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What? What's the matter?

Stop sign. Guy rolled right through it. Come on, Mac.

He went through the stop sign. You saw it.

Run the tag.

I'm doing it.

I want your hands where I can see them now. Get your hands up. Get them up now.

Out of the car.

What's the matter with you people?

Come on, man.

On the hood.

Now. Why?

Jill, rest these legs.

Max.

What?

I think he's all right.

Why?

That's... This is Jill's father.

Jill Brock?

Horrendous. Oh.

Hi. How are you?

Oopsy -daisy.

First of all, you did go through the stop sign.

I never go through stop signs.

I'm sorry, sir, but you came to a rolling stop. You didn't quite stop. I

stopped. And then, as I approached your car, you made a sudden move to the glove

compartment. I was making a sudden move for my registration. Is she a trainee?

Sir, a lot of people keep guns in the glove compartment.

A sudden move is a sudden move.

You know, you wonder why you police have the reputation you have.

This country is overridden with drugs. Children murder each other in

And you point pistols at my head because my front wheels didn't stop rotating

completely.

License.

Registration.

Ticket.

You're overreacting. It's a stupid dispute.

You shouldn't be doing it. Disorderly conduct, contempt of the law, you should

go out of your way and thank your very much for your support to me. You have

made your last misjudgment. What is happening? He ran a stop sign, issued a

citation, and he became abusive.

Hold it!

Hayden?

You first.

Ran a stop sign, became abusive.

To a law enforcement officer.

I became abusive to an idiot. And I haven't begun to retaliate. I don't

I'm hiring a lawyer. I will bury you in litigation. Hey, I detect a dispute.

Uh -huh.

Hayden. My buddy.

Oh, God, no.

You arrested my father?

Hear me out. For a moving violation you put him in jail?

Help enough getting him to come visit without you putting him into custody.

to worry. He has counsel.

Jill.

You've upset my client's daughter. Go away.

Jill. Hold on. Daddy.

Daddy.

Jill. Oh, I'm so sorry about all this.

He just has to stay until he's propped up. Give me the key.

As soon as the paperwork is... Key. Now.

Open it.

No, no, no, no. Keep me locked up for every hour. That adds another zero to

settlement.

Dad. I'm thinking federal court, Hayden.

Go away. I did not hire you.

What is wrong with you?

Give me an apology.

I'll drop the charges.

Splendid. I am deeply, deeply sorry that your Prozac prescription has lapsed.

Daddy. I'm pressing.

Very good. Come on. No, I agree. This is a small matter, but I have my self

-respect, too, and I don't care whose father you are.

Maxine. I'll dismiss if he apologizes.

Nothing more, but nothing less.

What is your name?

Officer Stewart.

Officer Stewart.

I am an old man.

I consider the time I have left precious.

So you will believe me when I tell you that I will not waste one moment of it

apologizing to you.

Daddy, you go home, all right? I'll meet you there.

Oh, where's Suzanne?

Oh, she had an exam. She couldn't make it.

Oh. Which is just as well, because I'm sure if there'd been two of us, the

officers would have opened fire.

Daddy, I'll meet you at home, all right? Drive safely.

A moment, Sheriff.

I

agree.

Stupid.

Bend it, Smith.

I have to support my deputy.

Well, how about supporting your father -in -law?

What am I supposed to do?

Make an exception because he's family? Yeah.

He's your father, so he's above the law.

Fine.

I can't do that.

Are you going to prosecute him because of the integrity of your badge and the

goodwill of your deputy?

I have an idea.

You invited her to dinner?

It was Jimmy's idea. He thought maybe, you know, if you two got to know each

other a little bit. That's the most absurd thing I've ever heard of.

If she digs her heels in Hayden, the arrest will stick.

So you invite her to dinner?

To reward her for her stupidity? I'm trying to work things out in a friendly

so that you don't... That she could be so erratic as to change her mind over a

warm bowl of tapioca is in itself an indictment of the fact that she wrote

ticket in the first place.

