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ADULT DEAN: The weekend after
April 4, 1968,

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Black people all over
the country

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attended memorial services
for Dr. King.

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It was a time where,
just like in life,

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he brought people together
of all races

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to mourn our country's
great loss.

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To those of us in Montgomery,

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where his civil-rights
career began,

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it was a particularly
difficult time.

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♪ His eye♪

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♪ Is on the sparrow♪

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♪ And I know He watches me♪

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♪ Watches me♪

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ADULT DEAN:
Families from our neighborhood

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gathered together
to memorialize the great man.

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He was an idol.

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He was respected.

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He was eloquent.

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[laughing]
He was gorgeous.

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He looked great in a black
dress and stockings.

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S-Snap out of it, man.

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This isn't the time or place
for looking at girls.

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This is a memorial for a hero,
a noble man, a martyr.

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A lying, conniving snake
in the grass

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who'd kiss the girl
you've loved

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since second grade
behind your back!

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CHOIR:♪ His eyes...♪

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ADULT DEAN:
I couldn't help it.

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In spite of this solemn moment,

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all I was thinking about
was seeing Keisa

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kissing my best friend.

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CHOIR:
♪ And I know...♪

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ADULT DEAN:
Please let there be a lesson

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from the pastor's words
that will help me.

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Let us not give in
to anger or revenge...

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WOMAN: Yes.

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...but remember the words
of Dr. King himself --

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"Forgive those who inflict evil
and injury upon us."

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Nope.
Nothing.

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This is torture.

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But I guess
it could have been worse.

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At least they weren't
rubbing it in my face,

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being all lovey-dovey
and holding hands.

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Everyone, please, take your
neighbor's hand and pray.

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♪♪

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Why, God, why?!

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[congregation murmuring]

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He's just
a little sensitive.

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While Cory got to caress
Keisa's soft, supple hand,

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I was stuck next to someone

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who looked like he'd been
atLincoln's memorial.

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Be strong.

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It'll be over soon.

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Let us all rise and sing
the Negro National Anthem.

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[organ playing
"Lift Every Voice and Sing"]

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You gotta be kidding me.

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Ugh! Why did songs about
oppression have to be so long?

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♪ Lift every voice and sing♪

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♪ Till earth and heaven ring♪

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You're still
in church clothes.

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Shouldn't you be hanging out
with Cory by now?

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[sighs]
I don't feel like it.

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[comic book thuds]

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Hey, man, looka here.

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That little outburst
at church...

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You, um --

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LILLIAN: Where do you think
you're going?

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KIM:
I told you. Out.

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-LILLIAN: We just came from out.
-KIM: Sitting in church,

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singing "Kumbaya"
isn't gonna do anything,

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but this will.

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We're not letting you go
to some riot.

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-[telephone rings]
-KIM: Rally!

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LILLIAN: That's how
all riots start.

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-KIM: [groans]
-LILLIAN: Are you serious?

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I know you are not
walking away

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-from me while I'm talking.
-Hello?

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-KIM: What else is there to say?
-Yeah.

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-KIM: You want to control
my life even more?
-She is.

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-LILLIAN: You haven't seen
control yet, young lady...
-Just a minute.

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LILLIAN: ...but keep talking
back and see what happens.

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BILL:
So, who gonna be there?

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Mildred, Vesta...
Kwame X.

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Kwame X?

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What kind of stupid-ass
militant name is that?

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His name is Albert.
Albert.

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-And you're not going.
-[sighs]

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ADULT DEAN: Mama and Daddy
thought Kim's boyfriend

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was a bad influence.

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I think that's why
she liked him.

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Our house, our rules.

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If there were ever a time

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for us to be eating dinner
together, it's now.

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[sighs] That's your solution
for everything --

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let's eat together.

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Ugh.
I just lost my appetite.

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The way I saw it,

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we should have just been happy
somebody liked her back.

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Hey, Kwame?
You might want to call back.

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No, I'm thinking next year.

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You're very welcome.

