Decisions

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Man, a bunch of kids holding up the weight of the world again tonight and all at their breaking point: Becky can't take care of a baby, Vince, his mom self-destructing via addiction, feels he can't go it alone, Tim can't continue to risk so much to make money on stolen cars.

First, Becky's abortion takes center stage. She struggles to make a decision on her own, so Tim Riggins brings her to a place where everything takes on clarity and calm. No, not church, Tami Taylor's house. Tami tells her that she needs to, if at all possible, tell her own mother. When Becky does tell her mother, a decision is made for her: her mom insists that she get an abortion. There's just so much noise and chaos around the whole issue, it's almost impossible for Becky to get some time and space to determine what it is she wants. Meanwhile, Luke breaks down and tells his parents what's going on, and they're just as unhelpful as Becky's mom, talking all "Mary and Joseph" to him (favorite line of the night is when Luke says, "Mom, Becky and I are not Mary and Joseph.") In the end, Luke tells Becky that he wants to be a part of all this and that he will support her and their baby. But Luke gets left out, and Becky goes through with the abortion.

Vince comes home to find his mother unconscious from an overdose. She gets rushed to the hospital, where Vince is told there's a few month's wait to get into the state-run rehab program. Private rehab costs $4000, so Vince goes to Big Merri to ask for a loan; Big Merri simply doesn't have the money but he tells Vince how much he admires him and that he supports him and will help him figure the situation out. But, for Vince, that's too long to wait, and he gets the loan from Calvin and his other thug friend, who declare, at the end, "we got you"-- as in both, "we've got your back" and also, "now we've got you in our snares."

Tim and Billy's chop shop is getting too risky, too obvious, and too stupid. When they find themselves out in the middle of the desert in the middle of the night, practically digging their own graves, Tim is like "Billy, I'm out." He demands that they get out of the stolen car business and Billy reluctantly agrees. I suppose we'll have to wait until episode to see what Calvin thinks of this decision.

Want more? The full recap starts right below! We open on a new church, not the mainline Protestant one that the Taylors and Garritys go to or the African American church Smash's family used to go to, but a bible church, a smaller rural-seeming congregation. Also, they are clapping. I HATE clapping in church. I am so against it. So the congregation is clapping because the reverend has warbled that he is so proud of their very own Luke Cafferty, star of the football team. Has somebody just stuck a landing? No? THEN NO CLAPPING IN CHURCH. Luke seems less like he's obsessing over clapping in church and more like he's concerned with the eternal state of his soul, what with the whole teen pregnancy thing he's embroiled in.

Tim is out in a junkyard conducting some business with a tough-looking dude. The guy's working some kind of metal presser thing. Tim goes to pay him and the dude tells him that he can't take any more of these "skeletons" that Tim's been bringing him. Tim plays dumb, but the guy knows the score: he says that he's kept out of it so far, but if Tim keeps bringing him stripped cars, the cops are going to show up asking questions. Tim stares off into the distance, thanks him and saunters off.

Coach is going over plays with Vince at Ray's BBQ. Instead of memorizing the plays, Vince keeps coming up with improvisatory ideas. Coach tells him to just memorize the plays and then asks if Vince gets it, over and over. Vince swears he does, but Coach isn't convinced. Vince takes off to get to work and Big Merri walks over. Big Merri asks about the play Coach was going over with Vince -- it seems like he says something about delayed drags and timing patterns -- and Coach confirms as much. Big Merri just gives him a dubious "mmmhmm" and tells him he's looking forward to the game. Coach leaves, confused.

Tim and Becky sit outside of his trailer. Becky says that the whole pregnancy thing is putting the bad grade in geometry in perspective. Actually, sweetheart, that grade should loom even larger now, because if you're grades are shit AND you're pregnant? You've got to figure some things out. Becky tells Tim that she hasn't told her mom anything yet. She says she doesn't know what to do, and Tim insists that she needs to tell her mom: "She'll understand." Becky snaps that Tim doesn't know her mom and Tim stands up, tells Becky to take his hand and come with him.

