In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close. If you were looking for a little pick-me-up, you came to the wrong place with this episode. Tim Riggins finally has everything he needs -- a little piece of land, a brand new baby nephew born to Mindy and Billy, a satisfying man-job, and just enough romantic angst with Becky to keep things interesting. But it all comes crashing down when the police show up at Riggins' Rigs, asking about those missing cars. New father Billy tries to apologize to Tim, but apologies don't go far when you're both sitting in a police station holding tank.
Vince is caught up in a vengeance plot to go retaliate against the guy who shot his friend Calvin. On the one shoulder, he has Jess whispering in his ear, trying to remind him that he is a good man, not a monster, but on the other, there's Head Bad Guy, who just keeps reminding Vince that he's already bought his loyalty. Jess wins out for now, but Head Bad Guy isn't going to stand for Vince chickening out again on the mad shooting death sprees he likes to plan every weekend. Landry, meanwhile, buys Jess a bike. Which is nice, but kind of kindergarten rinkydink compared to what she's got going on with Vince
And then I can barely even bring myself to talk about what's going on with the Taylors. Luke's mother goes to the press and sics hordes of crazy anti-choice people on Tami. Superintendent Paul prepares a statement for Tami to read, and she's ready and willing to make a statement, until she realizes it's an apology. When she has done nothing wrong. She goes to a lawyer who tells her that if she were to get fired, she'd have a hell of a wrongful termination suit.... but that might take years to prosecute.
Meanwhile, with the big Lions/Panthers game looming, some questions about the suitability of the Lions' field arise. Various football eggheads go around evaluating the depth of the holes in the field, etc, etc, Eric gets some new turf laid and everything seems good to go. But when the Lions prank the Panther's field by sticking thousands of toothpicks in the ground, the Panthers respond like the bullies they are: they destroy the Lions' field by running their big compensate-y trucks all over it. More egghead evaluation but hey, Joe and Wade have a suggestion: why don't they play at West Dillon High instead of at the Lions' home? I have never seen Eric so beaten down (except maybe that one time when he had that really bad hangover after getting into a fight with Peter Berg) and we can only hope it's something he can turn around before the season ends for him and for us... week. Want more? The full recap starts right below!
Looks to be a crisp fall day on the Lions field, which is covered in middle-aged men bending and measuring things. Wade, coach of the West Dillon Panthers, exposits to one of the guys that this is what they're worried about: there's 18 or 19 holes in the field, not to mention a bunch of glass buried in the ground. Smarmy villain Joe McCoy talks about the "potholes" on the field that could pop a truck tire, Buddy retorts that they don't usually drive on their football field. Traub gets serious: "We have played on this field all year and not one Lion has fallen from the pride." Grooooan. Joe McCoy smirks at the dorktasticness of the comment, and I hate being put in the same subject position as Joe "McMansion" McCoy. Buddy and Joe get into it some more, and finally the guy who seems to be in charge jumps in and recommends to Coach that he should invest in some turf to cover over the holes for Friday's game against the Panthers. But, hark! Wade has a suggestion! "How about a neutral field?" The baker's dozen of grown-ass men erupt, yelling at each other. Buddy wonders if Joe's backyard would count as "neutral" territory. Meanwhile, Coach stands off to the side, quiet; his hair is SO not bending to their level. The guy in charge-- declaring himself the conference director-- yells to shut them up. He asks Coach if he thinks he can get the field in shape; Coach speaks quietly and directly, assuring the guy that this is Saturday, the game is Friday, the field will be in fine shape by then. The conference director, Bill, accepts his assurance.At the Taylor's, Tami's doing a deep clean of the kitchen wearing rubber gloves while Julie pitches her on this Habitat for Humanity training program. Tami seems unconvinced, wondering if they know how old Julie is, Julie rattles off how they don't usually offer the job to someone younger than 18, but she wrote a great essay and has great recommendations, etc... Tami asks where, when, how long, and how much and Julie pauses, gulps, and let's it rip: in New Orleans in three weeks. I.e., in the middle of the school year. Tami yodels "What? No!" and Julie protests that it's "only three thousand dollars!" Tami: "Only? Honey, you're hilarious." Julie insists that she can pick up half the cost via grants, she has $500 saved, and if she passed Government, she can graduate this semester anyway. Tami: "No, no, no, and no." Julie makes a last stand, begging Tami to at least look at the brochures; Tami tells Julie to put some rubber gloves on and help her clean the stove. Damn, girl, you're going to go building other people's houses when your own's got a filthy stove top?!
