The Expecting

Fuck.

Okay, hon, have you got your insurance card with you today?

I don't have insurance.

Oh, uh, then we'll need the 400 up-front.

Cash or check?

Dad, it's me.

...New England, to talk to an actual survivor

of a close encounter of the fourth kind.

I don't remember much...

after the light hit me,

but when I woke up, they were standing all around me.

They started putting things inside me,

and I just sort of left my body at that point.

All right, you ready? Let's go take care of it.

...what haunts me is their shiny eyes...

- With you? - And I couldn't see anything else.

I just need the cash.

No, most of the centers... God and Jesus knows

they're gonna try to talk you into keeping it.

- I'll find a good one. - No, I know this guy,

an old friend downtown, the most important thing is

that you get rid of it, that's all that matters.

- What if I don't? - Don't what?

Well, you can't even afford to kill it, how are you gonna keep it?

Fuck off.

- You gotta get rid of that thing... - No!

You get rid of it, or you'll end up just like your mother!

I am not like her!

Yeah, well, she was your age when it started, okay?

You keep that in mind.

Emma!

Come on!

Emma!

- Jesus! - Whoa!

- Can I help you? - I used to work here.

Oh, are you Emma?

- Yeah. - Hey.

Jess.

My replacement.

That's one club, eighty-six mayo,

two onion rings, for three all day.

- Steak and eggs, well done. - Steak and eggs, ruined.

They're gonna need two hash and...

Take the grill for me.

How do you know for sure?

'Cause you're my only, right now?

- You knew that. - I didn't, actually.

What're you gonna do?

I mean, I can barely take care of myself.

- Right? - Come on, you do okay.

I lost my job, broke as hell.

If my grandma hadn't left me the place, I'd be, like,

homeless.

I don't know...

I just keep...

thinking maybe this is the change I need.

The hell you doing, bro?

Oh, hell, you back already?

- Good to see you too, Tony. - Just give me a sec?

Mikey's in the weeds up to his dick in there.

Mikey's got it, just let me finish.

You got two minutes, man.

You got a doctor you can talk to?

Ty, I don't even have a car that works. You think I can afford a doctor?

You know, when my sister had her kid,

she saw this woman...

private practice, liked her a lot.

She sort of just charged whatever she could afford.