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♪ Oh, oh, oh♪

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-♪ And I know♪
-♪ Ohh♪

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♪ Through the highs
and the lows♪

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♪ I'mma find my way home♪

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ADULT DEAN: After a weekend
full of heartache over Keisa

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and marches and riots
on the news,

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I actually looked forward to
the mundane normalcy of school.

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Yep, it'd been like this ever
since I stepped off the bus.

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Okay, class, pay attention.

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Here are last Friday's
quiz scores.

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A "C"?

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My GPA was being assassinated!

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And before you say anything,
that's a great metaphor.

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And the quiz was on metaphors,
so how'd I get a "C"?

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-[crying]
-♪...good look at my face

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♪ You'll see my smile
looks out of place♪

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ADULT DEAN: Oh, right.

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It was the night I saw

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my former friends,
Cory and Keisa, kiss.

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Dean?
May I speak to you?

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It's not like you
to get a "C."

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Do you have
an explanation?

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[sighs]

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Maybe it was unfair of me
to expect you to study.

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This must be such a difficult
time for your people.

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Let's just go ahead
and make this one an "A."

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Wait.
What's this, now?

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Y-You mean...
'cause of Dr. King?

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You must feel so...lost.

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Now, I knew that taking
advantage of the tragic death

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of the greatest civil-rights
icon in history

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was inappropriate,

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but I'd just gotten my heart
broken for the first time.

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Give me a break.

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So lost.

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But this helps.

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Does this help, too?

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♪ Unh!♪

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-♪ Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!♪
-♪ Unh!♪

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Yes.

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♪ Unh!♪

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-♪ Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!♪
-♪ Unh!♪

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-[whistle blows]
-♪ Baby, you're laughin'♪

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All the way to the top.
And go.

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I don't think I can.

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Not since
Martin Luther King

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never made it
to the mountaintop.

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It's all right, son.

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I'll give you a pass to see
the guidance counselor.

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♪♪

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The gym teacher said
you might need to talk.

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Nah, I'm good.

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You might want to
freshen these, though.

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[rattling]

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Any guilt I was feeling
about what I was doing

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was gone
by the time I got home.

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Hey, I was dealing with grief
in my own way.

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So was my sister.

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You're not going anywhere
tonight, young lady.

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And Mama.

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I made dinner.

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And we're going to eat tonight
together as a family.

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Her five stages of grief came

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with five pounds
of bacon grease.

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[timer dings]

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Oh!
The other chicken is ready.

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Be cool.

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♪♪

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♪♪

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Hey.
Want to ride bikes later?

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Sure.

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-Can I come?
-No.

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I didn't ride bikes
with traitors.

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Why not?

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And where were you
this morning?

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I waited
at the bus stop.

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I don't know where I was.

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Why are you acting
so weird lately?

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I wasn't gonna show weakness
and tell him what I saw.

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No. I was gonna deflect with
the skill of a great litigator.

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You'reacting weird.

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No, you'reacting weird.

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Dang it!

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His litigation skills
are as great as mine.

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Shh!
Both of you.

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Oh, you would take his side.

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What are you
talking about?

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Dean, Cory, Keisa,

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may I see the three of you
up front, please?

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♪♪

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You all know that talking
during class is a demerit.

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I'm sorry, Mrs. Hodges.

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I've just been really upset
about Dr. King.

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Oh, dear.
I do understand.

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This was getting too easy.

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It's hit us all pretty hard.

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It wasn't enough
that he hijacked my girl?

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Now he was hijacking
my "White Liberal Guilt" card?

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I'm sure it hit you both
equally hard.

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And you, as well, Keisa.

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In fact, I think
I might have a solution.

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Why don't you all give
a presentation to the class

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about Dr. King's importance?

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Help us feel your pain.

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I-Is it okay
if I do my own?

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It's just Dr. King's death
was...so personal.

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Of course, Dean.

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Nothing could hurt worse
than working with them.

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[romantic doo-wop music
playing]

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Thank God we worked on that
MLK presentation together

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all those years ago.

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If Dean hadn't done
his own project,

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I would never
have proposed to you.

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[children speaking indistinctly]

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I was wrong.
This hurt so much more.

