Depth of Field (2024)

[bunniefuu]

- Oh, my God, man.

- Are you okay?

- You know what?

I don't think they're

gonna invite me again.

I don't think you're allowed to-

- We're just blowing up balloons now.

Because I think I want a

suit to make them both fat.

I love you, Dada. You're my best friend.

- Hi, Charlie. You look tired.

- I am tired.

- I know.

- I just can't see us doing this

for another 10 years, Diane, all right?

I'm willing to do one more,

but then after that, you and

I, we go and live our lives.

- I love doing this, Henry, you know tha

But I don't wanna bring in a teenager,

not even for a few months.

- Hey, Charles!

- I don't care what Marjorie says.

- Brother, I got the bills.

Chuck!

- It sounds like a hot mess, here.

- Come on, dude.

I see your truck out front.

You're not seriously going

to do me like this, are you?

- Marjorie said she's already

been kicked out of two schools.

Are you outta your mind?

Trying to drive me outta my mind?

Babies, young children,

that is what we do.

That is easy.

- They're on the porch. Sign

'em when you feel like it.

- She obviously feels that

we'd be good for the kid.

It's for six months at most.

- Oh, and-

- We got into this

to help kids.

Say yes. Please.

Just say yes. Say yes.

- I'm nervous. Just, aw,

I should just, calm down.

Calm down.

- Hello. Henry.

Diane.

- Well, it was a bit of

an event this morning,

but here we are.

- Oh, we're glad you finally made it.

Nice to see you again, Valerie.

Mike, Lupe, come and meet Valerie.

- Hi, Lupe. How you been?

- That's Mike. That's Lupe.

This is Valerie.

- Hi.

Could I go play now?

- Yeah, yeah. Go play.

Lupe. Do you have to use the bathroom?

Are you sure?

We don't want any messes.

- Lupe, go use the bathroom.

- Well, that's my cue. I'll

let you all get settled in.

Okay.

If you need me, you know

how to get ahold of me.

Like I said, Henry and

Diane are good people,

so please try to give them a chance.

This is only temporary,

so let's try to make

it work for now, okay?

Okay. I'm heading back to the office.

If anyone needs me, please

feel free to reach out.

- Thank you.

- You both know the drill already.

- Well, that was fun, huh?

Listen, why don't we just set

some ground rules real quick, okay?

We, we've never taken

a teenager in before,

so try to take it easy

on us, at least at first.

Come on, let's walk and talk.

- I'll, uh, I'll show you

where you'll be sleeping.

Mike, come on in. Let's go inside.

There you are. We've been looking for yo

You know, you really need to tell us

if you're gonna come out front.

I'm gonna start dinner in a few minutes,

so I'll give you a couple

minutes to yourself.

All we ask is for you

not to get into trouble.

- I didn't do anything.

- Then why did we have

to come and pick you up?

- That's pretty cool.

- Thanks.

- How do you know where it's going?

- I can see it on the screen.

- Is it hard to fly?

- Trial and error.

I broke a few drones before this one.

You have to crash a few

times before you get better.

Can't make a delicious

lasagna without making a mess.

- Lasagna?

- I think something my wife used to say.

- Valerie won't speak to us

but she seems to wanna speak to Charles.

- At least she's talking to somebody. Hu

Come on. I keep getting

k*lled by these penguins.

Every time. Every time.

- Valerie, time to come in.

- See ya.

- Pins and needles.

- Hey, Dada, did you

know about the ice age

with the saber-tooth and woolly mammoth

got extinct from the ice age-

- Everything we see is out of focus

until we see it the way we want to.

Once we see it,

that's when it comes into focus.

Depth of field.

I think life is like that.

Like when something is really important,

how it comes into focus.

Whether it be

relationships, marriage, kids.

If you, if you really wanna

see the beauty in things,

then, you have to just focus

on what's right in front of you.

What's right in front of your eyes.

- Happy anniversary, my love.

- Hey, Tina!

- Hey, do you remember

the first time we kissed?

- I do.

- Do you remember that

I had to kiss you first?

- I do.

- Do you remember why I

had to kiss you first?

- I do.

- I had to kiss you first

because you wouldn't lean in.

And I knew that if I didn't

step in at that moment,

it would pass us.

And so I stepped in and I kissed you.

- You did.

- I'm gonna need you to

step in, Charlie, okay?

I'm gonna need you to step

in and lean into life.

