[00:02.66]I’m just glad it’s over.
[00:06.54]If we can just get started.
[00:08.04]People. People.
[00:10.63]As soon as the winners are announced,
[00:12.21]we can all go home, OK?
[00:13.97]Some contests are...
[00:16.97]are so well-fought that it seems unfair
[00:20.14]for someone to win...
[00:21.31]Act surprised. Walk slowly to the podium.
[00:24.69]Be modest. Thank them for this incredible honor.
[00:28.11]They’re all highly qualifiied
[00:30.36]and embody the, uh, integrity that we expect
[00:34.86]from the school leadership.
[00:37.16]That said, the whole point of an election
[00:38.95]is to chose a winner, and that you have done.
[00:41.45]We’ll begin with president.
[00:43.87]I’djust like to add
[00:45.96]that this was an extraordinarily close race.
[00:49.96]It is my pleasure to announce the next president
[00:52.50]of George Washington Carver High School...
[00:54.97]Paul Metzler.
[01:09.94]Jeez, you guys, thanks.
[01:13.53]Wow! Thanks.
[01:15.86]I promise to do my best
[01:17.61]and do a really good job and be a good president.
[01:21.78]I just want to thank, uh, Lisa Flanagan
[01:24.04]for being a super campaign manager.
[01:25.33]I’d also like to say...
[02:06.41]It’s Mr. M.
[02:08.21]Yes, over there. Yeah, come on.
[02:14.55]Wow, Mr. M. This is so wild.
[02:16.88]We were just here, uh, you know,
[02:18.51]celebrating my victory, and you’re here.
[02:19.93]This is incredible. This is great.
[02:21.39]Well, these are my parents.
[02:22.80]Hi, Dick Metzler.
[02:24.01]Jim McAllister.
[02:24.97]- Jo Metzler. - How do you do?
[02:26.35]Paul just thinks the world ofyou.
[02:27.85]I mean, you should hear him.
[02:28.85]He goes on and on and on.
[02:30.14]Yeah, apparently you’ve really
[02:31.15]come behind him, really helped him out
[02:32.44]with that student council thing and all.
[02:33.61]Oh, well... well, Paul doesn’t need any help from me.
[02:36.15]He’s... He’s going places. You should be very proud.
[02:38.36]Oh, we are.
[02:39.32]Hey, look, you’re all alone.
[02:41.07]Why don’t you come over and join us?
[02:42.45]Yeah. Yeah, come on.
[02:43.41]Oh, I’m just fiinishing up here.
[02:45.12]I’ve gotta get home.
[02:46.58]Oh, well, uh,
[02:47.87]why don’t you guys go sit down, and, uh...
[02:51.04]you know, I’ll catch up with you in a minute.
[02:52.83]I’m going to talk to Mr. M about some important stuff,
[02:54.75]all right?
[02:55.71]All right. That sounds great.
[02:57.05]- Hey, sure nice to meet you. - Great to meet you.
[02:58.96]- Pleasure. - So nice, and thank you.
[03:00.55]You bet.
[03:05.76]So, Mr. M, I was starting to think about,
[03:07.43]you know, some ideas for what we could do.
[03:09.56]I was thinking it would be cool
[03:11.27]to have a carnival.
[03:12.23]You know, with rides and stuff.
[03:13.85]And it could be for, like, muscular dystrophy.
[03:16.02]And then on Halloween, a haunted house.
[03:19.19]You know, a really good haunted house,
[03:20.94]not those cheesy bad ones.
[03:22.28]You know, I mean,
[03:23.41]this one would be super-scary.
[03:25.28]And then for home coming,
[03:27.08]well, you know how last year’s theme
[03:28.66]was " Heaven On Earth"? Well, this year...
[03:31.16]Paul, we’ll have plenty of time to talk about this later.
[03:34.79]A whole year, in fact.
[03:37.42]But right now, I’djust...
[03:39.88]I need to fiinish my pie,
[03:42.05]go on home.
[03:44.01]Yeah, OK. Sorry.
[03:47.22]Uh, Mr. M, just one more thing.
[03:50.18]So, uh, do you think Tracy’s gonna be OK?
[03:53.73]I mean, I saw her face after the assembly.
