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<i>Unbelievable.</i>
<i>Dallas police arrested</i> Lee <i>Harvey Os...</i>

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<i>- solemn moment that marks</i>
<i>the continuity of the president's office.</i>

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<i>Jet pilots wear them.</i>
<i>Skydivers wear them.</i>

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<i>- Joined in nonviolent protest...</i>

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<i>...of the widespread discrimination</i>
<i>throughout the country...</i>

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<i>How does a train go?</i>

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<i>- Miss America contest.</i>

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<i>From 54 lovely hopefuls, down to 10.</i>

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<i>Train track.</i>

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<i>- Terrific.</i>
<i>- The Army-Navy game.</i>

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<i>Grassy setting for...</i>

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<i>You can both have the glasses.</i>
<i>They come in Duz.</i>

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<i>- In Duz?</i>
<i>- In Duz?</i>

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<i>Gerry and the Pacemakers.</i>

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<i>- Powered big shot comes complete</i>
<i>with three rubber- tip missiles.</i>

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<i>Protests against the war persisted.</i>

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<i>A growing voice however</i>
<i>call the demonstrations treachery.</i>

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<i>As the year began, the quarter million</i>
<i>Americans face the communists in...</i>

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"Joan looked at the generals and said:

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'My business is not with you.

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You have not craved a council of war.'

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Then she turned toward the king's
privy council and continued.

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'No, it is with you. A council of war.'

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It is amazing.

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Councils of war have no value...

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...but to decide between two
or several doubtful courses.

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But a council of war
when there is only one course?"'

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<i>Big G had a head of flaming red...</i>

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<i>No, make that orange hair.</i>

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<i>The G stood for ginger.</i>

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<i>A derogatory term for redheads.</i>

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<i>Big G was easily a foot taller</i>
<i>than anyone else in the school.</i>

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<i>Even so, his head was still</i> too <i>big</i>
<i>for his body.</i>

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<i>And his ears</i> too <i>big for his head.</i>

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<i>One might think</i>
<i>in order to compensate...</i>

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<i>... Big G might have been blessed</i>
<i>with a handsome face.</i>

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<i>After all, Clark Gable had big ears.</i>

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<i>Lucille Ball had orange hair, yet for them,</i>
<i>there was compensation.</i>

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<i>Not so for Big G.</i>

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"...the march upon Paris."

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<i>Did I say children were cruel?</i>

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<i>Apparently,</i>
<i>even God has his moments.</i>

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"She replied, 'lndeed?

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And will Your Excellency
be good enough to utter them?

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Cowardice and treachery,'
said Joan scornfully."

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That's where we'll finish today.

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Okay, so the last few minutes of class,
I wanna talk to you about your final project.

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You'll be working in teams of two.

49
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To make it fair and so each of you
won't be picking your friend to work with...

50
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...I have decided to pair you up myself.

51
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Each team will receive one grade.

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So you must work together.

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Discover each other's strengths
and capitalize on them.

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All right? Here we go.

55
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Miss Tyler will be working
with Mr. Wiley.

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Miss Archer will be working
with Mr. Valero.

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Miss Katzman will be working
with Miss Franz.

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Mr. Nichol will be working
with Mr. Minor.

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All right, class, I would like to have it
absolutely quiet. Please.

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There's no reason
for that kind of behavior.

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I'll put this list up on the board so the rest
can see who you're teamed with.

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The assignment will be due
at the end of the semester.

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And I will see you tomorrow.

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Thank you.

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Good luck.

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Mr. Nichol?

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I want you to know
I paired you with Stanley for a reason.

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You're very fortunate,
so please don't disappoint me.

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Andrew?

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Your thoughts?

71
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Well, Mr. Simon, I just don't think
I'm the right partner for Big...

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- I mean, Stanley.
- And why is that?

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Well, he's a lot smarter than I am.

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And I'm not a very good writer.

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I could screw him up.

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Well, I beg to differ from you, Andrew.
I find your writing fascinating.

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You're a keen observer
with a colorful perspective.

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In fact, underneath the poor grammar
and the atrocious spelling...

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...I believe there lies the heart and soul
of a great writer.

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- Really?
- Really.

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Do you enjoy writing?

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Sort of. Sometimes.
The making-up-the-story part at least.

83
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Well, if you enjoy something
and you're good at it...

84
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...then first you must define yourself
as what you wanna be.

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- I don't...
- Repeat after me.

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I am a writer, that's what I am.

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I am a writer, that's what I am?

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Let's try that again. Stand up straight.
Shoulders back.

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Deep breath.
I am a writer, that's what I am.

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I am a writer, that's what I am.

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Excellent. Now go, Andrew.

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- And write.
- Yeah. Yes, sir.

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<i>Despite all that was so painful</i>
<i>and humiliating in his</i> life...

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<i>... Big G seemed to command respect.</i>

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<i>No matter what, he maintained</i>
<i>a certain nobility about him.</i>

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<i>At least in the eyes of those few</i>
<i>sensitive enough to look.</i>

97
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<i>Unfortunately,</i>
<i>I was not one of those few.</i>

98
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It looks like he wet his pants.

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Freak.

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Oh, my God.

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Everybody, Big G wet his pants.

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- I want a sandwich.
- Sam, look at me.

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If I ask my mom for an extra sandwich,
she's gonna know something's up.

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- She gives me two as it is.
- Sandwich and candy bar.

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Candy bar? Candy bar. Are you nuts?

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My mom won't give me a candy bar no
matter how many times you beat me up.

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Hello? My dad's a dentist, remember?

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Why don't you just cut off my arm
and snack on that, Sam?

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Go ahead, cut it off.
What are you doing?

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Please, Sam, easy.
You've gotta work with me here.

111
00:08:02,215 --> 00:08:04,581
This is counter-productive.
I'll do your homework.

112
00:08:04,750 --> 00:08:07,844
- Hinkle does my homework. I'll take cash.
- Okay. Okay.

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Cash is not a problem. Cash will work.

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There you go.

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- Hey, Nichol.
- Hey, Sam.

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- Can't believe you paid him money,
- What part didn't you believe?

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Part where I handed him money?

118
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Or the part where he had my underwear
around my neck?

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Sam's all bluff.
I mean, he's not actually gonna hurt you.

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- Not like Ricky Brown.
- Is that right?

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So I guess you were sick that day...

122
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...Sam shoved my head into a toilet
and broke my tooth.

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Wait. Norman, hold on.

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- Do you know where Big G is?
- Why? A little low on cooties?

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Or you just wanna see
if he really did wet his pants?

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We're partners on a project
for Mr. Simon's fourth period English.

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We've gotta work together.

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- Bet your friends got a big kick out of that.
- Shut up.

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You don't even know how lucky you are,
Nichol.

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Stanley's the smartest in the school,
next to me.

131
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Do you know where he is or not?

132
00:09:03,509 --> 00:09:06,342
He's down in the corner
waiting for his crotch to dry.

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00:09:09,849 --> 00:09:11,407
Hey, Nichol.

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Stanley's my best friend.

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He's not like anyone else.

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Don't...

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Never mind.

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<i>Geek Corner. No Man's Land.</i>

139
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<i>The Grand Canyon of Cooties.</i>

140
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<i>It was referred to by many names.</i>

141
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<i>One step into this dreaded ground</i>
<i>and there would be no going back.</i>

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Big G.

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00:10:06,005 --> 00:10:07,973
- What is that?
- What?

144
00:10:10,276 --> 00:10:11,504
My God, they're talking.

145
00:10:11,677 --> 00:10:14,305
- When do you wanna work on the report?
- What is he doing?

146
00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:17,040
I don't have much time.
I go home right after school.

147
00:10:17,216 --> 00:10:21,346
- I have stuff I have to do.
- We've gotta get it done somehow.

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00:10:21,887 --> 00:10:24,412
I know you don't wanna work
on the report with me.

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I can do the work and you can turn it in.

150
00:10:27,927 --> 00:10:30,589
- Your friends don't have to know.
- My God.

151
00:10:34,367 --> 00:10:37,268
I have a strong feeling
Mr. Simon would know.

152
00:10:37,436 --> 00:10:39,461
We have to do it together.

153
00:10:53,986 --> 00:10:56,011
<i>My father was a good man.</i>

154
00:10:56,188 --> 00:10:58,179
<i>He just wasn't very user- friendly.</i>

155
00:10:58,357 --> 00:11:01,849
<i>He worked in computers and everything</i>
<i>had to be done a certain way.</i>

156
00:11:02,028 --> 00:11:03,928
<i>He was very good at computers.</i>

157
00:11:04,096 --> 00:11:07,327
<i>But then again,</i>
<i>computers came with a handbook.</i>

158
00:11:07,500 --> 00:11:10,992
Yo, hey. Andy, shut it off. Shut it off.

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00:11:12,638 --> 00:11:14,265
Shut it off.

160
00:11:16,909 --> 00:11:19,002
Come here. A little quicker please?

161
00:11:19,178 --> 00:11:21,840
I don't have all day.
Come here. Come here.

162
00:11:22,014 --> 00:11:23,538
Look at this. Look at this.

163
00:11:23,716 --> 00:11:25,479
You telling me you can't see this?

164
00:11:26,886 --> 00:11:29,821
- I was gonna go back over it.
- You know what you are?

165
00:11:29,989 --> 00:11:33,891
Know what you are? You're a jughead.
You know what a jughead is?

166
00:11:34,560 --> 00:11:38,087
- Someone who's really stupid?
- No, buddy. You're not stupid.

167
00:11:38,264 --> 00:11:40,926
A jughead is someone
who just doesn't pay attention.

168
00:11:41,534 --> 00:11:43,525
- Oh, okay.
- Now you can concentrate.

169
00:11:43,703 --> 00:11:47,469
Do it right the first time, you don't have to
again. Does that make sense to you?

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00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:50,609
- Yeah, but I was gonna...
- No. There's no but.

171
00:11:50,776 --> 00:11:52,641
Either makes sense
or doesn't make sense.

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00:11:52,812 --> 00:11:54,780
- There's no buts about it.
- Okay.

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00:11:54,947 --> 00:11:56,778
You watch me. I'll mow the lawn.

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00:11:57,283 --> 00:12:00,116
I'll show you
what a lawn's supposed to look like.

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00:12:04,724 --> 00:12:06,191
Unbelievable.

176
00:12:23,142 --> 00:12:26,976
He won't study after school, in the library,
he works for his dad on the weekends.

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00:12:27,146 --> 00:12:30,172
The only place he'll study
is in Geek Corner at lunch hour.

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00:12:30,349 --> 00:12:32,044
Geek Corner?

179
00:12:32,218 --> 00:12:34,277
Yeah, that's where they hang out.

180
00:12:35,654 --> 00:12:36,746
Who are they exactly?

181
00:12:37,556 --> 00:12:39,751
You know, Big G and his friends.

182
00:12:39,925 --> 00:12:43,053
Norman Grunmeyer, Karen Connor,
Stuart Hoffstetter.

183
00:12:43,496 --> 00:12:44,929
Geek Corner?

184
00:12:48,868 --> 00:12:51,063
Yeah, that's what they call it.

185
00:12:51,437 --> 00:12:54,429
"They" again, Andy?
Isn't that what you just called it?

186
00:12:55,274 --> 00:12:58,209
Yeah, but I didn't mean... I didn't...

187
00:12:58,377 --> 00:13:00,641
Did it occur to you that Stanley
studies there...

188
00:13:00,813 --> 00:13:03,281
...because that's the only place
he feels comfortable?

189
00:13:03,449 --> 00:13:07,442
How would you feel if everywhere people
made fun of you and played tricks on you?

190
00:13:09,655 --> 00:13:11,418
Ricky Brown makes fun of him
every day.

191
00:13:13,025 --> 00:13:17,428
He was squirting him with a water pistol
so it made him look like he wet his pants.

192
00:13:17,696 --> 00:13:20,597
Ricky Brown is a very cruel boy.

193
00:13:22,268 --> 00:13:24,998
Stanley has suffered his whole life.

194
00:13:28,140 --> 00:13:31,041
Why would God do that, Mom?
Make someone look like Big G?

195
00:13:31,210 --> 00:13:32,802
So that everyone makes fun of him?

196
00:13:38,050 --> 00:13:41,542
Maybe because God didn't see
anything wrong with him in the first place.

197
00:13:44,156 --> 00:13:45,817
And, Andy...

198
00:13:46,559 --> 00:13:48,288
...his name is Stanley.

199
00:13:52,231 --> 00:13:55,997
So how are you gonna get around
the Big G thing?

200
00:13:56,168 --> 00:13:57,692
There is no way around it.

201
00:13:57,870 --> 00:14:00,031
There's always a way. Quit school.

202
00:14:00,739 --> 00:14:02,673
Yeah, I could also kill myself.

203
00:14:02,842 --> 00:14:04,867
Any other brilliant ideas?

204
00:14:06,912 --> 00:14:09,210
- Could be worse, you know?
- How is that?

205
00:14:09,381 --> 00:14:12,179
Ricky Brown could wanna kick your butt
or something.

206
00:14:12,351 --> 00:14:14,319
- True.
- Oh, hey.

207
00:14:14,486 --> 00:14:16,681
Did you hear about Simon
winning that car?

208
00:14:17,289 --> 00:14:20,781
- What? No. A car?
- Yeah, there was a contest in the paper.

209
00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:25,056
He had to write in 25 words how to save
the world, or make peace, or whatever.

210
00:14:25,231 --> 00:14:27,358
- Simon won.
- Cool.

211
00:14:27,533 --> 00:14:29,125
Mr. Simon's a genius.

212
00:14:29,301 --> 00:14:31,826
- What kind of car?
- Pontiac GTO.

213
00:14:32,004 --> 00:14:34,165
Most bitching car ever made.

214
00:14:35,741 --> 00:14:37,606
There she is.

215
00:14:40,212 --> 00:14:41,440
Give it up, Nichol.

216
00:14:42,114 --> 00:14:44,344
Hey, I can dream.

217
00:14:45,584 --> 00:14:49,350
<i>Mary Clear was a legend</i>
<i>in her own time.</i>

218
00:14:49,521 --> 00:14:53,719
<i>She had established herself as the</i>
<i>make- out artist in the eighth-grade class.</i>

219
00:14:54,393 --> 00:14:57,760
<i>Everybody who was anybody</i>
<i>had made out with Mary Clear.</i>

220
00:14:58,530 --> 00:15:02,057
<i>Everybody, that is, except</i> me.

221
00:15:10,042 --> 00:15:13,534
<i>If Mary Clear was the most attractive girl</i>
<i>in the school...</i>

222
00:15:13,712 --> 00:15:16,772
<i>... then Karen Connor, one could argue,</i>
<i>was the homeliest.</i>

223
00:15:16,949 --> 00:15:20,180
<i>And the homeliest girl always had it worse</i>
<i>than her male counterpart.</i>

224
00:15:20,352 --> 00:15:23,617
<i>It's like, if the Elephant Man</i>
<i>had an identical twin sister...</i>

225
00:15:23,789 --> 00:15:27,122
<i>... somehow she would seem homelier.</i>

226
00:15:28,894 --> 00:15:30,156
Oh, God.

227
00:15:31,430 --> 00:15:33,557
Oh, my God.

228
00:15:34,033 --> 00:15:35,728
It's Cootie Connor.

229
00:15:36,201 --> 00:15:39,602
Cootie Connor. I'm gonna die.
I'm gonna die.

