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The fuck!
What the actual fuck man?
Shut up!
Get your shit!
Come on!
There he is!
The birthday boy himself!
Happy birthday! Do you have big plans?
Mom's buying me a car from my birthday
Wishful thinking there kiddo.
But I made you a cake.
So no car.
No I think you totally should get a car.
I mean, he is old enough.
No! Not yet!
Next year, maybe.
Now go outside so we can sing a happy birthday.
Do I have to?
Yes!
Now, go!
Go!
Hey, you okay?
You want pizza?
Okay.
Third time this week man. You're becoming my best customer.
Yeah. I wish I wasn't you know.
Thanks for the tip man.
Hasta la Pasta my brother.
Yeah. You too.
I know. I know, you are too old for birthday parties.
But just humor me kid Okay?
I gave birth to you.
I get to have a few more moments with you
before you're off to college.
Okay. Can you please take the hat off?
I'm not 8 anymore.
No. I'm keeping the hat.
In fact...
Come on birthday boy! You gotta wear the hat!
Fine.
- Happy now?
- Yes.
I love you. You little shit.
Even though you are too cool for school.
-Okay mom.
- You'll always be my little boy.
- I love you too.
- John!
John did you hear that?
Our little ball of hormones said he loves me!
Did you?
- Yeah mom.
I got it.
The Navy air comes strafing.
Marine air with rockets...
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- Hey, I turned on the alarm. I'm going to bed.
Good night.
Hey.
I just sleep...
...fine.
-Want some breakfast?
-No.
- I thought you said you weren't hungry.
I can make you something.
-It's fine.
Listen, about last night. I'm sorr...
- I'm late.
-Hey! Michael! You forgot your backpack!
Michael!
Forgot your backpack!
Michael please come... come get it.
Come on, come get it!
God damn it Michael! Get your backpack now!
- Dude, what the hell? Go get your bag!
-Yeah. Make it stop!
- I can't stay in the house forever dad.
- I know. And I won't.
I just can't do it now, son. Okay?
Have a good day. I love you.
- Your dad's weird, man.
- Dude!
- Don't say that shit about my dad, okay?
He's just different now. But he's still my dad.
- Yeah.
- Okay. I'm sorry. It's just before you know...
- Don't wanna hear it.
- What? I said, I was sorry.
You're a shit Hugh.
- Wow, kiss your mother with that mouth?
- I kiss yours!
- Gross!
- Carol?
The honor rifle.
Hey Mr. B! I've got your groceries store for you.
- All right, thank you!
- Heard about what happened. You know with your wife.
I'm really sorry.
She seemed cool.
- Thanks.
Yeah. thank you.
- Are you guys staying? In the house I mean.
'Cuz I couldn't.
I'll be too freaked out.
I don't know. I mean...
- Yeah! Yeah, we're staying.
- Is it safe? Did they catch them? Whoever it was?
- No, not yet.
Wow.
Yeah.
I could'nt... I mean, what if they came back?
- Is there is there anything else?
What? No, I'm sorry.
That's it.
So... I'll see you next week then?
- Yeah.
Alright. thank you. Good bye.
- Yeah. No problem
Uhm... okay.
Good Bye.
Look, I don't want to talk...
- Hey! Hi! How are you?
Hi. Can I help you?
- We live... You know, we're neighbors. You know...
I've been noticing the pizza guys been around a lot
and I thought maybe I'd bring you a casserole. You know,
that's what people do right when someone dies. I mean they
bring food, yeah?
- 'Cuz You need to cut it, you know.
Well, thanks, I'm sure Michael will appreciate it.
- I'm Lacey by the way.
Hi. I'm, I'm John.
- Thanks! Yeah. Good to meet you.
Um Michael, yeah, that's your son?
- Yeah it is.
- Yeah, I see him sometimes. Like fucking a school and stuff?
- Seems like a nice kid. Like he's tall.
- Yeah he is.
- Is he at home?
- No. He's, he is at school.
Yeah. Yeah, right, of course school day. It does totally.
Well, thank you for this...
- Casserole. Yeah.
You're welcome. Uhm...
Thought I should do something nice for you guys.
- Yeah.
... so I should get back to work.
- Were there any Witnesses?
Like, you know, who did it?
- No, they wore masks.
So, no.
-Really... sounds...
Really fucked up. I can't even imagine.
What about Michael?
Did he see anything?
No. He didn't. He blocked it out. Thank God.
- Yeah. Yeah, it sounds. This is like that on TV once.
So like... You know those murder shit...
Well this things, I could just binge-watch them all.
Hold up saying what? What did you what did you say
your name once again?
