[CHATTERING]
Good morning. I've never seen you on the bus before.
I usually take a later bus.
I have a paper to write, so I'm going to the library.
- Simon Camden. - I'm Sally.
I've never known a Sally.
- What year in school are you? - Sophomore.
- Is that in college? - No. High school.
- How old are you? - I'm 16.
- Junior? - Kind of. I go to tech school.
- Tech school? - I'm training to be a nurse.
Did you drop out of high school to be a nurse?
It's still high school, it's just focused more toward job training.
My family situation has gotten very tough,
and, frankly, I need to be working as soon as possible.
I need to get off at the next stop,
so I better start making my way up there.
I'd love to go out sometime, if you're interested.
Sure.
Well, I have to get off.
Bye.
Double shift, scrubs.
Thanks.
Table.
Thanks.
Counter.
Thanks.
ERIC: Annie? - [MOUTHS] "Annie?"
- She put their clothes in the bathroom. ANNIE: In the bathroom.
Thanks.
Deal.
- All right, thanks. - What deal?
I said I'd be happy to rent the room over the garage
when it's finished, if no one else wants to.
- Your mom said she'd think about it. - You're kidding, right?
If no one else wants to? Everyone else wants to.
I want to. Lucy wants to.
Matt wants to. Simon wants to. Even Dad wants to.
But Robbie's the only one who wants it badly enough to offer to pay rent.
Did I hear "rent"?
Apparently, Robbie has won the rights to the room over the garage
by bribing you with rent.
- Is the room over the garage finished? - Not yet, but it's going to get finished.
ERIC: Oh, that's good. - What's good about it?
Because you've been wanting to finish it for months, right?
- Yeah, I've got to... - Me too.
I was in summer school this summer, and I'm in school now.
And I've got six kids living in this house.
So I haven't had time to finish the room over the garage.
I know. You're very busy. I don't know how you do it.
- How I do what? - How you do all that you do.
Speaking of which, how are you going to get that room finished?
You know, with everything else you have to do.
I'll find a way. I've made up my mind to find a way.
The way isn't gonna be James, is it? Just asking.
Robbie has offered to pay $200 a month,
but he wants a three-year lease so he can stay there until he finishes college.
Three years? I mean, is he sure he wants to stay for three years?
Three years is a long time.
- It's $7,200. - It'll go by like that.
And, you know, if James wants to help,
then I'll be happy to help out, you know,
whenever James is around, helping.
James is not going to be helping out. He's busy.
Oh.
Matt will probably go away next year to medical school,
and Lucy, being Lucy, could end up back in New York,
and Simon's probably gonna go away to college.
So why shouldn't we rent the room to Robbie when it's finished?
Yeah, why not? It's $7,200, and James is busy.
Of course, if Mary ever came back...
I don't think Mary's coming back.
I want her to come back.
I want her to come back too, when she's ready.
[BEEPS]
- Looks like your fever's gone down. - Yeah, just in my ear.
Why don't you try a thermometer that goes in my mouth?
- My mouth might have a fever. - Do you want to be sick?
[DOOR KNOCKS]
Hold on.
- What happened? - They called from daycare.
- He's just running a little fever, I think. - He has a fever?
Are you okay? Does your head hurt?
Does your tummy hurt? Does anything hurt?
- Everything hurts. - What? Well, what hurts?
- You didn't say anything hurts. - I forgot.
It could be the flu. Did you call his doctor?
No, it's just a summer cold. We went swimming last night.
It's not summer, it's fall. And you went swimming last night?
Yeah. I was looking for a way to tire him out before we went to bed.
So you took him swimming at night?
The Y. Indoor pool. We do it all the time.
Yeah, but you have to go outside to get there.
And even worse, you have to go outside after you've been there.
And it's in and out with wet hair, and...
Maybe I should call his doctor.
No. If he needed his doctor, I'd call his doctor.
He doesn't. He's okay.
I mean, I've seen him when he's really sick, and he's not really sick.
Yes, I am.
Not really, really sick.
You had two degrees of fever, now you have one.
So whatever you had seems to be going away.
