05x19 - Wasted

[bunniefuu]

, , , hut.

[players grunting]

[whistle blows]

Good luck, guys.

Yeah, guys.

Let's go.

Let's get in here.

, , .

Ready?

WHITE TEAM: Break!

PETROVICZ: Hey, Ray.

What?

There's no such play.

Why the hell there isn't.

I fade back, you cut across
the center and double out.

No, that's , , , man.

Want to run this team so
much, try catching a few balls.

You try throwing 'em, man.

[whistle blows]

Let's just go.

COACH: Watch your
pass your side, Bob.

Watch your pass.
Be ready now.

Come on.

, (SLOW MOTION
VOICE) , .

[music playing]

[whistle blows]

That looked good.

TEAM MEMBER: Hurry up, guys.

Ray.

Nice play, nice
play, nice play.

Good job.

Knock it off, Ray.

Quit it, man.

(WHISPERS) Ray.

Get an ambulance, quick.

Now!

[music playing]

[MUSIC - HOLLY ROBINSON,
" JUMP STREET THEME"]

We never thought we'd find
a place where we belong.

Don't have to stand alone,
we'll never let you fall.

Don't need permission to
decide what you believe.

Ooh.

I said jump down on Jump Street.

I said jump down on Jump Street.

Your friends will be there
when your back is to the wall.

You'll find you need us when
there's no one else to call.

When it was hopeless a
decisions what you need.

You better be ready
to, be ready to jump.

Jump Street.

What are all these
pills, Captain?

Vitamin C, vitamin A, vitamin
E, B complex, antihistamines,

decongestants, aspirins.

I refuse to be sick.

Kind of sounds
like you already are.

Not for long.

No cold can keep this man down.

Why don't you just
go home and take

a nice, long rest, Captain?

Because I am saving my sick
days to add on to my vacation

next month.

Wait a minute.

Wait a minute.

You're saving your sick days
for when you're healthy,

not for when you're sick?

Exactly.

Can we get back to the case?

Yeah.

Whatever you say.

Let's see.

This quarterback's autopsy shows
kidney damage, liver damage,

and a heart att*ck.

Sounds like steroid abuse.

Only one problem--

not a trace of steroids
in this autopsy.

Hmm, well, steroids stay
in the system a long time,

don't they?

Usually.

Well, maybe we're looking
for a new kind of steroids.

Some kind of speed maybe.

Yeah, well, that's what
you're going to find out

when you report for practice.

Wa-ho.

Hold your horses there, Captain.

Why would they take on a new
team member at mid-season, huh?

Because you were a
state all-star last year.

Tony Antonovich, star
running back Lamar

Hunt High School, Canton, Ohio.

Captain, let me
tell you something.

I'm not that hot
with the football.

Yeah, well, I'm
sure you can fake it.

[football play calling]

[whistle blows]

Ouch.

Hey, you know you got
a cavity, Selvecki?

[whistle blows]

COACH: OK, let's hit
those nice, hot showers.

What's the matter, Antonovich?

Don't it get wet in Ohio?

You ever thought about
draining this swamp, Coach?

Every year.

River runs right
under the field.

Does a good job of
overflowing this time of year.

It won't k*ll you.

Yeah, well, maybe
you should issue

some wetsuits or something.

Shower's that
way, Mr. All-star.

I know.

I'm just taking a
little breather.

I don't like people to
see me when I suffer.

I guess if you get
creamed as much as you do,

guy can lose his edge.

Edge?

Yeah, you might say that.

Maybe after I get
to know you better

I can help you get it back.

Get what back?

The edge.

[applause]

[camera shutter clicks]

To present the
award to Tommy it's

an honor to introduce
Ralph Winter,

the head of our county's
Toxic Task Force.

Mr. Winter?

[applause]

Americans generate
. million tons

of hazardous waste every day.

Well, that's a
frightening statistic.

What Tommy Boylan has
done is taken that figure

and turned it to
something that we can see.

What did Boylan do?

RALPH WINTER: Of
all the toxins--

He got everybody to
bring their hazardous trash

to him instead of
tossing it in the garbage

and breaking the law.

What do you mean,
breaking the law?

Well, it's against
the law to put

hazardous waste in the garbage.

RALPH WINTER: --being dumped.

Oh, I guess that makes
me a major criminal.

