1. Cecilia was the first to go.Copy !req
2. What are you doing here, honey?Copy !req
3. You're not even old enough
to know how bad life gets.Copy !req
4. Obviously, Doctor,
you've never been a 13-year-old girl.Copy !req
5. Everyone dates
the demise of our neighbourhood…Copy !req
6. …from the suicides of the Lisbon girls.Copy !req
7. People saw their clairvoyance in
the wiped-out elms, the harsh sunlight…Copy !req
8. …and the continuing decline
of our auto industry.Copy !req
9. Even then, as teenagers,
we tried to put the pieces together.Copy !req
10. We still can't.Copy !req
11. Now whenever we run into each other
at lunches or parties…Copy !req
12. …we find ourselves going over
the evidence one more time.Copy !req
13. All to understand those five girls…Copy !req
14. …who, after all these years,
we can't get out of our minds.Copy !req
15. Cecilia, the youngest, was 13.Copy !req
16. And Lux was 14.Copy !req
17. Bonnie was 15.Copy !req
18. Mary was 16.Copy !req
19. And Therese was 17.Copy !req
20. No one could understand how Mrs Lisbon
and Mr Lisbon, our math teacher…Copy !req
21. …had produced such beautiful creatures.Copy !req
22. Paul Baldino claimed to have
found Cecilia on her first attempt.Copy !req
23. Hey, I was the one who found her.Copy !req
24. I was in the storm sewer under my house.
There's all these tunnels.Copy !req
25. You could get into anyone's house.Copy !req
26. When Paul said this, we believed him…Copy !req
27. …because he was the son
of Sammy "the Shark" Baldino…Copy !req
28. …and we knew about his escape tunnel.Copy !req
29. So I went up, thinking I could see
one of those girls taking a shower!Copy !req
30. Right!Copy !req
31. And I walk in…Copy !req
32. …and I see blood everywhere.Copy !req
33. So I turned around, went for the stairs
and right back out the tunnel.Copy !req
34. I had to tell you guys that story.Copy !req
35. I'll see you guys later, all right?Copy !req
36. - I heard there was an accident.
- It was no accident, Joan.Copy !req
37. Of course the parents are to blame!Copy !req
38. I heard they found the
razor in the toilet…Copy !req
39. Everyone had an opinion as to why
Cecilia had tried to kill herself.Copy !req
40. That girl didn't want to die.
She just wanted out of that house.Copy !req
41. She wanted out
of that decorating scheme.Copy !req
42. The most popular theory
held Dominic Palazzolo to blame.Copy !req
43. Dominic was staying with relatives
until his family got settled in New Mexico.Copy !req
44. He was the first in our neighbourhood
to wear sunglasses…Copy !req
45. …and within a week of his arrival
he'd fallen in love.Copy !req
46. The object of his desire wasn't Cecilia,
but Diana Porter.Copy !req
47. I love her!Copy !req
48. When Diana Porter left on vacation
in Switzerland, Dominic denounced God.Copy !req
49. To prove the validity of his love…Copy !req
50. …he jumped off the roof
of his relatives' house.Copy !req
51. Ahem! I'm gonna
show you some images…Copy !req
52. …and, uh… you tell me…Copy !req
53. …what they remind you of.Copy !req
54. OK?Copy !req
55. A banana.Copy !req
56. A swamp.Copy !req
57. An Afro.Copy !req
58. I don't think Cecilia
truly meant to end her life.Copy !req
59. Her act was a cry for help.Copy !req
60. I know you're very strict…Copy !req
61. …but I think that Cecilia would benefit
by having a social outlet…Copy !req
62. …outside of the codification of school…Copy !req
63. …where she could interact
with males her own age.Copy !req
64. Peter Sisten had helped Mr Lisbon install
a model of the solar system in his class.Copy !req
65. And in return Mr Lisbon
invited him for dinner.Copy !req
66. Bless us, O Lord, and these thy gifts…Copy !req
67. …which we are about to receive from thy
bounty, through Christ our Lord. Amen.Copy !req
68. Amen.Copy !req
69. Lux, please, put your
shirt on this instant.Copy !req
70. Sorry.Copy !req
71. - Thank you, dear.
- Can you pass the salt, please?Copy !req
72. - Ham?
- Thank you.Copy !req
73. - Sweetheart, would you like some peas?
- I hate peas.Copy !req
74. Here.Copy !req
75. That's a nice-looking ham, dear.Copy !req
76. - Well, thank you, honey.
- Mm, this is good.Copy !req
77. So, Peter, are you an aviation enthusiast?Copy !req
78. Well, I don't know if I'd call myself
an enthusiast, but I like planes.Copy !req
79. Ah.Copy !req
80. Uh, Peter, are you on the football squad?Copy !req
81. Um, no, I play it,
but I'm not actually on the team.Copy !req
82. - Oh, I see.
- Ah, not a team player.Copy !req
83. Do you like to wrestle?Copy !req
84. You OK, Peter?Copy !req
85. The Brazilian turbot frog was added to
the endangered species list today.Copy !req
86. - That's the third animal this year.
- Oh, dear.Copy !req
87. The turbot frog?
I don't think I've ever heard of…Copy !req
88. Um, excuse me, may I use the rest room?Copy !req
89. Oh, of course. The one down here
isn't working very well.Copy !req
90. - Go upstairs through Cecilia's room.
- OK. Thanks.Copy !req
91. Hold… Hold on.Copy !req
92. I thought you'd died in there.Copy !req
93. Are you done hogging the bathroom?
I need something.Copy !req
94. Do you mind?Copy !req
95. - Thank you very much.
- You forgetting something?Copy !req
96. Oh, Peter. Here's a little aerofoil
I thought you might find amusing.Copy !req
97. It's a…Copy !req
98. …demonstration of
Bernoulli's principle: lift.Copy !req
99. From that time on,
the Lisbon house began to change.Copy !req
100. Almost every day…Copy !req
101. …and even when
she wasn't keeping an eye on Cecilia…Copy !req
102. …Lux would suntan wearing a swimsuit…Copy !req
103. …that caused the knife sharpener to give
her a 15-minute demonstration for free.Copy !req
104. Following the doctor's orders,
two weeks after Cecilia returned home…Copy !req
105. …Mr Lisbon persuaded his wife to allow the
girls to throw the first and only party…Copy !req
106. …of their short lives.Copy !req
107. There. Is that OK?Copy !req
108. I' m gonna get dressed.Copy !req
109. - Welcome!
