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00:00This is not true, is it?
00:05We're visiting his dad's family.
00:18Run!
00:30Every morning, for as long as I can remember, I have had the same dream.
00:46Or perhaps, it is a memory.
00:51It's evening, and I am in the back seat of a moving car.
00:56Another child sits beside me, on my right.
01:00Is this a boy or a girl?
01:03How old is he?
01:05What is her name?
01:07I am cold and hungry.
01:11The world wishes by in blurs of color and night.
01:16Am I at a hospital?
01:18Why was I brought here?
01:22Calm down.
01:23Don't worry.
01:30Hi, honey.
01:31Come on, honey.
01:32I hope he's finally okay.
01:35Someone's sure you're not okay.
01:40You have to sit.
01:42I will control her.
01:44I will.
01:45If you can't control her, I will.
01:48No.
01:52No.
01:55Wigit here.
01:57No, hey, honey.
01:58We are akin.
01:59No, believe me.
02:00It never raft the ride again.
02:02Someone else came and let her die.
02:03So, let's get sugar in the water.
02:04Can we bring her?
02:05No holiday?
02:06No.
02:11No weekend, please!
02:12Hey!
02:13It never raft your boat to meet,
02:16For every morning after that dream, and for as long as I can remember, I would peer into
02:31the bathroom mirror in search for clues to answer the questions that had haunted me my
02:36whole life.
02:37Where had I come from?
02:44Whom did I look like?
02:48Where did these eyes come from?
02:52And most importantly of all, where were my mother and father?
02:56But that magnificent piece of glass always kept its secrets.
03:07My only leads were the mysterious scars and bruises that covered me.
03:12A story had been written upon me, and a violent one at that.
03:16But it was a tale I neither remembered nor understood.
03:22One day, I will understand these images that live in the gray somewhere between memory and dream.
03:30Theven Clackiewicz, you shut that water off, get dressed and get down here!
03:39Yes ma'am.
03:40Don't you scream in this house boy, don't you dare scream!
03:42Don't you scream.
03:57Here you go!
03:57You're right!
03:58You were supposed to be so nice!
03:59And you're supposed to be so challenging!
04:01You're right!
04:02It's very difficult!
04:03And you need to be so gentle!
04:05You're right, I won't be so happy!
04:06You're not supposed to be so silly!
04:07You're right!
04:08But who is so single?!
06:12Those homes were compensated for taking me in.
06:16And the truth was, I meant little more to them than that.
06:19But the Robinson family was supposed to be different.
06:30Boy, get your ass down here!
06:37You mean to tell me that one day if the school's out for the summer, some high school counselor
06:56wants to see your light-eyed ass in his office this morning.
07:01Some counselor?
07:03Don't be smart with me.
07:12Smart with me.
07:14Why he wants to see you?
07:19I don't know who you're talking about.
07:22Mr. Sykes called last night.
07:24Teacher's pet's in trouble.
07:26I don't know why he wants to see me.
07:29I didn't do anything.
07:31More eggs willing.
07:33I think little Mr. Bookworm's been talking too much at school.
07:37Have you been talking too much, Steve?
07:41No, ma'am.
07:43I don't know why.
07:44Because if you have...
07:45Because if you have...
07:48Rule number five...
07:50No one will ever take my word over yours.
07:58Why?
07:59Make him say it.
08:00Make him do it, mama.
08:01Ha, ha, ha.
08:02Rule number four.
08:03Because I am dumb and ugly.
08:04There's something wrong with me.
08:05And everyone knows this.
08:06Make him do number eight.
08:07Please.
08:08Rule number eight.
08:09Rule number eight.
08:10Will he?
08:11No one will ever want me.
08:12Will he?
08:13No one will ever want me.
08:14Rule number four.
08:15Because I am dumb and ugly.
08:17There's something wrong with me.
08:18And everyone knows this.
08:19Make him do number eight.
08:20Please.
08:21Rule number eight.
08:25Rule number eight.
08:30Rule number eight.
08:33Will he?
08:38No one will ever want me.
08:41Especially not my own mother or father.
