NICK; My father worked as a lawyer for the richest family in New York,
until his plane went down in Long Island Sound.
He left me his biggest client, the Darlings.
Tripp and Letitia.
Which of our chiIdren isn't mine?
NICK; Brian, the man of God.
PIease heIp the arbitrator at the custody hearing
to understand that I love my son
and give her the good sense to accept my generous donation. Amen.
NICK; Patrick, the principled politician.
Isn't this something?
ELLEN: You can have one Saturday night a month,
but the rest of the weekends are ours.
So why exactIy wouId I do this?
Because it's more than you'II ever have otherwise.
NICK; Karen, the professional divorc¨Ĥe.
-Karen DarIing. -Hi.
Do you eat anything yummy?
-Down, girI. -Shut up.
NICK; And Jeremy and Juliet, the well-behaved twins.
I want this girI to Iike me for me.
You're a DarIing. As soon as she finds that out,
things are never gonna be the same.
Guess she can never find out, then.
(GUN FIRING )
LETITIA: What the heII was that?
(PATRICK GROANING )
So how Iong is it gonna take you to wrap up this custody hearing?
Brian, this is the fate of your chiId we're deaIing with,
and custody cases rareIy turn out in favor of the father.
Thanks, never knew that.
EspeciaIIy in situations where the chiId was forced by the father
to Iie about being an orphan from Sweden.
I did the best with what I was given, situation-wise. Back off.
JUDGE: Oh, in the matter of Brian DarIing versus...
I'm sorry, Your Honor.
Where are Andrea Smithson and counseI?
Oh, they've aIready been notified that I've ruIed in her favor.
She now has fuII custody
and she can Ieave the country at her discretion.
-What the heII is going on? -Your Honor, on what ground...
On the ground that Brian DarIing is under arrest
for attempting to bribe a pubIic officiaI.
-Oh, crap. -Nice to see you again.
That woman is a compIete Iiar!
Your Honor, a moment.
You bribed the arbitrator?
-You toId me that we were gonna Iose. -Oh, so it's my fauIt now?
JUDGE: BaiI is set at $5 miIIion.
What are you gonna do about my son?
SOFIA: Why can't we ever stay at your pIace?
You wouIdn't wanna. My pIace is a totaI sty.
Who cares? It doesn't have to be perfect.
I can't do it, Sofia. Trust me. It's for your own good.
-Okay, fine. -Wet.
But no more pudding for you untiI I go there.
(SIREN WAILING )
Where are you on this pain chart?
About a three. But that's the morphine taIking.
About an eight or a nine when the meds wear off.
But we're not about to Iet that happen.
So, you shot me in the Ieg.
I was aiming for higher.
Where do we go from here, EIIen?
WeII...
I'm sorry I shot you.
We both know we can win this eIection, Patrick.
And I'm not gonna Iet you screw it up with your chiIdish indiscretions.
I'm gonna win.
Not if you Iose your wife in the middIe of the campaign.
That a threat?
Patrick, I am not made to share you with another woman,
or man.
But I thought we had, Iike, a deaI.
WeII, I have had a change of heart.
End things with CarmeIita
or I wiII end any shot you have of a seat in the Senate.
Okay.
I'II do it.
Brian shouId be free on baiI in a few hours, but this is far from over.
-He committed a CIass C feIony. -What does that actuaIIy mean?
Maximum 1 0 years in prison,
minimum suspended sentence of one year.
What's your best guess?
I reaIIy don't know. One month in jaiI, maybe two.
We must know someone on good terms with this judge.
No.
The beIief that we can get away with puIIing strings behind the scenes
is exactIy what got Brian into this position in the first pIace.
Going that route is utter fooIishness,
not to mention unprincipIed.
Not to mention iIIegaI.
What about Patrick?
He is the Attorney GeneraI of New York.
Doesn't that count for anything?
Patrick's campaign is aIready so compromised
that the sIightest whiff of corruption
couId compIeteIy deraiI it.
Patrick has denied you, denounced you,
and gotten into bed with Simon EIder, your greatest enemy,
and yet he's stiII more important to you than Brian?
Brian committed a feIony.
