Clu Gulager: Mr. Walsh
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[Jesse joins his parents for morning breakfast, as Angela digs in a cereal box for the toy prize]
Cheryl Walsh : Jesse, are you okay?
Jesse Walsh : It's just so hot up there. I'm having a lot of trouble sleeping.
Cheryl Walsh : I know - Ken, I wish you'd call somebody and have the air conditioning...
Ken Walsh : There's nothing, absolutely nothing wrong with that air conditioning, mom. It just needs a shot of Freon.
Angela Walsh : [Angela finds the toy prize] Here they are!
Jesse Walsh : Oh, no. Come on, dad, you're not trying to fix something again.
Ken Walsh : [Ken smiles] Nobody likes a smart ass, buddy boy.
Angela Walsh : [Angela holds up her hand wearing the Freddy look-alike Fu Man fingers] Look.
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[the policeman drops Jesse off at home to his parents late in the night]
Policeman : [Jesse's parents answer the door] Good evening. Does this belong to you?
Ken Walsh : [the parents see Jesse standing there with a blanket around him] Yes, sir - He's my son.
Policeman : We found him out on the highway, wandering around. He was naked. I'd keep a short leash on him, if I were you.
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[Ken and Cheryl Walsh argue about what help Jesse needs]
Cheryl Walsh : He needs professional help. I think we have to take him to see a psychiatrist.
Ken Walsh : Oh, come on, Cheryl. You're out of your gourd. What the hell will that do?
Cheryl Walsh : I don't know. I just feel he needs help, and we don't know how to give it to him.
Ken Walsh : Oh, come on, Cheryl.
Cheryl Walsh : Are you hearing me? That boy's in trouble!
Ken Walsh : No, he's not in trouble! What that boy needs is a good goddamn kick in the butt, that's what he needs! Tell you what he needs. He needs a methadone clinic.
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[Jesse asks his father about their house during the family's morning breakfast]
Jesse Walsh : Dad, how come it took them five years to sell this house?
Ken Walsh : Oh, I don't know. Just couldn't get the right price, I suppose.
Jesse Walsh : You didn't know anything about the murder across the street, and the crazy girl who lived here that saw the whole thing?
Ken Walsh : They told me something about it, yeah, but I...
Cheryl Walsh : You mean, you knew something about this, and you...
Ken Walsh : Oh, come on, Cheryl. How do think we got such a good deal, huh?
Jesse Walsh : Did they tell you that that girl lost her mind, and her mother killed herself in our living room?
Cheryl Walsh : [Cheryl yells out louder] What?
Jesse Walsh : Did they tell you that?
Angela Walsh : Mom, I'm scared.
Ken Walsh : [Ken signals for Angela to come to him] Come here.
Cheryl Walsh : [Cheryl tells her daughter] Oh, honey, it's all right. Daddy and Jesse are just pretending, that's all. I don't think this is something we should discuss here.
Ken Walsh : [Ken tells Jesse] See what you're doing here? I don't want to hear one more word about it, Jess. There is absolutely nothing, I mean *nothing*, wrong with this house. Come on.
Angela Walsh : Something burning?
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[Jesse and the family talk about how hot it is in the living room]
Jesse Walsh : My, God - It is hot like an oven in here.
Angela Walsh : Shh! The birds are sleeping.
Ken Walsh : Cheryl, it's 97 degrees in here.
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[Ken Walsh tries to check behind the oven for a gas leak, and if it was the cause of the family bird to explode]
Jesse Walsh : It isn't the gas.
Ken Walsh : Don't tell me it's not the gas. Your mother thought she smelled gas.
Cheryl Walsh : Well, Ken, I thought I did. I wasn't sure.
Ken Walsh : All right, then. What is it? I mean, bird rabies? It's that cheap seed you been buying.
Cheryl Walsh : Oh, please, Ken. Really...
Ken Walsh : Well, it could be. There's got to be a reasonable explanation. I mean, animals don't just explode into flames for no reason. Do they?
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[Jesse's parents question him after arriving home with the police naked]
Ken Walsh : Two questions. You answer them, and we can all go to bed, all right? What are you taking, son? Who are you getting it from?
Jesse Walsh : I'm not taking drugs. Mom, I want to go to bed.
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Ken Walsh : [DELETED SCENE: Ken is convinced that Jesse is gay, besides being on drugs; he demands that his son get out of the house, and stay out] ... A junkie can go into rehab and get clean. But a queer's gotta bear *his* disease, for life. Still, that doesn't mean his family has to bear it also. You take your things and split, mister. And I mean yesterday, if not sooner.
Jesse Walsh : [dripping sarcasm] After all your badgering me to unpack, now I'm hearing *this*?
Ken Walsh : [furious, to his wife] Cheryl, bring my gun. Now.
[to Jesse]
Ken Walsh : Just get what you can carry; then go to hell, where your kind belongs, and stay there.
[Jesse bites his thumb at his father and walks out empty-handed. Ken turns to his daughter]
Ken Walsh : Young lady, I want you to clean out that other bedroom, because I'm putting it up for rent. Then I want you to bring me every picture we have that... that *he's" in, so I can destroy them or blot his face out of them.
Angela Walsh : Are you really gonna shoot my brother, if he comes back?
[Ken viciously backhands her upside the head]
Ken Walsh : As of this second, missy, you *have* no brother. You're never to mention his name in this house again. And if you don't like it, so help me, I'll break your nose like a goddamned egg.