08:45Thanks, mama.
08:46That one's my favorite.
08:56What you're doing, you're still standing there.
08:59Go away from me.
09:08Hey.
09:09Hey.
09:10That makes me late.
09:11Come on, let's go.
09:12Get in.
09:13Hey.
09:14Hey.
09:15Hey.
09:16That makes me late.
09:17Come on, let's go.
09:18Get in.
09:19Hey.
09:20Hey.
09:21Hey.
09:22That makes me late.
09:23Come on, let's go.
09:24Get in.
09:27You got no idea why this Mr. Sykes, he wants to see you this morning.
09:42You got no idea why this Mr. Sykes, he wants to see you this morning?
09:55No, sir.
09:56Look, I can't be late.
09:58Understand me?
09:58I can't be late.
10:00That's what a man does.
10:02Can't be late for work.
10:03That gives him his pride.
10:04That's what he am.
10:07Yes, sir.
10:12Well, they're right there.
10:15But what does it say?
10:17It says to buy eight gallons of bright red paint number four.
10:23I know that.
10:25I ain't stupid.
10:27I just have trouble sometimes with them big words.
10:34What does it say?
10:34It says that make sure you bring his laundry on your way in and you're fired.
10:49You know, if you ever wanted, I could show you.
10:54Show me what?
10:57How to read.
10:59It's just them big words.
11:02I could, I could help you with those big words if you ever want it.
11:16That's good.
11:20No good.
11:22You, um, you, you, you go in to Mr. Sykes.
11:28You tell him I, tell him I had a job to do.
11:31Yes, sir.
11:35I'm right after.
11:38He finds out later.
11:40You done something wrong.
11:43I'm going to have to beat that ass.
11:52Stephen.
11:53Hey.
11:54Come on in.
11:56Hey, come on in.
11:57Take a seat.
11:57Hey, kiddo.
12:01Hey.
12:03Mr. Sykes.
12:04John, please.
12:06Yes, sir.
12:07Did I do something wrong?
12:10No.
12:11No.
12:12Actually, you've done something really right.
12:15Your placement test numbers are great.
12:18They're better than great.
12:19Now, have you thought about what you want to do after high school?
12:25No.
12:26Now, I know it seems a long way off.
12:28It doesn't have to be.
12:29With your test scores, you could even skip a grade or two.
12:34College.
12:37Isn't, isn't, isn't that really expensive?
12:39It is, but that's why I would be like you to consider joining our Upward Bound program.
12:45The program helps provide under-resourced students with support to continue their education.
12:51Weekly tutoring, college planning, and the access to financial help.
12:56Scholarships.
12:57That's why I have these booklets.
12:59Southern Massachusetts University.
13:02UMass.
13:03And Boston College.
13:05Isn't that great?
13:05I would love that.
13:12You love it?
13:14It's great.
13:16That's what I was hoping you'd say.
13:17Now, I've prepared an application packet here.
13:21You just got to get your foster parents to fill out the forms and the PSAT application.
13:31I don't think they'll do that.
13:35Why wouldn't they?
13:38I cannot imagine anyone not wanting their child to be a part of my program.
13:48Miss Dotton?
13:49You two know each other?
13:51I mean, yes.
13:53Well, no.
13:54I mean, everybody knows Miss Dotton.
13:58Now, you stop that before it goes to my head.
14:00But I do believe we have met before.
14:06If memory serves, there was a very talented young speller a few years back who won the citywide spelling bee with Melody.
14:16Monicum.
14:18You were right.
14:19Monicum was the word.
14:21You remembered.
14:23Oh, honey, I remember.
14:24I remember a very big word for a very small boy.
14:29I remember a bright little boy up on that stage spelling words that I'd have to look up.
14:36And I thought to myself, this boy has a future.
14:41This boy will change the world.
14:44Mm-hmm.
14:46Now, what's this I hear about you not wanting to join our program?
14:49No, oh, I do.
14:50But I just don't think Miss Robinson will let me.
14:55Betty Robinson?
14:57Yes, ma'am.
14:58Uh.
14:59You leave Betty to me.
