:59:15 > 0:59:16There.
0:59:16 > 0:59:18Shit!
0:59:18 > 0:59:20- Oh, my god.- Way to go!
0:59:26 > 0:59:29NANCY LAUGHS
0:59:29 > 0:59:32- The blow-dryer! - What is wrong with you?
0:59:34 > 0:59:36I got everything in there.
0:59:36 > 0:59:40It was brand new, I spent hours setting it up!
0:59:40 > 0:59:44I can't believe you did that. That was an irresponsible thing to do.
0:59:46 > 0:59:48My whole life was in there!
0:59:48 > 0:59:50His whole life...!
0:59:50 > 0:59:51Here.
0:59:53 > 0:59:56I'm going to take the SIM card and battery out. How do I do that?
0:59:58 > 1:00:00I just got it, I don't know!
1:00:03 > 1:00:07They think it's funny, they think it's funny!
1:00:10 > 1:00:13Penelope, it's not funny!
1:00:13 > 1:00:17My husband has spent the entire afternoon drying things!
1:00:25 > 1:00:29- Forget it. It's over. - You gotta wait.- It's over.
1:00:32 > 1:00:35You want to use the phone?
1:00:39 > 1:00:41I must say...
1:00:41 > 1:00:45What...? What must you say, Michael?
1:00:45 > 1:00:48No, I don't even know what to say.
1:00:49 > 1:00:52I'd say it feels better like this.
1:00:52 > 1:00:55I'd say it feels better like this, wouldn't you?
1:00:57 > 1:01:00Men get so attached to their toys.
1:01:00 > 1:01:04It diminishes them. They lose their credibility.
1:01:05 > 1:01:10I dated this guy once and then I saw him carrying this rectangular bag
1:01:10 > 1:01:12with a shoulder strap.
1:01:12 > 1:01:16A man's bag, with a shoulder strap! It was over!
1:01:16 > 1:01:20A bag with a shoulder strap, that's the worst.
1:01:20 > 1:01:25But the cellphone always at his fingertips - that's the worst, too.
1:01:25 > 1:01:27A man should have both hands free.
1:01:27 > 1:01:30Both hands free.
1:01:30 > 1:01:33I've got a John Wayne idea of manhood, too.
1:01:33 > 1:01:37What was it he had? A Colt 45. Something that empties a room...
1:01:37 > 1:01:40Any man that doesn't give off those loner vibes
1:01:40 > 1:01:43just doesn't come off as having any substance.
1:01:44 > 1:01:48So, Michael, I guess you are happy now.
1:01:48 > 1:01:53Our "touchy-feely" whatever you said is coming apart at the seams.
1:01:53 > 1:01:57But you know what? This almost feels good.
1:01:57 > 1:01:58In my opinion.
1:01:58 > 1:01:59Yeah, well in my opinion,
1:01:59 > 1:02:02some people can handle their liquor better than others.
1:02:02 > 1:02:05- I'm as normal as can be. - Yeah, right.
1:02:05 > 1:02:09I'm beginning to see things with a pleasant serenity.
1:02:09 > 1:02:13- That's good!- "A pleasant serenity"!
1:02:13 > 1:02:16I don't know why you're wasting yourself right out in the open, Darjeeling.
1:02:16 > 1:02:20- Shut the hell up.- Alan, relax.
1:02:20 > 1:02:23- No cigars in the house! - Hoyo de Monterrey.
1:02:23 > 1:02:28Partagas D No. 4, you got your Hoyo Coronations.
1:02:28 > 1:02:30- Where did you get these? - You don't want to know.
1:02:30 > 1:02:33- Seriously.- The Spanish connection.
1:02:33 > 1:02:36My cookware guy is going out with a flight attendant.
1:02:36 > 1:02:38Brings home two boxes a week.
1:02:38 > 1:02:42You can't smoke in a house with an asthmatic child!
1:02:42 > 1:02:44And why are you telling him your whole life story?
1:02:44 > 1:02:46- Who has asthma?- Our son.
1:02:46 > 1:02:48We had a goddamn hamster, didn't we?
1:02:48 > 1:02:50That's true - pets aren't good when you're asthmatic.
1:02:52 > 1:02:55- Not good at all!- Even goldfish aren't necessarily recommended.
1:02:55 > 1:02:58Do I have to listen to this crap?
1:02:58 > 1:03:03I guess I'm the only one that doesn't see things with pleasant serenity.
1:03:03 > 1:03:07The truth is, I've never been so unhappy.
1:03:07 > 1:03:09This is the unhappiest day of my life.
1:03:09 > 1:03:11You're an unhappy drunk.
1:03:11 > 1:03:16Michael, every word out of your mouth just slays me.
1:03:16 > 1:03:19I don't get drunk.
1:03:19 > 1:03:23I had a couple of sips of your shitty 18-year old single malt
1:03:23 > 1:03:26that you trot out like it's the 18th Wonder of the World.
