missed a deadline.
- Since last time.
- Well, since then, but...
- And the time before.
OK, and then. Look, I'll get it in.
I promise. Bye-bye.
- Yeah?
- Daddy?
- Hey, kiddo. Look, I'm, uh...
- Daddy, I don't know what to do.
Look, I really can't talk right now.
I'm sorry. Daddy's on a brutal deadline.
What about your mother? Can she, um...
- Oh, come on. Damn it.
- Dad!
What? What? What's the matter?
Honey, what is it?
I'm sleeping over
at Mindy Granger's house.
- It's Mindy's father. He's freaking out.
- Slow down.
- What do you mean, freaking out?
- Daddy, I need you. Please.
OK, OK, I'm coming to get you.
I'll be right there.
Oh, come off.
What kind of administration crap is this?
No one touches my stuff, damn it.
Obituaries.
Professor...
Wow, you're in early this morning.
What are you doing in my kitchen?
How did you get in here?
You know, Em, you shouldn't have left
all these dishes for me.
I know you've been busy at work, but...
Well, what's the matter, honey?
What do you want from me?
Come on, Em.
Do I know you?
Oh, only since birth.
I mean, that's kind of the way it works
between mothers and daughters.
- My mother's dead.
- That's not funny, sweetheart.
My adoptive mother is dead. My m...
I never knew my... my birth...
Adoptive mother? What... What on earth
are you talking about?
I'm your mother.
Tracy!
Tracy!
Tracy!
- Dad!
- Honey, what's happened?
Are you OK? You all right?
Bill.
You need to leave the house.
You need to leave now.
What is going on?
I can feel it coming.
- Please, I can't go through this again.
- Daddy?
- Get out of the house!
- You're scaring the kids.
You need to leave now.
OK. OK. All right. All right.
Girls, girls, go to the car. Go on.
Wait in the car. I'll be right out, OK?
Everything's gonna be fine.
Easy, buddy. l... I can help.
You... You can't!
They started this.
They started... started what?
It's happening again.
Bill...
Get the hell away from me!
OK! Just put the gun down, all right?
Put the gun down.
Whatever this is, we'll get you through it.
No.
No.
What've... What've we done?
Huh? Give me the gun.
Just... or just put it down.
Just set it down, OK?
What've we done?
Come on. Just... Just give me the gun.
I'm so sorry.
He shot himself?
Well, he, uh... he kept... kept saying,
"They've started it."
And then he, uh...
he just... he lost it.
It was probably a drug overdose.
It's not so weird.
I don't think so. He, uh...
Not... Not this guy.
Well, we'll see.
All right. Dylan.
Keep you eye on the ball, OK? Here we go.
In the mitt. Excellent.
All right. Throw it back.
Hit me. Excellent.
OK, buddy. Here we go again.
You watching? All right.
Yes. A little more pepper on this one.
Sorry, Daddy.
That's OK, son.
No big deal.
Hey, what's this?
Oops.
Hello?
Professor?
Bruce?
Do we have a phone book?
Hello.
Emily, listen. I know you wanted out
of this whole thing...
but I couldn't find
anybody else's phone number.
Something's happening... still happening.
- I was wondering if...
- Where do you want to meet?
Did you get the story?
It is not running, Howard.
It's as simple as that.
What do you mean,
you're not going to run it?
You've never refused
to print anything I've...
Your sources on these stories usually
have at least some kind of credibility.
- You don't even cite your sources.
- What are you talking about?
This is one of the best things
I've written in years, and you know it.
I am not running it. That is final.
Anyway, for some reason,
Kioshi himself wanted it killed.
Some people came to see him.
Ten minutes later, Kioshi is telling me
to 86 any story of yours for a while.
- Well, can I talk to him? What...
- Kioshi?
- Where is he?
- He's gone.
Judging by the look on his face, you're
not going to talk him out of it, either.
- What are you doing here?
- It's Heather.
- Oh, Stan.
- Look, it's Heather.
Will you get off it?
With all that's going on