230
00:15:40,539 --> 00:15:42,302
I'm gonna die.

231
00:15:50,749 --> 00:15:52,808
Oh, God. Oh, God.

232
00:15:52,985 --> 00:15:54,850
Cootie Connor.

233
00:15:58,157 --> 00:16:00,557
<i>There was one and only one kid</i>
<i>you would go</i> to...

234
00:16:00,726 --> 00:16:03,524
<i>... if you contracted the dreaded cooties.</i>

235
00:16:03,929 --> 00:16:05,260
<i>And that kid was Myron Stort.</i>

236
00:16:06,665 --> 00:16:10,101
<i>The Stort was the resident expert</i>
<i>on all things concerning cooties.</i>

237
00:16:10,269 --> 00:16:12,931
- Stort.
<i>- Jason Freel needed Stort in a bad way.</i>

238
00:16:13,105 --> 00:16:14,629
Stort, you gotta help me, man.

239
00:16:14,807 --> 00:16:18,208
I just ran right into Cootie Connor
in the hallway. Full body contact.

240
00:16:20,079 --> 00:16:21,307
Keep your distance.

241
00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:23,641
Everybody out of here.
For your own protection.

242
00:16:23,816 --> 00:16:26,444
<i>Freel was like a leper</i>
<i>crashing a hot tub party.</i>

243
00:16:26,618 --> 00:16:29,314
<i>The only one who stood his ground</i>
<i>was the Stort.</i>

244
00:16:29,488 --> 00:16:32,480
<i>Knowing full well, he was the only one</i>
<i>that could save Freel now.</i>

245
00:16:32,658 --> 00:16:35,058
- I need you, man. You gotta help me.
- Shut up, man.

246
00:16:35,227 --> 00:16:38,628
This isn't gonna be easy, man.
Here's what you gotta do.

247
00:16:39,932 --> 00:16:44,164
- You gotta touch her again.
- No, man. No way. I won't. I can't.

248
00:16:44,336 --> 00:16:46,861
- There's gotta be another way.
- Shut up. Shut up.

249
00:16:47,039 --> 00:16:48,506
There's only one way.

250
00:16:49,241 --> 00:16:51,175
Touch her again and say the words:

251
00:16:51,343 --> 00:16:54,938
<i>From this, the cooties came</i>
<i>With this, the cooties shall remain</i>

252
00:16:55,114 --> 00:16:57,639
Freel, I'm losing you, man.
Stay focused.

253
00:16:58,083 --> 00:17:00,517
Okay, okay.

254
00:17:00,686 --> 00:17:02,677
<i>- With this, the cooties</i> came...
- From this.

255
00:17:03,088 --> 00:17:06,080
<i>From this, the cooties came</i>
<i>With this, the cooties shall remain</i>

256
00:17:06,258 --> 00:17:07,919
Okay, okay.

257
00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:10,355
From this. From this. From this...

258
00:17:10,529 --> 00:17:14,795
- All right, I got it. Thanks. I owe you one.
- Hey, Freel. One last thing.

259
00:17:15,234 --> 00:17:17,532
You gotta do it on her territory.

260
00:17:18,704 --> 00:17:21,434
- Geek Corner?
- Yeah, Geek Corner.

261
00:17:22,708 --> 00:17:25,575
Why don't you give Ricky Brown
your lunch? Or do his homework?

262
00:17:25,744 --> 00:17:28,076
- Cut some deal with him.
- Because it's not right.

263
00:17:28,647 --> 00:17:31,844
Right? What does that have to do
with getting our asses kicked?

264
00:17:32,017 --> 00:17:34,679
Damn it, Stanley.
Why do you have to make things tough?

265
00:17:35,120 --> 00:17:36,678
You shouldn't swear, Norman.

266
00:17:36,855 --> 00:17:38,550
Do you mind? I'd like to get going.

267
00:17:38,724 --> 00:17:42,057
Right, sorry. Didn't wanna keep you here
any longer than you have to be.

268
00:17:42,227 --> 00:17:45,424
I mean, it's pretty courageous
of you risking terminal cooties.

269
00:17:45,597 --> 00:17:48,589
- What are your buddies gonna think?
- I got news for you, Normie.

270
00:17:48,767 --> 00:17:52,294
Even if you weren't a complete geek,
people would beat the crap out of you.

271
00:17:52,471 --> 00:17:55,406
Stanley, Jason Freel's got Karen.

272
00:17:58,043 --> 00:17:59,135
<i>From this, the cooties...</i>

273
00:17:59,311 --> 00:18:03,611
<i>Freel recited the absolving incantation</i>
<i>as he whipped Karen with his jacket.</i>

274
00:18:03,782 --> 00:18:07,946
<i>He could not bring himself to actually</i>
<i>touch her, but then who would know?</i>

275
00:18:08,120 --> 00:18:09,485
<i>He could always say he did.</i>

276
00:18:09,655 --> 00:18:11,782
<i>With this, they shall remain</i>

277
00:18:13,058 --> 00:18:17,620
<i>With his feet dangling a foot off</i>
<i>the ground, Jason Freel found religion.</i>

278
00:18:17,796 --> 00:18:21,129
- <i>And prayed to the Lord Big G.</i>
- Break his neck. No, no, wait.

279
00:18:21,300 --> 00:18:24,861
Let me get some of his friends to watch,
then break his neck.

280
00:18:29,508 --> 00:18:32,773
No.

281
00:18:37,449 --> 00:18:39,110
No.

282
00:18:44,656 --> 00:18:46,021
Are you completely insane?

283
00:18:46,658 --> 00:18:49,422
You had him.
You could have broken him in two.

284
00:18:49,595 --> 00:18:53,326
I mean, you could have at least held him
and I hit him with a brick or something.

285
00:18:54,533 --> 00:18:56,592
Do you wanna work some more
on the project?

286
00:18:56,768 --> 00:18:58,258
Norman's right. I don't get it.

287
00:18:58,437 --> 00:19:01,998
Why do you let guys like Freel and Ricky
always make fun of you all the time?

288
00:19:02,708 --> 00:19:04,369
I can't make them be nice people.

289
00:19:05,144 --> 00:19:08,773
And even if I did, there'd be others
that take their place.

290
00:19:13,552 --> 00:19:16,749
If I had Big G's body,
I'd have kicked Freel's ass.

291
00:19:16,922 --> 00:19:20,358
Then I'd have kicked Ricky Brown's ass
just to cool down.

292
00:19:22,227 --> 00:19:24,354
You probably thought it was funny.

293
00:19:26,565 --> 00:19:28,032
No.

294
00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:29,890
I didn't.

295
00:19:30,335 --> 00:19:32,826
Screw it. So Freel beats me up.

296
00:19:33,238 --> 00:19:35,331
He was probably gonna do that anyway.

297
00:19:36,008 --> 00:19:38,033
I'm telling Mr. Simon.

298
00:19:45,717 --> 00:19:47,014
Karen?

299
00:19:47,719 --> 00:19:50,119
Karen, it's Mr. Simon.

300
00:20:01,033 --> 00:20:02,830
Karen, I'm coming in, honey.

301
00:20:03,202 --> 00:20:06,000
Please go away, Mr. Simon.

302
00:20:06,171 --> 00:20:08,162
I'll be okay.

303
00:20:23,722 --> 00:20:25,553
I'm gonna open the door, sweetheart.

304
00:20:25,724 --> 00:20:26,952
Please go away.

305
00:20:27,125 --> 00:20:30,561
No, I'm gonna open the door. It's okay.

306
00:20:36,902 --> 00:20:39,302
Here. Give me your hand, sweetheart.

307
00:20:39,605 --> 00:20:41,300
Come on.

308
00:20:42,207 --> 00:20:44,869
Don't let them see you like this.

309
00:20:52,884 --> 00:20:55,011
It's okay.

310
00:20:57,489 --> 00:20:59,787
What happened to you?

311
00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:03,325
Who did this to you?

312
00:21:06,932 --> 00:21:10,459
<i>The word had spread quickly</i>
<i>that Mr. Simon was extremely upset.</i>

313
00:21:10,636 --> 00:21:12,831
<i>And that it was quite possible</i>
<i>Jason Freel...</i>

314
00:21:13,005 --> 00:21:17,567
<i>... would receive his final report card</i>
<i>in federal prison.</i>

315
00:21:25,017 --> 00:21:28,248
Some of the cuts
on Karen's arms and neck...

316
00:21:28,420 --> 00:21:32,015
...made by the zipper
from Mr. Freel's jacket...

317
00:21:32,190 --> 00:21:34,283
...are deeper than first thought.

318
00:21:34,459 --> 00:21:36,393
And she has been...

319
00:21:36,795 --> 00:21:38,820
...sent to the doctors.

320
00:21:48,974 --> 00:21:51,169
For anyone interested...

321
00:21:51,843 --> 00:21:54,710
...this is how I won the car.

322
00:22:02,220 --> 00:22:04,654
<i>The newspaper contest</i>
<i>to win the new car...</i>

323
00:22:04,823 --> 00:22:07,758
<i>... asked contestants</i>
<i>to find a solution to world</i> peace...

324
00:22:07,926 --> 00:22:10,656
<i>... using 25 words or less.</i>

325
00:22:11,430 --> 00:22:14,991
<i>Mr. Simon won it with just four.</i>

326
00:22:35,954 --> 00:22:38,980
I really don't feel much like teaching
today.

327
00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:42,725
It's a rather strange feeling.

328
00:22:43,662 --> 00:22:47,496
I suggest if you have a book...

329
00:22:47,666 --> 00:22:50,658
...now would be a good time to read.

330
00:22:51,770 --> 00:22:55,365
And if you don't, well...

331
00:22:57,576 --> 00:23:00,636
Well, you should always have a book
with you.

332
00:24:04,342 --> 00:24:07,038
Can I help you with something, bud?

333
00:24:07,212 --> 00:24:10,147
Sir, sorry. I kind of missed your porch.

334
00:24:10,315 --> 00:24:13,113
- And I was just gonna put it on...
- You know, it's funny.

335
00:24:13,285 --> 00:24:15,651
I've been watching you deliver
your papers there.

336
00:24:15,821 --> 00:24:18,585
- You've got a hell of an arm, by the way.
- Thank you.

337
00:24:18,757 --> 00:24:22,124
But somehow you just seem
to hit everybody's porch but mine.

338
00:24:23,195 --> 00:24:25,129
You got any theories on that?

339
00:24:28,033 --> 00:24:29,295
I don't know.

340
00:24:29,468 --> 00:24:32,096
Maybe I'm just a little tired
by the time I get here or...

341
00:24:32,270 --> 00:24:33,794
Daddy, dinner's ready.

342
00:24:34,606 --> 00:24:37,700
<i>Even in eighth grade, there was a lot</i>
<i>more woman in Mary Clear...</i>

343
00:24:37,876 --> 00:24:41,869
<i>... than any eighth grade boy</i>
<i>could possibly know what to do with.</i>

344
00:24:42,047 --> 00:24:44,709
<i>And I'm convinced she knew it.</i>

345
00:24:44,883 --> 00:24:46,441
<i>Maybe that was part of the fun.</i>

346
00:24:48,653 --> 00:24:53,454
Hi, Mary. I just threw the paper
and your dad was just...

347
00:24:54,292 --> 00:24:55,725
Well, I'll just give it...

348
00:24:58,697 --> 00:25:01,131
You know, there you go. Look...

349
00:25:02,467 --> 00:25:04,867
I promise I won't miss next time,
Mr. Clear.

350
00:25:05,036 --> 00:25:07,334
- You gotta pace yourself, bud.
- Yeah.

351
00:25:15,780 --> 00:25:18,442
<i>Every Friday, I worked in the office</i>
<i>during study hall.</i>

352
00:25:18,617 --> 00:25:22,144
<i>I'd run copies of flyers to parents</i>
<i>announcing an open</i> house...

353
00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:26,916
<i>...or reminders about the up-coming</i>
<i>car wash to raise money for the library.</i>

354
00:25:27,092 --> 00:25:31,426
<i>Generally, whatever annoying little job</i>
<i>Mrs. Cranby, the assistant principal...</i>

355
00:25:31,596 --> 00:25:33,860
<i>... affectionately known</i>
<i>as Old Tuna Breath...</i>

356
00:25:34,032 --> 00:25:36,694
<i>...didn't feel like doing herself.</i>
- Andrew.

357
00:25:38,670 --> 00:25:41,366
Wait till you see the talent show program
I've designed.

358
00:25:41,540 --> 00:25:43,667
I've never had so much fun in my life.

359
00:25:43,842 --> 00:25:48,211
If you could just run off 600 copies,
we'll be all set.

360
00:25:48,380 --> 00:25:51,349
We certainly have an interesting turnout
this year.

361
00:25:51,516 --> 00:25:53,916
It looks really nice, Mrs. Cranby.

362
00:25:54,085 --> 00:25:56,383
Doris Gebben plays the upright bass?

363
00:25:56,555 --> 00:25:58,887
Isn't that the huge one?
She's like 3 feet tall.

364
00:25:59,057 --> 00:26:02,925
Yes, indeed. Tiny, but top notch.
I understand she's very good.

365
00:26:03,094 --> 00:26:05,528
Wait. Mrs. Cranby, this can't be right.

366
00:26:05,697 --> 00:26:07,790
What? Is something misspelled?

367
00:26:08,266 --> 00:26:09,631
Big G is gonna?

368
00:26:10,168 --> 00:26:13,899
- He's gonna sing?
- Yes.

369
00:26:16,007 --> 00:26:19,238
I don't get it.
Your life isn't miserable enough as it is?

370
00:26:19,411 --> 00:26:22,346
You're gonna get up in front
of the whole student body and sing?

371
00:26:22,514 --> 00:26:25,039
- I love to sing.
- I've known you my whole life.

372
00:26:25,216 --> 00:26:27,514
Never heard you sing. Not once.

373
00:26:27,686 --> 00:26:31,417
- Since when do you love to sing?
- Ever since I can remember.

374
00:26:31,590 --> 00:26:33,353
Look, maybe...

375
00:26:33,525 --> 00:26:35,493
I don't know. Maybe Norman's right.

376
00:26:35,660 --> 00:26:37,992
I have a right to sing,
just like anybody else.

377
00:26:38,163 --> 00:26:41,826
Don't you ever watch cop shows?
You have the right to remain silent.

378
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:43,934
You wanna sing? Do it in the shower.

379
00:26:44,402 --> 00:26:46,962
Why don't you sing with a band?
Why sing by yourself?

380
00:26:47,138 --> 00:26:49,333
I sing a cappella.
My voice is my instrument.

381
00:26:49,507 --> 00:26:50,804
Oh, my God.

382
00:26:51,242 --> 00:26:54,177
Why not just buy a gun
and let Ricky Brown shoot you in the eye?

383
00:26:54,346 --> 00:26:57,247
I knew you wouldn't understand.
That's why I didn't tell you.

384
00:26:57,415 --> 00:26:59,849
What about us?
You sing in that stupid show...

385
00:27:00,018 --> 00:27:02,350
...and it's gonna make it worse
for the rest of us.

386
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:04,454
It doesn't matter what they do to us.

387
00:27:04,623 --> 00:27:08,252
You said it yourself, Norman.
They'll probably just do it anyway.

388
00:27:09,894 --> 00:27:12,362
I think you should sing if you want to.

389
00:27:18,136 --> 00:27:20,001
I'm sorry, Norman,
but I'm going to sing.

