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I saw a girl floating in this pool, and I buried her in the backyard.

You're dating Henry's brother?

Isn't he adorable?

It's a good answer.

I can make life very difficult for you. I'm not afraid of you. My mother's dead.

I know that that's what you've been telling people, but Henry told me the

She tried to seduce me.

Oh, my God.

You lied to me, Henry.

Tom, I'm sorry.

Shut up!

Ugh!

Hello? Hi.

You okay?

No. What happened?

I... I accused her.

I came home and I accused her. My dad was standing right there.

Oh, my God.

What'd she do?

I don't know. I went straight into my room. I haven't seen them since.

Is it true, Henry?

Yes. Do you swear to me?

Yes, Lily.

This could be a war.

Your mom, she told Tom that I came down here so I could find our mother.

I mean, when I came home, he was freaking out at me.

He was calling me a liar.

She's trying to discredit me.

I don't want to see them.

I'm scared.

We got each other, okay?

Just... Get to school, and I'll be there.

Okay.

Bye. Bye.

He's just a mixed -up kid.

His mother abandoned him.

I tried to help him, so he's just transferring all of his anger onto me.

I don't care what his motives are.

He's taking advantage of Lily's innocence. He's trying to pit her

Well, I just feel sorry for him. I don't.

Mother's got enough to deal with. She doesn't need some punk playing with her

mind, saying you tried to seduce him.

It's absurd.

Right?

What are you saying?

Nothing.

Bill, what is your point?

The point is I want him to stay away from my daughter.

You're just going to antagonize him further.

Lily's going through some kind of phase now, but she'll come to her senses.

No, I'm just not going to sit back and do nothing.

Mona Kenyon wants me to sign a virginity pledge.

What is she, Amish?

Losing my virginity is the only thing I have left to live for.

Not now, Mason.

Hey, Mason, can you give me a minute alone with your sister?

Yeah, yeah, why? She got busted?

You hurt your mother last night. She went to bed in tears.

So did I.

What happened last night is unacceptable.

You deliberately disobeyed us.

You're grounded.

That means straight home from school until I say otherwise.

And I don't want you to see Henry ever again.

Not today, not tomorrow, never again.

That's not fair.

I'm not interested in what's fair.

He's been putting a lot of crazy ideas in your head, and I'm tired of it.

These are important years for you.

You're smart.

You've got a great future ahead of you. I do not want you distracted by some

disturbed delinquent.

Will you at least listen to my side of the story?

Henry told me that...

When he was staying over, Mom came into the room.

And what?

And she tried to... Tried to what?

She tried to... Lily, your mother has taken care

of you your whole life.

She loves you.

She'd do anything for you. You've known Henry for how long? A month?

If you're going to take his word over hers, frankly, I don't know what to say

you.

Except that Henry is not allowed in your life.

Period.

Suppose it's too much to hope that Nathan remembered to bring in the mail

We're

down the shovel no, what are you doing?

I remember.

Maybe you thought I never would, but I did.

What's to remember?

What happened.

Where it is.

And where is it, Mason?

Bye, honey.

Lily.

Whenever you're ready, I'd love to talk about all this.

Why? You're just going to lie to me?

What else are you not telling me?

Tom, it's not like that. She left us, Henry.

Remember when you thought going to that Philip Sandover school might be cool?

I mean, if we'd moved there, would it have turned out that it was really

you wanted to start a crystal meth lab or what?

Tom, I... She didn't think you were helpless and sweet, Henry, okay?

Or me either.

She thought we held her back.

And I thought we came to Pasadena and that you could learn, study, dare, and

grow.

You know, I told myself, I'll have my life later.

But Henry accomplished his goal.

When you do, if you do, will I hear that from some stranger too?

Nathan cut down my dwarf Japanese maple right at the root ball. It's

just irreplaceable.

Supply it to somebody else.

How helpful, of course.

Perhaps some plastic tulips.

You're the one who took them in.

Good morning, mother, father.

I forgot.

That was a trip.

Did you bag any bears?

Any more heads we can staple on the wall?

Nathan, what is the matter with you?

