Fathers and Daughters

Potato Chip.

Potato Chip?

I'm here!

- Here I come! I'm hungry now! - (GIRL SHRIEKS)

Go! Run, run!

- I want the Potato Chip! - (KATIE GIGGLES)

Guess who's home.

(MUSIC BOX CONTINUES PLAYING SLOWLY)

You know, I saw the way you were looking at her.

Come on, there was a room full of writers. I was just talking to her.

Oh, come on! I know the difference between talking and flirting.

I wasn't flirting. You shoudn't've had that third glass of wine.

Oh really? Yeah, listen, once you've been betrayed...

...there's no way in the world that I would ever...

Once, Tricia, once! Seven years ago.

Once?

- Once is enough for me! And... - (HORN BLARING)

- (TRICIA GASPS, SCREAMS) - (TYRES SCREECHING)

Daddy!

(CRYING) Daddy!

Potato Chip...

Daddy!

Daddy!

(MUSIC BOX CONTINUES PLAYING SLOWLY)

(CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKER)

The problem now is that now you're experiencing...

...a manic depressive psychosis

brought on by the accident, the brain trauma, the loss of your wife.

What concerns me, Jake, are the seizures,

because those seizures are definitely a sign of something far more serious.

And if you don't at least try treatment and give yourself a chance,

you will end up with a much worse condition.

Like what?

Psychotic breaks.

I would like to strongly suggest that you consider staying at St. Francis.

I know doctors there. I really recommend you get treatment for a few weeks.

Maybe even a few months.

A mental hospital?

Come on.

I can't do that. I have a... I have a daughter to raise.

And that's exactly why you need to,

because you have a daughter to raise.

Still your favorite, isn't it?

Yeah.

Hey...

Katie...

I have to go away.

What?

Just for a little while.

How long?

I don't know, just a while.

I wanna come.

Not this time, baby.

You know...

the accident's made me a little bit sick and I have to get fixed.

I need to be stronger so I can take care of you.

You do!

Not the way I need to, baby. Okay?

You're gonna go stay with Aunt Elizabeth and Uncle William

and your cousins ​​in West Chester.

But I don't want you to go!

When I come back it'll be for good, forever.

It's gonna be fine.

- Hey. - Hi, sweetheart!

Jake. Hi!

Oh, I'm so happy you come to stay with us.

Say goodbye.

- I have to go now. - No!

I'll be back soon as I can.

You're my Potato Chip, You and nobody else, okay?

I love you so much.

- Okay okay... - He'll be back, sweetheart.

I love you, Katie!

Dad!

Go ahead.

Please drive.

7 Months Later.

Jake, it's time.

I'm proud of you, Jake.

You need anything, you know where to find us.

Let's get you out of here.

Goodbye, Jake. Good luck.

Thanks.

You look good.

I guess electroshock agrees with me.

Oh, they'd better not have scrambled those wires.

You got a Nobel Prize in that head of yours.

You mark my word.

If Bellow can win it, so can you.

Thanks for the pressure. It'll be out in five minutes.

Oh, you know, I've made an effort.

Well, it hasn't been an effort, it's been a great joy for me.

I've seen her, at least once a month.

Sometimes even more.

You're gonna be absolutely...

Gonna see Katie later?

Yeah.

Now you nervous?

She's my daughter. Why would I be nervous?

You want me to come with?

You really are a full-service agent.

I'm a friend.

We'll be fine.

- Yeah? - Yeah, thanks for picking me up there.

Thanks for the lift.

Take care!

- Daddy! - Potato Chip! Hey!

- I missed you! I missed you! - I missed you too.

I told you I'd come back and now I'm back, you see?

- Well, I know. But I waited for ever. - I know.

- Are you here for good? - For good.

For ever and ever. A big yeah.

Hey, Jake. I love you!

- Hey. - Welcome back.

Love you too!

I have coffee and cake on the inside.

- Do you drink coffee? - Come on in.

No.

Well, I'm glad to hear you don't drink coffee.

- But you eat cake? - Yes.

Okay. So let's go and have some to take.

- Hey, William. - Welcome back, Jake.

- How's the law? - Oh, always good.

And she's been doing better and better in school.

We're very proud of her.

- Dottie. - Yes, ma'am?

Could you please take Katie to her room?

Why?

We're just gonna have a little chat with daddy, okay?

It's okay.

Boys! Not in the house. Go up to your rooms.

What's up?

Almost a year away.

Seven months.

Look, I, uh... I wanna thank you both

and let you know how much I appreciate you looking after Katie. She looks terrific.

I'm indescribably grateful. Thank you.

- Well, we have a safe, happy home here. Yes.

I guess it's been quite an ajustment, like being back.

Well, I missed her terribly.

Oh yeah?

- Miss Patricia? - (GLASSES CLINKS)

Being back doesn't solve that.

Did you know that we were gonna have lunch the day of her funeral?

You're finally going to discuss some of the things that have been keeping us apart.

- Elizabeth... - And...

...there's not a day that I don't think about that, Jake.

She was my only sister and I never got the chance...

- Look, Elizabeth... - I...

We'd like to make a proposal, Jake, and just hear me out.

We'd like Katie stay here tonight, and you get settled.

You'll get you sea legs, so to speak.

And then, you know, in a week or whenever you're ready,

then have Katie come with you.

That won't be necessary.

- Well, it's no hardship for us. - We'll be fine.

- We enjoy having Katie here. - We like having her here.

You got late.

Katie.

We'd like to adopt Katie!

What?

Elizabeth, God damn it!

Listen, I don't want the kids to hear us. Let me just...

What are you talking about?

Look, Jake, I've never been comfortable hiding our intentions.

Look, Katie is happy here. She loves Andrew and Michael.

I mean, you should see the way the three...

Katie is my daughter!

Well, yeah, of course she is. But we're very comfortable.

Staying at St. Francis for a year,

I imagine you ran through most of your money.

You could see her whenever you want,

and this is gonna free you up to concentrating on your...

- Katie! - Jake.

- Come on, we're going. Jake! Jake!

Potato Chip.

So I thought we rehearsed this.

- He killed my sister, not yours. - (WILLIAM SIGHS)

Jake.

- Say thank you. - Thank you.

- Say goodbye. - Bye.

Honey, I love you. Bye.

- (MUSIC PLAYING) - 25 Years Later.

Hey, Katie, wait up.

- What's going on? - Studying.

I Can't believe you're getting a graduating degree in psychology,

sitting around listening to people whine about their problems all day.

I like helping people.

You can help me.

I'm lonely as hell.

What could I possibly do to help you, Evan?

I don't know. We could go out for a date sometime.

You're a confident man, huh?

Am I? I think so.

So tell me, what do you really want?

Do you wanna date me, or do you wanna fuck me?

'cause I'm fine either way.

- What happened to your confidence? - (EVAN CHUCKLES)

- (KATIE MOANING LOUDLY) - (EVAN MOANING)

- (EVAN MOANS, CHUCKLES) - (BOTH PANTING)