- Good evening, Mrs Lisbon.Copy !req
110. Come on in.Copy !req
111. The party's in the basement.Copy !req
112. Just go on round to the left,
and then down the stairs.Copy !req
113. Hi, I'm Bonaventure.Copy !req
114. Hi.Copy !req
115. - Hi. Tim.
- Nice to meet you.Copy !req
116. Hi.Copy !req
117. - Would you like some punch?
- Yeah.Copy !req
118. Thanks.Copy !req
119. - Hi.
- Hi.Copy !req
120. Thanks.Copy !req
121. - Hi.
- Thank you.Copy !req
122. - Hey.
- Hi.Copy !req
123. Do you wanna sit down?Copy !req
124. - Yeah.
- Me too.Copy !req
125. Um, how did your SATs go?Copy !req
126. OK.Copy !req
127. Good.Copy !req
128. Do you know where you're applying yet?Copy !req
129. Well, no, but my parents
are pushing towards Yale…Copy !req
130. …cos that's where my dad went.Copy !req
131. That's nice.Copy !req
132. You have to imagine
what it'd be like when…Copy !req
133. …out of the sun would come the Hun
and his Messerschmitt coming down.Copy !req
134. And boys, I swear,
two or three years older than you…Copy !req
135. …would be in this - the P51B Mustang.
B for what? For bull's-eye, see?Copy !req
136. You've heard of Yale?Copy !req
137. Oh, yeah.Copy !req
138. This punch is fantastic.Copy !req
139. - Can I give you more?
- Sure. What's in it?Copy !req
140. Juices. Some cherry, pineapple.Copy !req
141. You know, I uh… I love pineapple.Copy !req
142. Really?Copy !req
143. This baby would come in, and this won
the war for the United Kingdom. You see?Copy !req
144. - Excuse me.
- Sure.Copy !req
145. And it's this kind of, uh…
this kind of equipment that makes, uh…Copy !req
146. …a model work.Copy !req
147. Here's Joe.Copy !req
148. - Hi, Joe.
- Hi.Copy !req
149. - Now, if he needs anything just call me.
- Oh, I'm sure he'll be fine.Copy !req
150. Hi.Copy !req
151. Hi.Copy !req
152. - Joe! Good to see you. How are ya?
- Hey, Joe.Copy !req
153. - Glad you came tonight.
- How's it going?Copy !req
154. You're just in time.Copy !req
155. Good. Hi.Copy !req
156. Everyone look! His ears wiggle
if you scratch his chin.Copy !req
157. Joe, sing your song.Copy !req
158. Good job, Joe!Copy !req
159. Good job, Joe.Copy !req
160. Where'd you learn that song?Copy !req
161. May I be excused?Copy !req
162. If you want to, dear,
but this is your party.Copy !req
163. Oh, all right, if you want to go upstairs,
go ahead, but we'll just…Copy !req
164. We'll just have to have fun without you.Copy !req
165. Oh, look. He always chooses heads.Copy !req
166. - Joe, what's it gonna be?
- Heads.Copy !req
167. Joe, will you try tails?Copy !req
168. Heads it is!Copy !req
169. I'll show you again. Let's go.Copy !req
170. - Heads.
- Tails.Copy !req
171. Heads.Copy !req
172. - One more time. In the air, Joe.
- Heads.Copy !req
173. Heads it is anyway. One more time here.Copy !req
174. - OK, call in the air, Joe.
- Heads.Copy !req
175. Heads. Not bad.Copy !req
176. How you doin'?Copy !req
177. Good.Copy !req
178. - You picked it up really well.
- It's my favourite song.Copy !req
179. You know, you're… very beautiful.Copy !req
180. I could paint you sometime.Copy !req
181. Thanks.Copy !req
182. - So did they sing it to you?
- Yeah.Copy !req
183. Cecilia!Copy !req
184. Cecilia!Copy !req
185. Oh, my God…Copy !req
186. No! No! No! Don't look. Turn around.Copy !req
187. Turn around. Darlings, turn around.Copy !req
188. Don't look. Don't… Don't look at this.Copy !req
189. Oh, Jesus. Please, God.Copy !req
190. OK.Copy !req
191. - What did he say?
- He said she was only 13.Copy !req
192. Oh, hi, Mary. Are your parents home?Copy !req
193. Hi, Father Moody. Come in.Copy !req
194. Oh, hello, Father.Copy !req
195. Please, sit down.Copy !req
196. Thanks.Copy !req
197. Come on, Miller, that was inside.Copy !req
198. Ah, no. No, thanks.Copy !req
199. How about we get the missus down here,
have a little chat?Copy !req
200. Afraid she's under the weather.Copy !req
201. She's not really…Copy !req
202. …seeing anybody.Copy !req
203. Well, she'll see her priest.Copy !req
204. Ah! This kid's a sucker
for the high inside ones every time.Copy !req
205. Every time.Copy !req
206. Excuse me.Copy !req
207. Father.Copy !req
208. Ah! Double play… Father.Copy !req
209. Double play.Copy !req
210. Mrs Lisbon?Copy !req
211. - May I come in?
