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Unfortunately, yours is one of them.

Just admitting that helps.

But admitting it isn't enough. You have
to take action. And more than that, you

have to take the right action. And then
you have to continue to take the right

action.

How do you know if it's the right
action?

It works.

And if it doesn't work, you try again.

And again.

Because... Look, no matter how much
experience you have as a parent, no

what all the books say, no matter what
all the experts say, sometimes in spite

of all your informed decisions, in spite
of all your best efforts and all your

love and support, that kid that you love
will still continue down the very path

that you know is leading to trouble.

Because that kid is a person, and every
person has a certain amount of free

will.

Are you saying it's my job to straighten
this kid out?

Or are you saying it's her job to be
responsible for herself?

What I'm saying is, you have to quit
talking to yourself and go home and have

dinner.

When I see their happy faces smiling
back at me, seven

heavens, I know there's no greater
feeling than the love of family.

Where can you go when the world don't
treat

you right? The answer is home.

one place that you'll find seven seven

seven seven seven seven

What's for dinner? Oh, just another
chicken.

Is that okay?

Oh, just another chicken is perfect.

Are you still depressed about Mary?

Yes, I am.

And if I don't figure out where Mary got
the money to pay her bills, I'm going

to stay depressed.

I know. The more I cleaned today, the
nuttier I got. I thought by now the

of Mary's money would be revealed, so I
just kept trying to let it go until that

revelation.

Unfortunately, the more I tried, the
nuttier I got.

I can't let it go. Neither can I. I have
a feeling that wherever that money came

from will give us some huge insight
about Mary.

Or I hope that. But I hope I'm not just
hoping against all hope.

I don't even know when all of this
started.

What's worrying me is where it's all
going to end.

And yet, I'm tired of worrying. I'm
tired of being nuts.

I'm tired of being depressed.

We should lift our moods up, both of us.

Why don't I call the Hamiltons and ask
them over for, you know, coffee and

dessert? We could talk to them. That
always helps. Yes.

Talking will help. Yep.

As well as figuring out where that money
came from.

Can't let it go.

Can't. Just can't.

Is Mary home?

She went out at lunchtime. She hasn't
been back.

Where do you think she goes? I mean, she
can't possibly be looking for a job all

the time.

You'll be happy to know we changed
movies today.

Yeah. Thrilled.

You need some help?

I didn't mean to stay at the library so
long. I didn't realize what time it was.

I'm just so anxious to get my midterm
done.

I thought you had another week.

I do have another week.

I just think I write better when I let
something sit for a couple of days and

then go back for a final polish.

It's like when we finish a house.

Me and my habitat friends just sit there
in awe that we've done it again.

The next day, we go back and add a few
things that make it special.

I just want to do my best work. It's my
senior year.

Thank you.

I forgot to ask. Is Mary home for
dinner?

Oh, I haven't heard from her yet.

Mom, I'm sure she's just out there
looking for a job.

Yeah, are you sure?

I hope. I hope she's just out there
looking for a job.

And not doing what?

I don't know.

And none of you know where she got the
money to catch up with her bills?

The answer is still no.

She said someone owed her a paycheck.

And the new job at the bookstore, what
happened there?

It fell through, I guess. I'm not sure.

I don't know where she got the money,
but I'm pretty sure she didn't rob a

Only pretty sure?

Dad, come on.

I just find it strange that she hasn't
tried to borrow from the Bank of Simon.

Well,

she may have approached me.

And? And I didn't give her any of my
money.

What about you guys?

Papa. Have you loaned your big sister
any money?

What was that?

Ruthie. Did Ruthie loan her any money?

You'd have to ask Ruthie. I'm asking
you.

I'm sorry.

I'm just worried about Mary.

We're all worried about Mary.

Hello? Matt, it's Mom.

How are you?

I'm fine. I was just going out the door.

I've been calling you all week.

Well, I've been working and studying.

And studying and working.

I'm on my way out to study now. I won't
keep you. I just want to ask you a

question.

Last week, it looked like Mary was
behind with all her bills, and then

she had cash.

Did you loan her any money?

Where would I get any money?

Well, you work.

Yes.

I work to pay bills, and I pay my bills.

