The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her

424 00:29:36,109 --> 00:29:38,027 [grunting, panting] 425 00:29:38,194 --> 00:29:40,572 [panting grows calmer] 426 00:29:40,738 --> 00:29:42,574 [Eleanor] Goddamn it. 427 00:29:42,740 --> 00:29:44,576 [panting] 428 00:29:50,248 --> 00:29:51,666 You sandbagged me. 429 00:30:00,467 --> 00:30:02,719 He chairs the Psychology Department. 430 00:30:02,886 --> 00:30:05,638 Good for him. 431 00:30:05,805 --> 00:30:09,350 Well, I just thought he'd be a bit more qualified to... 432 00:30:10,852 --> 00:30:12,520 to deal with your circumstance. 433 00:30:12,687 --> 00:30:14,772 What's my circumstance? 434 00:30:28,578 --> 00:30:30,497 [door opens, closes] 435 00:30:30,663 --> 00:30:32,999 He was my grandson. 436 00:30:35,502 --> 00:30:37,045 I lost him, too. 437 00:30:54,646 --> 00:30:57,106 None of us know how to help you. 438 00:30:57,649 --> 00:30:59,651 Well, neither do I. 439 00:31:05,073 --> 00:31:08,326 I'm so glad they delegated the speech to you. 440 00:31:13,373 --> 00:31:15,250 He's not a stranger... 441 00:31:16,751 --> 00:31:20,296 ...that some hospital referred you to. He's a colleague of mine. 442 00:31:23,591 --> 00:31:27,220 I don't think one session a week would hurt. 443 00:31:27,387 --> 00:31:29,722 Why can't you talk to me once a week, Dad? 444 00:31:29,889 --> 00:31:32,058 - Why outsource it? - I'm not outsourcing it, 445 00:31:32,225 --> 00:31:35,728 and I don't really think you want to talk to me about it. 446 00:31:35,895 --> 00:31:38,147 I don't need to talk to another therapist. 447 00:31:38,314 --> 00:31:39,899 Eleanor... 448 00:31:40,066 --> 00:31:43,528 Please, stop reminding me that something's wrong. 449 00:31:43,695 --> 00:31:45,947 That's... not my intention. 450 00:31:46,114 --> 00:31:49,284 Then... please let me stop thinking about it. 451 00:31:58,793 --> 00:32:01,713 Tragedy is a foreign country. 452 00:32:01,879 --> 00:32:06,593 We don't know how to talk to the natives. 453 00:32:06,759 --> 00:32:09,345 What are you talking about? 454 00:32:19,606 --> 00:32:21,357 [door closes] 455 00:32:28,531 --> 00:32:30,700 [footsteps approaching] 456 00:32:36,122 --> 00:32:39,959 You know, there's this really cool thing called chairs. 457 00:32:40,126 --> 00:32:42,211 Yeah, I, I heard about those. 458 00:32:42,378 --> 00:32:44,922 It's actually not too shabby down here. 459 00:32:47,383 --> 00:32:49,218 You OK? 460 00:32:50,595 --> 00:32:51,804 Sure. 461 00:32:51,971 --> 00:32:53,681 Liar. 462 00:32:53,848 --> 00:32:55,308 Sure. 463 00:32:56,768 --> 00:32:58,811 When's your next class? 464 00:32:58,978 --> 00:33:00,480 It's yours. 465 00:33:02,315 --> 00:33:03,650 Oh. 466 00:33:05,610 --> 00:33:07,904 Do you like hamburgers? 467 00:33:10,073 --> 00:33:12,533 I used to be a vegan. 468 00:33:12,700 --> 00:33:15,328 Mostly 'cause my husband was a vegan. 469 00:33:15,495 --> 00:33:18,081 Not that I don't agree with most of the tenets 470 00:33:18,247 --> 00:33:20,333 of vegan ideology, but... 471 00:33:20,500 --> 00:33:22,627 he was one of those reformed socialists 472 00:33:22,794 --> 00:33:26,130 who seemed sexy before the '60s started to fade. 473 00:33:26,297 --> 00:33:27,674 Does he teach? 474 00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:30,134 He won tenure at University of Oregon, 475 00:33:30,301 --> 00:33:31,678 and I got it here. 476 00:33:31,844 --> 00:33:34,097 He went soft, I stayed hard, that was that. 477 00:33:37,183 --> 00:33:39,018 You have kids? 478 00:33:39,185 --> 00:33:40,478 A son. 479 00:33:41,604 --> 00:33:43,398 I'm not sure why people have kids. 480 00:33:44,857 --> 00:33:47,777 You know, first there's the nine months of agony, 481 00:33:47,944 --> 00:33:49,737 your body hurts, it's hot, it's cold, 482 00:33:49,904 --> 00:33:52,281 you crave pickles, and there's no words to describe 483 00:33:52,448 --> 00:33:54,283 whatever the fuck labor is. 484 00:33:54,450 --> 00:33:56,285 And then this little stranger comes out, 485 00:33:56,452 --> 00:33:58,079 sucking every bit of life you have left in you, 486 00:33:58,246 --> 00:34:00,289 and as soon as you're ready to jump out of a window, 487 00:34:00,456 --> 00:34:03,042 all of a sudden, he smiles. 488 00:34:03,209 --> 00:34:04,752 [laughs softly] 489 00:34:06,170 --> 00:34:09,298 Jesus Christ, this is good. 490 00:34:09,465 --> 00:34:12,009 And whatever you do, however you do it, 491 00:34:12,176 --> 00:34:14,053 however you imagine your child's life, 492 00:34:14,220 --> 00:34:16,180 or what kind of parent you'd be, 493 00:34:16,347 --> 00:34:18,182 29 years later, he's in some shrink's office 494 00:34:18,349 --> 00:34:20,893 accusing you of some stupid thing that you said or did 495 00:34:21,060 --> 00:34:23,730 that for the life of you, you can't remember saying or doing. 496 00:34:31,654 --> 00:34:34,073 Tell me at your age you're not taking classes out of boredom. 497 00:34:36,242 --> 00:34:38,870 I don't know what the hell I'm doing. 498 00:34:39,036 --> 00:34:40,955 What was before this? 499 00:34:41,122