Parenthood s05e08 Episode Script

Okay, open them.
What? We can't afford this.
Are you kidding me? Yes, of course we could.
I spent my combat pay on it.
We can be friends.
Some of my best friends are 40-year-old guys who date 20-year-olds.
- Really? - No, Carl, not really.
Anything I need to know about? You got to tell me this now.
There is nothing you need to know about.
I feel sorry for you, okay? You feel sorry for me? Why? That kid of yours, he's a retard.
What is going on right now? We're too adults, here, and now we're having a drink.
She's 19.
You're 28.
I'm extremely disappointed right now.
We need to discuss getting him back into fourth grade.
We're not doing that.
You don't like it, talk to Ed.
My art class is going to Italy for a month.
I'm gonna go.
By myself.
Good morning, Berkeley! Mm.
You'd better.
Uh-oh.
There we go.
All right.
And then the band plays "hail to the chief" Oh, yeah.
It ain't me, it ain't me Whoo, that's in the hole! Oh, yeah! I ain't no fortunate one Looking good, Zeek.
Hi, Shelly! Gah.
So, uh, looks like you made up your mind.
You gonna do ballet instead of basketball? Yup, I'm doing ballet with mom now.
Hey, nice turnout.
Doesn't he look great, honey? Yeah.
And then you just-- we slide his pants up on over those, or Okay.
Principal Evans is gonna be at the meeting too.
This is a big deal.
Okay, so we'll go out on Friday.
We'll find out what it's about then.
Well, we know what it's about.
This is it.
This is when they're telling us they're gonna hold him back because he's not keeping up.
- We don't know that, Julia.
- He's really still struggling.
- We don't know that.
- Oh, fine.
Well, I just hate waiting.
I know you do.
I know you do.
I don't know what else I can do.
Honey.
I've been working with him so much-- - come on, let's not assume the worst, here please? Please? We know that they're gonna hold him back.
Victor's going back to fourth grade? - No.
- That's not what I said.
Yes, it--that's exactly what you just said.
That's awful.
I don't want him in my class.
You need a jacket and your school books-- - I already have my stuff.
It's packed up.
Come on.
You guys want some lunch? Anything? Anyone? Now, I got some options: Burger and pie, Italian - You're always feeding us.
- Two Mexicans.
What do you guys want? Whoa, whoa, whoa.
We got ice cream.
Stop.
Don't.
- Is that real? - Yeah, it's real.
It's real.
It's-- That's real? - Yes.
- Princess cut? It's the quality is not as high.
- We have color-- - What is your deal? You guys are such weirdos.
Can we not do this? - It's massive.
- Do not show that to Jasmine.
- Blinding my sight, here.
- Yeah, it's good.
Can we--what do you guys want to eat? - Hey.
- Hi.
It's the lady I was looking for.
Oh, oh, sorry, yeah.
The dryer's still not working.
The guy is coming later today.
No, it's not even close.
I'm having a little party Saturday night and-- - and you don't want me to call the cops.
I actually wanted to invite you.
You.
- Here you go.
- You're inviting me? Well, you know, I feel like we shared a loofah, so Um, I--I'm not-- I don't know what my weekend is, uh, but thank you.
You're welcome.
Yeah, I think you'd enjoy it.
You should come.
Oh.
Just a few friends and music.
Drinks.
It'll be fun.
Anyone else over 26 gonna be there? I hope not, no.
Mm.
See you later.
Kidding.
Kidding.
Okay.
You should come though.
Think it'll be good.
I'll call you for dinner and we'll have-- - all right, guys, listen up.
I just want to talk to you for a second.
So the new poll numbers came in and I just want to say how much I appreciate all the hard work every last one of you have been putting into this campaign.
I mean, the passion-- we wouldn't have even gotten this far without you guys-- - Heather, you're-- you're so right.
You guys are such hard workers.
They have such great work ethic.
And I just want you to know-- What are the poll numbers? Well, we're within two points Bob Little.
Are you kidding? I really am? Do you know what this means? You're gonna win.
We're gonna do this.
- Two points? - Two points.
We're gonna close this gap.
You are the underdog.
Now you're two points away.
I'm the top dog.
She's the top dog.
Two more weeks, people.
- Two points.