Tami opens the door to find Tim standing there. She greets him warmly, tells him Coach is out, but Tim says that he needs to talk to her, "I need your help." Tami furrows with concern and immediately makes all of America want to jump straight into her hoodie'd bosom. She invites Tim in, but he tells her that actually it's his friend -- Becky, still sitting in the truck out on the street behind Tim -- who needs the help. Cut inside where Tami asks them if they've talked about their options. Becky quickly corrects her, "Oh, he's not the father" and Tami says that maybe then Tim should wait outside. He goes, Tami sits down. Tami asks Becky if she's told her parents; when the girl says no, she follows up and asks if Becky thinks that she would be in any physical or emotional harm if she were to tell them. Becky says no, and then mentions that it's just her and her mom and she just hasn't been able to tell her yet. Tami tells her that she's got to find a way to tell her mother, as soon as she can. Becky finally has someone in authority to listen to and trust, and she quickly agrees. Tami asks about the father, and Becky says that he knows, but she barely knows him and doesn't love him, and that she just feels like this whole thing is a bad dream she wants to go away. Tami empathetically nods and murmurs that she understands. But Becky needs more than empathy; she looks at Tami and demands, "What should I do?" Tami tells her that she has free medical assistance available to her throughout her pregnancy and that she could refer Becky to the local adoption agency. Becky's face has changed and she breaks in hesitantly, "What if I don't-- What if I don't want to have a baby?" Tami a bit more tightly, but graciously, nods and says she can direct Becky to literature on that. They just look at each other across the table.

Credits. Lions practice. Vince is missing receivers. Coach calls him over and lectures him that he has to wait for the receivers, but Vince is worrying over the offensive line not blocking. Coach tells him to just worry about his lanes and worry about his own job. Up in the stands the Reverend and the other boosters sit around clucking like old hens about how these boys have to get it together. Big Merri walks up and they chuckle and get happy about him being there; but then keep grumbling about how Vince "couldn't hit water from a boat today." Coach glances back at his gossiping watchers, Big Merri mumbles about the Lions not being very good.

Becky and her mom sit at the table eating frozen dinners. Her mom holds up a piece of some kind of meat and snarks about what the hell it could be and that she should sue them over the mystery meat. Becky looks at her and blurts out "I'm pregnant." Her mom's mouth gapes, and then she laughs, "That's not even funny, Becky, why would you...?" But then as Becky's face crumples, she realizes that it isn't a joke and maybe Tami should have asked if Becky was in danger of any high-pitched voices if she told her family. Because her mom starts screeching, berating Becky, "How could you?" "You're not pregnant." "DAMNIT BECKY!"

At the Taylor's, Tami and Coach whisper while doing dishes. Coach has just finished putting Grace down. Julie busts in the front door and loudly greets them all, and is met with desperate shushing. They do some quality family mumbling and teasing until Julie tells them that she's invited a friend over on Wednesday for dinner. Tami wonders what kind of friend and Julie tries to play it off like it's no big, "Remember that guy Ryan from Habitat?" Julie whooshes back out of the kitchen to go do homework and Coach whisper snaps "How old is he?!" Tami says she doesn't know but she does know that it won't last long, it's a rebound. She pauses and tells Coach about Tim and Becky's visit. Coach: "Tim Riggins is gonna be a father?" Tami quickly corrects him and then they both puzzle over what the hell relationship Tim and Becky have if it isn't romantic/sexual (Tami: "I think they're like friends or somethin?"). Coach asks if she thinks it went alright and Tami said that she thinks it did, she told the girl about her options and then told her to talk to her parents. Tami keeps spooning leftovers into containers as she and Coach obviously jump straight from thinking about this strange girl's reproductive system to their own daughter's.

Vince comes home with some food from Ray's BBQ for his mother. He walks in the house all jaunty, telling her about the delicious food he's got, but we can see her kind of splayed on the couch in the background, not looking so good. When he realizes that she's not responding, he goes over to her, his voice getting smaller and smaller as he says "Mom?" over and over again. He bends over her and realizes that she's unconscious and quickly picks up the phone to call an ambulance. Cut to the hospital, where we fade in on Mrs. Howard in a hospital bed, the machines beeping and whirring. She opens her eyes just barely and Vince anxiously moves toward her; he reaches out and touches her face tenderly. She mumbles, asking what happened and Vince, brow furrowed tells her "You od'd. You had a little bit too much." Man, Michael B. Jordan's face is so wonderfully expressive; in this one face you've got the abandonment a child feels mixed with the concern and softness a caretaker feels. He tells her that the doctor has her sedated (is that what they do with people who o.d. on, presumably, heroin?). He tells her that she'll be fine and she tries to rise up, asking him to give her a hug. But she's stopped by the restraints on her arms; Vince tells her, with a glance at the nurse sitting in the corner, that the restraints are so she won't hurt herself. She nods, sedated. He scoots his chair close

r to her and leans in. He looks at her and asks "Mom. Why do you keep doing this to yourself? Why do you keep doing this to me? I mean, am I bad? Why don't you wanna be with me? Why do you want to leave me by myself? Because... I don't know... I don't know if I can do it by myself. I can't do it by myself." He's broken down crying as he says these words to her, and it looks just a little bit like this is finally getting through to her, even through the fog.