- Hey.

- Hey.

You doing homework?

- No, I already finished.

I'm just reading.

- You're reading, huh?

Not a lot of kids read just

for the fun of it nowadays.

- Well, I like to read.

- Good. Reading's Good.

- Did you fly your drone today?

- Mm-hmm. Was out all day.

It was a beautiful day.

- Could I see what you filmed?

- Uh, ask, uh Henry

and Diane if it's okay.

- Okay!

- No, not now. Tomorrow.

- Okay. See you tomorrow.

Good morning.

- Push the space bar.

- Henry.

- Charles.

- You did all of this on your drone?

- Yep.

- What is she doing over there?

- She's looking at the stuff

that he shot today. That's all.

We've literally been out

here for like two minutes.

- This is so awkward to me.

Why won't he talk to us?

Why won't she talk to us?

- I don't know, dear. Would

you like me to ask them?

I thought you were the one

that didn't want the teenager.

- Shut up.

- Yes ma'am.

- Where's Mikey?

- He got all dirty, I

told him to take a shower.

That kid is filthy. Woof!

- That kid. God.

- Wha- let's let Charles

get back to his day.

Come on.

- Just, just a few more minutes. Please.

- Guess who she's talking

to now? Me.

- Hush.

- All right, that's

it. You've seen enough.

Come on, hun.

- Time to, time to go in.

- Fine. Thank you!

- Um,

nevermind.

- Okay, bye.

- Henry! Can I talk to you a minute?

- Sure, Charles. Everything okay?

- I wanna talk to you about the new kid.

She's, uh, curious.

She saw me flying the drone,

and she had like a thousand questions.

And, uh, you know, she's a kid,

so it could be just the

flavor of the month.

I mean, you remember Tommy

when he first started with the drone?

Anyway.

Um, I thought I could give

her one of Tommy's drones

and something, you know, she could do.

- Oh, well I appreciate that. Thanks.

I, you know, I gotta run this by Diane.

- Yeah, do what you gotta do.

Yeah, yeah.

- Well, thank you.

- Yeah.

- All right. Where we going?

- You don't know?

- Well I do.

- I saw a squirrel!

- Well, squirrel. Squirrels are good.

- Squirrel, we can do.

- Let's go look at this.

- Thank you. Thank you guys so much.

- Welcome. Y- yes.

- Thank you. Henry and

Diane told me what you did.

- Yeah, you're welcome.

I hope you get some good use

out of it. Take care of it.

- Okay, I will. I promise.

- Yeah. Great.

- I, thank you. I should

probably get back.

- Sure. Yeah.

- Actually, do you think

you could teach me?

Henry, can he teach me?

- A- ask Charles.

- So can you?

- Uh, yeah, sure. Yeah.

As long as you do your

homework and get permission,

then heck yeah.

- Got it.

Homework done and get permission.

Thank you!

- Welcome.

It's gonna be great.

- That was good, huh?

- Are you editing the footage?

- How'd you know I was back here?

- Well, you're always back

or here in the front, duh.

- Oh, that's right.

You find me everywhere.

Yes.

I'm downloading the

footage to a flash drive

so you can watch it later.

- Wow, really? Thank you.

- You're welcome. Almost done downloadin

- This is so exciting.

- Val, time to eat.

- I'm just waiting on Charles.

He's putting my footage on a flash drive

- Oh, great. Can't wait to see it.

- Henry.

- Charles.

- There you go.

- Thank you!

- You're welcome.

- Can we watch it?

- Right after breakfast.

Valerie!

Watch out!

- What's going on?

- She was just playing in the

street and a car was coming.

- What the hell, Valerie?

- It's not a big deal. I overreacted.

- It is a big deal. It's a very big deal

I told you this was a bad idea.

Where's the drone?

Give it to me.

Go get the drone and

give it back to Charles.

- Yes, ma'am.

- Come on, let's go.

- I'm sorry.

- She'll cool off. Just

give her a little time.

Give her a little time,

she'll be fine. I just...

- Henry.

Henry.

- Thank you.

- Valerie, can we talk?

I know I seem tough and mean.

I have to be.

Charles came and spoke to us

and he said you didn't look

like you were in any danger.

He said he just wanted to make sure

you were paying attention

to your surroundings.

I don't know how much of that I believe,

but you're still gonna

get grounded for a week.

You need to learn to be more aware.

