Chrissy: Ben, you look stupid.
Ben: Chrissy, that's the first time you've ever insulted me.
Chrissy: No, it's the first time you've ever been in the room.
Carol: Where's dad?
Ben: Upstairs.
Carol: Dad, come down here now.
Ben: Our turf. Keep out. The Regents.
Carol: I was graffiti-ed Ben. By a gang of twelve dressed just like you.
Jason: Carol.
Carol: Dad, I need to talk to you.
Jason: I'm not asking you to violate any confidence that you have with your brother, but if you
see Mike I want you to give him this money. Do not say it's from. I want him to learn a lesson
but I do not want him to suffer. Nough said, now get away from me.
Carol: But dad I have something to say. |I've reached a decision.
Ben: Apparently so have the Regents.
Carol: Oh good. You're here too. I have something to say to you.
Maggie: Honey, you've got paint all over your coat.
Ben: You should read her but.
Carol: Ben, go to your room.
Ben: carol, you can't tell me where to go. Anyway. I don't live there anymore.
Maggie: What?
Ben: I moved up to the garage yesterday.
Maggie: Ben, you don't move anywhere without permission.
Ben: Dad said it was ok.
Jason: Well Maggie, my point was that just incase Mike happened to come back, this would
symbolically communicate to him that no individual is more important or larger than a family
as an entity. Because as you know, the fiber, the basic familial...Ben, go to your apartment.
Carol: I'm still here.
Jason: Why is that?
Carol: What do I have to do to get your attention? Wear vinyl like Ben?
Maggie: Ben's wearing Vinyl?
Ben: Leather.
Carol: I can't take this anymore. This commute is killing me.
Jason: Honey, I think there's something important going on here, and we have been too
preoccupied with Mike to even notice it.
Carol: Finally dad.
Jason: Carol's dropping out of school.
Maggie: What?
Carol: I'm not dropping out.
Jason: Finally that's solved.

Carol: Listen. If Mike can live in the city, so can I.
Maggie: Oh no you don't Carol. You can save your breath. You're not moving anywhere.
Carol: You haven't even heard what I have to say.
Jason: It's true Maggie.
Maggie: Not another word.
Carol: What?
Jason: I think what your mother's trying to say is maybe this isn't the right time.
Maggie: I'll tell you what I'm trying to say, thank you very much.
Jason: Honey I'll talk to her. It's ok. I can take care of things.
Maggie: Oh, like you took care of things with Mike?
Jason: Oh, so now we're blaming me all of a sudden.
Maggie: No, I blamed you all along.
Jason: You could hear the truth hu?
Maggie: Jason, I am going to handle this. Ok? Ok? Ok? Ok? Alright, where were we?
Carol: Well I was.....
Maggie: You are not moving anywhere. End of discussion.
Carol: How can you be so selfish?
Maggie: Selfish! You think I'm keeping you here for me?
Carol: Bingo.
Maggie: Carol, what would I possibly gain by having you here?
Carol: Oh, thank you very much.
Maggie: Honey, I just mean that maybe you're not ready to move out on your own.
Carol: How am I not ready? Name one thing. Just one.
Maggie: For one. For one. If you were adult enough to move out, you'd be adult enough to
know that this is a rotten time to be having this stinking conversation.
Carol: So I'm trapped here until I die?
Maggie: No honey, the odds are you'll out live your dad and I.
Carol: You know the best thing Mike ever did was move away from here.
Maggie: oh really?
Carol: Yeah. At least he had the good sense to get away from you.
Maggie: Me?
Carol: Yeah. I'll tell you something else. If I had the money, I'd do the same thing.
Maggie: Is that all that's keeping you here.
Carol: Yes.
Maggie: Well here.
Carol: What are you doing?
Maggie: Far be it for me to stand in you way. A blank check. You want to move, move. You're
free.
Carol: Great. Great. I can be out by tonight.

Maggie: You do that.
Carol: Good.
Maggie: Good.
Maggie: Oh!
Chrissy: Mummy.
Maggie: Yes pumpkin.
Chrissy: Can I have Carol's room?

Mike: (in his head) let's see. Let's see. Dad, the reason I'm home is because you were right.
Forgive me.
(Mike's imagination)
Jason: Looser! Looser!
Mike: I should talk to mum. Mum, your baby boy is home. The real world was really rough on
him.
Maggie: (shoots him)
Mike: (in his head) What the heck am I doing here? Oh right. I got no where to go.
Carol: Mike, what are you doing here? You look filthy and disgusting.
Mike: Uh, uh, yeah but after I have a shower I will be fine.
Carol: Do me a favor. Don't look me up when I'm in New York.
Mike: I won't. Wai, wai, wait a minute. What do you mean when you're in New York?
Carol: Yeah, I'm moving there.
Mike: What?
Carol: Uh hu. Mum gave me a blank check.
Mike: Wait. This is some kind of joke. Right?
Carol: Nope. With mums money I am finally on my own.
Mike: Carol, what an amazing coincidence. Here you are on your way to New York, and here I
am on my way back there. Why don't I give you a ride?
Carol: You'd do that?
Mike: Oh yeah. And Carol, I also hope to ease your first few troublesome days in Manhattan.
Carol: I don't trust you. Perhaps I should try a different broke.
Mike: A broke! Carol, I've got a car.
Jason: May I come down now, or will I just be in the way?
Maggie: No.
Jason: No I can't come down, or no I won't be in the way? Honey, if I am in the way, I'll stay
in my room.
Maggie: It's not that. Its just Carol's gone. I gave her a blank check and now she's moving to
New York and she'll never speak to me again.

Jason: You gave her a what? Carol. Carol come back. Your mother didn't mean it.
Maggie: Jason stop. She doesn't care. She hates us.
Jason: Maggie all kids hate their parents at some time. It's perfectly healthy. Didn't you ever
hate your parents?
Maggie: No. They didn't do anything to upset me.
Ed: You hoo! Hey guys.
Maggie: Dad. Oh I hate it when they drop in like this. Always interfering in my life.
Ed: So what's the good word?
Maggie: Oh daddy, Mike moved to New York and Carol too.
Ed: Are you happy now that you've driven out two of my grandkids, you quack?
Jason: I'm in no mood for you Ed. We were doing just fine until you showed up.
Maggie: Oh the hell we were.
Grandma: Oh, I sense tension.
Ben: Hey guys. Keep it down, I got some people over.

Mike: Is twenty thousand dollars hyphenated?
Carol: Why?
Mike: No reason.
Carol: You were thinking about my blank cheque, weren't you?
Mike: No.
Mike :( in his head) I was thinking about our blank cheque.