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Uh...I'm sad about
Mr. King's death, too.

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Nice try, Brad.

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You already got out of eight
days of homework last Hanukkah.

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Seeing Cory and Keisa kissing
was still eating me up inside,

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and now,
because of my own big mouth,

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they'd be working on
a project together -- alone.

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Still upset, huh?

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What?

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You know,
like you were at church.

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Yeah, uh, Dr. King's dead,
and I'm really sad.

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Uh, see you at dinner.

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Hold up.

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Uh...you want to talk
about anything?

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No.

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Hop in.

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Let's go fishing.

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It was an unwritten rule that

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my dad's weekday fishing trips
were a solo activity.

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Hell, Mama covered up
being in labor

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so as not to interrupt
one of them.

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I had no choice
but to go with him.

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Okay.
Let's go.

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[birds chirping]

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You like fishing, huh?

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I love it.

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But you don't eat fish.

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Hate it.

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Think about all those fish
out there under the surface

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that we can't see.

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They have no idea
what's going on here,

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above the water.

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They don't even care.

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Their life is simple.

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They don't have to wonder

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why bad things
happen to good people

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or why there's so much hatred
in the world

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or why, for some people,
life may never be fair.

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00:10:29,241 --> 00:10:31,931
Nope.

255
00:10:31,931 --> 00:10:33,413
They have no idea.

256
00:10:37,689 --> 00:10:40,551
Maybe that's why
I like to fish.

257
00:10:40,551 --> 00:10:43,241
That's when it hit me.

258
00:10:43,241 --> 00:10:45,896
My dad was actually wrestling
with the very concerns

259
00:10:45,896 --> 00:10:48,827
he thought I'd been wrestling
with this whole time.

260
00:10:48,827 --> 00:10:51,137
Okay.

261
00:10:51,137 --> 00:10:52,931
It's getting late.

262
00:10:52,931 --> 00:10:55,206
I wanted to tell him
what was really bothering me

263
00:10:55,206 --> 00:10:57,448
because I knew it would put
his mind at ease.

264
00:10:57,448 --> 00:10:59,620
But I was too embarrassed
to confess

265
00:10:59,620 --> 00:11:04,000
my stupid, silly troubles
to a grown man with real ones.

266
00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:05,344
-DEAN: Oh!
-BILL: Hey!

267
00:11:05,344 --> 00:11:07,310
[laughing] Hey!
You got one.

268
00:11:07,310 --> 00:11:08,896
[laughs]
All right, take it slow.

269
00:11:08,896 --> 00:11:10,586
-Take it slow.
-And in that moment,

270
00:11:10,586 --> 00:11:13,586
my dad wasn't a Black man
in Alabama in 1968

271
00:11:13,586 --> 00:11:15,034
or a father
worried about his kids.

272
00:11:15,034 --> 00:11:16,068
Keep the rod up.
There you go.

273
00:11:16,068 --> 00:11:17,310
He was just a man fishing.

274
00:11:17,310 --> 00:11:18,896
-[laughs]
-That's when I understood

275
00:11:18,896 --> 00:11:20,896
everything he didn't know
how to say.

276
00:11:20,896 --> 00:11:23,034
I had a brilliant spark
of inspiration

277
00:11:23,034 --> 00:11:24,862
that fueled me
to write all night.

278
00:11:24,862 --> 00:11:29,275
And as I've taken you through
the entire life of Dr. King,

279
00:11:29,275 --> 00:11:33,517
from his seminary days in Boston
to his Poor People's Campaign,

280
00:11:33,517 --> 00:11:36,206
I summarize with this.

281
00:11:36,206 --> 00:11:39,344
Dr. King is like
the fish my dad caught.

282
00:11:39,344 --> 00:11:42,413
And Black people
are like my dad.

283
00:11:42,413 --> 00:11:45,068
We don't eat the fish.
No.

284
00:11:45,068 --> 00:11:47,655
We appreciate
what the fish taught us

285
00:11:47,655 --> 00:11:50,620
and try to live our lives
just like he did.