Most of the time you've

got your head in your phone

trying to see where it's going

or you're looking up

to watch it fly around.

You gotta just pay attention

to what's going on around you.

I don't want you in the

middle of the street.

There's no reason for you

to be in the road anyways.

Just stick to the yard.

And be careful. Okay?

- I'm sorry. I promise I

won't go in the street.

I'll stay in the yard.

- I think that's the most

you've said to me, ever.

- I'm sorry. It's just that I-

- I- it's okay.

It's okay. Don't worry about it.

I know that sometimes I come off

all "Mommy Dearest," you

know, "No wire hangers!"

Look, you're our first teenager.

This is all brand new to us.

What I'm trying to say is,

and I, I'm serious about this,

if you get caught not paying

attention one more time,

we're gonna have to take

the drone away for good.

Just be careful. Okay?

- Okay.

- Okay.

Now go get some food

before it gets too cold.

And you are gonna have to do those dishe

- Okay. Thank you!

- Hello, Charles.

- Hello, little one.

- Little one?

- You caught

me in my happy place.

- This is your happy place?

- No, this song is my happy place.

The way how one song can take

you to a beautiful memory,

a beautiful moment.

A happy place.

This is my happy place.

That's it. Yeah.

This is my happy place.

Oh, thank you very much ma'am.

- Now I'm a ma'am?

- A man should always show you respect.

Especially after a dance.

So you've been paroled.

- Paroled? I'm not a criminal, geez.

But I'm not grounded anymore.

- Good, little one.

- That's much better than ma'am.

What's in the box?

- It's personal.

- Okay. Sorry.

I like your motorcycle.

- Thanks.

Do Henry and Diane know you're here?

- Yes. They both know.

- Okay.

Have a seat.

- This is exciting.

- Push play.

- Where is this?

- Just watch the video.

You can ask me all the questions

you want when it's done.

- Okay.

Did you crash filming this?

- I'm going back outside.

- Hey, is Val over there?

- Yeah.

She's watching some

footage I put together.

- Just checking.

- Hey, Charles, you

wanna have a beer later?

Figure after dinner, around seven,

I could come over there if that's okay.

- Uh...

- Come on.

- Uh, yeah, sure.

After dinner. That works.

- Great. I'll see you then.

And I'll let you guys get

back to what you were doing.

Listen, if she's getting in your way,

send her home.

- I'm sure she'll get bored soon.

- Right on.

- I can only hope.

- Who's Beth and Tommy?

- Uh, that's just some old

videos I was working on.

- Oh, well, whose cameras are those?

Do you take pictures?

- You know,

Henry was just here, was looking for you

- Oh, okay.

Well, here's the flash

you gave me the other day.

Bye, Charlie.

- It's Charles.

- I like Charlie better.

- Charles, how you doing?

Come on baby. Bring it in.

Oh man. I missed you.

- I missed you too, Henry.

Missed you too. Thanks.

I, um, I know I, uh...

- Hey, no need to explain.

Everything's, come on. Let's just, this.

- Thanks.

Cheers.

- Cheers.

Yeah.

I, I got that beer from David.

- David?

- David's the guy that worked

at the card shop where we took Tommy.

You remember a long time ago?

- Um, I don't remember that. No.

- Yeah, Tommy wanted to see how much

his baseball card collection was worth.

So we took him over there.

David's the guy that worked there.

- Yeah. I'm sorry. I don't...

- It's all right.

Anyway, he makes his own beer

and I thought maybe this

would be a great time

to give it a try and, uh...

- It's good. I like it.

- Yeah, it is.

It's good, right? Yeah.

Can I just say I'm sorry, Charles.

- Oh God.

- I, uh, I...

- Henry.

- I mean,

I can't even imagine what it'd be like-

- Henry, please.

If you don't, just, don't,

if that's what you came

here for, please don't.

I don't need that.

I just, let's just have a beer.

- All right.

I just can't even imagine

how I'd feel if Diane died.

You know, it's,

f*cking awful.

- Don't be the sorry guy, Henry.

Don't be the sorry guy. Please.

- And you lost your wife and

your kid at the same time

and it's gotta be twice as f*cking bad.

You know what I'm saying?

- Thanks, Henry. I forgot.

I can't do this. I can't do this.

I can't f*cking do this.

- All right, what are

you pissed off now about?

All right, look, can I just apologize?

Come on, let's start over again.

- I, I- I can't do this.

- Come on, let...