Commercials. East Dillon. Becky struggles with her locker, Luke comes up and opens her locker and in the process totally looks like HUSBAND MATERIAL. He asks if they can talk, and she wonders about what. "You know what I want to talk about." Becky is worried that Luke has told people about it, and then snaps that she hasn't made the appointment and he needs to stop hassling her. He can barely get a word in edgewise. She says it's her problem and he just needs to forget about it; he finally blurts out that he can't forget about it, but she says, "Well, that's what I'm trying to do" and walks off, in the process putting a big fake smile on her face as she runs into some friends down the hall. Luke, left in the background, stands around all alone with his old-fashioned slow decision-making processes.

Riggins Rigs. Billy is settling a bill with two customers, Tim under the hood. One of the customers wanders over to the big tarp ten feet away and wonders what Billy's got under there. Billy snaps at him to get away from there and the guy's like "chill out, man." Billy tries to cover by exchanging a very meaningful glance with Tim and then blustering that fixing cars is delicate. Tim covers up by continuing to give Billy death ray eye glares that aren't suspicious at all.

Cut to Becky and her mom at the clinic. The doctor is rattling off what he explicitly says is state-mandated information, about probable gestational age and such when Becky's mom interrupts him and says that they get it, she doesn't need to hear about "the procedure blah blah blah. She's not having a baby, she's having an abortion." The doctor quietly says again that this is state-mandated. Becky's mom crazy-eyes about saving everyone some time, nobody needs to hear this. The doctor replies that after he finishes telling her the information she can decide what she wants to do. Meanwhile, the camera has focused on Becky, caught in between all this noise and all these people talking at her, nicely pointing up the absurdity of thinking that either mindless resolve (like her mom's) or "rational" information (like the doctor's) is of any help to her. Cut to Becky and her mom leaving the clinic, her mom more flouncing than walking. She thinks it's unbelievable that some right wing doctor is telling her she has to take another day off work in order for him to tell them they're trash, she thinks it's all so insulting. Becky takes her mom's ranting the wrong way and says "I'm sorry, alright? I'm SORRY." Her mom grabs her and says that "It's alright, it's alright. You are gonna be fine. You are going to do this, and you're going to live your life, and you're not going to think about this. You don't have be sorry, you're going to be fine." Oh, momma. This is a sweet sentiment, but why are you living out your messed up shit through your kid?

Vince finds a woman out at the nurse's desk to ask about the hospital's rehab program. She says that his mom -- whose name is Regina apparently, did we know this yet? -- needs the 30-day in-patient treatment. But the earliest opening the hospital has is January (and it is now, say, October, in FNL world). Vince says they must get cancellations, right? His mom needs help now. She apologizes and says that the state residential centers have a really long waiting list. She gives him a brochure for a private rehab center; Vince exposits, "This looks pretty expensive."

Coach and Big Merri are at a bar. Big Merri wonders if Coach knows what his problem is. Coach doesn't, but thinks that Big Merri is most probably going to tell him. Big Merri informs him that he doesn't know how to coach Vince, he doesn't even know how to talk to him. Coach is the first to play the race card, telling Big Merri that he simply can't be telling him that he can't coach Vince because he's white and Vince is black. Big Merri denies that and tells Coach that he's missing some things; Coach declares this conversation "supremely irritating" and then asks again whether Big Merri is making a racial comment: "Are you saying you can see this because you're black?" Screwing up his face, Big Merri says that he doesn't understand Vince because he's black, he understands him because "he's me." "Do you know what it's like to be the most athletic guy on the field and be told 'don't follow your instincts, follow the playbook'?" Coach's hair takes this information into consideration for some time before he busts out in that boyish way that he has, "What the hell am I supposed to do? Kid's gotta learn the plays!" They spar some more, Coach ordering up two more drinks.