286
00:11:50,620 --> 00:11:52,724
-[applause]
-Okay, in hindsight,

287
00:11:52,724 --> 00:11:54,551
it was pretty ham-fisted
and forced,

288
00:11:54,551 --> 00:11:56,758
but to a 12-year-old,
it was brilliant.

289
00:11:56,758 --> 00:12:00,793
Just lovely, Dean.
Cory, Keisa?

290
00:12:09,137 --> 00:12:14,344
Dr. King was very young,
a-a very young minister,

291
00:12:14,344 --> 00:12:17,586
when he heard about
this man in India.

292
00:12:17,586 --> 00:12:20,655
The man
was named G-Gandhi.

293
00:12:22,344 --> 00:12:24,482
G-Gandhi used nonviolence

294
00:12:24,482 --> 00:12:26,862
to bring about change
in his country...

295
00:12:26,862 --> 00:12:30,620
of India,
which Reverend King...

296
00:12:30,620 --> 00:12:34,172
used in the Civil Rights
Movement in America.

297
00:12:34,172 --> 00:12:37,758
Gandhi was from India.

298
00:12:37,758 --> 00:12:39,068
They were bombing.

299
00:12:39,068 --> 00:12:41,655
The world was starting
to make sense again.

300
00:12:41,655 --> 00:12:44,379
[applause]

301
00:12:44,379 --> 00:12:46,517
A's all around.

302
00:12:46,517 --> 00:12:47,620
What?!
Are you kidding me?!

303
00:12:47,620 --> 00:12:48,655
[school bell rings]

304
00:12:48,655 --> 00:12:50,862
Class dismissed.

305
00:12:50,862 --> 00:12:52,206
But my report was better.

306
00:12:52,206 --> 00:12:53,793
Oh,now we get equality?

307
00:12:53,793 --> 00:12:55,931
All A's.
Give me some.

308
00:12:55,931 --> 00:12:58,172
I deserved an "A."
You didn't.

309
00:12:58,172 --> 00:13:00,379
Stop taking everything
from me!

310
00:13:00,379 --> 00:13:01,482
What are you talking about?

311
00:13:01,482 --> 00:13:03,586
-This was your idea.
-Exactly.

312
00:13:03,586 --> 00:13:04,655
And because of you,
we had to --

313
00:13:04,655 --> 00:13:06,103
I saw you two kissing.

314
00:13:08,310 --> 00:13:09,517
Y-You saw us?

315
00:13:09,517 --> 00:13:11,448
Everything.

316
00:13:11,448 --> 00:13:12,862
So you saw us.

317
00:13:12,862 --> 00:13:14,620
We didn't do
anything wrong.

318
00:13:14,620 --> 00:13:16,413
Uh-oh.
Careful, Dean.

319
00:13:16,413 --> 00:13:18,310
Keisa still doesn't know
you like her.

320
00:13:18,310 --> 00:13:19,862
It's wrong because --

321
00:13:19,862 --> 00:13:22,275
because friends shouldn't
kiss each other.

322
00:13:22,275 --> 00:13:23,827
We'll do
what we want to do.

323
00:13:23,827 --> 00:13:25,310
Right, Cory?

324
00:13:25,310 --> 00:13:26,931
Uh...

325
00:13:26,931 --> 00:13:28,517
His silence said volumes.

326
00:13:28,517 --> 00:13:30,620
I heard enough.
I had to strike first.

327
00:13:30,620 --> 00:13:32,448
Fine!
I don't care.

328
00:13:32,448 --> 00:13:34,551
I don't want to be friends
with you guys anymore.

329
00:13:34,551 --> 00:13:35,862
-Fine!
-Fine!

330
00:13:35,862 --> 00:13:37,793
Come on.
Let's go.

331
00:13:37,793 --> 00:13:40,103
I don't want to see you
ever again.

332
00:13:40,103 --> 00:13:42,275
We still have
three more classes together.

333
00:13:42,275 --> 00:13:44,620
And then baseball practice
and then --

334
00:13:44,620 --> 00:13:46,793
I said, "Fine!"