You want me to leave?

- f*ck you, Henry.

- W-

I guess that's the answer, isn't it?

Who needs this sh*t.

- Okay. I'm ready.

- Coming.

- Okay, so I thought about it,

and if you can lift off and

land without any mishaps,

I'll let you step up to the next level.

- No way. I got this.

So what were you watching anyway?

Charlie, were you watching adult videos?

- No, I'm not watching adult videos.

Watching my videos, okay?

Just, let's see what you got, little one

Adult videos.

Don't forget to pull out the-

- I, I got it.

- Look at you go.

That's a good job.

Did you remember to charge the batteries

- Duh.

- Duh.

- Don't film me. It makes me nervous.

- Hey, you're gonna remember

these moments, okay?

Trust me, you're gonna wanna save

as many memories as you can.

'Cause you never know when

that's all you got left.

- Thanks, Charlie.

- What's wrong? You okay?

- Just made me think of my mom.

- I, so, okay, no, take, take a breath.

Okay? Take a breath.

Don't, don't, don't...

Just, just take a second,

take a breath, okay?

I'm, I'm sorry.

- Oh, no, don't cry.

Please don't, don't cry.

- What happened?

- No, I, I,

I, I just, I said something really stupi

and insensitive about, sorry.

Oh, god.

- Valerie, come here, hun.

What happened? Oh.

- Come on, Val. Tell us what's wrong.

- Well, what's wrong is I'm an idiot.

That's, that's what's wrong.

I'm sorry. I didn't mean to upset you.

I'm so sorry.

I...

I'm sorry.

f*ck, I'm an idiot.

- I love you, Dada, you're my best frien

- Love you too, buddy.

- Henry, can I speak to

you real quick, please?

- Sure.

- I, uh, I just,

I, I want to apologize fo

my behavior the other night.

I, uh, I'm, I'm sorry. I was shitty.

- No need to apologize.

We're friends-

- I uh...

- And, and I know you're hurting.

- I appreciate that.

- But can I say something to you then,

now that we're talking,

it's been weighing on me a little bit,

and I'd like to, I'd like

to talk to you about it.

- Okay?

- Did you cut us out

because we were the last

ones to talk to Beth?

I mean, did you blame us?

- I don't even know what

to say to that, Henry.

Why would you ask me that?

- Because that's the way I'm feeling it.

And, and that's why I thought

you stopped talking to us.

- I, I-

- I mean,

we loved Tommy and Beth.

- I didn't even know that!

God, Henry.

No, I didn't stop talking

to you because I blamed you.

I stopped talking to everyone

because my wife and kid died.

Christ.

And I blame myself.

'Cause I should have

been driving that day.

But no, I wanted to go

for a ride with Joe.

Oh God.

They're gone forever.

And I'm not gonna get to

hold them or cry with them

or tell them I love them.

It's got nothing to do with you, Henry.

Christ.

You've always had the worst timing, Henr

All you gotta do is shut the f*ck up.

Not everything is about you.

Oh, f*ck, Henry.

They're gone forever. And I blame me.

I don't blame you or Diane.

f*ck.

For the record, no, I don't blame you.

- I don't wanna fight.

I, and I am not trying to change you,

but I just don't think

that you're seeing from

my perspective, you know.

You keep going out for these rides

and we have a kid, and

you know, it worries me.

And I don't get to relax till

you walk back in the door.

And there's nothing

that's gonna change that.

So I'm gonna have this

reaction every time.

Anyway, I'll see you

when you get back home.

- Charlie!

- I love you.

- Charlie. Open up!

Charlie, I, I know

you're in there.

- Hold your horses!

Jesus.

- Charlie, come on.

- My God.

- I'm ready.

Charlie.

- Yeah.

- Charlie, I'm ready.

- Yeah, sorry. I'm just

not up for it today.

Do you mind asking Henry

to practice with you today?

- I...

What did the three-legged dog say

when he walked into the saloon?

- What?

- What did the three-legged dog say

when he walked in this saloon?

- V, I'm gonna...

- Hey!

- W- I'm gonna close the door.

- Okay. Okay.

I'm looking for the man

who shot my paw.

Charlie!

- That was the worst joke

I've ever in my life.

- You laughed.

- Yeah.

It was more of like a sympathy laugh.

Felt sorry for you.

- That was mean.

- Be funnier.

- What's this?

- I already told you.

It's personal, it's none of your busines

- What's that?