Skeeter wiggles and whines his way up to Tim, who's working on a truck in his shop. Tim greets him sweetly, "Hey little pig! Hey buddy!" Unfortunately for me, Skeeter comes with a side of Becky, who walks in saying that her mom hates the dog even more since he reminds her of Tim. Becky also brought a bunch of Tim's stuff, including a snow globe. Becky says she never would picture him as a snow globe type; Tim mutters that his mother gave it to him. Becky practically takes her panties off at the mere mention of Tim's tortured family past. The phone rings, and Tim answers; we flip over to Mindy and Billy in a banana sack. Mindy is moaning in labor, Billy is prancing around in his tighties. Finally Mindy gets up and waddles her own way to the car, while Billy scrambles around trying to find his pants. Tim hangs up the phone and grins that he's going to become an uncle today. Billy finally finds some pants and scoots out the door.
It's a somber scene at Calvin's house, where folks are gathered to support his grieving mother. Vince gets an especially emotional hug from her, and looks about as guilty as he should be. She tells him that she wishes Calvin had been more like Vince and Vince is like "errrr....." Jess arrives and she and Vince talk out in the cluttered-with-appliances backyard. She thinks he should go to the cops, he tells her that he can't. He tells her that he has to trust her and she can't say "nothing to nobody about anything." Head Bad Guy pulls up in his Caddie of Juvenile Delinquency. Vince hops the chain-link fence to go over to him; Vince tells him that he's not getting any heat on this and when Head Bad Guy asks if he's ready for some payback, Vince says he's "down." Jess watches this all with some trepidation.
Credits. We travel through West and East Dillon, listening to Slammin Sammy Meade start taking calls from folks about the upcoming Panthers-Lions game. Eric sits at the kitchen table, going over plays, listening to one man call him a quitter and accuse him of stealing Luke Cafferty from the Panthers. Tami suggests that maybe he turn the radio off. He looks at her kind of intensely and she asks "What?" He sighs and pulls a newspaper out from under a pile of papers. She comes over and finds her picture on the front page, the headline reading "Parent calls for Principal's Dismissal." To compound it, the phone rings, she answers it and hears a hissing woman on the line saying things like "You're a baby killer Tami Taylor, you're gonna burn in hell." Tami shouts "Who is this?" before slamming the phone down.
Jess walks out of her house to find Landry standing there on her front sidewalk with a new bicycle. He jokes that he's been standing there for twenty minutes perfecting his pose-- which is a Landry-tastic lean against his low riding sedan. He says that just because they're involved in a scandalous romance doesn't mean that he's forgotten about his debt to her: he owes her a bike. Jess just says "Huh" and Landry notes that this isn't the response he was looking for. Jess explains that she's just distracted; she tells him that they're on their way to church, "you know, for Calvin Brown? He got shot and he died." Landry is taken aback, he remembers Calvin, but it's clear that Landry just isn't a part of this world, with its funerals for kids and such. And to drive that point home, Jess's aunt come sashaying out the door, greets Landry with a sort of bemused detachment. She asks "You got a lock for that bike? She gonna need a lock for that bike." Landry is left muttering, realizing that there's a lot of things he hasn't thought of when it comes to Jess.
Lions field. The team is out in full force, helping lay turf. Luke Cafferty approaches Coach asking what he can do, and I am momentarily distracted by how hot he looks in his sweatpants, that he's got scrunched up just below his knees. Coach wonders where Tim Riggins is, Traub shouts that he's with Billy and Mindy, Coach wonders why Traub knows that and he doesn't. Traub: "I left you a note on your desk!" Coach: "This is gonna be a busy week, don't leave notes on my desk. If you got something to say, say it face to face." Luke is still buzzing about, like a really hot mosquito, when Coach tells him that he's not going to be practicing that week. Luke tries to protest that he can gut it out and Coach yells at him to go gut it out on the Gatorade jug. Coach storms off; Buddy is excited about how good and smooth the turf is. Luke stomps around with the empty jug and Coach goes back to him to apologize. Luke: "Appreciate that." Coach tells him that the only work he wants him to do is working on getting his hip better. He asks Luke to put down the jug and he holds out his hand for a shake. In the background, Landry is complaining about how they're just making a bigger mess of things on the field. Coach calls him over: "Lance!" and then asks him to fill the jug up.
