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If you did separate, I'd stay with you?

Your father and I are not going to separate.

I don't want you to go. Why can't I stay with you?

Why do we make a mistake? Why do "we", or why do I?

Lack of information. Stupidity. Or as a protest.

Because he's wasted 20 years trying to be the man

that you wanted him to be. He needs to find out who he is.

Sometimes I speak - not think. Don't tell Father.

Your son can't be trusted. What have you done?

She doesn't believe it yet, but she will.

We need to talk. The three of us.

You don't know him. Not like this.

Not the man who's about to arrive.

This programme contains some strong language.

Morning, Max.

Good morning, Mr Goldstein.

That's enough. Right, back to work, everyone.

Let's go. Come on.

Back to work!

Your father's on his way.

How are your lessons, Max? Very good, sir.

And how's Mr Goldstein? He's an excellent teacher, sir.

You're fond of him?

His lessons are thorough, sir.

I have a lesson for you.

Yes, sir. I need you to deliver this letter.

To Mr Roberts, sir? He works in this factory.

You're to wait for his reply. Can you do that for me?

Mr Roberts! Mr Roberts! Letter for Mr Roberts!

Mr Roberts?

Mr Roberts? A letter, sir.

For you, sir.

And I'm supposed to wait for your reply.

Sir?

I need your reply.

I can't lose this job. My family depends on me.

You tell your fa...

Sir, Mr Roberts says, "I can't lose this job. My family depends on me."

"Tell your father - my family depends on me."

A worker lost his hand today.

Yes, sir. Whose fault is it? Is it my fault?

No, sir.

So it's Mr Roberts' fault?

Yes, sir.

So he had to go.

Yes, sir.

Put your hand in my pocket. Sir?

Put your hand in my pocket.

What is it?

Iron ore, sir.

The raw material for this factory. Yes, sir.

Pure iron is soft, you can bend it, shape it,

but add impurities - carbon, dirt - and you make it stronger.

You make it steel. Yes, sir.

Look at your tutor.

Would you say he's iron or steel?

A clever man.

Learned in poetry and literature.

A kind and gentle man.

Your friend, it seems.

Right now he thinks that I'm cruel.

A cruel father to such a sensitive young boy.

Yet why doesn't he speak out?

Is that the kind of man YOU want to be?

Is that the man YOU want to be?

No, sir.

You're iron, my son.

I'm going to make you steel.

Can I come in?

Right now we're standing here, the three of us.

At this moment,

nothing's happened, nothing's been decided.

The two of you have spoken, I understand that.

You've shared information, that's fine.

People talk, it doesn't matter.

What matters is what people do.

And all you've done is to invite me up to this house for dinner.

Dinner? Yes, right.

Max, there's no dinner. Well, there could be. A family dinner?

I want us to take a moment, yeah.

To do what?

To appreciate this.

There's no... no yelling, no crying, no-one getting angry.

No-one's... no-one's making threats.

Just...

...silence.

Are we going to stand here all night?

Sure, I can do that, I can do whatever you want me to do.

I'm yours, right?

There - see?

You called me up here.

I'm not going anywhere.

I'm in no rush.

So, why not just take a moment?

I want to make sure.

I need for all of us to make sure

that this is a line we want to cross.

Have you eaten?

No.I don't want to eat.

When was the last time the three of us actually had a meal together?

A long time ago. What, about 20 years?

Yeah, something like that. Yeah, I remember.

I remember actually the last meal as a family.

So come on. We'll eat.

And we'll... think and decide.

OK. What have you got?

Are you all right?

Sorry.

I got it.

How long before the three of us will sit like this together again?

Depends on tonight.

That's what I've been trying to tell you.

Do you know why you remember our last meal?

Because you knew you were going to divorce me the next day.

You didn't know? I thought we had something worth saving.

Yes, we had something... worth saving.

We also had something that couldn't be saved.

Did you give THAT a chance... to discuss it?

That's what we're going to do now. Talk.

I have a suggestion.

That we don't talk. Not talk?

Not right now. Not after the meal.

Not at all. I told you!

That's why you're here. That's why we called you.

That's why you called me. Yes. To talk.

But that's not why I'm here. Why ARE you here?

To tell you that I don't think we should talk.

This meal is a trick! No, it's not a trick.

So we feel close. It's not a trick!

Like a real family.

The plate, the plate, the dropped plate.

What about the plate?

The plate you dropped, it was deliberate.

It wasn't the stroke. Be honest.

Max, you can't do this again.

You dropped it... Refuse to talk. ..deliberately.

To let us all know. Let you know what?

That this was not going to end well.

You don't want it to end well, do you? But it can.

We can just eat our meal here,

we will say our goodbyes and go back to our lives.

Our broken lives.

Caden, you're in love.

You're getting better, things are looking up!

Why would you want to fight with me? Over what?

My work?

We have to talk about this. If we talk, we fight.

This is the line, this is it, this is the decision.

Do you want to go over that line or not?

If you go over the line, there's no coming back.

How does it end?

The way all fights end.

Badly.

Unless... not another word?

Then good... for you.

Good for me? Good for you too, good for all of us.

A cover-up? Cover-up! Families are a cover-up.

Families are hundreds of cover-ups.

Let's just finish our meal.

And then we talk.

All right. Let's do it.

Let's just get it over with. Let's talk.

I'm not going to stop you any more.

That's it! I was trying to help you out,

but that didn't work, so let's... Come on, let's go in the other room

and we will talk.

This is you. Your mother's doing it for you.

No. Fuck you, Dad.

Great.

OK. Thank you.

Well, there we have it.

We can pretend that this is about the news or, er, ethics,

journalism, society, whatever, but, no, this is about an angry son

wanting to tell his father to go fuck himself.

And that's all. Well, now you've done it.

"Fuck you, Dad." Good. Do you feel better? Fine. Now be a man.

Now be a man? Be a man.

Tell your mother you don't need her to fight your fights,

and we can all go home. All this make-believe.

All this fake family.

What's fake? This family.

It's not true. There's no... love.

That's not true.

And there never was.

You hear him? He's wrong.

He can't make decisions like this.

His thinking is not clear.

I'm sitting right here!

I'm not part of your conspiracy.

And I'm not afraid of you.

Should I be afraid of YOU? Is that what you want?

We are going to talk about extortion, blackmail...

Oh, Kathryn!..bribery...

Kathryn!..theft... KATHRYN! Stop!

Stop! Right now! We have one more chance.

Please... end this before it starts.

You're brilliant.

You're a brilliant bully.

I'm belligerent when I'm right.

I'm right about this.