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[organ music plays]
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♪♪♪
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Sister margaret: Fox!
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If you are old enough
to get confirmed,
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You are old enough
to behave in church!
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If you embarrass me
in front of father moore,
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I'll give you
a big enough fright
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To scare the crap
out of a toilet,
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Ya saucy little--
- [clears throat]
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- Father!
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The children are so excited
to see you.
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- Hmm.
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Good morning, boys and girls.
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Kids: Good morning, father.
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Adult mark: Confirmation.
The catholic bar mitzvah.
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I was about to become
a made man.
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Father moore: At baptism,
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Your parents made a promise
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On your behalf
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Because you were just a baby.
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- [whispers] you're still
a baby.
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Father moore: They gave you
a name.
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And now, you will confirm
their promise
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And you will choose
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Your own confirmation name.
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Now, sister,
who's doing the reading?
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- Mark critch, father.
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[chair creaks]
mark: [exhales deeply]
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[footsteps thud]
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[kid yawns,
paper rustles]
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"jesus said,
'suffer little children
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And forbid them not
to come unto me:
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For such is the kingdom
of heaven.'"
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Adult mark: There was no bigger
stage than an altar.
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Mass was the biggest show
in town.
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[lights snap on]
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Are there any catholics here
tonight?
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Everyone?! My kinda room!
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[cheesy comedy club music plays]
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The other day this old lady
comes into the confessional,
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She says, "father forgive me!
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When I was young,
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I cheated on my husband!"
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I said, "lady, you confessed
that last Sunday."
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And she says, "I know.
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I just like talking about it!"
[kids laugh]
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[clapping]
thank you!
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Adult mark: I was born
a catholic,
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But I was a practicing
narcissist.
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[lights snap off]
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[fox giggles]
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Father moore lived off fear
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Like I lived off tea
and bologna.
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- Is something funny, miss?
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You don't seem ready
to receive the holy spirit.
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- I ain't afraid of no ghost.
Kids: [giggle]
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Sister margaret: Jesus, mary,
and joseph!
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- When I was their age,
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I felt the holy spirit
so strongly
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That I received my calling.
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But perhaps your class
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Isn't ready for confirmation,
sister.
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Adult mark: I, too, had
a calling - to be a star -
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And now I saw an opening
to audition
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To be the leading man.
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- I... Feel something...
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Inside.
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- Well, hold it!
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No one is going
to the washroom.
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- No.
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I... Want to become...
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A priest.
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[a backing band plays
as a gospel choir sings]
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♪♪♪
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♪♪♪
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Mary: A priest?
Mike jr.: Oh!
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At least he'll never have
to worry about
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Breaking the vow of celibacy.
- [scandalized gasp]
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- Are you cracked? A priest?!
With all that's going on?!
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- Why? What's going on?
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Adult mark: You can't talk
about the '80s in newfoundland
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Without talking about
the sexual abuse scandal
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In the catholic church.
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That is, unless you were
my parents.
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- None of your business.
- It's nothing that you...
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- Shut up, pop.
- Have to worry about, honey.
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- Hmm.
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[footsteps approach]
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Pop: [sighs]
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[cars zoom past outside]
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I'm sorry if we were
hard on you, but...
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You know, you're a bit young
to be signing up
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With that crowd
of sadistic arseholes.
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- Nice apology.
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I mean, if they're so bad,
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Then why do you go to mass
every Sunday?
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- Can't hurt to play
both sides.
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As long as you confess,
you're golden.
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Have you chosen your
confirmation name yet?
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I mean, we've got enough mikes.
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- [sighs] patrick.
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- [pleased] mm... Really. Hmm.
- Not for you.
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Patrick is father moore's
first name.
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He's gonna be my sponsor,
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And he said I'd be a fine
priest.
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- Nice. Hmm.
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You know, perhaps we should
invite him over,
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Get to know him a bit better.
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What about tomorrow night
for supper?
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- Really?
- Yeah, absolutely.
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Oh, I'd love to say a few words
to father moore - ha! -
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Believe you me.
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- Um, why don't you come on
down and join me,
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Say a prayer for nanny?
