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Thank you. That was delicious.

What kind of bologna was that?

- It wasn't bologna.

- But something like that.

Yeah, it was something like that.

My shift is ending now.

That'll be $75.

Excuse me.

Any reason why you didn't tell us you were

finishing your shift

before you took my lunch?

I didn't take it.

- It was offered.

- What about deducting my meal?

- Why would I do that?

- Why would you do that? Courtesy.

Courtesy.

It was courteous of this woman

to invite you out.

It was certainly courteous of her

to offer me your lunch.

I'm not sure how courteous it is

to now demand a payment.

You know what? Don't f*** with me.

Why not? You're f***ing with me.

I assumed, given the circumstance,

that it was a gift.

Now you're asking to have it back.

Since I can't give it back,

- you're extorting me for money.

- Right.

Money I earned doing my job.

- No. Do not give him the money.

- Really, it's okay. It's not a problem.

- Why don't you get the f*** out of here?

- No. What do you propose?

That I give your lunch back?

- Oh, yeah? Okay. Okay. Okay.

- Get the f*** out of here!

Get the f*** out of here! Get in the car

and get the f*** out of here!

- Don't touch me again. - I'll touch

you again. Get in the f***ing car.

Get in the f***ing car.

Thanks.

- Get in your f***ing car!

- Big tough guy!

How long have you had this violin?

Since I was 14.

My father gave it to me.

It's quite a gift.

He must have known that you were special.

What do you mean?

A great musician.

That's what makes me special?

No.

You're special for what is in you.

That's where the music comes from.

Why did you let that go so far, Simon?

You made people remember that day

when they almost lost their lives,

and you told people that it was your dad

who tried to do it.

So whether they were sad for you

or mad at you or whatever,

why would you make people feel

all those things if it wasn't even true?

I'm unloading your car.

You haven't finished your food.

I don't want the food.

You were asking about Simon,

what it was that he was trying to work out.

Lady, we're all trying

to work things out. Okay?

Sabine. You can call me Sabine.

Lady,

you force yourself into my house,

you plan to have me tow your car.

So now I know who you are, and it's over.

You don't know who I am.

Yes, I do. Listen to me.

I was never into plays or drama in school.

I don't understand this pretending stuff.

I don't like this pretending stuff.

You're playing games with people.

That's not what I'm doing.

That's exactly what you're doing.

Simon's parents were killed

in a car accident.

- I told you that.

- The driver of the truck said

they crashed into him on purpose,

that Sami drove into the head-on collision.

How do you know his name?

Sami had a condition with his eyes.

He wasn't supposed to drive at night.

How do you know?

I was married to him

for five years until he met your sister

at his store.

He was the one who repaired her violin.

The good news is that it's authentic.

The bad news is that... Sorry.

The bad news is that

this whole piece of the violin is new.

Does it affect the sound?

No, no, no. The scroll is purely decorative.

Many instruments at this time

had a graft. Here.

The old violins had a shorter neck

and the angle of the fingerboard

was different,

and then when the new style

was introduced,

a cut was made here.

This way the scroll could be kept

while the neck was being worked on.

Can you...

I've made some drawings

on how I can reconstruct this.

With what?

I... Okay.

I... I brought this with me from Paris.

It was attached to an old violin

that was destroyed during the war.

- The same make?

- No, it's part of the same workshop.

This would make the scroll identical.

I can attach this to your violin.

Here.

Look at the drawing.

See?

It would be like this.

But in the end, it would be smooth.

You feel it? Smooth.

Your mother plays like a goddess.

How long have you been standing there?

He wants us in for dinner.

Hi.

Don't make a scene, okay?

About what?

He says anything during grace or anything...

I'm a guest. I expect

to be treated like one.

- You said they were all animals.

- No, no, no, no, no.

The people who took over the airplanes,

the people who crashed them

into the two towers, they were animals.

You said all of us.

- Was that what I said?

- Yes.

Tom, is that what I just said?

Tom, I'm asking you a question.

Is that what I told your brother-in-law?

I don't know. I don't know, Dad.

You don't know.

You're sitting across the table from me

and you don't know.

Is there a problem with your hearing, Tom?

I'll tell you why I wouldn't have said

anything like that.

Why I know I couldn't have said

anything like that,

because, contrary to what you may think,

I'm a civilized man.

And civilized people don't believe

in doing things like that.

- You always change the story.

- What story?

You are a snaky man.

Did he mean sneaky, Rachel?

Is that what your husband is calling me?

Your husband wants to know what's wrong

with raising my grandson with his culture,

and I was explaining that what's wrong is

that his culture's brought nothing

but hatred and violence into this world.

You say this after the Crusades?

- After you sent children to fight?

- What's he talking about?

- The Crusade of Children.

- Oh, yeah, yes, yes, yeah.

You're an educated man, aren't you, Sami?

What do you make of this educated man,

Tom? Does he impress you?

She was drinking a lot.

She always did in those situations.

What situations?

When Dad and him were together.

- Sami?

- Yes.

You don't use his name.

I didn't get to know him that well.

He lived with your sister for 10 years.

I wasn't around very much back then.

Where were you?

Listen.

I wish I did get to know him better, Sami.

I could tell Simon who he was.

He needs to know that.

I want him to know that.

Instead he got my father,

the same sh*t I was raised with.

Except your sister made sure

he wasn't raised with that,

that you looked after him,

that you raised Simon.

My son doesn't answer

because he agrees with me.

He doesn't want to seem impolite

because that's not the way he was raised.

The first thing you need to know

is that this family knows its place,

and its place isn't to tell me what I said

or didn't say.

Their place isn't to sit at my table

and ask me to explain myself.

Because the way my children were raised,

this would be considered rude.

Do you understand that?

Maybe it's normal for you to act this way,

to be heated, hot-blooded, impassioned,

rude across the family table,

but in my house this is not acceptable.

- When Rachel's mother was alive...

- Hey, Simon.

...she had a rule...

- Want to go out for a ride in my truck?

... whenever anyone got angry at this table

or anywhere...

- Okay.

... she would nod.

- You don't talk...

- Tom.

Tom, come back. Please come back now.

After she spent the whole week

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