Hayden... And I might add that the function of sheriff...

is to override a deputy's authority when it's so blatantly abused.

Your problem, Jimmy, is that you want to be liked by everybody.

I'm trying to concentrate on your problem here, Hayden. My problem is your

deputy.

Have dinner with her, otherwise the arrest will stick.

Max, hi.

Hello Maxine you remember Hayden Hayden Maxine

Hello, hello

Well,

come on in

Well,

I'm hungry yeah me too me too

Well, let's eat.

Oh, yes.

Let's.

Another roll, Daddy?

Mm -hmm.

There you go.

Mm -hmm.

Peas are delicious.

Oh, thank you.

I love eating peas in the pods, too.

You know, like when you eat Chinese.

I don't know whether peas are better in or out of the pot.

I lie awake sometimes trying to decide.

Troublesome, the pod issue.

Are you mocking me?

No, I'm marking the inane assumption that I would be willing to excuse your

reprehensible behavior simply because you're able to delight us with such

intellectual badinage as the fascinating P conundrum. Oh, I wouldn't dare try to

engage a professor such as yourself.

Why would I try something so idiotic? I'm just a cop.

You've asked and answered your own question.

All right, let's not start by attacking each other. It's okay, Jill. He started

it. He seems to think he enjoys some sort of intellectual superiority because

he's lived his entire life in academia.

Forgetting, maybe, that the world of academia is an extremely insulated one

where one tends to become consumed with theory and rhetoric, not people.

And over time, one's human sensibilities can atrophy to the point where there's

no capacity to interact with anyone.

You end up frustrated, mean -spirited, and void.

In a way, I feel sorry for you.

I'm even tempted to drop the charges. I'm so sympathetic.

But I won't.

What a delightful demeanor.

Just the thought of your...

testimony tempts me to add another zero to my settlement demand. All right,

that's enough. You both are acting like children.

Well, that's ironic because what she's obviously trying to demonstrate here is

that she's not a child. How old are you anyway?

27.

28. Ah, yes, yes.

The time when young women are so desperate for autonomy that they equate

estrangement with independence.

I've certainly seen that before.

Where have you seen that before? Potatoes, please.

You were referring to me just then? I was speaking in general about anybody

regards a parental relationship as a threat to self -esteem. I never regarded

you as a threat to my self -esteem. Tell me about your father, Maxine. This has

nothing to do with my father.

I'm not talking about you. You are talking about me, Daddy. Did he abuse

I'm leaving.

Maxine!

Oh, I seem to have touched two nerves with one shot.

If the shoe fits, kick yourself.

You know, maybe you weren't assaulting me at all this morning.

Maybe you were figuratively aiming that gun at your own father's head. You don't

know what you're talking about. You're projecting problems onto me that you

with Jill.

What? I know all about your big Thanksgiving fight over what, a

What did you tell him? She is not a teenage. I'm out.

So what happened?

As soon as Jill became something more than the little girl on your knee, you

couldn't handle it? What have you told her? Quiet!

Isn't it grand how the police these days can double as psychoanalysts? I would

appreciate if you could stop disparaging the intelligence of police officers.

Disparaging it?

The two terms are mutually exclusive.

Excuse me? No offense, Jimmy.

You're the exception.

Get who's not.

All right, are we all having fun here? Because this is extraordinary behavior.

We should all be so, so proud.

May I begin again in earnest?

Go ahead.

All right, Maxine.

May I call you Maxine?

Fine.

I can see that you are not an idiot.

In fact, you are obviously quite intelligent with a great deal of

fortitude.

Thank you.

Here's my question.

You had to know that you overreacted, pulling your gun and throwing me across

the hood.

You also had to know that that would inflame me.

Now, when I tore up the ticket, why couldn't you just accept that as me

off steam?

Why did you feel so assaulted?

Because I felt... I don't know, dismissed.

You ripping up that ticket was saying to me that I didn't count.

I'm tired of being dismissed.

I'm not going to take it anymore. Not from you and not from... From whom?