Do you think Simon loaned her the money?
Simon says he didn't loan her the

money.

Where could she have gotten it?

Could she be telling the truth? Could
someone have owed her a check from work?

I doubt it.

I've already asked her former employers
and no one owed her money.

Well, it's not Matt. It's not Lucy.

Or Simon.

You don't think she ate your dad up for
money, do you?

Dad, are you okay?

I don't know. I forget.

What?

Just a little Alzheimer's joke, honey.
I'm fine.

I just jogged a couple of miles.

Really? Yes, really.

How are you? I'm fine.

You don't sound fine. I can hear it in
your voice.

Is everything okay with Eric and the
kids?

It's Mary, isn't it?

It seems like she suddenly came into
some money. Not a lot of money, but

money to pay her bills. And I was just
wondering if you loaned her any money.

Not that I can remember.

Dad, I'm serious.

Ginger is controlling all the finances,
so don't you worry about my doing

anything crazy like bailing Mary Mary
quite contrary out of whatever debt

in.

You know, I'd love to help her, but not
like that.

Thanks, Dad.

Let me know if there's anything...

No, it wasn't him.

You do realize you hung up on him?

Oh, no. I told you I'm nuts.

Hello. Dad, I'm sorry I hung up on you.
Who is this?

Dad, it's me. It's Annie. I just talked
to you.

Did you?

Dad, yes.

I know.

I know.

I just couldn't resist. If you're going
to have a diagnosis, you might as well

use it for something.

Goodbye. I love you.

Goodbye.

Love you.

I called my dad, too.

She hit him up for money while he was
here, but he didn't give it to her.

You don't think her little buddies
Frankie or Johnny gave it to her, do

they can't afford it. You know what pot
costs these days?

What about John?

That's good.

Hello? I thought you were going to the
library.

I am.

Did you call to check?

No. I want to talk to John.

Well, he's not home. But I'll be happy
to tell him that my mother called.

What? Do you think he could have loaned
Mary the money?

No. Are you sure?

I'm sure John wouldn't do that.

Well, could you just ask him anyway?

I will ask him anyway.

When he gets home.

It wasn't John.

Heather. Maybe it was Heather. No, I
talked to her at class.

She hasn't even heard from Mary.

I want to confess.

I loaned Mary the money.

I gave her $20 and she paid me back.

Mary needed more than $20.

And she would have gone to Ruthie last,
not first.

Which means she did hit up the other
kids.

I did it.

Satisfied? Good job. But this isn't
going to hold them for long. They're

to keep digging until they find out.

We were all stupid to think we could get
away with this.

Calm down.

They're not going to find out.

Have you noticed anything missing from
the house?

No. And I think it's totally creepy to
think that she might steal something

the house.

On the other hand, it's nice to think
that we have anything that's worth any

money.

Uh -huh. How about Hank and Julie? Maybe
they laundered money.

Hello?

Hi, Julie, it's Annie. How are you? I'm
fine. Good to hear from you.

How's Hank?

Oh, Hank is fine.

Just getting ready to have dinner. It's
Annie. Hank says hello.

No, I didn't.

Um, Erica?

Oh, the baby's crying.

Did you guys loan Mary any money?

No. No, no, we didn't. What didn't we
do? We didn't loan Mary any money.

No.

No.

They didn't. I didn't think they did.

Annie?

Did we get cut off? No, no.

You haven't noticed anything valuable
missing from your house, have you?

No, we haven't.

She hung up again?

Are we missing anything valuable?

The only thing we have of value is our
daughter. And I can hear her breathing.

Let's eat.

Has it really come to this?

Interrogating family and friends to find
out where our daughter's getting money?

I tell you, it's making me nuttier than
a fruitcake.

Robbie.

He works. He has a job. He has money.

He loaned her the money.

I don't think so.

Why don't you think so?

Well, I've paid him a visit.

And he's back with his old girlfriend.
And as Robbie says, you've seen my

girlfriend. I want to live.

But he lies. We know he lies.

I hate to say it, but I think he's
telling the truth. And I think that it's

lovely bunch of coconuts here who are
lying.

All of them.

Matt, Lucy, Simon, Ruthie.