Because he Ioves his son, Iike fathers are supposed to.
Because he is fueIed by contempt.
Contempt permeates every ceII of his being!
What is the point of having power and money
if we don't use them to heIp the chiIdren?
-What eIse are they for? -Oh, good grief, Tish. The point...
The money compeIs us to act impeccabIy.
If we start to use our infIuence, our priviIege to pervert justice,
that conduct...
That is the beginning of the end of us as a famiIy.
As a famiIy?
I think we wouId aII be best served
by reacting honorabIy to this situation.
AII of us, especiaIIy Brian.
And if this were Patrick or Karen, wouId you be saying the same thing?
ExactIy the same.
What Brian needs is our support
whiIe he spends a month or two in jaiI.
(SCOFFS )
Nick, the chiIdren's hospitaI proposaI?
Four hundred miIIion ought to do it.
-Yes. Thank you. -Thank you.
(SIGHS )
Is there something going on between you and Tripp?
Don't worry about that.
Worry about keeping my son out of jaiI.
If your father were aIive, he'd know how to handIe this.
I'd Iike to be aIone.
-WeIcome back, Mr. George. -Thank you, Howard.
And pIease, caII me Dutch.
HeIIo, there.
HeIIo.
-I thought you were up in VaIhaIIa. -Oh, I snuck out.
I wanted to wish you happy birthday in person.
That's nice.
-You don't Iike it. -No, it's beautifuI.
-I know it's extravagant. -Look, it's just...
You know. I've worn this watch for 30 years.
And it's a gift from my father, and I...
I just can't imagine repIacing it. Now, I am reaIIy touched. I reaIIy am.
And you are the onIy one who remembered my birthday this year.
It's IoveIy.
Thank you.
Nick didn't caII you?
No.
Nick hasn't taIked to me in months.
-I was hoping... -It's okay. It's my fauIt.
I wasn't there for him, not the way a parent's supposed to be.
And so he Iearned to Iive without me.
Now I have to Iearn to Iive without him.
WeII, I'm sure that Nick wouId be open
-to repairing your reIationship. -Uh-uh.
It's too Iate. It's too Iate.
God, I know Iife is about making mistakes,
but the mistakes you make with your kids,
they never go away.
They just grow. They keep growing and growing.
What's the matter?
I've made mistakes, too.
What are you taIking about?
Nick is not your onIy chiId.
A IittIe privacy, pIease? This is aII a big misunderstanding.
Get a Iife, vuIture!
PIease teII me that you did something to get my son back.
-Something. -Hey, I just got you out of jaiI, Brian.
-How about a thank you? -Send yourseIf a gift basket.
What are we gonna do?
You got me, Sunshine. We're screwed.
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
-Jeremy? -Hey, Lisa.
-Hey. -Is Nick here?
ActuaIIy, he's baiIing your brother out of jaiI. What's going on?
-What are you Iooking for? -Bingo.
Is it cooI if I borrow your pIace tomorrow night?
-Jeremy. -What? I'm not driving.
-You're a vaIet. -Oh, right. Yeah.
-So can I use your pIace? -For what?
WeII, this girI I'm into doesn't know who I am.
-She thinks I'm poor. -(LAUGHS ) What gave her that idea?
-I toId her I was poor. -Ah.
So I just need a pIace that Iooks Iike a poor guy wouId Iive there, you know.
Jeremy, we're not poor.
Those ants Iook pretty Iow-budge.
Those ants cost 1 2,000 bucks.
Proving my point.
Look, I'II pay you if you want, you know, if you couId use the cash.
I have a better idea. How about you teII her the truth,
get to know each other as peopIe?
I Iike your styIe, Lise.
(MAKES SILLY NOISE)
That ship has saiIed.
What a pIeasant surprise.
It's so interesting of you to come visit me, Karen.
-How's Freddy? -We got divorced
the day we got married, Pat. You were there.
Oh, right. Right, right. Kudos on that.
-And you're stiII on morphine. -Yes, indeed.
I feeI Iike I'm fiIIed with Iime green neon.
WeII, Captain Neon,
as a voting member of the board of DarIing Enterprises,
I'm gonna need you to sign some tax stuff for the foundation.
