Angela Bassett credited as playing...
Mildred
- Mildred: [talking on the phone] We'll see you at 2:00 this afternoon. He'll be so excited you're coming. Bye-bye, now.
- [Mildred hangs up]
- Mildred: Yes! Hey, Goob - I mean, Michael, good luck at the big game today!
- Michael "Goob" Yagoobian: [sleepily] Easy win, those guys are a bunch of bums. I just hope I can stay awake.
- Mildred: Don't tell me, let me guess...
- Michael "Goob" Yagoobian: He was up all night, working on his stupid project.
- [yawns]
- Michael "Goob" Yagoobian: But that's what happens when you get a science geek for a roommate.
- Michael "Goob" Yagoobian: [Yagoobian sips his juice box, and trades it to Mildred in exchange for her mug of coffee, which he drinks] Ahh, that's good joe.
- Mildred: [Mildred sees Lewis in his bedroom, working on his invention] All right, Einstein, you owe Michael big time.
- Lewis: Well, unlocking the secrets of the brain took a lot longer than I expected, but it's finished, Mildred; I re-calibrated the headset.
- [Lewis shows his illustrated scientific notes to Mildred]
- Lewis: Now the neural circuits will connect! I've cracked the hippocampus!
- Mildred: Really? Okay, what?
- Lewis: Now to test it out.
- [Lewis's alarm clock goes off; he starts putting his invention model into a wagon]
- Lewis: Oh no, I'm late! I gotta go!
- Mildred: Wait a minute, Lewis, wait a minute.
- [Mildred briefly laughs]
- Mildred: I almost forgot what I came up here for. I know you have a lot on your plate today, but I've scheduled an interview for you this afternoon.
- Lewis: No thanks.
- Mildred: No thanks? Sweetheart, this is about being adopted, and you will be back here clean, happy, and on time.
- Lewis: I'm done with interviews, Mildred. I'm not gonna be rejected anymore.
- Mildred: Listen, I know where your head is, but I'm telling you, you have got to get out of the past and look to the future.
- Lewis: I am, and this is it. This is my future. I'm sorry.
- [Lewis heads out the front door towards the elementary school's science fair]
- Mildred: Lewis? Honey?
- Mildred: It's not you. we just haven't found the right couple yet.
- Lewis: 124.
- Mildred: [gently] What?
- Lewis: That's how many adoption interviews I've had, 124.
- Mildred: Oh Lewis, come on now, you're exaggerating just to make your... point.
- [Lewis turns the crate around with 124 tally marks on it]
- Lewis: Plus, I'm gonna be 13 next year, and you know how hard it is for a teenager to get adopted. I have no future, no one wants me!
- Mildred: That's not true, Lewis!
- Lewis: My own mother didn't even want me!
- Mildred: Now stop it! You do not know that!
- Lewis: Then why did she give me up?
- Mildred: She may not have been able to take care of you, did you ever think of that?
- [Lewis turns silent]
- Mildred: I am sure she was only thinking about what was best for you.
- Lewis: I never thought of it that way.
- Mildred: Maybe she wanted to keep you, but she had no choice.
- Lewis: You're right! My real mom is the only person who's ever wanted me.
- Mildred: Wait, I said 'maybe'.
- Lewis: If she wanted me then, she'll want me now!
- Mildred: What are you talking about?
- Lewis: I have to find her, Mildred, and when I do, she'll take me back, and we'll be a family again!
- Mildred: Whoa, whoa, whoa, Lewis! You can't do that! No one knows anything about her, no one even saw her!
- Lewis: [Lewis looks up at a billboard that says "Remember your Ginkgo Biloba"] Wrong, I saw her... once, she's in here. I just have to remember.