- This is a film canister.

- What's it do?

- It's back for when film

was film not digital.

- Film?

- Oh, that's funny. Nevermind.

They used film in old cameras

before everything went digital.

My wife was a photographer.

She, let me show you.

Yeah.

You know, she once told me,

everything in life is out of focus

till you find what's important to you

and then you focus on that.

Wife, husband, kids,

relationships, career.

That's the depth of field. That's focus.

Yeah.

Once you find what's important to you,

what's right in front of your face,

you learn the depth the field

and you're ahead of the game.

Yeah. Focus on what's in front of you.

'Cause that's what's important.

The rest is background.

I haven't thought about that in a while.

And it sounds different

when I say it out loud.

Wow. Crazy.

- Which one was her favorite?

- This one.

Mm. Yeah.

- She sounds cool.

- She was cool.

Okay. Enough of this.

Let's do this.

- Okay.

- All righty.

Anyway, how are you today? Better?

- Yeah, I'm a bit better.

- What happened?

- I was just missing my mom.

- Where is she?

- She's dead.

- I'm sorry.

- It's not your fault.

- No, I know.

It's, I'm just, I'm, I'm sorry.

Just sorry. Sucks, I know.

- It's okay. Just some days are hard.

- Tell me about it.

- How would you know?

- Remember when you asked

me who Beth and Tommy are?

- Mm-hmm.

- That's Beth and Tommy.

It's my wife and son.

They passed a while back.

- I'm sorry.

- It's not your fault.

- You said it to me.

- I did. Hmm.

Anyway, we're good. It's tough.

Every day's a new day,

but we gotta hold onto our memories tigh

I'm sure you have your

memories of your mom, right?

- Yeah. We have memories.

I remember her laugh.

I miss her laugh.

- I get it. Let's go fly a drone.

Try not to crash.

- What's that?

Who's that?

- That's Joe.

- Hey, as*h*le.

- Ugh. Could you watch your mouth?

There's a kid here.

- Who the f*ck is this?

- This is Valerie.

She's my neighbor.

I'm teaching her how to fly a drone.

Please watch your mouth.

- Wait a second.

You have time to teach

somebody how to fly a drone,

but you don't have time to get back to m

- I like her.

- Oh, you like her?

- She doesn't annoy me as much as you do

- If you worked with him,

that would change quickly.

Look, I just need you to sign the bills.

I, I'm busting my trying

to keep the shop afloat.

- Okay. I get it. I'm sorry, okay.

I'm just, don't be a jerk.

- A jerk?

What do you call somebody

who declines every phone call,

refuses to return any message,

and avoids the big responsibility,

like the thing that pays us.

What do you call that person?

- I said I'm sorry. Can

we talk about it later?

Please. Mm?

- Gimme a drink.

- You know where the

fridge is. Help yourself.

I'll be back. It's okay.

It's okay.

- Lots of ice.

Hey, he went inside. That's good.

Who are you? You live there?

How long have you known Charles?

What are you even working on?

Look, here's the thing.

I know I come across as an as*h*le

and I don't really care about that,

but here's what I do care

about is that guy in there

and I need to know he's okay.

And I don't like to see him suffer.

And that's, that's no good.

You know, there was a time when

I was in really big trouble

and nobody, nobody looked out for me

except for him.

There was a time when he gave me a job

when nobody should have.

And all I'm trying to do

is keep that job going

and make sure he's okay.

I would take a b*llet for that guy-

- Charles!

- I mean, actually,

not anymore.

- You okay, little one?

- Little one? What, do

you have nicknames now?

- She's a kid. What are you doing?

How about we finish this up tomorrow?

Sound good? Go ahead, go home.

- Bye, Charlie.

- Bye, little one.

- Charlie? Little one?

By, Vera.

- Valerie.

- Yeah, whatever.

Can I have a nickname, Charlie?

- Yeah, I can think of a few.

- How about you call it the one guy,

the one who keeps it all together?

Come here.

Because that, that's,

that's not good, brother.

Look, I get it. That's not healthy.

- Be safe.

- This whole thing. I know.

I mean, we knew this was

gonna happen. This happens.

They come and they go.

They stay for six months.

- It's gonna, it's gonna,

it's gonna crush-

- I know.

- It's gonna crush him.

- I know, I know.

- It's Valerie, I mean-

- I know. I understand.

All right, well, it'll have to go-

- Come on.

