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10-86, possible 4- 17. Baker, Henry.
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3000 block of Bagley, 4- 17, 10-30.
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Get back!
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- I'll shoot her!
- Oh, my God!
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3- L-90. I repeat:
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3- L-90, request you notify hostage
negotiation team.
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Have them respond to my location.
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- See anything?
- Get those cars out of here!
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Suspect is a male Caucasian,
approximately-
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I'm a reporter.
How long have you been here?
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Domestic or drugs?
Is that his girlfriend?
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- Get out of here.
- Who is it?
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- T alk to me.
- Get him out of here.
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- Go on!
- I got my passes.
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- Shit.
- I have every right to be here.
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Where'd he go?
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Suspect has withdrawn into
the interior of the room.
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We no longer have visual contact.
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That was my car.
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Holy-
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Having a little car trouble?
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That's a keen observation.
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I can help you.
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It's the Jag.
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You want me to drive home in your car?
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I want you to take my car.
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I've had a lot of luck lately.
I don't need it.
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You're giving me a new Jaguar
and you don't want anything?
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I can prove it. Give me your card.
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I'll be in touch.
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What, you want me to kill your
wife or something?
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No.
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T empting, but, no.
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Call it generosity between
two strangers.
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Generosity? It's a Jaguar.
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You expect me to drive home
in a new Jaguar?
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- That's right.
- You' re a freak!
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You are a freak.
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You want me to get in this car? No way!
It'll probably blow up.
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That's real funny, bits and pieces of me
raining down in the street!
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You think I'm going near that thing,
you're nuts!
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Besides, I got a car.
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Sort of.
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What? You like it?
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Cool blade, huh?
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- You want to see it?
- Keep it in your pants.
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Fag.
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- He's gonna kill you.
- I've got pepper spray.
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Apparently, none of you have ever
seen a new teacher before.
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I'm Mr. Simonet.
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Welcome to the seventh grade.
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Middle school, that hellish, shaky
bridge you all must cross...
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...before you become members of that
undyingly enviable high school elite.
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You may think you can't cross
this bridge fast enough.
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You'd rather close your eyes and not
think about it until it's all over.
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Well, I'm here to tell you...
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...that is not an option
in this class.
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Lateness.
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T ardiness.
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T o be late for your first class
on your first day of school.
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What does that indicate?
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I'm having a bad hair day?
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Perhaps what it indicates is
a lack of respect.
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You see, I'm going to be here
every day for you.
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And so I expect you to be here for me.
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On time, no excuses.
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Put that down.
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Wait.
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Now...
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...this class is social studies.
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That is you and the world. Yes.
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There is a world out there and even if
you don't want to meet it...
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...it's still going to hit you
right in the face.
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Believe me.
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Best start thinking about the world
now and what it means to you.
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What does the world mean to you?
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Come on! A little class
participation.
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Is it just this class you
want to get out of?
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Your house, your street?
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Any further any of you want to go
than that? Yes?
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The mall. That's only two miles
away from me.
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Let me ask you another question.
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How often do you think about things
that happen outside of this town?
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Do you watch the news? Yes? No?
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All right, so we're not global thinkers
yet, but why aren't we?
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Because we're 11.
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Good point. What's your name?
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Trevor.
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Maybe Trevor's right. Why should
we think about the world?
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After all, what does the world
expect of us?
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Expect?
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Of you.
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What does the world expect of you?
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Nothing.
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Nothing.
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My God, boys and girls, he's right.
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Nothing.
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Here you are. You can't drive.
You can't vote.
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You can't go to the bathroom
without a pass. You' re stuck...
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...right here in the seventh grade.
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But not forever...
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...because one day you'll be free.
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But what if on that day you' re free...
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...you haven't prepared,
you' re not ready...
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...and yet you look around you
and you don't like what the world is.
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What if the world...
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...is just a big disappointment?
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We' re screwed.
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Unless...
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Unless you take the things that you
don't like about this world...
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...and you flip them upside down right
on their ass.
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Don't tell your parents I
used that word.
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And you can start that...
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...today.
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This is your assignment.
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Extra credit.
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It goes on all year long.
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Wait a minute.
What's wrong with this?
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What's the matter? Yes?
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It's, like, so...
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There must be a word to finish
that sentence.
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- Someone help her.
- Weird.
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Weird. Crazy.
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Hard.
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- Bummer.
- Bummer.
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Hard.
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How about possible?
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It's possible.
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The realm of possibility...
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...exists where? In each of you.
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Here.
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So you can do it.
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You can surprise us. It's up to you.
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Or you can just sit back
and let it atrophy.
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Atrophy.
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If there is a word you hear that you
don't understand, there's a dictionary.
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Look it up.
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And there are these dictionaries which
you will carry at all times...
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...because in this class, we' re going
to learn to love words...
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...and their meanings.
Any questions?
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Yeah.
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So, you'll like, flunk us if we
don't change the world?
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No, I wouldn't do that.
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But you might just squeak by
with a "C".
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What'd you ever do to change
the world?
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Well, Trevor, I get a good
night's sleep.
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I eat a hearty breakfast.
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I show up on time...
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...and then I pass the buck to you.
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Now, I want you all to write your names
in these books and-
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What's your name?
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Molly, all right. I want Molly to
look up the word atrophy...
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...and tell the class what it means.
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No, we' re not in Milwaukee.
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Straight to hell. Straight to hell.
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Four tequilas.
Who's having the fourth one?
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- You are.
- Not for me, thank you.
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- We bought it for you.
- Thank you so much. No thanks.
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- Why not?
- I promised my kid.
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I know, it's horrible.
You guys have fun.
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Wait, wait, wait. Here.
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Thank you.
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What are you doing, Junior?
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What are your doing, Jun?
What are you doing?
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You got her now. You got her now.
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You got him now. You got him now.
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What time do you get off?
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If only I weren't married.
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He's married!
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I'm single! I'm single!
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- Hello?
- Hey.
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How'd it go?
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Are you there?
- Yeah.
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How'd it go?
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What?
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How'd it go?
How was your first day?
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Okay.
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T rev, you got to speak up.
I can't hear you.
