Stolen Summer Page #7

in to get Esther -- against the wishes of your

partners, I should add. Oh, honey --

excuse me, Rabbi. This is our oldest boy,

Patrick. This is

Rabbi Jacobsen.

Patrick. Pete told me all about you.

It's nice to meet you. Yeah,

it's nice to meet you. I, um, I heard about your loss.

I'm very sorry. Oh, thanks, yeah.

I was just telling

your father that -- in fact, you may want to join

us, if that's okay. Pete told me about your interest

in studying medicine in college, and our synagogue gives

scholarships every year to a few students, and this year,

in honour of Esther Simon, we're gonna give a full

scholarship to one student. And I recommended to the board,

and they agreed, that Patrick be the recipient

of the scholarship. Thank you, Rabbi. Rabbi, that is an extremely

kind offer, but, unfortunately,

one that we cannot accept. Oh, well, I -- on behalf of my congregation

and family, I certainly hope you can

reconsider accepting it. Other men risked their lives

that day at your house. It wasn't just me.

Understood. It just seemed a bit more

personal than offering up, say, a statue to the entire

fire department. I spoke to your chief.

He approved it. You spoke to my chief?

Well, yes. I had to make sure that it

was within the rules. [ Sighs ] The board gives

one scholarship, Pete mentioned Patrick's desire,

and I recommended Patrick. I imagine they want to

give it to him in a real public ceremony. I imagine so. Be good as a public show,

yes. Free publicity for the temple,

no doubt. Margaret: Joseph.

What? Well, that's totally

inappropriate. Mr. O'Malley,

both of our religions are practiced in public, and, yes, there are ceremonies

and rituals. This scholarship

isn't about free publicity. It's about doing good,

honouring good, thanking good. I don't mean to disrespect you

or your family or dishonour the memory

of Esther Simon. Of course not. Rabbi, thank you

for stopping over. My son Pete

has a big mouth, and my family doesn't need

your handouts. We thank you

for your kindness.

Joe. Pop,

you can't do that to me. You will shut your mouth. [ Door opens, closes ] Hey... where the heck

do you get off coming into my house

like that, huh? I got my son asking me, "Is Jesus really

the son of God?" He's 8! Well, then, it sounds like

we're in this together. My son's asking why he can't

make the sign of the cross before he prays to God. My congregation is wondering

if I'm turning into a rabbi for Jews for Jesus. The irony, of course, is

that I don't think Jesus

was the son of God! You preach that to your

people. You keep it out

of my house, alright? Your son came to me, okay? He came to me to ask

if he could help Jews -- help save Jews

from going to Hell! He came to me! You! Get back inside! If someone comes to my house

like that, I politely throw him out

on his ass! On his ass!

Good, I'll remember that. "You disagree with me,

you're out on your ass." You know, it's a good thing

it didn't deter your St. Paul

when the Romans threw him out or St. Patrick in Ireland

with the snakes. Oh, don't start with that! Throwing St. Patrick

back in my face! This ain't

a Bible-study group, pal! [ Sighs ] [ Door closes ] Pop, are you too proud

to let me accept it? First of all, you haven't

done anything to deserve it, and secondly, I am not

getting involved in his

publicity stunt, alright? Joe, I don't think

it's a publicity stunt. I think it's an act

of kindness in return

for an act of kindness. I told you nothing

good would come of

him going over there. Pete! Get in here right now! Honey, please don't start

yelling at him. What did he tell

the rabbi -- that we don't

have enough food to eat? Well, then maybe the rabbi can

start a food drive for this

family, how 'bout that? What'd I tell you about

not going to that temple? Huh? I'm on a quest

to get Danny into Heaven. And I'm almost there. Alright, you're on the road

to Hell, my friend. Now go to your room

Joe... and don't come out

until I tell you to. What? Don't tell him

things like that. I just wanted

to do the right thing. The right thing. You know

what the right thing is? Is when your mother

tells you something

or when I tell you something. You don't worry

about Jews, you don't

worry about Catholics. You worry about me. Now go to your room

and go there until

I tell you to come out! Pop, I'm gonna go

see that rabbi myself, and I'm gonna

work out a deal, okay? Over my dead body. This is not about you. It's not about kindness. It's about the Jews

getting publicity for helping out some poor

Irish-Catholic family so they can get on the news and everybody can say

how nice it is of them that they share their money

with these poor slobs. Why do you have to be

so cynical about this, huh? Y-Y-You have too much pride to let this man help me out,

help your son out? Maybe if you had

a little more pride -- Pop, I have heard your speech

before, okay? I know what it is --

you worked hard, your

father worked hard, and therefore,

I have to work hard. Okay. I want to work hard, Pop! I want to work hard at school

to get a good job. Alright! I've had enough.

Alright? I didn't spend my day

at the beach, alright? I'm tired. I don't want

to talk about this anymore. You have no idea -- What did I say?! Mom? Mom, please say something

to him. Mom! Huh? Woman on P.A.: Dr. Fischbein,

please dial the operator. Why don't we go

discuss this in private? Mrs. Jacobsen:

Just tell us. His white-blood count

is high. And most of the cells

that I can see in his blood

are leukaemia cells. I'm so sorry. What's the prognosis? Danny's been on Ara-C

before, but this time, we're giving

him a much higher dosage. It's going to allow us

to have a fighting chance to get him

back into remission. But...I wouldn't be

completely honest

if I didn't tell you that his chances for survival

are very low. [ Deep voice ] Another strikeout

for Seamus's team. Pete's team, trying to be

the first team ever in the history of baseball

to go undefeated, comes to bat

with a 13-run lead. [ Higher voice ] Jack,

they're not only undefeated, but they've 10-run-ruled

every single team

they've played. [ Deep voice ]

Good point, Charlie. [ Spinner whirring ] [ Door closes ] What are you doing here? We have to complete

the decathlon. We can't. We have to.

I know I can do it. Listen, I'm grounded forever

because of you. If my dad saw me with you,

I'd be grounded to infinity. No, I'd be grounded

to infinity if my parents knew

I was here. They think I'm napping. Listen,

I...can't...do it! No, you listen. This might be my last chance

for a while. They might put me on chemo

right away. The tests are bad. [ Sighs ] I'm not gonna

disobey my dad again. I gotta be able to

tell my parents that

I'm going to Heaven. You can't go to Heaven. It's out-of-bounds

and off-limits to Jews. There's nothing that

you or I could do about it. You said if I finished

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