Billy comes dervishly spinning out into the hospital parking lot, wearing one of those sterile gowns, shouting about how he's going nuts in there and they threw him out. Tim is sitting on the bed of his truck with Skeeter. Billy's sipping on a can of energy drink, and acting all raged out and Tim asks him how many he's had. Like five, and so Tim tells him he's cut off, and hands him a bottle of water. Billy struggles with the mask that hangs around his neck and rips it off. Tim laughs at his brother being in such a hysterical state.
More Lions field preparation-- this time, they're turning the rough field at Carroll Park into a football field for practice-- laying lines, putting up goal posts. Landry jogs by Vince, who's writing an RIP for CB on his helmet. Landry stops to say he's sorry about his friend and Vince gets pissy: "You didn't even know his last name." Landry's like "Uh, Calvin Brown. And I care about my teammates, and you're my teammate, so...." He walks off and Vince, now abashed, calls his thanks after him. They circle up and Coach tries to get his kids riled up, "You pissed off?!" Tinker wants to know about this bull he's hearing on the radio about not being able to play on their own field on Friday. Coach tells him to stop worrying about what he hears on the radio and gives his kids a word of the week: "Focus." They bust out into practice, yelling and whooping.
Nighttime. A bunch of Lions are on hands and knees on what is clearly the Panthers' superior fancy field. Tinker complains about his knees, Luke tells him to shut it, he's getting this done with a busted hip. Someone; "Hey, whose idea was this anyway?" and everyone moans "Landry." Landry pops up and is like yes it was, thank you very much. He says that his idea is brilliant; if they can't practice on their field, the Panthers shouldn't be able to practice on theirs. We pull out on a long shot of the team moving incrementally down the field on hands and knees: it's unclear what the hell they're doing.
Doorbell rings and Tami finds Superintendent Paul at the door. He wants to talk, she invites him in, he asks her to just come out and talk to him on the front steps. She notes that he lives fifty miles away, so this must be important. He says that the situation is not blowing over like they hoped it would and that he thinks she should make a statement. Tami agrees, she thinks she needs to get the facts out there. Paul is glad to hear it and hands her a statement that he and the Board drew up for her to read. She takes a glance at it and realizes that it's an apology, that has her saying something about her "inappropriate conduct." Tami is on her high horse, and declares that he and the school board are being bullied. Paul finally cuts to the chase: "You'll get to keep your job." Tami wobbles up there on that horse as he explains that he does live 50 miles away and the reason that he drove so far is because he thinks she's really good at her job and he doesn't want to lose her. It seems like it's starting to sink in for Tami that that is a very real possibility. He leaves, saying that he hopes she makes the right decision.
Commercial. Tim and Billy sit around, bored in the hospital waiting room. Billy finally gets up and says out loud, "I'm the dad, right? And it's MY baby that's trying to, to..." and Tim helpfully suggests, "Claw?" and Billy continues, "To CLAW its way out." Billy declares that he's going back in, busts past the protesting nurse and into the delivery room around the corner. Mindy shouts at him to get out but Billy yells "I'M THE DAD!" and Mindy's mom moves aside, suggesting that he help her breathe. Billy grabs Mindy's hand lovingly, but then blanches at the sight confronting him down below.
Julie and Coach leave the house to find Coach's truck all covered over with "Lions Suck!" writing. Julie wonders if he needs a ride. Coach just screws up his mouth and turns to her: "What I want from you is for you to be easy on your mother this week." Julie starts to protest, like she would never (yeah right). He tells her that if she does that for him, he will talk with her about this house building stuff. Julie says it's a deal, and Coach heads off to clean the car. We cut to Coach driving in his still smudged and graffiti-d car, listening to the radio. Some lady is saying that she just doesn't even feel SAFE bringing her family over to that part of town for the game. Slammin' Sammy tries to stop alienating his own audience, reminding her that there are a lot of good folks over in East Dillon. But this lady is worried about the gang members that they've got over there. Coach clicks off the radio.
