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It just doesn't make any sense.

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No, the Whigs have controlled
this district for years.

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Never lost an election. How could
this suddenly turn into a dogfight?

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The winds of change are blowing,
I suppose.

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Winds?

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More like an earthquake.

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Like the whole country
is just falling apart.

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No, I'm...

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So...

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have you cast your ballot already?

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I did. On my way here.

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Can the Whig party count on your support?

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I don't often vote
a straight party line ticket.

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I'm more of an independent.

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Yes, well, I suppose it's good
for a man to think for himself.

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I agree.

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Mrs. Dickinson,
who would you be voting for?

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- If you could.
- Me?

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What a funny question.
I've never thought about it.

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Really? I thought you were a suffragette.

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How dare you insult me like that.

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- Dad. Dad, Dad, Dad!
- Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

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- It's so exciting. It's so exciting!
- Oh, my God!

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Yes, it is exciting.

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- It's election day. Of course.
- What? No, we're not talking about that.

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Who cares about an election
when you can't even vote?

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{\an8}We are talking about...

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{\an8}-the circus!
- The circus is coming to Amherst!

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Yes, it starts today!
They're setting up the big tent now!

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- They've got lions...
- Lions.

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And tigers and...

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Siamese twins. They've got Siamese twins.
You know? You know Siamese twins.

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Can we go? Can we go? Can we go?

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The circus?

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How depraved.

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"Depraved"? What do you mean?

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Circuses are dens of depravity.

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They're vile and crude and utterly
unsuitable for polite young ladies.

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No. Do you know there was a circus in Ohio
where so much violence was incited,

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half the town was seriously injured
and the other half went to jail.

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No, circuses are full of thieves
and hucksters, gypsies...

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And how about those ladies though?

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Those so called "acrobats,"

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scantily-clad,
who will certainly be roaming about,

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flaunting themselves like common h...
I'm not going to say it.

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No. Circus is no place for you girls.

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So will you take us?

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- Ithamar, we need to talk.
- Yes, that's why I'm here.

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Well, let's take a little walk.
Perambulate with me.

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- It's close.
- I know it's close.

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- You don't have to tell me it's close.
- It wasn't supposed to be close.

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No, I know it wasn't.
The Democrats barely put up a fight.

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Your hat, sir.
You left it in the carriage.

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Thank you. I love this hat.

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Right, but it's not the Democrats.

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- It's the Know-Nothings.
- The what now?

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The Know-Nothings.
You don't know about the Know-Nothings?

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No, I know everything
about the Know-Nothings.

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- Okay then.
- Well, how about you give me a refresher?

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So you don't know.

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There's just too many parties
to keep track of. Why can't there be two?

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On the other hand, maybe you do know
and you're saying you don't

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because when a member of the Know-Nothings
is asked about their movement,

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they're supposed to say they know nothing.

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- Confusing.
- Yes.

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So I could be asking you
about it right now

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and you could be saying you know nothing,

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and that could actually
be your way of telling me

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you're secretly a member of the party.

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Well, let's just assume
for a moment that I'm not.

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- Tell me why I'm not a shoo-in.
- Because these Know-Nothings?

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It turns out they know something
about winning.

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They might win!

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Great scones. Did you know the scone
was invented in the 16th century?

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- I'm sorry, did you say they might win?
- Yes.

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- As in beat me?
- Yes, Edward, I'm afraid so.

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But that's impossible.
This is Massachusetts.

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The Whig candidate has won this district
since the founding of the republic.

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Yes, well, times change.

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Mr. Dickinson!

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- What should we have for dinner tonight?
- I don't care, woman. Surprise me.

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Well, how would you feel about woodcock?

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Or game hen?
Or snipe, pheasant, plovers, grouse,

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roasted hare, or haunch of venison?

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Is there any way for me
to get out of this conversation?

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The Know-Nothings have built a platform
on populist economic rhetoric

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and anti-immigrant nativist anxiety.

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- It's a heady brew.
- And noxious.

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Yes, but it's working.

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And you mean people
are actually voting for these clowns?

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Indeed.

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It turns out people like it when you
tell them who to blame for their problems.

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- And the Know-Nothings are blaming...
- Immigrants, Roman Catholics, the Irish...