Why the long faces? It's a beautiful morning. I mean, you always told us, be

pleasant at breakfast.

Right? Hey.

Let's play a game. It's a really nice breakfast game, right?

Make a sentence using these words.

Holes.

Dig.

People.

Why?

No, no, no. What about a riddle? Here's one.

Sometimes people dig holes to bury things.

Sometimes people dig holes to find things.

How can you tell which hole is which?

Oh, come on, Mom.

How can you tell which hole is which?

You still want to play this game?

No, I do not.

Too jet -lagged?

What about you, Pop?

How can you tell which hole is which?

I don't know.

Me neither.

I guess it depends on who's doing the digging.

Okay.

I want to thank you guys for...

Let me move back in. It's been really nice to come back home.

All those memories just come flooding back. You know what I mean?

Come on, Lily.

You'll be late for class.

Morning. Thank you.

These are your messages.

Oh, thanks.

Jack Cameron was looking for you.

He said it was urgent.

Call Teddy Sweeney. See if he wants to have lunch.

Not really.

Last week, Mr. Sweeney was let go.

What do you mean, let go?

I guess he was fired.

Fired? By whom?

By Mr. Callister.

The new op -ed chief starts tomorrow, and the whole department's being

restructured. Why wasn't I told about this?

You were in Canada.

What's going on?

Hey, George.

How was your vacation?

You got time for me to run some ideas by you? Is that how you operate?

You run ideas by people?

I don't follow.

You fired Teddy Sweeney.

He's been at this paper for 35 years. I realized that, George. I wanted to make

a change.

New ideas.

Frankly, Teddy was a little old school.

Ah, so am I.

And in the old school, you don't fire an editor without getting approval first.

And revamping his department?

What is that supposed to accomplish?

Besides chaos?

I'm the publisher, George. I'm empowered to make these kind of decisions.

Is it your idea of taking the helm?

Fixing things that don't need to be fixed? So that you can say that you did

something? I'm sorry, George. I didn't realize that all those times you were

talking about supporting my vision for the paper was because you thought I

didn't have one.

My family spent generations building this newspaper.

So before you dismantle it with your innovations,

you might want to check with me first.

Then what?

He stormed off and that was it.

Was he pissed?

Really pissed.

What about Will?

Was he pissed?

He was pretty pissed too.

You think Will's gonna get fired?

What? Are they gonna make you publisher?

I'm not gossiping with you. Get out of here.

You sit with that lame one.

Hello?

I can't keep this going.

Hey, what's wrong?

She keeps hounding me. She's pushing me.

She won't let it go.

And it's all Henry's fault. Stupid kid.

Catherine, get a hold of yourself. You can handle this. I know you.

I just thought it was not going to be over.

It's never going to be over. It's never going to be over!

Hey, hey, just relax.

I need your help.

Help me.

Have we ever had a problem we couldn't get rid of?

No. Have we ever had an enemy we couldn't destroy?

You're depressed.

Is that obvious?

Is it, Henry?

Did you two fight?

And then some. I'm sorry, Tom.

Well, I went to town on him. I keep hearing myself in my head.

Well, he lied to you.

You were upset, and sure as I, he understands.

We've just always been close, you know? It was always him and me.

But the way that he's been acting since we moved here, I don't even know him

anymore. Well, maybe this fight will bring you guys closer together.

I have some good news, something that might take your mind off all this.

What? Catherine called.

She spoke to the dean of admissions at CU. They were sorority sisters in

college. What happened?

She got you accepted for next semester.

And they're working on scholarships. You might not have to pay anything.

Are you serious?

When my sister puts her mind to something, there's no stopping her.

I... What do I do? Who should I talk to?

Catherine invited us to stop by the house later. She'll fill you in.

Feeling better?

Just a little.

It's almost as if Twain isn't sure where the American dream ends and the

Faustian nightmare begins.

As Huck says, Tom had a dream and it shot him.

Mr. Bellow, you're late.

I'm sorry.

Twain himself seems to refute this in his ironic notice preceding chapter one.

Mr.

Bellow, if you're going to be late, the least you can do is pay attention when

you get here.

What was she doing here?

I don't know.