- OK.Copy !req
212. Hello, girls.Copy !req
213. I thought we could talk.Copy !req
214. Do you feel like talking?Copy !req
215. Well, if you ever want to,
you know where to find me.Copy !req
216. Mrs Lisbon, it's Father Moody.Copy !req
217. Mrs Lisbon, hello.Copy !req
218. I wanted you to know that
I listed Cecilia's death as an accident.Copy !req
219. An accident waiting to happen. John said
you couldn't get a policy to cover it.Copy !req
220. I know. It's so incredibly dangerous.Copy !req
221. Let's give it a try.Copy !req
222. Ready?Copy !req
223. One, two, three.Copy !req
224. Oh, God. It's just so sad.
I can't even believe it.Copy !req
225. Footings are too deep.Copy !req
226. Got that chain in your truck?Copy !req
227. Hit it!Copy !req
228. Our collection of souvenirs
of the Lisbon girls, which still exists…Copy !req
229. …started with Cecilia's diary.Copy !req
230. Parkie had gotten it from Skip Ortega,
the plumber's assistant…Copy !req
231. …who had found it next to the toilet.Copy !req
232. Tim Weiner - "the Brain" - decoded it.Copy !req
233. Emotional instability.Copy !req
234. Look at the I's.
The dots on'em, they're everywhere.Copy !req
235. Basically…Copy !req
236. …what we have here is a dreamer.Copy !req
237. Someone completely
out of touch with reality.Copy !req
238. When she jumped,
she probably thought she would fly.Copy !req
239. "Monday, February 13th.
Today we had frozen pizza."Copy !req
240. "Thursday. Mom made creamed corn for
dinner. It's the worst. It looks like…"Copy !req
241. "Mary chipped her front tooth
on the monkey bars."Copy !req
242. "She made a big scene and had to
get it capped. It looks normal, I guess."Copy !req
243. Here, give me that.Copy !req
244. Told you she had a capped tooth.Copy !req
245. Elm trees. How many pages
can you write about dying trees?Copy !req
246. Here, something about Dominic.Copy !req
247. "Palazzolo jumped off the roof
over that rich bitch Porter."Copy !req
248. "How stupid can you be?"Copy !req
249. "Today we went out on the boat.
It was cold."Copy !req
250. "We saw a couple of whales."Copy !req
251. "Lux stroked the whale.
I didn't think they'd stink so much."Copy !req
252. "It's the kelp in their baleens rotting."Copy !req
253. "I hope we can go again sometime."Copy !req
254. Let's read that. "Lux
lost it over Kevin…"Copy !req
255. - Is it Heines?
- "Heines, the garbage man."Copy !req
256. Lux lost it over Kevin Haines,
the garbage man.Copy !req
257. She'd wake up at five in the morning
and hang out on the front steps -Copy !req
258. …like it wasn't completely obvious.Copy !req
259. She wrote his name in marker
on all her underwear.Copy !req
260. Mom found them
and bleached out the Kevins.Copy !req
261. Lux was crying on her bed all day.Copy !req
262. The trees like lungs filling with air.Copy !req
263. My sister, the mean one, pulling my hair.Copy !req
264. And so we started
to learn about their lives…Copy !req
265. …coming to hold collective memories
of times we hadn't experienced.Copy !req
266. We felt the imprisonment of being a girl,
the way it made your mind dreamy…Copy !req
267. …so you ended up knowing
what colours went together.Copy !req
268. We knew the girls
were really women in disguise…Copy !req
269. …that they understood love
and even death…Copy !req
270. …and that our job was merely to create
the noise that seemed to fascinate them.Copy !req
271. We knew that they knew
everything about us.Copy !req
272. And that we couldn't fathom them at all.Copy !req
273. Hi. Uh, Mrs Lisbon, I'm Lydia Perl.Copy !req
274. I'm putting together a… Oh.Copy !req
275. - Hi, I'm Bonnie. This is Mary.
- Hello, girls.Copy !req
276. Um, I'm here to ask you
a couple of questions about Cecilia.Copy !req
277. Yeah?Copy !req
278. Great, great. Um, maybe you could start
by telling me a little bit about her.Copy !req
279. Did she have any
special interests or hobbies?Copy !req
280. - Um, she liked writing in her journal a lot.
- That is great.Copy !req
281. Um, OK. Uh, did she…Copy !req
282. Did she ever talk about ending her life?Copy !req
283. What's going on here?Copy !req
284. Um, you must be Mrs Lisbon.Copy !req
285. I'm Lydia Perl. I'm from Channel 2, and…Copy !req
286. You have to leave now, Miss Perl.Copy !req
287. The suicide of an East Side teenager
last summer…Copy !req
288. …has increased the awareness
of a national crisis.Copy !req
289. I'm in front of the home
where Cecilia Lisbon…Copy !req
290. Why can't they let her rest in peace?Copy !req
291. …and write poetry,
tragically put an end to her life.Copy !req
292. Psychologists agree that adolescence
today is much more fraught…Copy !req
293. …by pressures and complexities
than in years past.Copy !req
294. More and more doctors say this
frustration can lead to acts of violence…Copy !req
295. …whose reality the adolescent cannot
separate from its intended drama.Copy !req
296. I baked a pie full of rat poison.Copy !req
297. I thought I could eat it, you know,
without being suspicious.Copy !req
298. My nana, who is 86…Copy !req
299. She really liked sweets.Copy !req
300. She had three pieces.Copy !req
301. I feel sorriest for the mother.Copy !req
302. You'd always wonder if
there was something you could've done.Copy !req
303. - I gotta go. See you later.
