7th Heaven s11e05 Episode Script

Oh, hi! Are you the new mom? Uh, Lucy Kinkirk Reverend Kinkirk.
- Hi.
-Hi.
- Hello.
Oh, well, I've got your keys here.
Apartment 3-C, and I think you're really going to be happy here.
Me, too.
Thank you.
Uh, is everything okay? Uh I hope you don't mind my asking, but what trimester are you in? - Ninth.
- No.
What? Uh, we have to go.
Wait.
You're not pregnant, are you? I don't really think that's any of your business.
This is a home for young women who aren't married - who are having babies.
- I know that.
Okay, so are you or are you not pregnant? She's not, and I'm sorry! I found this in your reception area.
We need a place to stay.
Well, I'm sorry.
Who's the boss here? Well, normally, that would be the social worker, who's not here today, or my mother, - but she's out of town.
- When will she be back? It doesn't matter when she'll get back.
She won't give you an apartment either.
We have a waiting list.
And I can't believe you would lie to get in here.
You can't believe that I would lie to get an apartment that costs $350 a month rather than sleep in my car? Look, if you want to come see me when I get back, the day after tomorrow, I'll be happy to sit down and talk with you.
I want to talk with your mother.
Well, I think she would just refer you to me.
- Well, we don't know that, do we? -I know that.
I think you're just a little afraid of us going over your head.
No, I'm not.
Look, my husband and I are here doing repairs and That's your husband? Yeah, we talked to him.
Yes, he's the stupid one who arranged for me to give you the keys.
We'll be back the day after tomorrow.
Or you can go by the church, Glenoak Community Church, and Glenoak? I think I have a friend that's staying there.
Staying? You mean your friend goes there.
Yeah, goes there, all the time.
Well, I'd be happy to help you.
By not giving us what we want.
Well, I think we'll look up your mother, but hey, thanks for the offer.
And from now on, I'll do the talking.
Okay.
Pot? 7th Heaven When I see their happy faces Smiling back at me 7th Heaven I know there's no greater feeling Than the love of family Where can you go When the world don't treat you right? The answer is home That's the one place that you'll find 7th Heaven Mmm, 7th Heaven 7th Heaven.
Oh, hey, Mrs.
Beeker.
Uh, I'm just, I'm just finishing up here, and I should be by to pick up the boys in five minutes.
So let 'em know I'm on my way, if you would, and-and thanks so much for watching them for me, which is why I guess you're not answering the phone, 'cause you're watching the boys I hope.
I'm sure.
Okay.
Well, on my way.
Bye.
Whew! Thought he'd never leave.
Why why didn't we just say something? We're not here to see him; we're here to see T Bone.
- He's not here.
- Well, we'll wait.
It's creepy in here.
- Hi, it's me again, uh, Mrs.
Beeker.
- And, uh, I seem to be running out of battery, and, uh, doesn't seem as if my car is going to Reverend? T Bone.
From, uh, movie theater ticket sales.
May have heard about me from Reverend Kinkirk or her male companion.
Yes, her male companion and husband Kevin mentioned you.
Right.
I, uh, keep forgetting that she's married.
Born too late.
Me.
And it's like you came out of nowhere.
- Oh, I, uh, I live near here.
- Oh.
So, you want me to take a look at your car? Yeah, thanks, sure.
My, uh, dad was a mechanic.
Uh, you don't have a cell phone on you, by any chance, do you? Oh, sorry, no.
No, uh, cell phone, Game Boy, Xbox, PS2, iPod or computer.
Although, I do have a George Foreman grill.
My children didn't have cell phones for the longest time, and then I went out and got them cell phones, and poof, the kids just disappeared.
Odd.
Well, guess it happens.
Ruthie, I heard, disappeared to Scotland.
- Yeah.
- It's good for her.
Yeah, yeah, good for her.
And-And for Simon and Mary and Matt good for all of them.
The, uh, birds have flown the coop.
Phew! You could say that.
Well, uh, thanks.
Nice meeting you.
I guess I'm just gonna walk home.
It's not that far to my house.
I've-I've walked before, many times before.
Well, uh, my apologies I wasn't able to assist you.
Oh.
No apologies necessary.
Wait.