15:00You leave Betty to me.
15:30Your son returns.
15:33And what does he tell his mother?
15:35That he's moving out of state to take a job.
15:39What if she needs something?
15:42I guess that's just too bad for her, huh?
15:45Because her oldest is moving out of state for work.
15:48You hate your mama and daddy so much that you're leaving the state.
15:53It's not like that.
15:56I just have to do what I think is best.
15:59Well, go.
15:59See if I care.
16:03Thank God for Reggie and Lisa.
16:07We're going to adopt that girl, you know.
16:10I know, Mom.
16:11See, there's a child willing to take care of those who take care of her.
16:14I just wanted to stop by before I left.
16:22Look, I have a few things left in the basement.
16:24Is it all right if I go get them?
16:26Get them.
16:27And go!
16:28Oh, what the hell are you all smiles about?
16:52What did that counselor say you did?
16:56Nothing, nothing, ma'am.
16:57Nothing, nothing, ma'am.
16:59If it was nothing, he wouldn't be asking to see you when school was out.
17:01It's, it's, it's, it's, I, I, I, I did well on my placement test.
17:08Well, a placement test don't put food on the table or a roof over your head.
17:15No, no, ma'am.
17:16No.
17:16What you got there?
17:22An application for a placement program.
17:27And they could help me get into college.
17:31College?
17:33Well, you ain't getting into college.
17:37College.
17:38Who do you think you are?
17:40Some rich boy whose parents are going to pay for college?
17:43Send them off to Harvard and whatnot.
17:47Your parents don't even care enough to find out whether you're living or dying.
17:50Now, how's a little bastard like you're going to pay for college?
17:54They said they can help with that.
17:57Maybe, maybe a scholarship.
18:00A scholarship?
18:03Well, I guess you feel real special then, huh?
18:08Scholarship.
18:10Is, uh, that's, that what's, uh, in those forms there?
18:13Well, hand it over to me, yeah.
18:25Hmm.
18:26Didn't know they were going to give you a scholarship.
18:29All you, all you have to do is, is sign there and I'll, I'll fill up everything.
18:33Where?
18:36Here?
18:37Okay, um, where's that pen?
18:40Oh, here it is.
18:41There's your scholarship.
19:03Why'd you have to do that?
19:04I, I'll get to do with signing.
19:08I'll tell you, speak to me like that, you're good for nothing.
19:12You don't have a chance in the world of getting into college, let alone no goddamn scholarship.
19:17You're no good.
19:19You're always going to be no good.
19:21Just like your father.
19:22You heard me right.
19:29Boy, let me tell you something.
19:32After they killed your father, they broke into the funeral home and set his body on fire.
19:40They sure did.
19:41They hated him so much they had to roll a rock over his grave to make sure nobody dug up his body.
19:48He was no good.
19:49But, and let me tell you something right now, apple don't fall far from the tree.
19:55That's not true.
19:58Not far at all.
20:08You ain't even going to say goodbye to your mama.
20:13Bye, mama.
20:15But you're wrong.
20:17About what?
20:19Sometimes the apple does fall far from the tree.
20:22As far as it can get.
20:26I figured you'd be long gone by now.
20:45What'd you leave?
20:46When she'd go off on me like that, I'd take off.
20:53Didn't really whoop you?
20:55Sometimes.
20:56But if I gave her the day or two, he'd cool off.
21:00Still get a whooping, but some of the steam would be off it.
21:03I got nowhere to run to.
21:04I got nowhere to run to.
21:08Yeah.
21:11Look, what she said in there about Kenny being your father and dead.
21:16Kenny?
21:18Only one person died that way, and that was Kenny Pemberton.
21:21He was one of the best boxers the city's ever seen, but he got mixed up in some bad stuff and got killed in some kind of a fight.
21:30But I don't think he was your father, though.
21:33But she said he was...
21:34You know how she is.
21:36She was just being mean.
21:40But you're not sure.
21:43Kenny's still got a lot of family around.
21:45So if you were his son, I think one of them would have told us.
21:49You'll ask her for me, right?
