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Yes, I'm calling to retrieve. I'd like
to confirm.

I've been getting the alarm after two
hours. Can you tell me approximately how

much money was this?

Was it over $1 ,000?

Thank you.

You'll be seeing eight kids today. I'm
sure you'll be able to find your

finalists. Oh, that's great.

I get to knock half the kids right out
of the box before lunch.

Look, the Tribune could always offer a
few more scholarships, you know.

I wish I could offer a scholarship to
all of them. Make my job a lot easier.

And my life.

How's it feel to be back in high school,
Mr. Grant?

Strange. I had this urge to grab a smoke
in a boy's bathroom.

Well, the kids are still doing that.

But I don't think they're smoking the
same thing you did.

Uh -huh, uh -huh.

What about malts? The kids still go for
malts, don't they?

Of course, at the old malt shop.

That's where they play the jukebox and
dance the lindy hop. Oh, that's great.

Some things never change, do they?

Morning, Miss McCormick. Morning, Miss
Davis.

This way, right there.

I'll bet you were a wonderful student,
Mr. Grant.

No.

Cute, sure, but not wonderful.

Come on.

I was more interested in batting
averages than isosceles triangles.

So was I, but I still found time to be
cute and a wonderful student.

Yeah, but you didn't have Mrs. Lefton as
a teacher. Took me eight years to get

over her.

So? Oh, she was the kind of teacher who
called second graders Mr.

Do you feel the need to go to the little
boy's room, Mr. Grant?

I kept turning around looking for my
father.

As I was trying to say, the causes of
World War I were a series of what seemed

to be unrelated reds when... Danny, we
can't both be talking at the

same time.

So why don't you be quiet, man?

Okay, let's try and outline the various
power blocks that existed in the summer

of 1914.

Germany, Italy...

The next candidate is Victor Wilson.

Victor Wilson.

Straight A's. Editor of the school
yearbook. Captain of the football team.

He's not good looking, too, is he?

Handsome, friendly, and well -liked.

That's disgusting.

Victor?

Mr. Grant. Victor.

Sit down.

I've been going over your record.

Any questions?

Yeah.

Did you ever do anything wrong?

Danny,

sit down.

Don't touch me! Don't touch me! Danny,
before you get in trouble, sit down.

Danny, I'd much rather deal with your
problems than the problems of Europe in

1914. Is there something that I...
Nothing!

So, um, the days of the old guard of the
European aristocracy were numbered?

as were the lives of many innocent young
men throughout the world.

I'm impressed, Victor.

Thank you.

Bye -bye.

Why do I have the feeling I'll be
working for him someday?

We'll all be working for him someday.

Wesley Dandridge is next, huh? Yes,
Wesley's next.

He doesn't seem to be in the same league
with the others.

Oh, it's true. On paper, he's not. But
there's a whole lot more to the story

than what's in that folder.

Well, fill me in.

Well, he was kind of a reclamation
project for me.

He was in and out of trouble through the
ninth grade.

Terrible home life.

Father beat the mother.

Mother drinks.

Well, he joined a gang, got into some
trouble.

Petty larceny.

His grades are pretty good the last two
years.

He turned himself around.

We put him in a special program, too, to
do after school.

What about the gang stuff?

It's over.

Now, if he just gets this one break...
Well, you meet him.

Wesley, nice to meet you. Same here.

Sit down. Thank you.

Let me ask you something.

Sure.

How does a guy fail biology one year and
get an A the next?

Well, one year he doesn't ever show up
in class, and the next year he does.

That's it?

And he stops doing drugs.

And he stays after class three times a
week for special tutoring.

And he volunteers as a biology lab
assistant.

Yeah, but the drugs was the big thing.

Also, I went through EST.

EST?

That was a joke. I'm sorry.

It was a good joke. I just didn't expect
it.

No, it was a lousy joke. I'm sorry. I'm
just a little nervous.

I'm telling you, it was a good joke. I
just wasn't ready for it.

All right, come on, Daddy. We're going
to go to the D.

Come on. You'll see him, man. I've seen
him lots of times.

Come on. Come on. Come on.

You hit those lockers pretty hard.

That kid couldn't have weighed more than
150 pounds.

He tossed me aside like a bag of
tomatoes.

He was on PCP.

Angel dust.

That kid didn't even know you were
there.

Yeah?

Well, I sure knew he was there.

PCP's about the biggest problem we've
got.

Not to mention the shortage of referees.

