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-This is my goofy brother.
-Duh!

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<i> That’s me,
12-year-old Mike Lobel.</i>

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-Hi, I’m Michael, and I’ll be
your host for the evening.

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<i> And this
is my family.</i>

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Say hi, Mom.

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-This is Mommy Susie speaking.

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{\an8}On the surface, we just
appeared to be a normal family.

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{\an8}And we were.
And we are.

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I took you to school,
did the groceries.

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We had birthday parties for you.

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{\an8}<i> My little brother,
sister, and I</i>

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{\an8} <i> grew up in Parkdale,
in the heart of Toronto.</i>

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{\an8}<i>My little sister Melanie
was fearless.</i>

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{\an8}Be careful!

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I wanted to do
the things that you were doing,

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and I wanted to do them better.

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Oh, well, it comes out
now for the first time!

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<i> My brother Elliot
was shy.</i>

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-Say hi.
-Hi.

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-Wave.
-Wave.

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<i> He was always
really taking everything in.</i>

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I think I was
a pretty goofy kid.

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{\an8}A good kid.

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Definitely not rebellious.

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<i> I was
the rebellious one.</i>

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Say Merry Christmas.

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No...

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-Merry Christmas.

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<i> I had big feelings
and a lot of energy.</i>

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{\an8}You were eight when you
somersaulted off the bookcase.

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You ended up in the hospital.

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<i> I was a handful,
but my mom wouldn’t admit it.</i>

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Those were beautiful times.
It was bliss.

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Yeah, it sounds
very normal and nice.

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It was all about
taking care of the kids, for me.

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And Dad was responsible for...

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um, you know...

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There would be times
that he was gone and absent.

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I couldn’t understand
where he was.

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I didn’t really
have a very good idea

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what my dad did.

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And when people asked,
what did you say?

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-Well, that he was
a taxi driver.

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Insurance
was one of them.

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He was in
the antique business

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and went on the road.

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The stock market.

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-Gambling.

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Actually, I don’t even know
if any of that’s true.

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Is it true Dad
worked for a travel magazine?

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-No.

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Dad had a drawer
of, like, phones.

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We’d be
having family dinner,

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a random cell phone
would go off,

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some new ringtone.

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Any point, like,
I looked over, like,

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you were kind of just, like,
head down, whatever, don’t...

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Like, don’t
acknowledge anything.

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And Dad
wouldn’t flinch.

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Like, he wouldn’t move.

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We were not allowed
to be going upstairs.

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There was a Post-It
on the staircase,

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and I would get the response,
"Don’t come up!

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"Don’t come up."

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<i> We all lived
under the same roof,</i>

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<i>but we couldn’t tell you
a lot about him.</i>

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<i>He just seemed different
than other dads,</i>

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<i>in ways we didn’t understand,</i>

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<i>and still don’t.</i>

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<i>See, that’s the thing...</i>

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<i>None of us really know</i>

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<i>who Dad is.</i>

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<i> It’s taken me
a long time to decide</i>

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<i>I want to have children.</i>

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-Are you ready?
-Yeah.

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<i> I’m afraid of
messing them up.</i>

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No, it’s okay, it’s okay.

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Okay, that one’s fast.

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<i> What kind of father
will I be?</i>

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-I love doing this.

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<i> When I was 14,
I learned that cameras</i>

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<i>don’t just record reality.</i>

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Get outta here, Elliot.

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<i> They can change it.</i>

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<i>With this accidental cut
right here...</i>

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Elliot...

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<i> I was hooked.</i>

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<i> I did
what any angsty kid might do...</i>

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<i>I started making my own movies.</i>

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In the movie,
I’m gonna be wearing

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those shoes,
so it’s carefully planned out.

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You gotta
bring a knife and ketchup.

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<i> My brother and sister
were my first film crew.</i>

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- Ready?
- Yeah.

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Action.

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Ooh, the cat!

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<i> I kept trying
to will my toys to life</i>

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<i>by filming them.</i>

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<i> Little worlds
I could disappear into.</i>

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<i> Then eventually,
I disappeared into characters.</i>

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<i> When I was 16,
I landed an agent,</i>

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<i>and I got to play Jay Hogart
for seven seasons</i>

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{\an8}<i> on "Degrassi:
The Next Generation."</i>

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{\an8}<i>A Canadian success.</i>

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{\an8}<i>It was amazing.</i>

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{\an8}<i>I was doing what I loved to do:</i>

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{\an8}<i>telling stories.</i>

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{\an8}<i>But there was always one story
I always felt I couldn’t tell.</i>

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<i>My own.</i>

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<i> To tell it,
I need my family’s help.</i>

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<i> I’m not sure
I’ll get it.</i>

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Hey.

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-How’s it going, man?

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{\an8}- Good, what’s up?
- Not much.

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Just, uh, digitizing
some of our old stuff.

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Nice.

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Yeah.
Uh...

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I guess my question is,
would you be willing

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to sit down on camera,
if I come to Montreal,

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to talk about it?

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I don’t want
anything to do with it.

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Are you serious?

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Yeah, I’m gonna
be running for office.

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Seriously, though.