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Sorry i wasn't home. i had
a chance to pick up another shift.
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You mad at me?
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T rev, what are you doing?
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Nothing.
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You find the spaghetti?
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I'm eating it.
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Good.
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Come on, tell me what happened.
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I got to go.
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Spoon?
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Spoon.
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Mom?
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Mom!
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My friend's coming in to
take a shower, okay?
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Okay.
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That's not really breakfast.
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You don't eat breakfast.
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Well, let's have some.
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I'll make some eggs.
I'll have some too.
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You sure you won't throw up?
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- What's that mean?
- What do you think?
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T ell me what it means.
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- You' re sneaking it.
- I'm not sneaking anything.
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Okay.
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Wait, I'm sorry. You' re right.
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- I want to talk.
- You want to lie to me.
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I don't want to lie, I want to talk.
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- Do what you want.
- I want us to get along.
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I'm sorry.
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I can't find the toilet paper.
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- Who are you?
- It's Jerry.
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Get out! Get out of my house!
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- Thanks a lot.
- Get out!
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- Do you need money for the bus?
- No, I got it.
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You said he could take a shower.
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- I never said that!
- You did.
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I said to let a strange man
into my bathroom?
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He's my friend.
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You can't have a friend like that.
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- It's for my assignment.
- What assignment?
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You won't get it.
Mr. Simonet will get it.
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Who's Mr. Simonet?
Hey, I'm talking-
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He's my teacher.
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Mr. Simonet?
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Yes, I'm Eugene...
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...Simonet.
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- Hello.
- Hello.
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- What is this assignment?
- Excuse me?
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What did you say for my son to
let a homeless man in my house?
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I have two problems.
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One, I've no idea what
you' re talking about...
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...and two, I don't know who you are.
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Arlene MclKinney. My boy is in your
social studies class? Trevor?
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Trevor.
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Yes, he's very attentive. He's very
exigent, which I like.
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- Exigent. Challenging, testing.
- I know what it means.
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Why did my kid bring a bum home?
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- I have no idea.
- Bullshit!
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I don't know how he interpreted
the assignment.
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How do you think he interpreted it?
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I don't know.
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If you want to know, why don't you
talk to your son?
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I talk to him.
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Really?
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Then why did you come down here to ask
me what the assignment is?
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It's not a state secret.
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Yeah? And?
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It's an assignment I give out at the
beginning of every year to inspire.
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I don't expect them to change the world.
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- You don't expect them to change-
- Excuse me.
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It's to get them to think,
not walk on water.
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An assignment they can't do?
What kind of teacher are you?
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I didn't say that.
They make attempts.
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Now and then they clean up graffiti-
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This is my kid. You don't know him.
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Tell him he can do something,
he'll believe you.
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And when he can't, it'll wipe him out.
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They ought to fire your ass
out of here right now.
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They probably won't do that because I
filled a very excellent quota.
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I'm just this side of parking in
the blue zone.
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You think you can do whatever you want
because your face is messed up?
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Why don't you put down in writing your
little and loud complaints...
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...and I'll make sure they get put
in the suggestion box.
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Jesus.
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You are really something.
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Thanks. I appreciate the euphemism.
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I've always wanted to be something.
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Can I help you with something, miss?
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No.
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Mr. Thorsen. Hold up, man!
I've been waiting all day for you.
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- Why won't you return my calls?
- We' re not friends.
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I got the pink slip for the car.
Quite a stocking stuffer.
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- You can't accept it?
- No, that would make me a moron.
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I just want to know about
these instructions.
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Do what they say. Pay it forward.
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- Why?
- Because you've accepted the car.
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- You' re obligated.
- What if I don't feel obligated?
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What if I take my new car, get some
hookers and drive to Mexico?
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I'll never know.
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What is this? Come on, for real.
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An attack of total altruism
from a litigator.
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I've got a meeting.
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I've got a story. Okay?
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A partner at Channing and Moss
is giving away cars?
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T ell me a reason or I'll make one up.
Mine will be more interesting.
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You've gone dotty, you're wearing
crystals, keeping too many cats at home?
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Look. Listen, please!
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My ex-wife has everything. Okay?
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Plus, she's in a lesbian relationship
just to piss me off.
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Help me out, please.
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My daughter has asthma.
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One night it was very bad,
the worst I'd ever seen it.
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it was the middle of the night,
emergency room.
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We were waiting forever.
Couldn't get anyone to pay attention.
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Her inhaler doesn't seem
to be working.
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Mr. Parker, what happened?
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My sister, she stabbed me.
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- We were here first.
- Stab wounds first.
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- She can't breathe. She's scared.
- I will let you know.
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Somebody has to see her.
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It's never been this bad.
Do something.
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Would you just sit down?
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I'm sorry. We've been here 4 hours.
You need to get a doctor.
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No. Wait.
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That's bullshit.
Help her right now.
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- Excuse me?
- Why you giving me shit?
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Ain't you got some oxygen?
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Let me get the supervisor.
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You don't need a supervisor.
You the supervisor today.
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You are the supervisor today.
You feel me on that?
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T ake your ass down the hall, put the
girl on the tray and supervise her...
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...and get her some goddamn air.
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I got your back, sis. Bitch, you' re
still here. Shit!
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Let go of my arm, man.
This ain't fair, man!
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Come on! Come on, man. Damn!
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i thanked him...
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...and there were specific orifices in
which i was told to shove my thanks.
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He told me, "Just pay it forward. "
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Three big favors for three other
people. That's it.
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So it's like a pass-it-on thing, then.
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You and this lowlife are in this chain
of do-gooders...
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...a kind of Mother T eresa conga line?
That's a little New-Agey for you.
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Sort of Tibetan? Are you in a cult?
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Mention my name, you'll be selling your
kidneys to pay for your lawsuit.
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Cult.
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The guy! What was the guy's name?
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Sorry, I'm late for my mass wedding.
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I know somebody's in here.
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I know you' re there.
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Come out or I will find you
and shoot you.
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Please don't shoot.
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Please.
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You stay right there.
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If I see you move one-
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Please don't pick it up!
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Please don't! I'm not moving.
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Please.