- You know what this means? You guys have to work harder than ever.
I want you to work.
Oh, it's the trib.
They probably want a comment about the polls.
Yeah, hello? Yeah, talk to me.
Uh, wait, what? Who'd you get that from? Bob Little? - What? - Where's Adam? Excuse me.
Are you Adam Braverman? Yeah, I am.
Is it true that you violently assaulted a man in a supermarket? What? How do you think these allegations are gonna affect your wife's bid of mayor? II don't know.
Would you please-- - have you ever been treated for anger management issues? Mr.
Braverman, we have questions.
No, I have not.
Would you just get off my lawn? This is private property.
All right? Get off my lawn? Go! God! May God bless and keep you always and may your wishes all come true may you always do for others and let others do for you may you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung and may you stay forever young may you grow up to be righteous may you grow up to be true may you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you may you always be courageous stand upright and be strong and may you stay forever young may you stay forever young Is it true that you violently assaulted a man in a supermarket? What? What? What? How do you think these allegations are going to affect your wife in her bid for mayor? Get off my lawn! I don't know.
Get off my lawn! Get off my lawn! You know, honey, it's not really--it's not that bad.
I didn't have time to think.
I just reacted.
- Obviously.
- You didn't say anything.
Well, next time, you should just say "no comment.
" - Next time? - And walk away.
I hope there's not a next time.
I don't even know why there had to be a this time.
This was, like, three years ago.
- Well, this is what they did.
- The guy insulted my kid.
He called him a retard.
I punched him.
It's not like I put him in the hospital.
- You were right to do that.
- Who cares? I'm glad I vetted you too, Adam.
I'm glad I spent those two hours in your office and you telling me about streaking at a mother-daughter banquet and you were naked.
Glad you forgot to tell me about this.
- Where? - When I was in High School.
You know about this.
Really? - Are you guys paying attention? - Sorry.
I'm saying Bob Little has found a way to go negative.
We're down to the wire.
He can turn this two point lead into a five point lead.
We'll be cooked when he does that.
You're right.
Well, I don't understand how he found out about this.
- I don't either.
- I told him.
- What? - I--years ago.
I told him when I was working for him.
He thought it was so awesome and that you were the man and it was so cool and great.
I'm sorry.
I can't believe that little bastard remembered this and tried to use it against you.
Yes, I get it.
You know what we should do? Let's call a press conference.
No, no.
We don't need to give this more play.
We need to go negative.
That's what we need to do.
We need to find some story about mister squeaky clean.
Mr.
Little and leak that out.
- Oh, he's not squeaky clean.
- I know he's not.
I'm tired of that image anyway.
There's got to be something we could dig up on him.
You know anything? Anything you found out When you were running his campaign, anything come up? There's got to be something.
I'm gonna find it.
- I love you.
- How was your day? - Okay.
I'm tired.
- Yeah? Yeah, we just started recording a new track and I'm just, like I don't know.
I feel really drained.
Anybody notice anything, uh, different about you? Yes, of course.
What'd they say? - How could they not? - Did they freak out? They couldn't believe it.
Yeah, they-- - were they excited? - Very excited.
They thought it was amazing.
Yeah, Crosby said, you know, "don't show Jasmine that or I'm gonna have to upgrade and get her one of those.
Well, too bad.
It's one of a kind, so she can't - This? - She can't--yeah.
- Wow.
- Look at that.
Only one in the world.
I don't even-- I can't even process it.
It's just-- it looks so perfect on you.
It's crazy.
Do you like it? It's--it's-- it's unbelievable.
I'm gonna make us dinner.
Okay.
Thanks, then.
- Dad? - Yup.
- Oh.
- I'm in here.
Come on in.
Oh, yeah.
- What are you-- - Mm.
Man, I've always wanted to do that.
Really? I'm experimenting with different food groups.
Very good.
What is it? It's cereal with whipped cream and a banana.
- Dad.
- What? Is this the way you've been eating? Uh, kind of, yeah.
Why do the kids keep stopping by here and then, like, checking on me? You don't need to check on me.
I'm gonna be fine.
Well, dad, I don't know.
It's been a long time since you've been on your own and, you know, so I was next in the rotation.
.
Well, it's been a long time since you've been on your own.
