Kathleen Peterson Tells Michael Bad News | The Staircase | HBO Max — Transcript

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1. 0:01i have to tell you something
2. 0:04shoot
3. 0:06i mean i thought you would have already
4. 0:07known but um
5. 0:08we're stocks
6. 0:10nortel
7. 0:14it's all gone everything's gone
8. 0:17what are you talking about
9. 0:19a retirement account moving to paris in
10. 0:21ten years i mean all our dreams they're
11. 0:23they're
12. 0:24they're dead
13. 0:28it's all gone
14. 0:30the bubble burst
15. 0:32you're [ __ ] me
16. 0:34reports all those
17. 0:36hours and work trips and
18. 0:39sacrifices
19. 0:41i mean i have
20. 0:44wasted
21. 0:47wasted years of my life
22. 0:51and now i'm sitting here in this [ __ ]
23. 0:53chinese restaurant
24. 0:55i don't even know if i can afford this
25. 0:56stupid meal okay no the movie's gonna
26. 0:58work out
27. 1:02what
28. 1:04you think some hollywood producer's
29. 1:06gonna come along and and make you a
30. 1:07millionaire are you kidding
31. 1:09are you [ __ ] kidding me michael
32. 1:12we'll figure it out
33. 1:14it'll be okay
34. 1:16the only way this will be okay is if i
35. 1:20make it okay and i am way too [ __ ]
36. 1:22exhausted
37. 1:24you're not alone here well sometimes i
38. 1:26think it would be easier if i was
39. 1:29no
40. 1:31i see
41. 1:32what what do you see joan of r burning
42. 1:35before me
43. 1:37what
44. 1:38you know
45. 1:38you used to be fun
46. 1:41your eyes used to have a light behind
47. 1:42them and now all i see is is this stress
48. 1:44case you forgot what it is to smile to
49. 1:47be alive
50. 1:50[ __ ] you michael you know you you used
51. 1:53to take care of yourself you used to be
52. 1:54a really good time
53. 1:57a good time
54. 1:59i am too busy to be anyone's good time
55. 2:03i am busy working i am busy raising your
56. 2:06children
57. 2:07i mean margaret and martha they were a
58. 2:08mess before me
59. 2:10and the boys your boys
60. 2:12i am the one who supports them i am the
61. 2:15one who visited clayton in prison and
62. 2:17todd god he is so lost looking for your
63. 2:19approval i don't think he'll ever find
64. 2:21his way home and you just wander through
65. 2:23life going to the gym and yelling at the
66. 2:25dogs and
67. 2:27spending my money promising these big
68. 2:30beautiful dreams like paris and then you
69. 2:31don't do a goddamn thing to make them
70. 2:33happen i mean i thought i married a man
71. 2:35and turns out all i got was a boy
72. 2:38who is only good for getting drinks at
73. 2:41the bar
74. 2:50say something
75. 2:53michael
76. 2:55are you even here
77. 2:57[Music]
78. 3:17you