All language subtitles for family_ties_s05e23_my_name_is_alex_2

I bet we've been together for a million
years.

And I bet we'll be together for a
million more.

Oh, it's like I started breathing on the
night we kissed.

And I can't remember what I ever did
before.

What would we do, baby?

What would we do, baby, without us?

And there ain't no nothing we can't love
each other through.

What would we do, baby, without us?

Sha -la -la -la.

What's heaven like?

No matter what you eat, you can't gain
weight.

Answer the question, Alex. Is it hard to
be you? You know the answer.

Of course it's hard.

They have these great stores there,
Alex. They open at 9 in the morning and

open until infinity.

And Alex?

Alex one size fits all.

Why is it so hard to be you?

You know.

Say it.

Because.

Yeah, because?

Because I'm better.

And smarter.

I'll bet Alex knows the answer.

Don't do that to me, Mrs. Leahy.

It's all so simple, Alex, and it's all
so pretty.

Why do you worry so much?

Alex, tell the class what Christopher
Columbus was really trying to do when he

discovered America.

Why do you set me apart from the other
kids like that?

It makes me so uncomfortable.

They're all looking at me.

They're all jealous.

They don't want to play with me at
recess.

It's the price you have to pay, Alex,
because you're special.

But I'm just a little boy.

Class, pay attention to Alex.

God, I hate it when she did that. She'd
call on me in that old maid teacher's

voice. Alex, no. Alex, no. Alex, no.

I was seven years old.

You don't put that kind of pressure on a
kid that age.

I knew I had to be ready because she was
counting on me, pushing me.

Alex, please tell the class.

Columbus was really trying to find a
fast, direct route to the Indies, Mrs.

Leahy. He was looking for spices, but he
found a new world.

It was just an accident.

It was an accident!

He should not have been in that car
alone.

I should have been with him.

Maybe you would have gone more slowly.

Maybe I would have seen the other car.

It was an accident.

There aren't any accidents, Alex.

Everything happens the way it's supposed
to happen. We've all been here before.

Mallory's really getting on my nerves,
Dad.

I mean, why did you have to have another
kid?

We were doing so well, just the three of
us.

Well, when you get older, you'll
appreciate her more.

Doubt it.

Come on, you want to have a little
catch?

Oh, no, I don't... Dad, I'm not very
good at it.

Well, you can't expect to learn it all
in one day.

I learned algebra all in one day.

Well, I know.

But now you're starting school, you have
to learn how to play catch.

Okay. Okay, good.

Look, I can get some tickets to the
Indians game on Saturday if you want to

Ah, the Indians?

I don't like the Indians that much.

How can you not like the Indians?
They're in first place.

Not financially.

In terms of cash flow, the Orioles are
the team to beat this year.

The Orioles are 15 games out.

What does that have to do with anything?

Their TV revenues are up 15%.

Ticket prices up 7%. These guys are
doing great.

They keep this up, they can buy the
Indians.

It's a whole new perspective on our
national pastime.

Oh, come on, let's have a little catch.
Remember how I showed you? Now just put

your hands together.

Make a cup.

Yeah, good boy.

Oops, I'm sorry, Dad. Oh, no, no, it's
okay.

You're trying. That's all that counts.

He was... He was always supportive like
that.

Just do it.

Just try. Just have fun.

That's all that matters.

You have trouble with that attitude?

I don't know.

It's a little naive, isn't it?

I don't know.

There are winners and there are losers
in life, and there's no getting around

that.

So, you think your father's a weak man,
then?

No. But you just said... Let me finish.

Sorry.

I used to think that way.

I'm embarrassed by it now.

That I could be so blind to his
strength.

He has great love, my father.

Not just for his family, but for life.

He doesn't have to make you wrong for
him to be right. He doesn't have to make

you a loser to be a winner himself.

I wish I was more like my father.

Oh, Dad, another sister.

How could you do this to me?

Alex, some of these things are not
controllable, you know?

I know, but you should have consulted
with me first.

Alex, she's a beautiful little girl, and
we love her.

You will, too.

All right.

What's this one's name?

Jennifer.

You got a minute?

Sure.

What are you reading?

Kierkegaard, internal development of man
and dynamic representational

expression.

Yeah, well, that's okay for fun.

But later, try to get into something a
little more serious, okay?

I promise.

Do you ever think about it, Jen?

Life, death, infinity?

Well, sometimes I do.

But sometimes I just want tickets to a
Van Halen concert.

Interesting kid, Jen.

It's the only teenager I know who can
combine Soren Kierkegaard and Eddie Van

Halen in her life.

It's funny to be back here in her room.

There's a certain perfumey smell.

It was her birthday.

She was two.

And I didn't know what to get her, so I
got her perfume.

Because I figured, you know, girls like
that.

And it was on sale.

And she spilled it all over her crib. So
now whenever I smell very, very cheap

perfume, I think of Jan.