Were you on your way to see me at my office? Um, well, I-I'm currently without family and, uh, shelter.
I, of course, was hoping to move in with Lucy, but that didn't work out, and Kev, I could tell, is a little threatened, so I thought you said you lived near here.
Yeah, I-I said that because I don't so much as live but stay near here at present.
Oh.
I'm, uh, currently residing at the church.
I, uh, break in at night and use your bathroom and sleep in your office.
You break in? You weren't, uh, under the impression that you had some sort of security system, were you? No, but there are locks.
Not good ones.
I guess not.
Uh, every night for how long? I don't know, the last couple months.
I'm sure eventually you would have discovered me, but I sensed a more immediate opportunity to divulge my whereabouts.
So you have no other family? Where are your parents? Well, uh, I don't know where my dad is; I've never met him.
I see.
And did you say where your mom is? She moved.
Um, she left no forwarding address.
Uh, just a note saying that she had to go and she couldn't take it anymore.
She-She couldn't take what anymore? Couldn't take having a kid anymore.
Although, I'm not a kid.
I'm quite mature for my age.
I don't have a high school education as of yet and, uh, my job doesn't pay much, and, well, I don't always make it to the next paycheck with enough food allowance.
And yet, uh you shared a pizza with my daughter.
I confess to seeing it as an investment in my future.
Come on.
Walk home with me.
We'll talk.
I wonder where T Bone is.
Know he's not working today.
Today's his day off.
He's up to something.
I just want to sleep in a normal bed.
In a normal house.
Well, the only way that's going to happen is if we find Mrs.
Camden.
This isn't so bad.
It's a lot roomier than my car.
And there's a bathroom.
Maybe Lucy's lying.
Maybe she's not out of town.
Yeah.
Yeah, you're right.
And, I mean, can there really be that many pregnant teenage girls in one place? There's not one empty apartment we could have? When's your friend having her baby? - What friend? - The friend you said lived in those apartments.
Oh, I just made that up to get us in the door.
- Let's go.
- Go where? I'm going to get us one of those apartments.
You've reached Glenoak Community Church.
Please leave a message and have a blessed day.
Dad? Look, you know, something funny is going on.
I-I tried you at home, I tried you on your cell.
You know, if you get this message You do seem out of breath.
How's your health? What? You seem more than slightly out of breath.
No, I don't.
My mistake.
What do you know? I don't know anything.
But I can surmise from the fact that you're sensitive about your breathing that there's some sort of health issue, possibly.
You do know something.
How do you know something? Honestly, I don't.
You got a few messages to call a Dr.
Tsegdye's office.
But the nurse didn't say why, so I know nothing.
Nothing? Is there any reason why the homeless guy Stanley might know something? Why would Stanley the homeless guy know something? I don't know.
I just saw Kev giving him his pants a couple of nights ago.
I, uh, was camping out in the booth.
I do that sometimes when I don't have enough bus money to make it to the church.
Are you seriously ill? No, I'm not.
If this is a bad time for me to be at your house, again, I would welcome the solitude of the church accommodations, following that spaghetti supper.
No, you just come home with me now.
Hey, maybe I can be of some help.
I'm a good conversationalist.
It's always good to have someone to talk to.
I don't want to talk about it.
"It"? So there is something going on.
Does Mrs.
Camden know? No one knows.
Except for Stanley the homeless guy and, uh, possibly Kevin, which would automatically mean Lucy, which may be the reason that, uh, they fled the city.
They didn't flee the city.
So they'll be back tonight? They're staying away for a couple of nights.
How sick are you? T Bone, come up and see our hamsters.
I will.
Thanks for the invitation.
Wow.
Palatial.
Oh.
Sorry, girl.
This is some spread.
Thank you.
Feel like I've died and gone to, uh Sorry.
Can I see the upstairs, visit the hamsters? Yeah, of course.
I'm just going to go get the dog.
- Hi.
- Hi.
Um, I was looking for Mrs.
Camden.
And normally I would go to the front door instead of coming to the back door, like I work here or something, but I saw you pull into the driveway and walk through the gate.
Oh.
Mrs.
Camden's out of town.
I'm her husband Eric Camden.
The reverend guy? - Yes.
- Oh, great.
