WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.780 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.780 --> 00:00:02.690 align:middle line:84% Certainly, everyone's staring at him. 00:00:02.690 --> 00:00:04.440 align:middle line:84% He should probably smile at mom to show he 00:00:04.440 --> 00:00:06.060 align:middle line:90% wasn't making fun of the guest. 00:00:06.060 --> 00:00:07.770 align:middle line:84% But on the way to mom's face, he gets 00:00:07.770 --> 00:00:09.450 align:middle line:84% sidelined by the hairy eyeball he's 00:00:09.450 --> 00:00:12.450 align:middle line:84% getting from the Nazi checking to see if he is making fun, 00:00:12.450 --> 00:00:14.820 align:middle line:84% because, if he is, Vincent's going to kick his ass. 00:00:14.820 --> 00:00:17.070 align:middle line:90% Is mom picking up on this? 00:00:17.070 --> 00:00:18.860 align:middle line:84% Obviously, Danny's goofing on the guy. 00:00:18.860 --> 00:00:20.610 align:middle line:84% What did the moron think they would order? 00:00:20.610 --> 00:00:22.230 align:middle line:90% Macadamia pizza? 00:00:22.230 --> 00:00:24.510 align:middle line:84% And why do they need to know about his loser allergy 00:00:24.510 --> 00:00:25.710 align:middle line:90% problems? 00:00:25.710 --> 00:00:27.780 align:middle line:90% Vincent narrows his eyes. 00:00:27.780 --> 00:00:31.350 align:middle line:84% Whatever passes between him and Danny is silent, scary, 00:00:31.350 --> 00:00:34.290 align:middle line:84% and over in a second, at the end of which Vincent chooses 00:00:34.290 --> 00:00:36.330 align:middle line:84% to believe that Danny is making a joke, 00:00:36.330 --> 00:00:39.810 align:middle line:84% but not a joke about him, and he laughs a jagged dog 00:00:39.810 --> 00:00:42.600 align:middle line:90% bark that makes Max flinch. 00:00:42.600 --> 00:00:45.840 align:middle line:84% Danny says, "Pepperoni," his brother's favorite. 00:00:45.840 --> 00:00:48.900 align:middle line:84% He hates pepperoni, so there's usually a fight. 00:00:48.900 --> 00:00:50.940 align:middle line:84% Danny says, "Mom, how generous of you. 00:00:50.940 --> 00:00:54.660 align:middle line:84% Danny hates pepperoni," as if the guy needs to know. 00:00:54.660 --> 00:00:57.390 align:middle line:84% She orders two large pies, one with pepperoni, one 00:00:57.390 --> 00:00:59.100 align:middle line:90% with mushrooms and green pepper. 00:00:59.100 --> 00:01:01.830 align:middle line:84% "15, 20 minutes," she says, first triumphant, 00:01:01.830 --> 00:01:04.080 align:middle line:84% then defeated as she wonders what will 00:01:04.080 --> 00:01:07.110 align:middle line:90% they do until the pizza arrives. 00:01:07.110 --> 00:01:08.310 align:middle line:90% Max saves the day. 00:01:08.310 --> 00:01:10.620 align:middle line:90% "Hey Danny, want to watch TV?" 00:01:10.620 --> 00:01:12.990 align:middle line:84% "OK," says mom, "but come upstairs the minute I call. 00:01:12.990 --> 00:01:14.935 align:middle line:90% Don't let the pizza get cold." 00:01:14.935 --> 00:01:17.310 align:middle line:84% Usually she goes insane when he and Max get home and head 00:01:17.310 --> 00:01:18.840 align:middle line:90% straight for the TV. 00:01:18.840 --> 00:01:20.700 align:middle line:84% Danny grabs Max and fake-shoves him 00:01:20.700 --> 00:01:23.272 align:middle line:90% down the stairs to dad's room. 00:01:23.272 --> 00:01:25.230 align:middle line:84% They still call it dad's room, even though it's 00:01:25.230 --> 00:01:28.320 align:middle line:84% been years since dad cleared out everything but the 36-inch TV 00:01:28.320 --> 00:01:30.540 align:middle line:90% and a couple of beat-up couches. 