So I am going to let Mary hang out with you until I get home from work.
You can call me if you don't feel better.
- Okay? - Okay.
- You don't mind staying? - Of course not.
It's just a slight fever. He'll be fine.
- If the fever goes up, call me. - We'll be fine. Go.
No jumping around.
- Still and quiet. Got it? - Got it.
Okay. Hey, thanks.
Okay.
I'm gonna take such good care of you.
I know.
Can I call you Mommy?
- I... - Just for today.
We don't have to tell Daddy.
- I think you better just call me Mary. - Okay.
But when can we call you Mommy? Because I never had a mommy.
And I want a mommy.
- Hey. I guess we all owe you, huh? - For what?
Getting the kid with the gun kicked out of school.
Yeah, I wish it was for reminding everyone
that we need to support each other rather than torture each other.
Okay, that too.
- What? - You're a senior, right?
- I met this girl. - Yeah, and...?
- Have you ever dated--? - Have I ever dated?
- Of course I've dated. - A pregnant woman.
- Are you kidding me? - No.
I'm trusting you with private information here,
so remember you owe me one, so keep it down.
- How old is she? - She said 16.
- Where'd you meet her? - On the bus.
- What's with the bus, anyway? - I like the bus, okay?
- You meet a lot of interesting people. - Your parents are making you.
- Yeah. - Figures.
Should I call her? She gave me her number.
Well, at least you know you can't get her in trouble.
I'm trying to include you in a normal conversation,
hoping that, given the opportunity, you can act as a real friend
instead of just the bully that you're known for.
Hold on. Weren't you the one
who instituted the zero-tolerance-on-name-calling policy?
Sorry.
This ain't a normal conversation, Camden.
Preachers' boys don't date unwed mothers.
Stop calling me preacher boy.
I don't like the unwed-mother label either.
My sister happens to date an unwed father, and no one calls him that.
In fact, no one says anything bad about him at all.
Thanks. You know, I think I just got my answer.
[COOING]
Hey, hey.
Did you get the job?
No, but after waiting a couple hours, they gave me an application.
Couldn't you fill out the application at the employment office?
If I could have, I would have. I planned to.
I hoped that they might even send me out
on an interview or two or three today. But no such luck.
- But I did meet a guy. - A guy?
- Not for me, for you. - What?
He's a carpenter, a master carpenter,
and he's looking for work, and he's nice, really nice.
I told him to stop by.
We can't afford to pay a master carpenter
to build a room over the garage.
I just need some help. You could help me.
- I need a job that pays. - Until then, you can help me.
[DOOR KNOCKS]
Sorry. I thought you were anxious to get started. I'm anxious to move in.
But you're not moving in.
But Matt said he didn't want it since he won't be around next year.
Robbie wants it. He's offered to pay rent.
Hi. I'm Ray, Lucy's friend from the college employment office.
Lucy should've mentioned it.
We can't afford to pay someone to help out with the garage.
Right now, I'd help out for meals. A snack even.
I'm down to my last couple unemployment cheques,
and I'm watching my money as carefully as possible.
Well, I'm sorry, but so are we.
Why don't you just let me take a look at the job
and see what needs to be done?
I don't know, Ray. I don't think so.
Things look pretty good with the college.
I'll have work as soon as the first of the week.
In the meantime, I'm sure we could work something out.
I just need to work. I have to have something to do.
Otherwise, well...
I need to work.
Well, I just have to get the laundry out of the dryer.
Why don't you go on out to the garage and have a look?
I'll be right out.
Yeah.
- I feel sorry for the guy, but-- - But what?
We need the apartment finished.
And how much rent is Robbie willing to pay?
Because whatever it is, I'll pay more.
- You don't have a job. - Right.
I don't have anything.
Oh, Luce. Luce.
I was passing by the clinic on the way to class,
and I just wanted to tell you before anyone else did.
I offered to rent the garage apartment, and your mom accepted.
So I'll be getting out of your hair as soon as she gets the room finished.
What?
Well, I figured I'd give you your privacy back.
I know you hate sharing a room with me
because it's hard for you to study with me in the room.
