Pretext: Following their seperation Janet decides the best thing to do for the children wouold be to move them to another state away from all haunting memories of family and neighbor deaths after 9/11. Tommy's biggest desire is to keep Janet and the children close.
Janet Hey.
Janet Hey.
Tommy Hi you need a hand?
Janet No. You’re Home Early.
Tommy Is that a problem
Janet No. Why would that be a problem?
Tommy Well
Janet Did you find Connor’s Lunchbox?
Tommy No. I actually forgot about the lunchbox.
Janet Well thanks Tom.
Tommy Yeah y’know priorities, family possibly moving to California, missing lunchbox.
Janet Look I’m just exploring our options.
Tommy Really? Our options?
Janet Mmm hmm, mine and the kids.
Tommy Look any judge with half a mind is going to require that you keep the kids withing a reasonable distance. So the idea of moving to California is really just a pipe dream.
Janet Tommy I need to get away from this.
Tommy Away from what
Janet This. I mean every other house on the block has a dead hero dad; every other kid at school has lost a father or an uncle. And you know what’s worse than all the guys that died that day? The rest of you left behind, walking around like everything’s fine, when you’re dead inside.
Tommy Okay you know what we’ve talked about this okay. I can’t fix what happened to me. I cant go and talk to somebody some shrink or something some spa and sweat it out. You know when you married, me, my job was
Janet Jesus Christ Tommy I’m sick of it! I want my kids to grow up normal, dogs and cats and picket fences.
Tommy You asked me for this and I gave it
Janet For what?
Tommy To stay home, so u could raise the kid’s hands on. So I took two side jobs besides the fire dept and what thanks do I get? You bitching and moaning I’m never home I never talk to you-
Janet And you never were home!
Tommy Cuz I’m too busy busting my ass paying the bills… and you never even thought about it. Answer me a question even when we broke up… you asked me to buy-
Janet No even when you WERE home you were never home!!... I raised those three kids… on my own. That’s Bullshit! I am going to do whatever I have to, to take care of these kids.
Tommy Oh yeah
Janet Yeah
Tommy I’ll fight you in court
Janet You’ll lose
Tommy Yeah
Janet Yeah the court always sides with the mother
Tommy Let me tell you something okay
Janet Don’t you threaten me
Tommy If I wanna threaten you I will. Okay. You start a shit storm with my kids with me you take ‘em anywhere you want and I will hunt you down and I will find you, the four corners of the earth I will find you and I will take those kids back. That’s not a threat that’s a god damned promise bitch.
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