21:55I could ask, but she wouldn't tell me.
22:06Steve, I'm leaving town.
22:08I'm going over to New Jersey for a job.
22:11You're leaving?
22:13I got a little man.
22:16And you will, too, one day.
22:19Just get Willie to sign those papers.
22:22You know he can't read, so just try to get him to do it when she's not around.
22:25Just tell him, you know, it's about...
22:27More money from the state.
22:30Hell, he'll sign ten forms for that.
22:36Just keep your head down, little man, okay?
22:38And when you graduate college, I expect an invite.
22:44I'll never forget that day.
22:46I would lose the only Robinson family member who ever showed me any kindness.
22:51On the Robinson meter, Eddie was always treated as an outsider,
22:55only slightly better than a foster child.
22:57An alienation I never fully understood.
23:00Steven, honey, come in the house!
23:02Oh, I know, Mrs. Dodden.
23:09I have tried everything I know to get Steve to try the program, but he simply refuses.
23:14Oh, well, I try to give my boys a better life, but I so hate to force them to do something
23:22that they don't want to do.
23:24Oh, oh, oh, here he is.
23:25Oh, I'll be happy to let you try.
23:28Mm-hmm.
23:29One second.
23:31You better tell her no, or there won't be enough of you left to go to that program.
23:35Hello?
23:47Yeah.
23:50No.
23:51Mr. Sykes told me how great of an opportunity this is, but I just don't think that it's right
24:05for me.
24:08Thank you, though.
24:09Like I told you, I can't make him do something he doesn't want to do.
24:21Well, yeah, of course I know the Reverend.
24:24No, I don't think it'd be necessary to have him come over and talk to me.
24:29Well, of course I'm the boy's guardian.
24:33I just don't think it'd be necessary.
24:39Wait, yes, you should.
24:48Oh, of course I agree.
24:50Mm-hmm.
24:51I'll make sure he's there.
24:53With the signed forms.
24:56Mm-hmm.
24:57Oh, but we need a new form.
25:00He was so insistent, he tore them up right in front of me.
25:06Okay.
25:07No, thank you.
25:10Bye-bye now.
25:11Mm-hmm.
25:14Get out of my sight.
25:16Go down to the cellar and don't come back till the morning.
25:19Get that form from her at 9 a.m. and be back here by 11 or they'll be hell to pay.
25:22The cellar was cold, musty, and dank.
25:27It was where I was sent, often for punishment.
25:30The cellar was storage space for many of the things the Robinsons had no further use for.
25:36These abandoned items had served their purpose, but the Robinsons held onto them, believing
25:42that someday, someone foolish enough to value them more, would come along and take them off their hands.
25:49To the Robinsons, the cellar was precisely where I belonged.
25:54It was a place for me to eat from my stash of hoarded pilfered food and to immerse myself in wonderful worlds of imagination.
26:09It was in the cellar I came to love books.
26:24The smell, the feel in my hands, and the thoughts that would whisk me away.
26:29When I felt resigned to what fate had dealt me, that I would forever be the Robinsons' prisoner,
26:35and that their world would be the only one I would ever know.
26:38The characters that unfolded in my books and the worlds they lived in showed me a different life,
26:44a future beyond the pain of the Robinsons' house.
26:47It was an amazing gift, and I owed it to Mrs. Levin.
26:52What are you reading there?
27:06Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Midnight Detective.
27:09Oh, the boy detective?
27:11Yes, ma'am.
27:12You like mysteries?
27:15Yes, ma'am. I like to figure out the mystery for myself.
27:19Now, if I remember, last week when I passed this way, you were reading that same book?
27:26Yes, ma'am.
27:28I like to go back and read it all over again.
27:35Apparently you've read that one a few times.
27:40Six.
27:42I see.
27:43Oh, hello.
28:09Oh, that's very sweet of you.
28:13I'll make sure he gets them.
28:15If it's all the same, I would like to give them to him myself.
28:18Of course.
28:20Stevie, honey, come here.
28:22Do you remember me?
28:33I thought you might like these.
28:36Oh.
