- I made you some tea.
- Well, that's very nice of you, Sarah.
So how was Atlanta?
About the same.
Peachtree Road, Peachtree Centre,
Peachtree Fire Hydrant.
Come on. Come on, Edward.
Hello, Edward.
He's a boy.
How's your ears?
Okay.
I think he still expects Ethan
to come home, even after a year.
Macon?
Macon.
You know I love you.
But I can't live with you anymore.
What?
What did you say?
I want a divorce, Macon.
I rented an apartment downtown.
Honey, listen, it's been a hard year.
We've had a hard time.
People who lose a child
often feeI this way.
It puts a terrible strain
on a marriage...
...but it doesn't have to tear us apart.
Listen, I've been thinking...
...have you considered
having another baby?
- Oh, Macon.
- I know we can't replace Ethan, but-
No, I'm sorry. It would never work.
All right, forget that.
It was a crazy idea, right?
Crazy notion, but...
AII I'm saying is, we can start over.
Macon, ever since Ethan died, I've had
to admit that people are basically bad.
EviI, Macon.
They're so eviI they'd take
our 12-year-old boy...
...and shoot him through the skull
for no reason.
There have been times
I haven't been sure I-
Haven't been sure I could live
in this kind of world anymore.
It's true what you say
about human beings.
I'm not trying to argue.
Tell me, Sarah, why would
that cause you to leave me?
Because I knew you wouldn't
try and argue.
You believed all along they were eviI.
This whole past year I've felt myself
withdrawing from people...
...just like you do, Macon.
I've felt myself becoming a Leary.
Well, there are worse disasters
than that, I guess.
Not for me.
Macon, I know you loved Ethan.
And I know you mourn him,
but there's something so...
What do you call it?
Muffled about the way
you experience things.
It's like you're trying to slip
through life unchanged.
Sarah, I'm not muffled.
I endure. I'm holding steady.
I know you think that,
but I think you're fooling yourself.
It's not by chance you write books telling
people how to make trips without a jolt...
...so they can travel to wonderfuI, exotic
places and never be touched by them.
Never feeI they've left home.
That travelling armchair isn't
just your logo. It's you.
No, it's not. It's not.
When Ethan was in this house with us,
we were all right.
If there was a distance between us, it
didn't matter. We had Ethan in common.
But when we lost him, I needed you.
I needed you to comfort me.
I needed you to be the kind of person
you've never been...
...and that isn't even fair to ask of you.
That's why I have to go.
- Sarah-
- Don't fight this, Macon.
I don't know
how much strength I've got.
I'm never gonna recover from
Ethan's death. I don't expect it.
But there's a chance that I could
make a life anyway.
But my only hope
is to get out of here...
...away from you.
Let me go.
In the Southeast they say
that if you want to go to heaven...
...you have to change planes
in Atlanta.
The airport in Atlanta must have
10 miles of corridors.
Come or go, Edward.
Oh, make up your mind.
I could stop by and pick up the rug
on Saturday, if that's convenient.
Well, I leave for England
tomorrow afternoon.
Maybe I could bring the rug over.
Or I could let myself in on Saturday.
I should have agreed to teach
summer schooI or something.
Open my eyes in the morning and I think,
Why bother getting up?
Why bother eating?
Why bother breathing?
Me too, sweetheart.
Mr. Leary, come with me, please,
to identify the body.
Yes, that is my son.
So I guess I'll come by
while you're gone, if that's all right.
Oh, sorry.
Come on, Edward.
There's nothing to worry about.
- Hi there.
- Do you board dogs?
- Sure.
- I'd like to board Edward here.
- Do you have a reservation?
- A reservation? No.
- Most people reserve.
- Could you make an exception?
I've just come from the place
we've used before.
Suddenly they