Yeah, well, I'll admit that we didn't
exactly put our best foot forward today,

but life down here isn't all that bad,
you know.

Is it risky, your teaching, now?

It sure seems like it is.

Hard to say.

In my experience as a teacher, it would
be different from anyone else's.

I like to generalize.

Well, let's be specific, then. I just
saw a kid practice for the Golden Gloves

working out on a teacher. Does that
happen once a day, once a week, a year?

Why are you yelling?

I... I don't know.

I just saw a teacher attacked.

Somehow that seems to violate a basic
premise on which I was raised.

Well, that's the only basic premise on
which you were raised which has been

violated.

You're a very lucky man.

No, I'm serious.

It really bothers me to see a teacher be
the victim of a kid's attack.

You see only one victim, the teacher.

Now, when I see a kid acting up, looking
for trouble, looking for attention, a

kid who can only communicate through
violence and anger, I see another

that kid.

Yeah, but he doesn't have a busted nose.

And the kid was so spaced out, it took
about eight of us to tie him down.

Things have changed since I went to
school. For one thing, they don't write

slates anymore.

Did you see those photographs from New
York? Some school in the Bronx. It

like an army camp.

Oh, I think you're exaggerating,
Charles.

No, no, no, no, no. You know, teaching
has become very risky in the big cities.

Living's become very risky in the big
cities.

Yeah, and if something isn't done about
it, decent public education is going to

become just a memory. The good people
won't go into the field, and if they do,

they won't stay.

Well, being a Whitman opened my eyes to
one thing anyway.

What?

Our coverage of schools stinks.

Billy, Rossi, I need you.

Turn it off.

I said turn it off.

Lady, you touch that, you're going to be
in big trouble.

Pascal Wynn, are you having a party
without inviting me?

She told me to turn down my radio.

Don't nobody tell me what to do.

But you know what's against school rules
to have a radio going?

Yeah, I know, but I mean, this ain't
really school property.

Sugar Plum, you mean to tell me that
this tile that matches this building is

part of our high school?

I don't know.

Maybe.

Yeah, I guess it is.

Right.

And the next time somebody like Miss
McCormick asks you to do something,

not putting you down.

They're just trying to remind you about
the rules.

And the next time you give in a party,
Invite me.

But no disco.

Only jazz.

I never let no woman whip me like that.

She didn't whip me, man.

The hell she didn't. You better check
your pants, make sure they're still in

there.

Lou Grant will continue in a moment here
on A &E.

The only grade you've ever received is
A.

Yes, sir.

How'd you manage to learn the rest of
the alphabet?

I stayed after school.

Victor, I've got to tell you, this
record is quite an accomplishment.

Thanks. I have a lot of help.

Victor, I'm really pleased to have met
you. Same to you.

Thank you. Mr. Donovan.

Mr. Grant. Victor.

Great to meet you. This is Oprah.

Who's next?

Blessed Clark Kent, I think we've
already found our way.

Thanks for you having such an open mind.

Well, no, Victor Wilson's an obvious
choice.

Of course he's an obvious choice,
Charlie. And except for the Ku Klux

been offered a scholarship from every
civic group from here to New Jersey.

He deserves it. I'm not arguing that.
All I'm saying is that maybe we should

think of awarding a scholarship where
it'll have a little more impact.

Maybe there's a kid who either goes to
school on our scholarship or he doesn't

go at all. Lou, can't anything ever be
easy with you?

Isn't he wonderful?

Make you feel guilty for voting for the
best candidate.

Ah, and one more kid to see.

And so Mr. Pinchot thought that a good
way to repay his old high school was to

set up the scholarship.

Your publisher went to Whitten? That's
right.

He was black?

What's the joke?

Well, if neither of you guys have any
more questions, I guess we know what we

need to know. Wait a minute, wait a
minute, wait a minute.

Tell me the story you told me.

Which story?

It's about the job.

Which job?

At the bakery.

Oh, oh.

I used to work at a bakery.

What did you make?

Rolls.

Yeah, well, sometimes I got to work on
rye bread, but mostly rolls.

Never mind about the rolls.

Listen, the kid worked the swing shift
at Bower's Bakery downtown.

School from 9 to 3, tutoring 3 to 5,
then the bakery from 6 to midnight.

Right?

Yeah, but a lot of kids do the same
thing.

We're not talking about a lot of kids,
Wesley. We're talking about you.

At least we're trying to.

Great kids.