28:37These are for the boy who likes to read.
28:41What do you say?
28:43Can I keep them?
28:45Of course you can.
28:47Nothing better than a good book.
28:49Oh, except the good book, that is.
28:53Say thank you to the nice lady.
28:58My pleasure.
29:00The first book I read was Watership Down, and it was my favorite.
29:05I would read it over and over again.
29:07I found kinship in the rabbits of Watership Down.
29:14They became my childhood friends, the only ones I was allowed to have.
29:19For Hazel and his followers, it was never a question of if they would find home.
29:24It was simply a matter of when.
29:26We need daylight.
29:30To that extent, it's utilitarian.
29:33But moonlight we do not need.
29:37When it comes, it serves no necessity.
29:43It transforms.
29:44It falls upon the banks in the grass, separating one long blade from another,
29:53turning a drift of brown, frosted leaves from a single heap
29:57to innumerable flashing fragments,
30:02glimmering lengthways along wet twigs as the light itself reduct on.
30:07Its long beams pour white and sharp between the trunks of trees,
30:13their clarity fading as they recede them to the powdery,
30:16misty distance of beechwoods at night.
30:19In moonlight, two acres of coarse, bent grass,
30:23undulant and ankle-deep,
30:25tumbled and rough as a horse's mane,
30:28appear like a bay of waves, all shadowy troves and hollows.
30:32The growth is so thick and matted that even the wind is not moving.
30:37But it is the moonlight that seems to confer stillness upon it.
30:46We do not take moonlight for granted.
30:49It is like snow or like the dew on a July morning.
30:53It does not reveal but changes what it covers.
30:56And its low intensity, so much lower than that of daylight,
31:01makes us conscious that it is something added to the down.
31:04To give it, for only a little time,
31:07a singular and marvelous quality
31:09that we should admire while we can.
31:13For soon, it will be gone again.
31:15Review part two of the prep book,
31:41and we'll go over that later this week, all right?
31:44Got it?
31:45Any questions?
31:46No, no, I got it.
31:48You guys are going to help me with entrance exams
31:51exams, and you're also going to help me
31:54with essays and notes and things like that.
32:00Yeah, things like that, right?
32:04Mr. Sykes?
32:05John.
32:06You mean John?
32:07Sorry.
32:08If I wanted to write a report on someone,
32:13and I didn't have much information,
32:16maybe just a name,
32:18where would I start?
32:20Just a name.
32:22Well, maybe the encyclopedia.
32:25Well, what if that person wasn't famous enough
32:30for an encyclopedia?
32:34Just locally.
32:36Where would I go?
32:39Locally.
32:40You could always interview the person.
32:44What if they're dead?
32:48There's always your obituaries.
32:49That's the place to start.
32:50You can always look those up at the library
32:53on microfesh, but you need a date of death,
32:56and I guess you could find that out
32:57with a death certificate request at City Hall.
33:01Thanks, John.
33:04No problem, Steve.
33:06Hey, Steve.
33:09You know, we're not just here for your education.
33:15I thought that's what the program was for.
33:20If you ever need someone to talk to,
33:24if you ever needed someone, you know, to talk to,
33:27you know what my office is, right?
33:32Hey, Steve, you like to read, right?
33:35Yes, sir.
33:36I mean, John.
33:38This used to be one of my favorites.
33:40Billy Budd by Melville.
33:41Here, you read it.
33:43You can go over it for the critical reading portion
33:45of the test and the math part, okay?
33:47Great.
33:48And don't forget, I need those forms back, okay?
33:51Noon, tomorrow.
33:57Okay, I'll see you.
33:58Come on, baby girl.
34:25I'm just talking about dinner.
34:30Look, look at this face.
34:32See this serious face?
34:34Oh, come on.
34:35Come on.
34:36Dinner, dancing, that's all.
34:38You're pushing it.
34:39I know a great place.
34:40Hi.
34:43Hi.
34:45Can I help you?
34:46I need the death certificate
34:48for a man who lived in New Bedford.
34:55His name was Kenny Pemberton.
34:58I don't know when he died.