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- Oh, uh, I'd rather just
sit here
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'cause I've got bad knees,
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But hey,
I'll say one for her
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And I'll say one for you.
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- Hmm.
- Hmm?
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Mark: Dear lord, please keep
my nanny safe,
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Forever and always.
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[organ and choral music plays]
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♪♪♪
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[chip bag rustles]
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[chip bag rips open]
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- What's with the "exorcist"
get up?
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- Mark is preparing himself.
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He signed us up to be
altar boys.
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He would've asked you too,
but, you know...
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Boys.
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[chip bag rustles violently]
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Hey! My chips!
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- "let he who is without sin,
cast the first stone."
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Students: [indistinct chatter]
kid: Wait up!
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Adult mark: The whole house
went into a priestly panic
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As mom and dad cruxi-fixed
the place up.
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[radio clicks on]
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Mike sr.: Formal charges
were laid today
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Against clergy in st. John's.
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A lawyer, speaking on behalf
of the vic--
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[radio clicks off]
- of all the jeezly times
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To have a bloody priest
poking around.
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[cupboard items rustle,
door thumps shut]
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And you better not start,
tonight!
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This is about mark.
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- I don't start things,
I finish 'em.
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[crunching,
hanger clatters]
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[wardrobe door thumps shut]
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- What are you doing?
- I'm hungry.
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Fox stole my chips.
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- That's the body of christ!
- No, it's not.
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It's just bread until
the priest blesses it.
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- There!
- You're not a priest.
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- They don't even have a taste.
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- Yes, they do.
They taste like... Paper.
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Adult mark: Snacking on
a sacrament was a big sin,
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But like adam with the apple,
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I was tempted.
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[slow crunch]
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- Good, right? Ha!
- Mmm.
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[footsteps approach,
solemn organ music plays]
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Mmm!
- [clears throat]
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Before your first mass
as altar boys,
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You'll have to give confession,
of course.
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[church bell tolls]
adult mark: Confession!
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I couldn't tell
if he had seen us,
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But I knew there was only
one thing to do.
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Lie!
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Les back]
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Adult mark: The confessional.
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God's little interrogation
room.
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- Forgive me father,
for I have sinned.
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It has been two weeks
since my last confession.
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- Go ahead, child. Confess.
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Adult mark: I couldn't bring
myself to confess my own sins
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So I flipped on my family
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Like a mobster turned
fbi informant.
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- Pop swears all the time.
Like, a lot.
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And I'm pretty sure my brother
has reefer in his room.
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Um, mom gossips -
terrible habit, and dad--
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- Let's focus on your sins.
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Did someone tempt you
to sin today, mark?
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Adult mark: I chose to walk
in the footsteps
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Of one of the most famous
christians ever...
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- Well...
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Adult mark: Judas.
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[door clicks open,
kids murmur nervously]
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[door thumps shut]
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- [whispering] you didn't tell
him, did you?
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Did he see us eat them?
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[door clicks open]
father moore: Ritchie?
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- [whispers] does he know?
- Ritchie? Now!
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[organ music plays,
kid: I'm so scared.
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[confessional door slams shut]
mark: [whimpers]
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Father moore: Bless us,
o lord and these thy gifts,
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Which we are about to receive
from thy bounty
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Through christ, our lord.
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All: Amen.
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- Bread, father?
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- I believe I hear you
on the radio
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More than I see you in church,
mr. Critch.
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- Oh, he works Sunday's,
father.
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No rest for the wicked.
- Hmm.
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- Pure! No rest for the pure.
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Uh... Beets? Pickles?
- No.
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I've taken an interest in mark.
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It's rare to find a boy of
his...
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Faith these days.
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People are...
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Turning away from the church.
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- Well, I think we all know
why that is, father.
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Adult mark: I was oblivious
to the elephant in the room,
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Even though pop had hopped up
on its back
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And was tickling its ears.
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- The devil can work
in mysterious ways, too.
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I wouldn't believe everything
you hear on the radio.
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Good people,
their names slandered.
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- We haven't named any
of the accused, father.
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- Well, perhaps you should
mention some names.
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The names of the accusers.
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- I believe the word
you're looking for
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Is "victims," father.
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- [awkwardly] uh...
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What's your favourite
bible passage, mark?