335
00:13:48,413 --> 00:13:54,551
♪♪

336
00:13:54,551 --> 00:14:00,896
♪♪

337
00:14:00,896 --> 00:14:07,068
♪♪

338
00:14:07,068 --> 00:14:08,482
Poor thing.

339
00:14:08,482 --> 00:14:09,896
Stayed up all night

340
00:14:09,896 --> 00:14:11,655
working on a presentation
about Dr. King.

341
00:14:11,655 --> 00:14:14,275
It must be still
eating him up inside.

342
00:14:14,275 --> 00:14:16,724
I'll grab
the fishing poles.

343
00:14:16,724 --> 00:14:19,862
Actually, why don't you let me
handle this one?

344
00:14:19,862 --> 00:14:22,034
You?
He's crying enough already.

345
00:14:22,034 --> 00:14:23,310
I'll be nice.

346
00:14:25,551 --> 00:14:28,551
Fine.
Go ahead.

347
00:14:32,275 --> 00:14:34,103
Dean, you want
to go get ice cream?

348
00:14:34,103 --> 00:14:35,206
What?!

349
00:14:35,206 --> 00:14:37,655
Kim being nice to me just
when I was at my lowest?

350
00:14:37,655 --> 00:14:39,724
There was no reason to be
suspicious at all.

351
00:14:39,724 --> 00:14:40,724
[car doors close]

352
00:14:40,724 --> 00:14:42,620
-Yeah.
-[engine starts]

353
00:14:42,620 --> 00:14:44,206
I could go
for some Rocky Road.

354
00:14:44,206 --> 00:14:46,827
We're not actually getting
ice cream, you drip.

355
00:14:46,827 --> 00:14:48,896
I just told Mom and Dad that
so we could get out the house.

356
00:14:48,896 --> 00:14:50,241
They might not know
how to help you

357
00:14:50,241 --> 00:14:53,172
deal with Dr. King's death,
but I do.

358
00:14:53,172 --> 00:14:56,758
♪♪

359
00:14:56,758 --> 00:14:59,517
[indistinct conversations]

360
00:14:59,517 --> 00:15:03,655
♪♪

361
00:15:03,655 --> 00:15:05,620
Good to see y'all.
Power to the people.

362
00:15:05,620 --> 00:15:08,724
♪ We're strugglin'♪

363
00:15:08,724 --> 00:15:10,206
♪ For survival♪

364
00:15:12,965 --> 00:15:15,241
♪ Strugglin' for survival♪

365
00:15:15,241 --> 00:15:17,310
Why are we here?

366
00:15:17,310 --> 00:15:19,862
I wanted you to see that
some brothers and sisters

367
00:15:19,862 --> 00:15:22,827
are actually doing
something to honor Dr. King.

368
00:15:22,827 --> 00:15:24,689
Do I need money?

369
00:15:24,689 --> 00:15:26,586
I have 50 cents
in my sock.

370
00:15:26,586 --> 00:15:29,793
Ah, there she is.
Yeah, come here real quick.

371
00:15:29,793 --> 00:15:32,241
♪ I can't get no rest now♪

372
00:15:32,241 --> 00:15:33,275
[laughs]

373
00:15:33,275 --> 00:15:34,551
Hi!

374
00:15:34,551 --> 00:15:37,000
♪♪

375
00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:38,206
You sure he can hang?

376
00:15:38,206 --> 00:15:39,896
He's hipper
than you think.

377
00:15:39,896 --> 00:15:41,793
ADULT DEAN: Sure was.
I lied before.

378
00:15:41,793 --> 00:15:43,655
I actually had75 cents
in my sock.

379
00:15:43,655 --> 00:15:45,379
[laughing]
I ain't no sucker.

380
00:15:45,379 --> 00:15:46,413
ALLEN: All right, listen up.

381
00:15:46,413 --> 00:15:48,068
Someone tipped off the pigs

382
00:15:48,068 --> 00:15:50,724
that we'll be at the shopping
center on Fairview,

383
00:15:50,724 --> 00:15:52,344
so be prepared for some company.