Sam and David would jump in if they
could.

You think they're all lying? All of
them? Yes, I do.

But Ruthie just ran in here and
confessed.

That was a smokescreen.

That's what that was.

She's right. They're on to us.

We've only got 24 hours to get the money
back in the bank. Mom always puts it on

the same day every month.

We have to move quickly.

Do you really think they're that
devious?

I think they're that protective.

And they love Mary. They don't want to
see her in any trouble.

I love Mary, too.

As do I. And we don't want to see her in
any trouble.

But truth is, she is in trouble.

And we have to do something about it.

And the question is, what are we going
to do?

And how soon are we going to do it?

Thanks for coming over. Sorry we never
got together this summer. We kept

meeting, too. Hey, we were busy all
summer, too.

So good to see you guys.

How are the kids?

Well, Lynn's doing great. She's
practically a grown woman. She's the

we have.

And Ruthie?

Oh, she's not easy, but she's doing well
in school.

We just transferred her to Eleanor
Roosevelt.

Yeah, she seems to really love school,
and she's challenged by it.

It is such a joy when a kid loves to
learn.

Keisha, she's taking courses at a junior
college while she's finishing up her

requirements for senior year of high
school.

Oh, well, Lucy is determined to make her
senior year the best year ever.

Yeah, she and a friend are, they're
doing like a buddy system for applying

colleges early. She did well on her SAT.
She's got an excellent grade point

average.

And John?

Well, sending him away to college that
first year was the best thing we ever

did. Well, no, we didn't send him away.
He maneuvered that one on his own. Yeah,

yeah, and he slipped up on his own, too.
But he came back with a vengeance. He

made up his mind he wasn't going to fail
again, and he hasn't.

He's been good for Matt, and we're not
really sure that Matt will actually get

into med school, but we love that he's
taken up the challenge and he finally

a goal and a job that he's held for more
than a year.

Who would have thought?

How's Nigel?

Fine.

And Mary?

Oh, yeah, she's... Well, yeah.

She's... Mary?

Hello?

Matt? Luz?

Why did you answer the phone like that?

I keep forgetting I'm picking up the
phone, and every time I do, it's Mom.

What's going on? Why haven't you called
me? You know I couldn't call there.

You could if you used your girly voice.

Really? Really.

No. This is the first opportunity I've
had. Mom and Dad are downstairs with the

Hamiltons. Why are they with the
Hamiltons? I don't know, but they never

company on a school night.

Mom made a cake, a chocolate cake, on a
Monday night.

Whatever they called him for, it's
something big.

Where's Mary?

That's the million -dollar question.

No one knows where she is.

No one ever knows where she is, and
whenever she comes home, she just claims

that she's been out looking for a job.

I thought she'd have a job by now. In
fact, I thought she'd have a paycheck by

now, and I thought she would have put
the money back in the baby banks by now.

At least some of it. Look, I think
they're on to us.

I don't think they know where we got the
money, but I think they're on to us,

and we have to get some cash into those
piggy banks, and we have to do it ASAP.

I don't have any cash, and I'm in the
middle of studying for a test.

Look, I don't have time for this.

I don't have time for this either. I
have a paper to write.

I don't know why we're yelling at each
other when we should be yelling at Mary.

We can't yell at Mary. We can't find
her.

Thank you.

One.

You're going to see that again?

Yeah, it was funny. Do you have a
problem with that?

No, I was just thinking that if you're
planning to see this one every day this

week like the last one, you might want
to give yourself 24 hours between

screenings. Just give me the ticket.

I can't. It's five bucks.

But I just saw it for a buck.

Yeah, that's the day rate. At night,
it's five bucks.

If it's already started, I'm going to
want a refund.

I'll just put some coffee on and then we
can take a peek at the boys.

I hate it. I've been so busy. I haven't
spent any time with those boys.

Doesn't it seem like time speeds up?
They should get older.

I'm so sorry Mary's given you such a
hard time.

Oh, honey.

Well, it helps to talk about it. I feel
better. I really do.

I'm sure you don't want to hear this,
but you know it's the truth.

You shouldn't wait to do something.

Do it now.

