"One time I dreamt I had this sea turtle named Lady... who could talk, and we did everything together." " Including talk." " We played cards and swam and ate junk food." " When I woke up," "I missed her so much." " Even though she was... never real." " I mean, especially because... because she wasn't real." " But Judith was real, Joan." " Lady the sea turtle was this..." "Exotic... magical creature." " She belonged to me." " Nobody else had a friend like her." " And then I actually... found someone who was like... a talking sea turtle." " I mean, she was... magical and..." "Exotic." " You're totally not following me, are you?" " It's normal to be angry with someone who dies." " You feel abandoned." " So what happens in psychiatry school, hmm?" " What, they suck out every original thought?" " Now you're transferring your anger onto me." " No, I'm actually angry with you." " Do you know why?" " 'Cause you're a jerk." " I took God away from you." " I destroyed that magical and exotic friendship." " More than ever, you wish he were real." " Lots of people believe in God... who are not crazy." " Isaac Newton, Bono... pretty much anyone who wins an award." " Believing is one thing." " Seeing is another." " Are you seeing him again?" " Do you think it went well?" " It went fine." " And it helped to talk to him?" " Mom, my friend died, I'm sad." " Apparently that's normal." " Joan..." "Mom, you wanted me to go talk to dr." " Dan," "I went and talked to dr." " Dan." " I don't want to see him anymore." " Why not ?" " He has nose hair." " Oh, that is not a reason." " You keep dragging me to the shrink every time something bad happens." " Oh no !" " This your car ?" " Yes." " Are you serious?" " 28 dollars ?" " I..." "I was just taking my daughter to see a counsellor." " Mom !" " Just doing my job, ma'am." " Unbelievable!" " What ?" " What can I tell you?" " Her meter ran out." " What ?" " Her time ran out." " Oh, really ?" " That's your defence?" " Her time ran out?" " That's the best you can do when it comes to the point of human existence?" "" Sorry, time's up."" " Too bad about all those people you loved and all the plans you had." " You know, it must be really great to know that your time's never gonna run out." " What ?" " Never mind." " Coming !" " Just...drive." " I got them to agree to do the depositions in my office." " Too emotional to travel?" " It's gonna sound great in the court when the jury's staring at my client." " End of the day, they would have done it in your living room." " I still don't understand why the kids have to participate." " No, it's good." " This will work for us." " The more kids you have, the more lives are ruined." " Tell them to load it up, too." " Usually the deposition is monosyllables." " When it comes to describing the night of this accident," "I want to hear violins playing." " That goes triple for you, kiddo." " No problem." " Chuck, we're on board with the aggressive approach, but this language upsets my wife." " I'll do all my own talking, Will." " Ok, then it upsets me." " Litigation, people, not synchronized swimming." " Mom." " No pressure, but all the clothes I like are dirty." " Sorry." " Joan, Chuck Kroner." " Our daughter Joan is wearing her least favourite clothes.." "Nice to meet you, Joan." " If you'll excuse me, I have to run." " In my profession, time actually is money." " What's with captain creepy?" " Whatever it is, I am not going to therapy." " I know it's a lot to ask." " Dude... licking your floors would be a lot to ask." " No." " It's one dinner." " It's my birthday dinner." " My dad makes lasagne." " I'll get you a present." " Besides, someone we knew is actually dead." " How can you even think of celebrating?" " It's dinner, Grace." " You know, nobody's going limbo or wear stupid hats." " Look, once your sister knows, the world knows." " We might as well get married." " Joan won't figure it out." " She's not that stupid." " Stupid, no." " Self-absorbed?" " Paris Hilton has more perspective." " I'll say we have to study later." " It's my 16th birthday, you know, the one where you get a car." " I mean, I'm just getting a diving watch." " But, still, it's a watershed event." " I thought you were afraid of the ocean." " Grace, this is what I want for my birthday, ok?" " Not a present, not