We all are.

But that's the kid's point.

Because he has convinced city
council that we should have

hazardous waste pick
up along with pickup

of our regular garbage.

[applause]

He's a chip off the old block.

Chip off the old block?

Excuse me?
- Protests.

For me, it was Vietnam.

For him, it's the environment.

RALPH WINTER: What he has done--

He's almost as good as I was.

Tommy Boylan, Senior.

RALPH WINTER:
--service to us all.

Nice to meet you.

How you doing?

And for this service to his
community we, at the county

Toxic Task Force,
award Tommy Boylan

this special commendation.

[applause]

Thank you.

We live in a time of choices.

We can choose to take
care of our poisons

or we can choose to die.

It's that simple.

It's a pain to recycle, to sort
trash, but it won't k*ll you.

And if we go on living
like somebody was going

to come in and
clean up after us,

we'll k*ll our home, the Earth.

[applause]

AUDIENCE MEMBER: All right.
That's the way to do your job.

Good work.

Well, I have to
admit this dump beats

a sit in at the White House.

Dad, I thought you
couldn't make it.

What, you think I'm going to
miss seeing my young radical

getting his first award?

Not a chance.

I changed my schedule.

I see you met
All-State Antonovich.

Yeah, I was just
telling your dad here how

I feel about what you're doing.

How do you feel?

I think it's excellent, man.

That's what
everybody says until it

puts them out a little.

You recycle?

No, not yet.

But I plan to.

When was the last time you
took a bus to the drive-in?

Hey, woah, woah.

Lighten up.

The guy's paying
you a compliment.

Someone says he likes
what you're doing,

you don't att*ck him.
You recruit him.

[laughs]

I'm trying to teach
the kid everything

I know about the activist biz.

My dad was a
major 's radical.

Now he's a middle-aged yuppie.

I think I resent
that description.

Hey, aren't you the
one who keeps telling

me to always tell the truth?

I'll see you later.
- Yeah.

Nice meeting you.
- It's nice to meet you, sir.

Hey, I'm proud of you, buddy.

You're almost as good at this
activist business as I was.

Almost?

Yeah, almost.

[music playing]

Hey, Mrs. Jordan, what
are these guys doing?

What does it look
like they're doing?

It looks like going
to mix my toxins

with the regular garbage.

Tommy, you know
I'd never allow that.

They're just putting
your toxins out to be

picked up by the garbage men.

But I'm already
taking care of that.

A landfill upstate's gonna
come and get it next week.

Well, the people who haul
our garbage will take it today.

They have to take it
to a landfill that has

a permit for hazardous waste.

Tommy, they're a
responsible garbage hauler.

I'm sure they'll take
it to the right place.

Well, I don't trust them.

You don't have a choice.

And contrary to what
you might think,

you're not in charge
of the school.

You mean what you said
about what I'm doing?

Yeah.

Good.

Where's your car?

Uh, it's over there.

[music playing]

Go.

Follow the truck.

MAC: Why?

Because I want to see
where he dumps the stuff.

I bet you anything it's not
a legal toxic dump site.

OK.

[car ignition fires]

[music playing]

What's he doing?

This isn't even a
landfill for nontoxics.

I don't know, man.

[music playing]

Pull over and park.

Why?

Trust me.

[music playing]

[pick-up truck bed engages]

[music playing]

[MUSIC - "AMERICA THE
BEAUTIFUL"]

Oh, no.

[music playing]

MAC: What's in it?

Well, that's
why I rushed over.

Hope nobody ingested that stuff.

MAC: Is it toxic?

I'll say.

Mostly it's vinyl
chloride, acetone, traces

of ferrous oxide and benzene.

Which means in English?

It means it's a
nasty little cocktail.

Looks like the kind of
stuff used to manufacture

some kind of high tech plastic.

So there's no way you should
put this in the garbage?

No.

This is the stuff you pay
a nice man $, a barrel

to put in a plastic
lined landfill.

Uh, excuse me guys.

Why are we talking
about garbage?

Mac, I sent you into that school
to check out steroid abuse

on the football team.

Well, that's what I've
been doing, Captain.

But I don't think these kids are
using steroids at this school.

So how do we
explain the symptoms

and the dead quarterback?

Well, now what if
this stuff was dumped

into a stream that
flowed underground,

like underneath a
school football field?

