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a hard time, okay?

She doesn't want to be in the house

with you guys, and I don't blame her.

Go home, Chris.

I will take care of my family.

Thank you.

- Put it down.

- What are you doing, man?

F***ing put it down.

What the f***

are you doing here?

Put it

in the f***ing bag.

Put the gun down

I'm gonna

f***ing shoot you.

No, no, no, no!

Carol.

I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry

I let that happen.

That's your kid, and I was

supposed to be the grownup

and I was supposed to take care

of her, and I didn't do that.

And I let you down. And I'm really sorry.

And I feel horrible.

Okay.

Okay.

All right. Listen... Look,

I know I've been

a pain in the ass, all right?

But I...

This has...

This has been really hard.

This is like so much

harder than I thought.

I have an idea.

What if we just spent

one day together?

Just like one day,

where you can just be you,

and I can be me,

and we can be together. We don't

have to touch each other.

It's not even about that.

I feel like if I had that,

I could move on.

You know?

And leave you alone.

And, um...

If that's what you want.

Look, I know you're going to

Seattle this weekend, right?

I know the EMM stuff is super

important, but I just...

If you could just

skip it this one time,

just so we could spend

a little time together.

All right.

Look, just think about it. I'm gonna be

at the park on Friday, after school.

I'm gonna be waiting there,

all right?

Hi.

Hi.

Can I give you a ride home?

I have work, Mom.

Honey, you understand

why I was upset, right?

Are you gonna try to keep

me from seeing Chris, too?

He doesn't have a family.

He has no one.

I gotta go.

Huh? What are you doing?

I'm sorry.

Oh, God...

I'm sorry.

You okay?

What's the matter?

Nothing. I don't know.

Just let me go, okay?

- Hey.

- I'm sorry.

I got ten minutes

What's up?

I think we need to

go to counseling.

You wanna keep

living like this?

Why do you keep

harping on this?

We've made it this far.

Well, this is sh*t, Tom. We're

living in sh*t right now.

Here's what I think.

I think we're living a normal

life, just like everybody else.

I'll retire

in about five years.

And then we can do

whatever we want.

See, this is why

we need counseling,

'cause there is

no communication.

Like, I don't even wanna retire.

I'd love the work like I did with Chris.

Like, that...

I'm good at that.

I like that.

Carol, that is what has

been dragging us down.

Down from what?

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Hang on a second.

It's too dangerous.

- What?

- They might recognize us.

Oh.

- Put that on.

- Oh, come on.

- Come on, put it on.

- Get out of here.

Chris...

Does it look like

I'm f***ing around?

- All right.

- Let's see it.

Do I look as good

as I feel?

- All right. Let's do it.

- Yeah. All right.

We are totally freaking

everybody out here.

Come on, come on.

Go.

You first.

Not bad.

I won.

Oh, my God.

This is so good.

Okay.

Where to next?

I don't know.

It's getting late.

I don't know

how we could top that.

- That was pretty great.

- Yeah.

Um, well, what do you wanna do?

Um...

I know I said

I wasn't gonna, but...

I really wanna

kiss you right now.

Will it be okay?

I can't.

All right. Yes.

- I love you.

- I love you.

I love you.

You do realize that

I could be your mother?

Almost.

I'm gonna have to disagree

with you on that one.

My mother's not the least

bit attractive to me.

But seriously, how would

this work?

Have you thought

this through?

Yeah.

That's all I think about.

You have a whole, big,

new life in front of you.

Years.

How could you possibly know

that it's me that you want?

I've been feeling

all this pressure...

from myself mostly.

But...

From everybody.

You know, to...

do all these things,

you know.

To...

fulfill my potential.

But...

I just...

I just want a simple life.

I mean, I just...

wanna have a job

I'm good at.

You know,

come home every day

to somebody that I love,

and be good to them.

And, um...

watch television.

And, um...

maybe go for a hike every now

and again on the weekends.

I want you to be the

person I come home to,

and spend my life with.

'Cause I already love you more

than I thought was ever possible.

...a Blue Bird.

No, I never heard of it.

No? Maybe it was called

the Red Bird.

Or the Yellow Bird.

It was some kind of bird.

But they have the best pancake and the best

French toast, and the best everything.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

Chris, you gotta

get out of here.

I'm not going anywhere.

Please.

Tom...

Tom, hold on.

Tom, hold on a second.

Hold on, one second.

Please, Tom. Oh, my God!

Stop!

Jesus Christ. Tom!

Oh, my God.

Tom?

Chris, go. Right now.

Get out of here.

You hungry?

Do you want me

to make you an omelette?

It'll take two seconds.

Yeah? Take a seat.

Hey, um...

I just wanna say

I'm sorry for being

such a f***ing a**hole.

I didn't...

I didn't know what to do.

I mean, you went to prison, and

then, you didn't say anything.

And I should've

visited you more.

I should've

visited you way more.

But I was afraid

if I went in there

and I said something, someone

would f***ing hear me

and they could throw me in there.

It's stupid though.

No excuses.

I should have been there.

I should have been there

way f***ing more.

I feel like such

a f***ing piece of sh*t.

And there's nothing

I can do now, but, I...

I'm sorry.

You should take my truck.

What do you mean?

It's the only thing I have that's

worth anything. Just take my truck.

Please take my f***ing truck.

I don't want your truck, man.

I don't even drive

a stick shift.

I'll drive you around.

How about that?

I can just drive you around.

I'll f***ing drive you

for the rest of your life.

Hey.

Hi.

Uh... I'm calling because,

uh, Hildy was not

at school today.

She's not at work, and...

I don't know where she is,

and I'm starting to lose it,

and I'm wondering if maybe

you've heard from her,

or if you know anything

about where she is?

Um...

No, I don't know.

I'm sorry.

Sh*t.

Did you try the Jordan house?

What's that?

You know, the one that's on

the way out to Lake Stevens.

It's like burned out

or whatever.

She might be over there.

Wow. Okay.

All right.

Carol?

- I'm sorry.

- Chris...

Chris, I can't do this, okay? I

can't do this right now. Okay?

Yeah. No, of course.

Of course.

- All right. Bye.

- Bye.

Hi.

Hi.

So this is, uh, where you

been spending all your time?

It's really beautiful.

Hildy, honey, I'm...

I'm so sorry that you, uh...

Had to see that.

I don't know why your father felt it

was so important to have you there.

I'm the one who told him

where you were, Mom.

Your credit card

company called.

Suspicious activity.

So...

Are you guys, like, together?

No, honey.

We're not together.

That was the first

and only...

When Chris was in jail,

we talked... a lot, and...

I felt like I made

a difference in his life.

You know? That I was

important to him.

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