a rain check, not 5 more minutes of make-out time." " Shut up !" " This is a deal-breaker, Grace." " I'm still having nightmares about Judith, and now I have to go to this lawyer's office and talk about Kevin's accident?" " What did I do in my past lifetime, kill puppies?" " Truly." " Yeah." " You know, plus this is the week Price is gonna analyze the college counsellor's report." " Are you kidding me?" " How could I hate my life more?" " Tests are back today." " What ?" " Way to bounce back after Judith." " It's a classic coping mechanism." " You'll do fine on the test." " I quizzed you." " Wow." " Did Lischak use her own blood?" " What happened?" " You knew it." " I guess I just froze." " I got lucky." " Look, it's just 'cause you were under a lot of stress." " Luke is stressed." " Friedman is heartbroken." " I am incredibly stupid." " Physics is hard." " Physics is hard?" " That's like the intellectual version of "you're not fat."" " Look, it's just your first test." " You have plenty of time to make it up." " The next sentence could be your last." " Lischak gave it to me because I helped her study." " That's all I was gonna say." " This is the deposition in the matter of Baker vs. Girardi, and today we're deposing Will Girardi." " If it pleases our parties, I would like Mr. Kroner to review some paperwork, verify addresses and dates, that sort of thing." " And then we'll begin." " Of course." " Dad, it is cool." " It's ram-air traction, rip-stop nylon." " You barely need a breeze to fly it." " It's like the perfect display of positive/negative air flow." " It's a kite." " Yeah, and it's smarter than you." " And it's more interesting than you." " Guys, not today." " Where's the Gatorade?" " Hey, it's 4:30." " You're not suited up." " I'll suit up at the gym." " I got time." " You'll get benched." " Henderson pulled a groin muscle." " Nobody else to carry the ball." " That's your work ethic?" " Dad, it's football." " It's not even my sport." " Baseball..." "I give 110%." " So you skim off the top elsewhere?" " What kind of a man are you?" " The point is, you signed up to play, you give it everything." " Can I get the abbreviated lecture?" " You're gonna make me late." " You're already late, and this is not how I raised you to think." " You've been on me all day." " Yeah, well, that's my job.." "What's wrong now." " This is between me and Kevin." " I have to go." " Whoa, whoa." " I'm not finished here." " He's going to be late for the game, Will." " Helen, please." " Please what?" " You're always making excuses for him." " You encourage him." " That's my crime?" " I encourage my son?" " No." " You baby him." " He's a man and he needs to act like it." " And he can't do that if his mother's still making his bed." " Will, it's homecoming." " Try not to ruin it for him." " I'm ruining it?" " Bye." " Kevin, don't you walk out on me!" " I'm a man." " I'm acting like it." " Hey!" " We're not finished here." " One day you're gonna get your ass kicked, and there's a part of me that's looking forward to it!" " Do you hear me?" "!" " Kevin !" " And we're ready to begin." " Mr. Girardi, if you would start by spelling your name." " Mr Girardi ?" " Will, you ok?" " Need a minute?" " No, I'm ready." " Spell your name for the record." " G..." "I..." "R..." "A..." "R..." "D..." "I." "I want sugar and I want it now." " The latest expose?" " Did somebody double park?" " I'm writing stuff down for the deposition." " Wait." " Were we supposed to prepare?" " I thought we just show up and say yes or no." " That's your job." " My testimony is gonna count for a lot." " Well, that's good, because I'm the dumb one." " Fast times at arcadia high." " Guess I'm still just dealing with Judith." " I failed my physics test." " Failed." " I've had D's before, but... once you see that "F," it's like a whole other part of the alphabet." " Why are you even taking physics?" " 'Cause I'm into quarks and stuff." " Because of Adam." " He's such a brainiac." " I feel like I'm supposed to be one, too, because he deserves a girlfriend who's as smart as he is." " Are we actually talking about stuff?" " It's not even 8:00 yet." " You can't do things to impress other people." " Yeah." " And nothing in our society encourages that." " No singing." " Sorry, but sometimes life