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- Oh, the one from my reading.
- Oh yeah.
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- "suffer little children
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And forbid them not,
to come unto me."
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Pop: Ah. "suffer little
children."
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Now that should be right up
your alley, father.
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- Dessert!
[laughs nervously]
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Would you like a flakey?
- Ugh.
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- You know...
I'm losing my appetite.
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- And you?
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Hmm?
- Uh...
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Give a man a fish
and he eats for a day.
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Take a man fishing
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And he will eat... Later.
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- Uh-huh. Ha.
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- What's yours, father?
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- Matthew 7, 1-5.
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"judge not,
that you be not judged."
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- Do you know what mine is,
father?
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Luke 12:2.
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"nothing is covered up,
that shall not be revealed;
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Or hidden,
that will not be known."
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Chew on that one, padre.
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Adult mark: I was too young
to know any better.
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Pop, on the other hand, was
too old to give a flying fu--
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- Fudgee-o?
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- I believe I've had enough.
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Thank you for the meal.
It was... Ample.
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- I'll see you out, father.
- Thank you, mark.
253
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Mike sr.: [sighs heavily]
mary: Ugh!
254
00:10:39,272 --> 00:10:41,505
[door clicks open]
- sweet jesus.
255
00:10:41,541 --> 00:10:44,376
- Ugh! I've got the shivers.
It's like dracula was in here.
256
00:10:44,511 --> 00:10:46,678
- What a prick!
God forgive me.
257
00:10:46,680 --> 00:10:49,280
- You couldn't do this
one thing for me!
258
00:10:51,485 --> 00:10:54,052
- Mark, there's a lot
you don't understand.
259
00:10:54,187 --> 00:10:55,887
- Then tell me!
260
00:10:58,358 --> 00:11:00,058
- [sighs heavily]
261
00:11:00,193 --> 00:11:02,994
[a violin lament plays]
262
00:11:03,063 --> 00:11:06,397
♪♪♪
263
00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:08,500
- [disappointed exhale]
264
00:11:08,502 --> 00:11:09,967
[whimpers] oh...
265
00:11:10,003 --> 00:11:13,104
[footsteps recede,
bedroom door bangs shut]
266
00:11:14,174 --> 00:11:16,507
- The boy is old enough.
267
00:11:19,046 --> 00:11:22,313
♪♪♪
268
00:11:22,449 --> 00:11:24,782
Adult mark: Newfoundlanders
are used to storms,
269
00:11:24,851 --> 00:11:26,784
But over the next few days
270
00:11:26,853 --> 00:11:28,853
It felt like the darkest clouds
we'd ever seen
271
00:11:28,855 --> 00:11:31,189
Were rolling in over us.
272
00:11:31,191 --> 00:11:33,023
- Attention, please, children!
273
00:11:33,060 --> 00:11:34,726
Uh...
274
00:11:34,728 --> 00:11:37,795
I'm sure you've been hearing
some rumours about the church.
275
00:11:37,797 --> 00:11:39,931
You must have a lot
of questions.
276
00:11:40,066 --> 00:11:42,066
Adult mark: Finally,
a ray of light!
277
00:11:42,068 --> 00:11:43,634
- Well, you better not
ask them!
278
00:11:43,704 --> 00:11:45,569
It's none of your business!
279
00:11:45,605 --> 00:11:47,138
Adult mark: Followed
by showers.
280
00:11:47,174 --> 00:11:49,540
- On an unrelated note,
281
00:11:49,576 --> 00:11:52,210
Father moore is no longer
with us.
282
00:11:52,212 --> 00:11:53,811
Kid: [gasps]
- [shocked] what?!
283
00:11:53,946 --> 00:11:56,081
- It's going to be okay.
You see, children,
284
00:11:56,216 --> 00:11:58,149
Father moore has...
285
00:11:59,286 --> 00:12:01,318
- [clears throat]
been transferred overseas.
286
00:12:02,389 --> 00:12:04,688
I've been asked to introduce
his replacement,
287
00:12:04,725 --> 00:12:06,357
Father garcia.