It's a strange thing about memories.

Sometimes they can be more real than
what we think of as reality.

The smell of wet wool mittens on a
radiator.

That is the smell of Mrs. Leahy's class
in winter forever.

Hey, those are my mittens.

Are you sure? They look a little bit
like mine.

Your mittens have dollar signs crocheted
in the palm?

Sorry, I didn't notice that.

Hey, you're the new kid, right? Yeah,
I'm Greg McCormick.

Hello, my name is Eric. I know who you
are. You're Alex Keaton, the kid who

knows everything.

Who told you that? Didn't Mr. Leahy say
that?

No, the other kids were saying it.

They say it's great here. All you have
to do is just keep quiet. Sooner or

later, Keaton rattles off the answer.

How come you know so much?

I take some night classes.

Ohio State.

Well, I'll see you around. I'm going to
go out and play for recess.

I'm sorry about the mittens.

Hey, do you want to come out and play?

Me?

Yeah, you. You know how to play, don't
you?

Well, I normally stay inside at recess
and help Mr. Leahy prepare tomorrow's

assignments.

Come on, there's a snowball fight going
on. You know how to make a good

snowball?

No. See, you don't know everything.

Let's go.

Don't know everything. Don't know
anything.

Whatever it is that I base my life upon
is falling out from underneath me.

Do you believe in God, Alex?

I don't want to talk to my dad, okay?

I'm sorry.

Go on.

You know what's bothering me?

I mean, really, really bothering me?
Something that I'm having a very

time getting past.

What's that?

I'm paying... you for this

i'm

paying you to sit there and listen to me
i'm paying a guy from grant college

to sit and listen to my life story and
give me advice grant college the school

that gives a course in opening umbrellas
i got an a in that

All right, look, this is pointless. I'm
not getting any answers. I'm not getting

any advice.

I'm just sitting here doing all the
talking, and you're just pulling it out

me. How do you feel about that?

How do you feel about that?

I asked you first.

You're really getting on my nerves.

What is it you want, Alex?

What is it you're looking for?

I just want to feel the way I felt when
I was a little boy.

That feeling of security, that feeling
of safety.

Coming home to my house on a cold, rainy
night, I see the light on in the

kitchen window, and I knew there was no
place else I wanted to be.

The colder I got and the wetter I got,
the more I enjoyed it, because I knew in

two minutes I was going to be in that
kitchen.

Safe and warm.

You know Hemingway's story, A Clean,
Well -Lighted Place?

I can't say I'm familiar with that, no.

That's right, I forgot you went to Grant
College.

All right, okay, let me put it in terms
that you can understand, okay?

You remember when Batman wanted to get
away from it all? Did he go down to the

Batcave?

Uh -huh, yeah.

That was the feeling, walking into that
kitchen. I mean, walking in there was

like walking into a hug.

I'll tell you a little secret.

Sometimes I'd fake a little cough, a
little sneeze, a little

sniffle, just to get a little extra
attention.

Hey, who did it hurt?

That's you.

That's you.

You all right, honey?

Oh, I'm fine, Bobby. I just got a little
cold.

You come on in here. I got your blanket
ready for you. Oh, Bobby, stop. Don't go

to all this trouble.

It's no trouble.

You just sit here.

I'm going to make you some hot
chocolate.

hot chocolate.

One more sneeze, I get whipped cream.

Alex,

are you

just faking being sick again?

You're just jealous, Mal, because you
can't pull it off.

See, I know how to do these things
collectively.

A little cough, a little sniffle.

You come in and say, I've got malaria.

Can I have some hot chocolate?

Thank you, Bobby. I'm feeling much
better now.

Would you like some cookies?

Oh, Bobby, stop it, okay?

You're spoiling me.

What kind?

I'm your mommy. I can spoil you if I
like.

Chocolate chip?

Butterscotch.

Did you have a good day at kindergarten
today?

I was okay.

We made pictures.

This is beautiful.

This is the nicest picture you've ever
given me.

Thank you, Mommy.

I was thinking about you when I bought
it.

You bought it?

Uh -huh.

Roger Zimmerman.

He's the most talented artist in our
class.

Nothing's too good for my mommy.

Oh, Mommy, Bobby, Bobby, can we sing
this song?

Where is Thumpkin? Where is Thumpkin?
Here I am.

Here I am.

How are you this morning?

Very well, I thank you. Run and hide.

Run and hide.

Where is Thumpkin?

That was the sweetest taste of hot
chocolate I ever had in my life.

I'm never going to feel that safe again.

Not protected.

Hey, Alex.

Hi, Nick.

What are you doing here?

What do you mean, what am I doing here?

These are all the people in your life,
right?

I'm in your life.

Nick, I'm paying this guy by the hour.

Okay? I don't want to use up any of my
time talking to you.

You think you got nothing to learn from
me, Alex?

Huh? You don't think I ain't got nothing
to teach you?

No, Nick.

