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- No, I'm not saying
that you made it up.

I believe you heard something.
- Do you?

'Cause it really doesn't
sound like it.

- I'm gonna take the next one.
- Dad, no, come.

We have rats.
- Or we don't.

We've had two exterminators
go through everything.

- "We"?
- Yes, we, Dad.

We are cohabitating,
and we do have rats.

- We'll talk about this later.
- Yes, we will.

- [sighs]
How about that snow, huh?

Springtime in Chicago.
- I know what I heard, okay?

We just have to get
an exterminator who knows

what he's doing.

- Hey, Maggie?
- Mm-hmm.

- I wanna FaceTime with Owen
before his nap.

I set an alarm on my phone
for an hour from now,

but if I get swamped,
can you remind me?

- Sure.
- He was already asleep

when I got home last night
and still conked out

when I left this morning.
I've hardly seen him lately.

- Don't worry--I'll remind you.

- [moaning]
- It hurts like hell, I know.

We're gonna get you upstairs
and the surgeon will fix

the holes the bullet
left in your intestines.

They'll take good care of you.
- [moaning]

- Dr. Choi, incoming.
Trauma 2's open.

- Elliot Gallagher, 17,
got beat up at school.

Multiple facial trauma,
chest wall contusions,

GCS of 15 with history
of loss of consciousness.

- Elliot, I'm Dr. Choi.
Can you tell us

what happened?
- Those guys, they caught me.

- Make sure his parents
are notified.

- Let's transfer on my count.
Ready?

One, two, three.

Elliot, can you take
a deep breath for me?

- [wheezing]
- Again?

- [grunts]
- That hurt?

- No.
- Good breath sounds.

Let's get him off the board
and get a chest X-ray.

- Right away.

- [groaning]

- Lungs are up
and no broken ribs.

Looks like they're just bruised.

Let's give him 50
of fentanyl for pain.

- On it.

- Can you turn your head
side to side?

Chin to chest?

- Good, c-spine's clear.

Elliot, follow the light for me.

Your right eye doesn't look
the same as your left.

I think the orbit's fractured.
Your nose is also broken.

I'm going to quickly realign it.

Pain meds should be
working by now.

- [groans]
- Sorry.

- Hope they caught
the boys who did this.

- I deserved it.

You gotta castrate me.

- What?

- I want you to castrate me.

.

- Are his ankles swollen?
Just look down and check.

Damn it.
Yeah, all right.

I'm on my way.

- Everything all right?
- Not really.

That was my brother.
He's with my dad.

The man's stubborn
beyond all belief.

He's had mitral valve regurge
for, like, the last ten years.

- Oh, man, faulty valves
are tricky.

- Yeah, and I don't like
what Jay's describing.

I gotta get to the L station.

- Why doesn't your brother
bring him in?

- Dad hates doctors.
Did I mention he's stubborn?

- Well, don't you have a car?
- I sold it.

- Hey, look, man, waiting for
the L train's just gonna

slow you down.
Why don't you take mine?

- Actually, I'd like to
take you.

- I'll get my coat.
- All right.

- I think about sex
all the time.

- You're 17.
It's really--

It's not that unusual.
- Sex is for procreation.

That's all.

- Oh, so how did you
come to that understanding?

- My parents.

The reason those guys
beat me up--

I was climbing on a dumpster
by the girls' gym

and was looking
in a window to the shower.

- It sounds to me like grounds
for disciplinary action,

maybe, but, I mean,
not a beating.

I mean, certainly not
castration.

- Blonde girls.
It's--

It's blonde--blonde girls.
I follow them.

There's this one girl, Lacey.

She's blonde.

I sit behind her in trig.

One day, I...

I cut this off.

She didn't notice.

I'm afraid of--
of what I'm gonna do.

I--I was looking up
castration online.

They can do it with drugs.

That's what I want--
chemical castration.

I don't wanna hurt her.

Or anyone.

- Elliot is very troubled.

The poor kid is just consumed
with sexual thoughts.

- Aren't most kids his age?

- Yeah, but he's been raised to
believe that sex is wrong

unless it's for procreation.