- Lacey.
-Lacey.
Thank you. I appreciate you bringing this pie.
- Go away. Yeah.
Right. Sorry uhm...
Enjoy the casserole and um, I'll see you around. Yeah?
-Yeah.
- Dad.
Dad!
- What?
- Have you been sleeping all day?
- I was feeling exhausted.
No.
Hey. You want something to eat?
I can make you some spaghetti or something.
Neighbor came by.
Casserole on the, on the counter there if you want that.
-I'm not hungry. Have you seen my skateboard?
- Um...
No?
Did you check your room?
- It's not... I looked.
- Did you leave it at school?
- No.
- Outside?
- No.
- Maybe the garage.
- Can't find anything out there.
- Yeah... It's true.
- It's a total mess.
- Hey, your mom and I were going to deal with that together.
- Yeah. Well that's not gonna happen now is
- Hey!
Michael don't say things like that.
We're dealing with this the best we can.
- Who we?
We?!
You mean me dad?
I'm handling this. ME!
I'm handling everything!
You?
You're just...
Just sleeping.
Whatever.
- Hey!
- What?
- I'll clean up the garage tomorrow. Okay?
Promise.
I"l clean up the garage and I'll find your skateboard.
Everything's gonna be okay. Alright?
Alright?
My... Okay. Great. I think I got it.
Okay, here we go.
This is fun dad.
My God is that my camera?
- Is it? I didn't realize.
- Come on you gonna drop it.
- Hey there camera lady.
- Bring us some iced tea?
... no.
- How about some lunch?
- Also a no.
How about a kiss?
- You are sweaty.
But maybe later.
- God you guys are so gross. Give me my camera.
- So I think I can do the shower too. How about you?
Yes baby. I wanna share a shower
What do we have here?
- Hey Sheriff to let's be on the honor.
Hey folks! We're just out taking a walk.
So, how about you?
Mending fences.
- Haha. Yes.
I remember. Mending fences, a staple of country life.
Need a hand?
No. I got Michael helping me.
... was helping.
- Well uhm, I can give you a hand.
- Okay, great!
- Show me what to do!
- You making a movie?
- Maybe...
- Can I be in it?
- Can you act?
- Only one way to find out.
- It's true.
- Let me think about it.
- Really?
What?
"What".
Says my 17 year-old son.
Emphasis on the 17.
- Mom!
Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday dear Michael...
Happy birthday to you!
- I know. I know. You're too old for birthday parties.
But just humor me kid okay?
I gave birth to you.
I get few more moments with you before you're off to college.
- Okay. Can you please...
- Good night mom.
- Good night Michael.
- Mom?
- Michael
What happened to me?
It hurts.
Get away from me!
- Is that the kid?
- Yeah. What the actual fuck is wrong with that?
- The fucking cares
Did he see your face or not?
- Yeah. Yeah he did
His dad said he didn't but he's a little fucking dead I'll
- I'll always be with you Mike.
- What are we gonna to do?
- What do you think?
- Hey,
I made pancakes.
- I'm not hungry.
- How about 1 to go?
- A pancake to go?
Yeah
- Yeah. You just roll it up like a burrito.
Put a little syrup a cup.
- You're an idiot.
- Yeah
Yeah. So, is that a yes something to go pancake?
- Yeah okay.
-All right!
Here you go.
Well you seem in a good mood. What's up?
Nothing. Can I just be in a good mood?
- Of course you can! There you go.
- This is dumb.
- No, it's genius!
Many geniuses will be called dumb because I think different.
- And sometimes they're just dumb.
- All right Einstein, off to school then.
Yeah.
- All right. Goodbye, Dad.
- See you.
- Dad! The door's open.
- You didn't open it?
- No.
- The alarm is still on, I don't understand.
- I swear I didn't touch it.
- You didn't go out last night?
- N-no.
What are we gonna do?
Call Dennis from the camera company.
I'll call Dennis from security company.
I'll have him come check it out.
- W-what, what if it was it wasn't...
- It wasn't.
- H-how do you.. how do you know...
- They, They didn't. Michael they didn't.
- Dad. What if...
- Listen. Listen.
Michael.
Nobody got in. Okay? We're safe
Okay?
Alright.
Gonna be late for school. Okay?
Boy.
Yes, what is this?
- You look like shit!
- Hey Abby
Hey August.
- You gonna let us come in?
- How are you doing?
- Doing alright.
- Getting any rest?
The sleeping pills are helping.
- How's the head?
So you guys are hungry I could make sandwiches.
- Groceries I see
- Yeah. I'm having them delivered.