- Everything okay?

- Not really.

- Diane.

- Hi.

- Hi, Lupe.

Let's go sweetie.

- Okay.

- It's okay.

- Bye, baby.

- Henry.

- Charles.

- I haven't seen Valerie around.

Is everything okay?

- Everything's fine. She's in the house.

- She's in the house.

- And I'm gonna need you

to step in Charlie, okay?

I'm gonna need you to

step in and lean into life

and lean into love

because there is so much beauty.

- I can't do it alone.

- I know, but you're not alone.

- Charlie. Hey!

Charlie. Come on open up.

I know you're in there! Charlie!

- Are you trying to break my door down?

- Geez, you scared me.

- Yeah, well, you scared me.

- So they took Lupe.

- I'm sorry.

- We never really seem to stay

in one place for too long.

- That must be tough.

- Mike was really sad,

so I stayed to help try

and make him feel better.

- You're a good person, little one.

- Thanks, Charlie.

Your friend the other day

was really weird and scary.

- Yeah. Yeah, that's Joe.

He's a great artist, but, (clicks tongue

doesn't really know how to

express himself very well.

Runs my tattoo shop while I'm away.

- You have a tattoo shop?

- Yeah.

I haven't been there in a while,

but, uh, he takes care of stuff.

He brings me the paperwork every week.

We're still making money,

so that's a good thing.

- I heard you guys laughing a lot.

- Yeah. It was good to catch up.

- So I wanted to talk to you

about learning to take pictures.

- Oh, is that right?

- I wanna learn how to take good picture

like really good pictures.

Like the ones your wife used to take.

- Mm. So you've learned all

there to know about drones?

- No. Not even close.

It's just, I've been looking

at pictures online at school

and I think I even wanna join

the yearbook committee next year.

- Okay. Well, photography's

a whole different skillset.

You need patience. You got patience?

- I think so.

- Yeah. Not the way we're

knocking on my door you don't.

- Okay. Well that was different.

I missed ya.

- I, uh, I missed you too, little one.

Okay, well I'm not a photographer

so I could only show you the basics.

After that you're gonna

have to study on your own

or we can learn some more together.

- Okay.

- And you're gonna have to-

- I already talked to Henry and Diane

and told them I wanted

to learn photography.

And they said, "Hey, maybe

Charles knows about that,"

and to come ask you.

- Of course they did. Okay.

Just do me a favor. Don't

give up on the drone.

- I won't. I love that.

I just wanna keep learning more new stuf

- I understand.

That's a good quality to have.

Keep learning stuff.

Knock, knock.

- Who's there?

- Ice cream.

- Ice cream who?

- I scream so you can hear me!

- That was lame, Charlie.

- Yeah, but you laughed.

- It was a pity laugh. I felt bad for yo

- What do you mean you didn't do anythin

Obviously you did something

or we wouldn't have to

pick you up from school.

- They were-

- It's always "They."

"They were doing something."

Take some responsibility.

- They tried to take my camera.

- You shouldn't have taken it to school.

- I wanted take pictures of my friends.

When I leave, I wanna have

the memories with them.

- Where are you going?

- It's been four months already.

Marjorie says I was, I shouldn't...

- Henry, Can I show you something?

- Yeah.

What's up, Charles?

- These are some pictures Valerie took.

- Valerie took these?

- Yep.

- Wow.

- Yeah, she's got a great eye.

- Can I keep these?

- Yeah. Yeah.

- Mm.

- Jesus. Nobody knock anymore?

- Charlie, are these really my pictures?

- Yes, little one. Those

are really your pictures.

- Thank you, Charlie. You're the best.

- No, those are all you.

You took those pictures.

Do you need to use the restroom?

- Jerk. What now?

- Now you take more pictures, silly.

- I have to get my camera!

- Be careful.

- I know.

- I know you know, but I have to say it.

Charles, can I speak to you in

private for a minute, please?

- Don't hurt me!

- Come here.

- You're a good man, Charlie Brown.

- Thank you.

- Sorry about Henry.

- Oh, I'm good.

To be honest, I think it's something

that needed to happen.

It was a long time coming.

- Well, we'll just keep

it between us, okay?

- Okay.

- It's good to see you smile again.

- Thank you. And thanks for the hug.

- Sure.

And, okay, well, I'm gonna

let you get outta here.

- Okay. You got my number.

You can call if you need anything.

- Yeah.