I know I've said it to parents myself,
but when it comes to my own kids, it's

just so hard to act because it's so
unbelievable.

My girl, who excelled in school for 12
years and was a champion basketball

player, is falling completely apart.

She may be coming undone, but she's not
undone yet.

Where could she have gotten that money?
I have no idea.

Hey, honey.

Ooh.

Eric!

I think I just found out where Mary got
the money.

You know what? We're going to let
ourselves out.

This has nothing to do with Mary.

I've been taking money out of their
banks for practically their whole lives.

Go on. We're listening.

I was just filling the bank up with rest
so you wouldn't notice it was empty.

I'm going to fill this other one.

I'll pay him back. I promise.

You stole $500 from your own brothers?
From babies? I'm sorry. I'm really

Punish me any way you want.

And just what did you do with the money?

Uh, I bought a horse.

What's going on? What does it look like?

Your ten -year -old sister's lying about
stealing money so the four of you can

cover up for Mary.

Is that it?

Is that the truth?

No, you're wrong. I took it.

I'm very bad. I'm a very bad girl.

No, you're not, Ruthie. I'm a very bad
big brother for letting this happen.

Mary asked us all for money.

No one had as much as she needed, so we
took it from Sam and David's banks.

Gave it to her. She was supposed to get
a job this week and start paying it

back. She's broke.

They went and took her car, they
canceled her insurance, and we felt

her.

Go downstairs and take a seat in the
living room.

We'll be down in a minute.

pathetic. Really pathetic.

What are we going to do?

We're going to talk to our children.

We're going to ask them what they know
and how they feel.

And then we're all going to confront
Mary when she comes home.

And then?

I don't know.

But I have an idea.

I heard a car.

Why

is

everyone in the living room?

We're waiting on you.

Sit down. We all have something to say
to you. And what if I don't want to sit

down?

What is this? One of your creepy
interventions?

No.

No. It's a...

Not an intervention. In fact, we may be
inventing something new here.

It's kind of a... prevention.

We just want you to hear what we have to
say.

No, I'm going to my room.

Mary, if you go to your room, we're all
going to your room.

Because we all feel that you're too
close to getting into some real trouble

not to hear us out.

We're your family. We love you.

Buck, if this is about the money... Sit
down.

I was taught that life is a school and
some lessons are harder than others.

What I've learned over this past year is
that you aren't as strong and

determined to succeed at this school of
life as I thought and so I haven't given

you as much help as I now realize you
need.

I talked to the manager of the pool hall
and you must have known I would. You

told me that you quit.

He told me that you were consistently
late, had a bad attitude and were on the

phone too much so he had to let you go.

I talked to Pete at Pete's Pizza.

You told me business fell off and he had
to let you go. He told me that he let

you go because he knew you were hanging
out after work with Frankie and Johnny,

drinking beer with them. He was afraid
they were a bad influence on you and he

was worried about your drinking and then
driving home.

Oh, please.

I talked to Sergeant Michaels.

He told me that you were pulled over for
not stopping at a stop sign and he said

that the officer who issued you that
warning ticket

was worried that you'd been drinking.

He was afraid he hadn't done you any
favor.

I'm afraid he didn't do you any favor
either.

None of us has.

I don't know.

We just kept looking the other way
because I don't think we wanted to see

truth.

And the truth is, Mary, that we just
love you so much.

You're a wonderful young woman, and you
have a lot to offer to the world.

You're really special.

You're really kind.

And I love the way you just love life.

But again, life has some hard lessons to
learn. And I think I'd rather confront

you tonight than continue to let you
learn those lessons on your own.

Now, I know that you know your two new
friends, Frankie and Johnny, smoke pot

and drink, and that they're
irresponsible.

Do you also know that he hits her?

They have serious problems.

And we don't want their serious problems
to become your serious problems.

I'm sure you haven't forgotten that
you're still on probation.

If you get arrested for drunk driving or
possession of marijuana, you could go

to jail.

I can't let you go to jail, Mary.

I can't.

Especially not because you're just mixed
up about what you want to do in life.

You know, I thought if we gave you some
time to figure that out, maybe you

would. But I'm afraid time's up.

I think in trying to find yourself,
you've actually lost yourself.

