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Alison, Al, time to wake up

Hi there doll face

You slept through the alarm.

You doing okay?

Middle of the night,you woke me up

and told me you were feeling a little stiff.

Why are you looking to me like that

I don't know

Things just seem different

You seem different.

Different?

What do you mean different?

Look at your face.

Look at my arms!

What are you talking about?

Oh,my God!

I think we're dolls!

We're in the middle of a family crisis.

I need everyone to pull together.

What is it,Mom?

What's the big deal?

Honey,I really think you're overreacting here.

Overreacting?!

We're dolls!

All of us!

Al,honestly,everything is as it's always been.

I have no idea what you're talking about.

I'm talking about the fact that you're six inches tall

and your face is made of plastic!

I'm talking about the fact

that if I stripped off all those doll clothes you're wearing

I'd find a smooth little nub

where your boy parts are supposed to be.

Dad,what's wrong with Mom?

She's just a little...

Nothing!

What is wrong with all of you?!

You act like this is normal.

We're human beings!

We always have been!

We dont live in a dollhouse!

Shh!

Mommy,you better be quiet.

If you make too much noise,he'll hear you.

What do you mean?

Who'll hear me?

Who's "he"?

You know who "he" is.

Ariel!

Joe,we have to do something!

Mommy!

Bridgette!

Joe!

We have to hide,sweetie.

No!

Please!

No,please!

Don't hurt my family!

Hey.

You slept through the alarm.

You doing okay?

Middle of the night,you woke me up,

told me you were feeling a little stiff.

Why are you looking at me like that?

You have,uh...

toilet paper all over your face.

I cut myself.

We're all out of shaving cream.

I was trying to make do.

Ah,poor baby.

I'll get you some.

I was gonna go by the drugstore this morning anyway.

Thanks

You're a doll.

of your

"that I have longed long to redeliver,

and I pray now that you receive them. "

"No,not I. I never gave you aught. "

"My honored lord,you know right well you did. "

This play is stupid.

And how am I supposed to learn this for class

if Bridgette keeps tickling Marie?

Hey,Bridge,Ariel's trying to concentrate.

Stop tickling your sister.

I'm not tickling her.

I'm checking to see if she has chicken pox.

Why would you be doing that?

Well,I had this dream last night

that Marie was all covered in chickenpox.

But it looks like she's okay.

Dad...

Hi,sweetie.

You feeling okay?

I cannot get chicken pox,not now.

I've managed to get through

almost four decades on this planet

without getting chicken pox.

I dodged the bullet when Ariel and Bridgette had it.

And right now,this month,I'm looking at

an uninterrupted string of 14-hour days...

so that we can make our deadline on the Haspel project.

I just don't feel like calling my boss and telling him

I can't pitch in because I came down with a disease

that's usually associated with kindergartners.

What is so funny?

Joe,Joe,you silly scientist,you.

You're worried about nothing,literally.

There's a vaccine for chicken pox now.

Marie had it almost six months ago.

There's a vaccine?

Marie had it?

Same time she got her measles shot.

Uh-huh.

Huh.

Oh,wait a second. Wait.

Actually,I think I do see some marks.

Some red spots.

Toilet paperus poxus.

Healed.

Funny.

No!

Please! No!

Excuse me.

Where are your parents?

I'm so cold,Daddy!

I want to get out!

Oliver,don't complain.

This is for your own good.

We don't complain about things that are good for us,right?

Oliver.

Oliver. Son,I'm ready to go.

Why are you just standing there?

Come on. Come here.

Kids.

They didn't have it.

We got to go somewhere else.

You look good,Daddy.

I know you've been sick,but it doesn't really show.

I mean...

you lost some weight and you look good.

That's not why you're here.

You want the truth?

You want the awful truth?

It had nothing to do with you.

And it's killing Mom that you take this on every year,

that you wear it like...

like a coat of shame.

All she wants to do is talk and cry and laugh

and look at pictures,and all you want to do

is climb into your own darkness by yourself.

Two years of college...

now you know everything.

20 years of you.

And,yeah,I do know everything.

I'm sorry to interrupt,sir,

but if you don't leave now,

you're going to be late for court.

What did your boss say?

I told you.

I couldn't get to him.

He was behind closed doors

and then he was in court all day.

Had Scanlon run the plates.

There was nothing there.

I assume he has a name,though.

Michael Levitt.

Never been arrested.

Child Protective Services has never been called to his house.

Are you even listening to me?

I knew it. Look at this.

I knew I'd read this somewhere. What?

Even if you've been... even if you've been vaccinated,

there's still a one-in-ten chance of getting chicken pox.

And if you get it,you're contagious.

Who's the silly scientist now?

Well,congratulations.

So what are we gonna do,put Marie in quarantine

until your project's over?

Is there a reasonably priced facility nearby?

You okay over there?

I need to visit Arianna next week.

I need to.

Okay.

I don't know if I can make that work.

I have court.

There are motions pending.

You're her father.

Don't you want to see her?

Don't you need to be near her?

Well,I do.

It's been six years.

I want to go visit my daughter's grave.

Shh! He'll hear you.

Shh!

Oliver...

you were supposed to be asleep an hour ago.

You know the rules about bedtime.

And you know what happens when you break them.

You get one minute.

No,Daddy.