- And we'll take pictures.

I'll take pictures and

send 'em to you, okay?

- Okay.

Hey, uh, we don't own this kid.

We're still making payments.

Be careful.

- Okay.

Hold on. Lemme get this real quick.

- Hey, you answered, as*h*le.

I feel really f*cking-

- Hey! Hey!

Valerie's in the car.

- Oh, my bad. Hey, little one.

How are you?

- Hi.

- Oh, she speaks.

- What do you want?

- Look, I'm just calling to

see how you're doing, brother.

- Well, good. Today's adventure day.

We're going and takin' some pictures.

How are you?

- Yeah, no, I, I'm, I'm fine. All right.

Look, you both have a good

day. I'll hit you up later.

Bye, little one.

- Bye.

- You know what, Charles

showed me some of your pics.

Pretty cool.

- Y- you showed him my pictures?

- Uh...

All right, uh, bye.

- All right. Thank you.

Uh, look, you guys be safe.

So we'll talk soon, brother.

Okay. Maybe the two of you can,

I don't know, maybe come by the shop.

- Yeah, yeah. Maybe.

Yeah, later if that's okay.

Bye! Bye.

- What?

- I can't believe

you showed him my pictures.

- I was proud. What?

- Mm-mm-mm.

- Well, what do you think?

- People get paid to do this?

So I could get paid to do this?

- Henry.

- Charles.

Yeah.

I gotta talk to you about something.

- Sure.

Do you remember our old client, Johnny?

- The artist with the gallery?

Yeah, of course.

- Yeah.

- In fact,

I still do his marketing.

- Oh, cool.

Anyway, I went and see him today

and I showed him some

of Valerie's pictures

and he liked them a lot.

- Well, I'm sure she's

gonna love hearing that.

- I'm sure she will.

Anyway, he wants to have a gallery showi

for her pictures.

- He suggested that?

- Mm-hmm.

- Look, Charles, I get

that you're proud of her

and that's great, we are too.

But-

- No, no, no.

- I mean, a gallery showing?

That seems a bit much.

- I get you completely.

It was not my idea.

Look, photography was

Beth's department, okay?

And I just wanted a professional's opini

to see if they thought what I thought.

And he does.

She's talented, Henry.

- Well. Oh, hi nosy.

- Whatcha talking about?

- Why don't you just go back

where you came from?

- All right, well, you know I gotta-

- Yeah, you gotta talk to Diane.

- And then I'll get-

- And then let me know.

- Yeah, yeah.

All right?

- Right.

- All right.

How's that homework coming?

- Ugh.

- Yeah.

- Bye, Charlie.

- Let's get her done.

- Okay!

- I'll be right out. Look

around for a little bit.

- This is amazing.

- Charles.

- Thanks for meeting us, Johnny.

- So you must be the amazing young lady

Charles has told me about.

So this is what a prodigy looks like, hu

- A prodigy?

- Yeah. You, uh, you have a gift.

- Well, thanks. Charlie taught me.

- You can be taught the rules,

but you have to be able to see the world

through a hole this big

and see the world in a

way that no one else can.

And if you ask me, what you

can do is very impressive.

You guys look around.

If you have any questions,

I'll be in the back.

- Thank you.

- You okay, little one?

- I'm just getting a little nervous.

I don't know if I wanna do this.

- It's gonna be fine. I promise.

We're all here to support you. Okay?

It's a great place to

start showing your work

in a small gallery.

- Hey! I heard that.

- I'd feel better if you did it with me.

- I got nothing to show.

- Show your drone videos. Please?

- No, this is about you.

- What's going on out here, guys?

- She wants me to show my

drone videos with her work.

- That night's about

you. Not some old man.

They wanna see the prodigy.

Besides if he had any real

talent, he'd already be famous.

- Ain't wrong. He's right.

- Okay.

- You'll never be alone because

we will always be with you.

- That's what you'd say.

- Yeah, it's what I'd say.

- I wanted to leave this with

you guys to handle, please.

If this is you, Henry,

please do not lose it.

I know you and I really

hope this isn't you, Henry.

- Were you hiding in the

bushes when you took this?

I wasn't even aware that

you were anywhere around me.

- That's the point.

- Yeah, I guess, yeah.

- Thank you guys.

I'm, I know I've been a handful,

but I really appreciate

you letting me do this.

- Hey, we love you and

we're very proud of you.

Can I get a hug?