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What are you doing to my truck?
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Let me show you. I'm just...
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I'm just going to open the door, okay?
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See?
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Might be easier for you to sell now.
Now that it works.
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I didn't ask for your help.
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You been living in my garage?
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Not after tonight.
Can I come around and...
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I got a handyman job at the Royal Motel.
They're giving me a room.
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You stay right there!
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Please, I don't like guns.
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What is going on with you and my son?
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He wanted to help somebody.
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Wanted to get somebody back on their
feet, so he gave me a little money.
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- He gave you money?
- Yes, ma'am.
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That's his savings.
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Well, it's clothes and shoes
and I got the job off it.
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You think you can keep it?
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Looks to me like you've got yourself
a little problem.
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I can lick it.
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How's that supposed to happen
all of a sudden?
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You ever been on the street?
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My mom took us pretty close.
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Well, you can't know, not until
you' re looking at a dumpster.
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But when you climb in the first time,
and pull the newspapers over you...
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...that's when you know you've
messed your life up.
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Somebody comes along like your son
and gives me a leg up...
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...I'll take it.
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Even from a kid, I'll take it.
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I can't mess up again or I'll be dead.
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I appreciate that you're trying to pay
back Trevor-
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I'm not allowed to pay back Trevor.
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- Then what is it you're doing?
- I'm paying it forward.
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I know you want me to go.
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I'll go.
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What's paying it forward?
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That's me.
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And that's three people.
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And I'm going to help them, but it has
to be something really big...
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...something they can't do
by themselves.
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So I do it for them...
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...then they do it for
three other people.
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That's nine.
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And I do three more...
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That's 27, so-
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I'm not really good at math but it
gets big really fast. You know?
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All right, all right, all right.
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A little articulation, please.
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- Yes?
- I think it's a good idea.
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- Shawn?
- It's stupid.
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- Adam?
- It's the honor system.
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- People blow off the honor system.
- So what?
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Just because you do.
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Trevor, the class thinks that you've
come up with an overly utopian idea.
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Look that word up in a minute.
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Like a perfect world?
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So?
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So what put this idea in your head?
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Because...
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Everything sucks.
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He talked to you about this?
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We've had our discussions.
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But you don't have to worry...
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...because I'll tell him we
can't talk no more.
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No, don't do that.
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Would you like a cup of coffee?
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Yes, ma'am.
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Okay.
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i called the president
to talk about pollution.
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But my mom said now they'll
put us on some list...
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...so she hung up.
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For this assignment, I put up recycling
fliers at two supermarkets.
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I'm going to put up a website
in Chinese.
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It'll tell all the kids in China to jump
up and down at the same time.
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The goal being to knock
the Earth off its axis.
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- Yeah.
- Thank you. Sit down.
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Well, your ideas are as surprising
as they are variegated.
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Add that to your list of words
to look up.
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But I want to focus for a moment on one
project we heard today.
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I've been teaching for many years and
it's the first new idea that also...
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...requires an extreme act of faith in
the goodness of people.
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Trevor has made an attempt to
interact with the world...
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...and that was the assignment.
419
And if I were an effusive person given
to easy praise...
420
...I would call that...
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...admirable.
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The words from today:
utopian, enigma, quantum.
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Add variegated.
I want you to go home-
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- Hey, Mr. Simonet.
- Hello.
425
Were you just being nice?
426
About what?
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About my idea.
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Do you think it's good or were you
just being teachery?
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Teachery?
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Bullshitting.
431
Do I strike you as someone
falsely nice?
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No.
433
You're not even really all that nice.
434
Well, it was a slip-up
and it will not happen again.
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What?
436
What happened to your face?
437
Did you draw the short straw today,
Trevor?
438
It's not a very pertinent subject to
social studies, is it?
439
Go and tell them that's
what I said.
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T ell who?
441
I'll see you tomorrow.
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- You know where Jerry is?
- Over there in 15.
443
It's more product.
444
Who is it?
445
It's Trevor.
446
I'm looking for Jerry.
447
Jerry's not here.
448
When will he be back?
449
He's not coming back.
Now get out of here.
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Jerry?
451
Get out of here!
452
Please come out, Jerry.
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I remember in 1976 there were those
programs in the school system...
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- ... and now, all that's gone.
- I gotta go.
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You ran out of class this morning.
I wanted to talk to you.
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- Hello.
- Hello.
457
Come in.
458
Trevor's not feeling good.
459
I'm sorry.
What's the matter?
460
Just a tummy ache.
461
Do you want to come in?
462
Sure. Thank you.
463
- Sit down.
- Thank you.
464
- It's a very beautiful home.
- Thank you.
465
Have you lived in Vegas your
whole life?
466
Yeah.
467
I told him if you wanted to talk to me
I would come to the school.
468
Mrs. MclKinney, I didn't ask to see you.
469
Well, Trevor said you did.
470
Yeah and he gave me a note from you...
471
...which you didn't write.
472
He gave you a note from me?
473
Oh, God, that's horrible.
He's been so-
474
- No, I didn't mean you.
- No explanation required.
475
- Don't elaborate.
- It's not personal.
476
- I'm used to this.
- Would you stop?
477
Can we just rewind here a little bit?
478
I obviously didn't realize
how much Trevor likes you.
479
That's nothing that we can't discuss
on parent-teacher night.
480
Then why did you come?
481
Why didn't you just tell me to
come to the school?
482
Because you came to the school...
483
...to talk to me about your son...
484
...and I behaved like a-
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An asshole?
486
Sorry.
487
Is that too trailer-trash a word?
488
How's " rat bastard " sit with you?
489
It's pretty good.
490
- " Dickhead "?
- Oh, I like that.
491
Look, I'm-
492
I made all this food.
493
It's just sitting here.
494
I really don't know who else to
talk to about him.
495
- This is good.
- Thanks.
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I don't understand.
This is summer school?
497
Why do you think Trevor stopped
talking to you?
498
I don't know.
499
He seems mad.
500
Seventh grade is difficult,
but he seems happy at school.
501
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it's fine.
502
How much do you see him?
503
- As much as I can.
- How much is that?