You know, you don't really look like a reverend.
I've heard that before, and recently.
Can I help you? I doubt it.
And why would you? I try to help pretty much anyone I can.
It's kind of my line of work.
Look, um, no offense, but, uh, can I just wait for Mrs.
Camden to get home? Till tomorrow? Yeah, I mean, I could just sleep in my car.
And if the cops come by, I'll tell them that, uh, you said I could park in the front of your house.
Are you from the home that Annie's been working with? Am I a pregnant teenage mother? Do I look pregnant? No.
Thank you for that.
That doesn't mean you couldn't have had a baby.
You got me.
I left my baby in the trunk.
Just let me go get him real quick.
There's really no need to be sarcastic.
I just thought you could have been one of the mothers from the home.
Wow, are are you a little slow or something? No, I'm not a mother from the home.
Of course, if I were a mother, then I would have a home, because that's what the homes are for.
You know, maybe I should just go get knocked up.
But then that would spoil my plans for a life.
I swear, you have to be pregnant or an alcoholic or a drug addict to get any help around here.
That's not true.
Actually, it's not true at all.
You can get help around here anytime you need help, but first, you just need to tell me what help you need.
What's that little jerk T Bone doing following you home? What does he need? He has a job, he has cash, he has friends.
You know him? Yeah, everybody knows him.
He knows everyone.
And he doesn't know half of what he says he knows.
I have to go inside and get dinner going.
Uh, my daughter and her husband are not around tonight, for some reason.
Oh, yeah.
They're up at that little mothers' home.
I saw them.
They're no help, neither of them.
Well, Annie's really the one you need to talk to about this, but she's been gone for a couple of weeks, and she's due back tomorrow morning.
So while I'm trying to figure out what to do here, uh would you like some spaghetti? Does it have mushrooms? 'Cause I hate mushrooms.
No.
No mushrooms.
Come on in.
Okay.
- Nice.
- Thanks.
You going to clean it up before she gets home? I'm certainly going to try.
You hungry? On and off.
Not old enough for welfare, and too old to get into social services.
Mm.
And not pregnant enough to get into the home that Annie set up.
You just can't let it go, can you? I'm not that stupid.
I'm not stupid enough to get pregnant.
Does the other one live here whenever she's not out critiquing roofers? Her husband's hot, you know.
He's not really my type.
He's wound up a little too tight.
Uh, L-Lucy and her family live right behind us.
In the garage apartment? Uh, no, in a house.
We're kind of treating the garage apartment as a guesthouse.
Y-You got a look at the garage apartment, did you? I noticed it, yeah.
I was thinking maybe I could be a guest for a night or a week or so? How old are you? How old is T Bone saying he is? Eighteen.
Yeah, right.
in high school.
Hey, what happened to the curly-haired one? You know, short, curly hair, good dancer.
Oh, Ruthie.
Yeah.
She elected to stay in Scotland as part of a student exchange program she got involved with this summer.
So you have an exchange student staying here? Uh, no, you know, uh she got involved in the program a little too late for that to happen.
And my wife and I are actually quite happy just having the two little ones here.
I don't think I got your name.
What do you think T Bone's name is? I don't know.
Theodore.
Theodore, like Leave It To Beaver.
Can you believe that? Theodore is a nice name, but T Bone's kind of fun.
And your name? Jane.
Very creative choice, don't you think? And your parents are around, not around? - Guess.
- I would really hate to guess.
I'm just, I'm a bad guesser.
My dad's a magician.
In that he likes to disappear and reappear whenever he runs out of money.
Magician and gambler.
And my mom, my mom got tired of him, met a guy on the Internet, and he lives with us.
She's nice enough, but he keeps threatening to smack me.
Calls it "tough love.
" So I don't really have a safe place to go right now, except for my car, and I'm sort of out of gas.
Well, almost out of gas.
Long way up to that home for nothing.
- Is it your car? - I'm not a criminal.
I didn't steal the car.
My dad bought it for me when he was flush.
How'd you do in school? Do you want to see my résumé? I have a résumé.
No, that's okay.
And-And you have a friend who's living in the home that Annie helped put together? I said I did, didn't I? Grab the salad, and throw it into the bowl.