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Yeah,
I mean, sure, why not?

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You can interview me.

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Would you and your
husband be cool to talk?

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Yeah, he can’t
be associated with it at all.

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And that goes
for the whole family?

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Yes, no, you cannot use
my children’s faces on it.

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Okay.

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Yeah, that’s a hard no.

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- Got it.
- So just you, then?

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- Just me.
- Okay.

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I think I need to do this.

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Something that Dad and I shared
for many years, and only us.

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<i> That
just leaves my dad.</i>

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{\an8}Rolling on A,
rolling on B.

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<i> My siblings and I
have never really talked</i>

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<i>about our dad’s secret.</i>

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What do you think
we’re here to talk about today?

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We’re here
to talk about my dad.

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How does
that make you feel?

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-It makes me feel nervous
talking about this.

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{\an8}<i> I don’t expect them
to open up right away.</i>

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{\an8}<i>I didn’t tell my wife Mika
about the secret</i>

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<i>until just before
we were married.</i>

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<i>I was 38 years old.</i>

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I don’t know
when that started.

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That feeling of like, uh,
you know, trying to be careful.

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<i> We all have
our reasons.</i>

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<i>When I was ten, I asked my dad
what he did for a living</i>

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<i>for a "take your kid to work"
day school project.</i>

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<i>He yelled at me.</i>

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<i>I never dared ask again.</i>

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Now you can go run.

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<i> But I could tell
something was up.</i>

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I knew you were
going through the same thing

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that I was going through.

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At that moment,
we kind of made it a quest

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that we were going to figure out
what our dad did.

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I started to recognize mail

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that would have
a different name.

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I thought that
he was different people.

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The upstairs,
it was not quite finished.

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Mom and Dad’s ensuite
bathroom that never got done.

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-Remember the Jacuzzi?

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There was
a roughed-in bathtub.

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It had, like, this wood
on top of it, covering it.

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I don’t think
I looked under that.

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I knew it was something
that we shouldn’t know about.

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I never really wanted
to snoop so hard,

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but I felt like,
"I have to just look."

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And I go to lift it up.

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I don’t know what I saw.

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{\an8}As a kid,
you kind of absorb this energy

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{\an8}of your surroundings.

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{\an8}<i> We weren’t
just absorbing energy.</i>

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{\an8} <i> There was a long list of
instructions we had to follow,</i>

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<i>no questions asked.</i>

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I’m serious.
Don’t forget.

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The safety things
are most important, okay?

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Leave the outdoor lights on.
Put the alarm on.

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Keep the blinds down.

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We had an alarm system,

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and that alarm system had
to be kept on all the time.

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Not just at night; all day.

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It felt like he was

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going a little bit overboard
with details.

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Could I have
asked what he does?

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There was a lot of
times that we tried,

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and we got shut down.

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Dad could
at times be verbally volatile.

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There’s always
that thought of, like, you know,

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what if he directs
his anger at me?

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<i> When
he was like that,</i>

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<i>he could yell and slam doors,</i>

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{\an8}<i>or leave the house in a rage.</i>

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{\an8}I feel like
we were just so programmed.

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{\an8}"Don’t acknowledge
what is happening."

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Yeah, our friends all knew
what their parents did for work.

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But we had no clue.

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-And it made me feel
very uncomfortable.

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I made something up,

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which was the first time

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that I lied to protect
myself and my family.

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<i> We were taught
to keep our heads down</i>

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<i>and our mouths shut.</i>

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{\an8}<i>But I just couldn’t do it.</i>

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{\an8}<i> There I was,
on a hit TV show,</i>

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{\an8}<i>drawing attention to myself,</i>

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{\an8}<i>standing in the biggest
possible spotlight,</i>

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<i> but I was afraid of
who might be watching.</i>

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-I had recurring nightmares.

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Mine were about
being taken for ransom.

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I don’t know
who would be taking me.

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<i> For me,
the nightmares started</i>

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<i>when I was ten.</i>

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<i>I had the same one
for 25 years.</i>

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<i> I’m a kid, and the front door
of my house is being kicked in.</i>

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<i> All kids
have nightmares.</i>

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<i> They see things
that aren’t really there.</i>

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<i>But this wasn’t
our imagination.</i>

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<i>It was real.</i>

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<i> I found this tape
in my parents’ basement.</i>

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Just read
the title for me.

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-Oh my God.

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Okay.

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What does it say?

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This is
Melanie Cassandra Lobel.

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"Give to police
if either are abducted."

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This is
Michael Ryan Lobel.

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No birthmarks or scars.

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<i> Seeing my sister
like this hits me hard.</i>

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<i> My parents thought lying
was the best way to protect us.</i>

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<i> My mom doesn’t
feel that way anymore.</i>

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But we’re doing alright.

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We’ve lived
in the shadows for so long.

241
00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:38,960
I can’t do it anymore.

242
00:11:39,070 --> 00:11:42,710
I can’t go to my deathbed with
this shadow hanging over me.

243
00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:44,440
<i> I secretly record
my parents’ conversation.</i>

244
00:11:44,540 --> 00:11:47,640
I’ve had anxiety my whole
life trying to keep it...

