Captain Fantastic

Today, the boy is dead.

And in his place

is a man.

Here you go.

Training in 60 minutes.

Where's the boning knife?

Dad?

Zaja took the boning knife again.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, Jesus.

Pol Pot.

Yeah.

Boning knife.

Mountain beaver, huh?

Mmm-hmm.

You're dead.

Vespyr, Kielyr, pair off.

Get your guard up.

You have to stab to kill.

Aim for the liver or the kidneys, otherwise she'll never learn.

Shouldn't we aim here?

A knife in the lungs creates a pneumothorax.

Or next to the sternum, to penetrate the heart?

That'd be instant death.

If it makes you happy, Zaj, sure. Aim for the heart.

Bo, you want to show 'em? Over here.

Okay, let's go.

Disarm her if you can.

Ow!

Good.

How is that good? She just stabbed me.

She fucking just stabbed me.

Well, then learn to defend yourself.

You kill her. Yeah, thank you.

Let's try that.

Zaj, page.

Three hundred and ninety-eight.

You still liking it? Mmm-hmm.

To stay on schedule for the test,

you're going to have to be finished in eight days. Okay?

Okay.

Vesp? How you getting along?

I just finished Chapter 12,

"The World on a String."

What?

Are you having any trouble with quantum entanglement?

Planck length versus Planck time?

I'm fine. Good.

Then tomorrow after lunch,

you can give a brief presentation on M-theory.

Argue counterpoints with Bo and Rell vis-à-vis Witten and Dirac.

Whoo!

Go. Go all the way to the top.

If training is over today, can we take Steve somewhere for class later?

Maybe.

Why does Mommy have to be gone so long?

She hasn't been gone very long.

Actually, it's been three months,

two weeks, six days, and 11 hours.

Mom is very ill.

Don't talk to us like we're your inferiors.

Bo is right. Mom needs to be in the hospital right now.

But you said hospitals are only a great place to go

if you're a healthy person and you want to die.

You said Americans are undereducated and over medicated.

You said the AMA are avaricious whores

only too willing to spread their fat legs for Big Pharma.

All of those things are true.

But Mom does not have enough of the neurotransmitter serotonin

to conduct electrical signals in her brain.

Exactly when is Mom coming back?

That's what I'm going to go find out.

Be good, monkey butts.

See you later, Dad.

Bye. Bye, guys.

Sorry.

Are you coming in?

No? Okay. Bye.

Here, Bo, I got that. Go talk to them.

We got time.

Ask her what she thinks of the working people

creating an armed revolution against the exploiting classes

and their state structures?

Well, Marxists can be just as genocidal as capitalists.

Or whether or not she's a dialectical materialist

and accords primacy to the class struggle?

Avoid Marxism.

Or telling her you're a Trotskyite.

Trotskyist.

Only a Stalinist would call a Trotskyist a Trotskyite.

And I'm not a Trotskyist anymore.

I'm a Maoist.

Right.

I forgot, sorry.

Hey.

Hey, Joe.

I sold all your stuff from last time.

Great. Let's see what you got.

Hello? Hey.

Ben. How's she doing?

Harper?

Harper?

Leslie killed herself last night.

How?

Harper.

Harper, tell me.

She slit her wrists.

You're my brother. If you need anything from me...

Last night,

Mommy killed herself.

She finally did it.

Your mother is dead.

Nothing is going to change.

We will go on living in exactly the same way.

We're a family.

No.

Mom!

Mom! Mom!

Fuck you! Fucking...

Mom! Mom!

I hate you!

Fuck!

Daddy.

Jesus fucking Christ.

- Forty-three. - Go, go, go, go, go, go, go!

Forty-four.

Forty-five.

Hold plank.

Like boards.

Breathe, breathe, breathe, breathe.

You got it.

Keep holding.

You're strong, you can do it.

Dad, when's Mom's funeral?

The utter recklessness,

the instability and insecurity that you have brought to her life...

We decided to live here. Both of us.

This is your fault.

Leslie had a disease.

She had to be in a good facility.

You were kind enough to offer to pay for it

as long as she was treated near you.

We did that.

I found her will.

I assume you know that Leslie was a Buddhist.

That means she wanted to be cremated, not buried.

It was very important to her...

I have just lost my only child.

I'm in no mood to discuss the particulars of her funeral with you.

Wherever you are, stay there!

You are not welcome here.

If you show up, I will have you arrested.

Jack? God damn it.

Hello, Ben.

Leslie is in Heaven now. She is finally at peace.

When is the ceremony?

It's in five days, in New Mexico, at our church.

How are the children?

Did you hear what Jack just said?

It's been years.

He said that he would have me arrested if we go there.

Did you hear that?

He's very upset.

It's just best to do what he says.

It doesn't make any sense.

I mean, who are they to make these decisions?

It's this sick sense of entitlement that they all seem to have.

This is what we stand against, this is what Mom stood against.

Mom hated that world.

Clothes on when we eat, please.

It's completely unjust, that's what it is.

We're in the very unique position of hating those people.

- Can "unique" be modified? - No.

We don't hate Nana and Grandpa,

but the rest of their tribe are fascist capitalists.

You're just repeating whatever Dad says.

I'm writing down everything you say. In my mind.

Do you even know what a fascist is?

Violent, nationalist militants.

Supported by big business and their totalitarian single-party dictators.

We're her family, we have to go. Grandpa said we can't.

What will happen if they arrest you?

Will they take us away from you?

That's a possibility.

Hey.

Wake up.

Wake up, grizzly bear, my fantastic man.

What we're doing out here is so incredible.

The kids are amazing.

But you have to take care of them for me, okay?

I love you all so much.

I love you so much.

We want to see Mom.

Plus, Grandpa can't oppress us.

We want to honor her life.

It's the least you could do.

What's that supposed to mean?

You know.

No, I don't.

Forget it. But I know.