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- And we're not blaming anyone.
- Exactly. We haven't picked an enemy.

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- That seems like an oversight.
- In retrospect, yes.

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So after all this, I still might lose?

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- I don't know. It's close.
- Close?

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God dammit.

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If it's gonna be close then let it be.
Do you know what, Ithamar?

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I believe in this country
and I believe in the good guys.

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That at the end of the day,
the good guys win because we love America.

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And when immigrants come here to join us,
we throw our arms wide open and we say,

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"Welcome. Grab a seat. Eat a hot dog."

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We don't kick people out.

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No.

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And as far as these Know-Nothings go,

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it sounds to me like
what they need to know something about

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is a little thing called patriotism.

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And generosity. And pride.

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God, Maggie, what's wrong?

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It's me brothers.

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They were casting their votes at the polls
this morning when they were attacked.

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One of 'em was beaten half to death.

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Beaten by whom?

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The Know-Nothings!

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They hate us for being Irish.

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You see, Edward?
Things are getting out of hand.

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You know, Mr. Dickinson,

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me brothers and I,
we came to America to escape persecution.

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"The land of the free," they told us.

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But it's the same here
as it was in Ireland.

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Maybe we should just go back home.

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Maggie, don't lose faith
in this nation just yet.

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You'll see.

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Honor and decency will prevail.

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Soon, I'll be elected
and I'll represent you and your brothers.

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And I'll make sure
something like this never happens again.

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I hope you're right.

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I know I'm right.

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Who cares if I never see an elephant?

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I saw a cloud
that looked like an elephant once.

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I'm sorry your dad won't let you go.

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He doesn't let me to do anything.

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You may have noticed.

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Yeah, no reading, no swimming...

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And no circuses.

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So... what are you gonna do instead?

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- For fun, you mean?
- Yes.

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How will Emily Dickinson
entertain herself?

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I don't know.

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I might stick around the house.

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Maybe have a conversation with a moth.

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Well, here's something.

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What's that?

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Poetry contest.

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It says today is the deadline to enter.

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"We seek the undiscovered lyrical genius
of Amherst."

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That's you. I mean, based on
what I've read of yours, it could be.

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I know about the contest.

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You do? So have you entered already?

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Remember that conversation
we were just having? About my father.

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Yeah. No reading, no swimming,
no circuses, and no poetry.

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At least not in public.

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Do you really think that he would care
if you entered a poetry contest?

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I guess you don't really know him yet.

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I guess not.

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My father says women who seek
literary fame are no better than...

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well...

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let's just say, "acrobats."

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Well, that's a shame because...

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I think if you entered that contest,

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you would win.

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"Nobody knows this little Rose"

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There you are.

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God.

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I've looked everywhere.

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Hey, Em.

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What are you doing here? I thought
staring at gravestones was my thing.

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- We have a problem.
- What is it?

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Somebody's buried in Sue's spot.

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{\an8}Who the cripes is Ichabod Beecher?

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{\an8}That's the Beecher baby.

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One of the Beecher babies, I should say.

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God, that poor family. So many babies.
Every single one of them died.

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Well, why is this dead Beecher baby
buried so close to our plot?

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I guess they lost so many babies
they ran out of room.

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Well, that sucks,
but I'm supposed to be buried right here

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and Sue, as my wife,
should be buried next to me.

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Shouldn't she?

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Why don't you just move the baby?

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What?

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I can't move a dead baby.

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What would the Beechers say?

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Nothing.

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They haven't lived in Amherst for years.
They all moved back to England.

186
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Plus that baby died 27 years ago.
He's basically an adult now.

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That's true.

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Okay, so I've solved your problem.
I need you to solve mine.

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What is it?

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The Springfield Republican
is holding a poetry contest.

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- Today's the last day to enter it.
- Well, you're not gonna enter, are you?

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- Of course not. Dad would kill me.
- No, I know he would.

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Which is why I want you to enter it.

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My poem under your name.

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Me?

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- I can't do that, Em.
- Why not?

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- Well, for one thing, it's dishonest.
- Only half-dishonest.

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The "Dickinson" part will be true.

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Yeah, and then what?

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You'll be mad
because you won't get the credit.

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I knew you'd say that.

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I've thought about this.

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I swear I won't get mad.

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I don't care who gets the credit,
I only want the world to read my words.