So proud of you.

- I love my favorite too.

- When did you take it?

- When you weren't looking, duh.

- How'd you get it in

here without me knowing?

- I had Henry help.

He brought it in while we

were all getting ready.

- Thank you, little one.

- No, thank you.

- Hey everyone. Could

I have your attention?

Valerie, I just wanted to tell you,

you've sold two photos

already this evening.

- Did you hear that?

- I, I had to, I had to buy one of them.

The one that I'm in.

But not because I'm in it,

but, 'cause I don't

want people at the shop

to forget what this

awesome guy looks like.

Congratulations.

- Well, thank you, Kacchan.

- Ka-what?

- Kacchan.

- What's a Kacha?

- He's this mean anime character

who can sometimes be nice if he likes yo

That's you.

- Kacchan. I got a nickname, Charlie.

- Did you hear that, Charlie?

I sold two pictures.

- I did. Congratulations.

You're now a professional photographer.

- Thanks. But I'm not

doing it for the money.

I'm doing it for me.

Follow me.

- You know this is supposed

to be a happy occasion, right?

What's with all the crying.

How long are you guys gonna keep this up

- Keep on working till the weekend come.

Just a pinch between your cheek and gum.

All night long.

This is, this is like mac and cheese.

This is-

- What else would it be?

- I don't know.

- It look, I mean, yeah,

I guess. It's really good.

- Yep.

- Yep.

Come on!

- I'll do my best.

- I didn't think it was that funny.

- So let's talk about

these motorcycle lessons

you're gonna give me.

- Right.

- Teach me how to ride a motorcycle.

- No, you're not going

anywhere near motorcycle.

Ever.

- Mm-mm.

- Ever, ever. No.

That's not for you.

- Mm-mm.

- No.

- All right.

- Cheers.

- Cheers.

- Cheers.

- Cheers.

- In here!

- Hold on, little one.

- It's Henry.

Hey. Bad day brother.

Val's gonna be leaving

and, uh, she doesn't know yet.

We're gonna tell her in

about 10, 15 minutes.

But I wanted you to know first.

- Appreciate that.

- We appreciate you.

- Where have you been?

I've been looking for you all day.

I thought I wouldn't get to see you

before they take me away.

I don't wanna leave. I'm finally happy.

I mean, why do I have to go?

What's wrong with me?

- There's nothing wrong with you.

Don't ever say that, okay?

You're amazing. You're

awesome, little one.

Aw.

Don't cry.

You're gonna make me cry.

- I won't tell anyone.

- Oh boy. I don't want you to go either.

Kinda got used to having you around.

It's gonna be okay.

Look, it's gonna be okay.

Okay, uh, okay.

Okay.

I got you something.

- It's your wife's camera.

- Yeah, now it's yours.

- Okay. Don't cry.

You know what happens to me when you cry

That's enough. Okay, stop it.

- I'm gonna miss you, Charlie.

- Hey, lemme tell you something.

You saved me, sunshine.

When you got here, I, I was a, a mess.

And I don't know what you

did, but I'm better for it.

- I'm better because of you.

- And I'm, I'm not going anywhere.

You call me. I'll pick up the phone.

I promise. Okay?

- Okay.

- Okay.

Okay. Oh God.

You always do this to me.

Oh, how do you do this to me? Every time

It's okay.

I got you.

- Thank you, guys.

Tell Mike I say goodbye.

- We will.

- Aw, f*ck.

How you guys f*cking do this all the tim

- Oh, Before I forget, hey, hey, hey.

- They're bringing, Tommy.

- Look at that.

- Oh hey.

- Yeah.

- Oh, what's this for?

Well, we finally did it. We adopted Mike

- Who's Mike?

- Congrats.

- How many kids do you have?

- Oh.

- Hi, Charlie.

I wanted to let you know

I have a website now.

I designed it myself. Check it out pleas

I really would like your opinion.

Miss you and I love you, Charlie.

TTYL.

- What's TTYL?

- I have no clue.

- Talk to you later.

- No, that's not it.

- Talk to you...?

- I mean, that is 100% it.

- That can't be it.

- No that's not it.

- That's too easy.

- Yeah.

- Old men. Jesus.

- We are a part of your

story. Just one part.

But you're so much more than this.

Your story's not done yet.

And you have to know we love you.

- I love you guys so much.

And I miss you both so much.

- Close your eyes.

We will always be with you.

We will always love you.