1:03:26 > 1:03:30I don't get drunk, and believe me, I wish I could.
1:03:30 > 1:03:32I wish I could just drown
1:03:32 > 1:03:35every last sorrow in a good stiff drink.
1:03:37 > 1:03:40My husband is unhappy, too.
1:03:41 > 1:03:44Look at him. All hunched over, like he was left on the side of the road.
1:03:44 > 1:03:48I think this is the unhappiest day of his life, too.
1:03:48 > 1:03:51- It is!- I'm sorry, Doodle.
1:03:51 > 1:03:53PHONE RINGS
1:04:01 > 1:04:05- Hello? - PHONE KEEPS RINGING
1:04:05 > 1:04:07Hello?
1:04:07 > 1:04:10Mom! I told you I have company, remember?
1:04:13 > 1:04:17Because it's medication that can kill you! It's poison!
1:04:17 > 1:04:22Mom, there's someone here who can explain.
1:04:22 > 1:04:24- Here! Tell her!- Tell her what?
1:04:24 > 1:04:27Tell her what you know about that poisonous shit of yours.
1:04:28 > 1:04:31What can he tell her? HE doesn't know anything.
1:04:33 > 1:04:36Hello, ma'am, how are you?
1:04:38 > 1:04:40No...
1:04:42 > 1:04:44Are you in pain?
1:04:46 > 1:04:49Yeah...the operation will fix that.
1:04:52 > 1:04:55Oh, the other leg too, huh?
1:04:55 > 1:04:59No, I'm not an orthopaedist. ..She keeps calling me Doctor.
1:04:59 > 1:05:04Doctor, what a laugh! Hang up!
1:05:04 > 1:05:05Yeah!
1:05:07 > 1:05:09Do you have any balance issues?
1:05:12 > 1:05:17No, of course not, not at all. It can't kill you.
1:05:17 > 1:05:19Don't listen to what people say.
1:05:19 > 1:05:24Still, it might be a good idea not to take it for a while.
1:05:24 > 1:05:26Just until this operation is behind you.
1:05:31 > 1:05:34Yes, sounds like you're in excellent shape.
1:05:34 > 1:05:39You got that, Ma? You stop taking that medication!
1:05:39 > 1:05:42Do as you're told, all right? I love you.
1:05:45 > 1:05:47I can't take her anymore.
1:05:47 > 1:05:51- The shit I put up with. - All right, should we wrap this up?
1:05:51 > 1:05:54Should I come back tonight with Zachary? Let's decide.
1:05:54 > 1:05:57This is getting to be like, who cares?
1:05:57 > 1:05:59That is what we're here for, after all.
1:05:59 > 1:06:02Now I'M going to be sick. Where's that bucket?
1:06:05 > 1:06:07That's enough! That's enough!
1:06:07 > 1:06:11I'd say both sides share the blame.
1:06:13 > 1:06:16There you are, both sides share the blame.
1:06:16 > 1:06:19- Are you serious?- Excuse me?
1:06:19 > 1:06:24- That's what you really think? - It's what I think, yes.
1:06:24 > 1:06:26My son Ethan, who had to take two codeine
1:06:26 > 1:06:28at three in the morning, he shares the blame?
1:06:28 > 1:06:31He's not necessarily innocent.
1:06:31 > 1:06:35Get out of my house. Get the fuck out of my house!
1:06:37 > 1:06:38My bag!
1:06:38 > 1:06:42- Alan!- What is going on here? They've totally lost it.
1:06:42 > 1:06:46- Alan, do something! - "Alan, do something!"
1:06:46 > 1:06:51Shut your mouth! She broke my make-up mirror and my perfume!
1:06:51 > 1:06:56Stand up for me! Why don't you stand up for me?
1:06:57 > 1:07:00- Let's go, Nancy. - It's not like I'm strangling her!
1:07:00 > 1:07:04- What did I do to you? - The blame is not shared!
1:07:04 > 1:07:08The victim and the criminal are not the same!
1:07:08 > 1:07:11- The criminal?!- Oh, give it a fucking rest, Penelope!
1:07:11 > 1:07:14Enough of this politically correct bullshit!
1:07:14 > 1:07:17- Which I believe in. - YOU believe, YOU believe!
1:07:17 > 1:07:19This crush you got on these Sudan sambos
1:07:19 > 1:07:22is spilling over into everything now!
1:07:22 > 1:07:26I am horrified. How could you be so openly despicable?
1:07:26 > 1:07:30Because I feel like it. I feel like being openly despicable.
1:07:30 > 1:07:33One day you'll understand the sheer horror
1:07:33 > 1:07:36of what's happening in that part of the world,
1:07:36 > 1:07:39and you'll be ashamed of you contemptibly nihilistic attitude.
1:07:39 > 1:07:44Yes, Darjeeling, you're so wonderful!
