Arlington Road

Come on- Do it- You chicken?

Do it!

Come on

Go on, hurry up!

- Go on. Let's just do it, okay? - Chicken or what?

Do it.

Run! Get out!

Kid?

Hey, kid?

Hey, kid?

What happened?

Help! Somebody, help!

Somebody help!

Help!

Hold on now, you're going to be all right.

We're almost there.

Come on! Come on!

- Hello, is this the Emergency Room? - Yes, sir.

- I'm bringing a child in! - What is your emergency, sir?

I don't know! I'm bringing a child in!

Can you please state the nature of your emergency?

Help!

Help him!

Let's get a code package, stat!

Prepare him for the burn unit.

Careful, sir.

It's okay now, sir. Put him in ER 3!

You have to stay with me now.

Are you the father?

- Are you the boy's father? - No, no.

He was just in the middle of the road.

He was walking down the middle of the road.

Have you seen him before? What's his name?

Sir?

- What? - Please, this is important.

What?

- His name? The boy's name? - I don't know his name!

Excuse me, Mr. Faraday?

Yeah.

We're Brady's parents.

You feel like they're old enough. They should be able to...

You shouldn't let them out of your sight for a moment.

He said he was going to the park to play.

He didn't want us to know what he was doing.

Michael, we can't thank you enough. If you hadn't come along when you did...

No, no. I'm just glad we made it.

So, what...

He and his friends

got together all their fireworks, their cones and their candles

and tied them up together to blast some kind of super-rocket out of the park.

Brady is the one...

He must have been the one that set it off.

The other kids must've put him up to it.

It was just starting to feel like home, too.

I thought that to myself today. Just thought, it's starting to feel like home.

He's going to be okay.

He will. He's going to be all right.

Thank you, Michael.

Oh, God. It's got to be hell they're going through.

Two months they've lived there. I haven't said one word to them.

You can't be best friends with everybody.

I watch them fixing up their house, their kids

playing in the yard. I held their son in my arms, hanging on for his life tonight.

The kid

lives right across the street. I didn't even know his name.

Did he die?

No. He's gonna be all right.

He's gonna be in the hospital for a while, but he'll be fine.

I saw the blood

in the street.

He's gonna be okay, Grant.

Brooke said she made you dinner. You're not hungry?

You want me to fix you something?

Grant.

Is she gonna stay here every night?

No, not every night. No.

She stayed last night because I asked her.

We talked about Brooke. You said you liked her.

I liked her better before.

Yeah, well...

Try to get some sleep, okay?

Love you.

The name of this course is "American Terrorism."

Two hundred years ago, we fought a revolution in the name of certain beliefs,

of liberty, of justice for all, of self-rule and self-reliance.

There are many in this country who feel we have not yet won that war.

Terrorist acts, violent political theater,

these have been part of social dissent in this country since its inception.

But why? Why here, in this land of freedom?

What's led men

to such bloodshed

in the name of their beliefs?

Why in this era of national prosperity

has the anti-government movement been at its peak?

And what's that going to mean when the prosperity fades?

Fewer and fewer of us are voting,

more and more of us are joining the ranks of a resistance.

How long are we going to continue to call these numbers insignificant?

What do they have to teach us?

- I'm gonna go explore. - Okay.

The only woman I ever liked having around that was smarter than me.

Whit Carver, generous to a fault.

Hey there, Mr. Faraday.

- How's he doing? - He's all right.

We're still seeing his counselor.

She says he's improving, but he still keeps to himself a lot.

How's his dad doing?

He's all right.

Still seeing his graduate student?

- She says he's improving, but... - He still keeps to himself a lot?

Man, Michael, this kid they got me partnered with,

he's a walking laptop computer-cyberspace geek.

Put him across from some real-life bad guys, it's like he's surprised to see them.

- I ought to make him take your course. - Yeah?

- Teaching it again, right? - Oh, yeah.

She'd like that. I know what that'd mean to her.

The invitation is still good, you know, for you to come by as a guest.

I'd rather not stand trial for you, Michael.

That's not what it would be.

Yeah, right. I know what it would be.

How's work?

You know, routine.

That's what I miss, you know.

The conversations about work.

I'd tell her about my day, and she couldn't tell me a goddamn thing.

You wouldn't think I'd miss that, but I do.

Have me to dinner sometime.

I'll keep some state secrets from you, make you feel like she never left.

People remember her, Whit?

- What do you mean? - At the Bureau.

Do they remember, or do people forget?

They remember her, Michael, they do.

Leah died for her country.

She shouldn't have.

Michael, hello. How are you doing?

- Our other guest of honor. Come on in. - Hope we're not late.

No, no, no. Oliver, Michael's here!

- Cheryl, this is Brooke. Brooke, Cheryl. - Hi. Nice to meet you.

- It's really nice to meet you, too. - How are you?

- Hi, I'm Brooke. - This must be Grant. How are you doing?

Listen, there's junk food in the kitchen, just for kids and not for grown ups.

- Come on in. - Let me introduce you to some friends.

- What are you gonna get? - Hot dog, please.

- Brady's looking great. - Yeah.

So would you, if you found a way to get out of school for a while.

You're right. I would. I teach at GW, American History.

I was always bad in history.

Condemned to repeat it?

Yes, several times.

So what kind of work do you do?

I'm a structural engineer.

I work for a company... You know the Reston Mall?

- Oh, yeah. - We are redesigning the addition.

You want bigger stores, more parking? I'm the guy to ask.

He knows. I'm not sure he totally understands what happened.

You know Michael from?

I was Michael's teaching assistant in my first year of grad school.

There was nothing between us back then. I knew his family. I knew Leah.

This thing is kind of,

kind of new between us.

Well, you're so sweet together.

Well, of course, I think the world of him.

He's such a good man

such a good father.

This job was just too appealing to pass up. Contracts were down all over St. Louis.

- How long were you in St. Louis? - About four years thereabouts.

I grew up on a farm in a place called Carson, Kansas.

I never lived east before.

Kids will get to see their first ocean.

- I'm afraid downtown is falling apart. - That's what I hear.

I guess we're not in Kansas anymore, Toto.

Hannah?

Bedtime.

Grant!

- Be careful of his hand! - I got two hands!

It's been a long time since I've seen him just being a kid. Sometimes, he...

You know, since his mother...

He has a tough time making friends sometimes.

Michael, we all need friends.

Life just isn't the same without them.

- Dad? - Yeah.

How do you spell "restricted"?

Restricted. R-E-S-T-R-I...

You know how to use the dictionary, Grant. What are you guys doing in there?

Building a compound.

- A compound? - A soldiers' compound.

Stop, Dad.

You have to know the secret handshake.

Should we tell him?

All right.

Just so I know you're not going to use any fireworks in there, Brady.

General Brady, Dad.

No fireworks, General Brady.

That's classified information, Mr. Faraday.

- You don't know the secret handshake. - I'm serious, Brady.

Come on, Grant.

Get washed up guys. We're going to get dinner on.

Michael, hi. Come on in.

I got something for you in my mailbox.

- The University of Pennsylvania? - I thought you hadn't lived east before.