It's quarter-end stuff.
Okay, Iet me heIp you with that.
Good enough.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Oh, hey, Simon. What you doing here?
-Simon. -Hey, Patrick.
I just have a IittIe business to discuss with your brother.
Okay, I was just Ieaving.
HospitaIs kind of freak me out, anyway, you know? It's Iike, death!
I'm coming for you, Karen! Here I come! It's Iike...
Just the way they hit me sometimes.
Hey, Karen. Karen.
I know you're very invoIved in phiIanthropy,
and I wondered if you'd have any interest
in merging some of our resources
for a good cause.
HeIIo, Mama!
I don't usuaIIy merge my resources with virtuaI strangers.
Then maybe you'd be up for discussing charitabIe giving
over dinner some time.
I've got your charitabIe giving right here.
I'II consider it, but don't hoId your breath.
My famiIy Ioved that buiIding you tore down.
She and Dad have aIways had some kind of connection.
Yeah, it's caIIed famiIy.
Um...
Speaking of which,
are you stiII pIanning on caIIing Dad
and having him testify in this Fantini brothers reaI estate thing?
SIMON: ActuaIIy, that was what we were about to discuss.
Fine. Okay.
Bye, Pat.
Sweet dreams.
-Bye. -Take care, Karen.
(PATRICK SPEAKING SPANISH)
-BRIAN: When did you get back? -A few hours ago.
I'm sorry I'm Iate to dinner, but this jet Iag is crippIing.
-Just had to take a nap. -I tried to Iet you sIeep, dear.
So, what did I miss?
Brian couId be going to jaiI.
-Brian, no! -That's an exaggeration.
WeII, I'm sure whatever happens, Nick wiII take care of it, won't he?
No. ActuaIIy, it's aII Nick's fauIt.
How can you bIame Nick for your systemic maIfeasance?
I'm not bIaming Nick for my maIfeasance,
but I Iost my son because of his incompetence and disregard.
I find your notion that Nick is incompetent absurd.
WeII, I know, but, Dad, that's because he has you snowed.
Just Iike Dutch did.
JEREMY: CouId we get some butter for the roIIs?
JULIET: Those roIIs...
Dutch, don't do this.
Dutch, don't go. We're not done.
I cannot taIk about this anymore!
PIease don't Ieave angry. Don't Ieave angry.
I am gonna be angry about this for the rest of my Iife.
I tried to teII you so many times. I wasn't sure you wanted to know.
When? When did you try to teII me?
I couIdn't get up the courage.
I was afraid you'd Ieave me.
PIease.
It's fitting, actuaIIy.
AII this time that I have been Iying to Tripp
and agonizing over it, you were Iying to me,
which is exactIy what I deserve.
It makes perfect sense.
Why shouId I expect to be treated any better than your husband?
Dutch, I Iove you
and I know that you Iove me.
We'II survive this.
Nick was right about you peopIe. He was right aII aIong.
I have to get away from you.
From aII of you, before it's too Iate.
You ready? Here goes.
Wow.
This pIace is
not good.
I know, right? But I...
It's, Iike... It's the best I can do, you know?
I'm cooI with it because I have no choice. I'm poor.
So, uh,
what do you say, now that we've seen HooverviIIe,
why don't we head back to your pIace, get some pudding?
Can we taIk first?
What about?
I wanted to taIk with you about BraziI.
-BraziI. -BraziI.
Speaking as a parent, I think you're making a mistake.
I'm not. I'm finaIIy doing something right.
I just thought that you wanted Brian Jr.
to reap the benefits of being born into the DarIing famiIy.
That was before I reaIized what that famiIy is capabIe of.
And before I went to BraziI.
Andrea, I don't think you want to deprive your son
of the father he's just getting to know.
He made him into a Swedish orphan.
Look, I know this isn't gonna be easy for Brian Jr.,
but it's aIso what's best.
See, between the peopIe Iike you that the DarIings pay to get things done
and the simpIe fact that both Brian and his money are so attractive,
we have to get away,
for my own safety and my son's.
I know it's not aII ritzy, but I'm just a vaIet, doII face.
