Acrimony

<i>And now he tells me?</i> 686 00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:34,898 <i>This motherfucker says this to me now!</i> 687 00:36:35,485 --> 00:36:37,272 <i>The con game. You see?</i> 688 00:36:37,362 --> 00:36:39,319 Baby, it's not the end of the world. 689 00:36:40,657 --> 00:36:41,943 Look, I have an idea. 690 00:36:42,450 --> 00:36:45,193 I figured out all the bugs, and now it's even better than ever. 691 00:36:45,286 --> 00:36:46,572 I just need to get it to Prescott. 692 00:36:46,663 --> 00:36:48,154 I know he'll love it, okay? 693 00:36:48,248 --> 00:36:49,455 I'm still sending letters. 694 00:36:49,541 --> 00:36:50,657 I'm going by and I'm calling. 695 00:36:50,750 --> 00:36:51,991 And I'm gonna call his secretary. 696 00:36:52,085 --> 00:36:54,077 I know we're low on money. 697 00:36:54,170 --> 00:36:57,163 But I was thinking, if we mortgage the house, 698 00:36:57,257 --> 00:36:59,089 we can pay for the rest of my research on this 699 00:36:59,175 --> 00:37:00,632 and make it top notch, a new design. 700 00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:02,381 I know it'll work. 701 00:37:03,012 --> 00:37:05,971 Okay. Mel, look at me. I know it'll work. 702 00:37:06,474 --> 00:37:07,806 - No. - Come on. 703 00:37:08,309 --> 00:37:09,971 Don't stop believing in me now. 704 00:37:11,479 --> 00:37:13,015 Please trust me. 705 00:37:13,606 --> 00:37:15,848 It's gonna work, I know it will. 706 00:37:15,942 --> 00:37:17,023 <i>What the hell?</i> 707 00:37:17,944 --> 00:37:22,279 <i>I felt like my back was against the wall and I had no choice, you know?</i> 708 00:37:22,365 --> 00:37:24,027 <i>I couldn't keep doing this.</i> 709 00:37:24,117 --> 00:37:25,653 <i>I couldn't keep working like this.</i> 710 00:37:25,744 --> 00:37:26,700 Come on. 711 00:37:26,786 --> 00:37:28,573 <i>So I had to fall for the con.</i> 712 00:37:29,122 --> 00:37:31,580 <i>I was in too deep to stop and walk away.</i> 713 00:37:32,625 --> 00:37:34,742 <i>So guess what my stupid ass did.</i> 714 00:37:36,212 --> 00:37:37,748 <i>My mama's house.</i> 715 00:37:38,506 --> 00:37:42,591 <i>A house that was paid for, that she left to me.</i> 716 00:37:43,178 --> 00:37:47,047 <i>The house that she had worked her entire life to pay for.</i> 717 00:37:48,558 --> 00:37:49,799 <i>I mortgaged it.</i> 718 00:37:58,026 --> 00:37:59,267 Melinda! 719 00:38:01,154 --> 00:38:04,272 <i>Working to keep my sisters from knowing what I had done.</i> 720 00:38:05,950 --> 00:38:08,658 <i>And every time I would see him sleeping in the bed</i> 721 00:38:08,745 --> 00:38:10,657 <i>when I was headed to one of my two jobs,</i> 722 00:38:10,747 --> 00:38:12,613 <i>I would get mad, you know?</i> 723 00:38:12,707 --> 00:38:14,448 <i>I would get resentful.</i> 724 00:38:15,627 --> 00:38:18,586 <i>And this was my routine every day.</i> 725 00:38:24,052 --> 00:38:27,045 <i>To the bastard's credit, he did get odd jobs from time to time.</i> 726 00:38:27,138 --> 00:38:28,174 <i>But they...</i> 727 00:38:28,264 --> 00:38:31,757 <i>They didn't even cover the utilities most of the time.</i> 728 00:38:33,269 --> 00:38:36,558 <i>How do two people live through two decades and miss everything?</i> 729 00:38:36,648 --> 00:38:38,435 <i>Every moment of it?</i> 730 00:38:39,275 --> 00:38:40,607 <i>I'll tell you how.</i> 731 00:38:40,693 --> 00:38:42,104 <i>You just feel trapped.</i> 732 00:38:42,737 --> 00:38:45,525 <i>But fuck that. This trap wouldn't destroy me.</i> 733 00:38:46,115 --> 00:38:47,231 <i>Or did it?</i> 734 00:38:49,035 --> 00:38:51,618 <i>One of the saddest parts of our lives was that</i> 735 00:38:52,163 --> 00:38:53,745 <i>we were just existing.</i> 736 00:38:53,832 --> 00:38:56,245 <i>No coloring outside of the lines, no excitement,</i> 737 00:38:56,334 --> 00:38:59,953 <i>no birth of a child to mark our age,</i> 738 00:39:00,046 --> 00:39:04,586 <i>or his or her first step, or his or her graduation.</i> 739 00:39:05,260 --> 00:39:08,503 <i>Nothing to be a mile-marker for the years that were passing.</i> 740 00:39:09,180 --> 00:39:10,796 <i>There were no warning signs.</i> 741 00:39:11,766 --> 00:39:14,224 <i>Eighteen years seemed to pass like days.</i> 742 00:39:15,436 --> 00:39:17,223 <i>How does that happen?</i> 743 00:39:29,659 --> 00:39:30,490 Diana. 744 00:39:32,203 --> 00:39:33,614 Wow. You look great. 745 00:39:33,705 --> 00:39:35,071 Robert Gayle. 746 00:39:35,874 --> 00:39:37,081 How have you been? 747 00:39:37,166 --> 00:39:38,247 I've been good. 748 00:39:38,334 --> 00:39:39,541 God, I haven't seen you since... 749 00:39:39,627 --> 00:39:41,118 Yeah, yeah. 750 00:39:42,338 --> 00:39:45,172 She destroyed your RV. 751 00:39:46,050 --> 00:39:47,086 I don't blame her though. 752 00:39:47,176 --> 00:39:48,383 You should have been honest. 753 00:39:48,469 --> 00:39:49,676 We w...