Your father?

Yeah, him too.

And also... Also what?

Who?

Me?

Forget it.

How do I dismiss you? Never mind. No, I want to hear this.

Like you said last year, you think of me as a daughter.

Yeah. And you treat me like that.

Like a little girl.

Even tonight.

What is this? I made an arrest and you make me have dinner with the suspect?

What the hell is that?

Good question. I thought with a little dinner we might be able to smooth things

out. That's all.

Uh -huh. And you think if another deputy had arrested him, he'd be here now

having pot roast?

Maxine, I made you undersheriff. You've been my second in command.

I became undersheriff when Kenny called the blue flu.

It was punishment to him.

Maxine, you and Kenny have always been Jimmy's two senior deputies. He wouldn't

put you there if he didn't respect you.

Really?

Let's talk about that.

Kenny's never going to vie for Jimmy's job. Kenny's a foot soldier with no

ambition to be any higher than he already is. We all know it.

And me?

I'm just the woman officer.

What's your point?

The point is, you're a 50 -year -old sheriff who's insecure about losing his

job.

What? You see in Kenny and me two people you can easily keep in check.

That's why we're the ranking deputies.

That is one hell of an accusation. Kenny's not a threat because he doesn't

the job.

And me, I'm just the weak woman who couldn't handle it. Well, now, that may

your opinion of yourself. It certainly isn't mine.

When Matthew got shot and I became the temporary sheriff, I needed Kenny to

the other deputies to obey my orders.

Like you said last year, they wouldn't respond to me as a leader. And what you

didn't say, but what is just as true, is that neither would you.

They get their attitude from you. Oh, that's ridiculous.

God! What am I doing here? I made an arrest.

What am I doing having to share popovers with the arrestee? I made an arrest.

It's that simple.

Why am I here having pot roast?

I quit.

I am not working for you anymore. Do you hear what I'm saying to you? I am not

working for you anymore. I quit.

Maxine.

Max?

What the hell are you doing?

I'm sorry. I didn't know that was going to come out, but it's all true.

Maxine, this may be none of my business, but you're coming from a very emotional

place on this. You know what I really hate?

It's the way you always say, this may be none of my business, but... And then

you slam people.

Excuse me?

The sympathetic assassin.

That's what you are. And you know what else?

You're always sticking your nose into everybody else's business. It's what you

do. Nothing seems to go on in this town without your opinion. You're worse than

Ginny. Where do you get out of talking to me like that? You treat me worse than

him. You interfere in my personal life when you went to Danny Shreve. You tell

Jimmy all the time that my emotions run wild and he has to watch over me. No

wonder he has such a low opinion of me. I never undermine you. I have a low

opinion of you. And the worst part is you seem to enjoy diagnosing my

It allows you to sit pretty high on your perch, chirping proudly as the queen

bee of Rome.

Oh, no. Get out.

Get out of here, Jimmy.

What are you laughing at? You know, the acorn doesn't fall far from the tree.

I'm sure she gets her judgmental side from you. I am not judgmental.

Don't be nice to me. I'm still mad at you. Don't you dare be nice to me. I

be nice. Get out.

Douglas, mambo with dessert.

You're not invited.

You're characters.

Goodbye. Wait, hold on a second. You're not going anywhere.

You said get out. Not until I've had my say. Uh -oh, she wants her say.

I'm not the one sticking my nose into other people's business. I'm the one

dragged into everything. And as far as my pronouncements about your emotional

stability, I stand completely behind them. Is that right?

Damn right.

Last year, you became romantically involved with a suspect who turned out

the killer.

That was a fluke. And what about Danny Shreve?

You arrested him, released him, re -arrested him so many times I lost

believe it was for... And by the way, I happen to be completely right about him.

You let your emotions lead you all the time, Maxine. I won't even discuss the

midget. What? How dare you turn on me like this?

Every time I've gone to Jimmy about you, it's because I care a hell of a lot.

And so does he.

He treasures you, Maxine.