390
00:27:20,171 --> 00:27:23,265
Damn it. Why do you have
to make everything harder than it is?

391
00:27:23,441 --> 00:27:25,966
- You shouldn't swear, Norman.
- Go to hell.

392
00:27:26,144 --> 00:27:28,112
You deserve whatever you get.

393
00:27:32,951 --> 00:27:35,419
I think he's just worried about you.

394
00:27:36,187 --> 00:27:39,418
Come on. There's a few more minutes
before the bell rings.

395
00:27:45,830 --> 00:27:47,297
Hey, Andy.

396
00:27:47,465 --> 00:27:49,558
Mary Clear likes you.

397
00:27:51,903 --> 00:27:53,632
Mary Clear likes me?

398
00:27:53,805 --> 00:27:55,295
That's what I said.

399
00:27:55,473 --> 00:27:58,169
- Why?
- Why?

400
00:27:58,343 --> 00:28:02,040
I don't know. She's pretty much
gone steady with everybody else, so...

401
00:28:02,213 --> 00:28:06,240
She told you that she wanted
to go steady with me?

402
00:28:06,418 --> 00:28:08,215
Of course. She's my best friend.

403
00:28:08,386 --> 00:28:11,913
She said she thinks you're cute
and don't ask me why.

404
00:28:17,729 --> 00:28:21,927
<i>Let's just say that selection</i>
<i>by process of elimination...</i>

405
00:28:22,100 --> 00:28:23,658
<i>... lacked a certain romance...</i>

406
00:28:23,835 --> 00:28:26,429
<i>...one might otherwise</i>
<i>have found exciting...</i>

407
00:28:26,604 --> 00:28:29,266
<i>...even at the age of 13.</i>

408
00:28:31,076 --> 00:28:33,476
<i>At the end of every month,</i>
<i>I had to collect money...</i>

409
00:28:33,645 --> 00:28:35,738
<i>... from all the customers on my route.</i>

410
00:28:35,914 --> 00:28:38,109
<i>It was a task I relished</i>
<i>for its simplicity...</i>

411
00:28:38,283 --> 00:28:41,616
<i>... in what was becoming</i>
<i>an increasingly complicated world.</i>

412
00:28:41,786 --> 00:28:44,778
<i>Hit the porch</i>
<i>and the customer was satisfied.</i>

413
00:28:45,190 --> 00:28:47,283
<i>And a satisfied customer</i>
<i>meant payoffs.</i>

414
00:28:47,459 --> 00:28:51,987
<i>Ranging anywhere from cash tips</i>
<i>to assorted snack foods.</i>

415
00:28:55,633 --> 00:28:58,124
<i>Next stop, Mary Clear's house.</i>

416
00:28:58,303 --> 00:29:01,136
<i>Regardless of her sudden</i>
<i>and mysterious interest in</i> me...

417
00:29:01,306 --> 00:29:04,104
<i>... coupled by the fact</i>
<i>that I had yet to hit her porch...</i>

418
00:29:05,009 --> 00:29:07,409
<i>... I wasn't expecting much.</i>

419
00:29:11,449 --> 00:29:13,940
Oh, hi, Andy. How's it going?

420
00:29:14,285 --> 00:29:16,617
- Good. How's it going with you?
- Great.

421
00:29:17,555 --> 00:29:18,817
Good.

422
00:29:20,492 --> 00:29:22,983
So how's it going?

423
00:29:24,262 --> 00:29:26,059
You asked me that already.

424
00:29:26,731 --> 00:29:28,926
Oh, yeah.

425
00:29:29,300 --> 00:29:31,632
- You said great, right?
- Yeah.

426
00:29:31,803 --> 00:29:36,331
Okay, so is your mom or dad home?
I'm collecting for the paper.

427
00:29:36,508 --> 00:29:38,169
Oh, yeah, here you go.

428
00:29:41,746 --> 00:29:44,010
Okay, thanks.

429
00:29:44,983 --> 00:29:46,382
Well...

430
00:29:47,018 --> 00:29:48,508
- Here you go.
- Thanks.

431
00:29:49,354 --> 00:29:53,586
- All right, well, I gotta get going.
- Yeah, I'll see you at school.

432
00:29:55,293 --> 00:29:57,488
Yeah. Yeah, okay.

433
00:29:57,662 --> 00:29:59,687
I'll see you.

434
00:30:57,021 --> 00:30:59,387
Hey, Nichol.
You're collecting for the paper.

435
00:30:59,557 --> 00:31:01,422
Why'd you have to do that, Ricky?

436
00:31:01,593 --> 00:31:02,821
I didn't have to.

437
00:31:02,994 --> 00:31:04,928
It was my treat. What's in the bag?

438
00:31:06,664 --> 00:31:09,497
Don't get up. I'll just have to knock you
back down again.

439
00:31:14,138 --> 00:31:15,435
Chocolate chip.

440
00:31:15,940 --> 00:31:18,170
My favorite. See you in school, Nichol.

441
00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:25,113
So she paid you the money?

442
00:31:25,583 --> 00:31:30,452
Yeah, which means Mary had to ask
for the money in advance. It was a setup.

443
00:31:31,189 --> 00:31:33,714
Barbara Foss wasn't blowing smoke.

444
00:31:33,892 --> 00:31:34,916
Mary likes me.

445
00:31:35,093 --> 00:31:37,527
And this is a bad thing?

446
00:31:37,695 --> 00:31:39,458
I don't know. It's weird.

447
00:31:39,631 --> 00:31:42,759
I'm no different than I was
at the beginning of the year and...

448
00:31:42,934 --> 00:31:45,061
I just...
I mean, I've never even talked to her.

449
00:31:46,304 --> 00:31:48,272
What does that have to do
with anything?

450
00:31:48,439 --> 00:31:51,738
I don't know.
It just seems like it should.

451
00:31:53,778 --> 00:31:55,507
You gonna kiss her?

452
00:31:57,682 --> 00:31:59,741
Yeah. Of course, I'm gonna kiss her.

453
00:31:59,918 --> 00:32:02,910
- Idiot.
- You know, she's a real good kisser.

454
00:32:03,087 --> 00:32:06,648
How would you know? You're the only guy
in the school that hasn't kissed her.

455
00:32:06,824 --> 00:32:08,849
Yeah, right.
Like she made out with Big G.

456
00:32:09,027 --> 00:32:10,119
I doubt it.

457
00:32:10,762 --> 00:32:14,027
- He's probably up before you are.
- Shut up, Andy.

458
00:32:14,198 --> 00:32:16,598
You and Big G
are real bosom buddies now, huh?

459
00:32:16,768 --> 00:32:17,894
You shut up.

460
00:32:18,069 --> 00:32:21,129
I bet you never kissed a girl
in your life, have you, Nichol?

461
00:32:21,306 --> 00:32:23,900
Hey, Freel's back from suspension.

462
00:32:24,075 --> 00:32:26,236
- I ran out, though.
- We'll find something.

463
00:32:32,750 --> 00:32:34,342
Hey, Nichol.

464
00:32:35,019 --> 00:32:37,920
How's that paper coming
in Simon's class?

465
00:32:38,089 --> 00:32:39,181
Okay.

466
00:32:40,024 --> 00:32:42,652
Remember you told me Mr. Simon
was your favorite teacher?

467
00:32:42,827 --> 00:32:44,021
- Yeah.
- Still think so?

468
00:32:44,595 --> 00:32:46,495
After he stuck you with Big G?

469
00:32:46,664 --> 00:32:49,155
I don't know. I guess so.

470
00:32:49,334 --> 00:32:52,098
I don't get you, Andy.
You know, my dad says Simon's a homo.

471
00:32:52,503 --> 00:32:54,528
<i>I had no idea what Modak meant.</i>

472
00:32:54,706 --> 00:32:57,266
<i>But I sensed from his tone</i>
<i>that this homo thing...</i>

473
00:32:57,442 --> 00:33:00,275
<i>... was not something Mr. Simon</i>
<i>should include on his résumé.</i>

474
00:33:00,445 --> 00:33:04,279
- Tell me something I don't know.
- So you're saying you like homos?

475
00:33:04,449 --> 00:33:05,609
Yeah, right.

476
00:33:06,951 --> 00:33:08,748
Take it easy, Andy.

477
00:33:19,697 --> 00:33:23,189
<i>Another thing you never do</i>
<i>is believe a guy like Bruce Modak.</i>

478
00:33:23,368 --> 00:33:25,802
<i>I decided to investigate</i>
<i>the allegation myself.</i>

479
00:33:25,970 --> 00:33:27,562
- Hey, Dyer.
- Yeah.

480
00:33:27,739 --> 00:33:30,105
You knew Mr. Simon was a homo,
right?

481
00:33:30,274 --> 00:33:32,401
Where you been, Nichol?

482
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:37,311
I hear Simon's a homo?

483
00:33:37,749 --> 00:33:41,241
Nichol, seriously? What's it like to go
around with your head up your butt?

484
00:33:43,421 --> 00:33:46,822
- Good afternoon, everyone.
- Good afternoon, Mr. Simon.

485
00:33:46,991 --> 00:33:48,481
I have an announcement to make.

486
00:33:48,659 --> 00:33:50,991
The car I won in the newspaper contest
has arrived.

487
00:33:51,162 --> 00:33:54,757
And I've asked Principal Kelner
if I could give each of you a ride.

488
00:33:54,932 --> 00:33:57,162
And she said yes.

489
00:33:59,937 --> 00:34:02,701
<i>The world I dream where black and white</i>
<i>Whatever race you be</i>

490
00:34:02,874 --> 00:34:05,672
<i>Will share the bounties of the earth</i>
<i>And every man is free</i>

491
00:34:06,077 --> 00:34:09,069
<i>Where wretchedness will hang its head</i>
<i>And joy, like a pearl</i>

492
00:34:09,247 --> 00:34:13,343
<i>Attends the needs of all mankind</i>
<i>Of such a world, I dream</i>

493
00:34:13,518 --> 00:34:17,249
So the poem's
about not being prejudiced?

494
00:34:17,422 --> 00:34:19,549
Well, Mr. Simon says
we can pick only one word.

495
00:34:19,724 --> 00:34:22,659
- It has to mean the same to us.
- What's wrong with prejudice?

496
00:34:22,827 --> 00:34:24,920
- The poem's about being prejudiced.
- Yeah...

497
00:34:25,096 --> 00:34:27,587
...but prejudice can mean different things
to people.

498
00:34:29,033 --> 00:34:30,330
- No, it can't.
- Sure, it can.

499
00:34:30,501 --> 00:34:32,264
It would change depending if you...

500
00:34:33,638 --> 00:34:37,074
No one's prejudiced against you,
so it's different for you than others.

501
00:34:37,742 --> 00:34:41,371
So you're saying I'd have to be a Negro
to understand it?

502
00:34:41,546 --> 00:34:45,209
No, people are prejudiced
for all kinds of reasons.

503
00:34:45,383 --> 00:34:48,045
Negroes just happen
to be one of the majors.

504
00:34:48,219 --> 00:34:51,245
Okay, so you got a better word?

505
00:34:51,422 --> 00:34:52,946
How about tolerance?

506
00:34:54,725 --> 00:34:56,488
Tolerance?

507
00:34:56,894 --> 00:34:59,385
Okay. Now, why does that work?

508
00:34:59,564 --> 00:35:01,054
I looked it up.

509
00:35:02,700 --> 00:35:04,190
"Sympathy or indulgence...

510
00:35:04,368 --> 00:35:07,895
...for beliefs or practices differing from
or conflicting with one's own.

511
00:35:08,072 --> 00:35:11,473
Or the act of allowing something
to be different."

512
00:35:12,510 --> 00:35:17,072
So the guy in the poem
dreams of a world...

513
00:35:17,248 --> 00:35:19,341
...where people let each other
be different?

514
00:35:19,517 --> 00:35:21,917
Yeah, that's why tolerance
is such a great word.

515
00:35:22,086 --> 00:35:25,021
It's not even saying
you have to like the other person.

516
00:35:25,456 --> 00:35:29,256
It's just saying leave them alone.

517
00:35:31,596 --> 00:35:35,032
Okay. So now we write a short story
about being tolerant?

518
00:35:35,199 --> 00:35:36,598
Yeah.

519
00:35:56,187 --> 00:35:59,452
I told you never to come
in my room again, you little freak.

520
00:36:00,057 --> 00:36:01,490
No, no, no.

521
00:36:01,859 --> 00:36:03,486
No, no, no. I forgot. I swear.

522
00:36:03,661 --> 00:36:04,821
I swear I forgot.

523
00:36:04,996 --> 00:36:07,624
I wanna ask a question.
I'll clean your room for a week.

524
00:36:10,368 --> 00:36:11,801
What?

525
00:36:12,170 --> 00:36:14,297
Could a teacher get fired
if he's a homo?

526
00:36:15,039 --> 00:36:16,904
Definitely. Now get out.

527
00:36:20,211 --> 00:36:22,679
- One more question.
- One more week, freak.

528
00:36:24,482 --> 00:36:26,040
Okay.

529
00:36:27,218 --> 00:36:28,810
What exactly is a homo?

530
00:36:39,130 --> 00:36:41,257
The whole house
smells like a glue factory.

531
00:36:41,432 --> 00:36:43,491
You're using too much glue again,
aren't you?

532
00:36:43,668 --> 00:36:45,863
Well, I want it to stick.

533
00:36:46,037 --> 00:36:49,404
It'll stick with less glue.
Come here, I'll do it. You watch.

534
00:36:49,574 --> 00:36:51,201
Come on, move over. Move.

535
00:36:51,375 --> 00:36:52,569
I almost had it, Dad.

536
00:36:52,743 --> 00:36:55,268
You did not. You did not have it.
Just watch and learn.

537
00:36:55,446 --> 00:36:57,607
- Where are the directions? Right here?
- Yeah.

538
00:36:57,782 --> 00:36:58,908
Have you read these?

539
00:36:59,083 --> 00:37:02,075
- Beginning to end before you started?
- Yeah.

540
00:37:03,287 --> 00:37:05,653
See, look at that.
You were using too much glue.

541
00:37:05,823 --> 00:37:08,951
The directions say you can take off
extra glue with a razor blade.

542
00:37:09,126 --> 00:37:12,755
Or you could just do it right the first time
then you don't have that trouble.

543
00:37:12,930 --> 00:37:15,330
Come on, pal.
You'll end up cutting your finger off.

544
00:37:15,499 --> 00:37:17,592
That'd be bad, right?

545
00:37:19,337 --> 00:37:22,431
Look, you got a mess here.

546
00:37:23,507 --> 00:37:25,941
I have some homework to finish.

547
00:37:26,110 --> 00:37:29,273
If you have homework to finish,
you shouldn't even be doing this.

548
00:37:29,447 --> 00:37:31,312
You know better.

549
00:37:45,129 --> 00:37:48,155
<i>The holiday was tapped</i>
<i>a Lunar New Year.</i>

550
00:37:49,467 --> 00:37:52,834
<i>For the first time,</i>
<i>the Vietcong invaded the cities in</i> force...

551
00:37:53,004 --> 00:37:55,336
<i>...including Saigon...</i>
- Did you finish homework?

552
00:37:55,506 --> 00:37:57,633
- Yeah.
<i>- A suicide attack into the grounds...</i>

553
00:37:57,808 --> 00:37:59,503
<i>...of the American Embassy.</i>
- Mom?