I don't want to go home.

I'm not going back there.

You're not alone.

We're together, okay?

Lily, where have you been?

I've been looking for you all day.

I was recovering.

I need to talk to you.

Jenny, not right now.

Fine. I was just going to tell you how your uncle had a nervous breakdown last

night. But never mind. You're not interested.

Wait, wait. What happened?

Oh, he just had this memory of a dead girl floating in a swimming pool.

Something about her being stabbed in the chest or something.

But I don't want to bore you with details.

Oh,

no. Hey, Lily, I'll go over and see Nader. He's always doing what he has to

Okay.

I mean,

I hope he's okay every day.

Definitely did not tell him I said hi.

I love you.

Lily? Lily, can you disappear?

I have a few questions I'd like to ask you. Really?

Because I have a few questions I'd like to ask you. Why? Be my guest.

Why were you at school?

To pick you up like I do every day.

Henry saw you talking to the principal.

Oh, Henry saw me.

Was it before or after I tried to sleep with him?

After. You tried to sleep with him when he spent the night at our house.

I think I'm a child molester now, is that it?

And a murderer too, right?

I killed Meredith Weller.

Isn't that what he's trying to convince you of?

What did I do, Lily? What did I ever do to make you believe all that?

All I ever wanted was to be a good mother to you.

Then stop lying to me. I am not lying to you.

Do you see what this is about?

Henry doesn't have a mother.

He doesn't have a nice family. He doesn't have money. None of the things

you take for granted. All he has is resentment and envy.

In an overactive fantasy life.

He wants what you have, Lily.

And he can't have it.

So he's trying to poison it.

And you are letting him do it.

You are letting him.

I go to Canada for two weeks and the whole world falls apart.

How could you let all this happen?

What have you been doing?

I've been doing exactly what I thought you wanted me to do, Dad. Nothing.

Your brother is your responsibility.

No, he's not.

You have an obligation to your family.

What about my family's obligation to me?

I worked my whole life for this job and you deny me.

The thing that matters to me the most, you give it to that ass over there.

I had my reasons.

Yeah, I know you had your reasons. One night.

One night over half my life ago.

One night, Dad. You still don't even know what happened.

You've been punishing me for it ever since.

I may have made a mistake.

I was talking to Jack Cameron and Don Burke, and there is a consensus that

may be angling to take this paper in the wrong direction.

I want to replace him with you.

We have to be... Be very careful how we handle this, because there is a storm

brewing.

And until it blows over, we have to make Will feel that the family is behind him

all the way.

Okay.

Yeah. Lily wanted me to come by and check on you.

She's worried about you. Why didn't she come herself?

She's grounded.

Tell her I'm okay. Nothing to case a beer and a couple of Quaaludes couldn't

cure.

Jenny said you've been having flashbacks or something.

Who's Jenny?

Lily's friend.

Yeah, you said you remember something about a girl floating in a pool.

Is that true?

Doesn't matter.

It matters to me.

It matters to Lily, too.

Do you remember something?

There's a girl buried here.

She's buried in the backyard.

How do you know?

I don't know.

I was five years old.

She was floating in this pool.

And then she was dragged out and buried.

Not a trip.

Who did it?

I don't know.

All I know is they lied to me.

Thanks so much. My dad told me. I just couldn't believe it. Oh, well, you

believe it. The next quarter is in December. Tell him about the

Oh, well, there's going to be a lot of paperwork, but at least it says it's a

bit of complete.

And the other thing is I talked to Robert this morning. If you do want to

at the paper, he says he can create a floating position for you so you can

take classes. Really? Doing what?

Oh, answering phones, taking notes in meetings, nothing glamorous. And the

salary is pretty meager.

It's $60 ,000 a year.

Dollars? $60 ,000.

Can I start today?

You can start tomorrow.

Congratulations, sweetie. I'm so happy for you.

All right. Okay.

Sorry, Catherine.

Thank you. Yeah, thank you. I'm speechless.

This is the nicest thing that anyone has ever done for me.

Hey,

pal.

Where's the face?

Don't stop me this morning.

He doesn't want a publisher. He wants a puppet.