Just great. You know, I just love the
idea of the Trib going out there and

bringing new talent into journalism.

I mean, it's like a farm system at
baseball, you know? Except that we don't

buy our players from established papers.
I mean, we're not like the Yankees or

the Angels. We're more like the Royals
or the Dodgers. We nurture our players,

we bring them along, and then wham!

Maybe it's not like a farm system at
all.

I blew it, huh?

Almost. It's not over.

When will you decide?

End of the week.

Maybe I can win a Pulitzer Prize between
now and Friday.

Look, Wesley, you did fine.

It's just that... No, no, listen, Mr.
Grant. I'm sorry if I embarrassed you,

know. I just froze.

What are you talking about? You didn't
embarrass me. Well, I'm no good at

interviews. I get nervous and... Good
people always get nervous at interviews.

That's where the wrong people get hired.

Well, as long as I'm still in the game.

Look, you better get back to school and
I better get back to work.

Yeah. Well, I'll see you later.

Jenny Davis, please.

Hi, Jenny.

Lou Grant.

Listen.

Can I buy you a malt?

Do you want it on both, or should we
just sit at the fountain?

The fountain will be fine.

We're just going to have a couple of
malts.

Malts? Not too thick, okay?

I don't know how to make a malt.

Do you make brandy Alexanders?

Yes.

You make a malt the same way, except you
leave out the brandy and bring us the

Alexander.

Not too thick?

When I tell a girl we're going out for
malts, I ain't just whistling Dixie.

Bad choice of words, Mr. Grant.

Hey, but hey, big fender, I'm with you.

Lou, okay?

Okay.

This is everything I have on Wesley.

I hope it's some help.

Thanks. What exactly are you looking
for?

I... I don't know.

Exactly. Some piece of writing.

Some example of Wesley's work that can
represent him better than he can

He said he did poorly at the interview.

It's not only that Wesley did poorly.

Victor Wilson, God bless him, comes off
as a cross between O .J. Simpson and

Martin Luther King.

Kind of a tackle -busting preacher man,
huh?

Yeah. You know, I sent a couple of
reporters down to Whitman to kind of

around.

I think it might be a good time to start
a story on teaching in L .A. That's a

broad canvas.

What do you think they'll find?

Whatever it is they want to find.

A lot more violence?

Probably. The culture's a lot more
violent. Schools don't operate in a

I went to a rough high school.

Or what people thought was a rough high
school. high school.

But that was Pleasant Valley Nursery
School compared to what's going on down

Whitman. Lou, at Whitman you've got 3
,300 kids and 120 staff members.

Each one has a different perception of
what's going on.

All that violence in the air doesn't
belong in a school.

You think schools should be exempt from
violence because they used to be exempt?

Isn't that the way it's supposed to be?
I don't know how things are supposed to

be. I just know how they are.

Lou, this is supposed to be your mall,
the way they used to make them.

Not too thick, sweet, chocolatey, and
delicious.

It's none of those things.

It's what we've got.

Teaching here is no more dangerous than
teaching at any minimum security prison.

How long have you been at it? Twenty
years.

You ever have any trouble yourself?

Nothing I couldn't handle.

What happened yesterday to you, how
unusual is that?

The threat is always there.

I misread the situation. Things got out
of hand.

I don't know. Maybe I shouldn't have
challenged him directly.

You don't get a lot of help from the
other kids, do you?

Most of the kids resent the violence.

They get very upset when a teacher's
attacked.

Worrying about all this makes it hard to
teach, doesn't it?

That depends on what you mean by teach.

Reading, writing, arithmetic, that sort
of thing?

No, when you've got kids acting up in
class, you've got to deal with it.

That becomes a lot more important than
the three R's. If we get to teach, Mr.

Rossi, it's a luxury.

Mostly we babysit teenagers.

I, uh... I couldn't help but notice him.
You've got armed guards in the hall.

That's new.

What about it?

They don't exactly have master's degrees
in psychology, right?

Seems like just a matter of time before
someone gets shot.

I wouldn't be surprised.

I'm back to the salt mines.

Thanks for talking. Right, thank you.
Thanks for listening.

You know, the security guards aren't the
only ones who carry guns in school.

You mean the kids?

I mean the teachers.

How many?

A lot.

Do you?

Yes.

Would you use it?

I think so.

There just isn't a big problem here,
Miss Newman.

Maybe at some other schools, perhaps.

But not here at Whitman.