00:01:30.540 --> 00:01:33.750 align:middle line:84% He couldn't have found a better way to yank mom's chain. 00:01:33.750 --> 00:01:35.850 align:middle line:90% She despises the humongous TV. 00:01:35.850 --> 00:01:39.660 align:middle line:84% She never comes down to dad's room, but, then, she never did. 00:01:39.660 --> 00:01:41.880 align:middle line:84% At the time, it had seemed normal. 00:01:41.880 --> 00:01:43.565 align:middle line:84% But later, Danny wondered, "Wouldn't you 00:01:43.565 --> 00:01:45.690 align:middle line:84% think something was wrong if your husband came home 00:01:45.690 --> 00:01:48.060 align:middle line:84% from the office and spent every minute downstairs, 00:01:48.060 --> 00:01:50.530 align:middle line:84% couch-potato-ed in front of the tube?" 00:01:50.530 --> 00:01:52.710 align:middle line:84% Once again, his mom worries about everything 00:01:52.710 --> 00:01:55.270 align:middle line:84% except the things she should've worried about, 00:01:55.270 --> 00:01:58.200 align:middle line:84% which is what dad said once about Danny, so it 00:01:58.200 --> 00:02:00.028 align:middle line:90% gets confusing. 00:02:00.028 --> 00:02:02.070 align:middle line:84% Everyone fights with their parents about how long 00:02:02.070 --> 00:02:03.630 align:middle line:90% they're allowed to watch TV. 00:02:03.630 --> 00:02:06.120 align:middle line:84% But only Danny and Max get to fight about watching it 00:02:06.120 --> 00:02:07.920 align:middle line:84% in their dad's old room on a television 00:02:07.920 --> 00:02:11.610 align:middle line:84% so expensive mom can't make herself throw it out. 00:02:11.610 --> 00:02:15.180 align:middle line:84% Brain-dead Max imagines he's getting the remote. 00:02:15.180 --> 00:02:17.730 align:middle line:90% "What's on Chandler?" he says. 00:02:17.730 --> 00:02:18.990 align:middle line:90% Danny grabs the changer-- 00:02:18.990 --> 00:02:20.880 align:middle line:90% "The usual bogus shit." 00:02:20.880 --> 00:02:22.800 align:middle line:90% "Let's just see," pleads Max. 00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:25.290 align:middle line:90% "Forget it, creep," says Danny. 00:02:25.290 --> 00:02:27.750 align:middle line:84% It's strange how everyone watches Chandler. 00:02:27.750 --> 00:02:29.400 align:middle line:90% It's really just a talk show. 00:02:29.400 --> 00:02:31.410 align:middle line:84% And Chandler is an annoying, rich, black dude 00:02:31.410 --> 00:02:33.810 align:middle line:84% who quit a million dollar corporate law job to get real, 00:02:33.810 --> 00:02:35.310 align:middle line:90% get down with the street. 00:02:35.310 --> 00:02:38.760 align:middle line:84% Last year, the network picked up his contract for $50 million, 00:02:38.760 --> 00:02:40.947 align:middle line:90% so Chandler came out OK. 00:02:40.947 --> 00:02:43.530 align:middle line:84% His show is such a big hit that it runs during the dinner hour 00:02:43.530 --> 00:02:45.180 align:middle line:90% to compete with the news. 00:02:45.180 --> 00:02:46.870 align:middle line:90% They advertise it that way. 00:02:46.870 --> 00:02:48.900 align:middle line:90% The good news is on Chandler. 00:02:48.900 --> 00:02:51.120 align:middle line:84% It's what all the mothers, except Danny's, watch 00:02:51.120 --> 00:02:53.580 align:middle line:84% on those miniature TVs they set up in the kitchen for when 00:02:53.580 --> 00:02:54.780 align:middle line:90% they're cooking. 00:02:54.780 --> 00:02:56.970 align:middle line:84% What's doubly strange is how the kids in school 00:02:56.970 --> 00:02:59.160 align:middle line:84% talk about what they see on Chandler. 