Do the kids keep checking up on you? Do people stop by? No, dad.
And they don't bring me what's in this bag either, so I guess I'll just go-- No, no, no.
Wait a minute.
Hold it.
- Hm? - Get back here.
What's in the bag? - Do you want to know? - Uh-huh.
Well, the potato salad is in the bag that you can only get in San Francisco, which is why I came from San Francisco to give it to you, not to mention - Ooh.
- Yeah.
The ribs that are hot, hot, hot, hot, hot.
Oh, let me smell them.
Let me smell.
Mm.
And because I love you, I got you extra sauce.
Oh, the extra sauce.
Let's eat it now, shall we? - Okay, yeah.
- Okay.
- I want to try this though.
- Oh, easy.
- Ew.
- Yeah.
So, hey, how was ballet class the other day? - Um, it was good.
- It was? Yeah, it was actually really good.
- Oh, it was really good.
- Yeah.
What's the thing you like best about it? I like when we drop the baby off at grandma's house.
Yeah, she's not much of a dancer.
She's more of a drooler really, huh? - Yeah.
- What else you like about it? Ooh! Mom and I get to have burger and pie after.
She lets me order whatever I want because ballet's such a good exercise.
Mm.
Yeah, I'd even do ballet for burger and pie.
You have to move forward.
- Oh, okay.
- There you go.
You know, buddy, if you're just doing ballet so you can spend time with mom and eat at burger and pie I won't tell her.
You know, I'm just curious if that's No, dad.
I really like ballet.
- Really? - Yeah.
Actually, I think I love it.
Boom! You love it? Do your--do, like, a plie.
Do your-- Do a plie? Yeah, like this.
How is that gonna help? I got you.
Oh, lower.
Move your center of gravity.
Yeah.
I told you it's perfect.
This is--yeah, they're really coming along.
Incredible with that fertilizer.
- Excuse me, Miss Mikindoe.
- Oh, hi.
Hi.
I know we have a meeting on the books for Friday and you probably don't want to speak out of school but-- - well, no, I can't.
- Oh.
I mean, Friday is the best time.
Principal Evans will be there.
Right.
I know, I know.
If you could give me anything-- just a little heads up on - I really can't.
- Okay.
- Okay.
- Oh-- I can't sleep.
I'm I'm really having a rough time not knowing what's happening with my son.
It's kind of all I'm thinking about, so, um This really should come from the principal.
What? Well, what is it? Well, I know you've been working really hard and he just keeps falling more and more behind.
Right.
We don't want him to fall anymore behind than he already is.
- Right.
- We want him to succeed.
Right.
So So we're recommending that he move back to the fourth grade for the rest of the year.
- Okay.
- I'm sorry.
I'm really sorry.
No.
I know how hard this is gonna be.
I'm sorry.
I shouldn't have said anything.
I should have waited until we were with the principal.
Oh, I really appreciate you telling me.
Thank you.
- It's gonna be okay.
- Okay.
All right, I'll see you Friday.
- Okay.
- Okay.
Bye.
So I know I suck at pretty much everything, but apparently not squash.
Julia, what's wrong? Are you okay? What happened? Mm.
Oh, God.
They're finally moving Victor back to fourth grade now.
And I don't know.
God, I'm sorry, Julia.
I am.
I don't know how to tell him.
Oh, God.
I'm gonna Um, go talk to my husband.
- Yeah.
- Okay.
Thank you.
You okay? Okay, yeah.
I'm okay.
- Hey, Brenda.
How are you? - Hey, Kristina.
- Hey, how are you doing? - Oh, he's on a call right now.
Oh, it's okay.
It'll just take a second.
- You can't go in there.
- Just one quick second.
It's fine.
It's really no big deal.
It'll be two seconds.
Kristina! How are you? I'm great, Bob.
How are you? - You want a coffee? - No, I don't want a coffee.
I don't want anything.
Listen to me.
I just want you to tell me straight that this story about Adam came from you.
I know that it did.
Come on.
I can't believe that you would do this.
I mean, I thought we were friends.
You can't believe I would do what to you? This is a complete betrayal of our friendship betrayal? Kristina, hold on a second.
No, I'm not gonna hold on.
I'm actually pissed.
Campaigns get a little messy, Kristina.