384
00:15:52,344 --> 00:15:54,896
Anyone with a car, go ahead
and load up on signs.

385
00:15:58,724 --> 00:16:00,827
♪♪

386
00:16:00,827 --> 00:16:02,413
Growing up in the South,

387
00:16:02,413 --> 00:16:05,206
I'd seen plenty of guns,
but always in the woods.

388
00:16:05,206 --> 00:16:07,517
This was a city gun.

389
00:16:07,517 --> 00:16:09,275
What's that for?

390
00:16:09,275 --> 00:16:10,448
In case
we need protection.

391
00:16:10,448 --> 00:16:12,965
I told you,
no violence.

392
00:16:16,758 --> 00:16:18,655
I want to go home.

393
00:16:18,655 --> 00:16:19,931
We can't leave.

394
00:16:19,931 --> 00:16:21,448
The only way
you're gonna feel better

395
00:16:21,448 --> 00:16:23,413
is if you do something
to make a difference.

396
00:16:23,413 --> 00:16:25,689
Who said anything
about making a difference?

397
00:16:25,689 --> 00:16:27,482
I was mad
because my best friend

398
00:16:27,482 --> 00:16:29,482
kissed the girl
he knew I liked.

399
00:16:29,482 --> 00:16:31,310
Everybody was trying
to make it

400
00:16:31,310 --> 00:16:34,758
about something important,
but that's all it was.

401
00:16:34,758 --> 00:16:36,896
I know it's stupid
to let feelings about a girl

402
00:16:36,896 --> 00:16:39,137
make you do dumb things.

403
00:16:39,137 --> 00:16:40,793
I just want to go home.

404
00:16:43,379 --> 00:16:45,000
[sighs]
You're not stupid.

405
00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:46,586
I could see that Kim

406
00:16:46,586 --> 00:16:48,689
didn't want to show
how scared she was.

407
00:16:48,689 --> 00:16:51,241
She wanted to impress Kwame
and everybody there.

408
00:16:54,241 --> 00:16:56,724
[coughing]

409
00:16:56,724 --> 00:16:58,413
Kim...
[coughs]

410
00:16:58,413 --> 00:17:00,620
...I have to go home.

411
00:17:00,620 --> 00:17:03,000
I forgot my medicine.
[coughs]

412
00:17:04,241 --> 00:17:06,206
Oh.
Yeah.

413
00:17:06,206 --> 00:17:08,551
Dean needs his medicine for --

414
00:17:08,551 --> 00:17:10,172
For -- For my asthma.

415
00:17:10,172 --> 00:17:12,241
Right.
You have that asthma.

416
00:17:12,241 --> 00:17:14,965
Man, I told you not to bring the
little sissy in the first place.

417
00:17:14,965 --> 00:17:16,068
Hey, I'm not a si--

418
00:17:16,068 --> 00:17:17,620
He is not a sissy.

419
00:17:17,620 --> 00:17:19,379
He was brave enough
to come here.

420
00:17:19,379 --> 00:17:21,068
Now, are you gonna
drive us home or what?

421
00:17:22,862 --> 00:17:25,275
Forget it.
Don't.

422
00:17:25,275 --> 00:17:28,241
We'll walk.
Come on, Dean.

423
00:17:32,517 --> 00:17:33,620
Hey!

424
00:17:34,862 --> 00:17:37,862
His real name...is Albert.

425
00:17:37,862 --> 00:17:42,000
♪♪

426
00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:46,137
♪♪

427
00:17:46,137 --> 00:17:48,000
Thanks for taking me
to get ice cream.

428
00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:49,517
Thanks for paying.

429
00:17:49,517 --> 00:17:51,241
Never tell people
you got sock money

430
00:17:51,241 --> 00:17:53,206
if you want to keep it.

431
00:17:53,206 --> 00:17:55,206
Didn't mean
to make you guys fight.

432
00:17:55,206 --> 00:17:57,586
That fight was
a long time coming.