And repressing his natural
urges is triggering

aggressive impulses, which he's
struggling to control.

- Aggressive?
- He fetishizes blondes.

Stalks them.
- We're talking about

a sexual predator?
- Not a psychopath.

I mean, he has a conscience.
I mean, I think he could

definitely benefit
from therapy,

but I'm not ruling out
those meds.

- Chemical castration, really?
- It's temporary, Ethan.

Raping somebody isn't.

We would need
the parents' consent.

- Dr. Manning, a three-year-old
with a bilateral lower extremity

paresis and gingival lesions
in Treatment 4.

- Hey, you wanna give me
a hand with this?

- Sure.

- Hi, I'm Dr. Manning, and this
is Mr. Clark, a medical student.

- Hi.
- He's gonna be assisting me.

- I'm Amelia.
This is my son, Troy.

- Hi, Troy.
I hear you're not feeling well.

- Troy is speech-delayed.
He only says a few words.

- Okay.
- I'm gonna check you out.

Okay, buddy?

- When did this start happening?

- A couple weeks ago,
he woke up limping.

When it kept getting worse,
I took him in for X-rays,

but they didn't show anything.

The doctor wanted him
to rest for a week,

but it isn't getting any better.

They've been okay at work,
but I--I gotta get Troy well.

- I understand.

- This morning, his gums
started bleeding.

- Hey, let me
check your chompers, bud.

Ulcerations.
- Hmm.

He looks quite thin.

Has his appetite been affected?

- He's always been
a picky eater.

- I've got one like that too.

- All right, we'll get
a copy of his X-rays.

The leg pain and weakness could
be coming from a lot of things,

so we'll get a CAT scan of
his spine and some blood work,

and hopefully we'll
get some answers.

- All right.

- Chocky.
- Not now, sweetie, okay?

- Chocky, now.

- He wants some chocolate milk.

- Well, I think we have
some of that in the cafeteria.

I'll have some sent in.

We'll check back
in a little while.

- All right, here are
the rest of them.

[doll crying]

Why all the dolls?

- As part of my psych residency,
I have to teach high school kids

the responsibilities of having
a baby, so hopefully they'll

exercise a little caution.
- Ah.

- The sound circuit is adapted
to convert audio data

into analog audio output
at the speaker.

- Oh.
- [laughs]

- Oh, man, too bad you can't
do that with a real baby.

Okay, can I see it?
- Mm-hmm.

- Ah, peripheral port is coupled
to the micro-controller

and connects to
the host computer?

- Uh-huh, so I can monitor
how the kids are doing.

It's ridiculous.
- What? Why?

These are cool.
- No, I have

no maternal instincts.
I have no connection to babies.

I have no intention
of having one.

- Oh, I'm right there with you.

Good luck.

- Robin?
- Oh, hey.

- What's looking good?

- I can't decide.

- This is where
you grew up, huh?

- Yep, played a lot of ball
on this street.

Everybody knew everybody.

All the grandmas would
sit on the front porches.

They were like the original
neighborhood watch.

Up there, Mrs. Riley
hated noise.

She used to throw a pot of
boiling water out at us.

Caught Jay on the foot one time.

Little different than
the Gold Coast, huh?

- It's nice.

- Hey, Pop.
- What are you doing here?

- I called him.
- Wasted trip.

I don't need you.
- Are you kidding me?

You missed two days of work,
and you never miss work.

- Pop, this is Connor Rhodes.

He's another doc at the Med.

- Told you
I don't need this.

- Come on, you can barely talk.

- I'm gonna take
medical advice from someone

who wet the bed
till he was nine?

- Never changes.
- I gotta get back

to the district.
- Thanks, Jay.

- Don't let the door hit you
on the way out.

- Mr. Halstead, I'm seeing
some things that tell me

that your heart
isn't working very well.

Your fingertips are purple.
You're having

a hard time breathing,
and your energy seems depleted.

- Had this heart thing forever.

It's--It's never been a problem.

- Do you mind
if I have a listen?

- If it'll get
you two off my ass.

- Apical holosystolic murmur
and the lungs are wet.

