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01:00Your family didn't like to talk about the past.
01:02Pop, when did your father die?
01:05Uh, 1896.
01:07He drowned when I was two.
01:10He was a whaler.
01:11The whale won.
01:14Mostly because there wasn't much good to talk about.
01:17And his father?
01:18Drowned.
01:19And his?
01:21Lost at sea.
01:22Why?
01:23It's homework.
01:24We have to do a family tree.
01:26Good God.
01:26What would you want to do a family tree for?
01:29You spend all that time and money trying to find out where you came from,
01:32and there's been twice as much trying to cover it all back up again.
01:34The only time my parents looked back was to toss some salt over their shoulder.
01:38Oh, Mom?
01:38Hmm?
01:38Why don't your mother die?
01:39It's not nice to talk about the dead.
01:45I'm going to bed.
01:47What?
01:48Sorry, son.
01:50Our family tree is more like a shrub.
01:52An over-watered one at that.
01:55Good God.
01:56Who's called the house at this hour?
01:57See, the critches were fishermen from Liverpool.
02:00Now, my brother Moses, he didn't drown.
02:03He died of TB.
02:05Put that in there.
02:06Yeah.
02:06That's important.
02:07What's that again?
02:10Brandon.
02:11Huh?
02:12Uncle Brandon was a traveling salesman.
02:14He was always in trouble.
02:16What's he done now?
02:17It's not the police, is it?
02:19Oh, it's probably somebody looking for money.
02:22But he was still Pop's favorite.
02:24Just say he isn't here.
02:26He isn't here.
02:27Uh, look, I haven't seen Brandon in, uh...
02:30Let me have that again?
02:34Oh.
02:35Uh...
02:36Okay, well, thanks for letting us know.
02:39Goodbye.
02:41Well, what is it?
02:43What's the trouble the boy's got into now?
02:48He's dead.
02:52What?
02:57My family tree was losing leaves like it was the windiest day in autumn.
03:12The critch family plot was close to bursting, but there was just enough room for Uncle Brandon to slip in like the missing piece of a puzzle.
03:20Mike, shouldn't somebody say something?
03:22Uncle Brandon was, um...
03:41He was...
03:43Try as I might, I just couldn't make the tears come.
03:50And try as he might, my brother just couldn't stop them.
03:55Come on.
03:58I just spoke to Bucky.
04:00He tells me that the grave is packed tight.
04:03The only way we're gonna get poor Brendan in there is if we stick him in sideways.
04:08Good God!
04:09Shh, keep it down.
04:11Jeez.
04:14I always thought that I'd be in there alongside your mother.
04:18What about me?
04:20This is not about you.
04:22This is about me.
04:24You go ahead, Dad.
04:32I'll make sure it's done.
04:34You sure?
04:35Yeah.
04:36All right, everyone.
04:38Nothing to see here.
04:40Got some tiny sandwiches up at the house.
04:43Come on, girl.
04:44But we'll check in on our crowd before we go.
04:51Thanks.
04:52A cemetery trip was a family archivist's dream.
05:11I couldn't see the forest for the family trees.
05:13Uh, Mom?
05:16Yes, my love?
05:17Where's my grandmother?
05:18Her name's not on here.
05:20Why would her name be there?
05:21Say a prayer, Alice.
05:22You'll be in there soon enough.
05:26They just never added her name at all.
05:28She was a very private person.
05:32Now, give it up being morbid.
05:33You're on me last nerve.
05:35Alice, we're gone.
05:38Fine.
05:39Stay and water the flowers.
05:40Like Bucky the gravedigger,
05:42the more I dug,
05:43the more I uncovered.
05:44Oh, now look who's decided to show up fashionably late.
05:51I was burying my brother sideways next to my mother,
05:55whose coffin has held up pretty well, by the way.
05:56Boo-hoo-hoo, you big poodle.
05:59You couldn't even let your brother have his special day.
06:02Do you know what it was like for me to have to see all that?
06:04No, because I was here entertaining our company.
06:07I don't mean to interrupt,
06:09but, uh, Mr. Critch,
06:12Mike is the only son you have left.
06:14It's too late to change the past,
06:16but it isn't too late to adjust the future.
06:20Oh, jam-jams.
06:21Don't mind if I do.
06:23Mm.
06:25Yummy, yummy.
06:26Okay.
06:29Was I really a bad father?
06:31Oh, no, Dad.
06:33Brendan loved you.
06:35No, I don't mean to him.
06:36I mean to you.
06:39Oh.
06:40Well, uh,
06:42you did your best, Dad.
06:44No.
06:45No.
06:46No, I didn't.
06:48It's too late for Brendan and me now,
06:51but it's not too late for you and I.