Cut to Tami, driving Coach around in the morning light. She says she does appreciate him taking a taxi last night, but "you need to face some realities about your age which are that you can't go drinkin' like that on a school night." They pull into the bar's parking lot but no car is to be found. Tami is like "You don't even remember what bar you were at, do you?" He tells her to go around back and Tami just mutters "Good lord, you gotta not feel like you gotta drink everybody down under the table." If I could have a job just transcribing Tami's little turns of phrases, I'd just be so -- oh wait! I do have that job! They get around back and there's the car. Tami stops a good thirty feet away. Coach is like "There's the car" and she's like "Mmmhmmm." He realizes that she's not going to drive him over there. "Are you serious?" She says "I think a walk'll do you good. Fresh air in your hair." Coach's hair is like "But oh, ouch, ouch, ouch, it hurts to walk." Now, I do not tend to believe easily in shout-outs, but that line, about the air in his hair -- they're trying to communicate with me, aren't they? Exterior shot of the car with Coach inside looking real hungover and sad about having to take that walk. He finally gets out, Tami trilling that she hopes he feels better today, and Coach palms the side of his head and hair, trying to make it so every single follicle stops singing so loudly about the beer he had to drink last night.

Playgirl Ranch. Billy's in the kitchen with an apron on, Tim is telling him that they've got to stop this chop shop side business thing they've got going on. It's getting too risky and they have no one to take the frames any longer. Billy says he hears Tim, but on his way to bring a tray of food to Mindy, Billy suggests-- whispering-- that maybe they could, uh, drive the cars off a cliff. Tim reminds him: "They have no engines, Billy, we've stripped them and sold them." Billy runs the food in and runs back out with another idea: we could dump them in the lake! Tim thinks that's a great idea: "Yeah, Billy, we'll just strap 'em on my back, I'll swim 'em out there!" Time for idea #3: let's bury them! Dig a big-ass hole and bury them. Tim doesn't have a quick comeback, but does mutter that that sounds like a lot of work. Billy: sure, it's a lot of work, but it's a lot of money and a lot of trouble if they don't get rid of them. Looks like Car Tomb is the plan!

Commercials. Dinner at the Taylors. Dopey Ryan is there. Why does this guy rub me the wrong way so much? He just seems so church camp or something. Julie prompts him to talk about being in Indonesia. The thing I love best is that the Taylors aren't falling for his "Save the World" shtick. Tami asks if all the work in Indonesia was for school credit (trying to sniff out exactly how old this kid is), and he says that it started that way, but then he took an extended leave and got hooked on the work. Coach is SO not impressed. But Ryan thinks he rules the world because of all the good samaritan points he's been racking up, so he walks right into the challenge. He tries to chat Coach up about football. Coach just gives him some "Mmmhmmm"s. Then Ryan wonders how it was, when it rained last week. Coach doesn't know what the hell he's asking, and now Tami and Julie are glancing at each other, mortified on his behalf as Ryan starts blathering about how it must be weird, you know. Everyone playing out in the rain. Football in the rain. Coach finally throws him a bone, "Yeah, it can get pretty weird I guess." But when it comes out that Ryan is leaving for Arizona week, Coach suddenly gets real chatty.

Big Merri opens the door at night to find Vince on his doorstep. Vince says he's there to talk to Merri. They sit down and Vince apologizes for how suspect this seems, but he needs an advance on his check. Big Merri asks why and Vince doesn't volunteer it at first; so Big Merri asks how much. Four grand. Big Merri asks him what kind of trouble he's in, and Vince denies that it's for him. He shares that he's trying to get his mom checked into rehab and Big Merri asks about low-income programs. Meanwhile, Jess has come into the hallway and is eavesdropping on their conversation (seemingly right in view of Vince, but he doesn't notice her). Vince tells him about the waiting list, and Big Merri sadly tells him that he just doesn't have that kind of money to give to Vince. But he doesn't stop there, he tells Vince to "hear me now. I'm sayin' no to the money, but not to you." Big Merri tells him that he's proud of Vince for asking for help, and he knows that Vince is trying to do something with his life. "We'll figure this out." Vince leaves, and Big Merri turns to find Jess in tears. She wonders how he could believe in Vince when the past three years he's been saying that Vince is a no-good low-life, and also, he never comes to Caleb's games or goes to see her dance on the sidelines of the Lions games or goes to her Academic Smackdowns, but he goes and watches Vince practice. "And you proud of him." She says that she tries hard to make her father proud, too. Oh, it's the prodigal son thing. Nobody loves the one who stays home and does the work, everyone loves the one who nearly flames out. But really: what is going on with Vince and these Merriweathers? It's now been a little too long with zero background information there.