00:02:59.160 --> 00:03:01.560 align:middle line:84% And it's not just the teachers bringing it up. 00:03:01.560 --> 00:03:03.960 align:middle line:84% Maybe it's because Chandler has shows that are actually 00:03:03.960 --> 00:03:06.690 align:middle line:84% interesting, especially if you happen to be so stoned 00:03:06.690 --> 00:03:08.970 align:middle line:90% his guests seem smart. 00:03:08.970 --> 00:03:10.655 align:middle line:84% Every so often Chandler gets it right, 00:03:10.655 --> 00:03:12.780 align:middle line:84% like that program with the high school kids talking 00:03:12.780 --> 00:03:14.490 align:middle line:90% about global warming. 00:03:14.490 --> 00:03:16.770 align:middle line:84% Not the usual geeks you see on those shows-- 00:03:16.770 --> 00:03:19.260 align:middle line:84% all the girls were hot and intelligent. 00:03:19.260 --> 00:03:21.090 align:middle line:84% The guys were guys you'd be friends with. 00:03:21.090 --> 00:03:23.580 align:middle line:84% But Danny is not in the mood for Chandler right now. 00:03:23.580 --> 00:03:26.395 align:middle line:84% It's creepy that, when the skinhead was on Chandler, 00:03:26.395 --> 00:03:28.020 align:middle line:84% Danny predicted that Maya and mom would 00:03:28.020 --> 00:03:30.330 align:middle line:90% get a Nazi of their own. 00:03:30.330 --> 00:03:33.330 align:middle line:84% Danny changes from the cartoon channel to MTV. 00:03:33.330 --> 00:03:34.860 align:middle line:90% Then he hits the Mute button. 00:03:34.860 --> 00:03:38.250 align:middle line:84% "Listen," he says, "do you know who that guy upstairs is?" 00:03:38.250 --> 00:03:40.770 align:middle line:84% "Duh," Max says, "you and I watched that Chandler 00:03:40.770 --> 00:03:42.390 align:middle line:90% together." 00:03:42.390 --> 00:03:44.610 align:middle line:84% "Max, man, this is not some talk show guest. 00:03:44.610 --> 00:03:46.500 align:middle line:90% Did you see the guy's arm?" 00:03:46.500 --> 00:03:48.300 align:middle line:90% "I'm not stupid," Max says. 00:03:48.300 --> 00:03:50.940 align:middle line:84% "We read Night last semester, asshole. 00:03:50.940 --> 00:03:52.385 align:middle line:90% I hated it, remember? 00:03:52.385 --> 00:03:54.510 align:middle line:84% I had to write that cut and paste poem with phrases 00:03:54.510 --> 00:03:55.800 align:middle line:90% from the book." 00:03:55.800 --> 00:03:57.780 align:middle line:84% "I still can't believe they made you read that. 00:03:57.780 --> 00:04:00.648 align:middle line:84% They should have made you do Anne Frank," Max says. 00:04:00.648 --> 00:04:02.190 align:middle line:84% "Plus, do you think I'm so retarded I 00:04:02.190 --> 00:04:04.020 align:middle line:90% don't know where mom works?" 00:04:04.020 --> 00:04:04.980 align:middle line:90% "Sorry," says Danny. 00:04:04.980 --> 00:04:06.330 align:middle line:90% "I'm not saying you're retarded. 00:04:06.330 --> 00:04:07.890 align:middle line:90% It's just weird is all." 00:04:07.890 --> 00:04:08.670 align:middle line:90% "It is weird. 00:04:08.670 --> 00:04:11.040 align:middle line:90% Mom's out of her fucking mind." 00:04:11.040 --> 00:04:14.153 align:middle line:90% "Language," Danny imitates mom. 00:04:14.153 --> 00:04:15.570 align:middle line:84% As he turns toward the big screen, 00:04:15.570 --> 00:04:18.209 align:middle line:90% Max idly gives Danny the finger. 00:04:18.209 --> 00:04:20.130 align:middle line:84% The two boys fall silent, attempting 00:04:20.130 --> 00:04:22.320 align:middle line:84% to lip read what the moderately hot Asian girl is 00:04:22.320 --> 00:04:24.150 align:middle line:90% saying through her tears. 00:04:24.150 --> 00:04:25.890 align:middle line:90% "Put the sound on," Max says. 00:04:25.890 --> 00:04:27.863 align:middle line:90% "Bite me," Danny replies. 