is good." " Not in here it isn't." " Is this about your "F"?" " Is this about the playboy magazines in your underwear drawer?" " So what if you don't make ivy league?" " Is it really that big of a deal?" " I mean, if George Bush is any indication... right." " But I want to go wherever you go." " I mean, that's still the plan, at least, right?" " Sure." " Yeah." " I'm thinking second tier, you know?" " University of Texas, Austin." " A lot of great filmmakers came out of there." " Wes Anderson, for example." " I could do Austin." " We could learn how to two-step." " You know what I think about?" " How much Judith is missing out on all this." " Miss Girardi." " Mr Price is ready for you." " Ok." " Wish me luck." " Watching the PDA." " Good luck." " Try to remember who you are, Joan." " Coyly stated by the almighty." " Remember who I am." " That's my assignment?" " It's easy to get derailed when confronting your future." " Try to stay grounded." " And stand up straight." " I didn't create you to slouch." " Go." " Wait." " You know my future, so why do I have to go discuss it with Price?" " That free will lecture just doesn't land with you, does it?" " Ahem!" " Growing old and dying in here, ms." " Girardi." " Works for me." " Ms. Girardi, I've received Mr. Tuchman's evaluation." " You've listed one of your major considerations for your destination of higher learning as "weather."" " I'm not good with cold." " You failed your first AP physics test." " Physics is hard." " Look, why don't you just tell me what schools you think I have a shot with." " My first choice would be university of Texas, Austin." " U.T. Is a fine school." " Unfortunately, they do have as one of their admissions criteria evidence of brain activity." " But..." "I got straight B's last semester." " Mm." " You were somewhat farther down the musical scale the year before." " Well..." "I mean, that was my old school." " I was" "I was different then." " There's a reason they call it a permanent record, Ms. Girardi." " Any 4-year college is out of your range.." "I'm recommending Arcadia community college." " No, no, no, no." " I'm..." "I..." "I can't stay here." " I'm going wherever Adam goes." " Adam Rove is a gifted student." " He has a promising future." " I'm sure you don't want to hold him back." " Good day, ms." " Girardi." " So... talk to me." " I was deposed yesterday." " It brought a lot of stuff up." " I don't feel comfortable talking about it." " Ok." " Just thought I'd ask." " I'll redo the reports." " That's not the point." " The night of the accident... it was homecoming weekend." " Kevin and I had been sniping at each other all day." " He was walking out the door and I said," ""you're gonna get your ass kicked, and I'm looking forward to it."" " That's the last thing I said to my son before he was paralysed." " So... you're guilty for being human." " It was a horrible thing to say." " People say horrible things to each other all the time." " Saying it didn't make the accident happen." " As my ex-husband was going out the door," "I yelled after him, "and I hope your..."" "kind of a John Bobbett moment there, you know ?" " I mean, you get mad, you go for the weak spot." " I really think you can let yourself off the hook here, Will." " How's Helen dealing with this?" " I didn't tell her about the Kevin thing." " I didn't want to upset her." " I think that was probably a good idea." " She has enough." " Still waiting to meet her, by the way." " Not quite convinced she's real." " We'll have you over for dinner soon." " Oh, well, don't get carried away." " Nobody's gotta cook." " Well, we...we like it at our house." " Thanks for listening." " Thanks for talking." " Mrs. Girardi, we're asking you to revisit the evening of November 9, 2002." " Are you cognizant of the events on that evening?" " Yes, I remember the night my son was paralyzed." " I know this is hard." " Can we skip the false concern?" " Keep your eyes on the prize." " Helen..." "Sorry." " What was the question?" " Did you speak with your son while he was at this homecoming party?" " No." " My husband did." " Are you coming to bed?" " Eventually." " Good game tonight." " He broke some nice tackles." " He called from the party." " He'll be back by midnight." " I'm trying to let him grow up, Helen." " I