[03:56.15]It looked like she was taking it pretty hard.
[03:58.44]Don’t worry about Tracy.
[04:00.86]She’ll be fiine.
[04:16.50]Oh, sweetheart.
[04:21.01]Oh, baby. Baby.
[04:23.97]Oh, baby.
[04:25.80]Take one of my pills.
[04:27.97]You’ll feel better.
[04:30.85]Here.
[04:35.94]Come on, baby. Come on.
[04:39.57]Lie down. Lie down.
[04:43.28]That’s a good girl. Lie down.
[04:46.49]Good girl.
[04:49.20]That’s... That’s it.
[04:51.12]That’s it, baby.
[04:52.83]That’s it, honey.
[04:59.42]Maybe you needed more posters, honey.
[05:02.59]Or if you’djust taken my suggestions
[05:05.80]about your speech.
[05:07.55]I don’t know.
[05:09.93]We’ll fiigure it out.
[05:23.03]Diane.
[05:24.94]I... I made a mistake and I...
[05:35.70]Did you want the same room?
[05:39.67]Yeah, OK.
[06:07.86]It’s a beautiful day
[06:09.82]The next day, I woke up
[06:11.74]resolved to get my life back on track.
[06:13.91]The way I saw it, Diane’s kicking me out of the house
[06:16.87]had been a good thing,
[06:18.04]a wake-up call.
[06:19.37]It wasn’t a setback. It was an opportunity.
[06:22.42]I fiigured we just needed a little time
[06:24.46]to work things out.
[06:26.21]The election was behind me,
[06:28.47]and the worst was over.
[06:30.72]After all, what harm had really been done?
[06:32.85]Nobody was dead.
[06:39.85]Jim? Jim?!
[06:40.81]Yeah.
[06:41.77]Walt wants to seeyou.
[06:43.36]OK, thanks.
[06:56.33]You r... rang?
[07:01.29]Mr. McAllister,
[07:02.75]I hope you can help us clear something up.
[07:42.54]- Yo? - Pierdo.
[07:43.87]- Tu? - Pierdes.
[07:45.75]El, ella, usted?
[07:47.54]Pierde.
[07:48.50]Nosotros?
[07:49.76]Pierdemos.
[07:51.34]Gracias.
[07:55.22]Se駉r Presidente.
[07:57.14]Quieren verte enla ofiicina.
[08:00.81]Huh?
[08:03.77]Dr. Hendricks?
[08:08.57]Uh, come on in, son. We have something...
[08:10.48]hard we have to tell you.
[08:13.61]Is it about Tammy?
[08:14.57]It’s about the election.
[08:19.41]After Paul got the bad news,
[08:22.29]Walt asked for a few minutes alone with me.
[08:24.33]It was very simple, really.
[08:26.92]I offered my resignation,
[08:28.88]and he accepted.
[08:31.42]Very quietly, it was all over for Jim McAllister
[08:34.93]at Carver High.
[08:40.01]Suddenly everyone knew who I was...
[08:42.56]that corrupt teacher
[08:44.02]who had tried to crush the dreams of an innocent girl.
[08:46.69]Overnight, all the good things I had ever done in my life
[08:49.65]evaporated.
[08:52.03]Soon the wire services picked up on the story.
[08:54.57]It was the kind of absurd news item people E-mail each other
[08:57.99]or post on the bulletin board at work.
[09:01.04]To top it all off, Diane had started divorce proceedings.
[09:05.00]She was completely unforgiving about the thing with Linda.
[09:08.04]In the end, she took almost everything,
[09:10.67]including the house.
[09:12.46]I got the car.
[09:29.98]Then one day,
[09:31.86]I realized it was time to get out of Omaha
[09:33.94]and move on.
[09:41.58]Senior year was great.
[09:43.04]Sure, I didn’t get to play ball or be president,
[09:46.91]but I got elected homecoming king and prom king.
[09:50.13]I got into Nebraska, like I wanted,
[09:52.59]and early rushed PhiDelts.
[09:53.96]And at the end of the year, me and my buddies
[09:55.84]threw a bitchin’ Mexican party down at the cement plant.
[09:59.05]Shit, that was a good party.
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