PREVIOUSLY

Tea: I could go to the office and not be here when you get back.....

Todd: (Quick decision:) Meet me at his office, so you're the first thing I see when it's over.

Tea: I'll be there. Todd?

Todd: What?

Tea: (Kisses him once more.)

Todd: (Todd catches his breath, and runs out of the room.)

[Scene ends.]

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[Scene: Nora's office a few minutes later.]

Sam: (Knocks on her open door.)

Nora: Hi, Sam.

Sam: (Enters cautiously, anxiously:) Look, I can't stay. I've decided.

Nora: Decided what, Sam?

Sam: (Having difficulty staying composed:) I can't stay with you, this all hurts too much. I'll be at my office or at home when the results come in.

Nora: (A little surprised:) Ummm.... ok....

Sam: Look, I'm really sorry about all this, Nora....

Nora: Don't apologize, Sam. When the results come in, we'll know more, ok? Do you want to visit with Matthew tonight at all?

Sam: I don't know....

Nora: Too painful right now?

Sam: Yeah.

Nora: Sorry.

Sam: Me, too. (Leaves.)

[Scene ends.]

[Scene: Dr. Boyd's office, about 20 minutes later.]

Dr. Boyd: I notice you're in the papers this past week, both your own and your sister's. Can you tell me about this?

Todd: (Grins, seated across from Dr. Boyd.) We planned it that way.

Dr. Boyd: We?

Todd: Sis and me, we planned it this way.

Dr. Boyd: Why? This exposes one of your worst nightmares from the abuse by Peter.

Todd: I know.

Dr. Boyd: You don't seem very ok with that part.

Todd: I'm not. I'm pretty shaken by it, but we all (Mel, Sis and me; and Delgado) decided it had to be done, and it was already a matter of public record, thanks to that little moron Tom.

Dr. Boyd: The court testimony?

Todd: Yeah. In front of all my enemies. I still can't believe he did it. All I can think is Pete put him up to it.

Dr. Boyd: Pete does have a tendency to try to destroy the things you build.

Todd: He's sometimes more destructive than I am. Don't get me wrong, he's not the one who raped Carol or Marty. That was me, Todd, no one else was there. It was me.

Dr. Boyd: I know it was you, I've seen how you've responded in trying to make amends and trying to keep Tea safe from your violence. Do you still protect her so much from that?

Todd: No. She can fend for herself, she holds her own better than I thought she would. I still worry that I'll hurt her, though. Tom, I guess it was him, smiled at her earlier. She told me I was smiling and I had to touch my face to find out I was. It's scary not being in control of something like that even for a moment.

Dr. Boyd: Does that happen often?

Todd: No, thankgod. I hope this isn't a trend.

Dr. Boyd: Will you let me know if it keeps happening?

Todd: Do I got a choice?

Dr. Boyd: No. (Smiles briefly at him.) How's Tea handling all this press coverage?

Todd: We talked about it before we went to press. She's been ok about it. I'm a lot less ok about it.

Dr. Boyd: How so?

Todd: As soon as the papers hit the stands, we've been completely mobbed by the rest of the Press. We can't move without a battalion of them crowding around everyone we know. We hired RJ Gannon on to provide us with bodyguards, even. As soon as it hit the stands, Old Man Buchanan came to me at work and ripped into me. I threw him out, but not before we argued. It was ugly. Ms. Perkins calls us (imitates her:) "My Boys" --

Dr. Boyd: When she introduced herself to me the first time we met, that's what she called all of you. She's very bizarre but charming.

Todd: Yeah, well, she's very weird. The guys were screaming in my head while Asa and I were going at it, it was hard to hear him. Pete wanted to hurt him and Tom was crying for the fighting to stop. I ended up with one of the worst switching headaches I've ever had, I was sick to my stomach for a few hours.

Dr. Boyd: What did Mr. Buchanan say to you?

Todd: He made comments about my wife, and he threatened to take my paper away and even threatened to rape me. He said, "Bend over, Manning, 'cos here I come," and that when he got through with me he wasn't gonna leave anything. He told me I was garbage and belonged behind bars the rest of my life. No wonder that headache was so bad.

Dr. Boyd: Echoes of your past. What made the headache stop?

Todd: My sister came to get me for a lunch date, she took care of me. She wanted to do the Big Sister routine, and I was so sick I let her.