- In English?
- It means that your heart

has been compensating
for the faulty valve

for a very long time,
and now it can't keep up,

so fluid is backing up
into your lungs.

- It literally means you're
drowning in your own blood.

We need to get you
to the hospital.

- I'll call an ambulance.
- Like hell you will.

- I'll be damned if
I'll have neighbors see me

hauled out of here
in an ambulance.

- Mr. Halstead...
- No.

If we're going, I'm driving.

- Oh, no, no, we'll drive.

- [groans]

Ah!
I got it.

- I'll call the ambulance.
- No!

.

- April, I got a patient walking
into the ambulance entrance.

Can you get a wheelchair ready?
- Walking in?

- Uh-huh,
it's Dr. Halstead's dad.

Hey, you're going
to Treatment 6.

- Yep.
- Problems getting an ambulance?

- No, problem with the patient.
- I don't need that.

- I got it, I got it.
- Okay.

Easy on the bed.

- Damn it, I got it.

[groans]

- All right,
let's get him hooked up.

Will, you wanna
get him on oxygen?

- Yep, Pop, on a scale...
- Yeah?

- Of 1 to 10,
how bad's the pain?

- I've had gas that hurt worse.

- All right, T wave inversions,
ST depressions.

It looks like
he's having a NSTEMI.

Let's give him 81 milligrams
of aspirin and a dose

of nasal nitro.
- Let's get cardiac labs,

CBC, CMP, coags,
and a chest X-ray.

- He's gonna need a formal echo,
but, in the meantime,

let's take a quick look at
the heart with the ultrasound.

- Clear.

Bilateral pleural effusion
and congestion.

- Yep, you see here?

Mitral valve is wide open
and the LV is dilated.

Mr. Halstead,
it's just like we thought.

Your heart is working
way too hard to compensate

for your bad valve.
- First time I've ever heard of

hard work being a bad thing.

You got a fix?
- We will.

We're gonna get you
an angiogram,

and it'll give us a full picture
of your heart,

and then we're gonna
figure out a plan.

Let's get him up
to the cath lab.

- Don't worry, Pop.
We can beat this.

- Who the hell's worried?

- All right, let's go.

- Will?

- My dad, his heart.
He needs a cath.

- Oh, I'm so sorry.

Let me know how it goes.

- Natalie?

Head lac in Treatment 2.
I'll shoot you the chart.

And don't forget
to FaceTime Owen as soon

as you're out, okay?
- Oh, thank you.

- The three-year-old.

- Mm-hmm?
- Test results are back.

CT was clean, blood work
indicates mild anemia.

- Mm, nothing to explain
the limping or the lesions.

- Maybe we're dealing
with lead poisoning

or some sort of tox?
- Yeah, um, let's do

a tox workup
and look for heavy metals,

and get a babygram
while you're at it.

- Okay.
It could also be abuse.

- Let's not go there yet.
- Can I help you?

- It's our son, Elliot.
They said he was in a fight.

We got here as quick
as we could.

- We got a call from his school.
- Okay, Dr. Choi?

He'll take you to him.
- Dr. Choi, Stan Gallagher.

This is my wife, Debbie.
- What happened?

- Uh, Elliot got into
an altercation at school

and suffered an orbital
blowout fracture.

The eye surgeons want to
get him to surgery.

He's right here.

- [gasps]
- Oh, my God.

- Oh, my poor baby.

- Elliot, who did this to you?

- He's still a little groggy
from the pain meds.

Why don't we let him rest
while we talk?

- The bracelets you're wearing
have a sensor

which registers when you feed,
bathe, or diaper the baby.

If you shake the baby
to stop its crying,

it will shut down and register
as being abused.

- Are you a real doctor?

- Sometimes I wonder.

Uh, anyways, recent studies have
shown that talking, reading,

and singing to babies is crucial
for early brain development,

80% of which occurs during
the first three years of life.

These dolls record the amount
of time you spend doing

these activities, so, obviously,
the more, the better.

- Need anything, Dr. Reese?

- Uh, no, I'm fine, Mr. Sexton.