There was an incident here yesterday,
wasn't there, in which a young student

slugged a teacher?

Danny Lopez, yes.

But I don't think slugged is an accurate
description.

There may have been some pushing and
leaning, but it's... Still a bit hazy. I

thought a knife was confiscated. Oh, I
don't think you could call it a knife.

was more like a nail clipper.

So you don't think that teaching as a
profession is more dangerous now than it

was? That's a myth.

There were some problems here, and we've
cleaned them up.

Teachers who are unhappy here will tell
you differently, of course. But isn't

that always the way?

Why not? She didn't even know you did
it.

Yeah, well, that's just the beginning,
man.

Hello.

Hi, Charlie.

Listen, I've been reading some of Wesley
Dandridge's stuff.

It's terrific. The kid's a natural.

What? It wasn't your fault, Charlie, but
I think you made him nervous.

Sure, the other kid, Wilson, he's a
standout, but he doesn't need us.

When you read the stuff, I think you'll
see.

Who is this?

Never mind. Go back to bed. I'll talk to
you in the morning.

answer at ours?

I've got to, honey.

Break the mood.

We'll put the mood back together. Don't
worry.

This better be important.

Donovan, this is Lou.

What's up?

I've been thinking about Wesley
Dandridge.

Who?

You know, the kid we interviewed for the
scholarship.

The one who worked at the bakery.

Listen, I've been reading his stuff.

Lou, can we talk about this in the
morning? It's after midnight.

I wanted to talk to you before you went
to bed.

Give me some aspirin.

My head is splitting.

You know, I interviewed for a
scholarship yesterday.

Uh -huh.

For college.

If you had any brains, you'd be out
getting a job and making some money.

Still looking to waste more years at
school.

The scholarship is for the newspaper. No
good.

Lazy. No good.

You're anything to keep from working.

You can work there when you finish. Just
like your father.

That was you last night, wasn't it?

What are you talking about?

Oh, you mean the phone call.

I'm sorry. I didn't know it was so late.

Did the mad caller get you too?

Oh, yeah.

Okay, I'm sorry.

But you gotta read this stuff Wesley
Davids wrote.

I had these copied.

What is it? Form two short stories.
They're great.

Okay, I'll read them in my office.

If I don't fall asleep.

You won't be sorry.

I got some great stuff at the high
school yesterday.

What kind of stuff?

Well, for openers, one of the teachers
told me that she carries a gun.

A gun?

In her attache case, next to the lesson
plans and Silas Marner.

Is she the only one?

She says no.

You better check it out. Are we talking
about one paranoid lady or a school full

of armed teachers?

According to the principal, Mr. Sherman,
everything is hunky -dory at Whitman.

He didn't mention that heavy mortar
practice is part of the teacher training

program? Malcontents and troublemakers.
That's the only problem he sees.

Great staff, great students, great
school.

Okay.

So we've got a teacher who sees trouble
everywhere and a principal who thinks

he's living in munchkin land.

What do you think?

You talk to any of the kids?

Not yet.

Why don't you?

Let's hear it from the munchkins
themselves.

Okay.

Billy.

Yeah? I want you to talk to Jenny Davis.
She's a guidance counselor at Whitman.

She'll give you an angle you won't get
from anyone else.

Hey, yoga.

What's up?

I'm late for class, Haskell, all right?
You too busy for an old friend, huh?

With some dynamite weed in his pockets?

Raves and dudes and what have you up his
sleeve, huh? Yeah, well, I got better

things to do, all right? Oh, well, hey,
man, I can dig.

If I had Jenny Davis waiting to get it
on with me...

Hey, let me tell you something, man. If
I ever hear you say that again, even if

it's a joke, slap you upside your head.
You dig that, huh?

It's a joke, my man.

Come on, guys, let's go. Next class,
let's move it, huh?

You know, you're just jealous. That's
all it is.

Of what?

You ain't no different than me, and you
ain't gonna end up no different than me

either, man, so dig that.

Come on, move, man.

We're not through here, all right?

You are if I say you are.

That so?

Yeah, that so. Come on.

What's wrong with you?

Has teaching lost some of the allure it
once had?

It hasn't for me.

Is everything you expected?

I didn't expect anything.

I mean, listen, if someone comes into
this system because they think teachers

are supposed to get respect, are
supposed to be the authority, are

be loved...

Well, then, yeah, they may have had a
little reality gap, sure.