Look, just tell me can I stay in the garage apartment? I don't know.
I-I'm thinking about it.
I'll-I'll think about it over dinner.
Just until I find something.
Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
Uh, I can only decide about tonight.
For additional nights, we'd have to consult Annie.
And if I'm not mistaken, you smell like pot.
Do I? Yeah, you do.
How would you know? I know.
Well, maybe it's secondhand pot.
Yeah, maybe, but I doubt it.
And I don't want anyone in the house or on the property with illegal drugs.
Would you allow anyone in the house or on the property with drugs if drugs were legal? Your mom's boyfriend he's not threatening to smack you around 'cause you're smoking his pot, is he? And you call yourself a bad guesser.
What? I don't have any on me.
Lucy's husband is a former police officer.
Yeah, so? He can't arrest me.
I don't have any pot on me.
In the car? Couple of doobies, man, okay? Well, that's going to have to go if you want to stay here.
Can I just stay in my car in the driveway until Mrs.
Camden gets home? And smoke pot? No.
But what you can do is you can give me the pot you have and we'll flush it, and then you can stay in the house or in the garage, and I'll hook you up with Lucy tomorrow.
Let's get her involved.
Involved how? What about Mrs.
Camden? She may be busy tomorrow.
And Lucy's really good with teenagers.
She has a lot of resources, and she'll help.
She's-She's really good at helping.
Not that my wife isn't, but, well, she's been, she's been out of town for the last couple of weeks and we have some catching up to do.
Look who's here.
Spreading sunshine and joy throughout the Camden household? Shut up, freak.
That's weird telling yourself to shut up.
You wouldn't be high, would you? No.
But even if I was high, I'm still smart enough to know where my mother is.
Hey, hey, n-none of that.
Look, uh, you both need a place to stay, you're both hungry, and you're both here at an unbelievably bad time, when I'm more than a little stressed and very tired, so if you want a place to stay tonight and you want something to eat, then just do whatever I say, and there won't be any problems.
Okay, any more problems.
Thanks.
Oh.
I think she's just, you know, gone to clean out her car.
She'll be back.
- She's a pothead! - I heard.
She hangs out with some questionable women.
Yeah, but I think they hang out with my wife.
And just because a young woman gets pregnant doesn't mean she's of questionable character.
And frankly, if Jane is smoking pot, then she's probably got some problems that she's not dealing with that she should be dealing with, so I'm going to try to help her out or-or get her some help.
You can't help everyone.
No, I can't help everyone.
Not tonight, anyway.
And, uh, certainly not if I want to finish everything that I want to get done before Annie gets home.
It was clean yesterday.
The house was clean, and then And then me, and then Jane and People happen.
Yeah, people happen.
So I guess I'll just put all this other stuff on hold till tomorrow.
You can't die from having too big a heart, can you? I don't know what the big deal is.
I realize that, and yet I don't feel like explaining it.
I just want to get dinner over with and get everyone settled in for the night and just do a couple of the things that I intended to do before my wife comes home.
Oh, geez.
Hope my life didn't upset your evening, Reverend Camden.
- Didn't even want to stay here.
- Yeah, you did.
I said I'd do the talking.
Look, once your wife gets home, maybe she can get us one of her cheap apartments until we find a real place to stay.
As far as I know, there are no vacancies.
And, uh, the apartments are just for young women who are pregnant.
Yeah, but that's as far as you know.
Maybe Mrs.
Camden planned on having a couple extra apartments for emergencies.
Ever consider using your pot money for, say, a deposit on an apartment? You know where we can get an apartment with a deposit of 50 bucks? I'm sure you can justify spending your money on pot, but then, we can always justify anything we're doing as long as we're doing it.
I got it from the Internet boyfriend of my mother's, remember? And you are? She's doing the talking.
Well, you do the talking.
How old are you? - I don't know.
- Eighteen? Not 18? I don't know.
T Bone? I was taken by surprise myself.
Never seen this one before.
- Hi.
- Hi.
- Hi.
-Hi.
We have guests tonight.
Can we keep them? Yeah, we have plenty of room.
Uh, well, we-we have room now, but we don't always have room.
Sometimes your brothers and sisters come home.
Our brothers and sisters never come home.
They left.
