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Welcome to varsity, Chet.

Student, they killed you. Doctor, lawyer, musician, artist, they killed

They killed you if you could read, if you wore glasses.

Why didn't people just take off their glasses and hide them?

That's what I would have done.

And you might have gotten away with it.

But many people were betrayed by colleagues, by neighbors, sometimes even

family. Students turned in their teachers.

Mr. Walker?

Yes, Heather?

The Khmer Rouge were Cambodians too?

That's correct.

That's it. Thank you. Could you get the blinds, please?

The Khmer Rouge were a communist faction that grew in size and power during the

Vietnam War.

When they first marched through Phnom Penh, they were greeted with tears.

People believed that they were their liberators. But if they were Cambodians,

too, why did they kill their own people?

That's a good question, Heather.

with a very complicated answer. What's so complicated about right and wrong?

That is exactly the question that we are going to try and answer this semester.

Please do not forget your fall reading list on your way out. If you have any

questions or problems, my office hours are posted on your curriculum sheets.

Please feel free to stop by.

complicated about right and wrong.

She'd fix me a dinner of sunflower

seeds.

And ready whipped toppings, inhalers.

And take me down south, hauling oats in her mouth.

My first love, my Joan Jett.

And my black heart was heavy.

But her mom's cougar was fast. As little pink

houses were whistled.

And it was all you can eat at the Sizzler

that night.

My steak burnin' John Jack.

And the shopping mall and roller rooms all dim their lights.

Decatur and cricket were silent.

The train tracks like stitches getting bicycle tires.

As I slipped in my Joan Jett of heart.

As I slept in my Joan Jett of arms

The more I sweat, the wetter I get, the wetter I get, the better I sweat. I bet

you've never met a better sweater yet. Emily Dickinson?

What'll it be, folks?

Folks? What flavors have you got today?

French vanilla, mocha chip, peanut butter dream, coconut. No fair looking.

Coconut cream, mint chip, coffee fudge, hazelnut, green tea, ginger, rocky road,

mango, chocolate.

Mango. Is it a real mango?

What do you mean by real?

I mean, do you make it here?

I don't make anything. I just scoop it.

I'll take a single scoop of mango, please.

There you go.

Oh, thank you.

Just a glass of water, please.

Air conditioner died.

Why are you wearing a sweatshirt?

I don't know.

I should probably take it off. You should take it off.

Oh,

come on. Come on. Don't worry.

What? She always does this. I do.

Can I get another coffee?

Yeah. Yeah.

We went there on our honeymoon.

I went mad for mangoes. You're still talking about her in Phnom Penh? Phnom

is the capital of Cambodia since the 15th century.

Oh, we studied Southeast Asia last year.

I like history.

I teach history.

Cool. The Royce Academy.

It's a private girls' school. Dave's a very gifted teacher. Well, you are. He

is.

There you go. Oh, you didn't have to... On the house.

Oh, thank you.

Check. Just made a friend for life.

Mr.

Walker? Yeah.

I saw on TV that we won't support a ban on landmines, and that article you gave

us says that in Cambodia, every single day, someone, like, steps on a landmine

and it gets their legs blown off, you know, like farmers and children.

That makes America a bad country, doesn't it?

Well, you can't categorize a country or its people as simply good or bad.

They're contexts and circumstances.

You sympathize with the Cambodian people, right?

Of course I do.

They're good people?

They're so poor they hardly have anything.

Most of the Khmer Rouge soldiers were, in fact, Cambodian peasants.

who joined up out of necessity.

And they were uneducated, hungry, afraid.

How can anyone know what they do if someone held a gun to their head?

Mr. Walker?

Yeah.

Is your wife pretty?

Elaine, straighten that leg you're standing on.

All right?

Don't sink in at the hip. Lift up. Up.

Up.

Good.

Come on.

Come on. One more time. Let's start it.

Come on, Ego.

You got it, Grant?

Yeah. What is that?