35:03What would a young boy like you
35:05be looking for a death certificate for?
35:09Well, my school's doing a report
35:12on some New Bedford history,
35:15so I'm doing mine on local boxers.
35:18Mm-hmm.
35:20What school do you go to?
35:22What grade are you in, young man?
35:26I go to New Bedford High.
35:29I'm going to be a sophomore.
35:31Mm-hmm.
35:32So, if I called your teacher,
35:36she would know all about this report, huh?
35:39Well, my teacher's Sean.
35:41I mean, Mr. Sykes.
35:45School is out, so I don't know
35:46if he'll be in.
35:48And sometimes he is during the day
35:51or during the summer.
35:53Mm-hmm.
35:55You could call him if you want to.
35:58Okay.
36:00Well, you just hold on.
36:02I'll be right back, okay?
36:08What's your name, kid?
36:13Steve.
36:15You don't report on Kenny, right?
36:18There are a lot of bad things
36:21being said out there about him.
36:24You know, most of them are lies.
36:25People just running off at their mouth.
36:27Okay, Kenny made some bad moves,
36:30but he was a good man.
36:33You know what I'm saying, kid?
36:36Kenny was a good man.
36:38Charlie Carmel, leave that boy alone.
36:42He's just trying to do a report for school.
36:44He doesn't need to hear
36:45a bunch of neighborhood gossip.
36:47Yeah, yeah, I just want him to get it right.
36:49You're gonna get it right.
36:50Right, Steve?
36:52Yes, sir.
36:54Here you go.
36:55Don't mind him.
36:57It's just a lot of people cared
36:58about Kenny, okay?
37:07You're welcome.
37:08Seven o'clock.
37:10Be ready.
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39:34Oh, my God.
39:38I'm going to be late.
39:41Oh, my God.
39:43I'm going to be late.
40:10I'm going to be late.
40:40Oh, it's about damn time.
40:50You don't have time for any education in this house, especially when it's so hot out.
40:55Go get me a washcloth from the linen closet.
40:59Now.
41:10Mama, he's got books.
41:16Steve, what did I tell you about books upstairs?
41:19Get me a washcloth and get those books down to the cellar before you catch a beating.
41:28What are you standing there for?
41:30Run it under some cold water and bring it back to me.
41:32Oh, it feels so good.
41:49What does that smell?
41:53Steve!
41:54Where did you get this?
41:55The linen closet.
41:58The linen closet.
42:07You pissed in the linen closet!
42:09No, I didn't.
42:11Boy, you piss on me.
42:12I'll beat the life out of you.
42:15Jesus.
42:16Come on.
42:17What's the hell?
42:19Come on.
42:19What's the hell?
42:20Stop bleeding.
42:26Oh, God.
42:27They're going to wonder what happened.
42:28Okay, this is what you're going to tell them.
42:30You were outside in the backyard playing on the shopping cart, and then you got up and
42:33you fell backwards and you hit your head.
42:35You got that?
42:37Okay.
42:37Can you tell them anything different than what's going to shoot you?
42:44Oh, my gosh.
42:46Please, oh.
42:48Jesus.
42:49What are you talking about?
42:50Father, I'm not afraid.
42:55I'm not afraid.
42:56The spirit uses them.
42:58May I have a station from you.
43:00I don't know who's happening.
43:01I don't know.
43:03I don't know who's Frank.
43:05I don't know who's left.
43:07You're okay.
43:08I don't know who's in the backyard.
43:15You're awake.
43:24I thought you were going to sleep away the rest of the day.
43:31Am I going to be okay?
43:34You're going to be okay, sweetheart.
43:36We're going to see to that.
43:38But I have a very important question I have to ask you.
43:43How did you get hurt?
43:45That I fell when I was playing in the yard.
43:53That must have been quite a fall.
43:57I need you to be really brave, Steve.
44:01I'm going to ask you one more time.
44:04How did you get hurt?
44:08No, my poor baby.
44:10Where did you put him?
44:11What did you do to him?
44:13Oh, Lord, if something happened to him, I don't know what else.
44:16Oh, there you are.