Do you think that teachers in the inner
city should be paid more than, say,

teachers out in Woodland Hill?

Oh, you mean combat pay?

That's a term I've heard used.

I hate that idea. I mean, to me, that
says the teachers are in a war and the

kids are the enemy.

I mean, if you're going to call it
combat pay, you're going to have

your hands.

Because the kids are going to pick up on
that.

It's okay, Jenny.

We got this turkey calmed down now.

Run it under the fold and carry over to
page three.

What else? More than half the new
teachers in the Dallas school system

exam designed to test the intelligences
of people over age 13.

The report also said that these teachers
would have been disqualified from

employment if they had taken the exam
before they were hired.

Well, just give it a couple of
paragraphs inside.

On the same topic, I've got the opening
on the L .A. school series. You got the

memo, Charlie?

Oh, yeah.

There's some art on it.

Where's that?

I put you there with the guns.

This is incredible.

I haven't seen this much hardware since
Anzio.

Those are weapons confiscated on city
campuses last year.

Well, hello.

Listen, I had a chance to read that
material your boy Wesley wrote. Isn't it

great, Charlie?

Very, very good.

That's great. I knew you'd like it.

He's a sensitive, talented writer. A
little unpolished, of course.

Maybe four years of college would polish
him up, if you get my drift.

Let me give it a little more thought.

I'll call you at home.

Why don't you call me when you want to
talk?

Better.

Will Grant.

Hi, Billy. How'd the interview with
Jenny Davis go?

He did, huh?

Yeah.

Yeah.

No, I don't think he's got a chance now.

What?

What is it, Will?

That was Billy.

He's downtown at Whitman High.

Yeah?

Our boy Wesley tried to punch out a gym
teacher today.

You scared me, Al.

This has got to be the latest you have
ever stayed in school.

Don't even think it.

Don't even... Lou

Grant

will continue in a moment here on A &E.

Look, I've been calling for three days
and she hasn't been in. That's some

Can you give me Miss Davis' home phone
number, please?

Thank you.

Listen, I'm sorry about what happened to
the Danbridge kid.

He's got a lot of promise.

Maybe it just isn't his time yet.

Yeah.

Hello? Jenny, look around.

Listen, I know I'll see you at the
ceremony tomorrow, but I wanted to...

You won't? The fact is, I won't be going
back at all.

What do you mean?

I've left teaching.

Why?

Personal reasons.

I... I don't understand.

Just tired of it, that's all.

Try something else.

Maybe go back home to Texas for a while.

Listen, can I come over there and see
you?

What for?

I don't know.

saying doesn't make sense to me.

Maybe if I saw your lips moving, I could
understand the words a little better.

Okay.

Give me your address.

Cut. Cut.

I don't know why you bought it coming
all the way down here.

I don't like eating lunch alone.

Tuna or egg salad?

Either one, I don't care.

Good thing. I hate to.

I don't think you're going to find me
very good company.

Can I at least take my jacket off?

That was a pretty sudden decision to
quit teaching, wasn't it?

Told you on the phone.

Tired of it.

Want to try something else for a while?

If I believe that, I'd be having lunch
in my office.

I wish you were.

Newsmen are immune to personal attacks,
Jenny. Don't you know that?

There aren't many people as good at what
they do as you are.

Yeah, well, I'm tired of being charged
with the care and feeding of society's

problems.

You're a born teacher, Jenny.

Will you lose no such thing as a born
teacher anymore? Just a bunch of people

who get stuck in the damn system.

Listen, lady.

I've seen you at work. What happened
between you and those students is a very

special thing.

Yeah, well... Things have changed.

How?

That same person.

Why?

Who, what, where, when, and why?

You really know your journalistic
technique, don't you, Lou?

Me.

Beaten.

And...

raped by a couple of punks?

My own office?

I don't know why.

I'm sorry, I didn't know.

I understand.

No.

Why does that keep you from going back
to teaching?

Because I'm not who I thought I was.

I was living in a dream.

I thought I could handle things just
because of who I was.

But I'll tell you something.

If I had had a gun,

I'd have killed them both.

It was always the other teachers who had
to ask for help.

Mr. Principal, change it for me.

Board of Education, change it for me.
Make it comfortable for me because I'm

really frightened.

And I always used to say it's a given
that it's risky.

I am not going to whine for help.

I always said, if I wake up one day,

and decide that I'm going to cover up my
head because I don't want to get up,

because it's too scary for me, I'm going
to quit.