Nighttime. Tami sits up with Gracie and whispers to wake up a sleeping Coach. She wants to know what Julie would do if she got pregnant. Coach kind of sleepy-whisper-alarms "WHAT?!?!" and Tami quickly whispers that she's not pregnant! But she is worrying about what she'd do if she were -- would she come to them? Coach is not in the mood to talk about Julie and her hypothetical pregnancy at 3 a.m.

Luke is up in the middle of the night, too, down in the kitchen. His dad comes in and says he's noticed something is bothering Luke but he hasn't wanted to pry. He asks if it's football. Luke says no. "I'm your dad. If something's bothering you, it's bothering me." It's like Luke was waiting for the tiniest signal in the world, because he doesn't take long to unburden himself here: "There's a girl and I got her pregnant." His dad takes a big breath and Luke, of course, switches quickly into self-castigation: "I really didn't mean to disappoint you, I'm sorry."

Commercials. Lions practice. Coach calls Vince over and tells him that he doesn't need to worry about the plays; if he sees something he likes, he should take it. Coach gives some hand signals, presumably to Traub, who tells his defense to run a slant and go after Vince. They don't understand at first, and he clarifies: sack him, and if they can't "you really are a bunch of junkbutts." Can we please go back to the gay bar with Traub? The boosters sit up in the stands gawking. Vince takes the snap, easily evades the sack and throws for a completion. Coach glances at Big Merri who nods knowingly.

Luke pulls his truck up after practice and walks into his house. His mom and dad are both sitting there waiting at the kitchen table. Nothing worse, when you're a teen, than TWO parents at a kitchen table. His mom says that she knows what's happening but rushes to reassure him: "It's okay, Luke. Mary and Joseph thought they were in a situation at first, too." Of all the misguided words of affection. Is she implying that they may give birth to the savior? Luke quickly points out: "Becky and I are not Mary and Joseph, mom." But his mom is just happy to know her name is Becky. She wants to meet her and tells Luke that then they'll figure out what to do. The Caffertys are nice, quiet people. But they aren't particularly helpful either.

Julie and Ryan climb to the top of the Dillon water tower. It's beautiful up there and Julie is taken. Ryan says everywhere he goes he tries to find the highest place and go up there. Then he blabs something about how the tower is higher than anyplace in some town in Costa Rica. Julie sits down to enjoy the view and asks what's the best place he's ever been. He says that's easy: Senegal, West Africa. He shows her some pictures on his camera, and then does some quick calculations about Senegal being 9,000 miles that way and Oaxaca 1,000 miles that way and New York 1,500 miles that way. He wonders where she's headed eventually. Julie says she doesn't know. Ryan asks if she hates it there. Julie says she used to hate it, but then it kind of changed. Then she says that she just really wants to see the world, but then, embarrassed, says that sounds really clichéd. The hoodie and the chucks don't help, Julie. Ryan snaps a photo of her and tells her to look: "That's you, seeing the world." She looks at him and then looks back out across the gorgeous Texas horizon. They lean in and smooch.

From the apex to the nadir. Here we are with the Riggins brothers digging a hole out in a desert. Tim thinks this is the stupidest thing they've done and tells Billy that this hole is never going to be big enough. Personally, I think literally standing in your own grave while you dig it is just kind of obvious. They start yelling at each other; Billy thinks Tim has a bad attitude, and that they're doing everything they can to get out of a bad situation. Tim finally snaps at Billy that he's done, they've made their money. "Promise me we're out. We're done, it's over, Billy." Tim just wants to fix cars! Simple! Like a Coors Light commercial! Billy, breathing heavily, gives his promise that they're done. Tim decides to take it a bit further if they're busy promising: he wants Billy to stop yelling at him for not going to college, and he wants to be a partner at Riggins' Rigs. Billy offers him his hand and they go back to digging.