[sighs]
Any questions?

- I don't get it.

We're supposed to be
talking to a doll?

[laughter]

- Or reading or singing, mm-hmm.

Any other questions?

- What operating system
are the dolls on?

- I don't know, and, really,
why is that relevant?

- I have PE today.
What should I do

with the doll then?
- That is a problem

you will have to deal with.

The point of this is to
understand the impact having

a baby would have on your life.

I will see you all
at the end of the day

to check on your dolls.

- So a kid got beat up.

What does he need
a psychiatrist for?

- Well, Elliot was caught
peeping on girls

in the shower at school.
- Oh, my God.

- Wait till I get him home.

- But much more troubling
are some violent impulses

that, so far,
he hasn't acted upon.

- And there is something
we can do.

- Elliot wants us to give him
a medication that would

turn off his testosterone.

This would significantly
decrease his sex drive

and make it much easier for him
to control these impulses,

but we do need
your permission to do it.

- "Turn off his testosterone"?

What exactly are you
talking about?

- The medical term
is chemical castration.

- What?
- It's completely reversible.

The idea would be to combine it
with traditional therapy

with the hope of ultimately
weaning him off the medication.

- No, no way.

- Elliot could very well
be on the verge of acting out

on some very disturbing
impulses, including rape.

- He would never do
anything like that.

- You people are sick.

- Again, this was
your son's idea.

- Elliot is torn up about this.

He's scared he may not
be able to stop himself.

- This is ridiculous.

Fix his eye,
and we're taking him home.

- Where's your dad?
- The restroom.

- He shouldn't be up
after his cath.

He couldn't use a bedpan?

- Practically threw it
at my head.

- [coughing]

[groans]

[coughing]

- I'm here if you need me.

- I won't.

- So, Mr. Halstead, the results
of your cardiac cath show

that your heart has been
under stress for so long

from the mitral valve
regurgitation

that it's basically giving up.

- This is why I told you
to get it checked regularly.

If we knew about the regurge, we
could've gotten ahead of this.

- Yeah, so what?
I'll fix it now.

- Well, there's another issue,
unfortunately.

Your left anterior descending
artery is 80% blocked.

Now, that is the largest artery.

It supplies half the heart
with blood.

- The question is "Am I done?"

- I can do a surgical
replacement of the valve,

and, while I'm in there,
do a bypass

for the blocked artery.

- Are you talking
open heart surgery?

- It would involve opening
your chest, yes.

Now, if you wanted to go
non-surgical, a cardiologist

could place a clip
on the mitral valve to try

and control the regurge

and do angioplasty to open up
the blocked artery.

- Do you have
a good cardiologist?

- We do, but I--
I strongly recommend

that you let me operate.

- The long-term results
of surgery are much better.

- Mm-hmm, exactly.

- I'm going non-surgical.

- Pop--
- Hey, if you don't like it,

you don't have to be here.

- Fine.

- I'll set it up.

- Yeah.

- Hey.

Now, you know I should be
cracking his chest, right?

So why did you give in?

- Hey, you're the one who gave
him the non-surgical option.

- No, I laid out
his choices, Will.

I pushed for the surgery.
- Not hard enough.

- You're his son.

You should be the one
trying to convince him.

- He won't listen to me.

My dad considers me
something of a disappointment.

Oh, yeah, he didn't even
want me to go to college.

Says a real man
goes right to work.

He doesn't give a damn
what I have to say.

- So why don't you get Jay
to try to talk to him?

- It won't help.

.

- Everything's
coming back normal.

Maybe we're dealing with some
sort of weird vasculitis.

Henoch-Schonlein purpura or
Kawasaki disease?

- Or possibly an infectious
disease or rickettsia

like Rocky Mountain Fever--
[splattering]

- Chocky, now!
- It's okay, baby.

We'll get you some chocky.

- Uh, the chocolate milk
never came?

- No, the cafeteria was out,
and he won't drink the plain.

- Well, you can't fault
a kid for knowing

what he likes, right?
- Is there something else

that he likes?

- Graham crackers.
When I get home at night,

all he wants is chocolate milk
and graham crackers.

