Shree Crooks credited as playing...
Zaja
- Kielyr: What's a bordello?
- Ben: A whorehouse... What are you reading?
- Kielyr: Lolita?
- Ben: I didn't assign that book.
- Kielyr: I'm skipping ahead.
- Ben: And?
- Kielyr: It's interesting.
- Rellian: Interesting!
- Bo: Illegal word!
- Zaja: Dad, Kielyr said interesting!
- Ben: Interesting is a non-word. You know you're supposed to avoid it... Be specific.
- Kielyr: It's disturbing.
- Ben: More specific.
- Kielyr: Can I just read?
- Ben: After you give us your analysis thus far.
- Kielyr: There's this old man who loves this girl, and she's only 12 years old.
- Ben: That's the plot.
- Kielyr: Because it's written from his perspective, you sort of understand and sympathize with him. Which is kind of amazing because he's essentially a child molester. But his love for her is beautiful. But it's also sort of a trick because it's so wrong. You know, he's old, and he basically rapes her. So it makes me feel... I hate him. And somehow I feel sorry for him at the same time.
- Ben: Well done.
- Ben: Mom needs to be in the hospital right now.
- Vespyr: But you said hospitals are a great place to go if you're a healthy person and you want to die.
- Zaja: You said Americans are under-educated and over-medicated.
- Kielyr: You said the AMA are avaricious whores only too willing to spread their fat legs for big pharma.
- Ben: All those things are true. But mom does not have enough of the neurotransmitter serotonin to conduct electrical signals in her brain.
- Ben: [Rellian is dangling from climbing rope] Rell? Can you flex your fingers? S-T-O-P. Stay calm, Think, Observe, and Plan.
- Zaja: If you hit the rocks below you, you'll die from blunt force trauma. Or internal bleeding from massive bone fracturing. Or splenic flexure of the large intestine.
- Ben: Yes, thank you, Zaj.
- [Ben takes his money from the teller and returns to his children; observing the confused and concerned looks on the children's faces]
- Ben: Okay. Now what?
- Nai: What's wrong with everyone?
- Kielyr: Are they sick?
- Ben: What do you mean?
- Zaja: Everyone's so fat.
- [quick cut to obese patrons and bank employees]
- Ben: Yeah, they are.
- Zaja: Fat like hippos.
- Nai: That's not nice to say.
- Zaja: But look!
- [emphatically]
- Zaja: [quick cut to obese patrons and bank employees]
- Kielyr: Okay, you can think that, but we don't make fun of people. Right, dad?
- Ben: That's right... we don't make fun of people.
- Vespyr: Except Christians.