I get it.
I know that.
Well, if you know that, then why are you here yelling-- - I'm the one running, Bob, not my family.
- I completely understand that.
- Leave them out of it, okay? Do you get that? You know what, there are some things that I could share about you, Bob, that Go ahead, Kristina.
But you're not gonna say anything 'cause that's just not who you are.
Otherwise, I would have won that campaign two years ago.
But I'm not gonna lose this one.
You don't know who I am.
No idea.
Not a clue.
You should have seen the little look on his face.
He was smirking at me.
I want to, like I wanted to punch him.
He knows that I can't go negative on this.
He's playing mind games with you.
He's playing mind games with me.
You got to prove him wrong, okay? How am I gonna prove him wrong? Without mentioning Amber's name.
- How, honey? - Bob Little.
Inappropriate behavior with an intern and that's it.
I don't want to bring Amber into this.
It's like--it's too personal.
She's family.
She's my niece.
I think that we should have Heather weigh in on this.
I am not checking with Heather.
If I tell her about Amber and Bob, it's over.
You've met her, okay? She'll go right for the jugular-- - I just don't want to be the reason this ends for you.
I'm not going to lose.
I'm not losing.
I love it when you get feisty like that.
- I'm not feisty.
I'm just mad.
- The one that just-- - I'm going downstairs to fix this.
What'd you decide? Honey? - Hey.
- Hey.
Got you note.
I got your wine delivery.
Thank you.
This is supposed to be an amazing label.
Oh, yeah? I'm told it's fruit-forward with a very big nose.
- It's all the same to me.
- You coming? Oh, I--you know You're the tenant.
I'm your super.
I don't I know you think it's gonna be, you know, me and a bunch of 20-something's doing shooters, but I do have some friends in their 30s.
Even their 40s.
Don't tell anybody.
Thanks, but I have a family thing.
Okay.
Thanks for hanging onto it.
Sure.
Hey, Sarah? You know, for what it's worth Even if you don't want to come to my party Saturday, you should go to a party.
Yeah, a woman like you should be out on Saturday night.
Well, I think we can all agree that resorting to violence is not a family value.
I think this is really about moving - Boy, have I seen it.
- What's happening? I am just disgusted.
You know what? I can't believe that he would do this.
Amber, I can't either.
I'm just-- I'm so bummed, you know? Like, I feel like I thought he was, like, a good guy generally.
- We were friends, you know? - We're friends.
I just feel, like, totally betrayed and - It's so awful.
- I'm just tired and I don't know.
You know what we have to do.
I Don't you dare.
You have to.
- Okay? - You know that there's no way-- - Uncle Adam and I have been talking about this and he's been asking-- - good.
Good.
- No, it's not good.
I'm not pulling you into this.
It doesn't matter.
There's no way that we can let him get away with this-- with spinning something like what uncle Adam did into this when we have this on him.
I know we have it, but, honey, you would be all over the media.
They would be following you.
That's fine.
- To work, home, everything.
- I can handle it.
I don't want this guy in office.
- I know.
- He's dishonest.
I don't either, but I'll think about it.
Do you promise you'll think about it for real? I swear I will.
I promise.
- Do you promise.
- I pinkie promise - Pinkie promise.
- That I'll think about it.
What--wait.
What is that? You haven't seen it? Oh, my God.
That is, like-- I can't see.
Honey, that is so pretty.
- Yeah, it's--yeah.
- Oh, how sweet.
Oh.
Yeah.
You don't really love it? It's a little bit absurd, right? It's not just me? I mean, it's bigger than any of my family members wedding rings, I mean-- - well, it's a little bigger than mine, but Like, what are we doing? - Enjoy it, you know? - I don't need it.
And he spent all of his money on it.
Everything that he had.
You guys are gonna be married.
You know what? Have this talk with him and tell him that you're worried about finances and maybe just - I'm just scared.
- Just tell him.
I don't want to hurt his feelings.
I feel like he's gonna get upset.
Are you sure it's just about the ring? - Yeah.
- Oh, okay.
Yeah, everything's fine.
I just Yeah.
Good.
Okay, they're both doing homework.
- Okay.
- Okay.
I was right.
They're gonna hold him back.