- And a casserole. Interesting.
Yeah. Neighbor's.
So, what's up?
- Is Michael home?
- No.
- Where is he?
- He's at school.
- Good.
How's he doin'?
- Well, you know under the circumstances, he's doing fine.
- We all love Carol.
We all grieved.
- Grieved as in past tense? Yeah.
Did you obligatory 7 days of grieving and now you're over it?
Wow, must be nice.
- You have to move on John.
- Jesus Christ Abby, you are not my mom.
- You want to do this now? Fine. I'm not your birth mother.
But when my sister, your actual mother,
decided she couldn't raise the child
raise the child on her own and took the easy way out?
Who was it who quit college and came home to raise you?
Me. me. That's who. I raised you. I fed you. I took care of you.
Not your deadbeat dad. Not your dead 16 year old mother.
It was me. I was just a kid, too. I wanted to graduate college.
I have the whole world ahead of me.
But I gave it all up. For you
For you.
And, so
I want you to have dinner with me.
You owe me that.
- Alright. We'll see.
- You'll get through this. And I'll help you like I always do.
I just can't resist?
- Resist what?
- Dad! How long have you been sitting there?
Not long?
- How long is not long you haven't changed in 2 days?
Not long. Leave it. You you want something to eat?
It's only 4.
Yeah, wow. Right.
Shit.
How was school?
- It was school.
Aunt Abbey and August came by.
And they want to take you out to dinner. Are you up for that?
- Are you going?
- Yeah. I don't think so.
- Then I'm not going.
- Come on Michael. I think you should go.
- Only if you go.
...Come on Michael.
- I'm going if you're going.
You have to get out of the house. We can go to together.
- We'll see.
- That means no.
- Don't do that with the camera.
Come on. Don't disconnect, talk to me.
Michael, stop with the camera.
Stop. Stop disconnecting from... Talk to me. Talk to me, please.
Hey!
What?!
Dad it's okay. It's, it's alright. It's okay.
Okay?
- I'm sorry grabbed you son.
- It's fine. It's okay.
Hey, hey, I found your skateboard.
Great. Did you find my helmet?
- I didn't look for it.
Um, I can look forward to tomorrow.
It's it's okay.
I'll I'll look for it.
- Alight. Well, go upstairs and get ready.
They'll be here soon. Okay?
- Yeah.
- Carol are you here?
Honey, our son needs me
I can't
I don't know how without you. It's supposed to be this way.
We have plans.
- Mom. Mom, are you here?
- Yes.
Mom I miss you.
How. How is this possible. I just...
- I live here.
In this house.
In these walls. I have always been here. I will always be here.
I I saw them shoot you...
- No!!!
- Am I, Am I going crazy?
- You're... you're dead.
- I live...
here!!!
Here!!! I live here!!!
I'm a part of this family!
I have a husband! I have a son! I am a part of you!
- You're scaring me please...
- I belong here!!!
it's okay, Michael. I'm here now.
- I thought heard voices.
I it was watching mom's videos.
Okay. Well, you better get ready.
Abby and August be here soon.
- Yeah okay.
- You all right?
- Yes.
- John, Michael, we're here.
- There's my little nephew!
- Not so little anymore.
- Just like your dad.
- Yeah.
- So uhm. Where you guys wanna go for dinner?
- We already decided that.
-I was just seeing if there's some place they wanted to go Abs.
- We're going to Delgados
I made reservations.
- I know I just...
- It's okay. I. I like Delgados.
- John?
- I'm staying here.
Jesus...
- No, no, no don't start. - Alright? I'm standing here.
And that's my choice
Your choice is what we want to spend time with
your nephew or not. That's it.
Suit yourself!
- Hold on.
I'll walk you out.
- You sure?
- Yeah. Promise him I would.
- Come on, dad.
- Just give me a sec...
- Come on, dad. You got this.
- You can do this. Come on.
- Okay.
- It's okay. It's okay.
Hey, so that was dinner?
- It was good. You should have come.
Yeah, we write you dinner.
- Michael insisted.
- So, um,
did you do anything productive while we were gone?
- No, not really.
Figures. When are you going back to work John?
- Boy has never stopped. Do you? I don't know yet. I'm doing
some remote work and...
- Well?
-Just leave him alone.
- We talked about this Michael
- No! You talked. There was no "we".
- Just leave him alone. I mean it!
- Come on Abs. Let's go home.
I'm glad we got to hang out Michael. It was fun. John be
well, um, let's get together soon.
- Yeah.
- I'm tired hon. Come on.
- I love you kids.
Call me whenever you want to. Okay?
