Charged: The Eduardo Garcia Story Page #2

important to me

that he didn't come

out the other end of it

and be like, why did

you sign that way,

why did you sign this way,

and not really understand.

[Woman] So we would go in

and raise up all

these loose edges

and free them up

so that they can

come together

and allow this hair

to shift to this area.

Okay, and you

think my eyebrows

are gonna be all like this?

[Woman] I hope not.

[Jennifer] Also for Ed,

filming actually kind of

gave him something to do.

See you later, I'm going to

get my head wound closed up.

I'm just kind of coming

out of anesthesia.

[Jennifer] You want

to look at me, Ed?

Very cool.

Ready Jennifer?

[Jennifer] I'm ready.

When you're in the hospital,

every day is the same.

Everything's getting better

but it's very slowly

getting better.

Is it video,

filming right now?

[Jennifer] Mm-hmm.

You close enough?

-[Jennifer] Yep.

-Are you sure?

I think you should

be closer.

Want to turn the light on more?

[Jennifer] No, I'm good.

You're good?

You sure?

[Jennifer] It

just gave a focus

on something other

than just the fact

that we're in a

freaking hospital.

Yes, I got it!

Nailed that sucker!

I've been trying that

for like 10 times.

[Boy]

I'll help you.

[Boy #2] God it's cold.

Hurry up.

I didn't have a dad

growing up.

There was really no one

looking over us saying,

"Don't do that or

don't do this."

It was really our

world to discover

and make our own mistakes

and learn from them.

I just remember that

they were both crazy

and having them both

together was chaos.

Yeah man, what's up with you?

Hey, b*tch, come on.

Yeah, you think you're bad.

[Kathie] They had

a lot of energy.

I tried the best I could

to keep Eddie in line.

[Eduardo] I guess

my educational history

is kicked out of nine

different schools

starting with preschool,

disruptive behavior.

First grade was for

filling condoms with piss

and throwing them

down the hallway.

I started a fire in

the boy's bathroom

so I got kicked

out of that school.

[Eugenio] Got into a fight,

we kind of both got kicked

out in that situation

but I think he was

leading the charge.

Eugene, he was 11 years old,

never even thought about

not having a father

and he goes, "I need

to meet my father."

And she said, "Okay."

And within months,

it was literally that fast.

Where's dad and then

we're in Mexico.

All I knew is he was this

incredibly dark, tanned

pirate looking figure

that fished for

sharks and lobster

and lived this crazy

jungle lifestyle.

He was like a hero.

It was idyllic,

me and my twin

brother running around

just having a blast.

Hi, mom.

Hi, guys.

(mariachi music)

We decided to

get together again.

We went through a lot of

changes, a lot of changes,

and then me becoming

pregnant with Ellie

and integrating into a family.

[Eduardo] The first

time my dad's actually

gotten to make a snowball.

I don't know if he

expected himself

to play dad all of a sudden.

Hey, dad, no,

don't throw it!

Say hi.

Hi.

And we're gonna

go say hi to Eduardo

who's having lunch

and he does not know

that dad is here.

(speaking in Spanish)

It's a surprise.

He doesn't know you're here.

No (speaking in

Spanish).

[Eugenio] Whistle, whistle.

(whistling)

(speaking in Spanish)

Hey, how you doing?

How you doing?

Thank you, thank you to be here.

(speaking in Spanish)

[Eduardo] For many years,

he wasn't really my dad,

he was a friend.

[Manuel] Watch it,

don't break the line.

Don't break the line.

It's a big fish, wow.

It's big fish.

Ha ha!

[Eduardo] At 13,

I started using drugs

and then I started smoking

cigarettes with my dad

and doing drugs with my dad

and drinking with my dad

and he becomes my best friend

because he's not telling me no.

And I was already

hanging with a crew

that was tripping on

acid and doing coke

and everything else.

[Kathie] When Eduardo was 17,

he sat at the kitchen

table and he said,

"I realize that my habits

were hurting my family."

[Eduardo] So I'm tired of

living in the shadows of lies

and I just want to

level the field here

and me, Euge, Indra, dad,

we've been using drugs for

years behind your back, mom.

I mean, I was livid.

And I think for Eduardo

going straight was essential.

[Eduardo] I decided if I

want to make an impact in life,

I needed to get to business,

I need to get to work,

I need to be

purposeful in my life.

I had already been cooking in

restaurants since I was 15.

And then I decided

culinary school

was going to be where

I put all my energy

and through that,

I wanted to discover

my potential

on my own without substances.

[Announcer] Eduardo Garcia.

(audience applause)

[Eduardo] Danielle, you

want to see something cool?

Come here.

[Jennifer] Yeah,

this is pretty cool.

So, this is lefty,

you now lefty, Danielle?

[Danielle] Yeah.

I can feel all my

fingers still over there

even though they're not there.

That's my thumb moving,

this is my pinky moving.

Maybe I'll be able to

get a prosthetic limb

that has like some

kind of sensors.

I don't want the ones that are

supposed to look like hands.

I want like cool, custom made

like hardwood cherry hands

or oak or like titanium, I

don't know, something cool.

[Woman] Antler.

F***ing yeah,

antler, like bone,

kinda cool.

[Woman] That's awesome.

That is awesome.

Boom, boom, boom, boom.

Only time I was worried for him

was when he had

his chest operation

because they'd never done

anything like it before.

With the rib, you

can't just cut it off

and leave a hole in the chest.

What we have to do

is try to find ways

to cover that up.

[Jennifer] So we had

like the burn team,

the plastic surgeon team,

the cardiothoracic team,

everybody around the bed

just kind of

brainstorming essentially

what muscle they

could take from where.

[Doctor] Everything

that's dead.

-Gotta go.

-[Doctor] Gotta go, yeah.

That may leave you with a

hole on your chest this big.

Yes, sir.

[Doctor] Like kind of

stick my head in it kind of.

Yes, sir.

The likelihood of you

doing pull ups again is zero.

Pull ups again

-in a year?

-Ever, ever.

You're gonna have,

your lat's gonna be

turned around to here.

(knives scraping)

[Eduardo] I just wrapped

up a very successful year

as a yacht chef,

11 years of hard work.

My way of cooking as a

professional yacht chef

really became:
get there,

figure out what's in the market,

what's local, what's in season

and then figure out

how to put it together.

Definitely developing as a chef.

You're going around the world.

There were all

kinds of adventures.

It kickstarted a time of life

where I was accountable

to myself only

and myself was interested in

letting loose a little bit.

So that is what

brought me into hey,

been six, seven years

since I've had a beer,

hmm, there's a drink being

passed around, yeah, why not?

I remember sitting on the

couch at the crew house

when Jen walked in

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