504
I'm not doing a bunch of skanky guys
instead of spending time with my son.
505
I got two jobs.
506
Right. I meant that.
507
Couldn't have just been a question.
508
Mrs. MclKinney, do you think there
might be something...
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...outside of school that might be
bothering him?
510
I don't know.
511
I'm going to have to consult
my spirit guides here.
512
You tell me Trevor's withholding
from you...
513
...but won't tell me anything specific,
and you want me to divine why.
514
Divine why?
You always talk like that?
515
Yes.
516
You go to some big fancy school?
517
Yes.
518
Think you could stop rubbing
my nose in it?
519
Is there a father?
520
He doesn't live here anymore.
521
I don't know where he is.
522
I know what that's like.
523
Arlene, I've called you five times.
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- Bonnie.
- No, listen.
525
You don't call your sponsor once in
a while, you don't have a sponsor.
526
This is Eugene Simonet.
527
You're not supposed to date for
a year.
528
- It isn't a date.
- No, I'm Trevor's teacher.
529
We' re having a conference.
530
We' re done.
531
Were done.
532
How could you do that to me?
533
Write a letter to him, sign my name?
534
- Why'd you have to mess everything up?
- I didn't mess this up.
535
What were you doing?
Standing at the door listening?
536
- What happened to your stomachache?
- Why? You always lie.
537
This wasn't my fault.
This was embarrassing.
538
I did something good
and you don't know it.
539
Honey, listen.
540
You can't just put two people together
and make them like each other.
541
You only like people you
can get drunk with.
542
You're waiting for him to come back.
543
- No, I'm not.
- Yes, you are!
544
No, I'm not!
545
- Your father's not getting his foot-
- That's what you always say.
546
- I mean it now.
- You always mean it.
547
What do you want me to say?
I say it, I mean it.
548
When he's around you don't care
what happens to me.
549
You don't even know I'm in the house.
550
- That's not true.
- It's true.
551
I love you.
552
I love you.
553
I'm doing the best I can.
554
Don't love me.
I hate the way you look.
555
Trevor, you need to stop.
556
I hate that you' re my mother.
557
T rev, I'm going to come in, okay?
558
You said that an hour ago.
559
Do you understand my kid is missing?
560
If I had a car I'd be out
looking for him!
561
What time do you think he took off?
562
I don't know.
I'm sorry to do this to you.
563
Bonnie wasn't home.
The cops wouldn't come.
564
And my friends are all drunks.
565
- It's okay.
- And so am I.
566
I'm a drunk too.
567
I believe some people refer to
that as "in recovery. "
568
Where are you going?
569
Got enough?
570
Need a ticket somewhere? Come on,
I'll get you a ticket.
571
Come with me. I'll get you a ticket.
572
I'll get you a ticket,
you son of a bitch!
573
Honey, are you okay?
574
For the rest of my life, I can
never be as sorry...
575
...as I am for what I did to you.
576
I didn't drink.
577
I wanted to, but I didn't.
578
You got no reason to trust me...
579
...and I know you don't want to hear
any more promises...
580
...so I'm just gonna tell you
the truth.
581
I have a problem.
582
I have a really bad problem.
583
I've got to stop.
584
And if you can be with me on this...
585
...if you can think it's possible
that I can do it...
586
...then I think maybe I can.
587
If you just...
588
...try a little bit and help-
589
You' re still here?
590
I hope it's okay.
591
- He's asleep.
- Good, okay.
592
How did you know where he was?
593
Well, kids, they either hitchhike
or they take a bus.
594
- Listen-
- You're welcome.
595
No, you don't have to.
596
- I understand-
- Wait. Goddamn, I want to thank you.
597
Thank you.
598
You' re welcome.
599
- Wasn't quite worth it, was it?
- No.
600
I was wondering, do you want to come
back here sometime?
601
Have dinner with me?
602
I'm not entirely sure
that would be appropriate.
603
Okay. I understand.
604
- Good night.
- Good night.
605
Why'd you do that man
the favor, Sidney?
606
No, it's like three favors, player.
607
You got to do three.
608
I'll do the other two here
for my folks.
609
A lot of brothers need favors in here.
610
But who told you to do it?
611
It's like this idea I got.
612
You gonna put this on TV?
613
How did you come up with
an idea like that?
614
Man, it's like...
615
It's like the world is a shithole.
Excuse my French and shit.
616
And it's like...
617
...I just thought, like, boom!
618
Like the whole shit could be,
like, better.
619
It didn't start with anyone else?
620
No, nigger.
That shit came from here.
621
The shit came from my head.
I can't lie.
622
I been through some heavy-ass shit.
623
But not no more,
because it changed me.
624
And I'm changing this place, man.
625
I mean, people are listening to me.
626
People are staying clean.
627
I mean, it's like some cosmic
Aristotle shit. You feel me?
628
- Yeah.
- Yeah, no doubt.
629
- I feel you.
- No doubt, dog, no doubt.
630
The thing is, Sidney...
631
...somebody else is saying
that pay it forward was their idea.
632
Who?
633
I think you know who.
634
That bitch?
635
She a lying-ass bitch.
636
She's a lying bitch.
She's got your head.
637
She makes a pretty good case,
though, Sid.
638
That old crusty bag lady?
639
This is all from me.
All from my heart, dog.
640
Sidney, it doesn't matter if you got
it from the lady or not.
641
You're the one paying it forward.
642
In prison, no less.
The parole board will eat that up.
643
- Oh, the parole board.
- The parole board.
644
Oh, snap, yo. You good, man.
645
It's like a carrot for
the mouse and shit.
646
No doubt. It's too bad my parole don't
come up for another year, B.
647
What if I can make it so your parole
comes up next month?
648
Hello.
649
Oh, hello.
650
Did you know I worked here?
651
No, I didn't. Really.
652
Just dropped in for
a little game of craps?
653
No, I like that coffee shop.
654
They have good food.
655
Yeah, they got good pancakes.
656
Yeah.
657
Fluffy.
658
- Want me to bring you back something?
- Oh, no, thanks.
659
- I get off in an hour.
- Really?
660
Yeah, really.
661
Well, if you were going to eat
anyway then...
