Adam Page #6

It's not rocket science.

I'm saying you need to talk to the girl

one more time, that's all.

No. I don't know.

Liars is all you're

gonna run across in this world.

A man has got to learn the difference

between just plain liars...

and liars worth lovin'.

Hmm?

Harlan? If you called that girl...

couldn't you stop cursing yourself

for a stubborn old fool...

even if you still had to be old?

Be seated.

This court sentences you

to a prison term of five years...

in a federal corrections institute...

followed by three years of mandatory probation.

As per your plea agreement,

you'll have one week to settle your affairs.

Report to the Corrections Department...

Monday, February 9, at 9:00 a.m.

Adjourned.

You have one new message.

Adam, this is Rebecca.

Marty was sentenced

to two years in prison today.

Of course we're all very upset, but Beth-

Anyway, we're going home to Westchester-

211 Richmond Road, Bedford Hills.

You have the number.

I- I thought you should know where she is.

For months, all they wanted was

for me to give them Eric Cooper.

"Do not go about as a talebearer

amongst your people."

At least I don't have to pack, right, Becky?

We always pack too much.

This time, just the toothbrush.

Excuse me.

Let's talk for a minute.

Ah, Bethy. Bethy.

Your mother's gonna need your help.

Yeah, I know.

There are things you do,

there are things you have to do...

and... you make your choices.

You live with them.

You and your mother will never want

for anything. I've made arrangements.

In two years I'll be back home...

and this will all be over.

One more thing, about Adam?

He's not for you.

It's not his fault,

but he's-he's more like your child...

than- than anything else.

He'll never be the kind of man

that you can admire, that you can look up to.

And it's not fair that he should hope

for something that's- that's-

that's... impossible.

People with Asperger's get married.

- They have families.

- Married?

He lives in another world.

You don't need to make

that kind of compromise, Beth.

UmYou know this is the best thing.

You do know that, Bethany.

Beth?

Beth Buchwald!

Beth?

Beth Buchwald!

- Beth Buchwald?

- Oh, God.

I'll get him.

Beth?

- Adam!

- Be

Wewe have to talk again.

You scared me.

I thought you were gonna hit me.

No, I would never, ever do that.

The job was gone.

They hired someone for the job...

but they have another one in an observatory.

They said I was just what they needed.

It starts in April,

but it's in Flintridge, California.

I want you to come with me.

I could work, and you could write...

and you wouldn't have to teach anymore.

Hello, Mr. Buchwald. I came Oh.

I'm sorry you have to go to prison.

I came to ask Beth to come to California with me.

I'd be engineering microchips

for satellite guidance systems.

I have a job in Flintridge, California.

That's fine. Congratulations, Adam.

- But Beth won't be able to go with you.

- What?

- The family needs her. She's needed here.

- I need her.

I can't go without her.

- Well, I'm sorry, Adam, but she can't go.

- No.

- You can't do that.

- Bethy. Bethy.

- You can't speak for me.

- We agreed.

- You don't make my decisions!

- We agreed!

- We're standing in the middle of the st

- I don't care!

- Calm down. Calm down!

- Your own choices Liar! Cheater!

Nothing will ever be the same! Nothing!

I'm going now.

- And I don't care what you think!

- Don't go! You can't!

- Let go. Let go of me.

- Get off of me!

- Adam!

- Oh! God!

Adam!

- But you're coming to California?

- No!

- I mean, home, to the city!

- You're not coming to California?

- Maybe! I don't know! I'll think about it!

- Oh, okay.

Mom! I'm gonna take the car.

I'll leave it at the station.

- Beth!

Come back here!

It didn't go well?

What did he say?

He wouldn't even see me.

I waited in the visiting room for an hour.

And finally a guard came and told me

that he wasn't coming out.

Your mother said he wasn't ready.

I thought if I actually went.

I didn't think that he wouldn't even see me.

- What are you gonna do?

- What do you mean?

We're going, right? We're getting on a plane

tomorrow and going to California.

You should pack. You haven't packed at all.

Can you give me a minute? Okay?

Just leave me alone for a while.

I'm not sure.

I mean, I should be sure, shouldn't I?

Do you know what you want?

We'll never have a moment

where we look into each other's eyes...

and know exactly...

what the other person's feeling.

The idea of that wouldn't even make sense to him.

He's never told me that he loves me.

I don't know what it would mean to him if he did.

Yes. Feeling loved is very important...

but...

loving, my precious girl

that's the necessity.

Mom, I gotta go.

I'll I'll talk to you tomorrow.

Okay?

I love you, Beth.

Adam?

Why do you want me

to go to California with you?

What? What do you mean?

Why do you want me to go?

Um

You, um

You a-are...

like a part of me.

Um...

and, um...

I n I need you...

uh, to

to, uh...

help find a place to live...

and to learn how to get to work and...

to understand what it means

when people say crazy stuff...

and, um...

I couldn't go without you.

I'm sorry.

I can't go.

If you want me to go because...

you can't go without me, I

I can't go.

- You sure about this?

- I have to go.

I have to go alone.

Give me that.

Hey, I want you to know...

I made that call.

It took me a while to find her...

but we'rewe're gonna meet up.

- The woman's even more stubborn than I am.

- Oh, yeah?

I'm just trying to say "thank you," damn it.

You're welcome, Harlan.

Actually,

the best image resolution is achieved...

by multiple smaller telescopes

called interferometers.

Interferometers combine light waves...

collected from the same source.

Um, a star, for instance, and the

the waves form an interference pattern...

as they add together, or cancel out,

add together, cancel out.

It's what we call constructive interference,

or destructive interference...

so that the light from two or more telescopes...

can produce a brighter image

than one alone.

Um

But sometimes it's best

just to look up at the night sky.

Thank you. Thank you so much, Mr. Raki.

All right. We'll be heading out.

Watch your step.

Adam. The top one's for you.

Um

Oh, Carol?

Um, would you like me to help you with those?

Yeah.

Thank you.

- Hey, man.

- Hello, Brian.

Oh, you still meeting up with everyone later?

Awesome.

Dear Adam:
Look how far we've come.

Love, Beth.

Adam, his mother and his father...

were a family of talking raccoons...

who lived in Central Park

in the middle of New York City.

They didn't really belong there,

but there they were.

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