1:07:44 > 1:07:48- You're the best and the brightest! - Yes, I am! Yes, I am!
1:07:48 > 1:07:53Let's get out of here, Alan. These people are monsters.
1:07:53 > 1:07:58- Stop it, Nancy. - No, no. I want to drink some more.
1:07:58 > 1:08:00I want to get drunk off my ass.
1:08:00 > 1:08:05This bitch throws my bag against a wall and nobody lifts a finger.
1:08:05 > 1:08:07- I want to be blind drunk! - You're drunk enough.
1:08:07 > 1:08:10How can you let her call our son a criminal?
1:08:10 > 1:08:13We came over here to work things out...
1:08:13 > 1:08:15They insult us, browbeat us,
1:08:15 > 1:08:19they lecture us about being good citizens of the planet.
1:08:19 > 1:08:23I'm glad our son kicked the shit out of your son,
1:08:23 > 1:08:27and I wipe my ass with your human rights!
1:08:27 > 1:08:31Wow! You had a couple of drinks and, bang!
1:08:31 > 1:08:33Her true self comes out.
1:08:33 > 1:08:37What happened to that gracious, demure woman with the soft eyes?
1:08:37 > 1:08:40- I told you, I told you! - What did you tell him?
1:08:40 > 1:08:44That she's a fake. That woman is totally fake. I'm sorry.
1:08:44 > 1:08:47- When did you say that? - When you were drying your pants!
1:08:47 > 1:08:50You'd known her 15 minutes and you already knew she was a fake?
1:08:50 > 1:08:53- I pick up on these things pretty quickly.- She does.
1:08:53 > 1:08:56- I got a nose for it. - Fake - what does that mean?
1:08:56 > 1:09:00I don't want to listen to this. Why do you put me through this, Alan?
1:09:00 > 1:09:02Relax, Nancy...
1:09:02 > 1:09:06She's a phony. She doesn't care any more than you do.
1:09:06 > 1:09:07- It's true.- That's true.
1:09:07 > 1:09:10- He said it's true. - They don't give a shit!
1:09:10 > 1:09:14It's obvious from the beginning, they don't give a shit.
1:09:14 > 1:09:17- She doesn't give a shit either. - Like you do?
1:09:17 > 1:09:19- Well...- Let him talk, honey.
1:09:19 > 1:09:23Explain to me, Michael, exactly how you care.
1:09:23 > 1:09:24What does that mean anyway?
1:09:24 > 1:09:27You're more credible when you're being openly despicable?
1:09:27 > 1:09:30Truth is, nobody here cares. Except maybe Penelope.
1:09:30 > 1:09:32One must acknowledge her integrity.
1:09:32 > 1:09:36I don't need your acknowledgment! I don't need your acknowledgment!
1:09:36 > 1:09:39But I do care. I really do care.
1:09:39 > 1:09:42Yes, Doodle, we care in a hysterical way,
1:09:42 > 1:09:46not like heroic figures of a social movement.
1:09:46 > 1:09:49I saw your friend Jane Fonda on TV the other day.
1:09:49 > 1:09:53Made me want to run out and buy a Ku Klux Klan poster.
1:09:53 > 1:09:58My friend Jane Fonda?! What the hell does that mean?
1:09:58 > 1:10:00You're the same breed,
1:10:00 > 1:10:03the same kind of involved, problem-solver woman.
1:10:03 > 1:10:06Those are not the women we like.
1:10:06 > 1:10:10The women we like are sensual, crazy, shot full of hormones.
1:10:10 > 1:10:11The gatekeepers of the world,
1:10:11 > 1:10:13the ones who want to show off how perceptive they are -
1:10:13 > 1:10:16huge turnoff.
1:10:16 > 1:10:20Even poor Michael, your own husband is turned off.
1:10:20 > 1:10:21Don't you speak for me.
1:10:21 > 1:10:24We don't give a shit what women you like!
1:10:24 > 1:10:27Where do you get off spouting these opinions?
1:10:27 > 1:10:30You're one man whose opinions we don't give a shit about!
1:10:30 > 1:10:32She's screaming.
1:10:32 > 1:10:36A quartermaster on a slave ship.
1:10:36 > 1:10:37She doesn't scream?
1:10:37 > 1:10:40She didn't just scream that your little asshole
1:10:40 > 1:10:43was right to beat up ours?
1:10:43 > 1:10:47He WAS right! At least our kid isn't a little wimpy-ass faggot!
1:10:47 > 1:10:51Yours is a fucking snitch!
1:10:51 > 1:10:56Let's go, Alan! Why are we still in this house?
1:10:56 > 1:10:58Exactly!
1:10:59 > 1:11:05Here, this is what I think of these stupid tulips!
1:11:05 > 1:11:07Your hideous flowers!
1:11:09 > 1:11:12This is the worst day of my life, too.
1:11:18 > 1:11:20PHONE VIBRATES
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