The Panthers come running out of their locker room, like a terrible army of Mel Gibsons or something but stop short at the field. Their coach yells at them to get out on the field, but then he, and we, get a shot of what's stopping them: thousands, nay hundreds of thousands of toothpicks stuck all over the field. Wade shakes his head and is like "They're just toothpicks" and then shouts at the kids to get to work taking them out one by one. Cut over to Coach, his kids taking a knee in front of him, chuckling, "Anyone got a toothpick?" The kids all laugh and Coach tells them that he understands it took West Dillon two hours to remove all those toothpicks. Coach wonders who exactly it was behind this idea, but they all stay mum. So Coach pauses and then says "Lance? You look a bit tired today." Landry says he feels great and is ready to practice, and Coach crosses his arms, and declares that they're going to have a little fun today. His hair looks a bit mischievous though, and now we see why: they're going to have Landry kick 40-yard field goals, and until he makes one of those, they're going to run "jingle jangles." Landry's face is not longer as self-satisfied as he realizes that he's getting a kick in the keister for his "clever" idea. He lines up and makes his first kick-- which misses, and the kids moan and start running lines.
Tami is in a lawyer's office, at the tail end of her explanation of how VERY much not in the wrong she is. He tells her that she would have a really good wrongful termination suit, that he's almost positive they'd win. Tami is wide-eyed with this unexpected good news. But....oh, yes there is a "but." He tells her that cases like this can take a long time, like years. And that maybe they could get her reinstated at the end of it, but probably not. Add to that the fact that she'll have a hard time finding employment anywhere while the case drags on, and...Tami quietly protests, "But, my record is exemplary." The lawyer tells her that he understands that, but "there's law....and there's life."
Tim paces the hospital waiting room when Mindy's mom comes out, here hair in a seriously crazy Annie perm. She says "Hey, Uncle Tim!" and he goes to her in excitement. They head back to the room, Tim wondering if BILLY made it through okay, heh. FNL guitar strings of family and love and life play as he comes in to find Billy and Mindy and their new baby boy all blissed out and for the moment not thinking about how the father is a felon and the mother an ex-stripper. Billy introduces Tim to his nephew: "This is Stephen Hannibal Riggins."
Tami pulls out of her school parking lot, and at the exit is greeted by a gyrating horde of crazy anti-choice protestors. They hold placards and scream shouts at her and Tami, in her car just pleads out of their hearing "C'mon, y'all. C'mon now." She makes it through the horde, and hits the gas as she heads out onto the road. Back at home, the three Taylors dish out dinner at the table. Coach wonders "where's the meat" and Julie says "I don't cook flesh, dad." Tami tells her husband that their lovely daughter made them dinner that night. Coach says a meatless thank you, and Tami changes the subject to the "toothpick thing" that got everybody in an uproar over at West Dillon. Coach mutters that it was just kids being kids and then asks her what the lawyer had to say. Tami doesn't seem to want to talk about it, Coach pushes her a little, and she asks if they can just not talk about it. The phone starts ringing and nobody moves. Julie wonders if she should get it, and finally Coach gets up. He answers to hear someone shouting "LIONS SUCK" and Coach plasters a big smile on his face, laughs and then tells the guy to go to hell. Taylor family: it's called an unlisted number. Get one.
At Ray's BBQ, Vince works the grill. Jess brings Landry some brisket and then hands him her iPod, saying that she made him a playlist to practice to. Landry grins and wonders if it's slow jams. She laughs, but turns serious when she sees Head Bad Guy tool up in his Caddie of Death and Despair. HBG gets out of the car and comes over to Vince at the grill. HBG tells Vince that "I found him." The guy is laying low, hiding in a town two hours away. HBG announces "Tomorrow night. You in?" and Vince tells him that he's in. Meanwhile in the background, Landry presses play on his playlist and kind of overly loudly says that all he hears is crowd noise. Jess explains it's for practice, to get the feel of a game. She gives him a peck on the cheek and leaves; his friends and teammates all tease him with "Awwws" as she leaves. Landry teases them back telling them that jealousy is an ugly thing as they get up to leave. Vince calls Landry back for a minute. Vince basically starts saying his goodbyes: he tells Landry that he's a good dude, and Jess deserves the best. "Make her happy man."
Nighttime. Three pick-up trucks bust through the locked chain link fence surrounding the Lions field and accelerate onto the newly laid turf. The trucks spin and slide and basically do some serious damage to the field. Thinking that level of destruction isn't enough, some unidentifiable kids attach chains to the goal posts and pull them down with the trucks, dragging them along the ruined field. I think there is a lesson in global diplomacy somewhere in here; i.e. toothpicks need not be met with nuclear weapons.