06:55Come on.
06:57Mom?
06:58What, honey?
06:59What did my grandmother die from?
07:00Jesus Murphy.
07:01Have we not had enough death for one day?
07:04Go make yourself useful.
07:05Pass out those wieners.
07:07It was unlike my mother
07:08not to gossip about someone.
07:10Something was up.
07:11Vienna sausage?
07:12Ooh, Viennese.
07:14We don't get these in the rectory.
07:16Father, I'm researching my family tree
07:19and I'm missing some leaves.
07:21Does the church have births, deaths,
07:23that kind of thing?
07:24Well, that information is kind of private.
07:26It's not really for kids.
07:28Oh.
07:29Well, I...
07:31I guess I could supervise.
07:34Yeah.
07:35Hmm.
07:35There's plenty more where that came from.
07:39Use the bloody mitt!
07:41Pop was determined to make up for lost time.
07:44And with Dad,
07:45that meant starting over at the beginning.
07:48You sure you don't want to take your jacket off?
07:51Nice and easy.
07:52Oh, Jesus.
07:56Come on.
07:57This is a waste of time.
07:59Dislike father,
08:00dislike son.
08:01Even Jesus had a more detailed family tree than I did.
08:18Whoa.
08:26Nice tree.
08:28Very full.
08:29Photo albums,
08:30arrest records.
08:31It was easy.
08:32How's yours?
08:34I'm just having a little trouble
08:35finding where my grandmother is.
08:37I don't really know my name either.
08:39Yeah.
08:40Dad cashed her pension checks,
08:41so she's super pissed.
08:42Shut up, Nimrod.
08:44God.
08:45Uh, maybe we could help.
08:47That'd be great.
08:49I have a lead.
08:50We will leave no tombstone unturned.
08:55At Cole's funeral home,
08:57we want to help you to let your...
08:58Who should we leave the oven to?
09:02What?
09:03The oven.
09:03Who should get us?
09:05Why are you writing a will?
09:06The only one who gets any of our stuff
09:08when he dies is the bank.
09:10Why don't you just tell the boy
09:12where his grandmother is?
09:13No need to go stern all that up.
09:16But dead dogs lie.
09:18You can't change the past.
09:22We are gonna do something
09:24we should have done years ago.
09:26I'm gonna teach you how to fish.
09:31Come on.
09:31Come on.
09:32You'll love it.
09:35Sorry.
09:35Be happy.
09:44In every life,
09:45we have some trouble.
09:48But if you worry,
09:49you mix it double.
09:51Don't worry.
09:54Be happy.
09:57Jesus, Mike.
09:58Don't worry.
09:59Be happy.
10:00Don't worry.
10:06Be happy.
10:09Don't worry.
10:11Be happy.
10:14Frank, Mike.
10:15What's wrong?
10:16I miss Uncle Brennan.
10:21You know, he just got me.
10:22And now he's gone,
10:24and it's not fair.
10:26Never is.
10:28Brennan was good for a laugh.
10:30He wouldn't want to see you like this.
10:32No.
10:33Jesus, he'd be pretty embarrassed, huh?
10:35No, why?
10:36I've never seen anyone
10:40take to this place
10:41as quick as you.
10:42Brennan would be proud
10:43to be your uncle.
10:45I know I would be.
10:51Look, I got you something
10:52I've been meaning to give you.
10:53Oh, yeah?
10:53What is it?
10:55Not much time left in this song.
10:56Hang on.
11:03No way.
11:04You earned it.
11:05Well, come on.
11:07Try it on.
11:19Thanks, Uncle Dick.
11:23Oh, Jesus.
11:24I got it.
11:25Even priests can be tempted.
11:36Hey, you kids got to hurry up.
11:37If Brother Angel comes back,
11:38he'll crucify me.
11:42I can't find her anywhere.
11:44She's a ghost.
11:45That's the point.
11:46She's dead.
11:48Do you mind?
11:48She's still my grandmother.
11:51She has to be in here somewhere.
11:52We found a birth certificate.
11:54And what's this all about, anyway?
11:57Well, my mom says her mom's buried in her plot,
12:00but I can't find her there or anywhere.
12:03Well, there's an explanation for everything.
12:05Like turning water into wine?
12:08Well, there might be more info
12:10in the parish secretum,
12:11but that's off limits.
12:14Please, Father, just this once?
12:16I'm sorry, buddy.
12:17I wish I could help,
12:17but even I don't know what's in there.
12:19Found it.
12:21Holy crap.
12:23Oh, no.
12:24Uh.
12:25Okay, give that to me.
12:26I...
12:27Give it?
12:27I don't know.