245
00:11:47,740 --> 00:11:50,280
I understand that,
I understand that.

246
00:11:50,380 --> 00:11:52,150
...under wraps.
And it’s killed me.

247
00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:54,280
So I want to be free of it.

248
00:11:55,680 --> 00:11:58,850
<i> My dad finally
agrees to an interview...</i>

249
00:11:58,950 --> 00:12:00,520
<i>but on one condition.</i>

250
00:12:02,820 --> 00:12:07,290
<i>The footage stays in his safe
until after he’s dead.</i>

251
00:12:09,930 --> 00:12:10,800
Lights.

252
00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:17,070
So, if you
were to honestly say

253
00:12:17,170 --> 00:12:18,570
what the title
of your job was...

254
00:12:18,670 --> 00:12:19,600
-Mm-hm.

255
00:12:19,710 --> 00:12:21,950
What would you say?
"I was a..."?

256
00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:23,510
-I, um...

257
00:12:24,740 --> 00:12:26,540
What’s
the term for that?

258
00:12:30,480 --> 00:12:32,120
What’s
the term for that?

259
00:12:32,220 --> 00:12:33,220
-Drug dealer.

260
00:12:34,390 --> 00:12:36,430
-My dad was a drug dealer.

261
00:12:38,790 --> 00:12:41,490
-If this doesn’t put me in jail,
I don’t know what will.

262
00:12:41,590 --> 00:12:44,330
<i> My dad told me
the truth a few years ago,</i>

263
00:12:44,430 --> 00:12:46,370
<i>but he swore me to secrecy.</i>

264
00:12:46,470 --> 00:12:48,470
<i> He only told
my siblings recently.</i>

265
00:12:48,570 --> 00:12:50,010
I forget everything
about the wording,

266
00:12:50,100 --> 00:12:51,440
but I remember he told me.

267
00:12:51,540 --> 00:12:54,140
-I thought, "Okay, this is just,
like, a whole local thing."

268
00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:56,380
I have no concept beyond that.

269
00:12:57,710 --> 00:13:00,350
How did you
start in the business?

270
00:13:00,450 --> 00:13:02,450
-Well, it’s a little fuzzy
about the...

271
00:13:02,550 --> 00:13:05,190
how it... how it came about.

272
00:13:05,280 --> 00:13:06,310
-Yeah.

273
00:13:06,420 --> 00:13:09,560
Um, we’re gonna
have to put ourselves back

274
00:13:09,660 --> 00:13:11,830
into those places
that we were in.

275
00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:13,090
-Yeah.

276
00:13:13,190 --> 00:13:16,260
You know,
I’m giving you permission

277
00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:19,000
to put yourself
in some of those moments.

278
00:13:19,100 --> 00:13:21,800
But first, you want me
to go through Dante’s Inferno?

279
00:13:23,970 --> 00:13:26,740
Well, your uncle Allan was
in the pot and hash business.

280
00:13:28,870 --> 00:13:30,740
So,
he rubbed off on you?

281
00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:32,640
-Oh, I’d say he had.

282
00:13:32,750 --> 00:13:35,990
I was in my early 20s
and looking for work,

283
00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:38,480
and he came to me and said,

284
00:13:38,580 --> 00:13:41,580
"Would you like to make
some extra coin?"

285
00:13:41,690 --> 00:13:43,390
He had me doing deliveries.

286
00:13:43,490 --> 00:13:45,360
-You start doing deliveries.
Then what?

287
00:13:45,460 --> 00:13:46,660
-Just bigger deliveries.

288
00:13:46,760 --> 00:13:49,200
- How much bigger?
- Well, you know, I mean...

289
00:13:49,300 --> 00:13:50,800
how much bigger?
Um...

290
00:13:52,330 --> 00:13:54,000
I don’t-- I don’t know
how to answer that.

291
00:13:54,100 --> 00:13:56,600
I mean, it was just
like supply and demand.

292
00:13:56,700 --> 00:13:58,900
-Well, listen, Dad, you’re not
standing on a street corner

293
00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:00,030
-selling dime bags.
-No.

294
00:14:00,140 --> 00:14:01,440
No, no, no, moving

295
00:14:01,540 --> 00:14:03,680
different-size
weights of things,

296
00:14:03,780 --> 00:14:05,780
and moving them
to different customers.

297
00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:07,820
<i> I know
this won’t be easy.</i>

298
00:14:07,910 --> 00:14:10,410
<i>My dad has spent his whole life
evading questions.</i>

299
00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:12,590
Okay, so let’s just
get back to how this stuff

300
00:14:12,690 --> 00:14:13,690
is coming into the country.

301
00:14:13,790 --> 00:14:15,130
It’s coming in myriad
different ways.

302
00:14:15,220 --> 00:14:17,320
- Yeah.
- What are those ways?

303
00:14:17,420 --> 00:14:20,160
Well, the planes,
trains, and automobiles.

304
00:14:20,260 --> 00:14:21,230
There’s things that kinda--

305
00:14:21,330 --> 00:14:22,500
-But you’re not gonna tell me?

306
00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:24,340
-I mean, you know, just, like...