Teddy Sweeney.

Look, you should have known. Every summer he and Teddy go on a hooker tour

Southeast Asia. They're close.

Yeah, well, this paper needs an op -ed chief. He's got a brain in his head.

look, Ted doesn't respond too well to change. But once he gets his fat head

around it, it'll be a whole new story.

The truth is, if you fight him, you stick to your guns, he's going to

you even more for it.

Listen, Will.

Don't let him rally you.

He's doing a great job.

Hey. Hey.

I thought you should know that I got accepted to California University today

next quarter.

No way, really?

Yeah, and it's paid for. I think I'm getting a scholarship.

Tom, that's awesome.

And not only that, I get a job. I'm working at The Sun.

The Sun?

Catherine McAllister.

She really came through for me.

No. What?

Don't take it. Don't take anything from her. What are you talking about?

She doesn't want to help you, Tom. She's trying to manipulate us. Give me a

break, Henry. No, you don't know what's going on. I think I do know what's going

on. You're mad at her for telling me the truth about what you've been doing. No,

that's not it. That's not it.

Then what is it?

Tom, she tried to have sex with me.

All right, she's psychotic.

There's a girl who disappeared 20 years ago. One of the Greeleys murdered her.

And she's trying to cover it up. She's out of her mind.

What? Tom, what? Listen to me, please.

Don't take that job.

Henry, I don't know what's going on with you, all right? I've given up trying to

figure it out. But try and think about me for a second, if you can.

All right? I had a good life back home.

I was in school.

I gave it all up so you could drag me down here under false pretenses.

Now, if you can't be happy for me after all of that, then you're more selfish

than I even thought.

Tom, just listen to me. Stay away from the Greeleys.

Please, just stay away from the Greeleys. Why?

The Greeleys are more interested in my future than you are. You want me to be a

waiter and do your laundry for the rest of my life?

Look, I give up.

You live your life.

I live mine.

Tom! Tom!

Thank you.

Mr. Maddock is a total crackpot.

I mean, where do they find these teachers anyway?

Good morning.

Morning.

Yesterday, he said that during the time when they were building the pyramids,

everyone was a schizophrenic. Yeah, they all heard the voice of God in their

heads, and their brains hadn't differentiated.

I don't know about that.

Yeah, well, that's why they built the pyramids, he said.

You know, everybody was totally nuts.

You know, I'd like to go visit a mental institution.

Are there any around here?

We live in one.

What was that, Lily?

Nothing.

I wonder what it would be like to go totally crazy.

That'd be pretty sweet.

Would you like something to eat?

Yeah. Is there any oatmeal?

Oh, I'm certain there is. Maria?

You sure now?

I mean, you're not just saying that to make me happy, are you, Mother?

Why would I say something like that? I mean, you're not just lying to distract

me and keep me quiet and under control, are you?

Now what?

It's called an analogy, hear it of them?

Lying is to digging.

As mother is to Nate.

Maybe no oatmeal. Maybe a waffle.

Maria?

Would you make Nathan a waffle, please?

Body is to yard.

As heart is to mother.

What's the connecting word?

I have no interest.

Body, yard.

Heart, mother.

Come on. I mean, even a woman who's lived her life in total denial could

that out.

Please, Nathan.

Hidden.

The connecting word is hidden.

There's a body hidden in the yard.

There's a heart hidden in the mother.

You just can't find it.

You can dig and dig.

But you just can't find him.

I will not be baited in my own home.

210.

Maria, forget the waffle.

Not hungry.

So, Tom, what are you interested in?

Anything. Whatever. I just want to be helpful.

God, there's a million things you can do here. Administration, finance,

reporting. What do you do?

That's a good question.

You might say that I put out fires.

Sometimes I start them.

Robert, do you have a 1030 with Derek and Carter?

You can always replace my assistant. I'm always looking for someone who's not

completely incompetent.

We're in a meeting. Hello.

You don't need to decide anything right now. We'll figure it out for you.

I just...

I want to thank you for the opportunity.

Listen, any guy that can put up with a high -maintenance princess like Beth

deserves all the breaks he can get.

I'm kidding. I love Beth.