12:28Give it to me.
12:29What's it say?
12:31Nothing.
12:32It's stupid.
12:32Your nan was divorced.
12:36Divorce.
12:37The only Catholic D word worse than death.
12:40And she remarried.
12:41Catholics can't remarry.
12:44She changed religions.
12:45So we just have to check
12:46the Protestant cemetery now, right?
12:49No.
12:50She won't be there.
12:51Why not?
12:54Because she's not dead.
12:56Jesus Christ.
12:57Be with you.
13:12I should have taught you
13:14how to fish years ago.
13:16What?
13:17I can't hear anything
13:18over that bloody engine.
13:20Make them break.
13:21Old and reliable,
13:23just like me.
13:24What are you at?
13:28Asshole.
13:31I wish we were on that one.
13:32What?
13:34Forget it,
13:34you deaf old coot.
13:36Exactly.
13:37Like, sit down, lab.
13:40Okay, here we go.
13:50Mom?
13:51Christ, on a crocker,
13:52you scared the bejesus out of me.
13:53I have a question.
13:54I don't want to hear it.
13:56You come from a long line
13:58of dead people,
13:58that's all you need to know.
14:00I promise I won't ask
14:01where my grandmother
14:01is buried again.
14:02Oh, thank God for that.
14:05So, where does she live?
14:10Enough.
14:11I have got that much
14:13to do today.
14:14Stop lying.
14:15She isn't dead.
14:16She isn't even Catholic.
14:18What kind of mother lies
14:19about a kid's grandmother
14:20being dead?
14:22Well, she's dead to me.
14:23What kind of mother?
14:27Wow.
14:29The kind of mother
14:30didn't have one, I guess.
14:31Mom, please.
14:32Oh, hi.
14:36The only thing I ever wanted
14:38to keep from you
14:38was pain.
14:40My parents divorced
14:42when I was seven years old.
14:44The nuns looked at me
14:45like I was the devil's own,
14:47which...
14:47I suppose I was.
14:50Mom, I'm sorry.
14:52I won't...
14:52No, Ducky,
14:53I don't want to be
14:53the kind of mother
14:54who lies.
14:56I had enough of that
14:56myself.
15:00So,
15:01one day,
15:03my mother just
15:04packed a bag
15:04and I laughed
15:05like she was going
15:07to the store.
15:09I begged her
15:10to take me with her,
15:11but she just
15:12pushed me down
15:13and told me
15:14to stay where I was.
15:17Being a good girl,
15:18I listened to her.
15:21I never saw
15:21hiding her hair
15:22on my mother again.
15:23Looking at the hurt
15:25in my mother's eyes,
15:26I realized
15:27that some things
15:28stay buried
15:28for a reason.
15:31You want to know
15:32where she is?
15:34She married a clerk
15:35and she lives
15:36on Forest Road.
15:39You said
15:40never to go there.
15:41Nothing but
15:42skeets and hussies.
15:43I didn't lie to you
15:44about that.
15:49You knew
15:49where she was
15:50all this time
15:51and you never
15:51even called her?
15:52She's your mother.
15:55I know
15:56when I'm not wanted.
16:00If there was
16:01one thing
16:02I was good at,
16:03it was making
16:03things worse.
16:05All right,
16:05let it hit the bottom,
16:07bring it up
16:07a couple of feet
16:08and then start
16:09to check it.
16:09That's what I'm doing.
16:11Jerk it.
16:12Jerk,
16:13don't you know anything.
16:14I suppose
16:14if Brandon was here now,
16:15he'd just walk out
16:16on the water
16:17and the fish
16:17would just start
16:18jumping in his boat.
16:19All right.
16:19Come on.
16:20Ow.
16:21Oh,
16:21you've got it
16:22caught on the bottom,
16:23you bloody jinker.
16:25You're the one
16:25with the jigger.
16:26You know,
16:27this was a mistake.
16:28Here,
16:28we can finally agree
16:29on something for once.
16:34Oh,
16:35Jesus.
16:36Now,
16:37it's completely seized.
16:40I can't move that.
16:42Can't you fix it?
16:42Fix it?
16:43I don't know anything
16:44about boats.
16:46Well,
16:47what are we going to do now?
16:47We're drifting out to sea.
16:49I suppose it's the
16:50Critch curse
16:51finally caught up with this.
16:53Well,
16:53it figures
16:54and the plot's full.
17:03That must be her.
17:04I was laying eyes
17:06on my grandmother
17:07for the first time
17:08in a stakeout.
17:11I bet those bags
17:12are full of grandma stuff.
17:14Like cookies
17:14and hard candy.
17:16What are you going to do?
17:18Going in.