307
00:14:24,430 --> 00:14:26,300
watch the movies, you know?

308
00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:28,170
They, uh...

309
00:14:28,270 --> 00:14:29,510
It’s bugging me
a little bit,

310
00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:30,840
how you’re coming at this.

311
00:14:30,940 --> 00:14:33,740
- What do you mean?
- Well, tell me what you...

312
00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:35,680
-You’re moving product
from A to B?

313
00:14:35,770 --> 00:14:37,270
You’re filibustering.
You’re...

314
00:14:37,380 --> 00:14:39,250
-There’s not much more to it,
I’m sorry.

315
00:14:39,350 --> 00:14:41,620
-Well, there<i> is</i> more to it.

316
00:14:41,710 --> 00:14:43,880
<i> My dad managed
the distribution</i>

317
00:14:43,980 --> 00:14:46,480
<i> of thousands of pounds
of marijuana and hashish.</i>

318
00:14:46,590 --> 00:14:47,720
Well, no,
but, you know,

319
00:14:47,820 --> 00:14:49,720
I need you
to talk about this stuff.

320
00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:53,160
<i> When Uncle Allan
left the business,</i>

321
00:14:53,260 --> 00:14:55,800
<i>my dad expanded.</i>

322
00:14:55,900 --> 00:15:00,410
<i>He was importing product from
Mexico, Nepal, Afghanistan.</i>

323
00:15:00,500 --> 00:15:03,270
<i>But as his operation expanded,</i>

324
00:15:03,370 --> 00:15:06,070
<i>so did the danger.</i>

325
00:15:06,170 --> 00:15:09,270
<i> In the ’90s, marijuana
and hashish were prosecuted</i>

326
00:15:09,380 --> 00:15:11,780
<i>like cocaine and heroin
are now.</i>

327
00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:14,380
<i>Sentences could range
from several years</i>

328
00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:16,650
<i>to life in prison.</i>

329
00:15:16,750 --> 00:15:20,420
<i>Watching his back 24/7
affected him.</i>

330
00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:22,060
He was paranoid.

331
00:15:22,150 --> 00:15:23,390
This particular night,

332
00:15:23,490 --> 00:15:25,830
your father
was really freaking out.

333
00:15:27,330 --> 00:15:29,370
He felt like there was a threat.

334
00:15:29,460 --> 00:15:33,560
We dragged the mattress
down the stairs

335
00:15:33,670 --> 00:15:35,770
into our living room

336
00:15:35,870 --> 00:15:39,140
because he just wanted
to make sure that he could hear

337
00:15:39,240 --> 00:15:40,640
anybody breaking in.

338
00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:47,210
-I could feel the amount
of tension at home.

339
00:15:47,310 --> 00:15:48,880
Like, what are we
trying to keep out?

340
00:15:50,350 --> 00:15:52,520
<i> By the time
I was old enough to understand</i>

341
00:15:52,620 --> 00:15:54,360
<i>some of what was going on,</i>

342
00:15:54,450 --> 00:15:56,650
<i>I was hearing whispers
at family events.</i>

343
00:15:57,760 --> 00:15:59,630
-This conversation is censored.

344
00:15:59,730 --> 00:16:01,470
<i> The secrecy
started early</i>

345
00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:03,400
<i>in my parents’ relationship.</i>

346
00:16:03,500 --> 00:16:06,470
<i> And one day,
my dad just disappeared.</i>

347
00:16:07,700 --> 00:16:10,600
It was probably
a few months into dating,

348
00:16:10,700 --> 00:16:13,240
and then I don’t hear from him.

349
00:16:13,340 --> 00:16:16,040
He fell off
the face of the Earth.

350
00:16:16,140 --> 00:16:17,210
-Tell me about that.

351
00:16:17,310 --> 00:16:20,380
That is the question
you need to ask your father.

352
00:16:21,910 --> 00:16:24,150
Can you tell me about
the time that you disappeared?

353
00:16:27,150 --> 00:16:28,820
- No.
- Absolutely not.

354
00:16:31,590 --> 00:16:34,590
<i> I decide
not to push my dad on this.</i>

355
00:16:34,690 --> 00:16:37,090
<i>Instead, he offers to show me
what a typical work day</i>

356
00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:38,540
<i>looked like.</i>

357
00:16:38,630 --> 00:16:40,170
You leave the house,
you get up.

358
00:16:40,270 --> 00:16:41,270
Yeah.

359
00:16:41,370 --> 00:16:42,500
-What’s your morning routine?

360
00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:44,700
-If I was doing a delivery,
I’d go to the garage,

361
00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:46,270
and I’d pick up what I needed.

362
00:16:46,370 --> 00:16:47,610
- Garage?
- That’s right.

363
00:16:50,010 --> 00:16:51,710
<i> My dad
had two garages</i>

364
00:16:51,810 --> 00:16:54,150
<i> and another car
we didn’t know about.</i>

365
00:16:54,250 --> 00:16:55,080
Right there.

366
00:16:55,180 --> 00:16:56,580
So,
that’s a pretty big size.

367
00:16:56,680 --> 00:16:58,680
- Yeah.
- I come in early morning,

368
00:16:58,780 --> 00:17:02,250
I park,
and I do my thing inside.