And you know this I ran into Miss Mikindoe today at school and she told me.
- Ran into? - Yeah.
I was there for sustainability.
And you just couldn't help yourself.
Joel.
I mean, you can't call me about this, or text me have a discussion-- You were at work.
And I'm telling you now.
So you went and had our conversation with Miss Mikindoe without me.
I ran into her and can we talk about the real issue, here? Our son is being yanked out of his class in the middle of the school year and we need to figure out how to talk to him about it.
No.
We are not doing that.
I don't think we have a choice.
Yes, we do, Julia.
We're gonna go in and tell the principal that he can go screw himself.
Oh.
We're gonna pull out son out right now? It's gonna be a total disaster for him.
I know.
That's why I wanted to do it at the beginning of the school year.
Oh, so this is my fault? This is all on me? - No.
- Is that what you're saying? - Can you-- - I am not doing that to him.
I am not gonna do that to him.
It's a situation that we're in now.
We'll find a private school.
We'll find some sort of way-- - Joel, we can't afford a private school.
On just your salary.
What? I'm being practical.
Let's look at our options.
That's not an option.
- On my salary? - On your salary.
Well, no one asked you to go quit your job, did they? But you went and did that.
Just like you went and talked to miss Mikindoe.
All these decisions you're making, they're bad decisions.
You're not helping, here.
G-get of my lawn g-g-get off my lawn what g-g-get off my lawn g-g-get off my lawn that's a good single.
You should drop that single first before your whole album comes out.
I was afraid this was gonna happen.
What an interview.
I mean "interview.
" I forgot what a tough guy you are that you punched that guy out.
And then the way they remixed, they really captured this sweet spot of your voice.
You're pretty happy with yourself right now, aren't you.
Honestly, it really picked me up.
- Uh-huh.
- It did.
Look, things aren't perfect for me at home either.
Jabbar chose, over basketball, for his winter sport, ballet.
That's not even a sport.
- Ballet.
That's cool.
- It's cool? - Yeah.
- Ballet? - What's the problem? Well, he was in the outfit.
He had the whole-- you know, he was Twirling around the kitchen in a super thin, you know Is it tough--kind of tough for you to see that? Yeah? Yeah.
Is there any other guys in the class? - No.
- Well, look at that.
Look at that.
He's working the ratio, there.
It's just a bunch of girls and him.
He's got it made.
Okay, I- I'm not concerned about whether or not my 10-year-old's gonna get laid.
I'm talking about being able to share something with him that I could connect with him on.
I get it, okay? Crosby, your kids aren't always gonna be interested in the things that you're interested in.
They're not always gonna be interested in the things you want them to be, okay? I wish that Max had been more interested in baseball than bugs.
That's not how it worked out.
Okay? So I got interested in bugs.
Mmhmm.
Hey, bud, where's Victor? Uh, he's outside playing.
He said he finished his homework.
Oh.
Okay.
How about you? Have you chosen which mission you're gonna do? Yeah, the San Juan capistrano.
You know the swallows fly there every year? I did know that.
Grandma and grandpa took me down there when I was a kid.
Pretty cool.
Okay.
- Mommy? - Yeah? If Victor goes back to fourth grade, will he had to do another missions report? No.
No, he did that.
So Gosh, I don't--um I don't know.
Hey, you haven't talked to him about that, have you? - No, I haven't.
- Good.
Because nothing's been decided yet, so It's just-- it's complicated, you know? It's for all the grown-ups.
It's for the school and for Victor's teachers and for daddy and I to figure out.
Okay? - Okay.
- Okay.
Is that why you and daddy have been fighting so much lately? No, we haven't been fighting.
No, sweetie, um, you know, sometimes we just disagree, but that's-- that's okay.
And we discuss things and Hello, Mr.
Miller.
Yes, this is Adam Braverman calling from the Kristina Braverman campaign.
Yes, we're calling to ask you if you'd be willing to make a second donation to help keep this campaign competitive.
- Minimum of $500.
- $500 would be great.
But we could go higher.
But $1,000 would be even better.
He can afford it.
Thank you very much.
Thank you, Dr.
Miller.
Okay, thank you, yeah.
Good, okay.
You got it.
Excuse me.
- Hey.
- You guys seen this? - What? - Thank you.