You're breaking all the records.

Keep it up, buddy.

Come on, Ego.

I'm waiting, I'm waiting.

Where you at, bro? Where you going?

Gotta go to work.

I'm going to swoon from the heat if I don't have some ice cream immediately.

Hey, Dave.

Hey.

Elaine. At least I was Elaine before the heat sucked all the moisture from my

body.

You think I'm a mad old lady.

No. No.

Admit it. I look ancient to you. No, I think you look... Yes.

Guess what? My age.

Oh. I don't know. I'm not really good. No, come on. Okay.

If you're wrong, our cones are free, and I'm going to give you a two -year

handicap. It'll be fun.

Take your time.

I mean, 30?

Start scooping. I told you I wasn't good at ages.

I'm 27.

Yeah, I suppose there's not much difference between 27 and 30 in the eyes

kid, right?

I'm not a kid.

I'm 16.

Oh.

Almost 16.

A double coconut and mango. I'll have a peach, please.

I'm 28.

Jess.

Well, leave it to me. I don't want to drip all over the car.

Okay.

Good. Thank you.

That's okay. You sure?

Yeah.

Thank you.

So you guys are going out tonight?

Yes, my beautiful...

Weird wife is taking me to the city this evening. Our friends are singing at a

club. Cool.

Do you like the city, Chad?

I don't know. I've never been.

Really? In your life?

Elaine has a great singing voice.

She had one of the best voices at NYU.

I did not. Are you going to sing tonight?

No, no. I've given all that up.

Why?

Well, because she's a very successful businesswoman now. She's an event

Cool. What's that?

I, um... She plans events. I plan things.

Geraldo and Oprah and Uma and Dave and Godzilla

all out dancing at a rave.

Dave gave a vitamin to Oprah that day, then...

And then all the lights in the auditorium came up and everyone started

Go again.

Thanks, guys.

. .

.

Chet told me the oddest thing.

Did you know that human beings are the only mammals that can't simultaneously

drink and breathe at the same time? That's redundant.

Drinking and breathing?

Simultaneously and at the same time.

I invited him for dinner tomorrow night.

You don't have any plans.

I feel sorry for him.

His mother just picked up and left when he was 12.

Jesus. His father works nights. He's hardly ever home.

Brothers and sisters?

It's practically an ocean.

You want to go down there?

It's helping me design a menu for that space conference.

You know, the scientist obsessed with the Mars colony.

Oh.

Chet knows all about space, food, all those weird subjects.

Right. You're going to be our guinea pig.

Why don't we invite some friends and have a party?

You know no one will come out from the city on a Saturday night.

We only had a pool.

Oh, God, am I that predictable?

We could have a child of our own, you know.

David.

A few more years.

Thank you.

Thank you. Oh, they're beautiful.

Oh, could you go to the store with David? I forgot the red peppers, then.

Yeah, yeah, sure.

Um, come in, come in.

David, can you find something more comfortable for Chet to put on?

Stong Trang, Cambodia.

G? G.

Watch out.

G, G, G.

Gravata. Spain.

Look over your right shoulder. You reverse.

Appalachian National Park. K.

Kawasaki. Motorcycle?

That's a place, too. I'm just testing you.

All right.

Right shoulder.

Ithaca, Greece, and upstate New York. That's double points. You can't do that.

What?

Can't filter.

I won.

Barely. Best of three.

I don't think so.

Organic, healthy, and can be hydroponically grown. It's got

menu.

Eat me, please. Eat me.

Thank you.

Hey,

Chet says that on Mars they'll grow their produce in human waste.

Oh, purified.

I mean, everything has to be purified. It'll take spaceships at least six

to get there.

Imagine the jet lag.

Our flight to Cambodia was bad enough. But you have to go to Cambodia.

Oh, right.

I'd like to.

Remember those luscious strawberries that we bought in the market in Phnom

The hill tribe people grow them? Oh, you should see these people.