433
00:17:57,586 --> 00:17:59,620
He's more
into making noise,

434
00:17:59,620 --> 00:18:01,862
and I'm more
into making change.

435
00:18:01,862 --> 00:18:03,517
Oh.

436
00:18:03,517 --> 00:18:05,655
You gonna be okay?

437
00:18:05,655 --> 00:18:08,206
Nothing a Smokey Robinson 45
can't fix.

438
00:18:08,206 --> 00:18:10,137
[both laugh]

439
00:18:11,827 --> 00:18:14,758
But you really
liked him.

440
00:18:14,758 --> 00:18:17,620
You fought with Mom
about him all the time.

441
00:18:17,620 --> 00:18:20,103
I thought he was worth
fighting for.

442
00:18:20,103 --> 00:18:21,793
Some boys are.

443
00:18:21,793 --> 00:18:24,827
But not ones who say "liberry"
instead of "library."

444
00:18:24,827 --> 00:18:26,965
Don't you dare tell Mama
I admitted to that.

445
00:18:26,965 --> 00:18:27,965
I won't.

446
00:18:27,965 --> 00:18:29,310
You know,
for what it's worth,

447
00:18:29,310 --> 00:18:32,931
I hope things work out
with you, Tommy, and Kasey.

448
00:18:32,931 --> 00:18:34,827
You mean Cory and Keisa?

449
00:18:34,827 --> 00:18:35,862
Yeah, them.

450
00:18:35,862 --> 00:18:37,172
You don't even know
my friends' names?

451
00:18:37,172 --> 00:18:40,000
I-I do.
Cory, Keisa, and...

452
00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:42,758
Fred, the one
who died last year.

453
00:18:42,758 --> 00:18:44,896
Fred was my turtle.

454
00:18:44,896 --> 00:18:47,517
Oh. I thought he was one
of your buddies from school.

455
00:18:47,517 --> 00:18:49,620
And you didn't say anything
for a whole year?

456
00:18:49,620 --> 00:18:50,827
Ugh!

457
00:18:52,310 --> 00:18:55,034
[laughs]

458
00:18:55,034 --> 00:18:56,103
There you two are.

459
00:18:56,103 --> 00:18:57,586
Just in time.

460
00:18:57,586 --> 00:18:59,275
Guess what.
Your mother caught us dinner.

461
00:18:59,275 --> 00:19:00,862
Since you took Dean
with you,

462
00:19:00,862 --> 00:19:02,862
I decided to take your
mother fishing with me.

463
00:19:02,862 --> 00:19:04,448
You know, I had never gone
fishing with your father

464
00:19:04,448 --> 00:19:06,206
in all these years.

465
00:19:06,206 --> 00:19:09,034
It felt so peaceful.

466
00:19:09,034 --> 00:19:10,896
Like everything was normal.
[laughs]

467
00:19:10,896 --> 00:19:13,379
It was good to see them
laughing again.

468
00:19:13,379 --> 00:19:16,379
I guess Mama needed Daddy's
fishing trip as much as I did.

469
00:19:16,379 --> 00:19:17,620
Hope you're hungry.

470
00:19:18,655 --> 00:19:21,000
[laughter]

471
00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:22,413
What?

472
00:19:22,413 --> 00:19:24,965
I am very proud
of this catch.

473
00:19:24,965 --> 00:19:27,620
Aren't you supposed to use that
to catch bigger fish?

474
00:19:27,620 --> 00:19:29,862
It ain't nothing
but eyes and a tail.

475
00:19:29,862 --> 00:19:31,482
Stop it, you two.
Mind your manners.

476
00:19:31,482 --> 00:19:32,655
-Hmm!
-Now, Kim, go get

477
00:19:32,655 --> 00:19:34,068
the tiny plates
from your dollhouse

478
00:19:34,068 --> 00:19:35,137
so we can eat
this thing.