00:04:27.863 --> 00:04:30.030 align:middle line:84% The camera pulls back to show the Asian girl sitting 00:04:30.030 --> 00:04:31.560 align:middle line:90% by the pool at night. 00:04:31.560 --> 00:04:33.030 align:middle line:90% It's Key West. 00:04:33.030 --> 00:04:34.710 align:middle line:90% Danny's seen this one before. 00:04:34.710 --> 00:04:36.840 align:middle line:84% Zubeida has a drinking problem and has 00:04:36.840 --> 00:04:39.570 align:middle line:84% been arguing with the other girls in the house. 00:04:39.570 --> 00:04:41.670 align:middle line:84% Max says, "You think we should call dad? 00:04:41.670 --> 00:04:43.920 align:middle line:84% Should we tell him about this guy?" 00:04:43.920 --> 00:04:45.720 align:middle line:84% This is what Danny means about the gaps 00:04:45.720 --> 00:04:49.775 align:middle line:84% in his brother's information-- for example, about who dad is. 00:04:49.775 --> 00:04:51.900 align:middle line:84% Their father's a jerk who went to live in Manhattan 00:04:51.900 --> 00:04:54.120 align:middle line:84% in a boring high-rise apartment with Lorraine, 00:04:54.120 --> 00:04:56.543 align:middle line:84% the widow of his dead partner, Jeffrey. 00:04:56.543 --> 00:04:57.960 align:middle line:84% Before she hooked up with Jeffrey, 00:04:57.960 --> 00:05:00.150 align:middle line:84% Lorraine was the wife of Jeffrey's patient, who 00:05:00.150 --> 00:05:02.160 align:middle line:90% died of a heart attack at 50. 00:05:02.160 --> 00:05:05.410 align:middle line:84% Then Jeffrey died of a heart attack at 49. 00:05:05.410 --> 00:05:09.360 align:middle line:84% Once, Danny overheard mom call Lorraine "the Black Widow." 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:12.630 align:middle line:84% Danny knew she was joking, but for a while, he was scared. 00:05:12.630 --> 00:05:14.340 align:middle line:90% Dad is 48. 00:05:14.340 --> 00:05:16.100 align:middle line:84% Dad is not a responsible grown-up 00:05:16.100 --> 00:05:17.730 align:middle line:90% you can ask for advice and help. 00:05:17.730 --> 00:05:21.210 align:middle line:84% Dragging dad into this will only make everything worse. 00:05:21.210 --> 00:05:22.920 align:middle line:84% Danny says, "How can mom do this? 00:05:22.920 --> 00:05:25.500 align:middle line:90% Can you explain that one thing?" 00:05:25.500 --> 00:05:27.750 align:middle line:84% Two girls' faces fill the screen. 00:05:27.750 --> 00:05:29.430 align:middle line:90% Danny raises the sound. 00:05:29.430 --> 00:05:32.610 align:middle line:84% Amanda and Kirsten are agreeing that Zubeida should put herself 00:05:32.610 --> 00:05:34.380 align:middle line:90% back in rehab. 00:05:34.380 --> 00:05:35.790 align:middle line:84% "The guy's got no place to stay," 00:05:35.790 --> 00:05:37.718 align:middle line:84% Max says, "Otherwise, he wouldn't be here. 00:05:37.718 --> 00:05:39.510 align:middle line:84% Mom's not going to leave him on the street. 00:05:39.510 --> 00:05:41.640 align:middle line:90% That's not who mom is." 00:05:41.640 --> 00:05:44.160 align:middle line:84% Trust genius Max to cut to the chase, 00:05:44.160 --> 00:05:46.650 align:middle line:84% though Danny can't recall mom saying, in so many words, 00:05:46.650 --> 00:05:49.950 align:middle line:84% the guy was homeless, but that's got to be the story. 00:05:49.950 --> 00:05:51.840 align:middle line:84% So it's worse than Danny thought. 00:05:51.840 --> 00:05:53.773 align:middle line:90% He could be here for months. 