A Million Little Things
Wednesdays 10:00 PM on ABCA Million Little Things Season 3 Episode 8: "The Price of Admission" Quotes
Gina: Babe, the Vicodin from my wrist surgery is missing. I keep thinking about the pill I found on the floor and how I didn't say anything, how I almost lost you, so I need to know do you have them?
Rome: No, I promise you, I'm OK. I'm not in that place anymore.
Gina: OK but if you didn't take them, who did?
We're still friends even if our benefits ran out.
Jamie
Danny: What's all this?
Gary: The commonwealth of Massachusetts has issued a stay-at-home order, Daniel. So the commonwealth of Gary has come up with a plan. Now, if you have any interest in living, I suggest you hush up and listen up.
Danny: Can you just text it to me?
Gary: No, I cannot. Now if we practice social distancing mask up with everyone in the outside world and keep our gatherings to six people or fewer we should be able to maintain a safe bubble within our friend group that's just phase one. Phase two Dr. Fauci and I become close personal friends. You gotta love a health expert who sounds like he has a permanently sore throat.
Danny: How long do we have to do this?
Gary: Tony says for a couple of weeks, at least until we flatten the curve.
Eddie: Doesn't Connor know that you can't get someone sick over the internet?
Katherine: Of course he knows, Eddie. He said it because he's Asian.
Eddie: Are you sure?
Katherine: Yeah, I'm sure. He probably heard it at home.
Eddie: Then I'm calling the school.
Katherine: No. All it will do is single Theo out, probably make him even more of a target.
Rome: Hey, listen. When you were over here did you happen to see Gina's Vicodin?
Eddie: Uh, no.
Rome: It's weird. It was right next to the arnica and now it's gone.
Eddie: And you think I took it?
Rome: Did you?
Eddie: Dude this is ridiculous! I'm sitting here in a wheelchair rubbing freaking arnica on my back and my best friend is accusing me of stealing his wife's ills! I don't even take pills, Rome, you know why? Because I'm an alcoholic, which you should know since you helped me get sober, what was that, 11 years ago!
Alan: When I think back to when I was Theo's age, the number of Kung Fu Jackie Chan jokes I heard, my own classmates mimicking my parents' accents behind their back, I may not have known exactly what it was then, but it still hurt.
Katherine: Did you ever talk to your parents about this stuff.
Alan: No. They risked so much moving their lives here just so I could have a good education, just for me to come home and complain about a couple of jokes? I couldn't bother them with that. Those weren't real problems. I can still hear my dad's words, don't cause trouble, just fit in.
Katherine: Don't cause trouble. Work hard. Be successful. You know, Model Minority.
Katherine: I know our parents did their best, but I have to do better. I don't want Theo to have to pay the same price.
Alan: Well then maybe it's doing what our parents never did. Talk to him about it.
Sorry, I stole Gina's pills. I screwed everything up. I need help.
Eddie
Eddie: I was just trying to be the husband and father that I ... dude, what the hell are you doing?
Gary: What the hell are you doing? You've been taking pills for two months and I'm just now hearing about it? The night we buried Jon, we agreed that we would talk. We agreed that we would tell each other everything, even the hard stuff, and I'm only hearing about this because you stole Gina's Vicodin? It's not like you couldn't get me on the phone, Ed. I was ten feet away. All you had to do was say something, anything, instead, you lied.
Gary: I couldn't tell you. I couldn't tell anyone cause doing that would mean losing.
Seeing my dad that angry was scary, and I never understood why he reacted that way until I got older and asked him about it, and that's when he told me. The system treats people like us differently, and once you're in the system, it's really hard to get out, so I did what I had to do to keep you out, son. What I'm trying to say is my dad did that to protect me from something that I didn't understand yet. Sometimes our parents do things we don't understand because they love us. So when you're ready, you should talk to your dad. Tell him how you feel.
Rome
You have a past and I have a past and when I told you about mine last night you were still here in the morning. It's time to start focusing on the future.
Darcy
Eddie: Katherine?
Katherine: How was your day? What is it?
Eddie: Dakota didn't steal my pills. I've been taking them, and now I can't stop.