288
00:12:06,426 --> 00:12:07,826
Adult mark: I had lost
my mentor,
289
00:12:07,961 --> 00:12:10,294
But I was sure his replacement
would be just as--
290
00:12:10,296 --> 00:12:11,930
- Hey, kids!
291
00:12:12,065 --> 00:12:15,866
My name is father garcia,
but you can call me gary.
292
00:12:15,902 --> 00:12:18,402
- Uh, and that you most
certainly will not--
293
00:12:18,438 --> 00:12:20,404
- Look, collar in the corner,
294
00:12:21,775 --> 00:12:24,075
Ain't nothing special
about a priest, okay?
295
00:12:24,144 --> 00:12:25,676
I'm no different from uh...
296
00:12:25,712 --> 00:12:27,511
[snaps fingers] hey,
what's your name, buddy?
297
00:12:27,547 --> 00:12:28,813
- Ritchie.
298
00:12:28,948 --> 00:12:30,948
- Ritchie. Cool!
299
00:12:30,950 --> 00:12:33,952
Heck, I wish I was as cool as
ritchie over here! [high-five]
300
00:12:33,954 --> 00:12:36,120
What's your confirmation name,
bro?
301
00:12:36,123 --> 00:12:37,989
- Romeo. Like my uncle.
302
00:12:37,991 --> 00:12:41,058
- Whoa! Loverboy over here.
[chuckles]
303
00:12:41,128 --> 00:12:43,061
How about you, buddy?
304
00:12:43,196 --> 00:12:45,230
- Patrick.
Kid: [clears throat]
305
00:12:45,365 --> 00:12:47,231
- It's mark, right?
306
00:12:47,300 --> 00:12:49,400
I hear you like comedy.
307
00:12:49,402 --> 00:12:52,070
Well, did you know that
there was a saint hilarious?
308
00:12:52,205 --> 00:12:54,371
- It's patrick.
309
00:12:55,608 --> 00:12:57,141
- I see. Okay.
310
00:12:57,144 --> 00:12:58,943
Um... Sister?
311
00:12:58,945 --> 00:13:00,778
[exhales heavily]
312
00:13:00,814 --> 00:13:03,681
Ya ever listen to music
backwards
313
00:13:03,683 --> 00:13:06,050
To hear hidden satanic messages?
314
00:13:07,621 --> 00:13:10,087
Oh! Over there. [chuckles]
- um...
315
00:13:10,089 --> 00:13:13,424
- Well, sometimes I like
to listen to music forwards
316
00:13:13,426 --> 00:13:16,961
To hear hidden
christian messages.
317
00:13:17,030 --> 00:13:19,430
One, two, three and...
(starts playing the guitar)
318
00:13:19,432 --> 00:13:23,567
♪ goin' up to the spirit
in the sky ♪
319
00:13:23,603 --> 00:13:27,571
♪ that's where I'm gonna go
when I die ♪
320
00:13:27,607 --> 00:13:30,741
♪ when I die
and they lay me to rest ♪
321
00:13:30,777 --> 00:13:34,445
♪ I'm gonna go to the place
that's the best ♪
322
00:13:34,447 --> 00:13:37,248
- ♪ spirit in the skyyyy!
[kids clap to the rhythm]
323
00:13:37,250 --> 00:13:38,950
Adult mark: I was being
upstaged!
324
00:13:39,085 --> 00:13:40,985
I felt the holy spirit leave me
325
00:13:41,054 --> 00:13:43,254
As if I'd just popped
a spiritual zit.
326
00:13:43,290 --> 00:13:44,955
God was dead.
327
00:13:44,991 --> 00:13:48,525
- ♪ I'm gonna go to the place
that's the best ♪
328
00:13:48,562 --> 00:13:50,628
- ♪ spirit in the skyyyy!
329
00:13:53,733 --> 00:13:56,066
N
before confirmation.
330
00:13:56,102 --> 00:13:58,269
Get it all out now -
331
00:13:58,404 --> 00:14:00,271
Your lies, your thefts,
332
00:14:00,307 --> 00:14:02,540
Your disgusting urges.
333
00:14:02,542 --> 00:14:04,475
Vomit up the darkness.
334
00:14:04,477 --> 00:14:06,077
Pop in!