It's hard not to give in
when it's late, and I'm tired.

- Let me go see what I can find.

- Uh, you said
he's picky at night.

Is he better during the day?

- I'm pretty sure
he eats other things.

- Pretty sure?

- He has a couple sitters.

The neighbor's kid,
the woman upstairs.

It's possible they're not
as firm as they ought to be.

I can't afford daycare.

- I understand.

I'm gonna send a nurse in
to draw blood for one more test.

- Mr. and Mrs. Gallagher,
I need to get Elliot up

to pre-op holding.

The eye surgeon will be
calling for him any minute.

- We'll be in the waiting room.

- I'm guessing your parents
told you they wouldn't approve

the chemical castration.

- No, but my mom read me
Thessalonians 4:3.

God's will is for you
to be holy,

so stay away from sexual sin
and immorality.

- Both Dr. Charles
and I tried,

but since you're still a minor--

- Yeah, I figured.
All right, whatever.

- Look, I'll talk
to Dr. Charles

and see if we can come up
with some other options.

- All right, numbers look good.

- Breathing great.

Feel like I could
pitch nine innings.

- It's what every team wants--
a 60-something starter

with a bum ticker.

- At least nobody had to
cut my chest open to fix it.

Admit it, kid, I was right.
You got that fancy degree,

but I'm still the one
calling the shots.

- I didn't say this course
of treatment wouldn't work.

I was more concerned
with the long-term.

- That right?

'Cause to me it looks like
you're back-pedaling so much

you're gonna start sweating.

- Oh, believe me, that is
the last you'll hear about it.

- Yeah.

Well, since you made me
miss the end of the game,

let's see if I can
find some highlights.

- I guess I should
start with an apology.

- And for the foreseeable--
- The cleanest, whitest white.

[knocking]

- Yeah?

- Hey, Dr. Charles,
you--you got a second?

- Uh, yeah, kind of.
- Okay.

I'm worried about Robin.

She--she's not acting
like herself.

- Hmm.

- She is, uh, she's convinced
that there's rats in my condo,

but I haven't seen them
or heard them,

and no exterminator
can find them.

- Rats can be pretty clever.

- Not that clever.

And, aside from that,
lately I--there are times

when I find Robin
just staring off into space.

- Well, I mean,
that's not that odd.

I mean, I do that all the time.

It must be a family trait.
- I think it's more than that.

- How so?

- Like I said, she's not
acting like herself.

I--I just feel like
there's something off with her.

- Well, I mean, there is
that new living situation.

Cohabitation can be
awful stressful.

- Dr. Charles, I hope you
realize that I wouldn't have

come here if I didn't think
this was important.

- And you know what?
I appreciate that,

but I was supposed to be
on a conference call, like,

two minutes ago,
so can we pick this up later?

- Yeah, all right, you bet.

Well, thank you for your time.

- Thank you.

[door slams]

- Did you find anything?

- We did.

- Based on Troy's limited diet,
we checked his vitamin C levels.

The results show
a significant deficiency.

- Well below normal.

Troy has scurvy.

It's what's causing
his symptoms.

- I don't understand.
Scurvy?

Isn't that something
sailors used to get?

- It was, historically,
but anybody with

prolonged dietary
deficiencies is susceptible.

- Well, how is that possible?

- We were surprised too.

It's not something we see.

It's been all but eradicated
in developed countries

because it's easily preventable
with a balanced diet.

- You mean he's sick
because of what he eats?

- More like what he doesn't eat.

It's a parent's job, Ms. Bohlen,
to make sure their children

get nutritious foods.
- Excuse me?

- This never should
have happened.

You should have been
monitoring Troy's diet.

- That's easy for you to say.

You know nothing about my life.

I work two jobs
to support my son.

I am gone from 6:00 a.m.
to 8:00 at night.

You have no right to judge.

I would do anything
to protect him.

- Excuse me.

Please explain the course
of treatment.

- Mr. Halstead,
I'm Sharon Goodwin,

executive director of
patient and medical services.

I thought I should say hello.

- Well, how you doing?