554
00:37:59,677 --> 00:38:02,737
Did kids go steady
when you were in the eighth grade?

555
00:38:03,914 --> 00:38:05,211
Yeah, Andy.

556
00:38:05,383 --> 00:38:07,874
Even in the old days.

557
00:38:08,319 --> 00:38:10,014
What was it like?

558
00:38:10,888 --> 00:38:14,153
It's pretty much always been the same.

559
00:38:14,325 --> 00:38:17,954
I think the only things that really change
are the clothes and the music.

560
00:38:18,129 --> 00:38:21,895
<i>American Marines were surrounded</i>
<i>and under siege.</i>

561
00:38:24,535 --> 00:38:26,332
Why?

562
00:38:27,171 --> 00:38:30,470
- Are you thinking about going steady?
- No.

563
00:38:30,641 --> 00:38:35,044
No, I'm just, you know, wondering
if it ever comes up.

564
00:38:36,981 --> 00:38:41,680
So was it fun
or did it make you nervous?

565
00:38:41,852 --> 00:38:44,320
I seem to remember it
as being pretty fun.

566
00:38:44,488 --> 00:38:47,116
I mean, and a little nerve-racking.

567
00:38:47,958 --> 00:38:49,425
It doesn't last long, though.

568
00:38:49,593 --> 00:38:51,390
At least not in eighth grade.

569
00:38:51,562 --> 00:38:54,122
Yeah, I've noticed that.

570
00:38:54,965 --> 00:38:57,456
I'm gonna go see if Dad's finished
my model yet.

571
00:39:00,504 --> 00:39:01,869
Andy?

572
00:39:02,940 --> 00:39:06,137
Make sure you wear that deodorant
I bought you everyday, okay?

573
00:39:07,178 --> 00:39:09,840
- Why? Do I smell?
- Oh, no, no. I just...

574
00:39:10,014 --> 00:39:11,845
You never know when it's gonna start.

575
00:39:12,016 --> 00:39:14,814
And you just don't want it to start
at the wrong time, right?

576
00:39:15,953 --> 00:39:17,079
Yeah. Sure, Mom.

577
00:39:19,023 --> 00:39:20,923
One more question.

578
00:39:22,026 --> 00:39:25,018
What's a homo?

579
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:30,758
The other kids know about this?

580
00:39:30,935 --> 00:39:33,130
Yeah, they do.

581
00:39:34,739 --> 00:39:36,570
I was afraid to talk about it at first.

582
00:39:38,209 --> 00:39:42,646
Then I heard other kids talking about it,
and I thought I better say something.

583
00:39:48,619 --> 00:39:50,610
You did right telling me this.

584
00:40:04,735 --> 00:40:08,796
- Hey, you didn't tell him, did you?
- Of course.

585
00:40:08,973 --> 00:40:11,407
Did you want him to find out
from the other kids?

586
00:40:11,575 --> 00:40:14,738
That's how everyone else finds out.
Why should our kid be different?

587
00:40:14,912 --> 00:40:16,903
He asked me.
What else was I supposed to do?

588
00:40:17,815 --> 00:40:19,976
You could tell him
he's not old enough to know.

589
00:40:20,151 --> 00:40:23,643
The kids at school are talking about it.

590
00:40:26,023 --> 00:40:28,787
Hey, do we know if it's true?

591
00:40:28,959 --> 00:40:32,053
No.
You know how kids start these rumors.

592
00:40:32,229 --> 00:40:33,924
Well, do we know if it's not true?

593
00:40:34,098 --> 00:40:37,625
I don't know that we want someone
like that teaching our kid.

594
00:40:39,537 --> 00:40:41,300
He's the best teacher that school has.

595
00:40:41,472 --> 00:40:43,872
People talk about it
like it's a contagious disease.

596
00:40:44,041 --> 00:40:47,670
Stop it, you don't know how someone
becomes something like that.

597
00:40:47,845 --> 00:40:50,575
The whole country is going to hell
in a handbasket.

598
00:40:50,748 --> 00:40:54,411
Hippies protesting the Vietnam War.
And now, what now?

599
00:40:55,553 --> 00:40:58,989
Now we got homosexuals
teaching our kids.

600
00:41:00,458 --> 00:41:02,187
Teachers are role models, Sherri.

601
00:41:06,363 --> 00:41:08,456
They look up to him.

602
00:41:08,632 --> 00:41:09,929
Have you thought about that?

603
00:41:10,734 --> 00:41:14,101
They look up to him
because he's a wonderful teacher.

604
00:41:14,271 --> 00:41:16,831
Not because of what he does
in his bedroom at night.

605
00:41:17,374 --> 00:41:19,365
Why do you even gotta talk like that?

606
00:41:19,543 --> 00:41:21,204
Oh, the whole thing is absurd.

607
00:41:21,378 --> 00:41:23,243
Fine, fine. Okay, it's absurd.

608
00:41:23,414 --> 00:41:26,042
I tell you, I, for one,
am gonna monitor the situation...

609
00:41:26,217 --> 00:41:29,414
...until I know exactly
what the hell is going on.

610
00:41:30,988 --> 00:41:32,956
May I have the pillow please?

611
00:41:35,793 --> 00:41:37,260
Thank you.

612
00:41:40,764 --> 00:41:42,231
Good night.

613
00:41:56,514 --> 00:41:59,244
<i>When my mother explained to me</i>
<i>what a homosexual was...</i>

614
00:41:59,416 --> 00:42:02,715
<i>... she thankfully spared me</i>
<i>the technicalities.</i>

615
00:42:03,053 --> 00:42:04,418
<i>My father was right.</i>

616
00:42:04,588 --> 00:42:05,919
<i>I wasn't ready.</i>

617
00:42:06,090 --> 00:42:11,255
<i>The more conventional male- female</i>
<i>approach was still relatively new to</i> me.

618
00:42:11,829 --> 00:42:14,627
<i>She said a homosexual was capable</i>
<i>of a deeper</i> love...

619
00:42:14,798 --> 00:42:16,595
<i>... for another man than a woman.</i>

620
00:42:16,767 --> 00:42:21,602
<i>And she assured me that it had absolutely</i>
<i>nothing to do with Mr. Simon's character.</i>

621
00:42:21,772 --> 00:42:26,471
<i>And insisted he was still the best teacher</i>
<i>I would probably ever have.</i>

622
00:42:26,644 --> 00:42:30,080
<i>And that was all that mattered.</i>

623
00:42:32,750 --> 00:42:37,153
<i>Count is now one and one with two outs.</i>
<i>Runner at first.</i>

624
00:42:37,321 --> 00:42:41,121
<i>Swings at the first pitch, and fouls it</i>
<i>deep back into the stands behind...</i>

625
00:42:41,292 --> 00:42:44,261
Turn the game off, Ed. We need to talk.

626
00:42:45,229 --> 00:42:46,423
- How about later?
- No.

627
00:42:47,164 --> 00:42:48,188
Now, Ed.

628
00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:59,136
Okay, kids. Once around the block.

629
00:42:59,310 --> 00:43:02,040
Mr. Simon?
This is the coolest car ever made.

630
00:43:02,212 --> 00:43:05,045
- Yeah, it is pretty cool, isn't it?
- Yes.

631
00:43:11,188 --> 00:43:12,815
Hey, Nichol. Where have you been?

632
00:43:13,524 --> 00:43:16,254
- Sorry.
- The car is unbelievable.

633
00:43:16,961 --> 00:43:20,453
Yeah. Maybe you can get in line
with your pal pumpkin head over there.

634
00:43:20,631 --> 00:43:23,361
Looks like you two just can't get enough
of each other.

635
00:43:23,534 --> 00:43:24,933
Good Simon has a convertible.

636
00:43:25,102 --> 00:43:28,503
- I don't think freako's head would fit.
- Shut up, Ricky.

637
00:43:29,373 --> 00:43:33,901
Maybe you wanna ride with them, Mary.
You, Nichol, Cro-Magnon man.

638
00:43:34,078 --> 00:43:36,672
- Maybe I will.
- Look, Dan...

639
00:43:38,983 --> 00:43:41,918
...I can't go anyway.
That's what I came to tell you.

640
00:43:42,286 --> 00:43:44,754
Old Tuna Breath's got me doing work
in the office...

641
00:43:44,922 --> 00:43:46,287
...so I'll see you later.

642
00:43:52,730 --> 00:43:57,463
With all due respect, Mr. Freel,
that is a very dangerous accusation.

643
00:43:57,635 --> 00:44:00,627
A man's reputation is at stake.
I hope you have some proof.

644
00:44:00,804 --> 00:44:04,296
I've got my boy's word.
He says it's all over school.

645
00:44:04,475 --> 00:44:09,310
You've got a real problem with a teacher.
You need to do something about that.

646
00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:11,471
You are talking about a man
who was voted...

647
00:44:11,649 --> 00:44:14,015
...the California Teacher of the Year
last year...

648
00:44:14,184 --> 00:44:16,015
...and nominated many years
before that.

649
00:44:16,186 --> 00:44:19,713
Just because he's won some awards
doesn't mean that he's not some pervert.

650
00:44:19,890 --> 00:44:21,255
That thing is a sickness...

651
00:44:21,425 --> 00:44:25,327
...and sooner or later,
it's gonna take over other parts of his life.

652
00:44:25,496 --> 00:44:26,520
It's human nature.

653
00:44:27,097 --> 00:44:29,531
That assumption
is completely unfounded.

654
00:44:31,902 --> 00:44:33,062
Mr. Freel, sir.

655
00:44:33,971 --> 00:44:36,906
I have known Mr. Simon
for 12 years now...

656
00:44:37,441 --> 00:44:40,899
...and there has never been so much
as a hint of an impropriety.

657
00:44:41,078 --> 00:44:43,512
Sometimes these things take a while
to fester.

658
00:44:44,682 --> 00:44:46,809
Mr. Simon is a widower.

659
00:44:46,984 --> 00:44:48,679
His wife passed away many years ago.

660
00:44:48,852 --> 00:44:52,185
Now, I heard that they can sometimes
get married to cover their tracks.

661
00:44:53,490 --> 00:44:56,288
It might explain
why he never remarried.

662
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:04,865
I'll tell you what I'm gonna do for you.

663
00:45:05,936 --> 00:45:07,836
I am gonna talk to Mr. Simon...

664
00:45:08,005 --> 00:45:10,565
...and see if there was some kind
of misunderstanding...

665
00:45:10,741 --> 00:45:12,709
...that can make sense
of Jason's claims.

666
00:45:13,844 --> 00:45:18,440
And I can guaran-damn-tee
that if this guy isn't dealt with in a hurry...

667
00:45:18,816 --> 00:45:23,947
...there will not be a parent in this school
that doesn't know about what's going on.

668
00:45:24,855 --> 00:45:27,483
- I'll go to the papers if I have to.
- Please, sir.

669
00:45:27,658 --> 00:45:31,719
Please don't do anything until I
have had a chance to look into it myself.

670
00:45:33,864 --> 00:45:35,456
You've got 48 hours.

671
00:45:36,500 --> 00:45:38,434
And excuse me if my son...

672
00:45:38,602 --> 00:45:41,298
...isn't in this guy Simon's class
in the meanwhile.

673
00:45:43,273 --> 00:45:44,934
That's your prerogative, Mr. Freel.

674
00:45:52,616 --> 00:45:54,174
<i>Meanwhile, back on my march...</i>

675
00:45:54,351 --> 00:45:57,343
<i>... toward understanding the mysteries</i>
<i>of impending manhood...</i>

676
00:45:57,521 --> 00:45:59,955
<i>... it occurred to me</i>
<i>going steady with Mary Clear...</i>

677
00:46:00,124 --> 00:46:02,115
<i>... could provide</i>
<i>some much-needed insight.</i>

678
00:46:02,292 --> 00:46:03,919
Hey, anybody seen Modak?

679
00:46:04,094 --> 00:46:07,757
<i>That's if I could bluff my way through it</i>
<i>without totally humiliating myself.</i>

680
00:46:07,931 --> 00:46:12,425
<i>I needed an ID bracelet.</i>
<i>And I needed it fast.</i>

681
00:46:12,703 --> 00:46:16,195
<i>Among his many other talents, Modak</i>
<i>was also known as the school hustler.</i>

682
00:46:16,373 --> 00:46:18,739
<i>Every school and prisoner of war camp</i>
<i>has</i> one.

683
00:46:18,909 --> 00:46:22,242
<i>A guy who knows the angles</i>
<i>and can get anything you want.</i>

684
00:46:22,412 --> 00:46:24,437
<i>For the right price, of course.</i>

685
00:46:24,615 --> 00:46:26,082
- Modak?
- Nichol.

686
00:46:26,250 --> 00:46:28,616
- I need an ID bracelet.
- I can help you with that.

687
00:46:30,621 --> 00:46:33,920
Look, I don't have anything
with Andy on it, but I got a couple blanks.

688
00:46:34,091 --> 00:46:36,116
Get your name on it at Sears
for five bucks.

689
00:46:36,293 --> 00:46:38,659
Blank's okay.
It's the thought that counts.

690
00:46:38,829 --> 00:46:40,626
I don't have the money anyway.

691
00:46:40,798 --> 00:46:44,029
- Then why am I talking to you?
- I thought maybe you'd trade.

692
00:46:44,401 --> 00:46:47,131
- That can work. What you thinking?
- Baseball cards?

693
00:46:47,304 --> 00:46:49,169
- Vintage?
- '52 Mantle rookie card.

694
00:46:49,339 --> 00:46:52,502
- Condition?
- Excellent. Still smells like bubblegum.

695
00:46:52,676 --> 00:46:54,803
I'll take three and we're done.

696
00:46:54,978 --> 00:46:58,209
What? Modak, that's ridiculous.
Three's all I got.

697
00:46:58,382 --> 00:47:02,148
- That's way too many. Are you kidding?
- Hey, relax. I don't make the rules.

698
00:47:02,319 --> 00:47:06,221
Actually, I guess I do make the rules.

699
00:47:06,390 --> 00:47:07,448
So take it or leave it.

700
00:47:11,662 --> 00:47:14,062
Okay. I'll bring them tomorrow.

701
00:47:16,366 --> 00:47:18,027
I trust you.

702
00:47:20,003 --> 00:47:21,129
So who's the lucky girl?

703
00:47:22,072 --> 00:47:23,699
Mary Clear.

704
00:47:24,174 --> 00:47:25,835
You might have a problem with that.

705
00:47:26,009 --> 00:47:28,569
Because that's the one I gave her
when we went steady.

706
00:47:30,514 --> 00:47:32,243
I'll have to take my chances.

707
00:47:33,150 --> 00:47:36,449
- Pleasure doing business.
<i>- That was maybe a 10-dollar bracelet.</i>

708
00:47:36,620 --> 00:47:40,818
Hey, give Mary my best.
She's a good kid.

709
00:47:40,991 --> 00:47:44,757
<i>And today, those Mantle rookie cards</i>
<i>are worth about $100,000.</i>

710
00:47:44,928 --> 00:47:47,453
<i>The trip through that dark tunnel</i>
<i>from boy to man...</i>

711
00:47:47,631 --> 00:47:49,758
<i>... does not come</i>
<i>without great expense.</i>

712
00:47:53,337 --> 00:47:56,773
- Stephen?
- Evelyn, hi. What's up?

713
00:47:56,940 --> 00:48:00,432
Well, I'm sorry to interrupt
your free period, but something came up...

