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JUSTIN (VOICEOVER): They say you should try to appreciate

the here and now, because you never know when something

horrible is going to happen.

Great news, Justin.

JUSTIN (VOICEOVER): And here it is now.

I just got off the phone with your choir teacher.

And she got us our usual tickets at the "Sound

of Music Sing-A-Long" in Milwaukee next week.

Mom, I--

Oh, and I'm so sorry I couldn't get you two tickets.

- No problem. - Not to worry.

And just think, this year, you really

are 16 going on 17, Rolf.

Mom, I think I'm getting a little bit

old for that kind of thing.

You know, the Wilsons go to this every year,

and they're almost 90.

Come on, kids, we're gonna be late for school.

I'll meet you outside.

Why does she think she's taking us to school?

I thought we put an end to that?

I may have suggested that it would

be convenient if she picked us up and dropped us off today.

[throws spoon]

Yeah, convenient for the people wondering whether

or not to beat us up.

Look, in Pakistan, it is an honor to be

dropped off by your parents.

OK, it is not cool there either, but the bus is so dirty.

Three kids.

Thank you, Mrs. Tolchuck.

You're welcome, Raja.

Hey, where's my kiss?

Mom, I have to go.

I'm kind of in a hurry.

I love you, punkin' pie!

And don't forget to pick up those "Sound of Music" tickets.

[laughter]

Hey, pumpkin' pie.

JUSTIN (VOICEOVER): Now this was something really horrible.

Trey Tozer was the kind of bully even bullies were afraid of.

You like the "Sound of Music"?

I like the sound of music your head's

gonna make when I pound it with my authentic tonfa

fighting stick.

JUSTIN (VOICEOVER): Trey had a gift

for crafting obscure weaponry.

Certain members of the faculty had taken it upon themselves

to nurture his creative spirit.

Excellent, Halbert.

MATTHEWS: Tozer!

What do you think you're doing with that tonfa?

Nothing.

I thought I made it clear.

Weapons are for shop class only.

Trying to be Chow Yun-fat around here.

It's ridiculous.

See ya at lunch, Justin.

(WHISPERING) I'm gonna kill you.

[sighs heavily]

And that is why we don't let my mom drive us to school.

[MUSIC - PJ OLSSON & SALMAN ALMAD,

"WHAT'S SO FUNNY 'BOUT PEACE, LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING?"]

What's so funny about peace, love, and understanding?

JUSTIN (VOICEOVER): Every year, for my father's birthday,

my mother got him a piece of sports

memorabilia from his wish list.

The whole thing had never made a lot of sense to her.

[sighs] What's the deal with this baseball card?

It's worth a lot more because they misspelled Yastrzemski.

Well, that's just stupid.

JUSTIN (VOICEOVER): My mom had resolved

to look elsewhere for a non-stupid gift

when fate intervened.

Criminy's sake, $180 for a baseball card.

I could feed my family for two weeks on that.

[crash]

JUSTIN (VOICEOVER): There was almost

no damage to the other car, and there were no witnesses.

A year ago, she might've just driven away.

But Raja had raised the bar for moral behavior in our house.

Dad, speed through the commercial.

I do not think it is right to not watch the commercials.

Commercials are how we pay for the show.

Otherwise, I think we are stealing.

JUSTIN (VOICEOVER): And it had affected all of us.

[class bell rings]

I spent the rest of the day trying to avoid Trey.

[door slams]

[sighs] I even ate my lunch in a bathroom stall with my feet

up so he couldn't find me.

My plan was to pick up those damn "Sound of Music" tickets

and get out of there in one piece.

There's my little Tolchuck.

Matthews took my tonfa away.

So I thought I'd try these.

[makes fighting sounds]

It's not as fun as I thought.

I'm sorry.

Come with me.

Now just hold still or wiggle.

It's your choice.

CLASSMATE: Tolchuck!

There you are.

Mr. Matthews sent me to get you.

Your mother's been in a car accident.

Is she OK?

Is my mom all right?

Calm down, Tolchuck.

If something was seriously wrong,

I would've found you myself.

Which reminds me, you know which class Kenny Henderson's in?

What? No.

Mm, I would not want to be him right now.

Mom?