Becky listens to sad music and looks at a picture of her mother and her as a baby. Cut to Coach answering a knock at his door late at night. It's Becky, and Tami quickly comes out and invites Becky in. At the kitchen table, Becky tells Tami that she has an appointment for an abortion tomorrow and her mother is coming with her. But she wants to know why she feels so weird. And Tami tells her it's cuz it's a hard thing, a hard situation. Tami wonders if Becky has thought about what she wants. But, and this is the heartbreaking thing, abstract talk about decisions like this supposes that a person, given time and reflection, gets to a place where there is clarity and surety. But how could Becky ever get to that place? She is surrounded by people who have expectations and preferences, voiced or not, and then there are the million things that are often cast as trivial -- like not having any money, significantly, the first concern she voices to Tami -- but really are not trivial concerns when it comes to your own life, and what you want for it. So when Tami asks Becky what she wants, Becky can only give her reasons for why she isn't in the position to have any clear wants for her life at all: they have no money, she's only in the 10th grade, this was her first time, and she doesn't want to throw her life away. Then she confesses that it is obvious that her mother wants her to have the abortion, because -- and she knows this -- Becky was her mistake, and she has struggled and hurt her whole life and she wants better for Becky. But Becky rambles on, thinking aloud that maybe she should stop thinking about what her mom wants and think a bit about what she wants, and that maybe she could have this baby and take care of it and love it and be there for it. But then what if she had the baby and spent the rest of her life resenting him or her? And ultimately, even there, that isn't Becky thinking through what she wants, it's her, all tangled up with her mom's shit, spinning out some fantasy alternate life for herself, with a mom who rose above the impossible situation.

Becky wipes some tears from her eyes and asks Tami: "Do you think I'm going to hell if I get an abortion" and Tami looks at her with such tenderness and says "No, honey, I don't." Becky asks her what she would tell her daughter and Tami takes a minute to think it through. "I would tell her...to think about her life, think about what's important to her, and what she wants. And tell her that she's in a real tough spot. And then I would support whatever decision she made." And as the pretty sad song ends in the background, Becky looks at Tami, and I guess she has reached as much clarity as she is going to: "I can't take care of a baby. I can't." It isn't really a clear sense of what she wants, but the more real and more pragmatic sense of what she can and cannot do.

Commercials (ahem, tissue break). Tim is groggily getting out of his truck, apparently back from a long night of digging a hole, when Becky and her mom are getting into the car. Becky tells Tim that they'll be okay, and I believe it.

Pop Warner football game. Jess is wild-eyed on the sidelines, shouting instructions to her little brother. Big Merri slowly walks toward the sidelines, just in time for both of them to be screeching crazy football instructions about sweep plays to a 7 year old. I guess this is family bonding?! Jess goes quiet, her mouth agape, as she registers her father's presence. He runs out to Caleb and gives the little kid a tap on his helmet, "Have fun out there!" Jess, hands on hips, gives her father a wide-mouthed smile and chuckle.

Vince sits with his mother on a fancy leather couch, getting the lowdown on visiting hours from a counselor. His mom says that she'll be home soon, but Vince cuts her off a

nd tells her that he believes in her. "You can do this." They embrace and she heads off to her new room with the counselor. Vince stops at the reception desk, and when the assistant tries to arrange payment, he hands over an envelope of four thousand dollars cash. She looks at it suspiciously, but takes it. He heads out the door and gets into the Black Cadillac of Bad Influence in which Calvin, of course, sits. The driver -- the same guy who was teaching him and Calvin how to steal cars? -- hands him a gun and tells Vince "Got you, man." Snares! Of bad influence!

Luke is out on his front porch on the phone. He's rambling to Becky, and launches straight into a speech about how he's sorry if he gave her the impression that this whole thing was just her problem (and the funny thing is, Luke never gave her that impression, she sort of just assigned that role to him and he's just been too slow and male to correct it) and that he wants her to know that he will be there, no matter what. "I will uh... help us... raise our kid, er, help you." Like Luke got stuck in the "fantasy" part of the decision-making process, the stage where Becky imagined she could correct all her mom's mistakes by having the baby, Luke imagines how this will help him be even more of the stand-up man than he already is (wait, would that be possible?). And he continues, saying that he knows they're young and they don't know each other, but she needs to know that she's not alone. Becky finally cuts him off: "Luke, I took care of it. So you don't have to worry." He asks if she's alright and she says yes, and that it was the right thing to do. She thanks him for calling, sincerely, and then tells him that she'll see him at school. Luke, left speechless again by Becky, leans on the porch rail and stares, Becky, in her bedroom, sits on the bed and cries. Oh, Becky, don't cry too much. It's a hard thing, but it was the right thing.

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