You owe him an apology.

Me?

He owes me an apology.

And so do you.

And so do you.

Let me cut the pie.

Do you have a knife, Jill, or are they all stuck in Jimmy's back?

Oh, quiet. Go away. Hey, characters.

See ya.

Yeah, that's right. Run.

Take your best shot and head for the door. That's integrity.

You got something else to say?

Let's go.

All right.

A little cooling out period over pie to collect ourselves.

So when you go back to killing each other, you can do it with a clear head.

Ice cream? Come on, come on. Hurry up, hurry up.

Now, just so I'm up to speed.

Max feels disrespected by Hayden.

Prejudiced by Jimmy.

And she thinks that Jill chirps too loud like a queen bee.

Though a bee buzzes.

And it is a bird that chirps. Who is this man? Well, basically, Maxine is

blaming everybody else for her problems. And so now you are up to speed.

Thank you. I'll own my problems, Jill. I just want you to recognize them as my

problems and keep out.

Such drama from a little traffic ticket. Why are you here?

I'm your lawyer. You're not my lawyer. Lucky that I'm here. They're trying to

triple team you into a quick settlement.

We're not triple teaming. We are not.

Jimmy, there's an old Yiddish saying.

Patro should be eaten at arm's length.

Here's an old Swedish saying.

I would rather have a root canal than be in your company. You are not my lawyer.

Then let me talk to you as a friend.

Why not apologize?

She'll drop the charges.

After you can spill through.

I will not apologize to her, and I will not explain to you.

Well, explain it to me then, Daddy. An apology is not the biggest compromise to

mankind.

She needs to be taught a lesson.

I confess, I admire your spirit.

But you think because you're young and pretty, the world will always be

forgiving.

It doesn't work that way.

She threw me over the hood for...

God's sake.

I guided you to the hood at a time I thought you could be dangerous.

Oh, I'm sure that's the way it reads in your report.

Daddy, why didn't Suzanne come with you?

Beg your pardon?

Suzanne. Where is she?

She had an exam, I told you. Don't change the subject.

Are you two still together?

I am not discussing my private life with strangers over a scoop of vanilla ice

cream. Jimmy and I are family, and Max is hardly a stranger after what went on

tonight. And you and I are buddies.

Remove your hand, or I will impale it.

Daddy, are you and Suzanne still together?

It's none of your business.

She dumped him.

Oh, hey!

Daddy!

It has nothing to do with this.

Suzanne has nothing to do with her pointing a gun at my head. Well, you

that Max was young and pretty and needed to be taught a lesson. Where did that

come from?

Oh, great.

First I get the police shrinkology. Now I get your psychoanalysis. Well, I'm a

little more trained than Max or Jimmy. And besides, I am your daughter.

Daddy, why did you tear up that ticket? Were you thinking about Suzanne when...

I'm not going to dignify this discussion by even responding.

Where's the bathroom?

Upstairs. Why are you running away?

Why are you chasing me?

You asked Maxine to stay so you could fire back at her.

Instead, you're aiming your cannons at me.

What happened? Is Suzanne's health okay?

She's fine.

A little paralysis of the heart other than that.

Perfect.

She left me.

Fell out of love.

Well, that's all right. She's entitled. Life goes on. So that is what this is

about. You flipped out at Max because Suzanne... Oh, stop it. I won't stop it.

I'm your daughter. I want to... And stop throwing that out like a trump card.

Let's not confuse the father -daughter connection with a relationship.

Ah.

So we're back to that again.

We never got by it, Jill.

You blindsided me.

I blindsided myself.

But the truth comes out in funny ways.

I'm not going to apologize for how I've treated you.

I'm not asking you to.

I'm just saying that I can't take it anymore. Take what?

Maybe... I am protective. Maybe I do see you as my daughter sometimes.

It's called caring.

If that's a problem, it's yours, not mine.

You got that right.

It's my problem.

Everybody in that office tries to look at everything through your eyes because

it's your opinion that counts.