And I guess it's hard to talk to my old girlfriend with me in the room.
I want my privacy in the garage apartment.
I don't want my privacy in the Hello Kitty room.
Fine. I'll pay the same rent for the room we're in now,
and you can have the garage.
- Really? - If that's what you want, yeah.
You're a good guy, you know?
I almost feel badly I'm dating your old girlfriend.
- No, you don't. - No, I don't.
But, you know, it's not healthy to feel sorry for people. You know?
Pfft.
What do you think?
- Whoa! Whoa! Oh! - Oh!
[RAY GASPS AND GRUNTS]
I think someone should call an ambulance.
An ambulance?
BOTH: Uh-oh. - Ooh!
- What happened? - He fell off the ladder.
He couldn't have been 2 feet up when he fell, but he fell.
And he pulled the ladder down with him.
And who is he?
He's a guy that Lucy met at the employment office.
- His name is Ray. - And you hired him?
I didn't hire him. I was letting him look at the job.
But before we even discussed it, he fell off the ladder.
And then I had to call the ambulance, and now he's at the hospital.
He needed an ambulance?
He insisted. Would you go down there and find out what happened?
I know what happened. You and Lucy let a nutjob into the house,
and now he's fallen and he won't get up
until he sues us. I don't know what you were thinking.
I don't know. I was thinking you weren't gonna help me,
so maybe this nice man would.
[PHONE RINGS]
- Did you just hang up on me? - Yes, I did.
Don't you think my day has been bad enough
without hanging up on me?
I hadn't taken that into consideration.
If you wanted my help with the garage, all you had to do was ask me for it.
Like you could ever help build something.
- What? - I'm asking for your help now, aren't I?
Are you going down to the hospital or not?
Yes, I'm going down to the hospital.
Okay? Okay.
[MOUTHS] Thank you.
[SCOFFS]
This is all my fault.
I'll say. It's enough to make you wanna pack your bags
and move back to New York, isn't it?
I may have mentioned before
that I got really comfortable in here over the summer.
My fiancé and I broke up.
I had no place to live,
so I had to give up college and move home.
I have nothing. Not even your sympathy?
Yeah, well, that's true.
But surely you can see where sympathy gets you?
It gets you a guy who sustains injuries on our property.
You know, actually, it's the Church's property.
Dad's gonna have to discuss this little fiasco with everyone.
That could be embarrassing.
You know, you may wanna reconsider that college--
What is it? Clear-across-the-country Cobell Seminary.
You can't drive me out
just so you can be the only sister in a world of older brothers.
Well, I can try, can't I? Did I mention that this past summer
was the best summer of my whole life?
I'm not going anywhere.
Not to New York, not even to the garage.
Glad you mentioned that.
Once it's finished, the garage apartment's gonna be real nice.
So private.
You could get over that guy much quicker
if you had time to yourself. Alone, quiet, no me.
Robbie's renting the garage apartment.
But you have Robbie wrapped around your little finger, so...
- That's not true. "So" nothing. ROBBIE: Luce?
- Hey. How are you? Everything okay? - I heard about that Ray guy.
You and your mom shouldn't be letting strange men into the house,
especially when no one's home.
He said he was running out of unemployment
and he needed to work whether he got paid or not.
And you believed that?
I know. I never should've brought him here.
I just felt so sorry for him.
I guess I'm just not thinking clearly,
you know, with my life falling apart and everything.
It's okay, Luce. Everything's gonna be fine.
Maybe if I had a place of my own, you know,
like the garage apartment, where I could be in my own space,
but have the support of my family when I need it...
I told Matt that he could have the apartment
and I'd rent the room in here for the same money.
Well, what'd you do that for?
Wait a minute. Wait a minute. I see what's going on here.
You were trying to make me feel sorry for you
so I'd give up the garage, weren't you?
Shame on you.
- Ruthie made me do it. - Then shame on Ruthie.
- Finally. - What?
I need some advice.
You need it so badly you have to hide in my room and scare me like that?
- Yes. Yes, I do. - Okay. What is it?
Okay, well, I met this girl on the bus.