Dr. Boyd: Did it help?

Todd: It felt like she saved my life. She understands what this is like and she kind of walked me through it. She let me put my head on her lap and she stroked my hair and talked to me. I bawled my eyes out for a while, feeling almost sick enough to throw up in her lap, and then she helped me sleep with my head in her lap for a bit. I was still pretty embarrassed when I woke up with her on the office couch and I tried to get her to go away, but she stuck by me. She wouldn't leave me. My sister didn't leave me. And she didn't send me away this time. She finally believes me again, believes in me again.

Dr. Boyd: So, she was able to help you. This is good. You have a family around you now, and they want to support you. This is what happens when you let them.

Todd: What happens when I let them is I get all soft!

Dr. Boyd: Have you really lost your edge?

Todd: (Sighs heavily.) No.

Dr. Boyd: I don't want you to, it's something that makes you you and I don't want you to ever lose you again.

Todd: Me, neither.

Dr. Boyd: Good. What you did today in front of Mr. Buchanan sounds very good. You didn't act out.

Todd: I wanted to kill him. They came to me, you know. The guys.

Dr. Boyd: On the plane?

Todd: The other day.

Dr. Boyd: What happened?

Todd: I was stressed out and then tried to rest with Tea. They came and talked to her. I thought if that was how my day was gonna start I wanted to spend the rest of it very, very drunk. I made the mistake of relaxing a little.

Dr. Boyd: Scary?

Todd: Harrowing.

Dr. Boyd: Violence?

Todd: Just looney tunes, bananas. When does this end?

Dr. Boyd: What did they say to your wife?

Todd: "Hello", mostly. Rod made another play for her and I stopped him.

Dr. Boyd: Do you want to make love to your wife?

Todd: Desperately. We did recently.

Dr. Boyd: How was it?

Todd: (Cagey:) Ok.

Dr. Boyd: Just ok?

Todd: (Getting annoyed:) Ok. More than ok. Ok?

Dr. Boyd: I'm not asking for details, just if there were any problems.

Todd: No problems. I felt pretty free. I felt ready for this.

Dr. Boyd: Can you tell me what was good about it?

Todd: (Thinks. Carefully:) The warmth of her body against mine. The soft feel of her smooth skin against mine. Her scent. Her touch. Her touch didn't make me panic this time, and for the moments it did, she was willing to stop. She did stop when she saw me start to have difficulty, and then she waited for me and calmed me down. She's good at that.

Dr. Boyd: When was that? She sounds very attentive.

Todd: I'd let her undress me, after I'd undressed her. I was trembling, so she stopped and just held me. Rod had told her last year he wanted to hold her until she stopped trembling, and he wanted to make love to her.... She held me.

Dr. Boyd: You're trusting her with an awful lot of yourself these days.

Todd: Don't remind me. If I think about it too much I want to scream and make it all stop. It's terrifying. I almost lost my nerve when Shorty had to go to school and we had to stop kissing in front of her. I'd had time to think about what we were about to do during the trip to her school and back. I was so nervous I almost didn't go back home to make love to Tea.

Dr. Boyd: I've seen you sit in these sessions looking as if you were trembling in your chair some days. Like you just wanted to bolt.

Todd: I do. I am.

Dr. Boyd: Take a moment and catch your breath. Concentrate on the things that have improved, the things you wanted that are now yours, things you can do that you couldn't tolerate before. You're a lot better than when we first met.

Todd: I still feel pretty lousy.

Dr. Boyd: I understand that. Catch your breath, ok?

[They take a moment for Todd to catch his breath, to meditate.]

Todd: Later, we were talking about sex, you know? Did I ever experiment, you know?

Dr. Boyd: Have you?

Todd: No. My ex-wife would try things, things that freaked me out and I didn't know why they freaked me out, but I'd push her away and she wouldn't take 'no', so I'd push her away again and again. Blair didn't understand it, I didn't understand it, and it was one of the big things between us that started to tear us apart before I started finding out most of her lies. If she hadn't been lying to me I might've been able to figure it out. Knowing what I know now, I don't know that the marriage would have lasted, anyway. I doubt she'd ever be able to handle knowing what my father did to me. And she married me more because she knew I was going to be rich soon than anything else.

Dr. Boyd: You tried to make it work?