00:05:53.773 --> 00:05:55.440 align:middle line:84% "Mom's just trying to be a good person," 00:05:55.440 --> 00:05:59.520 align:middle line:84% says Max, the middle school Dalai Lama. 00:05:59.520 --> 00:06:01.590 align:middle line:84% No wonder their mother loves Max more. 00:06:01.590 --> 00:06:03.960 align:middle line:84% Max is a better person than Danny 00:06:03.960 --> 00:06:05.868 align:middle line:90% and so grown-up for his age. 00:06:05.868 --> 00:06:08.160 align:middle line:84% "Brilliant." says Danny, "That's the most obvious thing 00:06:08.160 --> 00:06:08.760 align:middle line:90% about mom. 00:06:08.760 --> 00:06:10.950 align:middle line:84% Now tell me something I don't know." 00:06:10.950 --> 00:06:11.760 align:middle line:90% "Pizza's here." 00:06:11.760 --> 00:06:13.020 align:middle line:90% "Yes, mom." 00:06:13.020 --> 00:06:14.910 align:middle line:90% Max runs upstairs. 00:06:14.910 --> 00:06:16.560 align:middle line:90% Let the others go first. 00:06:16.560 --> 00:06:18.780 align:middle line:84% Danny flips through the channels and stops, 00:06:18.780 --> 00:06:22.860 align:middle line:84% frozen by the freaked out piglet face of Timothy McVeigh. 00:06:22.860 --> 00:06:24.180 align:middle line:90% What a coincidence. 00:06:24.180 --> 00:06:25.980 align:middle line:84% The guy's separated-at-birth twin 00:06:25.980 --> 00:06:28.860 align:middle line:84% is upstairs, scarfing down pizza. 00:06:28.860 --> 00:06:31.050 align:middle line:84% Danny trudges up to the kitchen, surprised 00:06:31.050 --> 00:06:32.490 align:middle line:90% they've started without him. 00:06:32.490 --> 00:06:34.465 align:middle line:84% "Danny," says mom, "get a chair." 00:06:34.465 --> 00:06:36.090 align:middle line:84% Danny gets a chair from the living room 00:06:36.090 --> 00:06:37.860 align:middle line:90% and pulls up next to Max. 00:06:37.860 --> 00:06:39.477 align:middle line:84% Everyone's eating off real plates. 00:06:39.477 --> 00:06:41.310 align:middle line:84% There are glasses, a carton of orange juice. 00:06:41.310 --> 00:06:43.050 align:middle line:90% Mom has made a salad. 00:06:43.050 --> 00:06:45.510 align:middle line:84% "La dee da," Danny says to the salad. 00:06:45.510 --> 00:06:48.270 align:middle line:84% "Excuse me," says mom, "what was that?" 00:06:48.270 --> 00:06:51.270 align:middle line:84% "Nothing," says Danny, "talking to myself." 00:06:51.270 --> 00:06:53.070 align:middle line:84% His slice of pizza buckles, dumping 00:06:53.070 --> 00:06:55.890 align:middle line:84% the cheese in a greasy plop at the bottom of the box. 00:06:55.890 --> 00:06:59.082 align:middle line:84% He tears off a mouthful of soggy crust, chokes it down. 00:06:59.082 --> 00:07:00.540 align:middle line:84% Then, just to see what will happen, 00:07:00.540 --> 00:07:03.660 align:middle line:84% says, "They're delaying the McVeigh execution. 00:07:03.660 --> 00:07:05.820 align:middle line:84% They found 3,000 pages of evidence 00:07:05.820 --> 00:07:08.130 align:middle line:90% the FBI forgot to turn over." 00:07:08.130 --> 00:07:10.800 align:middle line:90% "FBI slam ball," says Vincent. 00:07:10.800 --> 00:07:13.950 align:middle line:84% Danny can't tell if Vincent knows that McVeigh looks just 00:07:13.950 --> 00:07:14.850 align:middle line:90% like him. 00:07:14.850 --> 00:07:17.610 align:middle line:84% "I think it's disgusting," mom says, "all that media frenzy. 00:07:17.610 --> 00:07:19.230 align:middle line:84% Everyone's so bloodthirsty, wanting 00:07:19.230 --> 00:07:20.370 align:middle line:90% to watch a human being die. 00:07:20.370 --> 00:07:21.935 align:middle line:90% It's like the Roman Coliseum. 00:07:21.935 --> 00:07:23.310 align:middle line:84% They should sell beer and popcorn 00:07:23.310 --> 00:07:24.768 align:middle line:84% and kill the guy in Yankee Stadium. 