- All right, then. Bye-bye.Copy !req
304. Bye-bye.Copy !req
305. Don't worry.Copy !req
306. They took the fence out.Copy !req
307. God, you snore loud.Copy !req
308. Those girls have a bright future
ahead of them.Copy !req
309. The other one
was just gonna end up a kook.Copy !req
310. We didn't see the girls together as
a group until convocation, September 7th.Copy !req
311. Mary, Lux, Bonnie and Therese came to
school as though nothing had happened.Copy !req
312. We felt if we looked hard enough…Copy !req
313. …we might begin to understand what
they were feeling and who they were.Copy !req
314. All right, so if we have - these are
Venn diagrams, as you remember…Copy !req
315. If we have A and B intersecting…Copy !req
316. …and A and B…Copy !req
317. If A intersects B, we have this area.Copy !req
318. And if A is the union with B, we have
all of the circle, plus the intersection.Copy !req
319. These are the laws of
intersection and union. OK?Copy !req
320. How's it going?Copy !req
321. Not bad.Copy !req
322. "Do a character sketch on the following
characters from Portrait Of A Lady."Copy !req
323. The first one is… Ralph.Copy !req
324. Um, he was nice.Copy !req
325. It was really sad when he died.Copy !req
326. Oh, my gosh.
I can't believe I just said that.Copy !req
327. I am so sorry.Copy !req
328. Reading about
the alarming suicide rate…Copy !req
329. …I talked to Mr Woodhouse
and some of the teachers here…Copy !req
330. …and realised that nothing
about this serious matter…Copy !req
331. …has been discussed at this school.Copy !req
332. Quickly thereafter
green pamphlets were distributed.Copy !req
333. We thought green was cheerful,
but not too cheerful.Copy !req
334. Certainly better than red.Copy !req
335. They told us there were
80 suicides a day in America…Copy !req
336. - …30,000 a year…
- Cheese!Copy !req
337. …and alerted us to danger signals
we couldn't help but look for.Copy !req
338. Were the Lisbon girls' pupils dilated?Copy !req
339. Had they lost interest in school
activities, in sports and hobbies?Copy !req
340. Had they withdrawn from their peers?Copy !req
341. Hi. I'm Chase.Copy !req
342. I know who you are.Copy !req
343. I've only been going to this school
my whole life.Copy !req
344. You don't have to talk to me.Copy !req
345. For example, we have
two different types of economics -Copy !req
346. …or so-called two different types.
The first one is called macroeconomics.Copy !req
347. Look. She's laughing.Copy !req
348. He made her laugh! I've never heard him
say anything remotely intelligent.Copy !req
349. The boys who talked with Lux
were always the stupidest…Copy !req
350. …and made terrible
sources of information.Copy !req
351. Squeezebox is all right.Copy !req
352. Let me tell you, she's the hottest girl
in the school for sure.Copy !req
353. Do you wanna know what happened?
Smell my fingers, man.Copy !req
354. Nah, she didn't talk about Cecilia.Copy !req
355. We weren't exactly talking,
if you know what I mean.Copy !req
356. But the only reliable boy
who actually got to know Lux…Copy !req
357. …was Trip Fontaine, who only
eight months before the suicides…Copy !req
358. …had emerged from baby fat
to the delight of girls and mothers alike.Copy !req
359. I'm late again.Copy !req
360. Oh, come on.Copy !req
361. Thank you.Copy !req
362. All the girls at our school
were in love with Trip.Copy !req
363. All the girls except for Lux.Copy !req
364. Trip told us his passion for Lux started…Copy !req
365. …when he went into the wrong
history class during fifth period.Copy !req
366. He went out to his car
to smoke the marijuana he took…Copy !req
367. …as regularly as Peter Petrovich,
the diabetic kid, took his insulin.Copy !req
368. On this particular day
he ran into Mr Woodhouse…Copy !req
369. …and ducked into the nearest class.Copy !req
370. She was the still point
of the turning world, man.Copy !req
371. I never got over that girl. Never.Copy !req
372. I mean… you know,
I loved a lot of ladies, but not like that.Copy !req
373. That was real.Copy !req
374. I'll never forget the first time I saw her.
I didn't know what had hit me.Copy !req
375. I didn't know what to do…Copy !req
376. …cos it was so easy
with all the other girls…Copy !req
377. …but she wouldn't look at me.Copy !req
378. I, uh…Copy !req
379. I was never the kind to pursue,
if you know what I mean.Copy !req
380. That girl drove me crazy, man.Copy !req
381. Mm, yummy. Warm.Copy !req
382. Lux.Copy !req
383. Hey.Copy !req
384. - Look at it. It's just meat on bread.
- Eugh! Sick!Copy !req
385. Thanks, Mom.Copy !req
386. Trip's dad was little help.Copy !req
387. Well, first off, don't
call her on the phone.Copy !req
388. It's all, um… it's all subtlety.Copy !req
389. It's all nuance.Copy !req
390. Yeah. You just need
to talk to her at school, you know…Copy !req
391. …about anything. About the weather,
or school assignments.Copy !req
392. Um, you know, anything
to have the chance to communicate…Copy !req
393. …with the language of eye contact.Copy !req
394. And, uh, project confidence.Copy !req
395. And keep the hair out of your eyes.Copy !req
396. She'll feel the vibe.Copy !req
397. - Just be yourself.
- Yeah.Copy !req
398. The word hurricane was the name…Copy !req
399. …given to nature's strongest storm.Copy !req
400. A hurricane occurs when high pressure
and low pressure masses of air…Copy !req
401. …come in contact with one another.Copy !req
402. There is often a significant difference
in temperature between the two masses.Copy !req
403. One mass is warm,
while the other is cold.Copy !req
404. The warmer air rises
and the cooler air falls.Copy !req
405. Likewise, the low pressure slides down
the sides of the high-pressure area.Copy !req
406. They swirl in and around one another,
creating the beginnings of the storm.Copy !req
407. In this footage, taken from
US Navy weather patrol aircraft…Copy !req
408. …we can clearly observe
the two masses…Copy !req
409. …one high pressure and one low,
coming in contact with one another.Copy !req
410. The result is a surging storm
of tremendous strength…Copy !req
411. …that strikes with
forceful determination.Copy !req
412. Even though the hurricane is
the most powerful storm known to us…Copy !req
413. Must have been Conley.Copy !req
414. His ass is grass.Copy !req
415. I'm gonna ask you out.Copy !req
416. Fat chance.Copy !req
417. First I'm gonna come over to your house
on Sunday and watch the tube.Copy !req
418. Then I'm gonna ask you out.Copy !req
419. You're a stone fox.Copy !req
420. The hurricane: one of the most truly
awe-inspiring and spectacular storms…Copy !req
421. …nature has to offer.Copy !req
422. - What channel's this?