44:19You're awake.
44:21You're all right.
44:22Oh, my brain, baby.
44:29Oh, my lovely little boy.
44:32I don't know what they did to you.
44:34What did you tell him?
44:40I told him I fell from the cart.
44:43Don't you lie to me.
44:45They've been talking to me all morning.
44:47Like you've been in here lying and telling them God knows what.
44:54If you don't mind, ma'am, the doctors need to examine him.
44:58Oh, whatever it takes to get my baby back home and out of here.
45:02Yeah.
45:08Now, you tell me if it hurts, okay?
45:10Come here.
45:20Fine.
45:21That's good.
45:32Why does it take two doctors?
45:34What are you doing to my boy?
45:36Mrs. Robinson, can I please see you outside?
45:39What for?
45:40If you please, ma'am.
45:42Dr. Stevens, please report to the ER.
45:45Dr. Stevens to the ER.
45:46I'm going to admit Steve to the hospital overnight.
45:52Admit him?
45:53What for?
45:54I need to rule out a concussion.
45:57As for his other injuries,
45:59I don't believe that they're the result of a single fall from a cart.
46:03The bruising on his back is inconsistent with that story.
46:07And I need to find out what happened.
46:09And just what's that supposed to mean?
46:12I've called social services.
46:14Oh, good.
46:15I want you to call them.
46:17You called it and you asked them about Betty Robinson.
46:21I have won awards for raising foster children.
46:2539 of them.
46:26So you call them.
46:27You call anybody you want.
46:28Oh, as a matter of fact,
46:29why don't you call Dr. Downey?
46:31He's supposed to be a bigwig around here, isn't he?
46:33He's chief of pediatrics, yeah.
46:35Well, you ask him how I treat my little ones.
46:38He'll tell you how I treat them.
46:41He'll tell you Steve's just clumsy.
46:43He falls a lot.
46:46I will.
46:50How long you keeping him?
46:52I'll know more after I run some tests.
46:55And I speak to his social worker.
46:57Well, you can run all the tests you want to.
46:59But I'll tell you one thing.
47:00My baby's coming home with me.
47:07Not tonight, he's not.
47:12You're going to be okay.
47:15But we're going to keep you overnight
47:16just to make sure you didn't bust your head.
47:18What is this place?
47:23Oh, this is where hurt children come to get better.
47:28How long am I going to be here?
47:31We don't know that quite yet.
47:35Is Mrs. Robinson coming back?
47:38She probably just went home
47:40to get a few things you'll need for your stay
47:42and she'll be back.
47:47Okay.
47:52Steve.
47:54The story you're telling
47:56about falling out of the cart
47:58and getting hurt,
48:00that's not what really happened,
48:04is it?
48:13It's okay.
48:16We can talk about it later.
48:19Why don't you just rest?
48:30Oh, my God.
48:58They knew.
49:04They didn't believe Betty's story.
49:06I could tell by the whispers in the hallway,
49:10the empathetic looks.
49:12I didn't need to say a word.
49:14The bruises on my body would speak for me
49:16and scream,
49:18take me away from these people.
49:21And they would hear the truth
49:23over my mumbled lie.
49:25They were smart.
49:29They would see the truth
49:31and I would avoid Betty's rage
49:33and Willie's belt.
49:37These beautiful shades of blues
49:39and purples and orange,
49:41these would free me.
49:45Hey, sport.
49:47Boy, things kids will do to get out of a book report.
49:50I didn't, I mean, I was...
49:52Look, it was a joke.
49:53It was supposed to be.
49:55It's not really a joke, though,
49:56if you have to explain it, is it?
49:57Anyway.
50:00So, how are you feeling?
50:04I'm okay.
50:06How did you know I was here?
50:08Well, you didn't show up.
50:10I called your house.
50:11Your sister told me you were here,
50:12so I figured I'd swing by
50:14and see if you knocked anything loose up here
50:17and hurt those scholarship chances, you know?
50:20Well, I don't, I don't think it's that.
50:26Joke again, right?
50:28Right.
50:31Did you get a check?
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