662
If you wanted, maybe...
663
If you were hungry, we could...
664
We could, if you were,
if you want to...
665
...eat something...
666
...sometime.
667
Give me a seven iron, please.
668
Yes, sir.
669
May I help you?
670
I am not stalking the governor, Jordy.
671
Shit. Chandler.
672
You scared me. You look like crap.
What are you doing here?
673
- I want to talk to him, Jordan.
- Your questions piss him off.
674
- Is that why I got the bounce?
- He won't talk to you.
675
- T ell him I'm a candygram.
- Stop it.
676
I've been sitting on a story for
2 years about a party he had.
677
The clean-up crew found syringes,
size 12 high heels, animal droppings.
678
That can't be right, can it?
679
You really had this, you'd have used it.
680
Bullshit. His friends in high places
had me kill it...
681
...but since I got fired,
I'm not feeling that loyal.
682
- What do you want?
- Four million dollars.
683
I'm kidding, man. Relax.
684
A phone call.
I just need a phone call.
685
I need a massage for a friend's
parole date. That's it.
++++++++++++++++++
1
- They kept me 40 minutes over.
- Did you call him?
2
I couldn't remember the name of the
restaurant. I remember the hotel-
3
If you're late he thinks
it means you don't respect him.
4
What?
5
If you're late, he'll think it means
you don't respect him.
6
Wear this.
7
- I want to wear the green dress.
- You look like a vampire in that.
8
I got to take a shower.
9
- What?
- I smell horrible.
10
No, you don't! You smell good.
You smell like roses or something.
11
Let me just wash under my arms.
Are you sure?
12
Yeah, I'm sure.
13
Don't interrupt him in
the middle of a sentence.
14
Am I supposed to raise my hand?
15
- Get me my shoes. Those sandals.
- No, these.
16
I'm not wearing those.
They' re too sexy.
17
You' re late. You owe him.
18
- I owe him? Who are you?
- Go.
19
No stupid jokes! He's not
that kind of person.
20
Thank you very much. Where's the phone?
I got to call for a cab.
21
If I take a bus, I'll be
another hour late.
22
- Stop yapping.
- I've got to call for a cab.
23
Oh, my God!
24
Oh, my God. You' re just about...
25
You' re the greatest son in the world!
26
Okay, you have to go.
Here, here.
27
Go, go.
28
- Lock both doors!
- I will.
29
- I love you!
- Love you too, Mom.
30
I respect you!
31
They kept me late at work...
32
...and then I got on the bus to go
home and change, which was stupid.
33
I'm sorry, but I was all the way-
34
You' re right on time.
35
I'm sorry.
36
I was living in Vegas. One night I
was walking down the street.
37
Minding my own. Wasn't doing
nothing to nobody.
38
I was just on my way to church.
39
Out of nowhere these five Bloods just
peeled out of a truck.
40
And one of them, man,
was real black.
41
Man, I start swinging one by one
like, " Nigger, take that! "
42
Like Ali on them bitches.
I was like...
43
"What's up, nigger, what's up? "
44
All five of them got up
and started chasing me, man.
45
"We going to kill you, Crip. "
46
I was like,
"You can't catch me, Blood. "
47
Then, man, all of a sudden,
out of nowhere...
48
...that's when I ran into
this old lady.
49
That's who you want to know about.
50
Shit!
51
Hey, you in trouble?
52
- What?
- Get in.
53
Get in?
54
Come on, get in.
55
Shit!
56
What are we doing?
57
Whatever we want.
58
Damn!
59
You think I'm going for your dried-up
crusty ass? Whatever.
60
Shoot. I smell better than you do.
61
Yeah, all right.
62
All right, so what?
What you want?
63
Don't matter...
64
...because you ain't going to do it.
65
You damn right about that. Shit.
66
Hey, not in my car.
67
Shit, not in my car.
68
Oh, my bad. My bad.
69
This is your pad? You don't want me
to jack up your pretty curtains.
70
Son of a bitch.
71
I paid it forward for a hophead
son of a bitch.
72
You paid it what? I didn't hear that.
73
I ain't going to tell you because your
ass ain't good enough to touch it.
74
Oh, my ass ain't good enough, huh?
75
Now you gonna tell me.
76
You gonna tell me.
77
An old bat living in her car in Las
Vegas tells you about pay it forward?
78
She ain't want to, but I wouldn't
stop until she let it out.
79
What I really want to know is why?
80
Why did you pay it forward?
81
Because don't nobody tell me what
I can and can't touch.
82
You're not supposed to date
for a year.
83
They' re not dates.
84
Seven dinners. What are they?
85
- It's a couple of adults sitting down.
- Does he pay?
86
- He pays for everything.
- Did anybody ask you?
87
- He doesn't know many people.
- He likes her.
88
- So?
- He fixed your TV remote.
89
- That's an engagement ring.
- And he doesn't drink.
90
Don't you got to pee? Look.
91
- I need a smoke.
- Yeah. Over there.
92
- So has he kissed you?
- No, no, no, no.
93
Does he want to?
94
Sometimes I think he does.
95
He can't really want to
or he would've.
96
Do you want him to?
97
I don't know.
98
It's just taking forever.
99
You ever gotten to know somebody
before you went to bed with him?
100
- Is that bad?
- It's pathetic.
101
Well, good night.
102
Do you want to come in?
103
And stay?
104
Come in.
105
Trevor's inside the house.
106
Well, he sleeps like the dead.
107
I don't want to make it any
harder for you.
108
You're supposed to wait a year.
Isn't that what Bonnie said?
109
Okay.
110
I can't.
111
I'm sorry.
112
No. I don't mean I can't.
113
It's just...
114
What?
115
This is complicated.
116
I get it. It's okay to say you
don't like me that way.
117
Is that what you think it is?
118
It's okay.
119
How could you ever think that?
120
What?
121
What is it?
122
- And you're doing this because?
- I need more links.
123
You're spending $300 to find
an old lady...
124
...so you can sell a story for $300.
125
It's a news magazine feature. It's
not something you wipe your ass with.
126
You have a lovely way of
expressing yourself.
127
Do me a favor.