369
00:17:02,350 --> 00:17:03,320
-Then what?

370
00:17:03,420 --> 00:17:04,690
-Trains, planes,
and automobiles.

371
00:17:04,790 --> 00:17:08,090
- Can you give me the--
- sort of the quick play-by-play,

372
00:17:08,190 --> 00:17:09,560
the run-through?

373
00:17:09,660 --> 00:17:11,930
<i> It turns out,
he can.</i>

374
00:17:12,030 --> 00:17:13,870
-Um...

375
00:17:15,700 --> 00:17:18,470
There’s always somebody
bringing in product

376
00:17:18,570 --> 00:17:21,870
from Pakistan,
from Thailand, from Mexico.

377
00:17:22,980 --> 00:17:24,880
Somebody had a load come in.

378
00:17:24,980 --> 00:17:26,110
We figured,

379
00:17:26,210 --> 00:17:29,050
"How are we gonna get that
back to Canada in two days?"

380
00:17:29,150 --> 00:17:32,220
And so we ended up
leasing a corporate jet.

381
00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:37,660
<i> Dad starts telling
me what he did, in detail.</i>

382
00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:40,900
<i> He wants me to know
how good he was at his job.</i>

383
00:17:40,990 --> 00:17:43,190
-They called me Swift Arrow.

384
00:17:43,300 --> 00:17:45,870
"This guy’s, like, you know,
just as fast as an arrow."

385
00:17:47,630 --> 00:17:51,130
I was playing a role,
and I got good at it.

386
00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:53,710
In fact, people said to me,
"You look like a narc."

387
00:17:53,810 --> 00:17:56,750
I said, "That’s great."
I said, "It’s working."

388
00:17:56,840 --> 00:17:58,040
A week or two weeks later,

389
00:17:58,140 --> 00:17:59,880
I’d get a call from somebody
to meet me,

390
00:17:59,980 --> 00:18:02,150
and I’d have a bundle of money.

391
00:18:02,250 --> 00:18:04,490
Then I’d go home and relax,
you know?

392
00:18:04,580 --> 00:18:06,050
Dad’s back,
and all of a sudden,

393
00:18:06,150 --> 00:18:09,050
we’re packing our bags
to the islands.

394
00:18:09,150 --> 00:18:11,220
A lot of the people
I worked with were married

395
00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:13,090
or had families and kids.

396
00:18:13,190 --> 00:18:16,290
And we’d come back and we’d
pick up where we left off.

397
00:18:21,330 --> 00:18:22,800
And of course,
there were stressful times,

398
00:18:22,900 --> 00:18:24,970
like the time
that I ran into a store

399
00:18:25,070 --> 00:18:27,310
to get something
Mom asked me to get,

400
00:18:27,410 --> 00:18:28,580
and I look...

401
00:18:28,670 --> 00:18:31,940
The car is on
the back of a tow truck

402
00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:35,580
with about $350,000
of cash in it.

403
00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:37,380
That caused some stress.

404
00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:38,950
But I got it back.

405
00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:52,360
Five, four, three,

406
00:18:52,460 --> 00:18:55,230
two, one!

407
00:18:58,470 --> 00:18:59,670
I just want to know

408
00:18:59,770 --> 00:19:01,770
what risk it was to us,
you know?

409
00:19:01,870 --> 00:19:03,810
-Yeah, well, I’m trying
to tell you the risks.

410
00:19:03,910 --> 00:19:06,280
So, everything that I’m telling
you about how I operated

411
00:19:06,380 --> 00:19:09,820
my business, I kept
everybody in the family safe.

412
00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:11,790
So I must have done a good job.

413
00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:14,390
He might be
bending certain things

414
00:19:14,490 --> 00:19:16,760
to make it seem less intense.

415
00:19:16,860 --> 00:19:18,730
Or maybe he’s even tricked
himself into thinking

416
00:19:18,820 --> 00:19:20,420
things are less serious
than they are.

417
00:19:20,530 --> 00:19:22,630
-Aside from my paranoia,

418
00:19:22,730 --> 00:19:24,670
you didn’t know
or see things that happened.

419
00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:26,200
I was just a little jumpy.

420
00:19:26,300 --> 00:19:28,700
-No, but you answered the door
with weapons sometimes;

421
00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:30,470
you’d reach
for some blunt object.

422
00:19:30,570 --> 00:19:32,040
-Well, how often
did that happen?

423
00:19:32,140 --> 00:19:34,140
-It felt like a feature
of my childhood.

424
00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:35,270
No.

425
00:19:35,370 --> 00:19:36,470
-I saw it happen.

426
00:19:36,580 --> 00:19:39,050
What I’m saying is that
some of the chaos that went on

427
00:19:39,140 --> 00:19:40,880
in my business,
I never brought that home.

428
00:19:40,980 --> 00:19:42,980
-You don’t think you brought
it home, but you did.

429
00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:45,350
-No, you don’t know chaos until
you’ve been in my business

430
00:19:45,450 --> 00:19:46,750
with the shit that went down.

431
00:19:46,850 --> 00:19:48,120
You have no idea.