Todd: Tried hard to make it work. This was supposed to last, this was the first adult relationship I'd had. I thought then that it was the real thing. I didn't see then that I had no clue what love is. Now we hate each other and share a kid. We used to be best friends before all that.

Dr. Boyd: It sounds like you learned some things from it.

Todd: Yeah, that Blair's a lying skank and Max and she deserve each other!

Dr. Boyd: More like how to be a better husband and how to choose a better companion.

Todd: Yeah, ok. I learned that, too, I guess. My wife's a saint, I swear.

Dr. Boyd: With feet of clay, from what you've told me.

Todd: She still amazes me. (After a quiet moment where he appears to have been thinking:) Did I do the right thing, putting all that in the paper? Laying it all on the line?

Dr. Boyd: Having second thoughts?

Todd: You could say that......

Dr. Boyd: Are you prepared for the fallout from this?

Todd: I think I am, I'm not sure Delgado is. (Panic:) What am I going to tell Starr?! She can read now! She hasn't seen it yet!

Dr. Boyd: What you always have.

Todd: What?

Dr. Boyd: The truth. She's going to hear about it sooner or later.

Todd: (Panicking:) It's sooner. It's too soon! What have I done to my kid?!

Dr. Boyd: She'll be fine, but you need to tell her the truth.

Todd: I do.

Dr. Boyd: You need to tell her you love her.

Todd: She knows I do. I always tell her. Not like my Dad.

[Scene ends.]

[Scene: Todd's office, at the same time.]

Asa: Just the she-devil I wanted to assault.

Kelly: (Coldly:) Asa. What a 'pleasant' surprise.

Asa: Cut the bull, Cramer. I know you spilled to your cousin, that lying slut Blair.

Kelly: (Affects a cold but "ever the innocent" demeanor. Icily, but laying on the sweetness calculatedly:) And just what am I supposed to have spilled to my cousin?

Asa: About Nigel.

Kelly: Why would I do that, and hurt dear Nigel?

Asa: To get at me.

Kelly: (Hard as nails and cold as ice:) Nice try, Asa.

Asa: You wrote that column?!

Kelly: Blair wrote that column, and nobody else. As to her sources, you'll have to ask her, won't you? It's not my article, they're not my sources.

Asa: You Cramer women all always know each other's business, you share one brain, you're in and out of each other's psyches. You know something, and I'm gonna find out what it is. Someone around here's going to tell me everything I want to know, and then I'll be back for you again, Cramer.

Kelly: You don't scare me, Asa. You have no hold on me, now that Drew's gone.

Asa: If Drew were here, you --

Kelly: I'd what, Asa? Huh? You don't think we both would have overheard your little confession with Max? You don't think he and I would have been walking down that hallway, holding hands, giggling to each other about some shared bit of amusement between us and still overheard that bit of tawdry information? Do you think Drew would be forgiving you right now? No. He'd be devastated. He'd probably not be speaking to you right now, and I wouldn't have blamed him. I'm not speaking to you, either, Asa.

Asa: (Smirking:) Yes, you are. You're yelling at me now.

Kelly: You have until 3 to leave here on your own, or I'm calling Security. (Picks up Todd's phone and poises over the keypad looking at Asa.) One.

Asa: Fine, Cramer.

Kelly: Two.....

Asa: You win this round, but I will find out who spread that story and I will make them pay. (Turns on his toes and leaves the room, nearly bumping into Blair.) Get outta my way, woman!

Blair: (Smirks bemusedly.) What's with Asa? The articles?

Kelly: He was after your sources. He thinks I leaked to you about his faking madness.

Blair: (Sticks head back out office doorway, looking around a moment, closes door, walks into room.) Well, you did. (Smirks.) He's going to be chasing his tail for a little while more. That should be fun to watch. (Grins at Kelly.)

[Scene ends.]

[Scene: Asa's office, an hour later.]

Asa: (Standing up behind his desk:) Where's that FAX, Holden?! You've had two days!

Max: (Bemused:) Cool your jets, old man, ok?

Asa: Where the hell is that FAX? Is that the info in your clammy fist?

Max: Now, Asa, if my hands were clammy, would you really want this? (Holds up a bunch of papers rolled in his fist.)

Asa: Give them to me, already!

Max: Well, I'll just condense it for you.

Asa: And?

Max: (Deliberately speaking very clearly and slowly:) Chelsea Reardon.