Tim and Billy lean over the crib watching little Stephen. Tim can't believe this little being can get away with all this sleeping. The little baby makes a little winky face and they giggle. Billy asks if Tim is ready to ride into work together, but Tim tells him to stay home and be a dad for the day, assuring his older brother that he can handle fixing the cars today. Tim tells Stephen to "Keep your guard up little man. Stay angry." As Tim leaves he turns to Billy and says (and I cringe) "Hey. You did good." He leaves and Billy talks softly to his son, "You're not angry are you, Stevie. You love your daddy don't ya?" Tim stands just outside the door, listening and continuing to slightly annoy me with all this White Knight, God and Family crap. But, sigh. I cannot stay angry at Tim Riggins for long.
The Lions destroyed field. The police are out there, assuring Buddy and Coach and Principal Levi that they'll put a bunch of men on this. Buddy declares this is Panther work, but the policeman doesn't want to jump to conclusions. Coach instructs Traub to get the kids on a bus to Carroll Park for practice.
Commercials. Coach surveys the damaged field from the bleachers when his cell phone rings. It's Tami and he wants to know if she's heard about what's happened over there. She's in her office with Coach Wade, and puts Eric on speaker. Wade assures Coach that if any of his players had anything to do with this, he'll suspend them from the team, they won't play on Friday. Coach says he appreciates it, but Wade moves on to the thing: how bad is the damage to the field, and does the Conference Director need to know about this? Coach tells him to buzz off for an hour, he wants to talk to his wife for a bit. Wade shuts it and leaves, Tami takes Eric off speaker, and asks him "Hey babe, how you holding up?" Eric tells her that he is not playing on a fair field, and she says that makes two of them. The Taylors are beaten the eff down, you guys.
Tim and Becky wander around his American Dream property. Tim tells her that he never thought he'd say this, but he feels like he's figured it out, you know? Becky: "Figured out....?" and Tim tells her "Life! You know, this! Owning this land, and Billy, and his son, and the shop doing as well as it is, it's just so....I'm happy. And I can honestly say that." STRIKE YOU DOWN WHERE YOU STAND TIM RIGGINS. Real Americans are never allowed to be happy. Tim stands around saying "Thank you" to the universe (please, you are KILLING me; are you going to start talking about "blessings" ?!) when Becky looks at him and says "Tim, I love you." He looks at her and tells her that they can't do this. And now, that makes THREE times I have watched the same exact scene between the two of them.
Vince answers a knock on the door, clearly thinking it's Head Bad Guy coming to get him for murdah. But it's Jess, who's about to murder Vince if he goes off to murder the guy who murdered Calvin (you guys, between the last paragraph and this one, I went and had a few beers.) But Head Bad Guy is actually down on the street honking for Vince to come on out for the murder party. Jess is pretty much speechless with terror, a lot of "Nu unh, Vince, nu unh, no Vince no" for a while. She wonders if he thinks she's stupid. Meanwhile, Vince is getting his gun from his underpants drawer and Jess and grabbing him by the jacket yelling at him. Vince tells her that she's got a good guy, and Jess starts yelling that, oh yeah, that's what he thinks, that Landry's such a good guy, and Vince is such a bad one. Vince shoves her against the wall and pounds his fists beside her, "That's EXACTLY what I am, I am a MONSTER. I'm that guy." He knocks her out of the way on his way out to Head Bad Guy's Caddie Carnival of Death. Jess sinks to the ground outside his apartment.
Tim is fixing cars. Which is obvious to anyone who knows that fixing cars = air guitaring while drinking Budweiser. So now Tim is not only insufferably earnest and REAL AMERICAN, but he is also given to air guitaring? I don't know you guys. This episode is doing some serious damage to my Tim Riggins shrine. He takes a load off for a minute, kicks his shit-kickers up on the fender and takes a swig....just when he realizes that there are police lights cycling outside the shop. An officer comes in and asks if he's "Tim Riggins, 33? The football star?" Tim honestly says "Used to be"-- and, gee, what I wouldn't have given for more of a storyline about how Tim Riggins is coming to terms with that "used to be" part of his identity, rather than all this American Dream/White Knight shit. So the officer asks what he's been doing in there and Tim lies, "Just fixing cars, sir." Another officer walks in and says that he needs to ask Tim some questions about some missing cars.