I don't think you ain't got nothing to
teach me.

Alex! What kind of grammar is that?

Sorry, Mrs. Leahy.

You're trying to make a point here.

Come on, go away, will you, okay? You're
getting me into trouble. Hey, hey, hey.

You are just afraid of this side of me
and you.

There is no side of you and me, Nick.

Sure there is.

Born to be wild.

Born to be wild.

Alex, can you come in?

Just studying, Mom.

Fabulous report card, Alex. Oh, thanks,
Dad. Listen to what your teacher wrote

in your paper.

Alex knows more about economics than
most people in America.

I'm assuming this paper deserves an A. I
don't fully understand it.

We're very proud of you, son.

Very proud.

I didn't know you liked rock music,
Alex.

I don't like rock music, Melanie.

I heard you playing rock music last
night.

Deppenwolf and Jim Morrison and the
Doors.

Greg likes Jim Morrison in the doors,
not me.

Okay, don't forget to bring my homework,
okay? Don't I always?

Hey, hey, hey, my dad said he might get
tickets for us to the Indians game on

Sunday. Your dad is the greatest. Can he
get a ticket for my brother, too?

Wait, don't go.

Huh?

Don't go.

Okay, don't walk out that door. Don't
go. I gotta go. My mom made supper.

No, no, don't leave, okay? Don't leave.
Just stay here in this room with me

forever. Alex, this is so sudden.

Just listen to me, okay?

Okay? Because I can't bear to see you
go.

Alex, two 14 -year -old guys should be
able to say goodbye without crying.

No, you're not 14.

I'm not.

No, well, you are now.

You are now.

But in a blink, you're going to be 21
like me.

You're 21.

And you're going to walk out the front
door to this house, and you're going to

get killed in a car accident.

Alex, a simple have a nice day will do.

Don't go.

Don't go.

It's not fair.

It's not fair.

Craig should not be dead.

He never hurt anybody.

Why?

Why?

Don't worry about it, Alex.

Hey. I'm just a kid.

You're special.

Keep trying.

Play fair.

We're proud of you, honey.

Lie down. Take a nap.

Why are you crying, Alex? Are you going
to owie?

Yeah. Yeah, sort of.

Want me to kiss it to make it better?

I sure do.

Pretty soon, okay? Pretty soon. I just
have a few loose ends to tie up.

I'm going to go home and get some more
chocolate.

That's me.

17 years ago.

It just makes me think how much I've
been through in my life already and

what it's all meant.

I don't mean I don't want to die young.

I don't want to die middle -aged.

I don't want to die old.

I don't want to die.

Ever. Do you believe in God, Alex?

That's what this all comes down to,
right?

Doesn't it?

That's what I'm trying to figure out
here.

Because... Because if there is a God,
then somehow this all

makes sense. I mean, there's got to be a
reason.

Some master plan in which Greg's dying
and my living makes sense. What do you

think?

The analytical side of me says no.

On a straight cost efficiency basis.

can't prove it there's no annual report
there's no pictures of the board of

directors i mean recent ones

and and

and there's a lot of things that just
cannot be accounted for

but then there are these miraculous

things

phenomena of nature like uh like
mountains and oceans and

skippy getting dressed by himself and
and and you gotta think that somebody's

helping out with that the answer is yes

i do believe in god

Not a mean, not a mean, angry God.

Like the God you see on TV.

You know, the preachers and always
asking you to send them money.

And not a groovy God.

Like Mallory's God.

Matching sweatpants and headband.

And not a God like Brother Timothy's God
either. Because I just... I can't

believe that God meant me to stay away
from girls.

If he did, he wouldn't have made me so
cute.

I think God is gentle.

And forgiving.

And not one special form, you know?

One day he's a dolphin.

Next day, he's trading shares on Wall
Street.

It'd be funny if one day he got mixed up
and went to Wall Street as a dolphin.

You surprised me, Alex. I didn't think
you really would believe a bottom -line

guy like yourself.

Yeah, well, well, part of me is a little
nervous about it.

I mean, I like to know what I know.

See it.

Be able to prove it on a test. To know
it, to learn it, and be done. And I just

got a feeling they'd keep getting tested
on this one.

So what do you do now?

Craig's dead.

And I'm alive.

And I can't change that.

But I can keep his memory alive.

I can take his sense of humor and his

energy and his warmth and I can make it
my own.

I can be the best Alex Keaton that I can
be. And I can use the gifts that I've

been given.

And I can take time to appreciate the
beauty in this life.

And I can... I can be gentle.

And I can be...

a lot of money.

Because, well, I'm sure God wants me to.

Because if he didn't, he wouldn't have
made me so smart.

I want to talk a little bit more.

Do we still have time? Yeah, sure. Sit
down. All right.

Okay. I got so much in my head now, I
don't know where to start.

Start from the beginning.

My name is Alex Keaton.

Sit, Ubu, sit.

Good dog.