Catherine says you're impressive. You come highly recommended.

Your family has just been incredible.

Yeah.

Well, I got a meeting to go to. When I get back, we're going to get you

Thanks, Robert.

So much.

You know, Tom, I like you.

We're going to work well together.

Henry?

Yes? Principal Feldman would like to see you in his office.

No.

Henry, we have a problem.

When we offered you a scholarship here, it was understood that you'd maintain a

certain grade point average.

Well, I'm getting straight A's. Well, not according to your teachers.

Which class? What teacher? A few of your teachers have told us that while your

work is often excellent, you're consistently late for class, you talk

lectures, your focus isn't on the subject matter.

That's not true.

Beyond the grades, Henry.

It's very important that our scholarship students maintain a level of behavior

and citizenship that is expected of everyone at Arroyo Alto.

And drugs, Henry.

Drugs. That's ridiculous.

Henry, what you do outside of the classroom is our business.

We brought you into this community, and if you become a negative influence,

well, then that's our responsibility.

She's lying to you, okay?

I didn't do anything.

I'm sorry, Henry.

We're going to have to revoke your scholarship.

What?

I'm afraid there's no other choice.

How'd it go?

When Robert talks about all the boyfriends you brought home, are we

Chamberlain numbers?

Cookies?

I am so out of my head in love with you right now.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I'm going to be thanking you for the rest of my life. Me? I didn't do

Are you kidding?

Since I met you, everything that I gave up on ever happening has happened.

You can't even begin to understand how happy I am.

Call him your phone.

Who cares?

Oh, wait a minute. Oops.

Maybe my new boss.

Hello?

Yeah.

What? What is it? Yeah, okay.

I'll come pick him up.

Henry got kicked out of school.

Will. Thanks for coming by.

Please, sit down.

I, um, I wanted to apologize for yesterday. I think I

overreacted.

It's just, it's hard.

It's hard to let go.

Now, I don't want you to feel that your hands are tied, because I trust you to

get the job done.

That means a lot to me, George.

And I know it must be difficult to relinquish.

The reins.

I'll try to be more mindful of keeping you in the loop.

I hope I didn't insult you.

No, no.

Not at all.

I was feeling demoralized yesterday. I feel a lot better now.

Good.

I'm glad.

Get back to work.

You've got a paper to run.

Thanks, Sergeant.

Can we just leave?

Can we just go home?

We have a life here, Henry.

Yes. Good things are happening for me now, and not even whatever you did today

can mess that up, so you can just forget about leaving town, all right? We're

not going anywhere.

Where's Lily?

She's in her room.

She didn't feel like eating.

Oh, then can I have her apple tart?

Yes. Your father went out of his way to extend the olive branch today.

I think he's finally coming to terms with the new lay of the land.

He obviously respects you well.

I just talked to Henry.

You had him expelled.

I don't know what you're talking about.

You were at school. You did this.

Lily, take it easy, will you?

She's lying.

She's a liar.

Lily, that's enough.

I hate you!

Why all the drama?

Why? Why would you do that to him?

He did it to himself.

He's got you all worked up over nothing.

It's not just Henry.

He remembers a body.

A girl buried in the yard.

Buried bodies, Lily.

Do you realize how silly that all sounds?

I know you think I'm a liar.

I'm not.

I've told you the truth.

In my own way.

I've told you the truth.

Maybe you haven't been listening.

I love you, Lily.

Long after Henry and Nate and

all the others.

disappeared from your life, I'm still going to be here for you.

Protecting you.

You want me to leave?

Your father thinks that it would be bad.

Why must you be so tortured?

You have everything you could ever want.

What do I have?

Wouldn't it be lovely if you were?

I've told you the truth.

In my own way, I've told you the truth.

Maybe you haven't been listening.

We try to bury it all over and in the end we just make it worse.

When I was growing up and our pets would die, we'd bury them in the backyard by

the daisies near the sundial.

That way whenever we looked out in the morning,

They'd still be with us.

Spirit.

They're the sundial, they're the veins.

Three inches above the floor.

The man in the box wants to burn my soul.

I'm tired.

Is that the truth, he said?