Head Bad Guy wonders if Vince has ever fired a sawed-off shotgun. He tells Vince that his father used to carry one and that Vince's pops was a thug, "You cross him you best believe you was gonna get got." Is this 1992? I feel like this dialogue is lifted straight from Boyz N Da Hood. Anyway, apparently Vince's dad always used to say that Vince didn't have any gangster in him. They stop under an overpass at a red light. Head Bad Guy tells Vince to take a drink and steel his nerves. Vince takes a swig while HBG goes over the plan about how they'll flush the guy out the backdoor where Vince will be waiting for the guy, and "pow! That's payback, son." But when HBG starts talking money, about how they'll split up what they find 50/50, Vince really starts having second thoughts. The light turns green, and Vince gets out of the car. HBG gets out and starts yelling at Vince to get his ass back in the car. He fires a shot off to the side of Vince, who keeps walking. HBG tries to tell him that there's not walking away from this, that he's acting like a little bitch. Vince turns to face his tormentor and tells HBG that his momma is not supposed to bury him, he's supposed to bury his momma. HBG holds the gun to his forehead and tells him that he's going to get killed if he doesn't get back in the car. Vince calls his bluff and tells him to do what he has to do. HBG hauls off and pistol-whips Vince who falls to the ground. HBG: "Your old man was right, you ain't nothing but a soft-ass little boy." He heads back to the car and yells at him that this is far from over, "I got you! I got you, you little bitch." HBG drives off, leaving Vince in the middle of the road, screaming soundlessly, and writhing in pain and confusion.
Commercials. Meeting between the Lions and the Panthers at the coffee shop. The police still haven't figured out who did the damage to the Lions' field, they're still in the process of checking every truck in town out. Joe butts in and says that every parent of a kid on the team has been contacted, and every player is accounted for: "This was not retaliation." Buddy is like "Retaliation?" and Joe is like "For the toothpicks?" and Buddy is like "Yeah, that's a prank, did you even see what you did to our field?" And at that, all the grown men around the table except for Coach and Wade start shouting at and accusing one another. The conference director bangs a bottle of hot sauce on the table and shouts for them to quiet down. The camera swings around and we see that hordes of people have gathered outside the coffee shop and are pressed up against the window, doing their own shouting and pleading and accusing. Inside the shop, the conference director reminds them all that this "is just a football game." Which finally makes Coach Taylor speak up: "Hey, you know what? My family has been receiving threatening phone calls all night, my home has been vandalized, and my field has been destroyed, so don't patronize us and tell us this is just a football game." The director apologizes and says he's just going to cut to the chase. He's spent the last 24 hours on the phone talking to every school in the area, but with the short notice and the Thanksgiving holiday, they couldn't find a neutral site. "But, there is a proposal from West Dillon...." Assistant Coach for the Lions stands up and is like "You have got to be kidding me, this is OUR home game" and the table erupts once again. But you can see in Coach Taylor's dejected shoulders and very UNsassy hair that the fight is already over.
Vince gets back to his apartment and finds Jess still slumped in his doorway. He sits down to her, she looks at him with true fear in her eyes, and he says "I didn't do it." She tears up, and they hug, both crying and desperate. Singer-songwriter music starts up as we go into a final montage.
Cut over to Landry, waiting for Jess outside of Ray's BBQ. But she's not there. Her aunt comes out and he runs over to her to give her a bike lock. She looks at Landry like he's one crazy white boy. Cut over to Billy getting led into a holding cell with Tim. Way to "be a dad for the day," Billy. They both sit in there, completely at loose ends. Billy apologizes, but Tim just sits there silent, in tears, his world crumbling down. Coach comes home to find Tami in the living room. He looks at her and tells her, with a disbelieving nod of his head, "Game's gonna be at Hermann Field." She says that she's sorry and that she knew they were talking about doing that. The phone starts ringing and Coach finally loses it, picking it up and slamming it down hard and repeatedly on the table. Tami jumps, Coach cools down and sits to her, saying he's sorry. She tells him that she's going to make a statement. Julie comes in and asks her parents if they're okay, and you can practically see the million thoughts run through their minds before they both shrug and protect their daughter from their own pain and frustration, "Yeah, honey, it's fine, it's fine."