Silver Linings Playbook Page #2

What are you doing, dad? You know what?

Excelsior.

Excelsior. What does that mean?

It means you know what I'm gonna

do, I'm gonna take all this

negativity and use it as fuel and

I'm gonna find a silver lining,

that's what I'm gonna do.

And that's no bullshit.

That's no bullshit. That takes

work and that's the truth.

What the f***?!

Stupid f***ing book!

I just can't believe Nikki's

teaching that book to the kids.

I mean the whole time. Let me

just break it down for you

the whole time you're rooting for

this Hemingway guy to survive the war

and to be with the woman that

he loves, Catherine barkley...

It's four o'clock in

the morning, pat.

And he does. He does. He

survives the war, after getting

blown up he survives it, and

he escapes to Switzerland with

Catherine. But now Catherine's pregnant.

Isn't that wonderful?

She's pregnant. And they escape

up into the mountains and they're

gonna be happy, and they're gonna

be drinking wine and they dance...

They both like to dance with each

other, there's scenes of them

dancing, which was boring, but I

liked it, because they were happy.

You think he ends it there? No!

He writes another ending.

She dies, dad! I mean,

the world's hard

enough as it is, guys. It's

f***ing hard enough as it is.

Can't somebody say, "hey,

let's be positive?

Let's have a good

ending to the story?.

Pat, you owe

us an apology.

Mom, for what, I

can't apologize.

I'm not gonna

apologize for this.

You know what I will do? I

will apologize on behalf of

Ernest Hemingway, because

that's who's to blame here.

Yeah, have Ernest Hemingway call

us and apologize to us, too.

Why didn't you run with me?

Huh!!

I was reading.

Please. Do us a favor,

don't read for a while.

What are you wearing a garbage bag for?

I'm gonna go run now.

Wait, wait, wait. You

have to fix this window.

I'll fix it when I get back.

Fix it now.

Get in the car, pat. You

have to go to therapy.

I don't wanna

go to therapy.

You have to go. It's part of the deal.

You can't live with us and not go.

Is that song

really playing?

We have music sometimes.

That song is killing me. Could

you please turn it off?

I can't.

What do you mean,

you can't?

I don't have the controls.

I'm sorry, I-

did doctor timbers

put you up to this?

Is there a speaker here?

Is, is the speaker here?

I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

Okay... I'm sorry.

I'll fix all this, okay?

That was a messed up thing you

did, doctor patel. Alright!

That's a messed up thing.

I'm sorry, but that's...

You can call me

cliff, please.

Yeah, well, cliff, that's not the way

you're supposed to meet people, okay?

You should write that down

in your, I don't know

your little book you

write stuff down in.

I'm sorry about that song. I just wanted

to see if it was still a trigger for you.

Bravo. It's a trigger. I'm

not gonna take any meds,

I should just tell

you that right now.

No, you have to

take medicine.

No, I'm not gonna take any medicine.

It makes me foggy-

no, you will have

to take medication.

I don't want any

meds, doctor.

Look, I am not the explosion guy, okay?

My father is the explosion guy.

I'm not that guy.

He got kicked out of that

stadium he beat up so many

people at eagles games,

he's on the exclusion list.

I had one incident. One

incident can change a lifetime.

But I'm ready. I'm ready to take

responsibility for my side of the street.

She just needs to take

responsibility for hers.

What's hers?

What's hers? Are you joking?

Let's go back to the incident.

I come home from

work after I..

Fight with Nancy, the

high school ...Principal.

I come home and what's playing

but the song from my wedding.

The song that you so charmingly

played out here today for us.

That's playing and I don't think

anything of it. Which is odd,

'cause I should have.

I come home, what do I see? I walk

in the door and I see underwear and

pieces of clothing and a guy's

pants with his belt in it,

and I walk up the

stairs, and all...

Ll of a sudden I see the DVD

player, and on the d-...

VD player is the cd and it's

playing our wedding song,

and then I look down

and I see my wife's...

Panties on the

ground and then-

I look up and I see her

naked in the shower...

And I think, "oh, that's kinda

sweet, she's in the shower.

What a perfect thing. I'm gonna find

her and maybe I'll go in there.

We never-...F***

in the shower anymore.

Maybe today we will.

"I...

Pull the curtain back and

there's the f***ing history...

Teacher with tenure.

And you know what he says to me?

"you should probably go.".

That's what he says to me.

So yeah, I snapped. I

almost beat him to death.

But now I get f***ing

chastised for it? I'm

parallel to my father?

I don't think so.

All right. Can you talk about something

that you did, before or after?

I left work early... which I never

do, by the way, but I got in a.

Yeah, about a week before the

incident, I called the cops and

I told them that my wife and the

history guy were plotting against

me by embezzling money from

the local high school, which

wasn't true... it was a delusion. And

we later found out from the hospital

that's because I'm, uh...

Undiagnosed bipolar.

Yeah. With mood swings and weird

thinking brought on by severe

stress, which rarely

happens, thank God.

And then the shower incident

happened and that's when everything

snapped, so I then realized that,

oh, wow, I've been dealing with

this my whole life. And without any

supervision I've been doing it all

on my own with no help and basically I've

been white-knuckling it this whole time.

That had to be hard.

Yeah. It's a lot to deal

with, especially when

you don't know what the

hell is happening,

which I do now. Sort of.

Pat, you have to take

your medication.

I can't, mom. I can't.

I will call them.

They'll come for you.

Why would you do that?

You wouldn't do that.

Why would you call them?

What's up?

I don't, I don't feel good

when I'm on them, mom.

I don't feel good.

I'm so much clearer without them.

Mom, they make me bloated.

I don't like the way

it makes me look.

Why don't you just

take your medication?

You've gotta take

your medication.

Come on, I'm doing it with my physicality.

I've been workin' out,

that's what I'm doin'.

Why is he wearing

a garbage bag?

Why are you wearing

a garbage bag?

To sweat.

Sit down. We're seven minutes in, no score.

Come on, help turn the juju around.

I don't believe

in juju, dad.

Come on, mister excelsior.

You wanna be positive?

Be positive. Sit down.

All right, all right.

Come on.

For a second. I'll watch

the beginning of the game.

He says you're good...

Luck, honey.

What's that in your hand?

It's a... see?

Handkerchief? Yeah.

That's ocd. That's crazy.

What ocd? I want my son to watch

the game with me, so sue me.

Just sit down, come on. I want

you to watch the game with me.

I'm not superstitious. That's

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