What is it? Have you seen this? What's this? What is that? I look horrible.
You guys look insane.
Who are you yelling at? You look like lunatics.
Haddie's soccer Facebook page.
That's where that's from.
This was a soccer game? He took it from the Internet.
The ref called her for tripping.
She was making a play on the ball.
I can't believe--how can he just grab this stuff and have it be in the paper? Because he's a jerk.
That's how he could od this.
We need to call a press conference.
I feel that's what I have to do.
I think I'm going to.
We need to call-- Good.
And say what in this press conference? About time what, Adam? That she fights back.
- With what? - Nothing.
Just tell him to stop it.
You're not telling me something.
Kristina, you got something on this guy? I liked it.
Did you like it? I thought it was good.
Mmhmm.
Yeah, it was good.
What's this? - What? - Why you twiddling it? - I don't know.
- Is it too big.
- No.
- Let's get it resized.
No, no, no, it's not that.
It's not.
It really doesn't matter.
They said I could bring it back.
- It's not that.
- It is too big.
No, I did want to talk to you about one thing about it though.
I had an idea.
What? I thought we could talk about it together.
- Okay.
- Um I can't--I can't stop thinking about how much money it was.
- Will you stop? - It was so much.
It was all of your combat pay.
Will you stop? I want you to have it.
You're worth it.
This is what I wanted to spend my money on.
This is a special thing.
But, baby, that's what I'm saying.
And it's not that I don't love that sentiment, because I do, but it's kind of like it's our money now, and so I-- I wanted to talk about what the best way to spend it is because, like, what if we want to travel? What if we want to What if we want to start a family or get a house? Like, don't we-- - well, then All those things are gonna come.
We're not gonna get them all at once.
But this is something that you're gonna have for the rest of your life and you're gonna wear on your finger every single day.
And I want you to feel special and I don't want you to have some cheap ring that's not gonna-- - but, baby, I would feel just as special and love something a little smaller just as much if it felt like we wanted to maybe save some of that money for something else.
That's all I wanted to get your opinion on.
I, uh--yeah, yeah.
We'll bring it back and trade it in and-- - well, wait, babe, I wanted--do you feel good? I mean, does that make you sense? Do you want to save some of that money for something else? Yeah.
It makes perfect sense.
It's no big deal.
Ryan, are you upset? I love you.
No.
I love you too.
It's not a big deal.
Are you excited to eat fruit loops? Are you counting down the days so that you can eat fruit loops? - Good morning, my love.
- Good morning.
Hi.
Wow, you look like you're in a good mood.
I am.
I am.
I just love these classes with Jabbar.
I mean, I'm trying not to jinx it, you know? But it seems like he's really into it.
You know--you know, we might have something.
Yeah, like a little Baryshnikov on our hands.
Yeah, a little Baryshnikov.
What? Isn't that a good one? That's a great one, but I know you're not really cool with it, so No, no, I'm not not cool with it.
- Really? - Yeah.
I mean, I'm It wouldn't have been, say, my dream pick that he was into ballet over, say, muscle cars and motorcycles, but, you know, I'm not, like, hung up on the masculinity of it all or anything.
- Okay.
- Yeah.
Good, 'cause you really don't need to worry.
He's still gonna be your boy.
Your very boyish boy, okay? Okay, why are you getting sticky with me? - I'm not sticky with you.
- Come on, mom.
- Let's go.
- Okay, okay, okay, okay.
Bye, Aida.
Say bye to your brother.
Bye, daddy.
Hey, have fun at ballet.
- Okay.
- Plie hard.
And kick high.
- Love you.
- Limber up first.
Come on, mom.
Let's go.
Why don't you come check out a class? I think you'll really like it.
I will think about that.
I mean, I don't want to step on your guys' thing.
You know, I don't want to take that away from you.
- Okay.
- Hey, whoa.
Fine.
Have a good day.
I can't win.
How about you? You want to watch a little NFL network? Huh? Can we bro out? Can you chest bump? Can you chest bump? Let's see.
Oh, that's a great chest bump.
Come here.
Let's go watch a little football.
You and me.
Chocolate chip pancakes, extra chocolate chips.
Okay, I got to run.
But, dad, you can't go.
It's Saturday.