Well, with this runoff and
the weather the way it is,

it would bubble right
up on to the field.

So could someone die?

I mean, have a heart att*ck from
playing on a field like this?

BENSON: Well, if there was
some kind of predisposition

like, irregular heartbeat, yeah,
could give him a heart att*ck.

Now, wait a minute.

Now how does this stuff
get into a person's body?

Well, it soaks into your
blood right through the skin.

With prolonged exposure, you're
going to see liver damage.

Liver damage?

Kidney damage or broken
bones, severe rashes.

A whole mess of central
nervous system screw ups.

Same symptoms as steroids.

Wait a minute, did--
did you say rashes?

Yeah.

So, Mac, maybe it was
these chemicals that k*lled

the kid and not steroids.

[music playing]

McCann?

Hey, look if you
have an exposure,

there's not a hell of a lot
you can do about it now.

[music playing]

Ah!

[music playing]

[mccann sneezes]

You all right?

I've been better.

Look, I'm calling
the EPA in on this.

I want you to give them
everything you've got.

Then, I want you to
take a long weekend.

Then what?

Then, we start
you on a new case?

No, sir.

I'm staying on this case.

It's time to move on, Mac.

And there are no steroids.

But there's another
kind of poison, Captain.

Toxic waste is out
of our jurisdiction.

It's also out of our
area of expertise.

Now why don't we leave
it to the guys who handle

this stuff every day, huh?

Meaning no
disrespect, Captain,

but this stuff k*lled one kid.

It's making a lot of other sick
and it might be making me sick.

I'm staying on this case.

I'm not backing down.

Mac, you don't know
anything about this stuff.

No, but Tommy
Boylan does and who do

you think he's going
to trust, Captain?

Me or some middle aged
federal bureaucrat in a suit?

Keep me informed.

Thank you.

[police siren in distance]

It might not be
safe to practice here.

This stuff could be what's
making everybody so sick.

Seems to me you're
always screaming

that the sky is falling.

But I've yet to see
it fall, Boylan.

Look.

Everybody's got a rash.

Everybody's got the flu.

You gonna suit up or you
gonna keep making excuses?

Well, I'm not playing.

You're playing all right.

Well, I'm not playing.

All we got to do is find
another place to practice.

MAC: Coach?

This is Dr. Benson.

He's a friend of my dad's here.

He's a chemist.

After what Tommy thought,
I called the doctor

here to see if he could come
and test the field if that's OK.

When this turns up
negative, I want you

in uniform with a piece
of tape over your mouth.

[machine beeps]

OK, everybody
off of this field.

Everybody!

You a lot of stomach
flu in this team?

Broken bones?
Rashes?

OK, every single one of
you get to your doctor

as soon as possible and get
tested for benzene poisoning.

Hit the showers, now!

I'm going to go
talk to the principal.

Yeah, I'll be
there in a minute.

Let's get off the field, here.

Friend of your dad's.

How convenient.

Who is that guy really?

He works for the
police department, Tommy.

And so do I. I'm
a police officer.

A cop?

Yeah.

I was sent in to find
out what k*lled Ray.

Originally we thought it
might be steroid abuse.

Wait a minute.

So you were tagging along
with me because you thought

I was involved with dr*gs.

Well, I did see
you passing along

that film canister to Dan.

And yes, I did think
it had dr*gs in it.

It had film in it.

Pictures of my talks
to dump at school.

I figured that out.

But you also figured
I'm not a criminal.

Hey look, Tommy, man.

I was wrong about you, OK?

I apologize.

Guess you know
what k*lled Ray now.

I have a good idea
thanks to you, yeah.

You gonna arrest
them for dumping?

Eventually, yeah.

But first I want them to
lead me to the manufacturer

that's dumping this stuff
because he's guilty too.

Let's get out of here.

[sighs]

MAC: Come on, Captain.

This has been two hours
we've been at this.

We're going to find out who
you're dealing with before you

go out there, McCann.

Just give it a minute.

Captain, I've got a
headache, I got a rash,

and my insides are k*lling
me because of this stuff

they're dumping.

Doesn't matter much who they
are, I'm going to nail them.

CAPTAIN: You can't nail them
if you don't know who they are.

[groans]

Fine.

What is that stuff?

It's chicken soup from
the deli down the street.