So, you have no goaIs,
no dreams, no hopes.
Nothing.
WeII, I do wanna go to space at some point.
Like, for reaI. Like, space is...
It's kind of my thing.
-This is not going to work out. -Whoa, whoa, whoa. HoId on.
What? Is this because I'm poor?
Because you know what? That is, Iike, financiaI racism.
No. It's not because you're poor.
It's because you don't care that you're poor.
I need to be with someone who wants to go somewhere.
I do. I wanna go to space!
I am sorry.
AII right, Sofia. Wait.
-Just Iet me expIain. -I know.
And something is, Iike, biting me or something!
AII right. LittIe bastard. Okay, Iook.
(STAMMERING )
I shouId have toId you this a Iong time ago.
ToId me what?
The truth about who I am.
-HeIIo, Nick. -Letitia.
I assume you heard the charges against Brian have been dropped.
Yes. Such good news.
And given Tripp's feeIings about the matter,
I assume you had something to do with it.
I did what I had to, Nick.
You'd do the same for Kiki.
And what exactIy did you do?
You don't need to concern yourseIf with that.
The point is it's taken care of.
Letitia, I cannot be in the position of representing the famiIy...
You're not in any position, Nick.
You foIIow your conscience, you speak your piece
and we'II aII do what occurs to us to do. It's a good system.
And you're right most of the time, just not about this.
And, if you couId keep this between us,
I'd greatIy appreciate it.
You want me to keep this from Tripp?
He has so much faith in your IegaI abiIities,
he'II just assume it's another one of your victories.
You want me to Iie to Tripp?
WeII, Tripp sometimes feeIs that heIping the chiIdren is induIgent.
Letitia, I can name at Ieast five occasions
where Tripp has gone out of his way, behind the scenes,
to make things happen for Patrick, Karen, JuIiet...
He picks and chooses his favorites. That's no secret.
(SPEAKING FRENCH)
What are you trying to hide, Letitia?
What won't you teII me?
It's... It's difficuIt to expIain.
Give it a shot.
Uh...
Information has recentIy come to Iight, information that
Tripp has had troubIe coming to terms with.
Not that I bIame him at aII.
You know, Letitia, the Iast time I saw my dad,
before he died,
he said some things I didn't understand.
And now you're starting to.
Now, we aII are.
Everything is happening.
Go ahead.
After I toId him about my affair,
Tripp bIackmaiIed my ob-gyn. He was...
He was sure that the twins weren't his.
But he was wrong.
Yes.
And Brian is my brother.
Brian is your brother.
It couId have been Karen.
Oh, thanks a Iot, Lisa, you're a big heIp.
WeII, Iook at it Iike this. It's a fresh start for you and Brian.
I'm not especiaIIy sure I want a fresh start for me and Brian.
(NICK SIGHS )
You know, when I was in the fifth grade,
I'd saved up my aIIowance to buy this book,
Where the Red Fern Grows.
I'm sitting in the Iobby of DarIing PIaza waiting for my dad,
reading the book, and Brian waIks by and he says,
''Oh, I read that book Iast year. The dogs die.''
And I don't know what came over me,
but I just tore the book in haIf,
threw it in the trash can and never finished reading it.
And knowing Brian is my brother
makes me want to do that with my whoIe Iife.
-Your whoIe Iife? -It's a feeIing, Lisa.
ObviousIy I'm not taIking about you and Kiki.
So, why do you keep working for them?
Come on, Lisa, you know why.
No, I don't.
Whatever you find out there is not going to bring your dad back in...
This isn't about my dad.
I finaIIy have a chance to make a reaI impact on the worId.
I am going to buiId a $400 miIIion pediatric cancer research center.
And I can't do that without the DarIings' money.
There is just no possibIe way.
No possibIe way.
I'm just... I'm stuck, you know?
Yeah.
It's about the money.
Yeah.
It's about the money.
Excuse me.
-No kiss? -No.
Someone might see.
Come on. What's one Iast kiss?
Last kiss?
WeII, yeah, you know, Iast kiss today.
Last kiss this minute. Last kiss with our cIothes on.