Don't change the locks on me, okay?
128
Chris? What are you hoping this'll be?
129
You know, something that clears a check.
130
Are you sure that's all?
131
I drank the last of the coffee.
Please put it on the list.
132
Bye.
133
Who's there?
134
- Do you look down on me?
- What?
135
- Do you look down on me?
- No.
136
I don't talk like you. I haven't
read the stuff you read.
137
That's not pertinent,
and you know it.
138
Don't talk to me like that!
139
I'm sorry, but that's the way I talk.
Words are all I have.
140
Why?
141
Why, because you think you look
like shit?
142
I don't care about your burns,
if that's what they are.
143
- Is that what they are?
- Yes.
144
Okay, well, whatever happened to you,
you look good to me.
145
Well, you look good to me too.
146
Okay, so?
147
So I've never been here before.
148
Okay, so you' re scared.
I'm scared too.
149
Listen, bad things have happened
to me, okay?
150
I can't take my shirt off with a guy
without five beers...
151
...but I want that with you.
152
More than I'm scared, I want that.
153
You don't see me.
154
My life...
155
My life is familiar. My life is...
156
It's manageable.
157
It's manageable. Every day.
158
I have a thing I do every day.
159
It's all I've ever known.
160
And it's a routine and as long
as I have that...
161
...as long as I have that, I'm okay.
162
If I don't have it, I'm lost.
163
So is that all you want?
Your goddamn manageable day?
164
- It's what I have.
- It isn't.
165
- Is it what you want?
- Yes!
166
I don't believe you.
167
Okay. That's the best I got.
168
- It's not about you.
- Yes, it is!
169
Something's been offered to you here
and you don't want it.
170
Maybe you're scared to get rejected.
171
I can't reject you.
You' re too quick for me.
172
You didn't call me a fag, did you?
173
Look what I found.
174
Give me that! That's my asthma spray!
175
- Shut up!
- Stop it!
176
- Stay still!
- Stop! Help me!
177
- Hold still!
- Stop!
178
Hey, MclKinney.
179
Come here.
180
Let's hang out.
181
Help me, please.
182
Screw it. Come on.
183
Let me go! Let me go!
184
You cut my class.
185
It's been four days.
186
What's been four days?
187
Why haven't you called my mother?
It's been four days.
188
I don't know.
189
Neither does she.
190
Hey, what's the matter?
191
Pay it forward didn't work.
192
I couldn't even do it.
193
I was gonna help Adam.
194
Help Adam do what?
195
Not get beat up.
196
But I crapped out and I let him.
197
I let him get beat.
198
No. you didn't.
You didn't let him get beat.
199
It happened.
200
Sometimes there's nothing we can do.
201
- It's not fair.
- I know-
202
No. You don't know.
203
You should call my mother.
204
You could do something if you wanted.
205
- Why are you chicken?
- I'm not chicken.
206
Something's gonna happen,
then it'll be too late.
207
What's gonna happen?
What do you mean?
208
He'll come back.
209
Who will come back?
210
Hey, who will come-?
211
Your dad.
212
Your dad will come back?
213
And...
214
...what will happen when he
comes back, Trevor?
215
Will he hurt you?
216
Will he hurt her?
217
Not if someone's there...
218
...instead of him.
219
Trevor, it's...
220
...complicated for me now.
221
Is the world just shit?
222
No, it isn't.
223
You did good work.
224
Look at me.
I'm proud of you, Trevor.
225
I'm proud of you.
226
And anyway, for what it's worth...
227
...I'm grading you on the effort,
not the result.
228
I don't care about the grade.
229
I just wanted to see if the world
would really change.
230
Come in.
231
Trevor!
232
- It worked!
- Oh, God.
233
- Does he always get up early?
- What?
234
He just saw me.
235
- It's okay.
- I'm his teacher.
236
Now you have to pay it forward too.
237
Eugene!
238
You should still call me Mr. Simonet.
239
You had a sleepover.
240
- Go back to bed.
- Why?
241
It's too early and I got to
get to school.
242
- No, it's a Sunday.
- It's a Sunday?
243
It's a Sunday?
244
Stay. Mom will make breakfast.
245
I have a schedule that you
don't know about every Sunday.
246
Will you take care of him?
I'll call you later.
247
Don't be a stranger!
248
You like him?
249
Lady, come on.
250
Go away.
251
I'm not going to hurt you, lady.
252
Here, take it.
253
It's a nice thought
but it's not what I want.
254
What are you doing?
255
I'm not going to hurt you!
256
Oh, my God. Listen to me.
257
Nothing's this important.
Come down here.
258
What are you doing?
259
What do you care anyway?
260
Because I owe somebody a favor.
261
Not me.
262
Why not you?
263
You know, a minute ago...
264
...all I could think about
was getting my next fix.
265
And then I saw you
and I changed my thinking.
266
Oh, please. Go away.
267
T rust me. I'm not worth it.
268
Why is that?
269
- For God's sake.
- Come on, tell me.
270
Why are you not worth it?
271
T rust me. You wouldn't understand.
272
Are you kidding me?
You think I live at the Ritz?
273
Have a cup of coffee with me.
274
What?
275
Do me a favor.
276
Save my life.
277
Get him, get him! Off the ropes!
278
He missed him!
279
He's dead!
280
Come on, bleed, dude.
281
Give him a DDT.
282
- What?
- It's gonna be a DDT.
283
Drop him on his ass!
284
I'm worried about you.
That's the DDT.
285
- Hear me?
- He's dead!
286
- He's paralyzed, get out of the ring.
- You can't get out of the ring.
287
He can. He has to get a chair.
288
A chair?
289
Slow motion.
290
Trevor, when did you become
so violent?
291
T ake me to a match. You get
splattered in the front row.
292
I don't want to be splattered.
293
It'll be your
birthday present to me.
294
You know what you're getting?
A new encyclopedia.
295
Leather bound.
296
Thucydides History of
the Peloponnesian War.
297
No, I'm getting you 51
crackling volumes.
298
There'll be pop quizzes every day on
the development of cotton farms.
299
Hi, Arlene.
300
You can't stay here, Ricky.