It's the best thing for a cold.

Bullseye.

What?

What does Purotek Carding,
Bob's Trucking Company,

and East End Waste
Management have in common?

The letter "T?"

They've all got Vincent Bauer
as their principal investor.

MAC: And who is Vincent Bauer?

Did you ever see
"The Godfather?"

Yeah.

Well, the Bauer's are meaner.

[truck accelerating]

MAC: Are you sure you
can ID the driver?

Saw him clear as day.

That's him.

Are you sure?

Yeah, go.

[music playing]

Well, it looks
like we got our man.

All we need now is a warrant.

No.

What are you doing?

This isn't the place.

What do you mean
this isn't the place?

It's audio tape, it's
high tech plastic.

It's not the place, all right?

We'll keep following the
truck, see where else it goes.

Yeah we will keep
following the truck

but we have to
investigate this place too

because it fits the profile.

This is not the guy.

How do you know?

Because the guy
who runs this place

would never dump toxic waste.

No way.

You talk like
you know the guy.

He's my dad.

TOMMY BOYLAN, JR: You know
where your toxic waste

is getting dumped?

Toxic landfill.

Try a vacant field a
half mile from school.

Oh, come on.

We saw it happen Mr. Boylan.

How is this your business?

I'm a police officer.

Well, this gets
better and better.

Did you know
about this dumping?

What?

I'm living with an
environmental pit bull

and I'm going to fool
around with hazardous waste?

[laughs]

Get serious.

What are you doing?

I'm going to prove it to the
watchdog of America's garbage.

Wait a minute.

There it is. $
per barrel daily.

Well, that's a pretty
good deal Mr. Boylan.

Well, that was four years ago.

Can we copy this
file to show to Ralph

Winter at Toxic Task Force?

Of course.

Great.

Well, make yourself at home.

Mr. Boylan, our computers
tell us that Purotek Carding

is owned by Vincent Bauer.

I'm thinking that maybe when
they came by and told you

that they were going to
haul your waste away,

you had no other
choice but to say yes.

I hired someone else.

They b*rned his trucks.

They ruined his business
because I was being honest.

Well, if they'd
ruined your business,

they'd be out of money.

And people, like the Bauer's,
they don't lose money.

Trying to bring
the mob down now?

Look, what they're
doing here is extortion.

It's racketeering.

The least you could do is
bring a case against these guys

who are driving the trucks.

You're awfully
brave with my blood.

These are high school
kids here, Mr. Boylan.

They're coming down with
liver and heart damage

because of the stuff
they're dumping.

I might be sick myself.

I'm sorry about that.

But I don't want to die.

Great.

What about Tommy?

What is Tommy going to
say when he finds out

his dad is in bed with these
wonderful people called

the Bauers?

He's a kid.

He sees everything
black and white.

He'd never understand.

Hey, I'm a cop and we
don't understand either.

You're being extorted here.

The next thing you know
they'll be after your company.

Well, better my company than
my arms or my legs or my son.

He's all I've got.

Think about it, Mr. Boylan.

You could do some good here.

Here you go, Dad.

Just about it.

See you later.

[music playing]

[groans]

I thought you said you
could do this, Doc.

BENSON: I can.

I'm a skilled phlebotomist.

Phlebotom-- ah!

Well, it doesn't feel like
this when I go to the doctor.

That's because they're
good when they do it.

I haven't done this
for five years.

Great.

[groans]

[whistles]

Would you hurry up, Doc?

Hang on.

Hang on.

Still got another
whole vial to fill.

So we can test for the
other trace chemicals.

Yeah, well, at this
rate you're going to k*ll

me before the chemicals do.

Hey.

You brought this on yourself.

I told you this was unnecessary.

You told the whole
football team to get tested.

Why shouldn't I?

Because you were only
exposed for one hour.

I doubt if that's going
to cause you any harm.

Well, why do I feel
like such hell then?

I mean, I have half the
symptoms you described.

We'll find out.

[groans]

Should get the results
in a couple of days.

[exhales forcefully]

Mr. Anthony Rankin?

[police radio chatter]

What do you want?

Is this the man
you saw dumping

chemicals the other day?

TOMMY BOYLAN, JR: Yeah.

You're under arrest, Mr.
Rankin, for illegal dumping

of hazardous waste.
- What is this?