Yeah, I know, sweetie.
I'll try to keep it short today, okay? I was gonna make you eggs.
Do you want anything to eat? Uh, no, I'll just eat on site.
Thanks.
Okay.
Be right back.
Joel.
Yeah? - Joel.
- Yeah? The kids are picking up on this.
On what? On the tension between us, or they-- - well, they're not getting it from me.
Joel, Sydney asked me yesterday why we're fighting so much.
Well, we'll just have to do a better job, I guess.
We have to talk to Victor and we have to, you know, get on the same page, here.
We can't be doing this.
I know, Julia.
Undermining each other, you know? I will be there for my son.
Powering through a big hole in the left side, now near the 25.
I don't get it, dad.
This is not the same game we were watching an hour ago? I don't know what you're talking about.
What's your point? They play all day.
These look like the same guys.
- Yeah.
- Like, the same colors.
I just can't believe that this is how you want to spend your Saturday.
Well, this is how you're spending your Saturday.
I mean, I don't understand that.
You should be out there meeting people.
You know, having fun.
Why aren't you doing that? Excuse me, I don't need to be out there meeting people.
I'm here with my dear old dad.
And if you must know, I was invited to a party tonight, and I'm not going.
Why aren't you going? Because.
Here with you.
Plus, I won't You know, I don't know anybody.
Well, you're not gonna get a chance to know anybody sitting around here with your old man.
I don't need a man, dad.
I am fine on my own, you know.
Well, I wasn't necessarily talking about a man, Sarah.
- Oh.
- You've changed, and I You started this whole new life.
You got a whole new place.
You can go out there and have adventures, and you can expand your horizons like your mother's talking about doing.
Just go do that, you know? Who's gonna hang out here with you? Well, quite frankly, having you around here complaining about what I'm doing, and All right, dad, I'm gonna expand, okay? I'm gonna expand my horizons to have an adventure and I'm gonna go to this party where I don't know anybody, okay? And while you're doing all of that, you might meet a nice guy.
I don't want to met a guy, dad.
Okay.
Fine.
But in case I do, I'm taking your beer.
Good night.
Good night.
Two years ago, Bob Little had an inappropriate relationship with my niece, who was then his 19-year-old assistant.
I don't know if I can do this.
Yes, you can, Kristina.
Amber wants you to.
Good afternoon.
Thank you all for being here today.
There's a lot more of you here than when I announced my candidacy, so it's good to see.
I don't think this campaign should be about personal attacks, which is why after much soul-searching, I am compelled to speak out against what's been going on in the media, about my family, about myself.
Three years ago, my husband was checking out of a grocery store when a very rude man called my son a retard.
And while I think we can all agree that the word "retard" is very ugly, I think it's really offensive when your son has Asperger's syndrome.
So my husband, being the protective father that he is Well, he punched the man.
Actually, one of the reasons why I'm running for mayor and one of the things that I'm fighting against is exactly this type of intolerance.
My husband won't stand for it, and neither will I.
I guess you could say that those are our values.
So if you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer.
What do you think about Bob Little's tactics in this campaign? I have no comment.
- Hey.
- Hi.
It's so late.
I tried to call you a couple times.
Sorry.
I don't know.
Sorry.
It's okay.
Got off late.
I took the ring back.
Pretty easy.
- You did? - Yeah.
So it's all gonna work out.
Um, how do you feel? Do you feel Do you feel okay about it all? Yeah, yeah.
I feel great.
Just gonna get the right one.
'Cause you know-- you know it's not that I didn't love it very much.
I did.
No, I know.
It's because it's better for us, right? Like, we can-- Absolutely.
Yeah.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
I really want to do that.
- Okay.
- That's good.
- Good.
- Yeah.
Hey, you want a little company over there? Ah, I'm gonna come to bed in just a sec.
I'm just--I'm just relaxing.
Mm.
Hey, kiddo.
Can we talk? Sure.
Okay.
Um This week, your dad and I have been talking to miss Mikindoe.
- Am I in trouble? - No.
- No, just the opposite.
- Yeah, not at all.
So proud of you, man.
Everybody knows you're working so hard.
My grades still suck.
Well, here's what we want for you.
We want you to have a place where you can take some time to catch up and you can work on your reading skills.