- Five.Copy !req
423. Ah, let's see. Um, Animals In The Wild.Copy !req
424. "Journey through the African Kalahari…Copy !req
425. …as we visit exotic animals
in their natural habitat."Copy !req
426. I think that sounds very nice, don't you?Copy !req
427. The rainforest eventually
gives way to expansive arid grasslands…Copy !req
428. …that stretch to the horizon
in all directions.Copy !req
429. This is the Kalahari.Copy !req
430. Uh, do you want some more pop?Copy !req
431. Yeah, sure. Thank you.Copy !req
432. Thanks.Copy !req
433. The wildlife spectacle played out
on these vast open grasslands…Copy !req
434. …and in the deep recesses of
the rainforest is unparalleled on Earth.Copy !req
435. Lux, please put your feet down, honey.Copy !req
436. The Kalahari and its vast open skies
provide the theatre…Copy !req
437. …for the drama played out by the herds
and the great cats that prey on them.Copy !req
438. Oh, my!Copy !req
439. It's getting so late. Honey?Copy !req
440. - I said it's getting late.
- Yeah? Oh.Copy !req
441. Well, Skip, we usually
hit the hay about now, so…Copy !req
442. Right.Copy !req
443. - OK.
- Thank you.Copy !req
444. OK, so…Copy !req
445. - It's nice to meet you, Mrs Lisbon.
- Yes.Copy !req
446. - Good night.
- See you.Copy !req
447. Bye.Copy !req
448. Bye.Copy !req
449. Gotta get back before bed check.Copy !req
450. Ahem.Copy !req
451. Uh, this is fourth period.
I don't have you until fifth.Copy !req
452. - I know.
- Oh.Copy !req
453. I'm not here for math today, sir.Copy !req
454. I'm here to tell you that my intentions
for your daughter are honourable.Copy !req
455. What… might those intentions be?Copy !req
456. I wanna ask Lux to
the Homecoming dance.Copy !req
457. Trip, why don't you sit down
for a minute?Copy !req
458. You see, my wife and I have certain rules.Copy !req
459. They've been the same for the older girls.
I can't change them for the younger ones.Copy !req
460. Even if I wanted to,
the wife wouldn't let me.Copy !req
461. True. So, uh…Copy !req
462. If you want to come over and
watch TV again, that would be fine…Copy !req
463. …but you cannot take Lux out,
especially not in a car.Copy !req
464. So I'm sorry, son, that's just our policy.Copy !req
465. OK, sir, what if there was
a bunch of us guys…Copy !req
466. …and we took
all your daughters out in a group…Copy !req
467. …and we had'em back
by whatever time you said?Copy !req
468. - Are you on the football squad, son?
- Yes, sir.Copy !req
469. - Ah. What position?
- Defensive cornerback.Copy !req
470. Ah. Good. Good.Copy !req
471. I was a…
I was a safety in my day.Copy !req
472. That's a crucial position, sir.
Nothing between you and the goal line.Copy !req
473. Exactly! Exactly.Copy !req
474. Oh, well…Copy !req
475. So the thing is, sir, we've got
the big game against Country Day…Copy !req
476. …then afterwards we have the dance and…
all the other guys are taking dates.Copy !req
477. You're a good-looking fellow, Trip.
Lots of girls would go with you, I bet.Copy !req
478. Yeah, well, I'm not interested
in lots of girls, sir.Copy !req
479. I'll take it up with the wife, Trip.
Do what I can.Copy !req
480. Thank you, sir.Copy !req
481. - It's a graph.
- Oh.Copy !req
482. Mm.Copy !req
483. Trip Fontaine and some of the…Copy !req
484. …other boys in the football squad asked
to take the girls to the Homecoming dance.Copy !req
485. You know how I feel
about that sort of thing.Copy !req
486. - I'm gonna be a chaperon at the dance.
- Oh, come on, Mom. Please!Copy !req
487. Your father and I will discuss it later.Copy !req
488. Mr Fontaine,
may I speak with you, please?Copy !req
489. Now, my wife and I have
had a little talk…Copy !req
490. …and we've come to a decision
about your request.Copy !req
491. Yes!Copy !req
492. I'm taking Lux Lisbon to Homecoming.Copy !req
493. I need three guys to take the other girls.Copy !req
494. I'll give you three joints, Trip.Copy !req
495. Come on, Trip, man. You pick me,
we can take my dad's Caddy.Copy !req
496. You gotta pick me, Tripster!Copy !req
497. Trip, man, you owe me.Copy !req
498. I saved your ass
with Woodhouse that time.Copy !req
499. - Thanks, Dad!
- OK.Copy !req
500. - Who are the other boys?
- Ah, let's see.Copy !req
501. Parker Denton and Jake Conley.
He's a very good student, dear.Copy !req
502. And, uh… Kevin Head.Copy !req
503. - Who's taking who?
- Whom.Copy !req
504. They're just gonna raffle us off.Copy !req
505. It made no difference which pattern
of their dream dresses the girls chose.Copy !req
506. Mrs Lisbon added an inch to the
bust line and two to the waist and hems.Copy !req
507. And the dresses came out
as four identical sacks.Copy !req
508. - Everybody decent?
- Yeah.Copy !req
509. OK. Come on.Copy !req
510. Oh, I'm sorry. OK, there we go.
OK, come on, together.Copy !req
511. - There's a leak.
- And Cheddar cheese!Copy !req
512. I'm so excited!Copy !req
513. - You ready?
- Let's go.Copy !req
514. - Ready, man.
- Let's do it.Copy !req
515. In the end Parkie won
because of the Cadillac…Copy !req
516. …Kevin Head because
he had the killer weed…Copy !req
517. …and Joe Hill Conley
because he won school prizes -Copy !req
518. …which Trip thought
would impress Mr and Mrs Lisbon.Copy !req
519. - Hello, boys.
- Hello, Mrs Lisbon.Copy !req
520. Come in.Copy !req
521. Thank you.Copy !req
522. - Uh, who… who… who's driving?
- I am.Copy !req
523. How long have you had your licence?Copy !req
524. Two months, but I had
my learner's permit for a year.Copy !req
525. We almost never let the girls
go out in cars unless it's necessary.Copy !req
526. There's so many accidents nowadays.
I'm sure you will be very careful.Copy !req
527. - Oh, yes, ma'am.
