skipping rope
across the stairs...
just to keepyou
fromgettingat the tree.
- Skipping rope ?
- [Mr. Wheeler]
lm surprisedit worked.
Now he comes
an hour late.
Uh, well, Mom, there are
two really good excuses
I can think of...
that maybe
youshouldkeep in mind.
For one thing, its not really
Christmas today, is it, Mom ?
Andforanotherthing,
its the endofthe world.
The worldis ending tonight
at midni
cord.
Its like a wet rope,
like the time we made that trailer hitch...
...and its wrapped around the babys neck.
I want you to uncurl it so the baby can be born.
- Can you feel it?
- He doesnt know what hes doing!
Keep trying, son. Come on.
- Keep trying.
- This is insane.
Think. You got it yet?
You do? You got it? You got it. Okay, good.
Now I want you to put your fingers...
...between the
skips
across a little stream, then on through a meadow of
cowslips and buttercups and up the sloping hillside
beyond...
??
EXT. MEADOW & WOOD - DUSK
A hazy, summer dusk -- pollen floating in the shimmering
air... Jeanne swirls between the high elms, happy and
carefree -- its all a little surreal -- are those church
bells in the distance? Or cow bells? Or merely the SOUND
of insects?
Jeanne swings
rope under my ears?
I think you better let me have it.
Ill have to hold it on you,
but I think you better let me have it.
Okay, Dowling. Bring in your notebook.
Were all set.
- The works?
- Yeah.
Some of it you know. If I misquote you...
Lets get it on the record,
from the beginning.
With Malloy, then.
It was about : . Anyway, it was dark.
- Why were you at the office that late?
- Im a homing pig
ropes.
Ah, smell it, baby?
Thats Dads famous hot chili.
Why does it always smell so funny?
Thats the Daniels secret sauce.
Whats that smell?
- Dads famous chili
- Extra peppers.
- Just the way you like it. Right, Izzy?
- Yeah, Dad.
And, for dessert...
I tried to make it
just like your mama.
I see you stuck it out for a longer
workout tonight. Thats my boy.
- Boxing is 20 percent talent...
- Eight