Mom, are you OK?

Oh yeah, honey, I'm fine.

I just got in a little fender bender,

and I have to take the car to the shop, is all.

So I just wanted you to know I won't

be picking you up after school.

That's it?

FRANNY (ON PHONE): Well, yeah.

Were you worried about me, honey?

Of course, I was worried.

How could I not be worried?

Oh, Justin, that is so sweet.

Hey, did you pick up those tickets

for the "Sound of Music"?

Daah!

[slam]

Justin?

Franny, what happened to our car?

Oh, well, I bumped into one of those hybrids.

There was hardly any damage to their car.

But I left a note just to be safe.

You left a note?

I did the right thing, Gar.

GARY: Of course, you did.

But what if this hybrid owner isn't as moral as us?

I mean, the reason they drive those golf

carts is because they feel guilty about something.

Oprah Winfrey has a hybrid, end of discussion.

All I'm saying is they might use this note as evidence

to get us to pay for every little scratch they've

had on their car for years.

Oh, they're not gonna do that.

How long ago did this happen?

JUSTIN (VOICEOVER): My dad told my mom he

was taking her car to the shop.

But he made a little detour on the way there.

[whistling]

Oh, dear god.

[crash]

[alarm blaring]

BYSTANDER: Hey!

This guy just hit a car, and now he's running away!

No, no-- I--

I would never.

I'm leaving a note.

I'm leaving a note, leaving a note.

Here we go.

Here we go.

Ha, ha.

Leaving a note, there we go.

All right.

OK.

[shuts door]

All right.

[thud]

[alarm blaring]

Look, he's not going to stop, OK?

He's gonna keep trying out his weapons on me.

I heard he was building a catapult

to launch me over the school.

Why do you suppose people treat you like this?

What?

I have noticed that you are frequently picked on, Justin.

I wonder what it is you are doing to antagonize people?

Hey, yeah, what I am doing?

I just mean, it might help to take

responsibility for your role.

Perhaps you are doing something that makes Trey feel

like you do not respect him.

When I talk to somebody, I like to look them in the eye.

I find people appreciate this.

Raj, it doesn't matter where I look at him, OK?

He's still going to be a tonfa-wielding psychopath.

I was just trying to help, Justin.

[alarm sounds]

You got any metal on you?

Nope, just this wooden sword.

Perhaps if you sat him down and told him

his behavior is unpleasant for you, he would stop.

How about I practice by saying it to you?

TREY: Hey, pumpkin.

[groans quietly]

I felt pity for you on Friday when you

got that call about your mom.

But today, it's go time.

Meet me in the parking lot right after school.

Uh, I--

I can't.

Why not?

Because of my mom again.

I have to visit her in the hospital.

She's in a coma.

Your mom's in a coma?

Yeah.

The accident was really bad.

Wow, I didn't know.

Yeah, I know you didn't, Trey.

But when you start pointing wooden

sorts at people whose mothers are in the hospital, it's--

I'm-- I'm sorry.

Is she gonna be OK?

Well, I think my being alive really helps her.

Well, I hope she gets better, man.

Oh, my god, I'm alive.

Justin, you should be ashamed.

Well, you know, the thing about shame

is that you have to be alive in order to feel it.

Uh-uh, uh-uh, uh, you cannot tell such a lie

about your mother, Justin.

It is disrespectful.

TREY: Hey, is this guy bothering you?

Um, no.

No, he-- he was just, uh--

What's the matter with you, man?

Don't you know his mom's in a coma?

I was only talking to him.

TREY: You know, maybe I should meet you in the parking lot

after school today.

I cannot.

Why not?

I was also going to visit his mother in the hospital

because of her coma.

He lives with my family.

She is like a mother to me too.

JUSTIN (VOICEOVER): A few months earlier, Raja

wouldn't have lied as easily.

It was nice to know we were having an effect on him

as well.

You were right.

Just got a fax from that hybrid owner, doesn't mind wasting

fax paper, that's for sure.

He wants $1,500 in damages.

He says I smashed up the front of his car.

Oh, jeez.

This is the thanks I get for leaving a note?

He lied to me!

Can you imagine that?

Can you imagine lying to me?

Stupid bastard.