And she gave me her phone number.
- Is something wrong with her? - She's nice, and she's pretty.
Then my advice is to call her. Hold on, wait.
- How old is she? - Sixteen.
Yeah, then call her. This is the advice you wanted?
- Yeah. Sorry I startled you. - Oh, no. That's not it.
That's not all of it. What's up? Is she pregnant or something?
What, are you psychic or something?
- She's pregnant? - She's not married.
You're not going out with a pregnant woman?
Why not?
- Why? Because you feel sorry for her. - No.
All right, maybe a little, but...
But she's pretty, and she's interesting,
and, well, she's sort of vulnerable in a pregnant kind of way.
Dating is difficult enough
without dating someone who's got a complicated life.
And you're too young for those complications, way too young.
You know, Mary was my age when she started dating Wilson.
Sorry.
Shh.
- How is he? - He's fine.
His fever's gone, but I think he's getting a little cold.
I know. That's what I told you earlier.
I called his paediatrician,
and they said he didn't need to come in unless he got worse.
- You called the paediatrician? - Yeah. I wanted a doctor's advice.
Okay. And...?
And the nurse said she was sure all he needed was a mother's care.
Sounded like I was doing fine.
- You told her you were his mother? - No, not exactly.
Well, maybe.
All right, I did.
I didn't wanna say I was his father's girlfriend.
And he does need a mother's care.
I do the best I can.
I have to go to work at the shelter. I've left chicken soup on the stove.
And I can come back after work if you need me.
We need you, but you should go home after work and get some rest.
I don't want you to get sick too.
Okay.
Well, good night. I'll call you.
I didn't get a chance to speak with Ray.
Ray's attorney says
that Ray didn't feel like talking with me or with anyone else.
Ray's just so depressed at the thought that he might not work for a while
due to his injuries that were sustained while working on our property.
He wasn't working on our property.
And he doesn't have an injury that's so bad he can't work.
- I say he's faking. - Faking? I see.
Well, the medical community has a different diagnosis.
They claim that the x-rays show a hairline fracture to the ankle.
A what?
Oh, please. I'll fracture his ankle.
If he fractured his ankle, he did not do it here.
- I am going down there. - No, you're not.
You are not going down there.
Then again, why don't you?
Why don't you just take your hormones and go down there
and drive someone else crazy besides me?
I heard that.
Ugh.
I can walk you to the bus stop on my dinner break.
- That's 15 minutes from now. SALLY: It's okay. I'm feeling better now.
I just wanted to make sure I wasn't going into early labour or anything.
- I've got a date tonight. - Well, good for you.
- You have a good time. - I hope.
It's with this guy I met on the bus.
He has such a cute name.
Simon. Simon Camden.
SIMON: I don't care. - You don't care she's pregnant?
Hi, Dad.
You don't care if who's pregnant?
Oh, just some girl that I met on the bus.
Was she pregnant before or after you met her?
Before. After. What?
[PHONE RINGS]
Just a second. Yeah?
- Get me Simon. - Wait your turn.
[PHONE RINGS]
I said wait your turn.
[PHONE RINGS]
- I have to talk to him. - What do you know?
- I can't tell you.
- Why not? - I'm the father.
- I'm the brother. - I'm a minister.
- I'm an orderly. - But--
MAN: Doctor, can I see you for a moment, please?
May I help you?
I'm looking for Ray Rickey, if that's his name.
Well, I'm the attorney for Mr. Rickey. And you are...?
I'm his mother.
They admitted you for a fractured ankle?
- And for my depression. - You are not depressed.
And you did not fracture your ankle
when you fell off that ladder, you big faker!
Security?
[CHUCKLES]
- This is who you want to go out with? - Yes.
Yes, this is who I wanna go out with.
I've already asked her out. What am I supposed to say?
"Oh, I'm sorry, my daddy won't let me"?
You know, you let Mary date Wilson when she was just 15,
and he fathered a child. What's the difference?
He already asked me that, and I didn't know what to tell him.
He's got a point.
Simon, this just isn't a good idea, okay?
I thought we were gonna treat me like a man.