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- Are you sure?
- Yes, I'm positive.

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Here. You have to hurry,
the deadline is this afternoon.

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They'll print the winner
in the paper tomorrow.

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It's not like really weird
or anything is it?

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No.

210
00:10:02,477 --> 00:10:03,477
No.

211
00:10:06,607 --> 00:10:08,147
Look, if you win, you'll be proud.

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00:10:08,233 --> 00:10:10,363
Austin, please do this for me.

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Okay.

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00:10:14,823 --> 00:10:15,823
For you.

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00:10:16,742 --> 00:10:19,082
You're the best.
Thank you. Thank you so much.

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00:10:19,536 --> 00:10:20,536
Thank you.

217
00:10:22,623 --> 00:10:25,213
How psyched is Sue gonna be
when I dig up this baby?

218
00:10:30,088 --> 00:10:32,298
You really know your way around a turkey.

219
00:10:34,259 --> 00:10:35,389
Yeah, well...

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since I was orphaned,
I always had to do the cooking.

221
00:10:42,601 --> 00:10:44,561
You haven't had an easy life, have you?

222
00:10:50,901 --> 00:10:52,741
It's wonderful having you back.

223
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Since you returned from Boston.

224
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Thank you, Mrs. Dickinson.

225
00:11:03,664 --> 00:11:05,674
I'm happy you and Austin settled things

226
00:11:07,125 --> 00:11:09,335
and that we're gonna have
a beautiful wedding.

227
00:11:11,380 --> 00:11:13,090
There's something I'd like to give you.

228
00:11:20,973 --> 00:11:22,353
An engagement gift.

229
00:11:23,392 --> 00:11:25,772
I can't...
Mrs. Dickinson, you didn't have to.

230
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It's something my mother gave to me

231
00:11:28,522 --> 00:11:31,902
the day I left the Norcross farm
and went off to marry Mr. Dickinson.

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It's been my companion all these years.

233
00:11:37,322 --> 00:11:41,582
Of course, I always thought I would
give it to Emily on the day she married

234
00:11:41,994 --> 00:11:46,794
but, well, I think it would be best
if I gave it to you.

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"The Frugal Housewife."

236
00:11:50,460 --> 00:11:52,420
Mrs. Dickinson, I don't know what to say.

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Call me mother.

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You'll be my daughter soon.

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And don't worry,
I'll do my best not to die on you.

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00:12:10,564 --> 00:12:11,574
Hey, Sue.

241
00:12:11,648 --> 00:12:12,648
Hello.

242
00:12:13,984 --> 00:12:14,994
What are you reading?

243
00:12:16,195 --> 00:12:17,195
Your mom gave it to me.

244
00:12:17,821 --> 00:12:20,781
You're really leaning into this
whole housewife thing, aren't you?

245
00:12:23,785 --> 00:12:24,995
Eat shit, Emily.

246
00:12:55,859 --> 00:12:57,739
I thought it was Ithamar with the results.

247
00:12:57,819 --> 00:12:59,739
No, still no word.

248
00:13:02,241 --> 00:13:04,541
This was supposed to be wrapped up by now.

249
00:13:04,618 --> 00:13:07,408
Honey,
why don't you just try to get some rest?

250
00:13:07,496 --> 00:13:08,826
Get a good night's sleep.

251
00:13:08,914 --> 00:13:10,834
- It's been a long day.
- No.

252
00:13:11,917 --> 00:13:13,957
The news could be here any minute.

253
00:13:16,255 --> 00:13:20,255
Hey, can't those girls keep it down?

254
00:13:20,968 --> 00:13:22,758
It's just Jane Humphrey and a few others.

255
00:13:22,845 --> 00:13:25,949
- Lavinia invited them to stay the night.
- Oh, my God, would you tell them to hush?

256
00:13:25,973 --> 00:13:26,973
Yes, of course.

257
00:13:27,015 --> 00:13:30,185
Yeah, I'm deep in contemplation
of our national situation.

258
00:13:30,269 --> 00:13:33,559
I can't bear another moment
of their inane chatter.

259
00:13:33,647 --> 00:13:36,357
I mean the whole Kansas-Nebraska Act
was just a massive overreach

260
00:13:36,441 --> 00:13:37,861
on the part of the slave power.