714
00:48:00,611 --> 00:48:04,206
...and I thought we should deal with it
as soon as possible.

715
00:48:04,381 --> 00:48:06,542
PTA drive fall short again
for the 12th year?

716
00:48:07,117 --> 00:48:08,880
No, it's...

717
00:48:09,253 --> 00:48:11,346
It is awkward.

718
00:48:11,521 --> 00:48:15,651
Frankly, I'm embarrassed to come to you
with this, but I don't have any choice.

719
00:48:16,727 --> 00:48:19,093
Ev? What are we talking about here?

720
00:48:20,697 --> 00:48:22,164
Well...

721
00:48:23,300 --> 00:48:25,029
...Jason Freel.

722
00:48:25,202 --> 00:48:26,635
Yeah?

723
00:48:26,803 --> 00:48:28,430
You know how children are.

724
00:48:28,605 --> 00:48:31,836
And, actually, he insists...

725
00:48:33,110 --> 00:48:35,374
Apparently, there's a rumor...

726
00:48:35,545 --> 00:48:38,207
...that's going around the school
that you're...

727
00:48:41,285 --> 00:48:42,775
...a homosexual.

728
00:48:45,322 --> 00:48:50,316
This is so embarrassing for me
to come to a man of your...

729
00:48:50,494 --> 00:48:53,657
Well, you know
how much I respect you.

730
00:48:57,100 --> 00:49:00,433
- A homosexual?
- Yes.

731
00:49:00,771 --> 00:49:05,731
This whole misunderstanding stems
from the Karen Connor incident.

732
00:49:05,943 --> 00:49:08,275
Some active revenge on Jason's part.

733
00:49:08,445 --> 00:49:11,346
But, unfortunately, he's already gone
to his mother and father.

734
00:49:11,515 --> 00:49:15,508
Ev, it's okay. Just take a breath.

735
00:49:17,454 --> 00:49:20,855
Mr. Freel insists,
unless something is done...

736
00:49:21,024 --> 00:49:23,652
...he is going to tell the other parents
and the papers.

737
00:49:28,799 --> 00:49:30,790
According to him, this is a fact.

738
00:49:30,968 --> 00:49:32,492
It's funny.

739
00:49:32,669 --> 00:49:38,437
Suddenly I feel a great deal of empathy
for young Jason.

740
00:49:46,616 --> 00:49:51,315
As soon as I can say that you deny it,
well, that's good enough for me.

741
00:49:54,424 --> 00:49:57,985
And when you do deny it,
if that's not enough for him...

742
00:49:58,161 --> 00:50:00,891
...then I will stand right beside you
and fight.

743
00:50:04,201 --> 00:50:06,465
They see a man like you.

744
00:50:06,636 --> 00:50:09,662
Unmarried, single all these years.
You know how people are...

745
00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:14,368
...and they just take a situation
and they blow it up for no reason.

746
00:50:20,851 --> 00:50:22,842
I guess...

747
00:50:24,021 --> 00:50:27,752
I guess I just don't know
how my private life has any bearing...

748
00:50:27,924 --> 00:50:30,688
...on my ability as a teacher.

749
00:50:32,429 --> 00:50:35,398
Shouldn't the work just stand for itself?

750
00:50:35,565 --> 00:50:37,999
Yes, of course.

751
00:50:39,503 --> 00:50:41,596
But this isn't about that.

752
00:50:45,342 --> 00:50:46,832
I think it is.

753
00:50:47,277 --> 00:50:48,676
No.

754
00:50:49,212 --> 00:50:50,406
No, it isn't.

755
00:50:54,284 --> 00:50:55,945
This would be so much easier...

756
00:50:56,119 --> 00:50:59,452
...if you would just deny it
and we could move forward.

757
00:51:07,631 --> 00:51:10,122
Are you denying
that you're a homosexual?

758
00:51:12,736 --> 00:51:15,569
I'm not going to justify that question
with an answer.

759
00:51:19,142 --> 00:51:23,010
I am 57 years old, Ev.

760
00:51:23,380 --> 00:51:27,783
I have been a teacher most of my life.

761
00:51:30,253 --> 00:51:35,316
I will not compromise
who or what I am...

762
00:51:36,393 --> 00:51:39,328
...for the likes of Jason Freel.

763
00:51:40,097 --> 00:51:42,258
Or his parents.

764
00:51:46,369 --> 00:51:48,269
I'm sorry.

765
00:52:17,167 --> 00:52:21,103
<i>It took maybe 30 seconds for word</i>
<i>of Mary Clear and my impending union...</i>

766
00:52:21,271 --> 00:52:24,297
<i>... to cover the school grounds</i>
<i>like a suffocating fog.</i>

767
00:52:29,045 --> 00:52:31,343
<i>If only our fire drills</i>
<i>were that organized.</i>

768
00:52:38,522 --> 00:52:41,218
Andy Nichol is gonna ask Mary Clear
to go steady.

769
00:52:41,391 --> 00:52:44,724
<i>Even the Blue Angels don't fly</i>
<i>with that kind of precision anymore.</i>

770
00:52:50,500 --> 00:52:53,765
<i>There would be no turning back now.</i>

771
00:52:55,405 --> 00:52:57,066
Hey, Nichol.

772
00:52:57,641 --> 00:52:59,131
Come here.

773
00:53:00,076 --> 00:53:01,976
I'll be back in a second.

774
00:53:04,147 --> 00:53:07,583
- Hey. You a geek now?
- Back off, Taylor.

775
00:53:07,751 --> 00:53:09,218
Make me.

776
00:53:11,454 --> 00:53:13,422
- What?
- It's all over school, man.

777
00:53:13,957 --> 00:53:15,891
- What?
- What do you mean "what?"

778
00:53:16,059 --> 00:53:17,219
You and Mary Clear.

779
00:53:17,861 --> 00:53:21,558
Ricky Brown's looking for you, man.
He's pissed. He still likes her.

780
00:53:21,731 --> 00:53:24,222
- Then why did he break up with her?
- You didn't know?

781
00:53:24,401 --> 00:53:26,164
She actually broke up with him.

782
00:53:26,336 --> 00:53:29,601
<i>Did I neglect to mention</i>
<i>Mary's last and longest relationship...</i>

783
00:53:29,773 --> 00:53:31,104
<i>... was with Ricky Brown?</i>

784
00:53:31,274 --> 00:53:34,004
<i>Of course, I had assumed</i>
<i>he broke up with her.</i>

785
00:53:34,177 --> 00:53:38,113
<i>Nobody would be crazy enough</i>
<i>to stand up to Ricky Brown.</i>

786
00:53:38,348 --> 00:53:40,339
I did not know that.

787
00:54:17,320 --> 00:54:19,720
- Mrs. Freel?
- Lf you're selling something...

788
00:54:19,889 --> 00:54:21,982
...we're not interested.
- Oh, no.

789
00:54:22,158 --> 00:54:25,491
I'm the principal from Jason's school,
Evelyn Kelner.

790
00:54:27,931 --> 00:54:30,661
- You wanna talk to my husband?
- Yes, please.

791
00:54:30,834 --> 00:54:32,165
He's out back. Come on in.

792
00:54:33,370 --> 00:54:34,394
Thank you.

793
00:54:34,571 --> 00:54:40,168
I'm just not sure that you understand
the kind of man that Stephen Simon is.

794
00:54:40,343 --> 00:54:43,005
I mean, I have never ever worked
with a better person...

795
00:54:43,179 --> 00:54:45,704
...or a better teacher
in my entire career.

796
00:54:45,882 --> 00:54:47,315
Did he deny it?

797
00:54:48,451 --> 00:54:50,078
Well, he felt...

798
00:54:50,253 --> 00:54:52,118
And actually, I support him on this.

799
00:54:52,289 --> 00:54:53,688
He couldn't understand...

800
00:54:53,857 --> 00:54:56,519
...why his record as a teacher
wouldn't stand on its own.

801
00:54:56,693 --> 00:55:00,823
Fancy way of saying he didn't deny it.
What did you expect him to do? Admit it?

802
00:55:00,997 --> 00:55:05,024
This isn't about his teaching ability.
We'll give him that.

803
00:55:05,435 --> 00:55:08,495
It's about kids looking up to him
like he's some kind of example...

804
00:55:08,672 --> 00:55:10,401
...on how to live.

805
00:55:10,573 --> 00:55:13,736
We have a moral obligation.
It's in the Bible.

806
00:55:13,910 --> 00:55:16,208
You know he was taking kids for rides
in his car?

807
00:55:16,379 --> 00:55:18,870
I gave him permission.

808
00:55:19,049 --> 00:55:21,882
He had won a new car.
He was just treating the children.

809
00:55:22,052 --> 00:55:25,215
I guess we'll know who to point
the finger at on that one, won't we?

810
00:55:25,388 --> 00:55:26,980
Now, you listen to me.

811
00:55:28,491 --> 00:55:32,154
Your son brutally whipped
a defenseless young girl...

812
00:55:32,329 --> 00:55:34,160
...because he thought
that she was ugly.

813
00:55:34,664 --> 00:55:37,462
He thought by touching her,
it would rub off on him.

814
00:55:37,634 --> 00:55:41,695
Now you're afraid he might look up to a
kind, wonderful man like Stephen Simon?

815
00:55:43,406 --> 00:55:46,034
I'm not saying
what my boy did to that girl was right.

816
00:55:46,209 --> 00:55:48,302
I whipped his ass real good
for what he did.

817
00:55:48,478 --> 00:55:50,878
But that's all he is. He is just a boy.

818
00:55:51,047 --> 00:55:52,708
He doesn't know any better.

819
00:55:54,951 --> 00:55:57,317
I am not sure
what I have accomplished coming here.

820
00:55:57,687 --> 00:56:00,087
But I am begging you,
please, reconsider.

821
00:56:00,256 --> 00:56:04,022
You would be doing the children
of this community a great disservice.

822
00:56:07,263 --> 00:56:10,027
You know better, don't you?
You know he's a homo.

823
00:56:11,067 --> 00:56:16,061
No. I don't know if he's homosexual or not.
And frankly, I don't care.

824
00:56:16,239 --> 00:56:18,207
My guess is this community will care...

825
00:56:18,375 --> 00:56:20,707
...and they won't appreciate
you condoning it.

826
00:56:23,580 --> 00:56:25,445
I'll see myself out.

827
00:56:25,615 --> 00:56:26,912
Thank you, Mrs. Freel.

828
00:56:38,228 --> 00:56:41,163
What if they don't let Mr. Simon teach
anymore?

829
00:56:43,233 --> 00:56:45,633
Oh, I certainly hope
that doesn't happen.

830
00:56:45,802 --> 00:56:48,498
Listen, I don't think
we should get wound up over this...

831
00:56:48,671 --> 00:56:51,139
...until we know exactly what's going on.

832
00:56:55,779 --> 00:56:56,973
Your father's right, Andy.

833
00:56:58,581 --> 00:57:01,277
They had a thing in the old days
called Salem witch hunt...

834
00:57:01,451 --> 00:57:04,818
...where people got all wound up
before they knew what the facts were.

835
00:57:04,988 --> 00:57:09,084
Oh, and let's not forget Joe McCarthy.
He got so wound up he's still spinning.

836
00:57:13,229 --> 00:57:14,491
What about you, Andy?

837
00:57:15,231 --> 00:57:17,324
You ever see Mr. Simon
do anything weird?

838
00:57:18,368 --> 00:57:21,860
- What do you mean by weird?
- Look, Jim, he's a little young.

839
00:57:22,038 --> 00:57:24,598
No. Sure he's gonna hear this stuff,
just like you said.

840
00:57:24,774 --> 00:57:27,106
Better we deal with it here and now.

841
00:57:27,577 --> 00:57:29,067
Andy...

842
00:57:29,646 --> 00:57:32,638
...did you ever see Mr. Simon...

843
00:57:34,017 --> 00:57:36,451
...touch a boy...

844
00:57:37,854 --> 00:57:39,913
...in a place...

845
00:57:40,323 --> 00:57:41,517
...that he should not?

846
00:57:42,158 --> 00:57:43,819
Jim, what are you doing?

847
00:57:45,929 --> 00:57:47,487
Just answer the question, son.

848
00:57:47,664 --> 00:57:48,961
No. Never.

849
00:57:52,335 --> 00:57:53,927
Okay.

850
00:57:54,404 --> 00:57:55,803
Good.

851
00:58:06,749 --> 00:58:08,546
Dinner was good.

852
00:58:10,920 --> 00:58:12,820
I'm gonna go to the garage.

853
00:58:20,964 --> 00:58:24,832
He is not gonna let go of this.
They feel they have a moral obligation.

854
00:58:28,238 --> 00:58:30,103
Fascinating.

855
00:58:35,044 --> 00:58:37,137
He even went so far as to threaten me.

856
00:58:43,520 --> 00:58:46,887
To think this man can ruin reputations...

857
00:58:47,056 --> 00:58:51,049
...that we have spent years building
with absolutely no evidence.

858
00:58:51,494 --> 00:58:53,155
My God.

859
00:58:53,463 --> 00:58:55,931
I'm the first woman principal
in the county.

860
00:58:59,836 --> 00:59:02,999
I'm trying to put two kids
through college.

861
00:59:03,172 --> 00:59:06,573
- I just don't think that...
- Evelyn. Evelyn, please.

862
00:59:13,216 --> 00:59:15,377
I won't let this happen.

863
00:59:17,453 --> 00:59:19,421
Please, Stephen. Just deny it.

864
00:59:19,589 --> 00:59:22,422
For the children's sake.
I don't care if it's true or not.

865
00:59:22,592 --> 00:59:24,389
Please, just deny it.

866
00:59:25,595 --> 00:59:29,361
It's for the sake of the children
that I won't deny it.

867
00:59:30,066 --> 00:59:32,034
True or not.

868
00:59:42,312 --> 00:59:43,643
Mr. Nichol.

869
00:59:44,314 --> 00:59:45,906
You missed your chance for a ride.

870
00:59:46,082 --> 00:59:47,811
Mr. Simon, you're gonna sell it?

871
00:59:48,351 --> 00:59:50,114
- I'm afraid so.
- Why?

872
00:59:50,286 --> 00:59:54,746
- This is the coolest car I've ever seen.
- Unfortunately, teaching's a labor of love...

873
00:59:54,924 --> 00:59:57,154
...not of economic reward.

874
00:59:58,094 --> 01:00:01,689
Couldn't you, like, rent it out or something
when you're not using it?

875
01:00:01,864 --> 01:00:04,196
Very entrepreneurial of you, Andrew.

876
01:00:04,367 --> 01:00:07,131
But, you know,
I don't really think this car is my style.

877
01:00:07,303 --> 01:00:11,501
It would be better if I sold it
to someone a little hipper, perhaps.

878
01:00:15,612 --> 01:00:17,102
Here, let me help you.

879
01:00:17,914 --> 01:00:18,972
What are the boxes for?

880
01:00:19,148 --> 01:00:22,311
It's not long before summer vacation.
Thought I'd get a head start.

881
01:00:22,485 --> 01:00:24,953
Don't you keep most of the stuff
in the classroom?

882
01:00:25,121 --> 01:00:28,750
Normally, yeah. But as it turns out,
I won't be here next year.

883
01:00:28,925 --> 01:00:31,393
- Why?
- Well, I have a sister in Florida...

884
01:00:31,561 --> 01:00:33,961
...and I haven't been able
to spend time with her.