- OK, third degree's over!Copy !req
528. Girls!Copy !req
529. - I better get going. See you at the dance.
- See you there, Mr Lisbon.Copy !req
530. Bye, dear.Copy !req
531. See you later.Copy !req
532. Girls, come on down.Copy !req
533. The boys are here.Copy !req
534. We got white ones.Copy !req
535. We didn't know what you were wearing,
and the guy, the flower guy, said…Copy !req
536. …that white would go with anything, so…Copy !req
537. I'm glad you got white.Copy !req
538. Why don't you pin them on?Copy !req
539. Don't stick me!Copy !req
540. There we go. All right. Let's do it.Copy !req
541. Bye, Mom.Copy !req
542. Bye.Copy !req
543. Oh my gosh, look, you guys.
Her car's there late again.Copy !req
544. Mr Leo's having an affair with the maid.Copy !req
545. I saw him follow her
into the laundry room.Copy !req
546. - Eugh! He's so fat, and that red nose.
- Totally an alcoholic.Copy !req
547. What about the Hessens?
You know they're Nazis.Copy !req
548. They're Nazi sympathisers, Bonnie.Copy !req
549. They had a fit when the Schwartzmans
tried to join the tennis club.Copy !req
550. Nice aluminum siding
Do they really think that looks OK?Copy !req
551. Mr Kriegers ordered that
from TV late at night.Copy !req
552. - It's the Baldinos' barbecue tree stump.
- I have never seen them barbecue on it.Copy !req
553. Actually it's an escape tunnel
for Sammy "the Shark".Copy !req
554. - Leads to a river where he has his boat.
- Yeah. Paul goes there all the time.Copy !req
555. He can get into anyone's basement
through the storm sewers.Copy !req
556. - No way.
- Yeah.Copy !req
557. Cool.Copy !req
558. - Dad'll smell it on you.
- No, I got mints.Copy !req
559. He'll smell it on your clothes.Copy !req
560. I'll just tell him some kids
were smoking in the bathroom.Copy !req
561. Don't let it die a virgin.Copy !req
562. - That's gross!
- Yeah, grow up, Conley.Copy !req
563. - Uh, do you wanna dance?
- Sure.Copy !req
564. We've been having such
lovely weather, don't you think?Copy !req
565. Yeah. Yeah, it's been nice.Copy !req
566. Good evening, everyone.
If I could have your attention…Copy !req
567. I hope you're all having a good time.
Sure looks like it.Copy !req
568. Here's a spot.Copy !req
569. I'd like to open the voting
for Homecoming king and queen.Copy !req
570. The ballot box is at the refreshments
table, so please cast your votes…Copy !req
571. …and we'll make the announcement
in a little while. Thank you.Copy !req
572. Did anybody see you come in?Copy !req
573. No.Copy !req
574. - What about you?
- No.Copy !req
575. You'll love it.Copy !req
576. Peach schnapps.Copy !req
577. Babes love it.Copy !req
578. That stuff tastes really good.Copy !req
579. I don't want any, thanks.Copy !req
580. Come on, just a taste. A tiny taste.Copy !req
581. Don't be such a goody-goody.Copy !req
582. Don't swallow it!Copy !req
583. Can I have everyone's attention, please?
Thank you.Copy !req
584. I'd like you all to put your hands together
for this year's king and queen:Copy !req
585. …Trip Fontaine and Lux Lisbon.Copy !req
586. All right, Luxie!Copy !req
587. I' m having the best time!Copy !req
588. Let's go for a walk.Copy !req
589. We better not.
We've gotta go back in a minute.Copy !req
590. We can keep an eye on the car.
They won't leave without us.Copy !req
591. My dad.Copy !req
592. Just tell him you had to put
the crown in your locker.Copy !req
593. - Hey, see that divot there?
- Uh-huh.Copy !req
594. That's where I reamed this guy today
in a cross-body block.Copy !req
595. Really?Copy !req
596. - Maybe they went with your dad.
- I doubt it.Copy !req
597. - We're cooked.
- Luxie is. We're not.Copy !req
598. Does anyone have any mints?Copy !req
599. - Sorry.
- No.Copy !req
600. Bye, Parkie.Copy !req
601. - We'll walk you to the door.
- No, don't.Copy !req
602. Why not?Copy !req
603. Just don't.Copy !req
604. OK.Copy !req
605. Will you call me?Copy !req
606. Uh, absolutely.Copy !req
607. - Bye.
- Bye.Copy !req
608. Bye.Copy !req
609. Where have you been?Copy !req
610. Get in!Copy !req
611. I walked home alone that night.Copy !req
612. I didn't care how she got home.
It was weird.Copy !req
613. I mean, I liked her, I liked her a lot,
but out there on the field…Copy !req
614. It was just different then.Copy !req
615. That was the last time I saw her.Copy !req
616. You know, most people
will never taste that kind of love.Copy !req
617. But at least I tasted it once, right?Copy !req
618. It's time for your
six o'clock group meeting.Copy !req
619. Given Lux's failure to make curfew,
everyone expected a crackdown.Copy !req
620. But few anticipated it would be so drastic.Copy !req
621. The girls were taken out of school…Copy !req
622. …and Mrs Lisbon shut the house
in maximum security isolation.Copy !req
623. She had done more than
just take the girls out of school.Copy !req
624. That Sunday,
arriving home from a church sermon…Copy !req
625. …Mrs Lisbon commanded Lux
to destroy her rock records.Copy !req
626. Now!Copy !req
627. But, Mom!Copy !req
628. This is final, Luxie.Copy !req
629. - It's not fair!
- I said now!Copy !req
630. Now, Luxie!Copy !req
631. Come on.Copy !req
632. Hold on.Copy !req
633. Kiss! Please don't make me do this.Copy !req
634. Burn it.Copy !req
635. Oh, Mom. Aerosmith!Copy !req
636. - Come on. Don't make me burn this.