00:07:24.768 --> 00:07:26.393 align:middle line:84% I'd feel better about that than hearing 00:07:26.393 --> 00:07:27.690 align:middle line:90% all this stuff about closure. 00:07:27.690 --> 00:07:28.710 align:middle line:90% At least it would be honest. 00:07:28.710 --> 00:07:29.668 align:middle line:90% I know he's a murderer. 00:07:29.668 --> 00:07:31.770 align:middle line:84% I don't approve of what he did, but still." 00:07:31.770 --> 00:07:33.450 align:middle line:90% Danny guesses he agrees. 00:07:33.450 --> 00:07:37.290 align:middle line:84% But it's always so embarrassing when his mom gets fired up. 00:07:37.290 --> 00:07:40.380 align:middle line:84% "Definitely," Vincent says, "The government loves killing. 00:07:40.380 --> 00:07:41.760 align:middle line:84% What about those women and babies 00:07:41.760 --> 00:07:43.380 align:middle line:90% they gassed and burned at Waco? 00:07:43.380 --> 00:07:45.540 align:middle line:84% What about them sending in their crack SWAT team 00:07:45.540 --> 00:07:48.000 align:middle line:90% to murder Randy Weaver's wife?" 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:50.770 align:middle line:84% "Yes, well, I don't know," mom's voice trails off. 00:07:50.770 --> 00:07:52.770 align:middle line:84% "Of course, I don't believe in the death penalty 00:07:52.770 --> 00:07:54.360 align:middle line:90% to start with." 00:07:54.360 --> 00:07:56.100 align:middle line:90% Neither does Danny, exactly. 00:07:56.100 --> 00:07:58.710 align:middle line:84% But hasn't mom ever seen the clips of those bloody babies 00:07:58.710 --> 00:08:00.210 align:middle line:90% outside the Murrah Building? 00:08:00.210 --> 00:08:02.700 align:middle line:84% Sometimes Danny worries about terrorists blowing up 00:08:02.700 --> 00:08:05.790 align:middle line:84% the Tappan Zee Bridge when he and mom and Max are crossing. 00:08:05.790 --> 00:08:07.830 align:middle line:84% He wishes he never thought like that. 00:08:07.830 --> 00:08:09.420 align:middle line:90% Other kids don't seem to. 00:08:09.420 --> 00:08:11.100 align:middle line:84% And he wishes he didn't suspect that he 00:08:11.100 --> 00:08:13.680 align:middle line:84% has those fears because he's like mom. 00:08:13.680 --> 00:08:15.390 align:middle line:84% "Were you watching the news?" mom says. 00:08:15.390 --> 00:08:16.620 align:middle line:90% "At least it's the news. 00:08:16.620 --> 00:08:19.320 align:middle line:90% I hate the boys watching TV." 00:08:19.320 --> 00:08:21.330 align:middle line:84% "I try to stay away from TV," says 00:08:21.330 --> 00:08:24.870 align:middle line:84% Vincent, "toxic parasite mind rot." 00:08:24.870 --> 00:08:26.340 align:middle line:84% For all Danny knows, Vincent's one 00:08:26.340 --> 00:08:27.923 align:middle line:84% of those guys who think the government 00:08:27.923 --> 00:08:31.140 align:middle line:84% is beaming mind-control rays out of the TV screen. 00:08:31.140 --> 00:08:32.520 align:middle line:84% The last thing Danny needs around 00:08:32.520 --> 00:08:34.228 align:middle line:84% here is someone who, for whatever reason, 00:08:34.228 --> 00:08:36.600 align:middle line:84% is on his mother's side about television. 00:08:36.600 --> 00:08:38.130 align:middle line:90% "Actually, guys--" says Vincent. 00:08:38.130 --> 00:08:39.240 align:middle line:90% "Vincent," says mom. 00:08:39.240 --> 00:08:41.309 align:middle line:90% "Vincent's a reader, meaning-- 00:08:41.309 --> 00:08:43.350 align:middle line:90% unlike you two. 00:08:43.350 --> 00:08:44.280 align:middle line:90% And guess what? 00:08:44.280 --> 00:08:47.220 align:middle line:84% He didn't start reading until he was 25." 