The wonderful way that they dress and their clothes are woven with beads and

silver.

And the women have these long, long necks.

They could have come from Mars.

Not at all like our idea of people.

What's your idea of people?

That's a very good question, Elaine.

I don't know. Like, you're my idea of people.

Our friends are my idea of people.

Two arms, two legs walks upright.

Makes love.

Makes a very nice dinner. Thank you.

Eats in nice restaurants.

Reads the Times.

Can talk about books and movies and theater intelligently.

Needs two strong cups of coffee every morning to get out of bed.

Oh, I love this song.

Two glasses of wine to relax his mind.

My idea of people drinks.

Come on.

Cheers.

My dear people dance Come on

See what you got.

You take me to Cambodia.

Oh, Chad is so far away. Why don't you pick someplace closer?

Where else do you want to go?

Me? Yeah, you.

Disney World.

You're joking.

No.

Well, you want to go somewhere more.

Eco -vegan green pizza?

That's a little more exotic.

Disney World is exotic to me. I've never been anywhere.

I've never even been on an airplane.

Oh, that is so sad.

We should take him.

You should take me.

Disney World. Yes!

I bought it in the marketplace from this woman.

She wove the cloth herself.

She was so lovely.

First, I hated Cambodia.

I didn't understand it. It made me cry.

Everywhere we went, there were people with...

Limbs missing.

Left over landmines.

David?

David?

You shouldn't be here with us on a Saturday night. You should be out with

friends your own age.

Hi, you're my friend.

Dave's my friend.

Age isn't important, right? We're all just people.

Right.

People, people.

People, people.

So what's your idea of people?

They want to be useful.

They want to do good things.

They want to not hurt anybody or be hurt.

They want to be able to sleep well at night, to swim in nice, clean pools, to

win races, read interesting books,

have a family, a father, a mother.

I want to have experiences.

Always be trying new things.

That was new.

Yeah.

I'm flattered, but I should probably go.

Yeah, no, I... I'm just gonna get my clothes.

No, no, no.

David! David!

David!

Oh, God.

Nothing wakes him when he's been drinking.

Not a telephone, a car alarm,

earthquakes, thunder.

You know what? When I was a little boy, I could not fall asleep unless my mom

said goodnight to me an even number of times.

You know, like twice.

Goodnight, goodnight. Or four times. Goodnight, goodnight.

Goodnight, goodnight.

I mean, sometimes it's a joke. My daddy would throw in an extra one, and then my

mom would have to say goodnight to me again to even it out.

The, uh... The ice cream?

What?

When you recited the flavors.

Do you think that you could, um... Recite them again for me?

Now?

Prince Vanilla.

Chocolate.

Chocolate swirl.

Peanut butter dream. Coconut cream.

Mint chip.

Caramel chunk.

Coffee fudge.

Coffee fudge.

Maybe he'll divorce his wife for you.

You know, he's, um, old enough to be your father.

He is not.

And besides, I don't love him. I just like him. He's an inspiration.

Do you ever notice that lump in his pants when he wears his chinos?

I bet you he has. Good morning, girls.

Good morning, Mr. Walker.

Thank you.

Go ahead after.

Asking what?

Heather wanted to ask you if she can take her picture.

Uh, it's for the school newspaper, Mr. Walker?

Sure, sure.

Be an honor. Where do you want me?

Um... Here?

Yeah. Can I ask you a question, Mr. Walker? You just did.

What? Oh, okay.

Um, it's a personal one.

Sure.

Do you think Heather's cute?

Okay.

The book of love is long and boring.

No one can lift a damn thing.

It's full of charts and facts and figures and instructions.

Ha ha ha.

Please tell me that you still love me. That you just mean it.

Good morning, Mr. Walker.

Morning, Gus.

You're late, Mr. Walker.

Yes, I know. I apologize.

Mr. Walker, you're never late. You're me. I was worried.

I'm fine.

Thank you for your concern.