A kiddie squad?

This stuff is from
my father's plant.

You lied to him.

You that washed
up hippies kid?

Don't you talk
about my father.

Huh?

You think your old
man didn't know what

I was doing with his stuff?
- I'm sure he did know.

He told me.

Come on leave it alone, guys.

Oh kids.

Don't you just love the trust?

My dad wouldn't lie.
Not to me.

My right.

Tommy, Tommy.

And I bet you still
believe in Santa Claus.

Tommy!

Leave it alone, Tommy.

Leave it alone.

This really sucks.

My dad has one rule
with me, just one--

always tell the truth.

I figure it applied to him too.

How do you know he lied, man?

Maybe he didn't know what.

Oh he knew.

My dad's not stupid.

He lied to me.

Maybe it's more
complicated than that, Tommy.

You gonna ask my dad.

It's not that simple.

What do you mean?

You're a cop, he broke the law.

Yeah, he broke the law.

But maybe he didn't
have a choice.

Ah, what's the choice?

Between good and bad?

Let me tell you
something, man.

You've got to grow up, Tommy.

You know that?

You hardly ever get that choice.

Half the time you get
a choice between not so

good and not so bad.

The other half is between
bad and really awful.

Either you put poison in
this earth or you don't.

- Tommy, listen--
- No!

No excuses, man.

Not even from my dad.

[police radio chatter]

Dang it.

Tommy.

They just arrested
Anthony Rankin trying

to dump your hazardous waste.

He says you knew.

It's not that cut and dry.

There are-- for
other considerations.

Like what?

Money?

You're dumping
poison in the well

and you're worried about money?

My hands are tied.

Whatever happened to telling
each other the truth?

You lied to me.

I didn't want to.

Oh, good answer, dad.

[door slams]

Hey, hey, where'd
you spend the night?

Dan's couch.

Listen man, I got some
bad news about Rankin.

I don't believe it.

There's a problem.

Hey.

Hello, boys.

What are you doing here?

Aren't you supposed to be
in reading class or something?

Aren't you supposed
to be in jail?

Kid, you got friends.

I got bigger friends.

What do you mean, friends?

You broke the law.

Move it, kid.

I got work to do.

Hey, Tommy, Tommy.

Come on.

I don't believe this.

Believe it, Tommy.

[music playing]

Sorry, Rankin,
contracts expired.

That's what you think.

[music playing]

TOMMY BOYLAN, SR: No!

MAC: Hey, how is he, man?

I don't know.

They're still working on him.

He's-- they said
internal bleeding.

Does that k*ll you?

Sometimes, yeah.

Last words I said to
him were angry words.

I don't want him to
go away like that.

Before I tell him how I
really feel about him.

I don't want him to go away.

[machine beeping]

Why did this happen?

Remember what your dad said
about his hands being tied?

Well, sometimes when you
hire trucks in this town,

you gotta deal with people
who don't give you choices

about the way things work.

You mean like the mob?

Yeah, you might
call them that.

So that was my dad's choice.

Getting b*at up for getting
his chemicals dumped.

Or having you hurt.

Or k*lled.

You know what I think happened?

Your dad finally stood up to
them because of what you said.

Because of me?

Yeah, because of you.

When am I gonna learn
to keep my mouth shut?

TOMMY BOYLAN, SR: Good question.

Pop?

Pop?

Some people do
anything for attention.

I'm sorry you guys.

Mr. Boylan, I have to ask
you a couple of questions,

if that's OK.

Did you see the man
who att*cked you?

Could you identify him?

I didn't get b*at up.

Sir--

I fell.

Mr. Boylan, Tommy
already knows.

I fell.

TOMMY BOYLAN, JR: Dad, don't.

TOMMY BOYLAN, SR: I fell.

You didn't fall!

[music playing]

I fell.

[music playing]

[boylan sr. groans]

[blowing nose]

Uh, you want me to
come back, Captain?

No, no, no.

Come right in.

I pulled up Rankin
on the computer.

Yeah?

CAPTAIN: He's a
three time loser.

Now, I figure if we can
get Boylan to bring charges

against him for
as*ault and extortion,

we can put Rankin in a corner.

Maybe get him to roll
over on his boss Bauer.

That sounds like a
good plan, Captain.

Except for one little thing.

Boylan says he fell.

Is that possible?