Asa: Who the hell is she?!

Max: Blair.

Asa: Well, halleluia. Now, we're getting somewhere.

[Scene ends.]

[Scene: Dr. Boyd's waiting room, same time.]

Todd: Bring your car?

Tea: Took a cab.

Todd: Good thing I drove.

Tea: Home?

Todd: Someplace away from reporters.

Tea: There is no place away from reporters.

Todd: I think I can find us a place.

[Scene ends.]

[Scene: Mill house at Llanfair, late afternoon.]

Kevin: Cassie?

Cassie: I'm coming, just give me a minute!

Kevin: River called me himself,you know! He's never done that before.

Cassie: (Appearing in the livingroom from the stairway.) You know, if you and LeAnne had ever been clueful enough to work things out better, you'd know that kids do grow up and eventually they learn to use the phone by themselves.

Kevin: (Mockingly sarcastic:) Oh, the horror! You think? (Smirks at her.)

[Phone rings.]

Cassie: I'll get it, it's probably River again. (Picks up receiver.) Hello? Oh my god! Kevin, it's Dukey!

Kevin: (Rushes over and grabs the phone.) Duke?! What's up, is there anything wrong?...... She is? Ok. You've never called me before yourself, I thought something was wrong..... Oh, that's sweet. I miss you too, son.... summer vacation? Does your Mom think this is ok? Can I talk to your Mom?... (To Cassie:) He's getting LeAnne.....LeAnne! Hi..... uh-huh..... he is? He's getting pretty tall. What's this about summer vacation?..... uh-huh... well, sure, I guess......yeah, I'd have to look at my schedule, he might be spending a lot of time with other relatives here, too. Cassie has a son, too, and he spends a lot of time with Andrew so maybe they'd hit it off and he could take both of them when we're busy?.... Good. As long as you know it won't be just us..... no, I really should spend time with our son....uh-huh. Bring him when we figure out the dates, yeah. I don't want him traveling alone..... sure, but only if Grandpa wants to do it and he's free. My son's not traveling that far with strangers..... ok....yeah, talk to you soon, put Duke back on.....Dukey?.... Yeah, we're working on scheduling. You might get to meet some other cousins, too.... uh-huh. When we have the scheduling set, yep..... no, we'll do this, don't worry.... I miss you, too. Ok, bye, son. (Hangs up. Blinking.) Oh, boy.

Cassie: So, Duke's coming for the summer?

Kevin: At least for part of it. Is that ok with you? I just volunteered Andrew, I hope it's ok with him.

Cassie: Andrew loves children, it's probably fine. Duke should find a lot to do and plenty of relatives to be with. Are we ready?

Kevin: You?

Cassie: Yeah. Let's go to the Rectory and pick up River.

(They leave.)

[Scene ends.]

[Scene: Palace Bar, that evening.]

Blair: (Sits alone at the bar, nursing a goblet of white wine and appears deep in thought.)

Asa: (Saunters into the bar and sidles up behind Blair.) Well, well, well, well. If it isn't my cheating ex-wife. Tell me, Blair: How's the gold-digging business going?

Blair: (Looking in the mirror behind the bar at him. Casually:) I wouldn't know, Asa.

Asa: And, why is that, Blair? You've found another Sugar Daddy?

Blair: No. (Turns to look at him.) I wasn't even looking, Asa.

Asa: And why is that, Blair? (Leans in towards her:) Rob a bank?

Blair: (Looking disgusted:) Asa, what is your problem tonight? What are you really fishing for?

Asa: Fishin'? Oh, I'm not fishin'. I've caught my prey tonight.

Blair: Is that so? Praytell, then, what do you think you've caught, old man?

Asa: You.

Blair: Why would you want me back, Asa?

Asa: Not back, just on a hook.

Blair: Sorry to disappoint you, Asa, but I'm not on any hook. Not yours, not anyone's.

Asa: I know you made up that song and dance about me faking insanity.

Blair: (Slickly:) Oh, really? Do tell me more, Asa. You always do like to tell me I'm lying. Wriggle yourself off ofthathook, Asa.

Asa: I'm not on the hook, but you are.

Blair: It may be news to you, Asa, but your butt's on the line here, not mine. Your life story just hit the newsstands not mine.

Asa: And you were responsible for that pack of lies!