I'll tell you one thing, that joker does

not know who he's dealing with.

[loud footsteps]

I'd rather make love to Helen Willis than Debra Fisher,

but I'd rather be Debra Fisher.

None of them are as hot as Tolchuck's mom.

Dooley, that's not even funny.

DOOLEY: I'm not trying to be disrespectful,

but I would tear that up.

Just shut up, shut up, OK?

No mention of my mother, I mean it.

How you holding up, guys?

Yeah, we're fine, thanks.

Mind if I sit down?

Yeah, no, not at all.

Have a seat.

[clatter]

How's your mom doing?

Worse.

Yeah.

Yeah, a little-- a little worse.

I--I-- I didn't know a coma could get worse.

Oh.

Well yeah, before, she made just

like a low, groaning noise.

And now she doesn't even make that anymore, so--

Yes, I miss the groan.

Went to the drugstore during third period,

swiped your car for her.

That is so kind, Trey.

JUSTIN: Thanks, I'll, uh--

I'll read it to her and wave it in front of her face.

Maybe she'll pick something up.

It-- it will really mean a lot to her.

I also got some cough medicine.

Oh--

Oh, you-- you go ahead.

- And there's-- - [gasps]

TREY: --this angel.

I wanted to ask you to hang it above her bed.

I made it in metal shop for my mom,

but I never got the chance to give it to her.

She died?

No, she's in prison.

Of course.

Yeah, they got rules against metal gifts

because of all the shankings.

- Sure. - Hm.

TREY: I know how hard it is when you can only talk to your mom

through 12-inch plexi.

I was thinking that must be what a coma's like.

Well, I'd say that pretty much, uh, sums it up.

Sums it up.

You-- you know what?

I'm gonna-- I'm gonna leave this here for just a second.

I will be right back.

Mom, what are you doing here?

I came to get those "Sound of Music"

tickets you keep forgetting to pick up.

OK, well, I told you, I'm not going to that,

plus I really don't want to be seen with you right now.

Oh, that's a heck of a note after I

came all the way down here.

Hey, Mrs. Tolchuck.

Oh, hello, Dooley.

Mom, please just get out of here.

You know, you keep threatening not

to go to that sing-along with me, I

might just take somebody else.

Good, leave me alone, please.

Did somebody say something about a sing-along?

Yeah, it's the "Sound of Music."

"Sound of Music," that's my favorite

Austrian-based musical.

Uh-huh.

In other words, I'd be happy to join you.

Alrighty then, at least your friends

don't find me embarrassing.

Whoo.

JUSTIN (VOICEOVER): It's not like I was proud of myself

for hurting my mother's feelings.

But the woman had no boundaries.

She treated me like a three-year-old.

If she had just let me take the bus

to school in the first place, none of this would've happened.

TREY: Hey.

How you guys doing?

We are OK.

We hung the angel you made above my mom's bed.

I think she really liked it.

Yes, she blinked.

JUSTIN: Blinked several times.

The doctor said that means that she's happy.

Cool.

Looks good.

Thanks.

We cannot keep doing this.

Do you have a better idea?

This coma is the only thing keeping him from killing us.

What if we simply tell him the truth?

I mean, we are friends now.

Perhaps Trey will find the anecdote and use it.

TREY: See, the best thing, we'll make them inside the school

so you don't have to go through the metal detector.

[evil laugh]

JUSTIN (VOICEOVER): Meanwhile, my mom

was continuing to play rough with the man whose car she hit.

Oh, thank you so much.

I'll be right down to get it.

Gar?

That was the security guy down at the mini mall.

They got a camera on that parking lot 24 hours a day.

The whole thing should be on tape.

[kiss] Ha!

[radio blaring]

- Hey, guys. - Hey.

- Hello. - I'll give you a ride.

Oh no, we--

That's OK, it's--

No, really, I want to.

Just throw the floggers in the back seat.

Hey, Justin, say hi to your mom today.

Oh, whoops.

What's he talking about?

Uh, we were gonna go visit my mom--

In the hospital.

--in the hospital, yeah.

So she just wanted us to say hello.

- That's cool. - Yeah.

I'll take you there.

Uh, no, no, no, no, it's really not necessary.