don't want to argue with you." " Go to bed." " I'm worried about his attitude." " He acts like there's a free ride waiting for him." " He's a good-looking, athletic kid." " There's nothing wrong with him enjoying that." " He relies on it." " That's not how the world works." " And aren't we supposed to prepare him for the world?" " That's only part of the job." " Do you think you might be resentful because he has some things that you didn't?" " Excuse me?" " Resentful of my own son?" " You are all over him." " Nothing is good enough." " Talk about letting him grow up." " How's he supposed to do that with you breathing down his neck?" " My job is to turn him into a man, period." " What kind of a man?" " A man who hates his father?" " I'm going to take a shower." " Yeah, you do that." " I don't forgive that statement." " I'm not asking you to!" " Are you gonna get that, Will?" "!" " Will ?" "!" " He talked about Kevin." " Your husband went up for a shower." " The doorbell rang." " And then what, mrs." " Girardi?" " The police." " Ok, this time I mean it." " You're going to start running again." " I'm going to set my alarm for 5:30." " Not in this bedroom you're not." " Well... you want me to get old and fat?" " As long as you do it with me." " Did you buy something expensive?" " Mm..." "I had my deposition today." " And..." "I was remembering how horrible I was to you right before the accident." " No, you weren't." " I remembered something else." " Right before the cops came to the door..." "I... had this vision... this image of Kevin lying on the ground in the rain." " I saw it." " What do you think that was?" " I don't know." " Oh, by the way, I'm going to invite Lucy to dinner." " I was thinking friday." " It's what you do, Helen." " You invite the boss over." " We had Roebuck over." " That's what you do." " I mean, if friday's a big problem..." "It's not the day, it's the person." " Well, maybe you could meet her before you fully commit to hating her." " So after I feed her, then I can hate her?" " With complete abandon." " It's some kind of breakdown." " It's because of Judith." " Which is kind of sweet." " It's not about Judith." " It's about Price." " He needs a sport for Harvard." " Hmm." " It's curiously appealing picturing him in maroon and white." " Is everyone having a breakdown?" " It's college, man." " It's like we're all possessed." " Price told me I have to put in more hours in the design studio if I want to get into Stanford." " Stanford ?" " I thought you were going to Texas." " He said for what I want to do, Stanford." " I got a shot." " That's on your short list, right?" " yeah." " Yeah, of course." " What if all this time he's had an inner warrior?" " Holy future Friedmans!" " Walk it off, Harvardian" "Back in the saddle!" " I have to go." " Are you ok?" " Yeah, I'm fine." " Jane." " Hey, Jane." " I will not sing." " I will not wear a dress." " What ?" " Those are the terms." " So you're saying yes?" " And it has nothing to do with that asinine threat." " I will do all the breaking up around here." " Got it?" " Absolutely." " Hi." " Uh... how much of my future can I get for $5.00?" " Well, it's a slow day." " Sit down." " You can sit here." " Thank you." " Ok." " Mm-hmm." " Mm." " That's funny." " What ?" " They're blank." " What does that mean?" " Apparently you have no future." " Technically speaking, no one does." " Oh, God !" " That's me." " You heard of string theory?" " I'm failing my physics class, remember?" " A quick tutorial... past, present, future, all co-existing, in different dimensions, with different rates of vibration." " Great." " How about college?" " Oh, the future's not fixed, Joan." " Its very existence is determined by the choices you make in the present." " Ok... what are you saying, I shouldn't worry about the future?" " The best way to affect it is by bringing your consciousness to the moment." " Oh, you're like a walking refrigerator magnet." " Well, I'm just saying that that's where all the action is." " It's the only place you have any real power." " Your wig is, like, from Cher's reject pile." " Are you aware?" " Don't forget about the present, Joan." " It felt like a normal night." " Uh...you know, Joan and I got dragged to the game to watch Kevin play." " Then...of course the