335
00:14:06,079 --> 00:14:08,947
- Actually, sister, um,
I'm all about talking to god,
336
00:14:08,949 --> 00:14:11,482
I just don't like hiding
in a box to do it.
337
00:14:11,618 --> 00:14:15,219
So, kids, we're gonna rap
face-to-face...
338
00:14:15,288 --> 00:14:17,688
Right over here.
Come on.
339
00:14:18,758 --> 00:14:20,291
- The arse is out of 'er.
340
00:14:20,327 --> 00:14:22,093
- Hey, mark?
341
00:14:25,465 --> 00:14:27,598
[kids whisper and murmur]
342
00:14:30,637 --> 00:14:33,304
- Forgive me, father,
for I have sinned.
343
00:14:33,439 --> 00:14:35,172
It has been one day
since my last confession.
344
00:14:35,242 --> 00:14:37,375
- Whoa, mark.
345
00:14:37,444 --> 00:14:40,244
Can't be anything worth
confessing, buddy.
346
00:14:40,379 --> 00:14:43,314
Um... I guess I'm your sponsor
now, huh?
347
00:14:43,449 --> 00:14:45,816
What do you think about that?
348
00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:49,387
All right, okay, I get it.
349
00:14:49,456 --> 00:14:51,723
Strong, silent type.
350
00:14:51,858 --> 00:14:53,591
Well, go in peace.
351
00:14:55,595 --> 00:14:57,228
- What's my penance?
352
00:14:57,363 --> 00:14:59,430
- You didn't sin.
353
00:15:00,533 --> 00:15:02,133
Adult mark: No penance?
354
00:15:02,202 --> 00:15:03,935
What's the point of being
catholic
355
00:15:04,070 --> 00:15:06,004
If there isn't any guilt?
356
00:15:06,006 --> 00:15:08,105
- Mark? I'd like to meet
your parents.
357
00:15:08,174 --> 00:15:10,208
You know, sponsor and all.
358
00:15:10,343 --> 00:15:12,543
I'll stop by after school.
359
00:15:12,545 --> 00:15:14,678
[kid yawns nearby]
next?
360
00:15:16,749 --> 00:15:18,883
Casanova.
361
00:15:18,885 --> 00:15:20,150
[upbeat music plays]
362
00:15:20,186 --> 00:15:22,186
[magazines rustle]
363
00:15:22,188 --> 00:15:24,822
♪♪♪
364
00:15:24,891 --> 00:15:27,225
- Thank you for the wine,
father. You shouldn't have.
365
00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:30,128
Pop: Well, we don't even have
a corkscrew.
366
00:15:30,263 --> 00:15:33,331
- Um, father, have you been
a priest for long?
367
00:15:33,333 --> 00:15:35,332
- Uh, five years.
368
00:15:35,368 --> 00:15:37,502
Uh, I was trying to find
myself,
369
00:15:37,504 --> 00:15:41,572
And then I ended up in antigua
with a girl I was dating.
370
00:15:41,708 --> 00:15:43,207
- Oh!
371
00:15:43,209 --> 00:15:45,342
- Wha... A priest can't date.
372
00:15:45,378 --> 00:15:48,112
- Well, I wasn't a priest
at the time.
373
00:15:48,247 --> 00:15:49,914
And when she dumped me,
374
00:15:50,049 --> 00:15:52,984
That's when I found the lord
and the rest is history.
375
00:15:53,119 --> 00:15:55,786
- Oh. So, jesus is your
rebound?
376
00:15:55,822 --> 00:15:57,955
- Mike!
- [laughing] that's good!
377
00:15:59,058 --> 00:16:00,891
- No, he's right. [laughs]
378
00:16:00,927 --> 00:16:04,795
I, uh, cried myself to sleep
in his arms every night.
379
00:16:06,866 --> 00:16:08,899
So, uh, mr. Critch--
- mm-hmm.
380
00:16:10,069 --> 00:16:12,403
- I understand you work
at the radio station?
381
00:16:12,405 --> 00:16:14,638
Is that correct?
- Oh, here we go!
382
00:16:16,943 --> 00:16:18,509
- I won't have it, father!