261
00:13:37,943 --> 00:13:40,113
They actually tried
to repeal the Missouri Compromise.

262
00:13:40,195 --> 00:13:43,091
Like, do they really think we're going to
admit more slave states into the Union?

263
00:13:43,115 --> 00:13:44,945
The problem is
they control the government.

264
00:13:45,033 --> 00:13:47,793
We have to build a coalition
that can block their legislation.

265
00:13:48,829 --> 00:13:50,789
Jane, you're like, so woke.

266
00:13:51,331 --> 00:13:52,461
I know.

267
00:13:52,541 --> 00:13:54,671
If I was allowed to vote,
I would vote Republican.

268
00:13:54,751 --> 00:13:55,591
Good for you.

269
00:13:55,669 --> 00:13:58,919
The Republicans are the only ones
who explicitly stand against slavery.

270
00:13:59,006 --> 00:14:01,716
The true progressives.
They're on the right side of history.

271
00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:05,010
I know. It's like, if you really want
justice for all people in this country,

272
00:14:05,095 --> 00:14:06,635
you have to vote Republican.

273
00:14:07,181 --> 00:14:08,181
Definitely.

274
00:14:09,683 --> 00:14:11,603
Emily, you're not wearing a nightgown.

275
00:14:13,687 --> 00:14:14,687
I can't sleep.

276
00:14:14,855 --> 00:14:16,515
Too nervous about the election results?

277
00:14:17,566 --> 00:14:18,566
No.

278
00:14:19,484 --> 00:14:21,704
Do you really think the South will secede?

279
00:14:21,778 --> 00:14:23,658
No way. They don't have the guts.

280
00:14:23,739 --> 00:14:25,699
There are too many
aligned interests at stake.

281
00:14:25,782 --> 00:14:27,677
It would be economically
devastating for everyone.

282
00:14:27,701 --> 00:14:29,951
I don't know, guys. I think they might.

283
00:14:30,037 --> 00:14:31,617
And then we're gonna have a civil war.

284
00:14:31,705 --> 00:14:33,115
We're definitely gonna have a war.

285
00:14:34,458 --> 00:14:36,338
See? Even weirdo agrees with me.

286
00:14:36,710 --> 00:14:38,090
There's gonna be a war

287
00:14:38,587 --> 00:14:40,257
and a million men will die.

288
00:14:41,798 --> 00:14:44,548
And then a million snowflakes
will fall on their graves.

289
00:14:50,599 --> 00:14:52,429
But how do you know?

290
00:14:53,060 --> 00:14:54,140
I know someone...

291
00:14:55,395 --> 00:14:56,805
who knows these things.

292
00:14:57,481 --> 00:14:58,481
Who?

293
00:14:58,857 --> 00:14:59,857
Death.

294
00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:07,780
Well, anyway, I wish I could vote.

295
00:15:07,866 --> 00:15:08,866
I know, right?

296
00:15:09,743 --> 00:15:11,873
Okay, now let's talk about boys.

297
00:15:13,872 --> 00:15:15,372
Okay, wait, which minister?

298
00:15:17,125 --> 00:15:19,835
- Emily, pass the, pass the salt.
- No, no, no.

299
00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:22,630
- Maybe... No, it's okay.
- I had a healthy portion on the road.

300
00:15:22,714 --> 00:15:24,934
What? But you said...

301
00:15:25,008 --> 00:15:27,718
Lavinia, you're wearing black silk mittens
at breakfast?

302
00:15:27,803 --> 00:15:28,803
Of course I am.

303
00:15:29,513 --> 00:15:31,723
You know
that's no longer considered genteel?

304
00:15:32,975 --> 00:15:33,885
It isn't?

305
00:15:33,976 --> 00:15:35,476
Well, it was never convenient.

306
00:15:38,105 --> 00:15:39,185
Has the paper arrived?

307
00:15:39,273 --> 00:15:41,903
Not yet, Dad.
They're still counting the votes.

308
00:15:41,984 --> 00:15:42,864
Won't be long now.

309
00:15:42,943 --> 00:15:44,703
We're all rooting for you, Mr. Dickinson.

310
00:15:44,778 --> 00:15:46,068
That's very kind of you, Jane.