You're not the first person that's had
that happen, but before you get too lost

and confused, we want to help.

I was hoping that you would ask for our
help, but maybe that's just too hard for

you to do right now.

You must know how much I love you, Mary.

I really do.

I love you.

I'm sorry I haven't been around much.

You're important to me.

What happens to you is important to me.
What happens to you is important to

everyone in the family.

But I've been watching you, and I really
haven't been interested in being a part

of what's going on in your life.

So I've pretty much avoided you, and
maybe I should have cornered you and

you my take on what you're doing a lot
sooner.

I see so many young women who are
losers, mostly in the emergency room or

checking into drug rehab at the
hospital.

I don't want you to be a loser.

It's too easy to be the bad girl. You're
better than that.

I know I'm not perfect.

I know I don't have all the answers, but
I can tell you this.

The most powerful thing I ever did for
myself was to make up my mind to become

responsible person.

And I still haven't built up to being
responsible 24 hours a day, but I'm

getting better at it.

And I'm hoping sharing this with you
will help you to just make up your mind

become a responsible person.

If you can't do it for yourself, maybe
you could consider the rest of us and

much we need you to be responsible.

Whatever you do affects us all. I know
you know that, yet you act like you

care.

All of us have to strive to be the best
we can be.

Not because anything less is
unacceptable, but because anything less

misery.

I can see you're miserable.

You are.

This is not the best you can be. You can
do better.

I want you to do better. I'll do
anything I can to help you do better.

You just have to make up your mind
that's what you want to do, and I'm

you. We all are.

We love you.

I love you.

I love you, too.

This is hard.

Okay, I want to do this.

You're my big sister.

I might look up to you.

Or I did.

You've always been better at school than
I am. You've always been better at

everything than I am.

And that at times has made me feel
inferior.

Yet most of the time, it's given me
something to work toward.

Because I wanted to be like you.

But I don't want to be like you anymore.

And I can only say that because I know
that you don't want to be like you.

You don't want to get fired from one bad
job after another.

You don't want to lie to Mom and Dad and
the rest of us.

You don't want to have bill collectors
calling trying to find you.

That's not you.

You're that tall, beautiful, smart woman
with a basketball in her hands and a

brain in her head.

I know you don't play basketball
anymore, but maybe you could, or maybe

could play some other sport.

Because... It seems that when the team
went down, you went down with it.

Basketball has always been your
identity.

And maybe having the team fall apart may
have caused you to lose your identity

for a while, but come on.

You're more than a former high school
basketball player. You're an athlete.

And that's an identity you can use your
whole life.

You need to compete. You need to be
physical.

You need the discipline of training. You
thrive on all that stuff.

No one's locking you out of every sport
in the community.

You have to get back out there, and I'm
willing to help you in any way I can.

But I think this is something you have
to do on your own.

You can do it. You've come from behind
to win before.

And you've still got what it takes to be
a winner.

If that's what you want, I mean.

Okay, I think that's all I wanted to
say.

Wait.

I did say I love you, didn't I?

I know I'm known as the Bank of Simon,
and you all laugh at that, but...

Here's what I like about money.

It tells you right who you are in
numbers.

Not words that can hurt your feelings or
make you mad.

Numbers are undisputed facts.

And the fact is, your numbers say
trouble.

It's simple. You don't make as much as
you spend.

and you don't make enough to meet your
obligations.

You'd see that if you looked at the
numbers.

But I know you don't like to do that.

But you have to.

I can help you set up a budget and a
payment schedule if you want, but even

you don't want, take my advice.

Don't spend anything else until you pay
off your debt, and then don't get into

debt again.

And the first thing you have to pay off
is your personal debt.

The money you owe Sam and David.

Now, I know a lot of people would put
that off to last, and maybe a

finance guy would tell you to pay your
institutional lenders first.

But I'm your brother.

And I'm telling you that morally the
right thing to do is to pay people

especially relatives.

And when you see that little column of
debt Mark, Sam, and David reaches zero

balance, that zero is going to say right
who you are, just like I said.

It's going to say that you, Mary Camden,
care more about your family than

anything else.