You know, I've been acting like a man.
I've done my homework. I'm making good grades.
My room is clean.
Relatively clean. Look, I've made a decision
that I wanna go out with this girl.
Now, I don't care if she's pregnant. Who am I to judge her?
For that matter, who are any of you to judge her?
She seems to be very nice.
If she's not, I won't go out with her again.
Are you sure you're not going out with her
because you feel sorry for her?
[PHONE RINGING]
Hey, maybe Mr. and Mrs. Simon Camden--
And the baby makes three. --should have the garage apartment.
Hello? Yes, this is Reverend Camden.
She's where?
Why are you eating pizza?
I made dinner. Dinner's in the oven.
- We weren't sure what it was. - It's tofu.
Oh.
Tofu, huh?
- Didn't think of that. - Never would've guessed.
We'll go upstairs and check on the boys.
You left the boys alone upstairs?
- They're asleep. - It's only 8:00.
- They don't know that. - We should just go.
Would you like some tofu?
No, thanks.
I don't eat tofu.
Would it hurt you to try?
Would it hurt you to try something that's good for you?
I've tried tofu. I don't like it.
Really don't like it.
- Really. - That's not the point.
- What's the point? - The point is that you...
You--
You don't understand what I'm going through.
And I wasn't supposed to go through it for a long, long time.
- Me neither. - What?
I'm trying my best. I am.
But I just seem totally unprepared to deal with this stage of your life.
I don't know what to say. I don't know what to do. I'm lost.
I'm completely lost.
- And you, my dear, are completely-- - Nuts?
Is that what you were going to say?
Because the problem is not that I'm nuts.
You wanna know what the problem is?
More specifically, do you wanna know what your problem is?
Your problem is that you feel sorry for yourself.
And the person you should be feeling sorry for is me.
Yes, I am a nut. I'm the one who let that guy in here.
I'm the one who had to deal with him until the ambulance got here.
I had to go to the hospital and deal with him because you didn't.
And then I'm the one that got hauled off by Security.
So if you wanna feel sorry for someone, feel sorry for me.
Lou. This is Eric.
I think we may have a little problem regarding the church rectory.
Yes, otherwise referred to as my house.
Do you know where Simon is?
No, I realise that, Lou.
But, you know, Lucy was feeling sorry for this guy,
and then Annie was feeling sorry for Lucy, you know, and--
I'll call you back.
You let my 15-year-old son go out on a date with a pregnant girl?
Well, you let that guy fall off the...
- Yes, I did. Say, any tofu left? - No--
[MOUTHS] Yeah.
- Friend of yours? - Maybe.
- So... - So let's order.
Your brother, he's just an orderly, right?
So he doesn't have, like, access to charts or anything, right?
No, I don't think so. But even if he did, like I said, he's very professional.
He'd never disclose anything confidential.
[PHONE RINGS]
- Hello? - How's Billy?
He's asleep. How are you?
I couldn't quit thinking about him at work.
Oh, he's fine.
How do you know it's not an earache or something?
Because he usually holds his ear when it's an earache.
Well, you shouldn't take him out swimming at night.
- You could be right. - Did he eat anything?
Yeah, we both ate chicken soup. Thank you.
- I wish I could kiss him good night. - I wish you could kiss me good night.
I hate being away from him when he's sick.
I know.
- Are you still there? - Yeah, I'm still here.
If you need me, I can come over.
Oh, it's too late to come over, but it's sweet of you to offer.
We'll see you tomorrow?
Good night. I love you.
I love you too. And tell Billy I love him.
Okay.
I'm sorry about everything. I'm sorry I'm not a better husband.
I'm sorry I haven't been more understanding.
I'm sorry I couldn't find a way to discourage Simon
from making what could be a bad, bad choice in dates.
But mostly...
Mostly, I'm sorry that Annie let Ray in the garage.
I just can't let that go, can I, girl?
Ah. Prayer, yes.
Always the answer. Yeah.
Dear Lord, please don't let me lose my mind when I need it the most.
And if it's too late for that, if he's already lost it,
please help him just be quiet about it and stop feeling sorry for himself.