And so your dad and I thought that it would be good for you to spend the rest of the year in fourth grade.
I don't want to-- I don't want to do that.
I can understand that.
And we'll be here for you the whole time.
No, no, this isn't fair.
We're almost half way through the year.
Buddy, I know it doesn't seem fair.
We probably should have done it sooner, Victor, but we want to make sure it was the right decision.
But then I'll be in the same grade as Sydney? And what about all my friends? I'll never see them again.
You remember when you started little league? Do you remember how hard that was and how scary it was to you at first? You'd never done it.
- And you practiced so hard.
- Exactly.
You really put in the time.
You put in the work and then it clicked for it.
And that's what this is gonna be.
You're gonna go back to fourth and you're gonna, you know, try so hard and then it's just gonna click.
You know? It's just gonna click for you.
And from that point on Victor.
You can do this.
You're a brave boy.
I know you can do this and we'll help you.
It's gonna be fine.
I want to be left alone.
Get out.
I said to get out! And when the singing is through Yeah.
Wow.
Hi! Hi, sweetie.
Millie! You just caught me on my way out.
I was about to run for the bus.
Okay.
Boy.
Hey, Mill--Camille, you look beautiful, honey.
Are you having a great time? Oh, it's just been amazing.
Um, let me see.
Where do I start? We've been painting every morning.
The teacher is just-- he's just extraordinary.
I'm learning so much.
Oh, good.
And tomorrow we go to Florence.
We're going to sketch at the Uffizi.
- What? - The Uffizi.
The--it's a museum.
Oh, great, great, great.
Well, I mean, so you're really enjoying yourself? Oh, wow.
And the food.
Sweetie, you would jut love it.
The pasta is so fresh! It's always al dente.
It doesn't matter where you eat.
Could be a little hole-in-the-wall restaurant.
Well, I'm glad you're having a good time.
- How are you? - Great.
Great, great.
Everything's fine here.
I'm watering the plants.
The kids are stopping by.
They're bothering me, but, you know, I miss you, Millie.
I miss you.
- Andiamo.
- Oh, I gotta go.
That means the bus is leaving.
But okay, well, don't miss your bus.
Millie, I love you.
Did you--I love you! But What Okay.
Honey, it's actually kind of good.
People are responding in a really positive way.
- Oh, yeah? - Yup.
"We're with you, Kristina.
Keep up the good fight.
Way to stand up for your family.
" Look at that.
So they would have done the same thing.
See, you don't need to participate in a smear campaign to win this thing.
That's not what we're about, right? It's not what you're about.
You either.
Well, you made the choice.
And no matter what happens, I'm proud of you for that.
You stuck to your guns.
You didn't go for the jugular even though Heather and I were both telling you to do that.
You did the right thing.
Thanks.
I'm not just saying all this 'cause you made me look like a badass.
You are a badass.
- I'm not a badass, Kristina.
- You're a badass.
I'm not.
I'm just a man, okay? Sometimes a man needs to kick a little ass when somebody's ass needs kicking.
- That's correct.
- Okay.
- And you are a good dad.
- Thank you.
I love you.
- And the best husband.
- I love you.
Gosh.
She scares me.
She never texts when it's good-- - why don't you just tell her you need 15 minutes.
What is it? Dropped four points.
Um Okay.
- Training by six.
- That's okay.
You told me that these things have a margin of error, right? By a couple points, so you could have just dropped a point or two, and that could just be a little fluctuation.
Doesn't have to necessarily do with the press conference.
Right.
Kristina, you can win this thing.
Right.
Excuse me.
Coming.
- Hi.
- Hi.
You're not my super.
- Come in.
- Thanks.
So glad you're here.
You look beautiful.
Thank you.
Can I get you a drink? Um, yes, sure, in a minute.
- Okay.
- I don't know.
Come on in.
Meet some people.
Uh, Alex, can I interrupt you? Oh, excuse me.
Yes, hi.
Alex Samson, meet Sarah Braverman.
Hi.
Nice to meet you.
Sarah is a really talented photographer.
Oh, what kind of photography? - Uh, dogs and cats.
- You know what? We once had a Wegman exhibit.
It was fantastic.
That was great.
I saw that too.
- Yes, huh-huh.
- Wow.