Hey, I'm trying to be nice.

JUSTIN (VOICEOVER): Trey's nice seemed very similar to his not

so nice.

Let's go.

JUSTIN (VOICEOVER): So here we were in the hospital corridor.

So far, my plan consisted of walking very, very slowly.

But I knew that sooner or later, I would have

to come up with something else.

Find me a mother, and hang this over her bed.

I will be right back.

VOICE ON AP: Code Blue to ER.

Code Blue to ER.

So where's your mother?

[breathing heavy] I'm sorry, I just need a second.

Sometimes it's still hard.

I understand.

Listen, Justin, I feel really bad about threatening

to beat you up.

Oh, it's OK.

I just never would've thought you and me could be friends.

It's funny.

Although, you kind of look like my buddy Derek--

well, before I shot off half his face.

You know, he might be in this hospital.

We should say hey.

Justin, I have just said hello to your mother in room 22.

As I believe I stated before, I am so overcome with emotion

that I have to get out of here.

VOICE ON AP: Dr. Thomas to ER, stat.

Dr. Thomas to ER, stat.

TREY: You OK?

Mm.

[machine beeping steadily]

My mom.

Hey, Mrs. Tolchuck.

Aren't you coming in?

Hey, Mom.

This is Trey.

He's the one that made that angel for you.

He just wanted to say hi.

At least you can still hold your mother's hand, you know?

This is nice.

Meanwhile, my mother had brought

home the surveillance video from the mini mall parking lot.

Oh, I can't wait to see the look on their faces

when we show this to them in court.

It was me.

I went there after you to take the note away,

and I smashed their car. They're not lying.

They're telling the truth. But it wasn't you.

It was me. - What?

Franny, you have to understand what it's like to be a man

in this country, the pressures.

What's wrong with the tape?

FRANNY: He said it cuts out at one point.

I guess we didn't get all of it.

Oh, geez.

Gary, how could you do that?

You lied to me.

I don't want the family to suffer.

I'll pay for the damages by selling

my memorabilia collection--

all of it.

Gary, that's not gonna work.

There are one or two pieces in your collection

that aren't as authentic as they look.

JUSTIN (VOICEOVER): Mom went on to explain that we had

counterfeited most of his birthday gifts

over the last 10 years.

With love, Lynn Swann, whoever the hell she is.

Even the football?

Well, it brings you as much joy as the real one would have.

And all these things are so dumb.

JUSTIN (VOICEOVER): And so my parents found themselves

at a rare marital stalemate.

Both had every reason to be furious, but neither one dared.

[machine beeping rapidly]

[groaning]

Is she moving?

Uh, I-- I think we should go.

But what if she wakes up?

[flatlining]

Whoa, what's

happening?

Can you wait right outside, please?

JUSTIN: Yeah, yeah.

[close curtain]

JUSTIN (VOICEOVER): As we waited in the hallway,

it occurred to me that there was a real woman

who was sick in there.

And she was probably somebody's mom.

I found myself just wishing that she would be all right.

She's fine.

The leads to her monitor became disconnected.

So which one of you is Mrs. Warner's son?

He is. [machine beeping steadily]

Wait a minute, Warner?

JUSTIN (VOICEOVER): Getting punched in the face really,

really hurts.

Trey was arrested after being wrestled to the ground

by three orderlies.

As for me, when you have a mouthful of blood and teeth,

there's only one person you want to see more than any other.

Oh, you must be Mrs. Tolchuck.

He's doing just fine.

[thud] [clatter]

JUSTIN (VOICEOVER): So maybe boundaries

weren't her strong suit, but she was my mother.

[music, "my favorite things"]

(SINGING) Brown paper packages tied up with string--

(SINGING) These are a few of my favorite things.

Oh, Justin, you are so darned talented.

[chuckles]

JUSTIN (VOICEOVER): And she wasn't in a coma.

And she wasn't in jail.

And when I really needed her, she always came through.

[music, "my favorite things"]

FRANNY: (SINGING) And then I don't feel--

(SINGING) So bad.

[MUSIC - PJ OLSSON & SALMAN ALMAD,

"WHAT'S SO FUNNY 'BOUT PEACE, LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING?"]

What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?

Oh, what's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?

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