Excuse me.
Hello.
Hi.
Reverend Camden? - Yeah.
- You don't know me, but Oh, well, why on earth should that make any difference when I have a house full of strangers? Sandy told me you were that kind of guy.
What kind of guy? The kind of guy who would help anyone anytime they asked.
Well, uh, generally yes, but I'm a little pressed for time tonight, so what do you want? How can I help you? I'm in school with Sandy.
We're both new to the seminary program.
And over the past few weeks, we've taken an interest in each other.
And I was wondering do you think a guy should try to have a relationship with a woman who has a baby and who has a shot at having a relationship with the father of that baby? I don't know.
I I really don't know.
I mean, I-I don't know you, and I haven't talked to Martin lately, and I haven't even talked to Sandy lately, unfortunately.
So based on what I know, which is nothing, uh, I would say, why don't you just go on being friends for right now, be Uh, I really, I have to go.
I'll talk to you later.
Okay.
Well, thanks.
Just friends.
All right.
Well, we both agreed to go with whatever his advice was.
Call him back.
See if you can get advice we like better.
I can't.
Are you sure? Because I really like you.
I like you, too.
But maybe we should take our time and get to know each other.
What we like and don't like about each other.
That sounds reasonable.
How long would we have to know each other before before we really know each other? Really know each other? You mean? I mean I want to be your boyfriend.
I'm in love with you.
I'm in love with you.
Um, I'm in love with you and I want to be your boyfriend.
- Do you? - What happened? Did you find something you don't like about me that quickly? Hey, what kind of guy calls a minister to see if he can have a relationship? A loser.
You know, I-I don't even know your name, so no negative comments or opinions.
You weren't at our high school.
Private school? - She's doing the talking.
- Runaway? Could somebody get me a colander? Strainer? Something? They're hot.
Yeah.
Yeah, but we still can't keep them.
Surprise! - Surprise.
- Surprise.
Surprise.
- Surprise! - Surprise! Oh - Hi.
- Hi.
So who are all your new little friends? Uh, they are new.
Very new.
I just met them in the past couple hours.
And I had no idea you were coming home tonight.
It's so good to see you, but I wanted to do so many things before you got here.
Oh, I know, I know.
That's why I came home a day early.
So that, you know, I'd be here before you started scrubbing the house and cleaning, and I succeeded beyond my wildest dreams.
That's okay.
I've got plenty of time.
I don't care.
Tomorrow, while the boys are at school, I will scrub the kitchen and the bathrooms and do the laundry and I will leave your new little friends and their problems with you.
- What? - So good to see you.
I really, really wish we didn't have a house full of desperate teenagers.
So do I.
But the boys seem quite taken with Jane and-and the other one.
And-And T Bone is he still pursuing Lucy? Is that why he's here? - That could be part of it.
- And what's the other part? He doesn't have a place to live.
I thought maybe.
Well, it's too bad I'm enjoying my life without the children so much.
He seems very nice, but, you know, he's got to go and so do the girls.
Right.
Uh You want to tell them? No, I'm not going to tell them.
They're your friends, you tell them.
And I-I can't put them in the home for teen mothers, 'cause they're not mothers.
And besides, we filled all the units.
No room at the inn.
I'm sure Lucy explained that to them.
And they can stay here the night, but tomorrow morning, well, I'll take the boys to school, and tomorrow morning you can deal with them.
Okay, I just, I'm not sure if I can deal with them in a day.
I'll bet you can.
I know you're going to find a way to deal with them that will let me still enjoy my life in my big, almost-empty house.
Just so you know, uh, Jane smokes pot.
But I made her get rid of it.
Disposal phew! - What? - Maybe if you could just get up in the morning and go look for an apartment for them and I can pull some emergency funds from the church, and I'll work on something for T Bone, and I can take care of Sam and David, make sure they get to school.
Go look for an apartment for those two so they can what, continue smoking pot? No! They need to be someplace supervised.
Not here, but somewhere.
You decide you or Lucy, the two of you.
That's your territory.
You're right.
Although, you-you know, you could, uh, take the girls, uh for a chat with Greta in the morning.
You know, unofficially.
They're too old for Child Services, but she just knows so much Greta and you and she have become such good friends.