885
01:00:34,130 --> 01:00:37,065
I thought I might enjoy the change.

886
01:00:37,934 --> 01:00:40,494
You better hurry up.
Don't wanna be late for homeroom.

887
01:00:40,670 --> 01:00:42,228
Thanks.

888
01:00:43,973 --> 01:00:46,498
<i>Mr. Simon's not coming back next year.</i>

889
01:00:46,676 --> 01:00:47,973
So? We won't be here anyway.

890
01:00:49,345 --> 01:00:52,803
It seems weird that somebody like
Jason Freel could get Mr. Simon to quit.

891
01:00:52,982 --> 01:00:55,041
They're both freaks if you ask me.

892
01:00:55,218 --> 01:00:57,709
There's no proof Mr. Simon's a homo.

893
01:00:57,887 --> 01:00:59,878
Then why is he leaving?

894
01:01:03,326 --> 01:01:06,557
Maybe the class could pitch in
and get him a present or something.

895
01:01:06,729 --> 01:01:08,162
Like what?

896
01:01:08,331 --> 01:01:10,856
I don't know. I don't know what he likes.

897
01:01:11,034 --> 01:01:13,002
My dad says they're like women.

898
01:01:13,169 --> 01:01:16,070
They like flowers and crap like that.

899
01:01:16,305 --> 01:01:19,832
We should've known Simon was a homo
when he told us about that ballet.

900
01:01:20,009 --> 01:01:22,944
He might as well just stamp
a big homo sign on his forehead.

901
01:01:23,112 --> 01:01:25,512
All I know is, homo or not...

902
01:01:25,682 --> 01:01:28,617
...if you ask anyone in class
who their favorite teacher is...

903
01:01:28,785 --> 01:01:30,377
...it would be Mr. Simon.

904
01:01:30,553 --> 01:01:33,386
Except Freel, maybe.

905
01:01:33,556 --> 01:01:36,218
Yeah, I guess you're right.

906
01:01:36,392 --> 01:01:38,417
At least he was until this homo thing.

907
01:01:40,329 --> 01:01:42,593
Get up, Nichol. Take a walk, Rains.

908
01:01:44,967 --> 01:01:46,229
See you after school, Andy.

909
01:01:48,738 --> 01:01:51,298
- Look, Ricky, whatever...
- You're gonna ask Mary Clear...

910
01:01:51,474 --> 01:01:53,203
...to go steady with you?

911
01:01:55,244 --> 01:01:57,007
Not if you don't want me to.

912
01:02:01,918 --> 01:02:03,476
I don't want you to.

913
01:02:03,653 --> 01:02:06,816
After I pound your face in,
Mary's gonna think you're too ugly...

914
01:02:06,989 --> 01:02:09,651
...to go steady with.
- Hey, leave him alone.

915
01:02:12,128 --> 01:02:13,425
Who's gonna make me, freak?

916
01:02:14,697 --> 01:02:16,562
No one can see us, Ricky.

917
01:02:17,166 --> 01:02:19,134
Just walk away and nobody will know.

918
01:02:19,736 --> 01:02:21,067
Nobody will believe it.

919
01:02:25,374 --> 01:02:28,309
- What about you, Nichol?
- Nothing. It never happened.

920
01:02:29,045 --> 01:02:32,913
You tell anybody about this
or go near Mary, I'll kill you.

921
01:02:33,449 --> 01:02:34,882
Yeah.

922
01:02:39,322 --> 01:02:42,086
I'm gonna get you real bad for this.

923
01:02:48,498 --> 01:02:51,092
<i>With the clock ticking down</i>
<i>to the end of school year...</i>

924
01:02:51,267 --> 01:02:56,899
<i>... I figured if I could just keep a low profile,</i>
<i>I could get out with my dignity intact.</i>

925
01:03:00,610 --> 01:03:04,740
<i>But Mary Clear would not be denied.</i>

926
01:03:07,316 --> 01:03:09,079
<i>It had begun.</i>

927
01:03:09,252 --> 01:03:14,189
<i>And as far as I knew, nothing,</i>
<i>short of running for your life, could stop it.</i>

928
01:03:14,490 --> 01:03:19,291
<i>Mary was in the preliminary phase of what</i>
<i>was referred to as the hover ritual.</i>

929
01:03:19,462 --> 01:03:21,828
<i>This was a technique</i>
<i>in which the</i> female...

930
01:03:21,998 --> 01:03:26,833
<i>... would travel in ever tightening circles</i>
<i>around her prey, enticing him to strike...</i>

931
01:03:27,003 --> 01:03:30,166
<i>... so that he would actually think</i>
<i>that he was the aggressor...</i>

932
01:03:30,339 --> 01:03:34,105
<i>... thereby insuring his delicate male ego</i>
<i>would remain intact.</i>

933
01:03:35,444 --> 01:03:36,468
<i>I wasn't fooled.</i>

934
01:03:36,646 --> 01:03:38,807
<i>I had to get out and get out fast.</i>

935
01:03:39,882 --> 01:03:41,474
Hi, Andy. I didn't see you.

936
01:03:41,651 --> 01:03:42,811
Yeah. Sorry.

937
01:03:43,219 --> 01:03:46,245
<i>I instantly started to sweat like a pig.</i>

938
01:03:46,422 --> 01:03:49,289
<i>She noticed,</i>
<i>but mercifully pretended not</i> to.

939
01:03:50,226 --> 01:03:51,750
So...

940
01:03:53,029 --> 01:03:54,462
...how you doing?
- Good.

941
01:03:56,065 --> 01:03:58,397
So how are you doing?

942
01:03:58,568 --> 01:04:01,128
<i>She noticed I was making an idiot</i>
<i>out of myself again...</i>

943
01:04:01,304 --> 01:04:04,796
<i>... but, forgiving beyond all reason,</i>
<i>pretended not</i> to.

944
01:04:04,974 --> 01:04:08,205
- Barbara said you wanted to see me.
- She did?

945
01:04:08,377 --> 01:04:11,403
She said you wanted
to ask me something.

946
01:04:12,448 --> 01:04:16,976
<i>It was at that moment that I realized</i>
<i>just how bad I wanted to kiss Mary Clear.</i>

947
01:04:17,153 --> 01:04:19,849
<i>So bad, in fact,</i>
<i>that I forgot about Ricky Brown...</i>

948
01:04:20,022 --> 01:04:23,514
<i>... and the cruel ways he might kill me</i>
<i>if I did.</i>

949
01:04:24,327 --> 01:04:26,989
- You wanna go steady?
- You got an ID bracelet?

950
01:04:27,163 --> 01:04:28,630
Yeah.

951
01:04:30,233 --> 01:04:34,397
<i>She studied the bracelet as if trying</i>
<i>to estimate its fair market value.</i>

952
01:04:34,570 --> 01:04:36,902
You bought this from Bruce Modak,
didn't you?

953
01:04:37,073 --> 01:04:38,404
Yeah.

954
01:04:39,041 --> 01:04:42,204
- It cost me three Mantle rookie cards.
<i>- She wasn't impressed then.</i>

955
01:04:42,378 --> 01:04:43,970
<i>But I'll bet she's reeling now.</i>

956
01:04:44,146 --> 01:04:47,604
<i>How many women</i>
<i>possess a $100,000 ID bracelet...</i>

957
01:04:47,783 --> 01:04:49,375
- <i>... in their junk drawer?</i>
- Okay.

958
01:04:50,386 --> 01:04:54,720
Meet me at the end of the tunnel at 3.
Don't be late. My bus leaves at 3:15.

959
01:04:59,762 --> 01:05:03,220
"When only the dwarf and the paladin
were left, they would not give up...

960
01:05:03,399 --> 01:05:05,196
...but stood their ground stoutly.

961
01:05:05,368 --> 01:05:08,735
A pair of steel towers
streaked and splashed with blood...

962
01:05:09,538 --> 01:05:12,803
...and where the axe of one fell,
and the sword of the other...

963
01:05:12,975 --> 01:05:15,375
...an enemy gasped and died.

964
01:05:15,544 --> 01:05:20,038
And so fighting, loyal to their duty to Joan,
good simple souls..."

965
01:05:20,216 --> 01:05:24,550
<i>As Mr. Simon read from</i> Joan of Arc,
<i>I, unfortunately, could not enjoy it.</i>

966
01:05:24,720 --> 01:05:27,416
<i>Instead, I spent the time</i>
<i>trying desperately to remember...</i>

967
01:05:27,590 --> 01:05:30,616
<i>... all the great kissing scenes</i>
<i>I had watched in movies.</i>

968
01:05:30,793 --> 01:05:35,992
<i>Focusing on fundamentals, I imagined</i>
<i>how Cary Grant might kiss Mary Clear.</i>

969
01:05:36,399 --> 01:05:38,333
<i>That turned out to be discouraging...</i>

970
01:05:38,501 --> 01:05:42,028
<i>... because Cary Grant and Mary Clear</i>
<i>looked really good together.</i>

971
01:05:42,204 --> 01:05:45,298
<i>And I suddenly felt more inadequate</i>
<i>than I did</i> before.

972
01:05:45,708 --> 01:05:47,608
"'The Maid of Orleans taken.

973
01:05:47,777 --> 01:05:49,404
Joan of Arc a prisoner.

974
01:05:49,578 --> 01:05:52,513
The savior of France lost to us.'

975
01:05:52,682 --> 01:05:57,585
And would keep saying that over as if
they couldn't understand how it could be.

976
01:05:57,753 --> 01:06:00,813
Or how God could permit it,
poor creatures."

977
01:06:02,725 --> 01:06:08,186
Perfect. We'll finish the last chapter
on the last day of class. Class dismissed.

978
01:06:08,364 --> 01:06:10,161
Oh, I almost forgot.

979
01:06:10,333 --> 01:06:14,736
I will need all of the final team projects
on my desk before you leave.

980
01:06:14,904 --> 01:06:17,065
And remember,
tonight is the talent show.

981
01:06:17,239 --> 01:06:18,866
I want complete attendance.

982
01:06:19,041 --> 01:06:21,032
No excuses to the contrary.

983
01:06:24,046 --> 01:06:25,604
Thank you.

984
01:06:29,452 --> 01:06:30,942
Mr. Nichol.

985
01:06:31,120 --> 01:06:33,486
I look forward to your
and Stanley's report.

986
01:06:34,156 --> 01:06:35,748
Yes, sir.

987
01:06:37,159 --> 01:06:40,595
<i>I spent sixth period P.E. Class</i>
<i>trying desperately not to sweat...</i>

988
01:06:40,763 --> 01:06:43,527
- <i>... for Mary's sake.</i>
- Come on, Nichol, hustle up, would you?

989
01:06:43,899 --> 01:06:46,663
<i>This whole body odor issue</i>
<i>had begun to consume</i> me.

990
01:06:47,069 --> 01:06:49,731
<i>It occurred to me</i>
<i>if God created man in his own image...</i>

991
01:06:49,905 --> 01:06:52,169
<i>... did that mean</i>
<i>that he</i> too <i>used deodorant?</i>

992
01:06:52,341 --> 01:06:54,866
<i>Or did he simply add sweat</i>
<i>and body odor to us...</i>

993
01:06:55,044 --> 01:06:57,308
<i>... so he'd be the only guy</i>
<i>without sweat rings...</i>

994
01:06:57,480 --> 01:06:59,539
<i>... when the world</i>
<i>was coming to an end.</i>

995
01:07:05,788 --> 01:07:07,255
<i>It was time.</i>

996
01:07:07,857 --> 01:07:11,725
<i>I moved with purpose and yet it was clear</i>
<i>that my mind was not in control.</i>

997
01:07:11,894 --> 01:07:15,022
<i>My body, governed by some force,</i>
<i>previously unknown to</i> me...

998
01:07:15,197 --> 01:07:16,494
<i>... was calling the shots.</i>

999
01:07:16,665 --> 01:07:20,066
<i>This, despite the fact that it was my body</i>
<i>and not my mind...</i>

1000
01:07:20,236 --> 01:07:22,966
<i>... that Ricky Brown</i>
<i>would ultimately beat unmercifully.</i>

1001
01:07:23,139 --> 01:07:25,573
Hey, Nichol.
We running workups after school today?

1002
01:07:25,741 --> 01:07:28,266
- No.
- We've been planning this for a week.

1003
01:07:28,444 --> 01:07:30,503
Seriously? Nichol.

1004
01:07:30,679 --> 01:07:31,737
<i>I walked quickly.</i>

1005
01:07:31,914 --> 01:07:35,645
<i>Not because I was anxious so much</i>
<i>as I was extremely intimidated by Mary...</i>

1006
01:07:35,818 --> 01:07:38,548
<i>... and didn't want to upset her.</i>
<i>She commanded respect.</i>

1007
01:07:38,721 --> 01:07:41,986
<i>After all, at a time</i>
<i>when every move a young boy makes...</i>

1008
01:07:42,158 --> 01:07:46,424
<i>... breaks some personal sexual boundary,</i>
<i>Mary Clear was like a beacon of light.</i>

1009
01:07:46,595 --> 01:07:48,222
<i>Even the other girls respected her.</i>

1010
01:07:48,397 --> 01:07:50,922
<i>After a boy made out with Mary</i>
<i>they could rest easy...</i>

1011
01:07:51,100 --> 01:07:54,627
<i>... in that boy's firm embrace, knowing</i>
<i>one of them knew what he was doing.</i>

1012
01:07:54,804 --> 01:07:56,328
Andy.

1013
01:07:58,808 --> 01:08:00,776
Where you going?
Bike rack's the other way.

1014
01:08:00,943 --> 01:08:04,071
Thanks for all the help today, Dan.
Now I know who my friends are.

1015
01:08:04,246 --> 01:08:07,807
I'm your friend, Andy,
but I'm not a moron.

1016
01:08:07,983 --> 01:08:10,349
What was I supposed to do?
Get beat up with you?

1017
01:08:10,519 --> 01:08:11,884
That makes no sense at all.

1018
01:08:12,054 --> 01:08:13,817
Would you be friends with a moron?

1019
01:08:13,989 --> 01:08:15,820
Forget it. I'll see you later.

1020
01:08:15,991 --> 01:08:17,390
Where are you going?

1021
01:08:17,560 --> 01:08:19,425
To meet Mary Clear.

1022
01:08:19,595 --> 01:08:21,722
Are you insane?

1023
01:08:21,897 --> 01:08:24,331
Ricky Brown will kill you.

1024
01:08:24,500 --> 01:08:27,936
I know. But I can't stop myself.

1025
01:08:29,338 --> 01:08:32,501
<i>Finally, up ahead,</i>
<i>I approached the tunnel.</i>

1026
01:08:32,675 --> 01:08:34,643
<i>Mary would be waiting</i>
<i>on the other side.</i>

1027
01:08:35,511 --> 01:08:36,842
You lost, Nichol?

1028
01:08:37,012 --> 01:08:39,810
<i>They say your life flashes</i>
<i>before your eyes prior to death...</i>

1029
01:08:39,982 --> 01:08:41,449
<i>... but that didn't happen to</i> me.

1030
01:08:41,617 --> 01:08:43,084
<i>I took it as a good sign.</i>

1031
01:08:43,252 --> 01:08:47,450
<i>All I could think was how painful it felt</i>
<i>when Ricky punched me in the stomach.</i>

1032
01:08:47,623 --> 01:08:48,920
<i>And that was just a warning.</i>

1033
01:08:49,091 --> 01:08:52,254
- Let him go, Ricky.
- Shut up, Mary. This ain't your business.