Now can we get started, please?

I hope you've all completed your, uh... Let's see...

Mr. Walker?

Here we go.

Chet, I'm displeased.

What? Wait a minute. What? You don't like it?

You don't like it?

Chet, stop it.

Stop it. Just stop it.

I'm an adult.

And I'm married.

Life's really complicated.

Elaine, Elaine.

I told you.

No, no, no.

Does he hate me?

No, he doesn't hate you.

I'm a bad person.

No, no, you're a really good person. No, I'm a bad person. I did something. No,

you're a good person.

No, I did something bad. I did too. Why?

What?

Why?

I... I don't know why.

I have to go.

Where's my bag?

I got these. I got these from the library.

We can go together. You, Dave, me. When I graduate, I've been saving my money.

You wouldn't even have to pay for me.

Okay, I love you.

I love you. I love you. I love Dave. Both of you. I just want to...

A baby.

Wow.

That's, um, that's... I know.

I know. I was dying to call you into this, and we decided to share a bit.

Mellie wouldn't let me. Well, I just thought that we should tell you in

Here, let me... No, no. Let me take care of it. Yeah.

So, um... How?

Artificial insemination.

And which one of you?

I will.

It's just so hard for me to take that much time off from work, and I'm young.

Well, here's to babies.

Congratulations. Congratulations.

We've actually been discussing it for quite some time, but Lillian... But

Lillian went to a mature parenthood, and at so much distance, had to endure six

boring months of therapy first.

Best I could do.

We want Dave to be the sperm donor. Okay, do you want to have to blurt out

everything before I'm ready?

Yeah. I do.

So, what do you think?

We love you both so much. And there'd be no obligation, legal or otherwise, on

your part.

Although we want you both to be present in our child's life.

No matter what you decide.

But it's not a requirement.

You don't have to make a decision right away.

Well?

Dave.

Uh... Lane.

Babe?

Am I disturbing you?

Correcting papers.

About what?

Khmer Rouge.

Pol Pot.

Quite a guy.

Yeah, you could say that.

He's still out there in the jungle somewhere.

Yeah. They should find him and arrest him.

They will.

How do you, Greg?

Excuse me?

Your students' papers.

What about them? Do you grade them on their spelling and on their grammar or

their ideas?

I grade them on everything, of course.

But if somebody's got a really good idea, they just don't get it down in the

regular required way. They mess up the rules a little bit. What is your point,

Chad? What's the most important part?

I don't know what to do, okay?

Does the grammar really matter as long as you get the idea right?

You fucked my wife.

Please.

David, I'm sorry.

You're welcome.

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to... What is it?

Um, I didn't hand in my paper yet.

The deadline was this morning.

If I hand it in tomorrow?

Pure things are against school rules, Naomi, you know that.

Oh, it's fake.

Take it out.

The end of the school day tomorrow, or no credit.

Thank you, Mr. Walker.

It's the last time. You're the greatest.

Yeah, I really do have a lot of work to do.

I just wanted... Sorry.

I'm sorry.

Hey, hey, hey.

Weekend after, I took the credit off making a long weekend, and we could pack

everything, and I could call and make reservations tonight.

I don't think it's... Oh, come on, you could take one day off school to go to

Disney World. Yeah, but I don't know.

Frontierland, Tomorrowland, Yesterdayland?

I don't think there's a Yesterdayland.

Yeah, whatever.

I break promises to my friends.

Check.

David! David!

Enough for tonight. Your face is all red.

That's it.

I was thinking, do you think we should buy bikes?

We could both get bikes.

Because don't Lillian and Melissa have bikes? I don't know.

We could bike with them in the city, in the park.

David?

Have you spoken with him?

No.

Have you at least been thinking about it?

Because I think that we owe it to him. Yeah, I know.

You know, Chet came to see me.

Chet? Yeah.

When?

Last week.

Where? School.

Yeah, we... We talked.

About, uh... Disney World.

Disney World?