311
00:15:46,154 --> 00:15:47,874
You're going to abolish slavery, right?

312
00:15:49,157 --> 00:15:50,487
Dear God, I have a headache.

313
00:15:51,451 --> 00:15:52,451
That's a yes.

314
00:15:52,953 --> 00:15:54,043
Well,

315
00:15:54,454 --> 00:15:57,424
let me attempt to take everyone's minds
off of politics for a moment.

316
00:15:57,499 --> 00:15:59,709
I have a very special surprise.

317
00:16:00,836 --> 00:16:01,916
Susan?

318
00:16:02,379 --> 00:16:03,379
My beloved,

319
00:16:05,465 --> 00:16:07,545
I have taken it upon myself to ensure

320
00:16:07,634 --> 00:16:10,684
that you and I spend no less than eternity
by each other's side.

321
00:16:10,762 --> 00:16:14,222
- Okay, we all know you're getting married.
- No, no, no. What I'm saying

322
00:16:14,308 --> 00:16:17,638
is that I'm digging up a dead baby
so that you can be buried next to me.

323
00:16:20,355 --> 00:16:21,565
I beg your pardon, dear?

324
00:16:21,648 --> 00:16:23,358
No, it's all good, Mom.

325
00:16:23,442 --> 00:16:24,902
I've hired two gravediggers.

326
00:16:24,985 --> 00:16:26,145
They're gonna do it today.

327
00:16:26,236 --> 00:16:27,986
You know that Beecher baby?

328
00:16:28,071 --> 00:16:29,281
You know the one. Ichabod?

329
00:16:29,364 --> 00:16:32,494
He's in the spot next to mine
and that's where Sue needs to go

330
00:16:32,910 --> 00:16:34,750
so that we can be together forever.

331
00:16:35,204 --> 00:16:36,374
In the afterlife.

332
00:16:36,455 --> 00:16:37,915
Is that legal?

333
00:16:38,332 --> 00:16:40,502
- Father, is it legal?
- Of course it's legal.

334
00:16:40,584 --> 00:16:42,103
- Is it legal?
- Shouldn't I know what's legal?

335
00:16:42,127 --> 00:16:43,337
I think it's legal.

336
00:16:43,420 --> 00:16:45,148
- The poor Beecher baby.
- Dad, it's legal, right?

337
00:16:45,172 --> 00:16:47,592
- What?
- Who names a baby "Ichabod"?

338
00:16:47,674 --> 00:16:49,974
- It's a family name, Jane.
- Paper's here.

339
00:16:54,973 --> 00:16:55,973
Dammit.

340
00:16:56,058 --> 00:16:57,388
Still no results?

341
00:16:58,060 --> 00:16:59,560
This is absurd.

342
00:16:59,978 --> 00:17:01,558
What has happened to the Whigs?

343
00:17:02,397 --> 00:17:04,317
What has happened to this country?

344
00:17:04,398 --> 00:17:05,978
- We need radical change.
- Radical.

345
00:17:06,068 --> 00:17:07,420
That's what I was talking about
last night.

346
00:17:07,444 --> 00:17:09,914
- Me too.
- Please don't talk politics at the table.

347
00:17:11,490 --> 00:17:13,240
Oh, my God, Austin, you won!

348
00:17:13,659 --> 00:17:15,409
I... What?

349
00:17:15,493 --> 00:17:17,793
You won the poetry contest.

350
00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:21,040
I did?

351
00:17:22,125 --> 00:17:24,205
- You entered a poetry contest?
- Yeah.

352
00:17:24,294 --> 00:17:25,304
Let me see that.

353
00:17:26,171 --> 00:17:27,171
Wow.

354
00:17:28,423 --> 00:17:29,593
You're writing poetry?

355
00:17:29,675 --> 00:17:31,795
I have dabbled in poetry.

356
00:17:32,719 --> 00:17:36,309
"Nobody knows this little Rose"

357
00:17:40,352 --> 00:17:43,692
A poem by Austin Dickinson.