301
I know.
302
Look, I know what we had was
a nightmare, Arlene.
303
- But I did it.
- You did what?
304
I knew I couldn't come back
unless I was sober.
305
It's the truth.
306
Five months, two weeks and four days
are the truth.
307
- Where you been?
- What does it matter?
308
I knew I had to change.
309
- Are you sober?
- Yeah, I got sober staying right here.
310
Well, you' re stronger than me.
311
Can you just stop for a minute?
312
Please?
313
Can we just sit down and talk?
314
God.
315
I'm sorry.
316
What are you doing here?
317
- I want you to understand.
- No explanation required.
318
Please don't talk to me like that.
319
We had 13 years in, Eugene. He's sober
now. We've never been sober together.
320
I wish you luck.
321
I feel like I've got to
give him a chance.
322
A chance? A chance for what?
323
T o change.
324
T o try to make up for lost time.
325
T o take Trevor to ball games?
Do "daddy" things with him?
326
Yeah, he promised to try.
327
- What should I do?
- Be smart.
328
He's his father.
329
He impregnated you, Arlene.
330
In what other way has he
been a father?
331
Unless knocking somebody around
is a new family value.
332
What do you mean?
He never touched Trevor.
333
Oh, that's right, only you.
334
He only took it out on you.
That's so much better.
335
What did Trevor tell you?
336
Enough.
337
Secrets like that shouldn't be kept.
What good does it do Trevor?
338
Ricky never meant to hit me.
We were drunk!
339
Christ!
What is it with women like you?
340
Is that something you tell yourself?
"It's okay he beat me. "
341
"Trevor's okay. "
342
Trevor locked himself in a bathroom
and he can't breathe...
343
...and he's praying that it will stop!
344
- Trevor never went through that!
- You know what Trevor went through?
345
How do you know?
346
How do you know the next time after
you, he doesn't come for Trevor?
347
I know what I'm talking about, Arlene.
348
My father got on his knees
and begged my mother...
349
...and my mother, she always
took him back.
350
I never understood it.
351
She'd cover the bruises and the cuts
and she'd take him back...
352
...because he begged and he cried.
353
Ask me what happened after
he came back.
354
You wanted to know what happened to me!
Now ask me!
355
- I don't like this.
- " Did he hurt you? " Ask!
356
Did he hurt you?
357
Not for long.
358
By 13 I was gone. I ran away.
359
But I missed her, so I had to go back
and see her.
360
So one night I did.
361
Ask what happened. "What happened that
night you came back, Eugene? "
362
What happened?
363
He was there, drunk as usual.
364
Only this time, I wasn't the same.
365
I was 16 years old and I was no longer
afraid of him.
366
And when I looked him in the eye...
367
...and told him if he ever touched her
again, I would kill him, he knew.
368
He knew that he would never exist
for me again.
369
And I'm standing in front of the house.
370
I'm screaming for her to come out.
371
I'm telling her she doesn't have
to take it anymore.
372
She doesn't.
She can come with me now.
373
I don't see it coming.
374
He hits my head with a two-by-four
and I'm bleeding from my ear.
375
He's dragging me behind the house into
the garage. Then he's gone.
376
A minute, five minutes, I don't know.
377
Then he's back and wetting me down.
And I don't understand.
378
I don't understand why water
should smell so bad.
379
I don't understand. And then I see it.
380
I see...
381
...this...
382
...this gas can.
383
This red gas can from his truck.
384
And he looks at me one last time...
385
...and he lights a match.
386
And the last thing I remember...
387
...and I'll never forget it...
388
...were his eyes.
389
His eyes, because they were
filled with this...
390
...immense...
391
...satisfaction.
392
I'm so sorry.
393
Don't tell me how sorry you
are for me!
394
T ell me how you'll stop it
happening to Trevor.
395
Ricky would never do that.
396
Oh, Jesus, Arlene. He doesn't have to.
397
All he has to do is not love him.
398
What's going on?
399
What's going on?
I'll tell you what's going on.
400
- What are you doing?
- What's it look like?
401
You can't do this.
402
What are you putting in my room?
We had an agreement.
403
My son won't talk to me.
404
He won't look at me!
You turn him against me?
405
I told you I wasn't gonna make him
talk to you.
406
You could get a job.
407
- What am I supposed to use for a car?
- T ake the bus.
408
That'll be the day.
409
- You can't stay in this room.
- This is our room.
410
This is our house, our bed.
411
- You've been drinking.
- Kiss me.
412
Stop it! Stop it!
I want you out of this house.
413
- What's your problem?
- I want you out.
414
T urn that down!
I'll come and pound your ass!
415
- Don't talk to him like that!
- Don't tell me how to talk!
416
Don't tell me how to talk to anybody.
I've had enough.
417
- Are you getting mad?
- What are you gonna do about it?
418
I liked you better when you had
a few drinks in you.
419
You want me out of the house, I'm out!
420
Sorry.
421
I think I made a mistake.
422
Everybody makes mistakes.
423
All right, bring them up.
424
Thank you. Carefully.
425
Thank you.
426
Careful. Did you get rid
of your hiccups?
427
Told you holding your breath
would work.
428
Thank you. Careful. Thank you.
429
Very nice.
430
Give me that one. Thank you.
431
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
432
Trevor, what is it?
433
Are you still gonna pay it forward?
434
You could say you don't have to...
435
...because it didn't work out.
436
But I thought you still might.
437
Trevor, I would like more than
anything to do that for you.
438
- When I find something worthy-
- I know somebody who needs something.
439
- You have to let me find this-
- You know who it is.
440
Look...
441
...you don't understand everything.
All right?
442
So you do not know what you' re asking.
443
Give her another chance.
444
I will pay it forward.
I promise you that.
445
But I cannot do that.
446
But that's why this is the one.
447
Because it's supposed to be
something hard.
448
If you help my mom, even if you're
still mad, in a way nobody could-
449
- Did she ask you to talk to me?
- No, she thinks you won't forgive her.
450
But I still think you could.
451
If you wanted to do something huge...
452
...for someone...
453
...for my project.
454
For me.
455
She made her choice.