No way.

He got hit repeatedly.

And the men at the
factory, what did they say?

Nobody saw anything.

They're all scared.

Yeah.

Everybody's scared
except for Tommy Boylan.

And he's the only
one that should be.

Can he get to his father?

He's probably the
only one who can.

But I hate to do it, Captain.

I mean if Boylan then
brings charges, that kid's

prospects aren't so good.

Have we got a choice?

I don't know.

[bell rings]

Uh, Mrs. Jordan, have
you seen Tommy Boylan?

No, never showed up today.

Try the hospital.

I already did.

He's not there.

You know what?

Come to think of
it I haven't seen

any of his crazy, little
environmentalist friends

either.

[music playing]

ANTHONY RANKIN: All right,
you little creep, get up.

You want to go and
dump your garbage?

You're going to
have to run me over.

Is that so?

No problem.

TOMMY BOYLAN, JR: You got
a lot of witnesses here.

ANTHONY RANKIN: So what?

Manny, get in the cab.

Come on!

You b*at up my
dad but you're too

tough to run me over yourself?

[music playing]

[truck starts up]

He won't do it,
just close your eyes.

MAC: Let's go, cut the engine.

Cut it!

Cut it!

Let's go.

Everybody, up, up,
up, up, up, up.

You're under arrest.

Get up.
- What are you doing?

You're under
arrest-- trespassing

and malicious mischief.
Let's go.

Don't worry, kid.
Your daddy will bail you out.

What are you doing?

Whose side you on?

I'm on the side of
the not so bad, Tommy.

And you got some work
to do, all right?

Now, let's go.

He's a k*ller.

I can't believe you
were that stupid.

How about you?

"I fell."

Who'd you expect
to believe that?

Look, you two
have an opportunity

to do some good here, OK?

Now, Rankin, he works
for Vincent Bauer who's

responsible for all
the illegal dumping

in this part of the
state, not to mention

a lot of other nasty things.

Now, Rankin's been in
prison three times.

That makes him very
vulnerable, if you

two decide to bring charges.

Oh, yeah, that'd
be really stupid.

Stop trying to
protect yourself.

I'm trying to protect you.

You think they're
going to come after me?

I'm not afraid.

Oh, yeah?

What happens if they
get your mother?

How brave you going
to be then, huh?

Well, there is an alternative.

Oh, yeah.

A wonderful life for the
witness protection program.

What's wrong with that?

Well, what's wrong
with that is that it

means a life of anonymity.

It means saying
goodbye to your mother,

saying goodbye to your
friends, and saying

goodbye to being an activist.

It also means your father
kisses his career goodbye.

It also means always
worrying whether they're

going to catch up to
you, always having

to check in your view mirror.

But in exchange for that, you
might just put away the most

corrupt man in the state.

Might.

Yeah, might.

Why can't we just nail these
guys and stay in the open?

Doesn't it sometimes work
just to take your chances?

You've got a choice between
bad and awful here, Tom.

This is my choice?

You've got the most to lose.

Can't ever run for office
with a contract out on you.

You always told me you can't
make your mark in this world

by being silent
and doing nothing.

If we bring charges, we may stop
this guy or we may not, right?

Right.

Our lives will
sure be different.

At least we'll have this
one good thing between us.

At least we can say
we did something.

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Then, let's do it.

Yeah, let's.

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Well, they picked up Bauer
and several of his friends

this morning.
- Good.

I hope they throw
the book at him.

Yeah, DA says he's
got a pretty good

case thanks to the Boylan's.

Whew, Captain,
no offense, man,

but could you keep
your distance, man?

You really stink.

Oh, yeah, yeah, it's
the garlic and onions.

Yeah, that would be
what it is, uh-huh.

Why on Earth are you
wearing that thing?

Oh, this is a old
country cold remedy.

See, if you're wearing garlic
and onion around your neck

so that you're inhaling
their fumes for hours,

clears your sinuses right up.

Yeah, not to mention the room.

Actually that might work.

Clinically speaking of course.

Benson, do you have
my results or what?

BENSON: Yes.

Everything came up negative.

You don't have an abnormal
level for any toxins.

Thank goodness.

I don't understand it though.

Are you sure that
thing is accurate?

Why do I feel so-- so bad?

[groans]

I don't know but
I have a good guess.

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