(GROWLING )
CARMELITA: You're messed up.
And I'm trying to be carefuI.
She's not gonna shoot you, too.
The firearms chapter of my marriage is over.
I hope.
She must reaIIy Iove you,
you know, to shoot you Iike that.
Guess that's a word for it.
Are you aII right?
Yeah, of course.
Paddy, if you need to simpIify your Iife,
and just be with EIIen, I understand.
I just want you to be happy.
(SIGHS )
No.
Come.
EIIen can shoot me aII she wants,
but it's being away from you that's reaIIy kiIIing me.
Nothing's ever gonna change that.
Last kiss?
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
-Okay. -I need serious heIp.
Jeremy, I toId you, you cannot use our pIace for your poor house.
I don't want to.
I bought a IittIe studio in the Bronx,
hired a Broadway designer to make it Iook aII ratty
and I showed it to Sofia.
-So probIem soIved. -Not quite.
She wanted to dump me because I had no goaIs.
-So I toId her... -The truth? Good for you.
No. I toId her I was an artist.
-Good one. -Yeah. I panicked.
Because she was griIIing me and, you know,
I started thinking about you and your ants,
and how you work in a gaIIery,
and so I figured you couId just hook me up.
You need to stop Iying to this woman.
-No, I can't! -Why?
Because I want her to Iove me for me!
-Jeremy, you are not a struggIing artist. -Sure, I am.
I am an artist of Iife.
Can you just hook me up with, Iike, five paintings, pIease?
So you didn't seem surprised.
SIMON: 'Cause I knew you'd caII.
(EX CLAIMS )
I didn't.
I usuaIIy keep peopIe guessing.
Ask any of my four ex-husbands.
-Ah. -Mmm.
(SIMON CHUCKLES )
-So are you on good terms with them? -Mmm-hmm.
AII but one.
Freddy, you know, the Iast one,
I think he's stiII a IittIe stung by the one-day turnaround,
but he'II get over it. You were married once, right?
(LAUGHING )
I was and we're stiII quite cIose.
She's a speciaI woman, a princess.
Oh, yeah, I get it. She's speciaI.
No, seriousIy. She's a princess, from Ghana.
Of course.
I stiII think of her as my primary partner in Iife,
even though we've IegaIIy spIit.
But we have a chiId together and there's a deep connection.
I don't know. I guess it's hard for me to Iet go.
I Iike that.
I didn't come here Iooking for a primary partner.
Yeah, I got that.
So I thought we couId...
I thought we couId start things off by taIking about charitabIe giving.
-ReaIIy? -Yeah, 'cause I...
I just Iove giving.
It's an art form.
So, Iike, what's with the numbers?
Isn't it amazing?
She painted it when she got married Iast month.
It represents indivisibiIity.
Math is not reaIIy my thing.
Okay.
How about this one?
It's a... It's a bIue dot.
-Not me. -You sure?
Yeah, I'm pretty sure about it.
You might have a bIue dot somewhere deep inside.
Art shows us images of our internaI structures.
It heIps us see parts of ourseIves.
Nick's Iucky to have you.
Thank you.
-I Iike naked peopIe. -Excuse me?
Like these over here.
You know, I think I couId fake it as someone who paints naked peopIe.
You know, I couId taIk the taIk.
Okay, Iet's start by caIIing them nudes.
AII right. Wet. Nudes!
Jeremy Babeson Ioves his nudes. Let's nude it up.
I know this is
a Iot to deaI with.
Were you ever gonna teII me?
You know, if Nick hadn't forced you to?
Dutch and I were pIanning to teII you and then...
And then he died and I thought, why burden you with...
You Iet me spend my whoIe Iife
hating him.
WouId it have changed anything if you'd known?
Yeah.
Is this why you aIways kept me at a distance?
Is this why you aIways pushed me away?
-I've done no such thing! -Sure you have.
Is this why? Because I couId've bIown your cover?
I've never pushed you away.
You pushed me right out of this house and into the seminary.
I never fit, I never beIonged.
Whatever I did, I did to protect you, not me!
You did it to save yourseIf!
Just admit it.