- Well, better question is,
how are you doing?

- Oh, other than a lack of
sports channels in this place,

I'm feeling pretty all right.

- You know, we think quite
highly of your son around here.

- Oh, kid's got you snowed, huh?

- You know,
you look a little pale.

Are you sure
you're feeling okay?

- I'm fine.

- Page Dr. Rhodes.

I'm concerned about
your breathing.

I'm gonna increase your oxygen.

- What happened?
- He's throwing runs of PVCs.

- Give him the ultrasound.

How you feeling, Mr. Halstead?

- Like I just told her,
I'm feeling fine.

- I don't think you're doing
as well as you say you are.

- Why don't we have a look, huh?

Half the mitral valve
clip came off.

It's flopping around.
We need to get you to surgery.

- Can you fix it?
Like before?

- No, we can't.
We need to operate, and quickly.

If the other half comes loose,
the clip could end up

in your brain or somewhere else
you definitely don't want it.

- Wait--
- This is not up

for discussion, Mr. Halstead.
- No, just--

just don't tell Will.
I don't wanna have to

hear him crowing.
- We won't, but I'm afraid

.

- Sorry, hold on.

- Hey, what's up?

- I can't find my wallet.

- Oh, let me get it.

My coffee, her yogurt.

Come on, go sit down.

- I think someone stole it.

Oh, my God, now I'm going to
have to cancel my credit cards

and get a new driver's license.

[sighs]

- That it?
- Oh, thank God.

- Ah, the old side pocket.

Is everything okay, honey?

- Damn it, Dad,
I know that look.

You're trying to shrink me.

- We're just talking.
We're having some coffee--

- No, we're not just talking.
You never just talk to me.

It is always a psych evaluation.
- Robin, come on.

- Just because you are
a head case, Dad,

does not mean that I am.

Stop looking for things
that aren't there.

- Thank you for
your participation.

Thank you for
your participation.

Thank you for your
participation.

Thank you.
Uh, Marla, would you

hang back a sec?
- Uh, sure.

- Yeah, okay.

Your score, very impressive.
- Thanks.

- You fed it regularly at
two-hour intervals

and verbally interacted
a total of six hours.

- You said more was better.

- Uh, how did you have time
to do anything else?

- Uh, multi-tasking.

- You hacked your doll.

- What?
No.

- Okay, just because I am 26,
don't think I am some old fool.

This score is impossible.

Marla.

- Yeah, I hacked it.

- [sighs]

- Don't worry, Mr. Halstead.

We're gonna get
that mitral valve fixed.

- Damn it.
The kid was right.

Not so much
a kid anymore, is he?

- No.

- Did you know he put himself
through college?

I told him--told him
it was a waste of time

and damned if I was
gonna pay for it.

- Well, I'm sure
you're very proud of him.

- That doesn't even
begin to say it.

He made something of his life.

He's a better man than I am.

- I don't think
he feels that way, sir.

And I'm sure that he wouldn't
want you to either.

We need to get started,
Mr. Halstead, are you ready?

- Yeah.

- I spoke to the surgeon.
Everything went great.

Once the dressing
is off, your vision

should be back to normal.

I'll be back in a bit
to check on you.

- Hey.
- Hey.

I went off on that boy's mom.
- Oh?

- But it was really about me.
- Mm.

- I wasn't mad at her.
I was mad at myself.

Am I a horrible mother?

- Yes, you are.

Nat, you're just having
working mom's guilt.

- Relax, man, Dad's
too stubborn to die.

- Any word?

- Not yet.

I heard you were there
when he went back into failure.

- Mm-hmm.
- Thanks for jumping in.

- Well, it's good to flex
the nursing muscles

every now and then.

- He did great.

Brand new mitral valve
is fully functioning.

Shouldn't give him
any more problems.

- Told you.
Thanks, man.

- You got it.
- Nice work, Dr. Rhodes.

- Well, I'm gonna
head back to the house

'cause he's probably
gonna need some stuff.

- Mm-hmm.
- All right?

- See you, Jay.
- Yeah.

- Thanks, Connor.

