The Threat Next Door

What do we have here?

Motor vehicle collision.

Deep laceration on the upper right thigh.

Internal bleeding, her blood pressure's dropping.

Is that my daughter?

I'm sorry but you can't be here.

You have to go to the waiting room.

- Blood pressure? - Stabilizing.

Gauze.

Let's find the source of the hemorrhaging.

We can't let her bleed out.

More gauze.

Good.

Pressure's dropping.

Bring another bag.

How's her heart rate?

Pulse is down to 40, 30.

Keep her stable.

Gauze!

20...

What was she administered?

We're losing her...

Flat line.

Initiating CPR.

Doctor, prep the defib.

Nurse, take over.

No change.

Come on!

Defib ready?

Nurse, stand back.

Clear!

Nothing.

Again.

Clear!

No change.

Again!

Hello?

We need to talk.

What are you doing? You scared me.

Wasn't the whole reason why you took this job

so that you can spend more time with our daughter?

Frankly, that's not your business anymore.

And you can't just show up on my work like this.

Well, what am I supposed to do?

Please, tell me.

I mean, you won't answer my calls.

You don't respond to my texts.

You know, my lawyer says that I should probably start-

Whoa, whoa.

I thought we said we were going to wait

before getting lawyers involved.

She's my daughter too, Mary.

I can help Daphne with school.

We both know that she needs it.

What she needs is safety, James.

If something else had happened that day-

Mary, I don't know how many times I gotta go over

the same story.

Please.

I swear to you, I wasn't drunk.

Alright.

I just want our family back.

And if you're not willing to let that happen,

well then,

I guess you'll be hearing from my lawyer.

The daycare workers left 20 minutes ago.

You're lucky I'm still here.

I know, I'm so sorry.

This new job has been...

You know what, no excuse, thank you for watching her.

I understand how hard it is being a single mom myself.

Is that what everyone thinks now?

That I'm a single mom?

You're not gonna want to hear this

but I am going to suggest Daphne repeats fourth grade.

What?

She's withdrawing, shes not engaging in class

and her reading levels nowhere near the average fourth-grader.

And, the bear...

Mr. Apples.

Yeah, it's a comfort animal.

That she didn't need six months ago.

I don't know what is happening at home, but Daphne-

Is trying to cope.

Please, keeping her back a year won't help her.

I have a few weeks before I need

to submit my recommendation.

If Daphne can turn it around by then.

Yeah, she will.

Thank you.

Okay.

Ready to go?

Put your jacket on.

Why can't Dad pick me up?

Daph, we've already been over this so many times.

You know your dad doesn't have his car.

It's a walking distance.

Hey, you want Chinese tonight?

From the good place on fifth, your favorite?

We can get spring rolls.

There's a little smile.

Wait, can you repeat that last word again, honey?

I-M-E-R-J-E-N-C-Y.

Okay, I know this one's a little harder

but it's important to learn it, okay?

What other letter makes a J sound?

This is gonna take forever.

Can't I get auto correct to do it for me?

That's cheating.

Food's here.

Hello?

What happened to spring rolls?

This is weird.

It shows it was delivered 10 minutes ago.

Your call has been forwarded

to an automatic voice message system.

Don't worry, ham and cheese is fine too.

No way, we're gonna hold out for the good stuff.

There it is.

You must be Mary.

Yes, thank you.

You know, I think the app is glitching

'cause they said it was delivered a few minutes ago-

No, no.

I'm-I am not the delivery person.

They just dropped this off at my place by mistake.

I'm at, 221, just on the other side of the park.

Thank you so much for bringing it over.

My pleasure.

You know, my daughter would've been really upset

if she didn't get these spring rolls, seriously.

Somebody's excited.

Well, our friendly neighbor here found our food, so

So you wanna say thank you, to-

Eve. Michaels. - Eve.

- Thank you, Eve. - You're welcome.

And what's your name?

It's okay, you can-

Daphne.

Daphne. That's a really lovely name.

Thank you.

You know, you almost look old enough

to be one of my students.

You teach?

Well, not until the fall, but I have a 5th grade class

at Forest Hill.

M-

You know, it's not so bad living next

to your English teacher.

I hate English class.

What if your little teddy friend here can come to you?

What's his name?

Mr. Apples.

Nice to meet you Mr. Apples.

We were actually working on some spelling

and we're stuck on one word.

Mom won't let me use auto correct.

Well, she's right. You don't need it.

You know, I have a lot of fun games that make spelling

feel a lot easier.

What kind of games?

Well, now that we're neighbors

may be I could show you some time.

if... that's okay, of course.

That would be great.

Well, Enjoy the food!

Thank you, nice meeting you.

Wait Eve, can you stay?

No, I couldn't.

Honey, I'm sure Eve has other things to do.

Do you?

No, but I wouldn't want to impose.

I mean, look, we ordered a lot of food, okay?

Our eyes were clearly bigger than our bellies

and you're... welcome to join if you like, I mean...

I dont know...

Okay.

This is happening!

Honestly, when I left my ex, I felt like

a brand new me.

Really?

Yeah, I mean, we just weren't on the same page

about some pretty important stuff.

But now I'm free to do whatever I want.

Be whoever I want.

That's freeing.

Well, cheers to that.

You know, it's funny,

James and I, we met when I started as a nurse in ER.

I took one look at him and his busted leg

and I'm like, yeah, he's the one.

And we were so young and he was so charming.

I mean, he just had this way about him, you know?

As long as you didn't write your number on his cast.

Actually-

No, you didn't! - I did!

Look what I made.

Wow! - Wow!

Did you just draw this?

I like birds.