Because then I'll know my time has come.

Well, my time has come.

I hate this.

But it's the truth.

I know.

That's why I hate it.

300 assaults, teachers carrying guns,
combat pay.

There are 27 ,000 teachers in the
system, but we're only talking here

ones we know have had some trouble.

There are some bright spots. Did you see
my profile on Jenny Davis?

Yeah. She's quite a lady.

She was assaulted after school.

That's terrible.

They get the guy who did it? Yeah. They
got him.

Two kids, age 16 and 17.

How's Jenny?

Depressed, angry, confused.

She wants to quit teaching.

You talked to her?

Yeah, I talked to her.

Didn't do any good.

Been quite a week.

Jenny, Wesley.

And now tomorrow I'm supposed to award
the Matthew Pynchon Memorial Scholarship

before a group of high school kids.

who haven't the slightest reason to
believe me or anything I say to them.

And this year's winner of the Los
Angeles Tribune Scholarship is Victor

Wilson.

A great example for all of us.

I'm not really good at making speeches,
so I'd like to introduce someone to you

who is.

It is now my pleasure to introduce our
honored speaker, the Reverend Jesse

Jackson.

Leader, push to excel.

Today we have the distinct privilege to
share with you in this honest ceremony.

And there are some basic principles that
we need to establish very early.

One of them is that learning is a
personal thing, finally.

You really must want to learn.

You must say to yourself, as a student,
that I can learn. It is possible.

that I ought to learn. It is the moral
thing to do.

It is possible. It is imperative that I
learn.

A teacher ought to say, I can teach.

I ought to teach. I must teach.

And thus we start with a very
attitudinal premise.

And we often say that it is not your
aptitude, but your attitude that

your altitude with a little intestinal
fortitude.

We must live with the consequences of
our decisions.

If we spend three hours a night in front
of a TV being entertained, rather than

three hours a night trying to learn how
to read, write, and think, we will live

with the consequences of that decision.

If we become weak and superficial and
use pill power and cop out rather than

willpower and cope with, we live with
the consequences of that decision.

If we become isolated from the real
world,

rather than insulate it from it because
we're tough on the inside.

It's nothing but a choice.

So repeat this after me. If my mind can
conceive it, and my heart

can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

Because I am somebody.

I am somebody.

Respect me.

Protect me.

Never neglect me.

I am somebody.

I can learn.

It is possible.

I ought to learn.

It is moral.

I must learn.

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I'm hanging in.

Well, that was, um... That was a crazy
thing you did, Wesley. What the hell

you thinking of?

I wasn't thinking at all.

Otherwise, I wouldn't have done it.

Where do you go from here?

Back to work at the bakery.

Making rolls?

No, I've been moved up to cookies and
cakes.

I'll put a few dollars away.

Start junior college in a year or two.

Good. Good.

You handling this okay?

Pretty good so far.

No, I'm supposed to handle things pretty
good, but I don't think this is going

to be too easy.

Those times when it's less easy, you
give me a call or come see me.

No, you got too much on your mind. You
don't need me to add to your caseload.

Hey, you're a good writer.

I don't want you ending up at the Times.

Just cleaning up my things.

You want some help?

I don't care.

It was quite a speech, wasn't it?

Yeah.

Kids seem responsive, don't you think?

Yeah.

It's funny.

I came here today.

Feeling helpless and frustrated and
angry.

Nothing's really changed.

And yet I feel... I don't know.

Hopeful.

That is funny.

I guess...

It's really all a matter of perception.

Didn't you tell me that once?

Lou, I heard that speech too.

It's full of hope, full of commitment,
full of idealism.

That's fine for Jesse Jackson.

But not for Jenny Davis?

Not anymore.

Look, Jenny.

I can't possibly know how you feel or
what you went through.

There's going to be a terrible pain
there that no one else will ever

I wish I could say that I understand.

I wish I could say something, anything,
to make that go away, to make that

better.

I can't.

Hey, it makes me crazy that you're going
to quit. I swear to God, it makes me

sick.

Because you're good, and you've got to
know that.

So good that no one can replace you.

Because if you're not there to tell
these kids how important they are, to

them, to cajole them, to kid them, to
motivate them, to make them reach for

more, then damn it, there won't be
anyone else there to tell it to them

That would be a damn shame.

I thought you weren't any good at making
speeches.

Good luck to you.

Come on, Lou.

Buy you a malt. My treat.

I thought you'd never ask.

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