432
00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:52,600
<i> That disappearance
my mom talked about,</i>

433
00:19:52,690 --> 00:19:55,160
<i> my dad tells me
he was kidnapped.</i>

434
00:19:55,260 --> 00:19:57,400
-I was, you know...

435
00:19:57,500 --> 00:20:00,170
abducted by bikers.

436
00:20:00,270 --> 00:20:03,470
{\an8} -He never told me that
till we had been married.

437
00:20:03,570 --> 00:20:04,700
{\an8}<i> Around
about the time</i>

438
00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:06,000
{\an8}<i>he started dating my mom</i> ,

439
00:20:06,100 --> 00:20:07,870
<i> he travelled
to upstate New York</i>

440
00:20:07,970 --> 00:20:09,910
<i>to pay an associate’s debt.</i>

441
00:20:10,010 --> 00:20:12,650
<i> The bikers wanted
more than he had on him,</i>

442
00:20:12,740 --> 00:20:14,380
<i>so they took him hostage.</i>

443
00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:17,050
For three days,
I was chained up in a closet.

444
00:20:17,150 --> 00:20:20,450
I was expecting that
to be the end of my life.

445
00:20:20,550 --> 00:20:22,690
They took me to a payphone,

446
00:20:22,790 --> 00:20:24,760
and I’m making phone calls
to people I know.

447
00:20:24,860 --> 00:20:27,730
The last person said,
"Yeah, sorry, buddy,

448
00:20:27,830 --> 00:20:30,130
"but I can’t help you."

449
00:20:30,230 --> 00:20:34,270
And as soon as I heard that,
and I realized this was the end,

450
00:20:34,370 --> 00:20:36,840
that there was no way
I was gonna get out of this,

451
00:20:36,940 --> 00:20:38,510
they probably
were gonna kill me,

452
00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:40,100
I just dropped the phone
and ran.

453
00:20:41,470 --> 00:20:43,840
I didn’t care what they were
gonna shoot me or whatever;

454
00:20:43,940 --> 00:20:45,610
I was just running.

455
00:20:45,710 --> 00:20:46,980
-And then I heard the car.

456
00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:49,320
"I gotta get
the hell off this road."

457
00:20:49,410 --> 00:20:52,350
I saw a hill.
There’s a house up there.

458
00:20:52,450 --> 00:20:53,720
I started banging on the door,

459
00:20:53,820 --> 00:20:55,690
screaming for somebody
to let me in.

460
00:20:55,790 --> 00:20:57,930
And the bikers,
they pulled up the driveway.

461
00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:00,820
And I’m yelling,
"They’re gonna kill us!

462
00:21:00,930 --> 00:21:02,670
"Call the police!
They’re gonna kill us!"

463
00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:07,200
Somebody gets out of the car
and grabs me by the waist,

464
00:21:07,300 --> 00:21:10,970
and they’re pulling me,
and I’m hanging on to the frame.

465
00:21:11,070 --> 00:21:13,740
Then the owner of the house
comes out with a poker

466
00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:16,110
from his fireplace,

467
00:21:16,210 --> 00:21:19,710
and he’s hitting the biker,
trying to get him off me.

468
00:21:19,810 --> 00:21:21,250
He’s, like, trying to save me.

469
00:21:23,020 --> 00:21:25,390
Come on!
Run!

470
00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:27,050
Let’s go!

471
00:21:27,150 --> 00:21:28,950
If you hadn’t have
gotten out of that situation,

472
00:21:29,050 --> 00:21:30,320
then we wouldn’t be here.

473
00:21:30,420 --> 00:21:31,450
-That’s correct.

474
00:21:33,790 --> 00:21:36,830
<i> My dad’s kidnapping
governed my parents’ behaviour</i>

475
00:21:36,930 --> 00:21:39,270
<i>for the next 40 years.</i>

476
00:21:39,360 --> 00:21:42,960
We were so diligent
in watching over you kids.

477
00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:47,210
And, see, we thought
that we were sheltering

478
00:21:47,310 --> 00:21:48,750
the three of you.

479
00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:50,480
But you felt it.

480
00:21:51,940 --> 00:21:54,940
As a parent, to think
that that’s what was happening,

481
00:21:55,050 --> 00:21:57,250
I thought, "Honestly,
like, how dare you?"

482
00:21:57,350 --> 00:22:02,420
If he was gonna get taken,
how would the family survive?

483
00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:04,060
How would Mom survive?

484
00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:07,200
454 technically
is a correct pound.

485
00:22:07,290 --> 00:22:09,990
They always bust you
on a Thursday night

486
00:22:10,100 --> 00:22:11,370
or a Friday night.

487
00:22:11,460 --> 00:22:13,900
<i> Suddenly I’m getting
half a lifetime’s worth</i>

488
00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:15,740
<i>of overdue parental advice.</i>

489
00:22:15,830 --> 00:22:17,300
If you’re being
tailed by somebody,

490
00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:19,340
then you’re being tailed
by a group of people.

491
00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:20,570
Right.