I look at me through your eyes.

And I don't like what I see.

I don't know what to do.

I try. I try.

We used to talk and laugh.

Mom used to get mad.

We'd stay up until dawn sometimes talking.

Yeah.

You remember what we used to talk about?

Everything.

And nothing, I guess.

I don't know how there could be so much then.

Now it's... Well...

Maybe it's a passage.

This is probably a natural evolution for every father and daughter.

Maybe beyond a certain point, parents and children are not meant to

I don't believe that.

It's not that I wanted you to stay the little girl on my knee. That wasn't it

all.

The truth is, the greatest joy I had as a father was... looking forward to your

adulthood.

I couldn't wait for us to be adults together.

To enjoy the... I don't know, the fruits of my parenting, I guess.

And then when you got there, you...

You went away.

Just went off to another life.

Your life, I guess.

I was what?

26?

Your anger at Max has more to do with me than Suzanne, doesn't it, Daddy?

I don't know.

Just when our relationship should have been... I don't know.

The richest.

I took off.

I miss you so much.

You pulled away from him, Jill, because of me.

What?

Maxine was just talking about seeing herself through my eyes, and suddenly it

all makes sense.

Is this a riddle?

You just asked and answered your own question.

Dead.

What are you talking about, Jimmy?

I'm talking about a huge compromise you made in your life.

You could have been top surgeon in the best hospital.

Instead, you run off to a small town and you marry a sheriff.

How sad that must have made you.

That's not true.

All these remarks about police officers and intelligence, the only conversation

you and I have ever had have been about the children.

What could a college professor have in common with a cop?

You and I have always gotten along fine. You have never hidden your

disappointment, not from me and not from her.

The reason your daughter has withdrawn from you is because you make her feel

ashamed.

Ashamed of me?

How dare you?

Apart from the fact that I've always treated you with respect.

How dare you be so arrogant as to think my relationship with Jill has anything

to do with you? Well, according to you, you don't have a relationship with her,

so that's... Whatever it is or isn't, it's between and because of us. It has

nothing to do... Nothing to do with me, exactly, because I'm too insignificant

to matter.

And that's what Jill picks up on.

That's why she's pulling away from you.

And that does, in fact, make it about me.

You've been living in Rome too long, Jimmy.

Big sheriff, small town.

What an awful burden it must be, everything being about Jimmy Brock.

Come on, grow up.

I am grown up.

And so is Jill.

And like it or not, she has a right to live her life.

Even though it's not the one you mapped out for her. I haven't done anything to

stop her, have I?

No, you just punished her with silent disapproval for ten years. Oh, here we

Shrinkology again.

8 .30, Hayden. What? The wedding was at 5 o 'clock, dinner wasn't even over at

the reception, and you left.

8 .30!

You remember when I left your wedding reception 13 years ago? You didn't even

stay long enough to dance with Jill at her own wedding.

That's what this is about?

That I didn't wait for the band to play Mack the Knife? I got your message then,

and I am still getting it now.

I am not good enough for your daughter.

This is what happens when a person runs a stop sign.

People should drive more safely.

Maybe we should leave.

Oh, no.

They want us here.

When I first started dating her... Her name is Jill. I know what her name is.

When I first started dating her, all she could talk about was you.

Daddy this, my father that.

Can't wait till you meet my father.

After we met.

Mm -hmm.

Your name didn't come up so much.

Now, whether you convey disapproval or whether she just... Felt it.

She did feel it.

Have I ever, ever told you that I disapprove of Jimmy?

No. Have I ever indirectly conveyed this... disappointment that

he talks about?

Um... I don't know.

I... I can't tell sometimes.

There you go.

Do I make you feel ashamed of your husband?

Sometimes.

So he's right about this.

Looking at Jimmy or you and Jimmy through my eyes.

You don't like the picture.

Okay, I can accept that as true.

But here's what's not true.

The suggestion that I disapprove of him.

I consider you perhaps the most admirable man I've ever met.