00:08:47.220 --> 00:08:49.080 align:middle line:84% Danny and Max will never forgive her 00:08:49.080 --> 00:08:51.180 align:middle line:84% for comparing them negatively to a Nazi. 00:08:51.180 --> 00:08:53.280 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:08:53.280 --> 00:08:54.780 align:middle line:84% Though it's possible that she's just 00:08:54.780 --> 00:08:57.390 align:middle line:84% trying to reassure them that, underneath the lightning bolts, 00:08:57.390 --> 00:09:00.070 align:middle line:90% the guy is a harmless book nerd. 00:09:00.070 --> 00:09:01.890 align:middle line:90% He's reading Dostoevsky. 00:09:01.890 --> 00:09:04.860 align:middle line:84% Danny says, "Who the fuck is Dostoevsky?" 00:09:04.860 --> 00:09:06.570 align:middle line:90% Even though he knows. 00:09:06.570 --> 00:09:08.580 align:middle line:84% "Danny," his mom says, "language!" 00:09:08.580 --> 00:09:10.980 align:middle line:84% Max says, "So what do you guys do? 00:09:10.980 --> 00:09:14.910 align:middle line:84% Like, beat up Black people and Jews?" 00:09:14.910 --> 00:09:17.340 align:middle line:84% Jesus, Danny loves Max sometimes. 00:09:17.340 --> 00:09:20.850 align:middle line:84% Right now, he's the perfect age, still trading on his little kid 00:09:20.850 --> 00:09:24.090 align:middle line:84% right to ask inappropriate questions 00:09:24.090 --> 00:09:27.360 align:middle line:84% but grown up enough to know what the right questions are. 00:09:27.360 --> 00:09:29.490 align:middle line:84% When dad and mom announced they were splitting up, 00:09:29.490 --> 00:09:32.070 align:middle line:84% Max asked if they still loved each other. 00:09:32.070 --> 00:09:34.140 align:middle line:84% They both answered at the same moment. 00:09:34.140 --> 00:09:35.520 align:middle line:90% Mom said, of course. 00:09:35.520 --> 00:09:37.050 align:middle line:90% Dad said, not exactly. 00:09:37.050 --> 00:09:38.655 align:middle line:84% And then dad said, I mean, of course. 00:09:38.655 --> 00:09:42.360 align:middle line:90% 00:09:42.360 --> 00:09:45.690 align:middle line:84% "I never did," says Vincent, "but I knew guys who did." 00:09:45.690 --> 00:09:47.880 align:middle line:84% "You don't know them now," Max says. 00:09:47.880 --> 00:09:51.630 align:middle line:84% "I don't know them, and they don't know me," Vincent says. 00:09:51.630 --> 00:09:53.340 align:middle line:84% "Good for you," says mom, "Boys, you 00:09:53.340 --> 00:09:55.350 align:middle line:84% can't imagine the risk Vincent is taking. 00:09:55.350 --> 00:09:57.240 align:middle line:84% He says there are guys, his former friends, 00:09:57.240 --> 00:09:59.400 align:middle line:90% who won't like his quitting." 00:09:59.400 --> 00:10:01.680 align:middle line:84% A familiar look comes over mom's face. 00:10:01.680 --> 00:10:03.225 align:middle line:90% She wishes she hadn't said that. 00:10:03.225 --> 00:10:05.100 align:middle line:84% She wishes she hadn't given in to the impulse 00:10:05.100 --> 00:10:07.110 align:middle line:90% to share her fears with them. 00:10:07.110 --> 00:10:08.490 align:middle line:90% Danny wishes she hadn't. 00:10:08.490 --> 00:10:11.380 align:middle line:84% Now he's got one more thing to worry about. 00:10:11.380 --> 00:10:13.470 align:middle line:84% They finished their pizza in silence. 00:10:13.470 --> 00:10:16.440 align:middle line:84% Danny and Max clear the table, which they wouldn't usually do. 00:10:16.440 --> 00:10:20.220 align:middle line:84% But they can't let mom do it, not in front of a stranger. 