If my dad hadn't
pulled through...

- Yeah.

I gotta say, man,
what you guys have?

It's pretty great.

- Are you serious?

All we do is fight.

- Yeah, well, me and my dad--
we barely even talk.

- That doesn't sound
too bad to me.

- Take my word for it, Will.

You got a good thing going.

- Elliot?

[knocking]

Elliot?

[door slams]

Elliot, what are you doing?

- She looked cold.

- Step away from her.

Now.

Elliot.

Elliot.
Elliot, open the door.

Page security!

Elliot!
- [screams]

- Elliot?
- [screaming]

[screaming]

- I need a gurney
with soft restraints

and some ABD pads.
- [screaming]

- Get me some ice and 50 mics
fentanyl IV now,

and page urology.
- [sobbing]

- Just relax,
Elliot, Elliot, Elliot.

.

- The procedure to repair
the testicles is complicated,

but the urologist is optimistic.

- How did this happen?

What did we do?

- You know, in my experience,
there's actually

very little to be gained from
looking backwards.

The important thing to focus on
is "what do you do now?"

- Hey.

I just saw Natalie.

She told me your dad's
in the hospital.

- Yeah, mitral valve
and blockage.

He should be awake now.

I'm headed up.

- Will, I'm glad
he's doing well,

but how come I had to hear it
from Natalie and not you?

- Yeah, sorry.

It's been a little crazy.

- You had time to tell her.

- Listen, why don't you
come with me?

If Dad's up for it,
I'll introduce you.

- No, just let me know
how he's doing.

- I will.

[knocking]

- Yeah?
- Am I interrupting?

- Actually, I'm glad
you're here.

I have something to show you.

Proof that we have got rats.

I picked up some of
their droppings.

I don't understand.
They were--they were here.

They were here!

Weren't they?

- Honey, I'm saying this
as a dad, not a shrink.

I would just feel a whole lot
better if we could get somebody

to, you know, take a--
take a look at you.

What do you say?

- Okay.
- Okay.

- So did you flunk her?

- No, I couldn't.
- Mm.

- She was overwhelmed.

She's taking all these
AP courses and doing

all that extracurricular stuff
that you gotta do

to get into a good college.
- Man, I hear you.

Math Club?
A lot of better ways

to spend my time.
- Mm-hmm.

And the thing is,
I did it too.

I hacked my doll
when I was in high school

'cause I was overwhelmed.
- Nice.

- I mean, to tell you
the truth, Noah, the real reason

I don't wanna have kids
is it's too hard.

I--How is anybody
supposed to do it all?

- Nah, you'd be good at it.
- Why do you say that?

- I watched you.

You're like that girl,
cagey, resourceful.

- You can't hack
a real baby, Noah.

- Yeah, you're right, all right.
- And what do you mean,

you watched me?

- You know.

- Hey.
- Hey.

- I heard your dad's doing well.

- Yeah, I'm sure he's making
the nurses miserable.

- They can handle it.

- I better get up there.

- Okay.

- We're waiting for a bed,

then we'll transfer
Troy upstairs.

- We're gonna get you feeling
better soon, okay, buddy?

- It takes a few weeks
to get back to normal,

but his prognosis is good.

He should have a full recovery.

- You waiting for a thank you?

- One of our social workers is
gonna come in and talk to you

about nutrition,
help you with Troy's diet.

- [scoffs]

- And I'm sorry.

I know it isn't easy holding
everything together.

And, to tell you the truth,
every day,

I worry if I'm doing right
by my kid, so.

- Okay.

Thanks.

- All right.
Hang in there, champ.

- Hey, Pop, how you feeling?

- Like I took one on the chin.

- You kind of did.

Maybe now, if something's
cooked in bacon grease,

you'll think twice?

You know, in fact,
we need to have a talk

about all the junk food you eat.

And the beer.

What?
I mean it.

When we get home,
there're gonna be some changes.

- Thanks, kid.

- Yeah.

I love you.

- Love you too.

- Who is that?
Can you say hi?

Can you say hi?
- Hi.

- Can you say hi?
- Yes, oh.

[chuckles]