Amen.
- I just wanted to say good night. - You're going to bed?
- It's just 9:00. - No, I'm going out.
But you'll be in bed when I get back, so I thought I'd say good night now.
Where are you going? To spy on Simon?
- Are you? - No, I'm not going to spy on Simon.
It's Friday night.
I'm just getting out of the house like any other red-blooded American guy.
I'm sorry, did you say "guy" or "spy"?
You know, I was thinking about going out myself.
- In your pyjamas? LUCY: Everyone wears pyjamas.
And I admit it, I wanna see Simon's date.
Again, I didn't say anything about seeing Simon or his date.
- Grab your coat. - Mm-hm.
So, what story are we going with? We're going out for ice cream?
We're going out for ice cream.
Oh, take a picture. I'd like to see her myself.
Eric, check on the boys.
I guess they've left us out of whatever little adventure
they've gone off to now.
Isn't it great?
[KIDS COOING]
I cannot catch a break.
Sorry we have to head home so early, but we have to transfer buses,
and you know how it is when you got kids and everything.
- I'm sorry, did you say "kids"? - Oh, I didn't mention?
I guess I should tell you, because I think maybe I did tell your brother,
or he could find out.
This isn't my first.
- This isn't your first...? - This isn't my first child.
My third.
See, the first one,
I was feeling sorry for this guy, and he wanted a girlfriend.
And all his friends had girlfriends, and they were, as you say, active.
And the second one, I was feeling sorry for myself
because that first guy didn't stick around.
And I wanted a guy who would stick around.
So I tried to give the second guy an excuse to stick around,
and, well, he didn't either, and that backfired.
And this time, I don't really know what happened.
It's kind of complicated.
But we could talk about it on the way home.
Here's the bus.
Uh-oh.
Okay, before you call Security, just hear me out, Ray, okay?
You owe me that.
You did not hurt your ankle today at my house.
I know that, Ray, because I saw you fall.
If you have a fractured ankle, then you fractured it someplace else.
Perhaps your last employer's or the one before that.
But it wasn't today. I know it wasn't.
And I know that if they call in the medical experts, I can prove it.
It's an old injury, isn't it, Ray?
You know what else I know?
You are not depressed. You are lazy. You do not want to work.
You want to appear to want to work, but you do not really want to work.
Oh, no, not you. You wanna get money for not working.
Well, I just came to tell you, not my money,
not my Church's money, not the government's money.
I will fight you, Ray. Oh, yeah, I will. I'm a fighter.
So I suggest that you get off your butt, and you get your pants on,
and you get out of this hospital,
and on Monday morning, you find yourself a job.
I'm a woman on the verge, Ray.
You don't wanna mess with Annie Camden.
Not today and not tomorrow in court.
Security?
- Ahem. - I'm going, I'm going.
Do you have a mother?
Mrs. Camden...
ERIC: Yeah.
What do you think?
How could you let Simon go out with that girl?
Sit down, and I'll tell you.
Because after years of success in the parent and husbandry business,
I suddenly find I'm completely incompetent
as a father and a husband.
[CHUCKLES]
I feel sorry for you. I do.
Yeah, it's kind of a funny story. I'll just cut to the end.
The garage apartment is not going to be ready forever.
So you might as well get used to living with Robbie in your room forever.
What happened to the garage apartment?
Ray. That's what happened.
[PHONE RINGS]
Yeah?
Okay.
Yeah, I'll be right there.
I have to go and pick up your mother. Would you keep an eye on the boys?
- Is anything wrong? - Nope. Nothing's wrong.
It's all perfectly normal, from what I understand.
There he is! Simon! Simon!
LUCY: Simon! ROBBIE: Simon!
Get off at the next stop. The next stop, get off.
Simon, the next stop.
The next stop.
I don't understand why they keep calling you.
Well, yeah. Don't take it personally.
They always call me when these things happen.
These things? What things?
Well, just disturbances that the hospital hopes it can work out
without lawyers and police officers, people like that.
Ray's lying. You know he's lying.
Should never have gone back in there. I shouldn't have gone in the first place.