492
00:22:20,670 --> 00:22:23,940
<i> Except it’s
a crash course in smuggling.</i>

493
00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:26,510
<i>I think I’ve convinced my dad
that making this movie</i>

494
00:22:26,610 --> 00:22:29,610
<i>will fix our family’s problems.</i>

495
00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:32,760
<i>I may have convinced myself.</i>

496
00:22:32,850 --> 00:22:37,290
<i>But Elliot thinks our problems
go way beyond Dad’s secret.</i>

497
00:22:37,390 --> 00:22:40,490
-The secret is not so much
what I was concerned with.

498
00:22:40,590 --> 00:22:42,960
For me, it was more related

499
00:22:43,060 --> 00:22:45,300
to just my relationship
with Dad.

500
00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:46,230
-Right.

501
00:22:46,330 --> 00:22:48,270
Because I don’t
trust him emotionally.

502
00:22:54,710 --> 00:22:57,150
<i> Mel thinks
Elliot’s right.</i>

503
00:22:57,240 --> 00:22:59,210
<i>It’s not about the secret.</i>

504
00:22:59,310 --> 00:23:01,110
<i>It’s about something else.</i>

505
00:23:01,210 --> 00:23:04,810
It’s so hard to crack this,
like, armored layer that he has.

506
00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:07,860
And he does it for everybody
externally out of the house,

507
00:23:07,950 --> 00:23:10,120
but unfortunately,
he does it with his own kids.

508
00:23:11,360 --> 00:23:13,430
Yeah, it’s like
he’s made a really good

509
00:23:13,530 --> 00:23:15,300
version of himself.

510
00:23:15,390 --> 00:23:19,230
And so it’s like, well, what is
like the real person there?

511
00:23:19,330 --> 00:23:22,130
<i> It’s not
that Dad had secrets.</i>

512
00:23:22,230 --> 00:23:25,400
<i> It’s about what keeping
those secrets did to him.</i>

513
00:23:25,500 --> 00:23:27,670
I think
it’s normal to be angry,

514
00:23:27,770 --> 00:23:30,640
but the way it was externalized,

515
00:23:30,740 --> 00:23:32,710
it was just, like, explosive.

516
00:23:34,180 --> 00:23:37,080
A lot of it
was incredible shouting.

517
00:23:37,180 --> 00:23:40,320
I had, like,
a little blanket that I coveted.

518
00:23:40,420 --> 00:23:41,720
Dad was mad...

519
00:23:43,050 --> 00:23:47,150
Took my blanket and ripped it
to pieces in front of me.

520
00:23:48,490 --> 00:23:51,430
{\an8}I can try, but I would be
dishonest with myself

521
00:23:51,530 --> 00:23:53,900
{\an8}if I thought I could, like,
fully trust this person.

522
00:23:55,130 --> 00:23:56,700
The temper
that Dad carried,

523
00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:59,070
it was so big in the house.

524
00:23:59,170 --> 00:24:01,540
You didn’t want to do anything
that was going to push that

525
00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:02,770
to the next level.

526
00:24:02,870 --> 00:24:06,370
So, Mom and Dad were out;
I would go around and tidy.

527
00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:08,980
This was my way of feeling like
I could control something.

528
00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:10,420
-Control the chaos.

529
00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:11,620
-That’s right.

530
00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:15,460
-You got the brunt of it
because you kind of push,

531
00:24:15,550 --> 00:24:17,550
you know, the boundaries.

532
00:24:17,660 --> 00:24:19,500
-Do you think we got along?

533
00:24:19,590 --> 00:24:22,590
We didn’t get along
during your teen years,

534
00:24:22,690 --> 00:24:24,060
but that was because you were--

535
00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:26,000
you were acting out
as a teenager.

536
00:24:26,100 --> 00:24:28,040
You think it was
’cause I was acting out?

537
00:24:28,130 --> 00:24:30,130
-Well, it wasn’t my fault
that you went all goth.

538
00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:31,940
-Dad, you were trying
to kick me out

539
00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:34,840
since I was 13 years old.

540
00:24:34,940 --> 00:24:36,140
<i> He’d kick me out,</i>

541
00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:37,940
<i> and my mom
would let me back in.</i>

542
00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:40,340
<i> Then, at 22,
I just didn’t go back.</i>

543
00:24:41,510 --> 00:24:43,580
<i> I moved in
with my indie rock band</i>

544
00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:46,120
<i>and we hit the road.</i>

545
00:24:46,220 --> 00:24:47,460
<i>It wasn’t stable...</i>

546
00:24:47,550 --> 00:24:48,920
-Breakfast!

547
00:24:49,020 --> 00:24:50,820
<i> But I was free.</i>

548
00:24:53,660 --> 00:24:55,460
I do remember you
coming back and saying,

549
00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:57,460
"Thank you for that
because it really helped me."

550
00:24:57,560 --> 00:24:59,300
-I know you don’t
want to go there.

551
00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:01,040
-What do you mean?
Is that not true?

552
00:25:01,130 --> 00:25:02,470
-We’re at each other a lot.

553
00:25:02,570 --> 00:25:04,670
I know, but is this about
our relationship?