358
00:17:44,439 --> 00:17:46,859
"Nobody knows this little Rose"

359
00:17:49,111 --> 00:17:50,611
It might a pilgrim be

360
00:17:51,029 --> 00:17:53,949
Did I not take it from the ways
And lift it up to thee

361
00:17:54,867 --> 00:17:56,407
Only a Bee will miss it

362
00:17:56,493 --> 00:17:57,913
Only a Butterfly

363
00:17:58,704 --> 00:18:03,044
Hastening from far journey
On its breast to lie

364
00:18:06,044 --> 00:18:07,674
Only a Bird will wonder

365
00:18:08,130 --> 00:18:10,050
Only a Breeze will sigh

366
00:18:10,465 --> 00:18:12,715
Ah Little Rose

367
00:18:12,801 --> 00:18:15,971
How easy For such as thee...

368
00:18:16,847 --> 00:18:17,967
"To die!"

369
00:18:21,393 --> 00:18:22,853
That's really lovely.

370
00:18:26,565 --> 00:18:27,565
You wrote this?

371
00:18:28,358 --> 00:18:29,358
Yeah.

372
00:18:30,277 --> 00:18:32,777
As a matter of fact, I wrote it for Sue.

373
00:18:33,864 --> 00:18:36,374
- And you forgot to read the title.
- Title?

374
00:18:36,450 --> 00:18:38,370
Yeah. I threw one on there.

375
00:18:38,452 --> 00:18:40,622
"To Mrs. Blank. With a Rose."

376
00:18:40,704 --> 00:18:43,124
Mrs. Blank. That's you.

377
00:18:45,959 --> 00:18:47,289
Well, congratulations, Austin.

378
00:18:47,377 --> 00:18:48,457
Thanks, Dad.

379
00:18:49,546 --> 00:18:51,966
This is a marked improvement
from your last attempt.

380
00:18:52,049 --> 00:18:54,639
Excuse me, I feel sick.

381
00:18:59,431 --> 00:19:01,681
Well, I thought it was really lovely.

382
00:19:01,767 --> 00:19:03,387
And I don't like poems.

383
00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:15,450
So you entered the contest.

384
00:19:17,699 --> 00:19:18,699
Not exactly.

385
00:19:18,742 --> 00:19:19,742
You won.

386
00:19:19,826 --> 00:19:21,656
No, Austin won.

387
00:19:26,041 --> 00:19:27,171
I'm sorry.

388
00:19:28,627 --> 00:19:29,747
It's not your fault.

389
00:19:31,797 --> 00:19:33,127
It's not his fault either.

390
00:19:34,883 --> 00:19:36,643
He didn't choose to be born a man.

391
00:19:38,887 --> 00:19:41,097
Just like I didn't choose to be born a...

392
00:19:41,849 --> 00:19:42,849
freak.

393
00:19:43,517 --> 00:19:45,137
You are not a freak.

394
00:19:46,562 --> 00:19:47,562
Yes, I am.

395
00:19:47,646 --> 00:19:49,106
Well, then I am too.

396
00:19:50,399 --> 00:19:51,399
You?

397
00:19:52,234 --> 00:19:55,034
An unmarried man my age?

398
00:19:56,822 --> 00:19:57,822
Of course I am.

399
00:20:01,451 --> 00:20:03,581
Maybe we should run off
and join the circus.

400
00:21:00,969 --> 00:21:01,969
Dad,

401
00:21:02,679 --> 00:21:03,719
you didn't knock.

402
00:21:04,932 --> 00:21:06,312
I don't need to knock.

403
00:21:08,644 --> 00:21:12,654
It seems like that's
what doors are for but... your call.

404
00:21:14,274 --> 00:21:16,364
Do you take me for a fool, Emily?

405
00:21:17,778 --> 00:21:18,778
What?

406
00:21:19,821 --> 00:21:23,161
I said, "Do you take me for a fool?"

407
00:21:23,575 --> 00:21:25,195
No. Of course not.

408
00:21:25,285 --> 00:21:26,785
And yet you treat me like one.

409
00:21:31,124 --> 00:21:32,214
Your own father.

410
00:21:33,460 --> 00:21:35,630
The man who gives you everything.

411
00:21:35,712 --> 00:21:36,962
The food you eat.

412
00:21:37,047 --> 00:21:38,507
The very air you breathe.

413
00:21:39,091 --> 00:21:40,511
Dad, I don't know what you're...

414
00:21:40,592 --> 00:21:41,932
Don't lie to me!