00:10:20.220 --> 00:10:22.320 align:middle line:84% So maybe it's good she brought him home. 00:10:22.320 --> 00:10:24.450 align:middle line:84% It feels like those first weeks after dad 00:10:24.450 --> 00:10:25.920 align:middle line:84% left when everyone was practically 00:10:25.920 --> 00:10:27.570 align:middle line:90% tiptoeing around the house. 00:10:27.570 --> 00:10:30.750 align:middle line:84% Normal rules suspended-- like having a substitute teacher, 00:10:30.750 --> 00:10:33.570 align:middle line:84% except you act better instead of worse. 00:10:33.570 --> 00:10:36.210 align:middle line:84% After dinner, Danny and Max watched more TV. 00:10:36.210 --> 00:10:37.740 align:middle line:90% Homework isn't mentioned. 00:10:37.740 --> 00:10:39.090 align:middle line:90% Danny surfs the channels. 00:10:39.090 --> 00:10:41.340 align:middle line:84% He keeps wondering what's happening upstairs. 00:10:41.340 --> 00:10:43.230 align:middle line:90% The pressure is exhausting. 00:10:43.230 --> 00:10:45.690 align:middle line:84% Danny drifts off several times before he wakes up 00:10:45.690 --> 00:10:47.310 align:middle line:90% and finds Max asleep. 00:10:47.310 --> 00:10:49.110 align:middle line:84% Propping his little brother up, he half 00:10:49.110 --> 00:10:53.490 align:middle line:84% steers, half pushes him to his room, and dumps him on his bed. 00:10:53.490 --> 00:10:55.350 align:middle line:84% In his own room, Danny lies awake, 00:10:55.350 --> 00:10:58.920 align:middle line:84% trying to ignore the noises that always start at night, when 00:10:58.920 --> 00:11:03.270 align:middle line:84% the world stops pretending to be its harmless, daytime self. 00:11:03.270 --> 00:11:05.400 align:middle line:84% As a kid he'd been scared of the dark. 00:11:05.400 --> 00:11:07.710 align:middle line:84% Way past the age when he would admit it, 00:11:07.710 --> 00:11:09.520 align:middle line:84% he used to make mom come to his room 00:11:09.520 --> 00:11:11.610 align:middle line:84% and stay with him until he fell asleep. 00:11:11.610 --> 00:11:14.070 align:middle line:84% He pretended he just wanted to talk. 00:11:14.070 --> 00:11:18.450 align:middle line:84% Once, he overheard dad tell mom that kids weren't smart enough 00:11:18.450 --> 00:11:20.490 align:middle line:90% to know what to be scared of. 00:11:20.490 --> 00:11:22.230 align:middle line:84% The proof, he said, was the children 00:11:22.230 --> 00:11:26.130 align:middle line:84% were scared of the dark and not of death and airplanes. 00:11:26.130 --> 00:11:30.300 align:middle line:84% Now Danny is old enough to be scared of all that and more. 00:11:30.300 --> 00:11:33.960 align:middle line:84% How humiliating to be 16 and still afraid of the dark. 00:11:33.960 --> 00:11:35.820 align:middle line:84% Maybe he should phone one of his friends 00:11:35.820 --> 00:11:38.670 align:middle line:84% or go online and see if anyone's awake. 00:11:38.670 --> 00:11:40.200 align:middle line:90% He'd like to talk to Chloe. 00:11:40.200 --> 00:11:42.010 align:middle line:84% She always makes him feel better. 00:11:42.010 --> 00:11:43.440 align:middle line:90% But what would he say? 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:45.810 align:middle line:84% He can't tell Chloe how nervous he is. 00:11:45.810 --> 00:11:48.510 align:middle line:84% So there's nothing to do but lie here and listen 00:11:48.510 --> 00:11:51.270 align:middle line:84% to the noises that spooked him as a kid. 00:11:51.270 --> 00:11:55.780 align:middle line:84% Relax, it's only the footsteps of the Nazi moving in. 00:11:55.780 --> 00:11:56.280 align:middle line:90% Thanks. 00:11:56.280 --> 00:11:57.180 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:11:57.180 --> 00:11:59.030 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:11:59.030 --> 00:12:01.000 align:middle line:90%