- No.Copy !req
637. What's that smell?Copy !req
638. It's all right. That'll do for now.
Give me these. Give me these.Copy !req
639. I'll put them in the trash.Copy !req
640. This was the time we began to see Lux
making love on the roof…Copy !req
641. …with random boys and men.Copy !req
642. - Is she naked?
- You can't tell. Hold on.Copy !req
643. Well, get it focused.Copy !req
644. - Will you stop? Wait your turn.
- What are they doing?Copy !req
645. - They're rolling around up there.
- Let me see. Let me see.Copy !req
646. Hold on. And she's on him and
he's rubbing his hands through her hair.Copy !req
647. - Come on, let me look.
- No, it's my… It's my telescope, Chase!Copy !req
648. Yes, and what else?Copy !req
649. Our male up there
seems to be in a Burger Chalet uniform!Copy !req
650. That Burger Chalet - you never think
those guys ever get lucky.Copy !req
651. She turns to me and asks me
if I thought what we'd done was dirty.Copy !req
652. I knew what to say. I said no.Copy !req
653. Then she grabs my hand
and goes "You like me, don't you?"Copy !req
654. I didn't say anything.
It's best to keep chicks guessing.Copy !req
655. Chase, honey!
Come practise your violin before dinner!Copy !req
656. You're not gonna believe it.
Lux is on the roof again tonight!Copy !req
657. - Her hands are moving down.
- I gotta see this!Copy !req
658. - This is beautiful.
- No, no. She's on top of him.Copy !req
659. - What's she doin', man?
- Wait.Copy !req
660. Now they're done, he's getting up.Copy !req
661. - That's it?
- Popcorn.Copy !req
662. That was quick.Copy !req
663. - Ooh, good morning!
- Good morningCopy !req
664. Have we photosynthesised
breakfast today?Copy !req
665. Hello, Ronald.Copy !req
666. Hi, Eric.Copy !req
667. Your daughters haven't been at school
for over two weeks.Copy !req
668. You checked out back?Copy !req
669. They found a new math teacher.Copy !req
670. - Well, he's gonna have to get another job.
- I know.Copy !req
671. How long can those girls
be cooped up like that?Copy !req
672. - Just go away. This is our tree.
- Girls!Copy !req
673. Girls, it's a little late.
This tree is dead.Copy !req
674. - Why not leave it up to nature?
- If we did, there'd be no trees left.Copy !req
675. That's what it's gonna be like anyway.Copy !req
676. If boats hadn't brought the fungus,
this wouldn't have happened.Copy !req
677. OK? Let's go.Copy !req
678. No?Copy !req
679. All right. That's it.Copy !req
680. I have an order to cut down your elm tree,
but your kids won't let us.Copy !req
681. - How do you know that tree's sick?
- It had yellow leaves. The tree is dead.Copy !req
682. Our daughter said Aritex is
a less aggressive therapy.Copy !req
683. It doesn't work. I leave that tree,
they'll all be gone by next year.Copy !req
684. Will be anyway, way things are going!Copy !req
685. I don't want to call the police.Copy !req
686. Our daughters are standing on their own
front lawn. Since when is that a crime?Copy !req
687. Right.Copy !req
688. Uh…Copy !req
689. Clive, did you see those girls in the
nighties? That's the shot that I want, OK?Copy !req
690. Honey, move forward.
I want those girls in the nighties.Copy !req
691. Oh, God. OK.
Here, let's just back up a little bit.Copy !req
692. There you go. Is that good? OK?Copy !req
693. Four sisters of Cecilia Lisbon,
the East Side teenager…Copy !req
694. …whose suicide last summer focused
awareness on a national problem…Copy !req
695. …put their own lives in jeopardy by trying
to protect the elm that Cecilia so loved.Copy !req
696. For the next few weeks
we hardly saw the girls at all.Copy !req
697. Joe Hill Conley didn't call Therese
as he had promised.Copy !req
698. And Lux never spoke to Trip again.Copy !req
699. You're a stone fox.Copy !req
700. The girls' only contact with the outside…Copy !req
701. …was through catalogues they ordered
that filled their mailbox…Copy !req
702. …with pictures of high-end fashions
and brochures for exotic vacations.Copy !req
703. Unable to go anywhere…Copy !req
704. …the girls travelled in their
imaginations to Siamese temples…Copy !req
705. …or passed an old man with a leaf broom
tidying a moss-carpeted speck of Japan.Copy !req
706. We ordered the same catalogues…Copy !req
707. …and, flipping through the pages,
we hiked through passes with the girls…Copy !req
708. …stopping every now and then
to help them with their backpacks…Copy !req
709. …placing our hands
on their warm, moist shoulders…Copy !req
710. …and gazing off at papaya sunsets.Copy !req
711. We drank tea with them
in a water pavilion.Copy !req
712. We did whatever we wanted.Copy !req
713. Cecilia hadn't died.
She was a bride in Calcutta.Copy !req
714. The only way
we could feel close to the girls…Copy !req
715. …was through these impossible trips
which have scarred us forever…Copy !req
716. …making us happier
with dreams than wives.Copy !req
717. Collecting everything we could of theirs,
the Lisbon girls wouldn't leave our minds.Copy !req
718. But they were slipping away.Copy !req
719. The colour of their eyes was fading, along
with the locations of moles and dimples.Copy !req
720. From five they had become four…Copy !req
721. …and they were all living in the dead,
becoming shadows.Copy !req
722. We'd have lost them completely
if they hadn't contacted us.Copy !req
723. OK, one long…Copy !req
724. …two short…Copy !req
725. - …and one long.
- Mm-hm.Copy !req
726. You got that? That's it.Copy !req
727. "Help."Copy !req
728. "Send…Copy !req
729. …bo…Copy !req
730. …bo."Copy !req
731. - Bo-bo?
- Bo-bo.Copy !req
732. That's what it says: bo-bo.Copy !req
733. "Help send bo-bo"?