- Hey, thanks for um. Taking Michael out and thanks for letting
him practice the drive. I appreciate it.
- No problem. Good night John.
- I hate her. I've always hated her.
- Carol?
- She's mean!
- Yeah, I don't say that though, you know, she's family.
And she's like she's had a tough life. She's got to forgive
her when she gets like that. She can't help it.
- What? No I don't!
All she did was talk bad about you. It's not right.
She can't treat us like this. Mom doesn't like it.
It's not right.
- I suppose it's not. But it's all she knows.
You know, you'll never convince her of it. You know,
she wrote a book about it, you know.
- God don't even start
with the book. She told me all about it how she wrote it
and self-published it and just on and on about her book.
- Yeah, she does that. She always kind of like them though
did something happen to dinner?
- No.
- You sure?
- Yeah.
- That's why and Abby never came around here much because
your mom would just shut her down and she couldn't handle
it. I started to sound just like her she'd be proud of you.
Thanks.
- So how was driving?
Good!
- August said he
could um take me out for more practice if you wouldn't mind.
- Yeah. Yeah, that sounds all right. Well, it's a school night
and better get up to bed.
- Are you going to be okay?
- Actually, yeah. I think so.
Your mom and I were together for almost
30 years Michael. This doesn't feel real yet.
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- Okay. Yeah. Good night dad.
- Alright. Good night.
- Well there he is the birthday boy himself!
- Happy birthday!
- No, not yet next year maybe.
Happy birthday
- ...Michael. Happy birthday to you
I know. I know, you're too old
for birthday parties, but just humor me kid. Okay?
I gave birth to you. I get to have a few more moments with
you before you're off to college.
- Okay. Can you please
take the hat off? I'm not 8 anymore.
I'm keeping the hat.
In fact...
Come on boy. You got to wear the hat.
- Fine...
Happy now?
- Yes!
I love you,
you little shit. Even though you are too cool for school.
- Okay mom.
- You'll always be my little boy.
- And I love you too.
- John! John! Did you hear that?
Our little ball of hormones said he loves me!
Did you?
Why? Those fuckers!
- Daddy.
- Hey. Hungry? I can make you some pancakes.
- Where is it?
- Where's what?
My camera! What did you do with my camera?
- I dedn't. I didn't touch it. I don't know.
- Where is it? I need it
it has mom on it.
- Your mom's videos?
- Duh?!
- You up it up with the computer, right?
- I, I was going to. Haven't yet.
But I was watching them and then I heard you and I
dropped it somewhere.
But I, I need it! Where is it? What
did you do with it?
- I told you to back those up. We don't
have copies of those Michael if they're gone. They're gone.
- You took it. Didn't you? Where did you do with it? Where
are they? I need mom!
- I don't have your camera son. I told you.
Where's my fucking camer...
- Why you didn't protect her dad?
I wish it been you.
Why? Fuckers!
Fuckers
Fuckers!
Fucking!
God
What the fucking God?
- Yeah.
I was thinking that maybe Michael should come stay with
you for a while. His family who can help him. and I
don't think I can. He already left. You pick him up
at school?
. Okay, I got to go.
Hey.
Bye Ma.
What? No, no, no, no, no.
Apex security anyone home? Hey John, buddy you around?
I'm going in to check your garage.
Shit! Michael, I didn't
even see you there. What you doing back there anyway?
Is your dad home?
- You don't belong here!
You're right I was wrong.
I need your help. I could not do it alone. It's Michael.
Can you come-over?
Yeah now please thank you.
The alarm is off.
- Maybe...
- Why is so, so quiet?
- John? Michael?
We're here!
- Maybe you should stay here?
As if.
John?
John we're here!
Wher..
Where is everyone?
- Abby Stop!
Something's wrong!
- I'm going upstairs.
- I'm calling the police.
- You don't belong here.
- Don't. Please. Help!
- Michael?
Michael!
No!
NO!
John!
Michael!
Michael?
August?
- Don't belong.
-Nice and quick.
Move the fuck out of here.
Fuck
Fuck don't swing!
- Argh!!
Run Michael!
We won't see each other again
- Lacey!
Lacey!
Dispatch, we're at location.
They know this family. They're friends of mine.
Fox. Moretz. Secure the back
Church Department
- There's a body mid rot.
- Somebody help me! Help me!
- Drop you weapon!
- Warning! Drop the weapon, or we'll open fire!
I love you little shit.
- ...Open fire!
- Drop the weapon!
- Final, fucking warning.
- Someone help me. Please.
- Mom!
- Mommy it hurts!
It's okay, baby. I'm here. We're safe now.