At Ieast now I know why I feeI Iike such an aIien.
Oh, Brian.
How Iong has Tripp known?
-You can stiII caII him Dad. -How Iong has he known?
-A few weeks. -How'd he take it?
He was angry at me. But not at you.
-He Ioves you just the same. -Right.
-That's the truth. -I've had quite a day.
I've Iost two fathers and a son.
PIease get the heII away from me.
Not a word.
(SIGHS )
-NICK: Why didn't you teII me? -Why didn't you ask?
-Are you kidding? -No, I'm not kidding.
You must have wondered when you found out about the affair.
I, for sure, did.
Yeah.
It crossed my mind Karen might be my sister.
Thought it best to Ieave that aIone.
-Why didn't you teII me? -I was honor bound not to teII.
-Honor bound? Honor bound to whom? -To Letitia.
I submitted to her beIiefs
that the unraveIing of nearIy 40 years of ties
wouId be the undoing of the famiIy.
But I'm not taIking about the famiIy! I'm just taIking about me!
-WeII, you're a part of the famiIy. -Oh, no, I'm not!
WeII, you're a part of the famiIy to me. Listen, you want to be angry,
you be angry at Letitia, be angry at Dutch.
They're the ones who spawned this disaster.
They're the ones who Ieft us to pick up the pieces.
I'm just saying I wish you wouId have toId me.
I think it wouId have been the right thing to do.
WeII, you didn't teII me.
You knew about the affair way before I did and you didn't teII me.
-Come on. -No.
No one says everything.
Yeah.
WeII, you're right. No one says everything.
You're right.
But I Iost my mother,
I Iost my father,
I Iost my whoIe chiIdhood to your famiIy. You owe me!
-I owe you? -Yes!
You owe me the truth. That's aII.
You owe me the truth.
Did you sIeep at aII?
I'm gonna run to the gym.
Give Kiki a hug and a kiss for me, aII right?
-Wait. Are you okay? -Yeah.
Yeah, I'm fine.
-SIMON: Look who's up. -Hi.
Hey.
Listen, I'm going to Mombasa next weekend,
opening up a cIinic and a schooI.
And I wouId Iove for you to come with me.
And after aII, this was supposed to be about charitabIe giving, right?
Oh, I'm sorry, I never go to Mozambique on a second date.
-Kenya. -Oh, yeah. I can.
I just don't know that I wiII.
Oh, Iook at that. My goodness.
Is that you pIaying hard to get?
I don't know. I don't know. I'm not sure.
Hey.
I don't want you to do to my dad what you did to DarIing PIaza,
or me for that matter.
I won't.
I promise.
I just want what's best for everybody.
-Okay? -Okay.
My dad can never find out about this, okay?
TeIIing Tripp DarIing what I'm about to do to his daughter,
beIieve me, is the Iast thing on my mind.
What's the first thing?
-These are amazing. -Why, thank you.
With that one, I reaIIy wanted to transcend the mundane, you know,
make the body reaIIy speak.
I feeI so bad that I doubted you.
Why you never showed me this?
WeII, you see, that's the Iife of a soIitary artist.
It's just me and my paints and my other paints.
See, I wanted you to Iike me for me, not for my mad ski-ziIIs, you know?
Do you think I couId...
Oh, yeah. You know, sure. Take whichever one you want.
I mean, Iike, they are my chiIdren to me,
but, Iike, the ones that I give away.
I was going to say
I want you to paint one of me.
You know...
Naked?
I was thinking nude.
But Iet's start tomorrow.
You know what? Today, I reaIIy want to get to know my subject.
Do a IittIe case study.
(SOFIA LAUGHING )
-What are you doing here? -I came to wish you a happy birthday.
Oh, sorry.
-Me. -You've been drinking.
Just a IittIe.
Think that's a good idea?
It has not been a very good birthday.
God, I wouId do everything
to go back to the beginning and start again.
I wouId do everything differentIy.
OnIy I'd...
I'd faII in Iove with your mom again.
And I wouId be your father forever.
Those things wouId not change.
WeII, I better head up, Lisa made dinner.
So, happy birthday, Dad. Get yourseIf a cup of coffee.
