forget,
you're the indecisive shoplifter.
Yes! Exactly.
I would do anything
to be in your shoes.
These are Darnell's shoes.
You have freedom,
and you're not using it.
It makes me sad.
You have the wealth of the entire town,
and you're trying to get arrested.
- That makes me sad.
- That makes me sad, too.
- That's pretty stupid.
- It's very stupid.
Are you serious?
I mean, you haven't
been drinking?
This isn't
the bottle talking?
No.
Then why don't you
just talk to the guy?
For the same reason that
you can't leave home,
I can't tell my father
to go to hell.
Why not?
Because I don't
want to be alone.
Mr. McClellan?
You ever have any family problems,
you and your daughter?
What the hell
do you think this is?
You got a point.
Would you go
with me somewhere?
- Where?
- Florida?
Wyoming? Spain?
It doesn't really matter,
just away somewhere.
I'd love to.
I just can't afford to be...
capricious and carefree
like yourself.
I've gotta set my sights on
something, and really go for it.
- Night janitor?
- It's a beginning.
- I-I'm lookin' at...
- It's an end.
Maybe if you had
a destination in mind,
that would make all the
difference in the world.
- Why?
- Well, uh,
I'm just not built to
aimlessly roam the world.
I'm too conservative for that.
Well, I was thinking
about Los Angeles.
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
- What for?
- Live, work.
- At what?
- Whatever.
And what about
your father?
When I don't die,
he'll realize I can
make it on my own.
If I do, he'll have the satisfaction
of knowing that I can't.
If he brings me back,
or if I go back on my own,
he's just gonna beat
the shit out of me.
- So it doesn't make a difference.
- Literally?
Yeah.
- Sad.
- Yeah, it's sad.
Until he throws you across
the room, it's sad.
I'm afraid to live with him,
and I'm afraid to live without...
You didn't come to work
to hear this stuff. I'm really sorry.
I'm gonna clean this up.
I'm just surprised.
I thought everything
was okay, you know.
I figured you got a nice car,
a nice house, some money.
- Everything's okay.
- It should be, but it's not.
It's twisted
and it's distorted,
and it can't be changed
and it cannot be saved.
I'll go with you.
Really?
Yeah.
We have to get a car.
Let's get through
the night, first.
- I have money.
- How much?
Fifty-two thousand dollars.
On you?
In my purse.
Fifty-two thousand dollars.
Wow.
I've never seen
so much money in my life.
This is more than
my house cost.
Jim, now that I'm
spending the night,
how can I pay you back...
for being so cold
to you in high school?
Do you need an
answer right away?
No. Sometime before
the sun comes up.
Well, uh,
you're probably not
going to remember this,
but, uh,
there was a homecoming dance
our sophomore year.
- Mm-hmm.
- Do you remember Mrs. Noble?
Large, hairy gym teacher with
suspiciously cumbersome groin bulge?
I had her for two years.
She made everybody
switch partners...
because the fat girls
were dancing together,
and the doinks, myself included, were
against the wall blowing spit bubbles.
Right.
Well, for three-quarters...
of one verse of a slow song,
we danced together.
You reeked of Stri-Dex.
Oh, no, that was Larry Fry.
I'm sorry.
I don't remember.
- You got your hair caught in my braces.
- I don't remember.
Well, it's not important.
I had...
Well, I had just always...
dreamed of finishing that dance.
Okay.
Don't feel you have
to answer right away.
It's just a small portion
of my life that's incomplete.
I thought you were gonna
say something different.
Well,
first things first.
# When things go wrong #
# As they sometimes will #
# When the road you're trodding
seems all uphill #
# When the funds are low #
# And the debts are high #
# And you wanna smile
but you have to sigh #
# When care is pressing
you down a bit #
# Rest if you must #
# But don't you quit #
# Oh no #
# Don't you quit #
# Oh no #
# But you never can