So maybe if you could just drop by in the morning.
Such good friends that I would just drop by unannounced to ask her to help you out with two potheads that we just met? What's going on? "Potheads" is kind of a strong conclusion.
Eric, what's going on? What's going on? You mean beside everything going on? - Yeah! - - Is that the phone? Hey, that's the phone.
Right back.
He's kind of busy right now, but I'm a good listener, and I'm not entirely unfamiliar with your situation.
See, Martin went to my high school.
Uh, you know, Annie's outside, if you want to talk to her.
Ooh, we're out.
Let's go.
Do you think you might help me clean up here? Oh, certainly.
I didn't know if I should touch your things.
Dinner was, uh, tense.
- Hello.
- Are you busy? I'm terribly busy.
Y-You just, you got me on the wrong night, when Just a minute.
What do you want? Other than what you wanted before what you all want.
Is it that I'm a single mom and you figure I've had sex before hey, why not have sex again with you? - Sandy? - Just a minute.
I want you to hear this.
Could we talk, just the two of us? Let's make it the three of us you, me and Reverend Camden.
Hi, Reverend Camden.
I agree the two of you should talk.
No.
Wait.
You don't know what happened.
He told me he was in love with me just so he could sleep with me.
Or because I'm in love with you.
No, you're not.
You don't even know me well enough to be in love with me.
And you never even had any intention of getting to know me, other than to "know me" know me.
If you know what I mean.
I-I think I do.
Why don't you two And all you ever do is come over here and study and eat my food and hang out in my apartment.
And the only reason that you ever do that is you think that you can con me into believing that I'm someone special to you.
Or that you're in love with me.
You are someone special to me.
And I think I am in love with you.
Look, the reason I came back over here was to apologize, and to confess, that yes, I am trying to sleep with you.
Which I thought was clear.
I didn't think I was trying to hide the fact that I was trying to sleep with you.
It's not like I tried to trick you with some chicken piccata.
Let's leave Martin out of this.
And you can't cook.
You talk.
You're a talker.
And you tried to talk me into doing something that I didn't want to do.
I thought you did.
Well, I didn't.
I thought we were just making out, just getting to know each other.
Then fine, that's what we'll do if you want.
But look, I actually don't see having a physical relationship with a woman as a conflict with everything else I believe.
I'm still here.
I have something to say about this.
Still here! I'm confused.
I know.
Maybe I'm a little confused myself.
I thought you wanted what I wanted.
I want a boyfriend.
I want to be in a relationship.
I want to be in love and get married before I have sex.
Okay.
Okay, what? Okay, can we talk about it? You're not going to change my mind.
It's taken me a long time to get here.
Give me a few months.
Get to know me, let me get to know you.
Then let's have this talk again.
Until then, let's not see other people.
Let me be your boyfriend.
Isn't that pretty much what I tried to do? And you're not even speaking to me.
I know you saw me in the parking lot.
Otherwise, I think you would have left.
I think I really need to get to know both of you a little better.
- I don't think so.
- I don't think so.
You want to be her boyfriend? Please.
I'm the father of her baby.
Isn't that pretty much what I told her to be friends and get to know the guy? Maybe helping all these people I don't know, maybe it's not what you're supposed to be doing right now.
With you being the exception? Well, yeah, but I serve a purpose being here.
Well, you know, we all serve a purpose in being here, so to speak.
There's some extra toothbrushes in the medicine cabinet in the upstairs bathroom.
Oh, my, uh, my teeth will survive.
You have to tell your family.
Specifically Annie.
You have to tell her what's going on with you.
Or I can't stay here.
I talk too much.
But you don't know anything.
I do.
I wish I didn't, but I do.
The messages from the doctor's office were vague, but not so vague that I don't know you're in some real trouble with your heart.
You have to tell her, Reverend.
Oh, girls, it's so difficult growing up these days, but we-we can't fix everything in one night.
So, make yourselves at home in the garage apartment, but no smoking.
No pot, no cigarettes.
No smoking.
Promise.
And we won't be any trouble at all.
Not at all.
What she said.
They're gonna stay in the garage apartment for one night.
That's it.
One night.
I'll find out what I can tomorrow, about them, about their families.