It's going to say that you keep your
promises to your family more than anyone

else. And when you start seeing the rest
of those little columns of debt go down

week after week, the page is going to
tell the facts of your debt recovery.

a beautiful thing.

And I want you to have a beautiful
thing.

Because I love you.

I must be at the wrong meeting.

I don't know where all this chummy
advice and gushy stuff is coming from.

Because I thought we were off to tell
you how mad we are. I'm mad.

Really mad.

Selfish. You don't care anything about
the rest of us.

So I don't know why we're all supposed
to care so much about you.

You act like you're the center of the
entire Camden universe.

I'm tired of eating a cold dinner every
night because we're all hoping you'll

come home and eat with us. I'm tired of
you waking me up every night when you

clump up those stairs.

I'm tired of Mom and Dad fighting about
you.

I'm tired of covering for you.

And I'm not doing it anymore.

You made me lie to Mom and Dad.

You never came home to have pizza with
me like you promised.

All you care about is you.

Matt.

Lucy. Simon.

Would you go upstairs with Ruthie?

I can't take much more of it.

Yeah, that's exactly how your father and
I feel.

Look, I get it, all right?

I'll do better.

No, Mary, I don't think you do get it.

See, that was the portion of the program
I would rate G for general audiences.

Now we're moving on to the adult stuff
that your mother and I wanted to talk

about with you alone.

I searched your room, found this.

Okay, so you found a joint, but it
hasn't been lit. I haven't smoked any of

But why else would you have it except to
smoke it?

And where'd you get it?

From Frankie and Johnny? You're not
supposed to be hanging out with Frankie

Johnny. And how long have you had it?

Too many questions? Too fast? Can't
think of a lie?

How about Frankie must have borrowed
your jacket and left it in there. But

when? Life gets so complicated when you
don't tell the truth.

I can't believe you searched my room.

Are you communists? I have rights, you
know. I guess I just can't explain this

often enough.

A right is something that can never be
taken away from you.

For example, you have the right to be
indignant now, and I can't take that

But privacy, well, privacy is a
privilege when you live with your

And privileges get taken away.

Now, we knew you were headed for
trouble.

But we had no idea that you were this
far down the road.

I'm not in trouble.

It depends on your definition of
trouble, I suppose.

When Hank and Julie told us about your
babysitting fiasco, they told us you had

your friend's baby at their house and
there was a beer sitting on the table. I

don't know. That sounds like trouble.

I think having a joint is trouble.

Have you tried smoking marijuana?

Well, even if I did, what is so wrong
with just experimenting?

I mean, what's the harm in just trying
it?

Everyone is going to try it sometime.

First of all, not everyone.

For example, not me. And secondly, let
me see if I can answer the what's the

harm question.

I suppose for some people, nothing ever
comes to the fact that they tried

smoking pot.

But for other people, plenty.

comes from the fact that they tried
smoking pot.

Lifelong illegal habit.

The need to try other harder drugs.
Addiction to those drugs.

Arrest. Conviction.

Jail time. Those kinds of things.

The question really is, to which people
do you belong?

There's no way of knowing.

But experimenting to find out... That's
quite a risk, don't you think?

I think it is.

especially for someone who's on
probation.

Mary, we've given this a lot of thought.

We see that you don't know what to do
for yourself, and we're not surprised.

It took us a long time to come up with a
plan ourselves.

A plan?

I know that the colonel offered to help
you, and you turned him down. We have

decided to accept. What are you talking
about?

We're talking about Winter in Buffalo.
That's what we're talking about.

Your grandparents are finding that
George's real father has taken up a lot

his time and they now have enough free
time to focus on you. What?

I don't know if you've noticed lately,
but you have six brothers and sisters.

You've gotten more than our fair share
of attention and energy. We have to do

what's best for everyone.

So what is best for everybody is to ship
me off to Siberia to live with old

people? Yep, that's basically it.

You'll live with your grandparents.

George will move into the guest house
with his dad for the time being.

You'll work at the community center for
the homeless with your first couple of

paychecks going to Sam and David.

Then starting in January, you and
Grandma Ruth will take a course together

the community college there.

Okay. What are my other choices?

You don't have any other choices.