I'm sorry, mark,
383
00:16:18,644 --> 00:16:20,277
But I won't let anyone,
not even a priest,
384
00:16:20,347 --> 00:16:23,014
Tell me what I can
or can't say on air.
385
00:16:23,149 --> 00:16:24,549
- Hear, hear.
386
00:16:24,551 --> 00:16:26,351
- Oh, I'm-I'm so sorry.
387
00:16:26,486 --> 00:16:28,552
I... I just wanted
to give you this.
388
00:16:32,392 --> 00:16:33,858
- Hmm?
- Um...
389
00:16:33,993 --> 00:16:36,561
I write and record
my own pop songs,
390
00:16:36,563 --> 00:16:38,563
And I was just wondering
391
00:16:38,565 --> 00:16:41,098
If you could give it to a dj
is all.
392
00:16:41,100 --> 00:16:43,567
- Uh... I, I'll see
what I can do.
393
00:16:43,603 --> 00:16:45,236
I, I could give it
to dick dunphy.
394
00:16:45,305 --> 00:16:47,872
I mean, I-I-I can't promise
anything, but uh...
395
00:16:48,007 --> 00:16:50,375
- You would do that?
- Yeah, sure.
396
00:16:50,510 --> 00:16:53,478
- That's awesome.
Thank you!
397
00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:55,313
You rock!
- [chuckles]
398
00:16:55,448 --> 00:16:57,381
- That's great!
- [chuckles]
399
00:16:58,985 --> 00:17:01,319
[pop chuckles,
mike sr. Sighs heavily]
400
00:17:01,454 --> 00:17:04,522
[awkward silence,
father garcia sighs]
401
00:17:06,559 --> 00:17:08,793
- Does anyone have
any questions about um...
402
00:17:11,664 --> 00:17:13,664
Everything that's going on?
403
00:17:13,733 --> 00:17:16,334
'cause, you know,
we could talk about it.
404
00:17:19,138 --> 00:17:20,637
Pop: I don't think
it's a conversation
405
00:17:20,673 --> 00:17:22,573
For the dinner table, father.
406
00:17:22,642 --> 00:17:24,741
- Oh, well...
407
00:17:24,778 --> 00:17:27,211
- Can someone tell me
what's going on?
408
00:17:28,481 --> 00:17:30,548
For the love of god!
409
00:17:34,421 --> 00:17:36,920
- Shall I put on the kettle?
410
00:17:40,893 --> 00:17:42,427
- You don't have to stay
for this, father.
411
00:17:42,562 --> 00:17:44,562
- I-I would like to,
if it's okay?
412
00:17:49,836 --> 00:17:55,973
♪♪♪
413
00:17:55,975 --> 00:17:59,243
- Uh... There's an orphanage
414
00:17:59,312 --> 00:18:02,646
And it's run by the church
for...
415
00:18:03,783 --> 00:18:05,650
It's been run there by them
for a long time.
416
00:18:05,652 --> 00:18:07,785
Adult mark: The skies were
clearing,
417
00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:10,521
But nothing would ever really
be the same again.
418
00:18:10,557 --> 00:18:14,792
There's a thin line
between a secret and a lie.
419
00:18:14,861 --> 00:18:18,996
♪♪♪
420
00:18:19,065 --> 00:18:21,298
- I don't think I believe
anymore.
421
00:18:22,368 --> 00:18:24,235
- Santa claus?
422
00:18:25,472 --> 00:18:27,238
- I'm being serious.
423
00:18:27,373 --> 00:18:30,341
- [chuckles] yes, a bit
too serious, if you ask me,
424
00:18:30,343 --> 00:18:32,543
For such a young boy.
425
00:18:32,545 --> 00:18:34,946
Agh.
426
00:18:35,081 --> 00:18:38,148
You never wanted to be a priest.
427
00:18:38,785 --> 00:18:41,619
- Yeah, I did! I...
428
00:18:41,688 --> 00:18:45,089
I wanted to give sermons.
I wanted to be respected. I--
429
00:18:45,091 --> 00:18:47,491
Pop: I think you should be
an optometrist.
430
00:18:49,462 --> 00:18:51,195
- Why?
431
00:18:51,231 --> 00:18:54,064
- You're always saying,
"I, I, I."