endless talking about him in the car on the way back." " I'm used to being ignored." " You know, the youngest and all." " Hand-me-downs." " Used toys" "Luke !" " Back to point." " Right." " It's not therapy." " Not that I need therapy." " So, um... anyway, I was engaged in some kind of... academic pursuit." " Hello ?" " Hello ?" " Hello ?" " Dr Howell, Dr Fine, Dr Howell." " Dr Howell speaking." " I'm fine." " So am I !" " It's your fault." " Start talking." " Give me." " Get your own." " Get your rank feet off of me." " Physical violence, the favourite tool of the intellectually impaired." " Want it, need it, getting it." " That is a baby toy." " It's a ram-air traction kite with rip-stop nylon, mid-range action ratio..." "I don't forgive that statement." " I'm not asking you to!" " They better not get divorced before next week." " You're always thinking about yourself." " It's my birthday." " You, you, you, you..." "Yeah, right." " As if anything in this house matters except Kevin." " I know." " How do you fix it?" " Are you gonna get that, will?" " Can't." " We'll just have to put our scarred psyches to some productive use." " Will ?" "!" " No..." "Joan..." "Donne !" " Mom..." "I have to go to the deposition now, and... um, well, since I have to tell the truth," "I thought I would start here." " Oh, God" "Promise not to freak out." " Speak." " I failed my physics test and I don't have a shot at a 4-year college." " Bye." " Price !" " Mom, see, this is what freaking out looks like." " Did you tell my daughter that she has no academic future?" " Ahem." " Mrs. Girardi, if you would like to make an appointment..." "Did you use the words, while speaking to my daughter, "no future"?" " She was paraphrasing." " Paraphrase this." " I'm in no mood for you and your soul-destroying tactics right now." " My entire family is being deposed in a lawsuit," "I'm behind in my work, and I have to feed my husband's horrible boss tonight, so just cut the crap and account for yourself." " Did you tell my daughter she has no future?" " I see her options as limited." " See, I get that you are disappointed in your own life." " I don't blame you." " But this girl hasn't abandoned her dreams yet." " And so to try to steal that from her, to try to rob someone of their future," "I'm pretty sure you go to hell for that." " Tell her you were wrong." " Tell her." " I might have overstated." " Thank you." " That was awesome." " You... study harder, get your act together." " You are going to college, because there will be no more casualties in this family." " Hey, we're home." " Something smells good." " Any more garlic, the paint would peel." " Lucy Preston, my boss." " Helen Girardi, my other boss." " That line never gets old." " Never does." " Hey." " It's nice to finally meet you." " Yeah." " You too." " Oh, thank you." " You didn't have to." " Can I get you a glass of that?" " Um, actually, uh, scotch, if it's going." " Oh, it's going." " Uh, I hope this resembles food." " I've been dealing with a deposition, and I had to yell at the vice principal today." " I told Will, I mean, you know, cooking is not necessary." " I could have picked up a bucket of chicken on the way." " Oh no it's fine." " I'm happy to do it." " Let me, uh, let me chop something." " I'm good at that." " Ok, yeah." " So Will's quite a guy." " No way could I do this job without him." " This lawsuit thing you're going through, man, that's... that's ridiculous." " Will says you're religious." " That must come in handy." " I was raised southern Baptist, but, uh... now I'm just pissed god doesn't exist." " I think that's enough." " Tomatoes." " Yeah." " Ok." " We'd all gone to the game." " We won." " And, uh, this guy, Richard Gould, flirted with me." " That's what I was thinking about." " And then... then when we got home, um, Luke and I decided to watch TV, and... the doorbell rang." " What ?" " What is it?" " The drive seemed really long." " I was staring at everything going by, like it was all new." " Or like I'd never see it again." " I remember thinking, this is the moment when my whole life changes." " It's like everything before this and everything after." " I remember praying, but I don't know who I was praying to." " I didn't believe in God." " I was bargaining, telling him all the things