415
00:21:42,010 --> 00:21:43,800
Austin did not write this poem!

416
00:21:46,849 --> 00:21:48,679
Yes, but nobody knows that.

417
00:21:48,767 --> 00:21:50,557
So now everyone's a fool?

418
00:21:50,644 --> 00:21:51,654
The whole world.

419
00:21:52,020 --> 00:21:54,190
- Everyone but you.
- That's not what I'm saying.

420
00:21:54,273 --> 00:21:55,653
They will know, Emily.

421
00:21:55,732 --> 00:21:58,692
Nobody will believe
your brother wrote this.

422
00:21:59,695 --> 00:22:03,235
And you dared do this
on the most significant day of my career?

423
00:22:03,323 --> 00:22:05,583
On Election Day?
Do you realize what you've cost me?

424
00:22:05,659 --> 00:22:07,619
What you've cost this family, Emily?

425
00:22:07,703 --> 00:22:10,333
My God,
you bring me another public humiliation!

426
00:22:11,373 --> 00:22:12,883
It's not my fault.

427
00:22:12,958 --> 00:22:15,248
Of course it is.
Who else's fault could it be?

428
00:22:15,335 --> 00:22:17,295
It's not my fault
you didn't win the election!

429
00:22:36,398 --> 00:22:39,688
Ladies and gentlemen!

430
00:22:40,319 --> 00:22:45,779
Welcome to the big top!

431
00:22:46,950 --> 00:22:48,120
You ready, Emily?

432
00:22:52,998 --> 00:22:55,128
- Ready for what?
- To go on, of course.

433
00:22:55,209 --> 00:22:56,629
They're all here to see you.

434
00:22:57,794 --> 00:22:59,514
You're the star of the show.

435
00:23:08,263 --> 00:23:09,263
Ben?

436
00:23:10,682 --> 00:23:11,932
Good luck out there tonight.

437
00:23:12,017 --> 00:23:14,057
- It's a huge crowd.
- What are you doing here?

438
00:23:14,144 --> 00:23:15,404
I told you I was a freak.

439
00:23:29,034 --> 00:23:33,664
And now, ladies and gentlemen.

440
00:23:34,122 --> 00:23:36,712
The moment you have all been waiting for,

441
00:23:37,501 --> 00:23:39,751
the greatest freak of them all:

442
00:23:44,842 --> 00:23:46,592
a female poet.

443
00:24:12,452 --> 00:24:14,042
Oh, my God!

444
00:24:31,096 --> 00:24:31,966
Dickinson!

445
00:24:32,055 --> 00:24:33,215
Great news!

446
00:24:33,307 --> 00:24:34,307
You won!

447
00:24:35,726 --> 00:24:36,976
Did you hear what I said?

448
00:24:39,730 --> 00:24:41,060
- I won?
- Yes.

449
00:24:41,148 --> 00:24:42,818
You're going to Washington.

450
00:24:44,484 --> 00:24:45,994
Congratulations, Edward.

451
00:24:46,904 --> 00:24:48,744
This is the happiest I've ever been.

452
00:24:50,657 --> 00:24:51,987
You pulled it off!

453
00:24:52,075 --> 00:24:53,535
A narrow victory.

454
00:24:53,619 --> 00:24:54,789
Yes.

455
00:24:54,870 --> 00:24:56,580
Well, let's have a glass of sherry!

456
00:24:56,663 --> 00:25:00,173
No, no, I've got to get home.
But you should celebrate with your family.

457
00:25:08,383 --> 00:25:09,383
I won.

458
00:25:11,053 --> 00:25:13,183
- Have you now?
- Yes. As I promised.

459
00:25:17,434 --> 00:25:20,604
The men of honor and decency
have prevailed.

460
00:25:22,773 --> 00:25:23,773
Well...

461
00:25:24,942 --> 00:25:26,112
that's a relief.

462
00:26:02,104 --> 00:26:03,234
Emily?

463
00:26:05,274 --> 00:26:06,284
Emily!

464
00:26:08,402 --> 00:26:09,402
Emily.

465
00:26:10,237 --> 00:26:11,237
Sue?

466
00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:14,580
Yeah, it's me.

467
00:26:15,659 --> 00:26:16,699
What happened?

468
00:26:23,292 --> 00:26:24,292
I...