Blair: For once, Asa, no lies were told in that piece whatsoever. Your life, on the other hand.... well.

Asa: My life is an open book.

Blair: Except for... oh... secret wives... bigamy.... You never divorced Alex, did you? Does Renee' know? Your son's paternity tests.....

Asa: How the hell do you know about that?

Blair: I have eyes and ears in places you don't know about.

Asa: That's a disgusting image! I don't even want to think about it. I'll find all your sources, Blair, and when I get through with you and Manning you'll wish you'd never set foot in this town.

Blair: (Not fazed:) Oh, I'm so scared, Asa.

Asa: You'd better be, 'cos I can mess up your custody arrangements at will if I want to.

Blair: (Seethes:) Don't youtouchmy little girl, Asa.

Asa: Or what?

Blair: (Casual purr:) There's a lot more that I didn't publish, Asa.....

Asa: Like what, Blair?

Blair: You'll have to find out, Asa.

Asa: You'll never publish it, Blair. You've got nothing on me.

Blair: We'll just see about that, won't we, Asa?

Asa: (Grabs her arm and pulls her close, quietly hissing:) If you publish, Miss Reardon,I'll deny every word of it.

Blair: (Doesn't flinch or miss a beat. Quietly:) Including those things that are in the public record? I don't thinkso. Now, get your hand off of me, Asa. NOW. Or I'll scream for Security.

Asa: (Releases her arm. Glaring:) This is not over, Cramer.

Blair: (Sneers at Asa, flips her hair, and marches out of the bar.)

[Scene ends.]

[Scene: Buchanan Mansion, entry foyer, next afternoon.]

Asa: (Entering the house through front doors.) Clint! Boy, am I glad to see you! Come have a --

Clint: (Bags packed and gathered by the large entryway table.) No, Pa'. I'm leaving. I'll send for the rest of my things when I get settled in someplace.

Asa: Why, son?

Clint: I can read, Pa'.

Asa: You don't believe that garbage that she-devil printed about your old man in your psychotic ex-brother-in-law's rag, do you?

Clint: Yeah, Pa', I do. Things suddenly all add up now. (A car horn beeps.) That's my ride. (Begins gathering his suitcases and moving toward the door. Opens door, and is greeting by Jessica, who takes one of the suitcases. He gets another two and brings them to the door.)

Asa: Clint! You can't do this!

Clint: I'm doin' it, Pa'. It's your own damn fault. (Takes the last suitcases, sets them all outside the front door, and shuts the door behind him as he goes out. Outside, Kevin helps Jessica with the suitcases, and they all get into the car and leave.)

Asa: (Stands at the now open door, looking on in anger and helplessness. Kevin drives them away, and Asa slams the door, thinking and plotting all over his face. Marches to the study, slams the door shut, sits at his desk, dials the phone.) Hello, Viki? Clint just left here. Is he staying with you? ... Nevermind, I'll find my boy. (Hangs up.)

[Scene ends.]

[Scene: Todd's Office at The Sun, the next morning.]

Asa: (Storming into the office:) Manning!

Todd: Morning, already? What, Buchanan? More sabre rattling?

Briggs: Should I call Security, Boss?

Todd: You do that, Charlie, and tell them this.... this old relic of the stone age isn't allowed in my building anymore. (Turning to Asa:) Ok, say what you came to say and get out. You've got 30 seconds, old man. (Looks at his watch.)

Asa: You're behind this slander, Manning, you put Blair's name on that article and you made all of it up --

Todd: Is that what you think, Asa? I couldn't make it up if I wanted to. This is Blair's story, start to finish. Now, make your usual threats and get out of my building. (Looks back at watch.)

Asa: (Hesitates a split second.)

Todd: Time's up, Asa. (Looks at Asa. Sarcastic:) So nice of you to drop by. (Growling:) Git along, little dawgy.

Asa: This is not the end of it, Manning. You wanna keep your kid, you'll watch your back when it comes to me.

Todd: (Narrows his eyes, seethes:) What's my kid got to do with any of this?

Asa: You'll find out if you keep this up. I told you to print a retraction. You didn't.

Todd: Everything in that article is true, Buchanan, and you know it. Not even Blair would make those things up. I've done my own checks, and I know this is all legit. You're just running scared because itisall legit. I've got you and you know it and you don't like it when I hang you out to dry. You can't do a damn thing to me or my family, and you know it.

