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Mom, I'm done with my bath.

All right. I'm gonna go to Ohio

first thing in the morning.

- Yo, Rip.

- Yo!

- See you Sunday.

- See you Sunday.

Peace out, man.

- Take it easy.

- See you later.

See you later.

Mr. Porter.

Yeah.

Im Jack Campbell, Joey's father.

It's good to meet you, Jack.

How much do you want, Rip?

Come again?

This is an amendment

to the original adoption.

You sign this,

I give you half a million dollars in cash.

Here.

- That's a whole lot of money, Jack.

- Yes, sir.

You sign it, I pay you,

and we walk away.

What do you say?

You come up

with $500,000 in cash, Jack...

Im betting you could

come up with a million.

Okay. Make it a million.

That was fast.

That was fast, Jack.

- Let's make it a million.

- Yeah?

Boy, you said that so fast...

I figure you can come up with two.

Fine. Just sign it.

Two million dollars.

Then I'd be just like you, Jack.

Big house...

Big boat and big shot, huh?

Yeah, that's right.

You can be anything you want, Rip.

Anything at all.

What do you want, Rip?

What do you want?

I want my son, okay?

And you can't have him,

not for no money.

Not two million, not 10 million,

'cause my son ain't for sale.

Whoa, whoa, hold on.

Rip, listen to me one second.

Just listen to me. Please. Please.

With that kind of money,

you could start over.

You could have as many kids as you want.

You understand?

What am I, a dog?

You don't know me.

You don't know me.

What, you can't have any kids?

You got no bullets

in your gun, big shot, huh?

You don't know me!

You don't know me!

- You-

- I'll send you back to prison, you hear me?

You're going to prison!

You're the one violating the court order!

Either way, you can't have my son.

What happened?

He doesn't want the money.

He wants Joey.

Jack, he can't do this.

He assaulted you.

We call the police.

We file a report.

Molly.

It won't work.

Why not?

Because if I report him...

I go to jaiI too.

Okay.

What do we do?

I don't know.

I don't know.

You don't know?

That's it?

You try to buy him off,

it doesn't work, and now you're done?

What else do you want me to do?

You tell me.

What else should I do, Molly?

I don't know- something, anything.

You're his father.

You don't just give up.

Im not giving up!

I've done everything!

I don't care what it takes.

Im not giving up my son.

You know what?

You're something, you know?

- I'm not giving up my son!

- Look at my face!

Look at me!

What a horrible father I am.

Ive done everything, Molly.

Why don't you do something?

Do something.

Im going to bed.

Please! Don't take my baby.

- Oh, baby.

- I know.

- I'm sorry.

- You don't need this, darling.

Baby, don't. I do. I just need it.

- I know. This is not gonna fix things.

- No, no, no, no!

Don't, don't, don't! No, no, no!

Hey! Don't!

Honey, you don't need that.

You don't need that anymore.

Please, baby? You don't need to.

Please, no.

- Get- Get out.

- No, no. Baby, no. No, please.

I love you so much.

Please tell me you've changed, baby.

Please.

Please.

I- I lost seven years.

You gonna be okay, buddy?

Yeah. We're gonna paint my tree house.

- Joey, you ready to go?

- Yeah.

Bye, Dad.

I love you.

I love you too.

- Put your seat belt on, bud.

- Okay.

Bye, sweetie.

- Paw.

- Nice.

One, two, three!

- Ha, ha!

- Whoo-hoo!

You stacked his deck.

Hey, just one thing, so I can remember.

Let's you had a birthday coming up...

What would you want to eat

on your birthday?

A- A chicken cake.

Chicken cake?

Chicken-flavored cake?

- Chicken with cake.

- Chicken with cake?

- A chicken cake. - You want a cake

made in the shape of a chicken?

- No.

- You want chicken inside the cake?

- Chicken inside the cake.

- All right, I'm gonna file that away.

All right, let's go.

One, two, three.

- Joker! I win.

- I win!

You won? I thought joker

was better than everything.

No. That was before.

- Before what?

- When I had joker.

Reminds me of someone.

All right, card shark,

ready to hop in the shower?

I don't want to take a shower.

Oh, we gotta get you clean somehow.

Look at you. P. U.

P. U. to you.

Now, listen, we gotta get you in there

and get you cleaned up.

Remember we talked?

We got different rules here.

I need you to go

and jump in the shower. Okay?

You can do it.

You know what?

Why don't I take care of it?

Honey, don't spoil him.

- I'm not spoiling him. It's just that-

- It's fine.

- It's just that I think that-

- He's a big boy.

You're a big boy. Come on.

Get your gear. Let's go.

Come on, bud.

Hop in the shower.

I don't wanna take a shower.

Doesn't work like that

here, buddy. Come on.

I need you to obey me...

And I need you to get in the bathroom.

You know, I think that you're

really upsetting him now.

No, you know what? I'm-I'm-

I'm actually the one who's getting upset.

- So would you just-

- Okay.

Come here.

Come here, sweetie.

Here, we'll go together, okay?

It'll be fun, all right? Come on.

Let's go, Joey.

Please, sweetheart.

It's only water.

It's nothin'.

Come on. What are you doing?

Come on, buddy, in the shower.

- Come on.

- I don't wanna take a shower.

- He's really scared of it.

He's really scared. - It'll be fun.

- I don't think we should push him.

- He's a big boy, baby.

He's not made of sugar.

He's not gonna melt.

- I don't wanna take a shower.

- Just take your shirt off, and let's get going.

- No.

- You wanna do it together?

We'll do it with our clothes on.

Come on. It'll be fun. Whoo!

Come on. You ready?

Whoo-hoo!

Rip, what are you doing?

Rip, stop it!

Stop that!

- Rip, this is not fun! You're scaring him!

- Right?

- It's okay. We're having fun.

- It's not okay!

It's not fun. You're scaring him.

- He's okay, baby. He's okay. He's fine.

- He's not!

- Rip, you're hurting him!

Rip, you're hurting him! - Ow!

- Stop! You're hurting him!

- Okay.

- This is hurting him. Stop it.

- You okay?

- You're okay.

- No!

You hurt him.

Listen, listen.

I need to telI you something, okay?

Wendy- Wendy is your real mommy.

- Rip, not now.

- Shh, baby.

This is not the right time.

- And I'm your real daddy, okay?

- No, you're not.

And you came here to live with us.

- No, you're not!

- Yes, I am.

- I'm your real daddy, and this

is your real mommy. - Rip.

- I wanna see my daddy!

- I am your daddy.

- I wanna go home!

- You are home. You are home.

I wanna go home!

- It's okay. It's okay.

- Rip.

It's okay.

- That's enough. That's enough.

- It's okay.

Come here, sweetie.

That's enough for one night.

That's enough.

The first night we moved,

I sat right here.

Right here with Joey.

I remember I asked him- I said, "Son...

How deep do you think the ocean is?"

He said, "Daddy, I bet you

it's 50feet deep. "

We used to be on the same team.

I don't feeI like we are anymore.

You know, honey, you were right.

I was disappointed when we-

when we adopted Joey.

I wanted my own son.

I wanted my own blood.

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