479
00:19:35,137 --> 00:19:38,758
[laughter]

480
00:19:38,758 --> 00:19:40,482
Just as Kim had shown me

481
00:19:40,482 --> 00:19:42,931
that some relationships
aren't worth fighting for,

482
00:19:42,931 --> 00:19:46,137
Mama and Daddy were showing me
the kind that is,

483
00:19:46,137 --> 00:19:49,793
whether
it's a family relationship

484
00:19:49,793 --> 00:19:51,517
or a relationship
that's mattered to you

485
00:19:51,517 --> 00:19:53,000
since second grade.

486
00:19:54,862 --> 00:19:57,413
I'm sorry
I got so jealous.

487
00:19:57,413 --> 00:19:59,172
I'm sorry I acted like a jerk

488
00:19:59,172 --> 00:20:00,931
and embarrassed you in front of
the whole history class.

489
00:20:00,931 --> 00:20:02,896
-Listen, Dean --
-You have to accept my apology.

490
00:20:02,896 --> 00:20:05,241
This relationship
is worth fighting for,

491
00:20:05,241 --> 00:20:07,241
even if that means I have to
pretend to be happy

492
00:20:07,241 --> 00:20:08,827
for you and Keisa, even if --

493
00:20:08,827 --> 00:20:10,689
Keisa said
she doesn't like me.

494
00:20:11,758 --> 00:20:13,310
She doesn't?

495
00:20:13,310 --> 00:20:14,310
She said
she only kissed me

496
00:20:14,310 --> 00:20:16,931
because she was so upset
about Dr. King.

497
00:20:16,931 --> 00:20:19,827
I really thought
she liked me, man.

498
00:20:21,413 --> 00:20:23,034
Well, now I know
how you felt.

499
00:20:24,241 --> 00:20:25,931
I'm sorry.

500
00:20:25,931 --> 00:20:28,206
When I saw how sad and confused
Cory looked,

501
00:20:28,206 --> 00:20:30,379
I didn't feel so bad
about how I'd been acting

502
00:20:30,379 --> 00:20:32,034
the last few days.

503
00:20:32,034 --> 00:20:33,724
At 12, guys aren't supposed
to know

504
00:20:33,724 --> 00:20:35,310
how to deal
with that kind of emotion.

505
00:20:35,310 --> 00:20:37,862
Hell, I don't know
if we ever know.

506
00:20:37,862 --> 00:20:41,379
Hey, you busy
after school?

507
00:20:43,344 --> 00:20:46,551
[Otis Brown's
"Somebody Help Me" playing]

508
00:20:46,551 --> 00:20:49,034
Yep, just two guys fishing,

509
00:20:49,034 --> 00:20:51,620
content not to have
all the answers.

510
00:20:51,620 --> 00:20:54,413
♪♪

511
00:20:54,413 --> 00:20:56,793
-Dean, this is boring.
-I know.

512
00:20:56,793 --> 00:20:59,275
For some reason, it just seems
to work when my dad does it.

513
00:20:59,275 --> 00:21:01,034
Daddy didn't tell me that

514
00:21:01,034 --> 00:21:04,068
you can't force moments
like the one we had earlier.

515
00:21:04,068 --> 00:21:05,965
Unfortunately,
he also didn't tell me

516
00:21:05,965 --> 00:21:07,724
that he didn't technically
have permission

517
00:21:07,724 --> 00:21:09,758
to fish
on Old Man Seagram's lake.

518
00:21:09,758 --> 00:21:11,517
OLD MAN SEAGRAM: Hey!
What are you kids doing here?!

519
00:21:11,517 --> 00:21:13,034
-Run!
-I'll skin your teeth!

520
00:21:13,034 --> 00:21:14,379
♪ Somebody help me, yeah♪

521
00:21:14,379 --> 00:21:16,172
Gladys!
It's those Williamses again!

522
00:21:16,172 --> 00:21:18,241
First the pappy, then the mama.

523
00:21:18,241 --> 00:21:20,034
-♪ Somebody help me now♪
-Now the egg-head son's
trespassing...

524
00:21:20,034 --> 00:21:21,758
...with some other boy
that looks high!

525
00:21:21,758 --> 00:21:22,758
Get my rock salt!

526
00:21:22,758 --> 00:21:24,448
♪ Somebody help me now♪