Elephant

Hike.

Stop it!

Go!

What's up, boys?

All right, let's go.

Let's go. Break.

Hike.

- What? Where are you going? Come here. - Oh, my God, Dad.

Get in the car. You're gonna be late for school. Come on.

- Mom's gonna kill you. - What?

What are you doing?

Dad, I'm driving. No.

Get out of the car, Dad.

- What? - Get out of the car.

- Seat belt. - Yeah.

- What's the big deal? - Can you just get in the car, please?

Let's go hunting. Wanna go hunting this weekend?

Okay, let's go. Where are we going hunting?

You can use that old Jap 243 that Grandpa brought back from Truk.

- From where? - Truk Islands, the South Pacific.

- Admiral Halsey, World War II. - Yeah, right.

I was there.

You've been there, right, Dad?

No.

- Can I take your guys' picture? - Why?

I'm just developing my portfolio right now, doing random projects.

What's a portfolio?

It's when you put together pictures to present your work.

- Get into galleries, stuff like that. - What kind of work?

Anything. Like, portraits mainly.

- Like, naked people? - No.

Want us to get naked with you, take our picture?

No. I'm not for the outdoor-naked thing.

Public nudity is... No.

- No, we won't do that. - All right, man.

Yeah? Okay, good.

You're too kind.

All right, let's go.

Be a little happier. Come on.

There you go.

Kind of look away.

Make a funny face.

One more.

Yeah, good. Keep walking.

Maybe one kiss.

Perfect. All right, I actually gotta get to school.

- My name's Caroline. - Nice to meet you. I'm Eli.

- Nice to meet you, too. - What's up?

I'll give you guys a print the next time I see you, or whenever.

- I'll try and make one today. - All right. See you later, man.

All right, Dad, you stay here. Paul will come pick you up.

Dad, just stay in the car. I gotta go. Just stay in the car, please.

Hey, Paul? Yeah, it's John.

Dad's drunk again.

So, Mr. McFarland...

Hi, Mr. Luce. I'm sorry I'm late.

My dad took me out to lunch.

- I mean, breakfast. - Meet me in my office.

I'm in trouble now.

Will you pick him up? I'll leave the keys in the office.

Can you do it soon? 'Cause I don't know if he's gonna stay.

Set. Hike!

He's so cute.

- How are you? - Good, and how are you?

I'm doing pretty good. How was Math?

- How do you think? - That good?

That's all right, you know, it happens.

How's Sara doing? Is everything okay with her?

She seemed a little off lately.

Yeah, I guess so. How's school for you?

It's about as good as it could be.

- Is P.E. Treating you all right? - Yeah.

- Excuse me, miss? - Yes?

- We need to sign out. - Okay.

That picture was taken in Hawaii, on the island of Maui.

What do you need, hon?

Get to class.

Don't be late for detention.

- Excuse me, miss? We need to sign out. - Where was that picture taken?

That picture was taken in Hawaii, on the island of Maui.

- That's real pretty. - Isn't that cool? What do you need?

I need to leave these keys for my brother.

He's gonna come pick them up, 11:30-ish.

Put the keys in the envelope, and put your brother's name on there.

His name's Paul.

By the way, what time will you be back?

Right around 1:30 p.m.

- 11:30 you said? - Yeah, about.

- Okay, great. - All right, thanks.

And don't forget to bring your own steaks.

- I'll see you then. - Yeah, okay.

I'm saving for my car. I'm paying it off this month.

Surprise!

Hello.

Hi.

What's wrong?

Nothing.

- You were crying. - Yeah.

- Is it something bad? - I don't know.

I'll see you later. I have to go to a Gay-Straight Alliance meeting.

Okay.

Hi, Acadia, how you doing?

We were talking about walking down a street being gay.

What do you think about that? How can you tell?

- Or can you tell? - Good question.

See, that's the thing. I don't think you can.

I think in some situations you can tell...

and there are situations where people want you to know.

What makes you think you can tell? If somebody wants you to know.

If someone has...

dyed pink hair.

Wait, what do you think about that?

I know it is, but what do you think about that?

I don't think that wearing pink...

indicates your sexual orientation necessarily.

- A lot of men wear pink. - It is a lot, yeah.

Like rainbow necklaces.

I mean, if you have tons of rainbow paraphernalia...

Jump in on this. Help them out here a little bit.

Come on.

Did you guys see the cover story on The Oregonian about the gay rams?

Yeah. See, this is a good topic here. Go ahead.

Because apparently the farmers can't tell if the rams are gay or not.

So you get a ram to breed and it's not...

so they waste a lot of money. So they're doing all this research.

They spend, like, $10,000 on a ram.

That's a lot of money for one ram.

But the scary thing is if they know what causes homosexuality...

is that something you could change, something you could remove?

There's all this weird political stuff around it.

I don't think we're talking about the change, necessarily.

We're talking about if we notice somebody on the street...

if we can tell they're gay. I don't think you can.

How in the world do we know their spirit?

If they wear one of those bracelets, the rainbow and stuff, that's a giver.

Somebody walking on the street, all dressed up, wearing high heels...

Rainbow bracelets don't necessarily mean that you're gay.

I've never seen anybody wear one that isn't gay.

- Me, for example. - Then why would it even matter?

You're wearing a bracelet and you're not gay. Who cares either way?

- What time will you be back? - Right around 1:30 p.m.

Okay.

Here's the deal.

Aaron and I and some of the other boys...

we're gonna go fourbying later today.

We were wondering if maybe you would like to bring some of the girls along.

Don't you remember what happened last time?

- Of course. How could I forget? - With Sara and Jessica?

- Sara and Jessica, they're... - Don't be mean.

I never tease you about Jason and his hot dogs, or whatever.

That was an isolated incident.

Besides, I don't know if I can go.

I don't know what time I'll get home.

- Home from the appointment? - Yeah.

Does that, by any chance, have to do with...

when we went camping, two or three weeks ago?

I don't know. It could be anything.

You know what? You don't have to worry about it. You know why?

Because we're gonna have a blast fourbying...

as long as... You gotta promise to show up.

- Hey, Eli! - What's up, John?

- How's it going? - Pretty good.

- What are you doing? - Just taking pictures.

- Can I take a picture of you? - Yeah, sure.

Okay, ready? One, two, three.

- Nice. - I'll see you later.

- You going to the concert tonight? - No, my parents are being bitches.

That's retarded. That happens.

All right. I'll see you.

Boomer!

Come here.

What are you guys doing?

Get the fuck out of here and don't come back.

- Some heavy shit's going down. - What are you doing?

When the electrons jump from one orbital to another one...

what does that do? What's the difference between the orbitals?

The orbitals differ in energy.

The orbitals, which are areas in space around the nucleus...

the ones that are closer to the nucleus, those are low energy...

and the ones that are further away are higher energy.

So when we put energy into the atom...

it kicks these electrons out...

further away from the nucleus, and produces a higher... Yes?

After putting electricity into the tube full of the electrons...

after they're lit up, do they stay lit up or can they run out of energy?

Good question. What they do...

is they will sit up in this higher energy state...

and then drop down again.

And when they drop down, they emit light.

What are you writing?

- This? - Yeah.

It's my plan.

- For what? - You'll see.

- Hey, Eli, what's up? - Hey, how are you?

Not much. I'm just gonna go to the darkroom and stuff, so...

Yeah. Watch out for Mr. Robertson's class.

Yeah, I know. No kidding.

- All right, I'll see you later. - Okay. Bye.

- How you doing? - Pretty good, actually.

- How about you? - Fine.