I may not articulate that but I'm proud to have you for my son -in -law

and this disapproval that you're picking up on I may act as

some sort of conduit for it but it sure as hell doesn't originate with me

I

think it's time for the two of you to have a talk

I told you this night was a stupid idea.

We've all gone off on these ridiculous tangents.

Stupid.

What?

It is you.

You think I disapprove of you?

Jimmy.

You think you're smarter than me.

Probably, because you are.

My God, he's right.

It does come from you.

Relationships are like bombs.

The best ones are very delicate and blow up the biggest.

If I'm to be your client, you'll have to follow my directions, right? Of course.

Good.

You're hired.

Go home.

I'd like to make my presence felt.

None has been felt more than yours, I promise.

Go.

Let me give you one piece of legal advice before I go as your lawyer.

Anger in the family more times than not.

It's just confused love.

I'll keep it in mind.

Please, you do that.

Thank you.

I can't even begin to respond to something so ludicrous. This is another

saying you're stuck for an answer. Oh, for God's sake, Jimmy. We've been

13 years, happily.

How can I take seriously your saying that I... If it's what I feel, Jill, you

damn well better take it seriously. Do you really think that I don't respect

your intelligence? Do you think that I could love a man? Maybe it's the

disparity that gives you comfort. Oh, I don't believe that you are accusing me

of accusing you of being stupid.

That's not what I'm saying. What are you saying? Because this is making no sense

to me. None.

Married life is about sharing.

There's only so much you can share with me. I know you think that. I don't think

that. Don't deny it now. You said it all along there. How the hell can you

suddenly say I don't share things with you? You're my husband. Kissing him

something.

You were kissing him.

I walked in. You were kissing David Williams.

He's a doctor. You can share with him.

It was yesterday.

It's as close as tomorrow.

You can't possibly have been sitting on that all this time.

I

don't

know what's going on.

Are you...

You're what? You're still jealous of an old boyfriend I've seen once

in 15 years?

What does that say about us?

What is going on?

still afraid.

You'll leave me.

What?

Since the day we first got together.

I've had this fear that one

day you'd go through me.

I know it should have gone away.

It hasn't.

I play with it like a puzzle, see?

I can put it together in 14 seconds.

You must be very proud.

Can I put something together?

What?

I gather your relationship with your father was not a good one.

So?

Maybe you weren't thinking of him when you arrested me or when you said go to

hell.

But in quitting your job, I think you are.

If, as you say, Jimmy is a father figure to you, then maybe you're quitting a

relationship that hurt you in the past.

What do you think of Sheriff Brock?

Really?

I adore him.

Mm -hmm.

The man adores you as well.

Don't run away, Maxine.

It can be difficult finding your way back.

Yes, I know.

Nothing I can say.

After 13 years and two children together, if you can't trust the

I can't fix it with words.

I don't distrust you.

Could you...

Maybe

I do send that message.

What?

I don't think I'm smarter than you, Jimmy. I really don't, but...

I know I like to think it sometimes.

I need to think it.

Why?

I don't know. Maybe... Maybe because I feel so secondary to you.

You're Jimmy Brock.

The town sheriff. Everybody turns to Jimmy in the town.

In this house.

The kids love me, but they love and they worship you.

Jill. I hate to think that I could be jealous or something like that, but

maybe I'd use my education as, I

don't know, as a place where I could feel superior.

So if you think that I could outgrow you, then yeah, I am smarter

because if you don't know how much, how very

much I love you and you don't know anything.

Come back alive and speak to us. Hi, Grandpa.

Hi. Where's Mommy at?

In the living room.

In private.

Don't you go in there.

Apple pie.

Where? Right there. I was dinner with the old people. Did you fall asleep? I

there, too.

No, they kept me awake.

The guy had two heads. One friendly, one not. The mean one bit the friendly one,

and the friendly had died from the infection.

But it didn't fall off his shoulder.

And then the guts started pouring out. Yeah, and then the eyes.

And the head totally exploded.

Yeah.