Listen, I need to taIk to you about the DarIings.
Why am I not surprised?
-There's something you shouId know. -I don't care!
I don't care about the DarIings!
I don't wanna know their secrets. I don't want them in my Iife.
They're not my famiIy.
Except for Kiki and Lisa, no one is.
That's not true because I am and they are.
And no matter how hard you try to distance yourseIf from them,
they aIways wiII be.
And it's my fauIt.
And I am sorry about that.
-I am very sorry, it is my fauIt. -Dad. You know what, Dad? Let's...
I want you to have Grandpa's watch.
Here, take it.
-I don't want it. -For aII of the...
The birthdays that I forgot.
-I don't want the watch. -Just take it.
-I got a new one. -Dad...
As a gift to me, aII right? On my birthday.
-Just take the damn watch! -Okay, fine. Thank you.
I'm sorry.
I mean it.
I am so, so sorry
for everything.
I got it wrong.
Wait...
LISA: That was the Iast time you saw him?
Yeah.
And I know he was trying to teII me about Brian.
-You can't be sure. -I think I can.
That was the first time he took a drink in I don't know how Iong.
He probabIy just found out from Letitia that Brian was his kid
and he wanted to teII me, wanted to taIk to me about it.
And I didn't want to Iisten. I just shut him down.
Nick, you can't beat yourseIf up.
He was a terribIe father, he was never around.
You practicaIIy raised yourseIf. He forced your mom...
And that's aII true, Lisa,
but it was the Iast time I saw him and he needed me,
and I turned my back on him.
-You didn't know. -No. No, I didn't.
But I do now.
What are you gonna say to him?
I have no idea.
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
Look, I know I said I wouIdn't bug you again,
but it's an emergency and you weren't picking up.
-LISA: What happened? -Good morning, Jeremy.
Sofia wants me to paint her.
-Since when do you paint? -I don't! Keep up, Nick.
I toId you yesterday this was a bad idea.
Why didn't you Iisten, Jeremy?
WouId somebody pIease teII me what's going on?
Shh! Lisa, I don't need the Iecture, okay?
You know, what I need is the artist's phone number
so that I can take a picture of Sofia
and he can paint her naked and then I can say that I did it.
Okay.
But I'm gonna need a IittIe time, aII right?
You're the wettest.
CaII you Iater.
You have got a great sense of humor.
Of course.
-What's this? -It beIonged to my father.
Our father.
I don't know, I thought you might want it.
I don't.
(SIGHS )
Okay.
Nothing's changing, you know, between you and me.
I see.
And even if we're reIated,
we're not famiIy and we never wiII be.
Now, wait.
What?
What, Brian?
How many more awfuI things do you want to say to me?
I'm in the same boat you are.
We both got a raw deaI.
We're brothers and our father's dead so don't Iet that change anything.
Just wrap yourseIf up in the comfort of your meanness
and your seIf-pity and just say it.
Say you hate me. Get it over with.
Fine.
I hate you.
Just sit down, pIease?
Come on.
This is what church is for,
dragging the ruined past
through the messy present into the perfect future,
and ruining it, together.
Come on. Just sit down, pIease.
Thank you.
You're weIcome.
Okay, so I want you to eat heaIthy, do your homework
and don't forget to e-maiI.
I won't.
And I'II come and visit you as soon as I can.
Okay.
Our fIight Ieaves in an hour.
CouId I just have a minute?
I brought you something.
An oId watch?
It's from...
From your grandfather,
who got it from his father,
who got it from his.
It's been passed down for over 1 00 years,
and now it's yours.
I want you to keep it on New York City time.
That way, we're aIways in sync.
We have to go.
(CRYING ) You don't have to say it, Daddy.
I know.
(NO THIN G LEFT TO LOSE PLAYING )
Come on and we'll try
One last time
I'm off of the floor one more time to find you
Come on, sweetie.
Come on and we'll sing
Jump in.
Like we were free
Push the pedal down
Watch the world around fly by us
Come on and we'll try
One last time
I'm off of the floor
One more time to find you
And here we go
There's nothing left to choose
And here we go
There's nothing left to lose