Asa: Is that so?

Todd: (Coldly casual:) Yeah, it is, Buchanan. Anything you try will backfire right on you, and you know it. Just try me, if you don't believe me. Knock yourself out, old man. Go ahead, have another heart attack over me.

Asa: You've crossed me one time too many, Manning.

Todd: Is that so, Buchanan? We'll just see about that.

Briggs: (Reappearing, accompanied by Manning Building Security Officers:) Todd?

Todd: Charlie, Mr. Buchanan was just leaving. Weren't you, Asa?

Asa: I'll be back for you, Manning, and you'll never know what hit you.

Todd: Not if you come onto any of my properties. I'll know your every move, old man, your every plan. You'd better watch your back!

Asa: This is not over, Manning! Not by a long shot. You'll pay for this, you snake!

Todd: (Sarcasm:) Oh, you terrify me, Asa, really. I'm shaking in my shoes. (Shouting angrily:) NOW, GET OUT!

[The officers step forward, one reaches for Asa's arm.]

Asa: (Shrugging the officer's hand off aggressively:) I'll escort myself out of this pest hole. (Turning to address Todd again:) I'll have this rag shredded by the time I'm done with you! (Turns around and marches out.)

Todd: (Laughs.)

[The Manning Building Security Officers trail out closely behind Asa, followed by Charlie Briggs.]

Todd: Briggs!

Briggs: (Reappearing in the doorway:) You bellowed, Boss?

Todd: Get in here! We've got a paper to put out! And I think I've just been given a new headline for page one.

[Scene ends.]

[Scene: Banner City Room, later that morning.]

Kevin: Hi, Grandpa. What brings you here?

Asa: I'm here to see your mother, boy.

Kevin: Well, she's in a meeting right now. Is it something I can take care of for you?

Asa: No. It's about that lousy Uncle of yours, that psychopath.

Kevin: About his article on you?

Asa: Yeah.

Kevin: Save your breath, you won't talk sense into Mom about Todd, and you know it. We've all been trying for years.

Asa: I'm about to try again.

Viki: (Emerging from her office within a flood of staff people.) Oh. Asa. Come to harass me about my brother, as usual? Or will you be harassing me about my sister, this time?

Asa: She's in town, too? Great.

Viki: What do you want, Asa?

Asa: You to call your brother off me. Yank his leash and make him retract that story.

Viki: Or what, Asa? Honestly, my brother is his own man, he does what he wants, when he wants, and I have very little to say about it if anything.

Kevin: What'd I tell you, Grandpa?

Asa: Shut up, Kevin.

Kevin: (Smirks and crosses back to sit behind his desk and watch, arms folded across chest.)

Viki: Now, what exactly would you like me to do, Asa? Hmm? Have a talk with Todd about what a bad little boy he's being and tell him to stop it?

Asa: He listens to you.

Viki: Not when I tell him what to do with his paper, Asa. That's his business, he built it, and he runs it as he sees fit no matter what I think.

Asa: You can make him listen to you.

Viki: No, Asa, I can't. Nobodymakesmy brother do anything he doesn't want to do. Peter Manning is dead, Todd no longer feels compelled to live by someone else's arbitrary rules and I don't blame him. I don't live by Victor's now, either.

Asa: I'll make him --

Viki: You'll make him what, Asa? Pay? He's already paid for the things he's actually done, and some he hasn't done, several because of you. What can you actually do to him, Asa?

Asa: You'll see.

Viki: Oh, will I? Is that a threat, Asa?

Asa: A promise.

Viki: (Sarcastic:) I can't wait, Asa. By the way, Asa, how's Clint?

Asa: I have no idea.

Viki: Poor Asa, all his kids have left him. Tsk-tsk. Maybe that's where you should put all this energy, Asa? Clint told Jessie he was planning to go to London and see Cord and help him out there, see some Shakespeare in Shakespeare's old theatre and so on. He didn't say a word about you, Asa.

Asa: London?

Viki: If you're fast, Asa, you might catch him before the plane takes off. Bye. I have a paper to run. (Walks back into her office, smirking, and closes her door.)

Kevin: Bye, Grandpa. Tell Dad I said hi, and to tell my brother hi.

Asa: (Seething, just walks out.)

[Scene ends.]