The quiet one, she aged out of social services; isn't that sad? It is.
There are a lot of kids on the street who never had a home other than social services.
Where did they meet? At a job fair.
They were applying to be air traffic controllers.
They just want to find work, they want to have a life, but you know, how are they supposed to know what to do when they've never been with responsible people, you know? So who was on the phone? Sandy.
Personal crisis.
Some slick guy from the seminary.
I remember when you were a slick guy from seminary.
Anyway, uh So, what, no Martin? No Martin.
I thought things were going good with Martin.
Yeah, they were, until she made out with this other guy.
Oh, why did she do that? Why does anyone do anything? You know, I think she'll give Martin another shot at some point, I hope.
I know you think I've been acting a little strange.
Well, you have been acting a little strange.
Although I must say, trying to help three teenagers who you don't know, all in one evening, that's, you know, close to normal for you.
I would say, tonight you're close to normal.
And yet not quite.
I still think you're hiding something.
I am, Annie.
I am.
I know.
You know? About the hamsters.
You do? Yeah, I think you must've stepped out with Happy when I called the other day.
The boys told me.
Well, then I guess I guess they also told you that I took them out of school.
Out of school? That crazy teacher, Ms.
Margo Oh, the one you were flirting with.
I wasn't flirting with her.
You were flirting with her.
You dressed up in a costume for her.
It wasn't a costume, it was a Ramones T-shirt.
Whatever.
You can't take them out of school, y-you know that.
I'm homeschooling them.
- What? - I'm homeschooling them.
How can you homeschool them and do your work? You're not home.
You're never home.
You're always gone.
No! No.
No.
I can't.
Okay, okay, but they do, they do they love it, Annie.
And-And they're just, they're, like, speeding through the work.
And I'm not even sure that they shouldn't skip this grade and just go onto the next one.
And I can make the time to teach them; I can.
'Cause I-I just, I want to I just want to spend more time with Sam and David.
I-I want to spend as much time with them as I can.
Because? Because they're my boys, you know? And I didn't spend enough time with any of the others, and it's too late now.
It's too late.
They're grown up.
You know, they're away from the house, and they got lives of their own that don't include me.
And that's okay, you know.
Children are supposed to grow up.
But I just, I want to spend more time with Sam and David, because I feel like I hardly know them.
Well, I suppose if we homeschooled, we wouldn't be so tied into the Monday to Friday and the 8:00 to 3:30 schedule.
No, not at all.
Or the September through June schedule.
Yeah.
'Cause they're only required to finish each assignment and finish the work for each grade within a calendar year.
Yeah, yeah.
You know what, Eric? I-I don't know if it's the jet lag talking, but I'm-I'm well, I'm-I'm not entirely opposed to, uh to your idea, no, not at all.
I mean, we don't, we don't have to raise the boys the way we raised the other children.
No, we don't, I mean, not if we don't want to.
Not if we don't want to.
And we don't want to.
I don't want to.
I mean, this-this feels great.
This is actually what I've been feeling, and now you're feeling it, too.
Yeah.
Feeling what, too? The freedom that comes with the age we are.
The freedom to say no.
The freedom to not care what other people think.
The freedom to be us, to be different.
The freedom to enjoy our lives, to enjoy our family and everything that we've created.
We've earned this, you've earned this.
You have every right to do whatever you want and to raise your two boys however you want to.
I support your decision.
Homeschooling it is, hamsters and all.
Really? Oh, absolutely.
I love you.
I love us.
I love that we're in this big adventure of life together, you and me.
I've missed you.
I missed you, too.
You know, it was strange.
I walked in the house tonight and the kitchen was full of teenagers.
And it wasn't that long ago when all the children in the kitchen were ours.
Hmm Okay, that almost never happened.
There were always two or more of them from some other family.
You were meant to solve problems, you were meant to help people.
So you do whatever you need to do to help T Bone and Jane and the other girl.
And if I can help you, you know that I will.
I don't want a house full of children, but, hey, sometimes we plan and God laughs, right? Right.
So let's go to bed.
I can't wait to be in our bed.
Don't tell me there's more than homeschooling and hamsters.
No.
I'm sure people must think you're having an affair with the teacher.
Yeah.
Afraid so.