456
She said she made a mistake.
457
Well, that's the beauty of hindsight.
458
You don't care.
459
Yes, I do.
460
I will always care about you, always.
461
Yeah.
462
You' re my teacher.
463
They pay you to.
464
- You got it?
- Yeah.
465
I ain't saying a thing till I
get one more.
466
You know, I thought you might
feel that way.
467
No, no. Later.
468
I got my places.
469
Places where nobody cares where
you park overnight.
470
Places where I live.
471
Anybody who knows me...
472
...knows where to find me.
473
Hi, Mom.
474
- What are you doing here?
- I wanted to see you.
475
- After three years, why now?
- I can't watch you do this.
476
I drive by your house.
477
I know.
478
- He's big.
- Yeah.
479
What are you doing here?
480
Are you gonna try to put me
somewhere?
481
No.
482
Then what do you want?
483
I want to try to do something.
484
All the things...
485
...when I was a kid.
486
The booze...
487
...and the men.
488
What happened to me when you
weren't looking.
489
I know we' re all weak.
490
- No, not you.
- No, I've been weak.
491
Here's the thing.
492
I forgive you.
493
- I don't like your hair.
- I know. I'm not putting it back.
494
So I'd like to see you sometimes.
Is that okay?
495
Yes.
496
You can't live with me.
497
Who would want to?
498
Can I see him?
499
Not drunk.
500
You've got to be sober if just
for two hours.
501
Yeah, I can do that.
502
Okay.
503
Then I'll come and find you.
504
Okay?
505
Yeah.
506
Okay.
507
Why'd you do this, Arley?
508
She told me why.
509
She told me I had to do
something big...
510
...for three other people.
511
Happy birthday dear Trevor
512
Happy birthday to you
513
And many more
514
What'd you wish for?
515
He can't tell you or it
won't come true.
516
Can I have some napkins?
517
Here you go.
518
I'll get it.
519
Mom?
520
I'm Chris Chandler. I'm a reporter.
Could I have a moment of your time?
521
Why? I don't have anything to
say about anything.
522
Please. I've already spoken to your
mother, which naturally led me to you.
523
- My mother?
- She told me about pay it forward.
524
How you helped her.
I'm doing a story.
525
You can't. That's private.
526
It upset my son. It was a social
studies thing and it didn't work.
527
Social studies?
528
Leave it alone. He just wants
to get on with seventh grade.
529
It's his birthday and it's a bad time.
530
- I'm sorry-
- No, I'm sorry.
531
I've been tracking this story
from Los Angeles.
532
Pay it Forward, the movement,
reached L.A.
533
- Come on. The movement?
- Yeah.
534
Your son had something to do
with this?
535
I really appreciate this,
Mrs. MclKinney.
536
It's up to him.
537
- Ready, slugger?
- I guess.
538
Here you go. Up here, please.
539
Just like you' re getting a haircut.
540
- You been interviewed before?
- No.
541
This is for you.
542
Hi. How are you?
543
- What's your name?
- Chris Chandler. Nice to meet you.
544
Less painful than the dentist.
Just be yourself, okay?
545
- Ready to go?
- I guess.
546
Come on, you got to have
some gusto here.
547
All right, let's go.
All right, great.
548
Just be yourself. Relax.
It's gonna be a lot of fun.
549
Okay, we' re on?
550
Hi, I'm Chris Chandler and I'm joined
today by an unusual seventh grader...
551
...Trevor McKinney.
552
Trevor, you must be pretty proud of
yourself.
553
No.
554
So you' re not proud at all?
555
I don't know. I guess.
556
Come on, you start a movement like Pay
it Forward. You' re not proud?
557
I guess. I mean, I got an "A"
in social studies.
558
But that was just for the effort.
559
Stuff I did, it didn't work out.
560
- You' re here.
- Yeah, but-
561
I don't know. I tried real hard...
562
...but nothing really happened.
563
My mom's stuff worked.
564
She talked to my grandma.
Kind of made up with her.
565
It was really hard for her.
566
It was great for me, because my
grandma came to my birthday party.
567
And I had really missed her.
568
And that's why Pay it Forward went to
all those places...
569
...because of my mom.
570
Because she was so brave.
571
My stuff, I don't know. I think some
people are too scared or something...
572
...to think things can be different.
573
The world's not exactly...
574
...shit.
575
I guess it's hard for some people who
are used to things the way they are...
576
...even if they' re bad...
577
...to change.
578
And they kind of give up.
579
When they do, everybody-
580
They kind of lose.
581
Hi, Arlene.
582
I don't want to be one of those people
he's talking about.
583
And I've become one.
584
I don't want to spend another
second of wasted air.
585
Please don't let me stay trapped
in here forever.
586
I won't.
587
I don't want to spend another second
without you.
588
See you around.
589
All right, see you later, guys.
590
Let me go!
591
- Stop it!
- Who'd you tell?
592
- Who'd you tell, tattletale?
- I didn't tell anybody.
593
I didn't say anything.
594
Help!
595
Stop it! Trevor!
596
Come here.
597
Let me go!
598
Cut it out! No!
599
Get out of my face!
600
Punch him! Come on!
601
No!
602
Leave him alone!
603
Someone get an ambulance!
604
I guess it's hard for
some people who...
605
...are used to things
the way they are.
606
...even if they're bad...
607
...to change.
608
I guess they kind of give up...
609
...and when they do...
610
...everybody kind of loses.
611
These moments make you sorry
to report anything.
612
This remarkable young man died
at 7: 35 this evening.
613
There are now confirmed incidents of
Pay it Forward in L.A., San Francisco.
614
in Phoenix, we 're checking...
615
...if the 16 foster children who
received computers...
616
...is connected to this movement.
617
it's hard.
618
You can't plan it.
619
You have to watch people more.
620
Sort of keep an eye on them
to protect them...
621
...because they can't always
see what they need.
622
it's like your big chance to fix
something that's not like your bike.
623
You can fix a person.
624
is that what you want for your
birthday, everybody to pay it forward?
625
I can't ask for that.
626
- Sure you can. Why not?
- Wouldn't work.
627
Why?
628
I already blew out my candles.
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