432
00:18:55,401 --> 00:18:58,369
Look. There are better ways
to help people
433
00:18:58,438 --> 00:19:01,505
Than scare the crap out of them
in a collar.
434
00:19:03,176 --> 00:19:04,341
- Pop?
435
00:19:05,378 --> 00:19:07,044
- Yeah?
436
00:19:07,046 --> 00:19:08,112
- Hm.
437
00:19:08,247 --> 00:19:10,781
Would you be my confirmation
sponsor?
438
00:19:18,591 --> 00:19:20,357
- [emotional] yeah.
439
00:19:23,530 --> 00:19:26,063
I'd be mighty proud.
440
00:19:26,132 --> 00:19:27,665
Mighty proud.
441
00:19:28,935 --> 00:19:32,203
- Okay.
442
00:19:32,272 --> 00:19:34,038
[light clicks off]
443
00:19:34,173 --> 00:19:35,472
Night.
444
00:19:36,743 --> 00:19:38,609
- Goodnight.
445
00:19:38,611 --> 00:19:40,544
[poignant music plays]
446
00:19:41,614 --> 00:19:46,050
♪♪♪
447
00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:49,153
- "but jesus said,
'suffer little children
448
00:19:49,288 --> 00:19:52,156
And forbid them not
to come unto me:
449
00:19:52,291 --> 00:19:55,092
For such is the kingdom
of heaven.'"
450
00:19:56,262 --> 00:19:58,061
Adult mark: When I first heard
those words
451
00:19:58,097 --> 00:20:00,030
I pictured children suffering.
452
00:20:00,165 --> 00:20:02,567
But now, after that dark year,
453
00:20:02,702 --> 00:20:05,836
I see it as, "let the children
ask their questions."
454
00:20:05,972 --> 00:20:08,639
- Some job. [chuckles]
455
00:20:08,641 --> 00:20:10,774
Adult mark: I would have a lot
of them in the coming days,
456
00:20:10,810 --> 00:20:12,677
Months and years.
457
00:20:12,812 --> 00:20:14,345
[zippo lighter snicks]
458
00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:16,480
I may have lost some faith
in others,
459
00:20:16,482 --> 00:20:19,250
But I was starting to have
some faith in myself.
460
00:20:19,385 --> 00:20:21,418
[organ music plays]
461
00:20:24,523 --> 00:20:28,459
- ♪ when I die
and they lay me to rest ♪
462
00:20:28,528 --> 00:20:31,862
♪ gonna go to the place
that's the best... ♪
463
00:20:31,864 --> 00:20:33,297
- Oh, yeah.
464
00:20:33,333 --> 00:20:35,933
- ♪ when I lay me down
to die ♪
465
00:20:35,935 --> 00:20:39,269
♪ goin' up to the spirit
in the sky ♪
466
00:20:39,405 --> 00:20:41,205
[clapping]
- ♪ spirit in the sky
467
00:20:41,340 --> 00:20:44,174
- ♪ that's where I'm gonna go
when I die ♪
468
00:20:44,210 --> 00:20:45,542
- ♪ when I die
469
00:20:45,612 --> 00:20:48,613
- ♪ when I die
and they lay me to rest ♪
470
00:20:48,748 --> 00:20:52,483
♪ I'm gonna go to the place
that's the best ♪
471
00:20:52,552 --> 00:20:54,618
- [laughing]
- ♪ spirit in the sky
472
00:20:54,621 --> 00:20:57,488
♪ it's where I'm gonna go
when I die ♪
473
00:20:57,490 --> 00:20:59,156
- ♪ when I die...
474
00:20:59,158 --> 00:21:01,892
- ♪ when I die
and they lay me to rest ♪
475
00:21:01,894 --> 00:21:05,229
♪ I'm gonna go to the place
that's the best ♪
476
00:21:05,364 --> 00:21:06,964
- ♪ spirit in the sky!
477
00:21:08,167 --> 00:21:15,105
♪♪♪
478
00:21:15,174 --> 00:21:22,179
♪♪♪
479
00:21:22,181 --> 00:21:29,186
♪♪♪
480
00:21:29,188 --> 00:21:36,093
♪♪♪