We're taking you to the airport. You're
catching the red -eye to New York

tonight. What about my car?

As of today, the car's in my name.

We'll keep making the payments until...

We decide to do something else.

And what am I going to drive in Buffalo?

It really is the least of my worries.

Once he feels he can trust you, I'm sure
the colonel will make you a deal on

driving his Impala.

It's a classic.

Yeah, and what if I say no?

What if I don't want to do this? What if
I am not going to do this?

You tell us.

You come up with a better plan before
it's time to leave for the airport, and

we'll consider it.

I put two suitcases in your room.

We're pulling out of the driveway at
nine.

I thought I told you to stay out of
here.

Look, I'm going to be out soon enough,
and then you can have the whole place to

yourself.

Please don't leave like this.

How did you think I was going to leave?

I am being sent off to live with the
Colonel and Grandma Ruth in Buffalo.

You know what Buffalo is like and you
know what they're like.

What made you think I was going to be
happy, huh?

What? I didn't know anything about it,
okay?

And maybe Mom and Dad are more concerned
with your safety than your happiness.

Get out!

Is that how you're going to say goodbye?

Yeah.

This is how I'm going to say goodbye.

And you can tell the rest of them to
stay out of here because I don't want to

talk to any of you!

Mary's really, really angry at us.

I know, and I don't care. I'd rather
have an angry kid than a dead kid.

Just tell me that we're doing the right
thing again.

We're doing the right thing.

She needs to be somewhere safe. She'll
be somewhere safe. The Colonel and Ruth

can provide a safe environment.

And we can't?

Evidently, we live close to her new
friends, and her friends work in our

community, so it's not that safe around
here.

Besides, sometimes it's easier to start
fresh in a new place, and it's not

really Siberia, you know.

I mean, they have a beautiful home with
a security system.

George's dad was in the CIA, so he's
probably much better at espionage than

are.

She loved going there as a kid.

But should we really push our problems
off on someone else? Shouldn't we try to

do this ourselves?

Do what?

What are we going to try that we haven't
already tried? I don't know, but there

must be something.

Maybe, but... I feel like a surgeon
who's been asked to invent a life

surgery for his own daughter.

You know, it's best if someone more
objective gives it a shot.

My dad is really great at working with
undisciplined kids who need a stern,

loving force in their lives.

Despite the fact that Mary is his own
granddaughter, believe me, he can be a

more objective than either one of us.

I know. I just needed to hear you say
all of this again, and you may have to

it one more time as we drive away from
the airport.

I'll say it as many times as you need to
hear it.

I really do think that this is the best
thing for Mary, and...

for our family right now. And I feel
very fortunate that my parents are

to do this.

Mom feels it'll be good for them too.

They've been kind of winning themselves
off George because George and his dad

are doing so well and the Colonel and
Ruth are feeling a little less needed

right now.

Well, they won't be feeling that way for
long.

I'll meet you at the car.

Mary wouldn't just leave without saying
goodbye to her brothers and sisters,

would she?

Don't be surprised if she gets on the
plane without even saying goodbye to us.

I hate this.

I have to say I don't.

I feel relieved that we're doing
something.

And it's the right thing, Annie.

In my heart of hearts, I know this is
the right thing.

Then I'm with you.

Okay.

Let's go.

She's a real piece of work. I can't
believe she didn't say goodbye.

We should be back in about an hour.

Ruthie, you should go to bed. I'll come
in and check on you when we get home.

Good luck.

Yeah, good luck.

I'll stick around until you get back.

A real piece of work.

It feels so weird.

It's like there's this big empty space
in the house and she's not even gone

She might not have said goodbye, but
she's gone.

It's hard to believe.

Really sad.

Who wants cake?

You

were

right.

I didn't know how to get myself out of
trouble.

I actually tried praying for some way to
get out of the mess I was in.

If this is the answer to my prayers,
then I'm never praying about anything

again.

Oh,

don't blame your father.

He didn't do this alone. I did it too.

Forget it. I know it was his idea.

Time to go.

I love you.

Just remember what you always said. It's
better to have an angry kid than a dead

kid. This is the right thing to do.

I know you know in your heart of hearts.

This is the right thing to do.