17:19Wait.
17:20This doesn't feel right.
17:21What,
17:22are you crazy?
17:23She's his grandma.
17:25She's going to hug him
17:26and feed him
17:26and kiss him.
17:28Trust me,
17:28not all families
17:29are like the ones
17:30you see on TV.
17:30I'm not doing this
17:33for me.
17:34I'm doing it
17:35for mom.
17:46When's Brandon's birthday?
17:48If you don't know
17:49when your own brother's
17:50birthday is.
17:51October 2nd.
17:53And when's mine?
17:56What?
17:58Oh.
17:59In the summer.
18:00What?
18:08Look,
18:09I was easier
18:11on Brandon
18:12because he needed
18:13me more.
18:15You were,
18:15you were more
18:16self-sufficient.
18:17You didn't need me.
18:19And now,
18:21I mean,
18:22do you know
18:22how hard it is
18:23for a father
18:24to be dependent
18:25on his son?
18:26Dad,
18:26it's not like that.
18:27I never had a father.
18:29I didn't know
18:29what it was
18:30to be one.
18:32But seeing you
18:33with your boys,
18:36now I know.
18:37You were
18:38a great-grandfather.
18:40Oh, well.
18:42Little Mark,
18:43he's just like
18:44you were
18:44at that age.
18:45You know,
18:50maybe God
18:51does give
18:51second chances.
18:55I think I got
18:56something.
18:56What do I do?
18:57What do I do?
18:57Bring it up.
18:58Hand over hand.
18:58That's it.
18:59Hand over hand.
19:00Come on.
19:00Hand over hand.
19:01You got it.
19:01Oh!
19:01We did it.
19:06No,
19:07you did it.
19:09Well done.
19:15Oh,
19:16shit.
19:18Look.
19:20Is he all right?
19:21Fine,
19:21thanks.
19:22Moving on.
19:23No,
19:23no,
19:23wait,
19:24wait,
19:24wait,
19:24we need a tow.
19:26Yeah,
19:26all right.
19:27The motor's
19:27just a little
19:28trouble.
19:28I could fix it,
19:29but the lad here,
19:31he's a nervous
19:31nelly.
19:34I had lost
19:37an uncle
19:37and was about
19:38to gain
19:38a grandmother.
19:41Oh,
19:42we don't
19:42donate
19:43at the door.
19:44Oh,
19:44Joanna Clark?
19:45Yes?
19:47My name's
19:47Mark Critch.
19:49We haven't met
19:50before,
19:50but I believe
19:51I'm your grandson.
19:53Who's at the door?
19:54Just someone
19:56looking for
19:56donations.
19:58Get rid of them.
19:59What do you want?
20:01Money?
20:03No,
20:03I just
20:04wanted
20:05to meet you.
20:07Well,
20:08you met me.
20:09Joanna?
20:11Some things
20:11are better left
20:12buried in the past.
20:13I have a new life now.
20:15Don't
20:15come back here
20:16again.
20:24The door
20:25closed more
20:26firmly
20:26than Uncle
20:27Brendan's
20:27coffin lid.
20:35Mom
20:36had come
20:36looking for me
20:37and good thing
20:38too.
20:38She'd been hurt
20:39by her mother
20:39before
20:40and this apple
20:41hadn't fallen far
20:42from the family tree.
20:44You were right.
20:46She doesn't want
20:47to know me.
20:56You okay?
20:57Yeah.
21:03Oh, for God's sake!
21:06Remember me?
21:10No point
21:11digging up
21:12old bones.
21:12You never
21:13even told
21:14him about
21:14me,
21:14did you?
21:16You'll
21:17bet.
21:19Hi there!
21:21I'm just
21:21her daughter
21:22from the
21:22first marriage.
21:23Surprise!
21:23She's not
21:24the vestal
21:24virgin,
21:25you thought.
21:26Have fun
21:27with that.
21:28You
21:28little
21:28bitch.
21:30No.
21:31It's
21:32critch.
21:39You know,
21:40you may not
21:40have missed
21:41out on much
21:41with me.
21:42But you
21:43sure
21:43missed out
21:44on my
21:44boys.
21:45Well,
21:46that's
21:46your loss,
21:47not theirs.
21:49Come on,
21:50kids,
21:50we're going
21:50home.
21:57Every
21:57family has
21:58a story.
21:59Some say
22:00we're who
22:00we are
22:00because of
22:01who we
22:01come from.
22:02I disagree.
22:03We decide
22:04who we are
22:05and who
22:05our family
22:06is.
22:06You live
22:07as long
22:07as you're
22:08remembered.
22:09To me,
22:10my family
22:13will live
22:13forever.
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