1034
01:08:52,428 --> 01:08:56,194
You let him go or I'll tell Principal Kelner
who stole $32 in quarters...

1035
01:08:56,365 --> 01:08:58,390
...out of the Pepsi machine.

1036
01:09:00,169 --> 01:09:04,196
You're the luckiest butt wipe, Nichol.
First, a freak bails you out. Now a girl?

1037
01:09:04,373 --> 01:09:06,341
Am I gonna have to fight your mother
next?

1038
01:09:07,076 --> 01:09:09,340
I bet the house on my mother, Ricky.

1039
01:09:10,179 --> 01:09:12,010
You'll be alone next time, Nichol.

1040
01:09:12,181 --> 01:09:13,876
I promise.

1041
01:09:16,952 --> 01:09:19,477
<i>Having cheated death once</i> more,
<i>I marched on.</i>

1042
01:09:19,655 --> 01:09:22,123
<i>At this point, I wasn't sure</i>
<i>who I feared most...</i>

1043
01:09:22,291 --> 01:09:24,225
<i>... Ricky Brown or Mary Clear.</i>

1044
01:09:25,027 --> 01:09:27,325
<i>Whoever chose this particular spot</i>
<i>to make out...</i>

1045
01:09:27,496 --> 01:09:30,761
<i>... knew a lot more about symbolism</i>
<i>than most eighth graders.</i>

1046
01:09:30,933 --> 01:09:33,561
<i>Although no one knew the origin</i>
<i>of said tradition...</i>

1047
01:09:33,736 --> 01:09:36,398
<i>... my guess is that</i>
<i>it was Mary Clear herself.</i>

1048
01:09:38,807 --> 01:09:41,298
<i>She alone would understand</i>
<i>its meaning.</i>

1049
01:09:42,411 --> 01:09:43,969
Hi.

1050
01:09:44,580 --> 01:09:48,346
We're gonna have to do this after the
talent show. Bus is leaving in one minute.

1051
01:09:48,517 --> 01:09:50,144
Meet me back here.

1052
01:10:15,411 --> 01:10:17,402
Doris, have you seen Big G?

1053
01:10:17,580 --> 01:10:19,878
Yeah, I passed him
sitting out in the parking lot.

1054
01:10:20,049 --> 01:10:21,380
Thank you.

1055
01:10:43,906 --> 01:10:45,032
Stanley?

1056
01:10:47,309 --> 01:10:48,435
Hello.

1057
01:10:51,847 --> 01:10:55,044
You know that time Ricky Brown
was squirting you with a water pistol?

1058
01:10:56,685 --> 01:10:57,811
Yeah.

1059
01:10:59,154 --> 01:11:02,089
I should have done something.
I should have tried to help you...

1060
01:11:03,559 --> 01:11:04,583
...and I'm sorry.

1061
01:11:08,631 --> 01:11:09,655
That's okay.

1062
01:11:14,236 --> 01:11:15,828
Are you scared?

1063
01:11:16,538 --> 01:11:18,130
Yes.

1064
01:11:19,508 --> 01:11:23,842
I think you may be
the bravest guy I know.

1065
01:11:25,047 --> 01:11:26,173
Or the craziest.

1066
01:11:27,082 --> 01:11:28,640
Yeah.

1067
01:11:28,817 --> 01:11:30,682
Did Norman come?

1068
01:11:32,855 --> 01:11:35,346
I don't know, but I'm sure he will.

1069
01:11:35,524 --> 01:11:38,015
Yeah. It's funny.

1070
01:11:38,193 --> 01:11:40,991
The smallest kid in school
protecting the biggest.

1071
01:11:42,965 --> 01:11:44,398
Yeah.

1072
01:11:45,934 --> 01:11:47,299
I'll see you after the show.

1073
01:11:47,469 --> 01:11:48,834
Yeah.

1074
01:11:49,004 --> 01:11:50,835
See you after the show.

1075
01:12:08,223 --> 01:12:12,523
I wanna thank everyone
for this marvelous turnout.

1076
01:12:12,695 --> 01:12:15,129
The children have worked very hard.

1077
01:12:15,297 --> 01:12:18,733
And I think you'll be surprised
at the wonderful variety...

1078
01:12:18,901 --> 01:12:21,392
...of different acts
that we have for you tonight.

1079
01:12:22,237 --> 01:12:25,502
Our first act is Doris Gebben...

1080
01:12:25,674 --> 01:12:30,771
...who will play a lovely Beethoven piece
on the standup bass.

1081
01:12:30,946 --> 01:12:32,641
Doris?

1082
01:12:57,639 --> 01:12:59,402
Wait, wait. Sorry.

1083
01:13:08,584 --> 01:13:09,846
<i>As Doris droned on...</i>

1084
01:13:10,018 --> 01:13:13,249
<i>... I searched the crowd for Norman,</i>
<i>but he was nowhere to be found.</i>

1085
01:13:15,891 --> 01:13:20,294
<i>I knew how much it meant to Stanley</i>
<i>for him to be there, so...</i>

1086
01:13:29,304 --> 01:13:30,862
Let's hurry.

1087
01:13:46,555 --> 01:13:49,422
- Collecting for the paper?
- How come you're not at the show?

1088
01:13:49,591 --> 01:13:52,059
- Why aren't you?
- He wanted to know if you were there.

1089
01:13:52,227 --> 01:13:54,889
When I didn't see you, I just came here.

1090
01:13:55,631 --> 01:13:59,362
You know those western movies where
bad guys are gonna hang the good guy?

1091
01:13:59,535 --> 01:14:02,527
But the posse shows up
to save the good guy just in time?

1092
01:14:02,704 --> 01:14:04,331
- Yeah.
- Well, I guarantee you...

1093
01:14:04,506 --> 01:14:07,304
...there's no posse out looking
to save Stanley.

1094
01:14:07,843 --> 01:14:09,504
He'll feel bad if you're not there.

1095
01:14:09,678 --> 01:14:11,509
I don't know why he does it.

1096
01:14:11,680 --> 01:14:14,410
He just won't give in,
no matter what they do to him.

1097
01:14:16,518 --> 01:14:18,076
He'll be on soon.

1098
01:14:21,490 --> 01:14:25,017
I just don't wanna see their faces.
I don't wanna hear them laugh.

1099
01:14:27,362 --> 01:14:30,024
Look, If he's brave enough to do it...

1100
01:14:30,199 --> 01:14:32,463
...you should be brave enough
to be there for him.

1101
01:14:33,168 --> 01:14:35,864
I mean, maybe...

1102
01:14:36,538 --> 01:14:40,099
- Maybe we're the posse.
- You don't know what it's like.

1103
01:14:40,275 --> 01:14:43,005
No, but I do know you and Stanley
are best friends.

1104
01:14:43,846 --> 01:14:47,680
- Besides, maybe he can really sing.
- Yeah, sure.

1105
01:14:47,850 --> 01:14:50,512
And maybe
they'll vote me king of the prom.

1106
01:14:53,288 --> 01:14:56,223
You know, you were right about him.

1107
01:14:58,193 --> 01:15:00,525
He's not like anyone else.

1108
01:15:02,164 --> 01:15:05,827
My mom says Stanley has something
most people will never have.

1109
01:15:06,168 --> 01:15:07,863
Stanley has dignity.

1110
01:15:09,905 --> 01:15:10,963
Yeah.

1111
01:15:12,140 --> 01:15:14,870
Well, I gotta get back.

1112
01:15:32,194 --> 01:15:36,961
Next up is Janet Piccolo
who will twirl her baton...

1113
01:15:37,132 --> 01:15:40,761
...to the stirring
"Stars and Stripes Forever."

1114
01:15:40,936 --> 01:15:42,563
Janet.

1115
01:16:03,025 --> 01:16:04,515
There you go.

1116
01:16:14,703 --> 01:16:16,136
Hey.

1117
01:16:17,472 --> 01:16:19,235
Hello, Norman.

1118
01:16:20,809 --> 01:16:21,935
Good luck.

1119
01:16:23,545 --> 01:16:24,603
Thanks for coming.

1120
01:16:24,780 --> 01:16:26,042
You okay?

1121
01:16:27,149 --> 01:16:28,980
Yeah, I think so.

1122
01:16:29,351 --> 01:16:33,048
- I'll see you after the show.
- Okay.

1123
01:16:33,989 --> 01:16:37,925
Just... Can you tell me
why you think you have to do all this?

1124
01:16:40,829 --> 01:16:43,229
Because, Norman, I'm a singer.

1125
01:16:43,599 --> 01:16:45,294
That's what I am.

1126
01:16:48,837 --> 01:16:50,168
Okay.

1127
01:17:13,462 --> 01:17:17,831
Well, that was certainly interesting.

1128
01:17:19,067 --> 01:17:21,365
For our next act...

1129
01:17:21,536 --> 01:17:26,599
...please welcome Tommy Kenner
and his swinging drum solo.

1130
01:17:31,313 --> 01:17:32,337
He's after Kenner.

1131
01:17:32,514 --> 01:17:35,950
I didn't know he played drums. Gotta be
doing something in his spare time.

1132
01:17:36,118 --> 01:17:38,951
- He doesn't study.
- The guy can hardly walk and chew gum.

1133
01:17:39,121 --> 01:17:42,716
Maybe he'll stink and Stanley
won't seem so bad in comparison.

1134
01:18:01,309 --> 01:18:05,336
Holy crap. If Kenner could read as well
as he plays drums, he'd be president.

1135
01:18:20,028 --> 01:18:22,053
He doesn't stink nearly enough.

1136
01:18:39,414 --> 01:18:41,712
Let the hanging begin.

1137
01:18:50,659 --> 01:18:54,425
My goodness gracious.
That certainly was something.

1138
01:18:54,830 --> 01:18:58,095
All right. All right. All right, folks.
Calm down.

1139
01:18:58,266 --> 01:19:00,860
Our show isn't over yet.

1140
01:19:01,603 --> 01:19:04,800
For our last act of the show...

1141
01:19:04,973 --> 01:19:09,740
...Stanley Minor will sing a composition,
which he wrote himself.

1142
01:19:09,911 --> 01:19:11,469
He wrote his own song?

1143
01:19:12,013 --> 01:19:15,244
"Go Ahead and Dream."

1144
01:19:15,417 --> 01:19:18,079
If I was really his friend,
I would've killed him by now.

1145
01:19:19,287 --> 01:19:23,986
<i>Despite Norman's passionate prayers,</i>
<i>Big G walked out on the stage.</i>

1146
01:19:24,159 --> 01:19:27,151
<i>Tall, straight and proud.</i>

1147
01:19:27,329 --> 01:19:30,230
<i>Like a man</i>
<i>who had every right to be there.</i>

1148
01:19:39,441 --> 01:19:40,931
Excuse me, everyone.

1149
01:19:41,877 --> 01:19:42,901
Excuse me.

1150
01:19:43,078 --> 01:19:48,744
If we could all give Stanley
our undivided attention, please?

1151
01:19:49,384 --> 01:19:52,319
He will be singing
without accompaniment.

1152
01:19:52,921 --> 01:19:56,186
And we need it to be absolutely quiet.

1153
01:20:03,598 --> 01:20:07,329
You try and throw that tomato, Ricky,
I'm gonna stop you.

1154
01:20:07,502 --> 01:20:09,766
You don't have the balls, Nichol.

1155
01:20:16,645 --> 01:20:19,045
Now you don't have the balls.

1156
01:20:32,294 --> 01:20:33,989
Have you had a bowel movement
today?

1157
01:20:34,162 --> 01:20:36,221
Obviously,
you're suffering from gas pains.

1158
01:20:36,398 --> 01:20:37,888
Tomatoes will do that to you.

1159
01:20:38,266 --> 01:20:40,166
Boys, would you help Ricky
out of the gym?

1160
01:20:40,335 --> 01:20:44,237
He's not feeling well and, you know,
the show must go on.

1161
01:20:45,173 --> 01:20:46,731
Everything's fine, folks.

1162
01:20:46,908 --> 01:20:48,876
Let us all keep quiet, please...

1163
01:20:49,044 --> 01:20:52,172
...and give Mr. Minor
our undivided attention.

1164
01:20:52,347 --> 01:20:53,837
Thank you.

1165
01:20:59,654 --> 01:21:01,349
Good job.

1166
01:21:06,328 --> 01:21:09,263
Stanley, go.

1167
01:21:33,255 --> 01:21:34,847
He's not bad.

1168
01:21:35,023 --> 01:21:38,015
He's no Tommy Kenner,
but he's not bad.

1169
01:21:38,627 --> 01:21:40,686
No, he's just...

1170
01:21:41,830 --> 01:21:43,457
Brave.

1171
01:21:59,748 --> 01:22:02,546
<i>Big G had a very nice voice.</i>

1172
01:22:02,717 --> 01:22:05,743
<i>If his voice had been great,</i>
<i>it would have made it all so easy.</i>

1173
01:22:05,921 --> 01:22:09,550
<i>The crowd would have stood</i>
<i>and cheered him, a thundering ovation.</i>

1174
01:22:09,724 --> 01:22:13,091
<i>But such was not Stanley Minor's lot</i>
<i>in life.</i>

1175
01:22:13,261 --> 01:22:17,197
Look at his face. Look how happy he is.

1176
01:22:19,401 --> 01:22:21,926
<i>But, oh, did he sing with passion.</i>

1177
01:22:22,103 --> 01:22:24,936
<i>The joy freedom brings.</i>

1178
01:22:52,167 --> 01:22:54,294
Damn, he's got guts.

1179
01:22:54,869 --> 01:22:56,860
You shouldn't swear, Norman.

1180
01:23:06,081 --> 01:23:09,710
<i>With all the excitement, I had almost</i>
<i>forgotten about my date with Mary.</i>

1181
01:23:10,452 --> 01:23:15,389
<i>Postponing destiny had only managed</i>
<i>to drive my anxiety even higher.</i>

1182
01:23:15,790 --> 01:23:18,486
<i>There was one distinct advantage,</i>
<i>however.</i>

1183
01:23:18,660 --> 01:23:22,892
<i>This time, I would enter the tunnel,</i>
<i>not under the protection of Mary Clear...</i>

1184
01:23:24,265 --> 01:23:27,462
<i>... but after having dealt</i>
<i>with Ricky Brown on my own.</i>

1185
01:23:36,611 --> 01:23:37,737
Hi, Andy.

1186
01:23:38,413 --> 01:23:39,471
Hi, Mary.

1187
01:23:39,647 --> 01:23:42,639
<i>She stood still,</i>
<i>allowing me the first advance.</i>

1188
01:23:43,184 --> 01:23:46,813
<i>She held the faint wisps</i>
<i>of my tender male ego in her hand...</i>

1189
01:23:46,988 --> 01:23:50,924
<i>... and I could only hope</i>
<i>that she would caress them gently.</i>

1190
01:23:58,266 --> 01:24:00,928
So how are you doing?

1191
01:24:01,102 --> 01:24:03,002
No, no.

1192
01:24:03,571 --> 01:24:05,436
Let's forget that.

1193
01:24:06,107 --> 01:24:09,167
So can I kiss you?

1194
01:24:10,512 --> 01:24:11,672
Sure.