I'd do if he let Kevin live." " Then I looked at my brother Luke." " He was counting on his fingers." " You have to understand, he's a math genius and he was counting on his fingers." " That's how screwed up he was, but..." "I didn't feel sorry for him." " I wanted to kill him, because I knew he was counting the days till his stupid birthday." " He'd been talking about this dumb kite, like that was something to get excited about." " I'm sorry to interrupt." " He wanted a what for his birthday?" " A kite." " And his birthday was when?" " 10 days after Kevin's accident." " November 19th." " Oh, my God." " You weren't talking about the present." " You were talking about... the present." " Unless it was both." " I bet you it was both because that's what you do." " I'm back on the record." " We should go ahead and eat." " The kids are scattered all over the place." " No telling when they'll be home." " Where are they?" " Um, Joan had to be deposed after school." " Kevin is going to be deposed after work." " Oh, these kids today and their depositions." " That must be Luke." " Just in time, buddy" "Hey." " Oh, Luke, you brought Grace." " Uh, Luke, this is dad's boss Lucy Preston." " Our son Luke and his friend Grace Polk." " Study partner." " That's not lasagne." " Nope." " Mom's leg of lamb." " Grab a seat." " Lucy ?" " I'm not hungry." " We have a lot of work to do. ..." " And he's the easy one.." "Uh, I was fighting with my girlfriend." " That's why we left the party." " Um... she..." "Went to the bathroom, and, uh, I took that as an opportunity to duck out." " Had you been drinking?" " Uh... a little." " I had a beer." " I wasn't much of a drinker." " Had Andy been drinking?" " Yeah." " But I don't know how much." " To your knowledge, was Andy drunk when you left?" " I was about to make a move on Dee Dee carter." " You owe me large." " Hey, let's go to Webster's." " He's always got a college girl." " Kevin !" " Kevin, don't you dare walk out on me!" " Hey !" " What kind of guy walks away from a girl, huh?" " You're mad." " We'll talk about it when you've calmed down." " No !" " If you leave now, it's over." " Hey, isn't it enough that you cheated on me?" " Look, we're not married." " I trusted you." " I loved you." " That doesn't matter at all to you?" " I..." "I can't get into this now." " We'll talk tomorrow." " I'm not gonna be here tomorrow." " They always say that, man." " I know." " Andy, give me the keys." " Why ?" " I only had one beer." " This is my dad's car, man." " You're not insured to drive it." " He'd kill me, man." " Besides, I'm fine." " Andy." " Keys." " Come on." " Kevin, if you say "keys" one more time, I swear to God, I'm gonna buy you a sundress." " All right." " Kevin, buddy." " Trust me." " Ah." " So Luke and Grace really are in the garage." " I thought mom was having a mini-stroke." " What are you doing in here?" " Studying." " No...you're not studying." " You're pouting because everybody forgot your birthday." " Wouldn't you?" " Yeah, but... it's the deposition." " So it's all about Kevin again." " So, that makes it ok ?" " Dude." " Just take it easy on them, ok?" " When they remember, they'll feel so guilty, they'll buy you a car." " Didn't have time to wrap it." " The kite." " I never got it." " Yeah." " Well... it's only a few years late." " Sue me." " I got you something, too." " Our secrecy contract." " Did you like her?" " Like her?" " Well..." "She's me." " She's you?" " Yeah." " If I were shorter or political or... didn't have, you know, a soul." " I can't believe you're threatened by this woman." " I'm not threatened by her." " I just...don't understand why you tell her everything about us." " I don't tell her everything." " She's my boss." " We talk." " Oh, my God..." "Oh, my God !" " It's ok." " It's not." " It's just not." " It's my fault." " It doesn't matter." " Sweetheart, it does." " Ok, it does, but it... you know... things came out of it that I didn't see coming." " And I'm really happy now." " 'Cause, you know... we're all here." " And Grace is here.." "And Joan remembered." " And Kevin is ok." " And I'm gonna have a lot of birthdays." " Besides... now you guys have to buy me a car." " Happy birthday." " Happy birthday, son" "Hey, come on, Squarepants!" " Let's get this thing in the air."