We're going.

Who is going?

You, me, Chad.

I don't think that is funny.

I've already booked the tickets. They're non -refundable. I found a hotel I

thought you might like.

Two swimming pools, three restaurants, each with a Caribbean flair. It's just

steps from the Epcot Center, and I got a...

Three full fantasy passes. Good for all theme parks from the moment you check in

until the moment you check out. And there's a spa facility with all the

treatments.

They even have couples massage.

I just didn't want to disappoint him.

I don't know why you need a facial.

You're already beautiful.

Don't take too long. We've got a full day planned. What's on the schedule

Chet? Jungle boat trip.

After that, Thunder Mountain.

All right. That's it. The lines are not too long.

Hey.

Your

ears

are getting burned.

Just put me some block on.

Elaine, having a good time, right?

I don't bite.

I should probably get back to my room and get changed. It's getting kind of

cold. Oh, no, stay. I'll turn the air off.

Hey, here you go.

Thanks.

Hey, Dave.

Yeah, is Elaine okay?

Yeah, she's fine, Chad.

So, uh, tomorrow we go to Blizzard Beach, right?

Right. And I was thinking maybe, uh...

Tonight, before dinner, you can take me back down to the pool and show me one of

those fancy dives of yours.

Yeah, sure. I mean, if you want to, I can do that. Great.

They're great dives.

Why don't you show me one right now?

Here? Yeah, just here.

It's kind of weird. There's no water. Yeah, we'll just pretend.

Here we go. The pro.

The pro, yeah.

Spring.

I bet the girls really go for those dives, huh?

Come on, Chad.

Oh, you're quick, huh?

Don't hurt me.

You think Dave can dive too?

You're so special, huh? You swim, you dive, you fuck my wife.

Stop it. Stop it, all right? Don't hurt me. Stop it.

Oh, boy.

Oh.

David?

Wait. Wait.

I didn't... Oh, my God.

No, no, no, no. I guess I should pick up someone of my own size. Don't. It's all

his fault. Tell him. Tell her.

Tell her.

Tell her.

Stay away from me, Steve.

No, both of you. She doesn't want you, okay?

I'm fine

Swimmers take your marks.

May the sun always shine on you.

And each day feel so bright and new.

And may God hold you in the palm of his

hand.

May the moon always light your way.

And love be forever and here to stay.

And may God hold you in the palm of his

hand.

And may God hold you in the palm.

of his hand and if the world

should turn its back to you and it seems it seems

there's nothing left to do then may god hold you in

the palm of his hand

Then may God hold you in the palm of his hand.

Thank you. Thank you.

I really should stay and help clean up. Oh, no, no, no. Go.

Then throw everything into the dishwasher.

We being me.

Dip me.

Okay.

That's enough for one night. Oh,

I hope you know how much we appreciate this. As do I. And how much Esther and

Lucas love having their father around all the time. Okay.

But Mellie thinks you should go back to teaching.

Lily.

Okay, so I do. But, you know, mostly I think you should do whatever makes you

happy.

Well, this makes me happy.

For now.

Good night. See you tomorrow.

Now lift and expand your heart.

An astronaut.

Also a doctor.

Also.

Also a architect, chef, web designer, naturalist, biologist, oceanographer,

Arctic explorer, environmental lawyer.

Oh, and president of the United States.

Yeah,

there were a lot of things I wanted to be when I grew up.

You still could be.

Tony's still young.

Yeah.

See that old man?

Yeah. He used to be Khmer Rouge.

How do you know?

Everybody knows.

Why don't they turn him into the police or something?

Well, because some of the police used to be Khmer Rouge, too.

A lot of people were.

That was a long time ago.

Besides, he's a cool old guy.

I like him.

Yeah, Heather.

Pretty name.

No one's more happy than you.

Stop and shop is open all night.

With a mothering fluorescent

milk

carton picture.

A dove.

As the intercom crackles

with love.

Thank you.