1195
01:24:11,846 --> 01:24:14,246
<i>Finally. I leaned in and kissed.</i>

1196
01:24:14,416 --> 01:24:18,318
<i>Oh, no. The last moment, I chickened out</i>
<i>and kissed her on the cheek.</i>

1197
01:24:18,486 --> 01:24:21,421
<i>Appalling display of cowardice,</i>
<i>she would've been right...</i>

1198
01:24:21,589 --> 01:24:23,853
<i>... to run around the school</i>
<i>laughing her head off.</i>

1199
01:24:24,025 --> 01:24:26,619
You've never made out before,
have you?

1200
01:24:26,795 --> 01:24:29,923
<i>Male ego being what it is,</i>
<i>I might have lied to save</i> face...

1201
01:24:30,098 --> 01:24:33,431
<i>... but Mary seemed all-knowing</i>
<i>somehow.</i>

1202
01:24:33,601 --> 01:24:36,798
<i>- Besides, who was I kidding?</i>
- No.

1203
01:24:38,473 --> 01:24:40,805
Would you like me to teach you?

1204
01:24:42,477 --> 01:24:45,913
Yes. I'd like that very much.

1205
01:24:46,081 --> 01:24:48,049
<i>And so she did.</i>

1206
01:24:48,216 --> 01:24:50,309
<i>Slowly, carefully...</i>

1207
01:24:50,485 --> 01:24:52,715
<i>... handling me</i>
<i>as if I were a mound of clay...</i>

1208
01:24:52,887 --> 01:24:55,515
<i>... molded by the artist's tender touch.</i>

1209
01:24:55,690 --> 01:24:58,454
<i>She turned what might have been</i>
<i>a scarring boyhood memory...</i>

1210
01:24:58,626 --> 01:25:00,821
<i>... into the sweetest of recollections.</i>

1211
01:25:00,995 --> 01:25:04,795
<i>And for that, I would always be grateful.</i>

1212
01:25:05,467 --> 01:25:07,298
What's with the stopwatch?

1213
01:25:07,469 --> 01:25:11,496
Oh, I like to time each kiss.
The record is one minute and 16 seconds.

1214
01:25:12,006 --> 01:25:14,634
- Can I ask who holds the record?
- Ricky Brown.

1215
01:25:15,610 --> 01:25:17,009
Figures.

1216
01:25:17,178 --> 01:25:20,705
Well, if it helps, I can hold my breath
underwater for a minute and a half.

1217
01:25:20,882 --> 01:25:22,474
That should help.

1218
01:25:37,031 --> 01:25:39,864
"I have finished my story
of Joan of Arc...

1219
01:25:40,034 --> 01:25:44,437
...that wonderful child,
that sublime personality...

1220
01:25:44,606 --> 01:25:49,134
...that spirit which, in one regard,
has had no peer and will have none.

1221
01:25:49,744 --> 01:25:53,510
With Joan of Arc, love of country
was more than a sentiment.

1222
01:25:53,681 --> 01:25:55,376
It was a passion.

1223
01:25:55,550 --> 01:25:57,711
She was the genius of patriotism.

1224
01:25:58,653 --> 01:26:04,614
Love, mercy, charity, fortitude,
war, peace, poetry, music.

1225
01:26:04,792 --> 01:26:08,057
These may be symbolized
as any shall prefer.

1226
01:26:08,229 --> 01:26:11,460
By figures of either sex
and of any age...

1227
01:26:11,633 --> 01:26:14,158
...but a slender girl
in her first young bloom...

1228
01:26:15,103 --> 01:26:17,298
...with the martyr's crown
upon her head...

1229
01:26:17,472 --> 01:26:21,374
...and in her hand the sword
that severed her country's bonds.

1230
01:26:21,543 --> 01:26:25,877
Shall not this, and no other,
stand for patriotism...

1231
01:26:26,047 --> 01:26:29,505
...through all the ages
until time shall end?"

1232
01:26:43,665 --> 01:26:45,189
<i>Okay.</i>

1233
01:26:46,668 --> 01:26:48,693
It really is a beautiful book, isn't it?

1234
01:26:48,870 --> 01:26:50,963
I hope you've all enjoyed it.

1235
01:26:51,339 --> 01:26:54,968
All right, I have your papers here.
Your final team papers.

1236
01:26:55,143 --> 01:26:57,771
And I would like to say, all in all...

1237
01:26:58,213 --> 01:27:01,944
...that each team did a marvelous job.
Congratulations to all of you.

1238
01:27:03,017 --> 01:27:06,077
I would like each team to pick up
your paper on the way out.

1239
01:27:06,254 --> 01:27:08,245
But before that, I just wanna tell you...

1240
01:27:09,123 --> 01:27:14,151
...I have very much enjoyed
our time together this year.

1241
01:27:14,329 --> 01:27:19,028
And I wish each and every one of you
all the best of luck...

1242
01:27:19,200 --> 01:27:21,259
...as you enter high school next fall.

1243
01:27:22,770 --> 01:27:24,601
Class dismissed.

1244
01:27:27,875 --> 01:27:29,467
Here you go.

1245
01:27:31,512 --> 01:27:34,037
- Very nice.
- Thank you.

1246
01:27:35,817 --> 01:27:37,114
<i>In case you're wondering...</i>

1247
01:27:37,285 --> 01:27:39,776
<i>... Mary Clear and I went steady</i>
<i>for five weeks.</i>

1248
01:27:39,954 --> 01:27:42,582
<i>Her longest relationship to that point.</i>

1249
01:27:42,757 --> 01:27:44,281
<i>It was a torrid affair.</i>

1250
01:27:44,459 --> 01:27:46,450
<i>Kissing became even more enjoyable...</i>

1251
01:27:46,628 --> 01:27:49,324
<i>... when I discovered</i>
<i>it was all right to breathe.</i>

1252
01:27:52,433 --> 01:27:55,732
This was just wonderful.

1253
01:27:56,404 --> 01:27:57,769
Boys, you did a good job.

1254
01:27:57,939 --> 01:27:59,531
- Thank you, Mr. Simon.
- Thank you.

1255
01:27:59,707 --> 01:28:00,833
<i>And as for Mr. Simon...</i>

1256
01:28:03,044 --> 01:28:05,410
Wow, thank you, sir.

1257
01:28:06,247 --> 01:28:07,578
Thank you, sir.

1258
01:28:07,749 --> 01:28:11,014
I am as proud of you two boys
as any students I've ever had.

1259
01:28:11,786 --> 01:28:13,276
And I mean that.

1260
01:28:13,454 --> 01:28:16,218
And I wish you both
a wonderful summer...

1261
01:28:16,391 --> 01:28:17,915
...and a wonderful life.

1262
01:28:19,294 --> 01:28:20,955
What are you gonna do now,
Mr. Simon?

1263
01:28:22,130 --> 01:28:25,429
Well, I'll find someplace to teach,
of course.

1264
01:28:27,802 --> 01:28:29,633
I am a teacher.

1265
01:28:30,104 --> 01:28:31,469
That's what I am.

1266
01:28:32,874 --> 01:28:35,707
- Goodbye, sir.
- Goodbye, Stanley.

1267
01:28:38,346 --> 01:28:41,838
- Goodbye, Andrew.
- Goodbye, sir. Thank you.

1268
01:28:58,900 --> 01:29:00,162
<i>Stanley and I lost touch...</i>

1269
01:29:00,335 --> 01:29:03,031
<i>... when he moved away</i>
<i>in our sophomore year in high school.</i>

1270
01:29:03,204 --> 01:29:07,163
<i>I can assure you, his suffering</i>
<i>did not end in the eighth grade.</i>

1271
01:29:07,342 --> 01:29:11,335
<i>Nevertheless, I know whatever hardships</i>
<i>were thrust upon him...</i>

1272
01:29:11,512 --> 01:29:13,036
<i>... he handled them with dignity.</i>

1273
01:29:13,214 --> 01:29:14,476
He's coming.

1274
01:29:14,649 --> 01:29:18,278
<i>As for me, well, I am a writer.</i>

1275
01:29:18,453 --> 01:29:20,421
<i>That's what I am.</i>

1276
01:29:24,425 --> 01:29:26,120
Against the wall. Against the wall.

1277
01:29:26,294 --> 01:29:30,390
<i>And with my pen, I can create a world</i>
<i>where brave men like Stanley Minor...</i>

1278
01:29:30,565 --> 01:29:34,558
<i>... are exalted as the standard</i>
<i>by which we all measure ourselves.</i>

1279
01:29:34,736 --> 01:29:38,433
<i>A world where Karen Connor</i>
<i>will fit the glass slipper.</i>

1280
01:29:38,606 --> 01:29:42,098
<i>And Norman Grunmeyer</i>
<i>is voted King of the Prom.</i>

1281
01:29:42,477 --> 01:29:46,345
<i>A world where the equation</i>
<i>human dignity plus compassion...</i>

1282
01:29:46,514 --> 01:29:47,913
<i>...equals peace.</i>

1283
01:30:07,702 --> 01:30:11,001
All right, all right, one, two, three.

1284
01:30:11,172 --> 01:30:14,539
Goodbye, Mr. Simon.

1285
01:30:20,214 --> 01:30:22,409
Thank you.

1286
01:30:24,952 --> 01:30:28,080
Thank you. Yeah.

1287
01:30:29,157 --> 01:30:32,854
Best teacher ever. Yeah.

1288
01:30:47,775 --> 01:30:48,901
Thank you.

1289
01:30:49,076 --> 01:30:51,442
Mr. Simon, you're the best. The best.

1290
01:31:08,529 --> 01:31:10,087
Hey, Stanley.

1291
01:31:17,638 --> 01:31:19,401
See you around.

1292
01:31:21,409 --> 01:31:23,309
See you around, Andy.

1293
01:31:36,624 --> 01:31:39,593
<i>The last week of eighth grade</i>
<i>was memorable for many reasons...</i>

1294
01:31:39,760 --> 01:31:43,821
<i>... not the least of which were those</i>
<i>glorious make- out sessions with Mary.</i>

1295
01:31:43,998 --> 01:31:46,694
<i>But knowing</i>
<i>I would never</i> see <i>Mr. Simon again...</i>

1296
01:31:46,868 --> 01:31:47,892
<i>... haunted</i> me.

1297
01:31:48,069 --> 01:31:51,561
<i>There was still one question</i>
<i>that had to be answered.</i>

1298
01:32:04,719 --> 01:32:06,380
Mr. Simon?

1299
01:32:12,593 --> 01:32:15,118
Hello? Mr. Simon?

1300
01:32:30,611 --> 01:32:31,873
Can I help you, Mr. Nichol?

1301
01:32:33,080 --> 01:32:35,207
- I'm so sorry, sir.
- It's okay.

1302
01:32:35,383 --> 01:32:36,941
I'm glad you dropped by.

1303
01:32:37,785 --> 01:32:40,879
- Would you like a cup of tea?
- No, sir, thank you.

1304
01:32:41,055 --> 01:32:43,216
I just wanted to ask you a question.

1305
01:32:43,658 --> 01:32:45,216
My wife, yes.

1306
01:32:47,228 --> 01:32:49,287
Mystery solved?

1307
01:32:49,463 --> 01:32:50,896
Oh, no, sir.

1308
01:32:52,199 --> 01:32:55,168
Well, yeah, I guess that too.

1309
01:32:55,336 --> 01:32:56,997
Here, have a seat.

1310
01:32:59,840 --> 01:33:01,865
So where is she?

1311
01:33:02,376 --> 01:33:03,468
She passed away.

1312
01:33:04,812 --> 01:33:07,781
Nineteen years ago today, in fact.

1313
01:33:09,984 --> 01:33:13,613
- I'm sorry.
- Yeah, well, a little sappy, I'm afraid.

1314
01:33:13,788 --> 01:33:18,088
As a writer, it would do you well
to avoid melodrama in your work.

1315
01:33:19,126 --> 01:33:23,256
I suppose I loved her too much.

1316
01:33:25,333 --> 01:33:28,564
- Does that help you, Andrew?
- No.

1317
01:33:28,736 --> 01:33:33,105
Well, I mean, I don't care about that.
That's not why I came.

1318
01:33:33,674 --> 01:33:35,232
Oh, really?

1319
01:33:35,409 --> 01:33:38,276
Well, you've got me intrigued.
What is it?

1320
01:33:39,647 --> 01:33:40,944
I just wanted to know.

1321
01:33:41,115 --> 01:33:44,676
When you assigned me to work
with Stanley, why'd you pick me?

1322
01:33:44,852 --> 01:33:47,150
You said there was a reason.

1323
01:33:47,455 --> 01:33:48,752
Well...

1324
01:33:48,923 --> 01:33:54,054
...I believe that life is about timing,
opportunity, and choices.

1325
01:33:54,228 --> 01:33:56,423
It was an opportunity at the right time...

1326
01:33:56,597 --> 01:33:59,998
...for a wonderful young man like you
to make the right choice.

1327
01:34:00,167 --> 01:34:04,661
And I knew you weren't ready to do that.

1328
01:34:05,039 --> 01:34:07,940
But I didn't want you to miss it.

1329
01:34:08,576 --> 01:34:10,237
But how did you know it would work?

1330
01:34:10,411 --> 01:34:13,039
How did you know that I could do it?

1331
01:34:13,714 --> 01:34:15,375
I didn't.

1332
01:34:15,549 --> 01:34:21,010
But sometimes, you just need someone
to tell you that you can.

1333
01:34:21,756 --> 01:34:25,487
<i>I'm not sure that I fully understood it then,</i>
<i>but it did occur to</i> me...

1334
01:34:25,660 --> 01:34:30,461
<i>... that somewhere in that marvelous pile</i>
<i>of books Mr. Simon cherished...</i>

1335
01:34:30,631 --> 01:34:33,930
<i>... there was a manual</i>
<i>called</i> How to Be a Teacher...

1336
01:34:34,101 --> 01:34:36,331
<i>... written by Mr. Simon.</i>

1337
01:35:01,862 --> 01:35:05,093
Andy, Andy. Shut it off. Come on.

1338
01:35:05,266 --> 01:35:07,530
Shut it off. Shut it off.

1339
01:35:08,169 --> 01:35:11,263
Come on.
Now, how many times have I told you?

1340
01:35:11,439 --> 01:35:15,239
You have to use the wheel grooves
as a guide to show where you left off.

1341
01:35:15,409 --> 01:35:18,173
- Here, I'll show you.
- No, no, no.

1342
01:35:19,480 --> 01:35:21,471
What do you mean no?

1343
01:35:24,285 --> 01:35:27,686
I'm mean,
I'm gonna finish the lawn, Dad.

1344
01:35:27,855 --> 01:35:31,086
I'll go over it again
and catch anything I missed.

1345
01:35:31,258 --> 01:35:32,623
That's just the way I do it.

1346
01:35:32,793 --> 01:35:35,261
Once one way
and another against the grain.

1347
01:35:35,429 --> 01:35:39,388
Like at the ballpark
or like a checkerboard.

1348
01:35:40,101 --> 01:35:42,126
Look, I like to do it, Dad.

1349
01:35:42,303 --> 01:35:45,864
I like to mow the lawn.
I like the way it looks and smells.

1350
01:35:46,040 --> 01:35:48,565
And I'm gonna finish it, my way.

1351
01:35:48,743 --> 01:35:52,839
Then once I'm done, if I've still left a spot
you can call me a jughead.

1352
01:35:53,013 --> 01:35:56,414
But, please, just let me finish.

1353
01:36:00,721 --> 01:36:02,518
Okay.

1354
01:36:05,726 --> 01:36:07,455
Fair enough.