I don't know. Someone should have to suffer besides me.
If God wills that it's Ray, so be it.
No, I'm kidding. Just trying to find the humour in all this.
- And...? - And, you know, I think I may have.
I think you're more you than you have been for a long time.
- What? - So--
No, I just find it funny
that I'm having so much trouble adjusting to your adjusting,
because we're both just adjusting to you being you.
What?
The first year that I knew you, you were just like this.
You, in no uncertain terms, told people what you thought.
And that was one of the things that attracted me to you.
And there was never any predicting
when you were gonna tell someone what you thought.
I remember you let my dad tell you like 27 times
how to put a diaper on Matt before you told off the Colonel
like I'd wanted to tell off the Colonel my entire life.
What are you saying? I've always been a nut?
Pretty much. But mellowed over the years.
And now you're back without warning, and it's a beautiful thing.
I love you. I've always loved you.
And I'm always gonna love you.
Till death do us part.
Even if it kills me.
You know, you think you are so smart.
I liked you better when you were feeling sorry for yourself.
You guys really need to be careful about who you feel sorry for.
Look who's talking.
And the reason you told Matt
he could have the garage apartment was...?
Because you feel sorry for him.
I don't feel sorry for Matt. Why would I feel sorry for Matt?
Because he's leaving the family next year.
He's going to med school.
And you've kind of stepped in and taken over.
It's okay. We all feel sorry for someone.
Me? You feel sorry for me? Why would you feel sorry for me?
- It's getting cold out here. - Yeah, we better get going.
Because of Mary.
Oh. Oh, you got me.
So you guys wanna take breakfast out to the park and eat there?
Well, what about Billy's cold?
Oh, the fresh air and sunshine, that'll do him good.
Now, if you don't believe me, you can call the doctor.
- You wanna go to the park? - Do you wanna go to the park?
Sure. Go get your jacket, and I'll help you put it on.
Okay, what's up?
What makes you think something's up?
Knocking on my door at 7:30 in the morning,
the look on your face. Something you don't wanna tell me?
It's just that the Colonel made a few phone calls.
He got me into the training sessions for the fire department.
So, you know, I still have a shot after all.
Why wouldn't you tell me that?
Because you don't want me to be a fireman.
A firewoman. A firefighter.
I think it's a dangerous profession.
But if you wanna fight fires, why wouldn't you fight fires?
BILLY: Is it time for me to come back? - No.
Are we having a fight?
- No. - No.
- That's a yes. - Go find your soccer ball.
We're gonna play soccer after we eat breakfast.
I knew it was a yes.
[GROWLS]
Are we having a fight?
You feel sorry for us. No, no, wait. Not for us, for Billy.
Don't think if you're not here to take care of him, he won't be taken care of.
I took care of Billy before you came into my life,
and I will take care of Billy with or without you in my life.
I want you with us, but not because you feel sorry for either of us.
I do not feel sorry for Billy or for you.
I don't.
Why give up the first thing you've been interested in in over a year?
And that's a rhetorical question, and I already answered it.
Will you listen to me, please? I'm here because I love you.
Both of you. Not because I feel sorry for you.
And I don't wanna do anything that will mess that up.
- Then don't. - So don't become a firefighter?
No. No, that's not what I'm saying.
I don't wanna get in the way of your dream.
But just tell me that you realise that there are obstacles
in pursuing your dream, or you will mess this up.
I just think you don't want me to do this.
What obstacles?
Mary, firefighters work one week on, one week off.
They sacrifice time with their families to do their job.
I don't know if they mentioned this,
but they actually put their lives on the line to save people.
Sometimes they even die.
Just the training itself is gigantic commitment to take on
while having other commitments.
- I know that. - Do you?
If you don't see the obstacles on the road,
then you can't overcome them.
But just give me a chance.
You'll see that the busier I am, the more I'll get done.
And I'll make everything work out, I promise.
I'll be there for both of you while I'm doing this for me.
Okay.
Then I promise I'll do whatever I can to make everything work out for you.
For all of us.
- But-- - But?
Nothing, nothing.
- I love you. - I love you too.