I thought you knew Morse code.Copy !req
734. Something here for you.Copy !req
735. I got one, too.Copy !req
736. We racked our brains
for a way of contacting them.Copy !req
737. Tom Faheem suggested we fly a kite
with a message alongside the house…Copy !req
738. …but that had logistical problems.Copy !req
739. In the end, the answer was so simple
it took a week to work out.Copy !req
740. We called them on the telephone.Copy !req
741. 727…Copy !req
742. - …8221.
- 8221.Copy !req
743. Get ready.Copy !req
744. - Hello?
- Go!Copy !req
745. Call us. 7270487.Copy !req
746. Shit! It's them.Copy !req
747. I gotta go home. See ya tomorrow.Copy !req
748. I'll see you later.Copy !req
749. - We're suffocating.
- You're safe here.Copy !req
750. I can't breathe in here.Copy !req
751. No answer.Copy !req
752. - What time is it?
- Any time now.Copy !req
753. - Guys, there it is.
- What?Copy !req
754. Yeah, it's them.Copy !req
755. Let's go!Copy !req
756. I have keys to my mom's car.Copy !req
757. Shh!Copy !req
758. Maybe we should knock.Copy !req
759. We're here.Copy !req
760. About time.Copy !req
761. We've been waiting for you guys.Copy !req
762. We got a car, a full tank.
We'll take you anywhere you wanna go.Copy !req
763. It's just a Cougar, but
it's got a big trunk.Copy !req
764. Can I sit up front?Copy !req
765. Sure.Copy !req
766. Which one of you
is gonna sit up front next to me?Copy !req
767. Where are your parents?Copy !req
768. Asleep.Copy !req
769. - What about your sisters?
- They're coming.Copy !req
770. Come on, it's getting late.Copy !req
771. Wait five minutes. We had to wait
until my parents were asleep.Copy !req
772. They take for ever.
My mom's an insomniac.Copy !req
773. We better take our car.
There's more room.Copy !req
774. Think you can handle a station wagon?Copy !req
775. Sure. It's not a stick, is it?Copy !req
776. - No.
- Yeah, no problem.Copy !req
777. - Will you let me steer?
- Sure.Copy !req
778. But maybe we should go.
I heard somethin'. Could be your mom.Copy !req
779. Come on in.Copy !req
780. I'll go wait in the car.
You guys wait here for my sisters.Copy !req
781. These girls are making me crazy.
If I could feel one of'em up just once…Copy !req
782. What?Copy !req
783. We would never be sure
about the sequence of events.Copy !req
784. We argue about it still.Copy !req
785. Most likely Bonnie had died while we
were waiting in the living room…Copy !req
786. …dreaming of highways.Copy !req
787. Mary put her head in the oven
shortly thereafter.Copy !req
788. Therese, stuffed with sleeping pills,
was gone by the time we got there.Copy !req
789. Lux was the last to go.Copy !req
790. It's four o'clock on Sunday afternoon.
Do you know where your children are?Copy !req
791. This has been Lydia Perl
with Channel 8 News.Copy !req
792. None of my daughters
lacked for any love.Copy !req
793. There was plenty of love in our house.Copy !req
794. I never understood why…Copy !req
795. After the suicide free-for-all the Lisbons
gave up any attempt to lead a normal life.Copy !req
796. They had Mr Hedlie pack up the house…Copy !req
797. …selling what furniture he could
in a garage sale.Copy !req
798. Mr Lisbon put the house on the market…Copy !req
799. …and it was sold to
a young couple from Boston.Copy !req
800. We, of course, took the family photos
that were put out with the trash.Copy !req
801. We had pieces of the puzzle, but however
we put them together, gaps remained -Copy !req
802. …oddly shaped emptiness,
mapped by what surrounded them…Copy !req
803. …like countries we couldn't name.Copy !req
804. What lingered after them was not life,
but the most trivial list of mundane facts:Copy !req
805. …a clock ticking on the wall…Copy !req
806. …a room dim at noon…Copy !req
807. …the outrageousness of a human being
thinking only of herself.Copy !req
808. We began the impossible process
of trying to forget them.Copy !req
809. Our parents seemed
better able to do this…Copy !req
810. …returning to their tennis foursomes
and cocktail cruises…Copy !req
811. …as though they'd seen this all before.Copy !req
812. It was full-fledged summer again, over
a year since Cecilia had slit her wrists…Copy !req
813. …spreading the poison in the air.Copy !req
814. A spill at the plant
increased the phosphates in the lake…Copy !req
815. …and produced a scum of algae so thick
that the swamp smell filled the air…Copy !req
816. …infiltrating the genteel mansions.Copy !req
817. Debutantes cried over the misfortune
of coming out in a season…Copy !req
818. …everyone would remember
for its bad smell.Copy !req
819. The O'Conners, however,
came up with the ingenious solution…Copy !req
820. …of making the theme of their daughter
Alice's debutante party "Asphyxiation ".Copy !req
821. Like everyone else,
we went to forget about the Lisbon girls.Copy !req
822. She'll give him a heart attack!Copy !req
823. Hi, Parkie.Copy !req
824. Al's got the acting bug, you know.Copy !req
825. She caught it from Pinkie.Copy !req
826. And I want to announce tonight
that next fall…Copy !req
827. …Alice is going to
a little school in New HavenCopy !req
828. I hear they have
a great drama school out there.Copy !req
829. - In fact, Sam, didn't your father build it?
- That's the law school.Copy !req
830. We're so proud of Alice.
We really couldn't be prouder.Copy !req
831. I've had it.Copy !req
832. Goodbye, cruel world.Copy !req
833. No, no, no, you don't understand me!Copy !req
834. I'm a teenager. I got problems!Copy !req
835. So much has been said
about the girls over the years.Copy !req
836. But we have never found an answer.Copy !req
837. It didn't matter in the end
how old they had been…Copy !req
838. …or that they were girls.Copy !req
839. But only that we had loved them…Copy !req
840. …and that they hadn't heard us calling…Copy !req
841. …still do not hear us calling them
out of those rooms…Copy !req
842. …where they went to be alone
for all time…Copy !req
843. …and where we will never find the pieces
to put them back together.Copy !req