554
00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:10,110
Did you ever ask
Melanie and Elliot

555
00:25:10,210 --> 00:25:12,580
how they felt growing up
in those circumstances?

556
00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:16,050
-Melanie’s a really
tough egg to crack.

557
00:25:16,150 --> 00:25:17,520
I can’t talk to her
about anything.

558
00:25:17,620 --> 00:25:19,390
Or she doesn’t even hear me,
you know?

559
00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:21,350
-But don’t you think
that might have to do

560
00:25:21,450 --> 00:25:23,190
that she’s got
some feelings about it?

561
00:25:23,290 --> 00:25:26,360
-Well, there’s no-- I don’t
know what else I could do.

562
00:25:26,460 --> 00:25:32,170
If Dad really wants to
truly repair his relationship,

563
00:25:32,260 --> 00:25:35,260
have the last chapter
of his life

564
00:25:35,370 --> 00:25:37,640
to be the most
authentic chapter...

565
00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:43,480
then he needs
to stop pretending.

566
00:25:49,450 --> 00:25:52,350
I suffer from
cervical dystonia.

567
00:25:54,190 --> 00:25:56,930
The involuntary
muscle contractions

568
00:25:57,020 --> 00:26:02,260
of my neck and tremoring.

569
00:26:03,360 --> 00:26:05,960
I have to have injections
every two months

570
00:26:06,060 --> 00:26:08,160
so I can be free of the pain.

571
00:26:09,230 --> 00:26:11,300
Turn a little bit
to the right.

572
00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:13,500
- Ah...
- Your head.

573
00:26:13,610 --> 00:26:14,540
-I’m trying.

574
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:19,640
I’m worried about you.

575
00:26:19,740 --> 00:26:21,210
-Mm.

576
00:26:21,310 --> 00:26:24,810
-A few years ago, you were
in a really dark place.

577
00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:26,290
-Yep.

578
00:26:26,380 --> 00:26:31,490
My life is just running
from different fears.

579
00:26:31,590 --> 00:26:33,830
It was hard,
just holding the secret.

580
00:26:33,930 --> 00:26:35,300
It was too difficult.

581
00:26:35,390 --> 00:26:38,530
I felt like
"I don’t want to be here."

582
00:26:38,630 --> 00:26:40,830
If it were all over,

583
00:26:40,930 --> 00:26:43,270
I’d be out of
all the challenges.

584
00:26:44,570 --> 00:26:46,710
I wouldn’t have to
face them anymore.

585
00:26:48,510 --> 00:26:50,250
<i> When my siblings
and I realized</i>

586
00:26:50,340 --> 00:26:51,240
<i>what was happening,</i>

587
00:26:51,340 --> 00:26:53,340
<i>we got our mom help.</i>

588
00:26:53,450 --> 00:26:55,320
<i>She saw a doctor
who recommended</i>

589
00:26:55,410 --> 00:26:57,750
<i>cognitive behavioural therapy.</i>

590
00:26:57,850 --> 00:27:01,090
<i> And slowly,
she got back on her feet.</i>

591
00:27:01,190 --> 00:27:03,290
So, can I have the other half?

592
00:27:03,390 --> 00:27:05,160
<i> My dad is
a smart guy.</i>

593
00:27:05,260 --> 00:27:07,130
<i> He knew we were
all having problems.</i>

594
00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:11,630
<i> He even knew where
his problems came from.</i>

595
00:27:11,730 --> 00:27:14,400
<i>They didn’t all come
from dealing drugs.</i>

596
00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:20,570
My father
was a straight arrow.

597
00:27:20,670 --> 00:27:22,240
Everybody liked him.

598
00:27:22,340 --> 00:27:23,710
I couldn’t stand him.

599
00:27:23,810 --> 00:27:25,380
I hated him.

600
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:27,150
You know, he used to hit me.

601
00:27:28,380 --> 00:27:30,350
He humiliated me.

602
00:27:30,450 --> 00:27:32,550
If there was something
you said he didn’t like,

603
00:27:32,650 --> 00:27:36,820
that right hand went out
and slap across the face.

604
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:41,100
I was on pins and needles
always with him,

605
00:27:41,190 --> 00:27:43,630
what to say and not to say.

606
00:27:43,730 --> 00:27:47,200
I realized I could not
handle school.

607
00:27:47,300 --> 00:27:49,300
I couldn’t even, like,
read assignments.

608
00:27:50,900 --> 00:27:52,970
I was picked on,
I was beaten up.

609
00:27:53,070 --> 00:27:54,710
They called me "Dirty Jew,"

610
00:27:54,810 --> 00:27:55,810
and... yeah.

611
00:27:55,910 --> 00:27:58,280
Oh, yeah, they had
all sorts of things to say.

612
00:28:00,010 --> 00:28:02,180
So I ran away
to join the ballet.

613
00:28:03,580 --> 00:28:05,120
<i> If you can
believe it,</i>

614
00:28:05,220 --> 00:28:07,320
<i>my dad’s first passion
was dance.</i>

615
00:28:09,250 --> 00:28:10,990
Like, when they say
somebody runs away

616
00:28:11,090 --> 00:28:13,330
to join the circus,
that’s what I did.

617
00:28:13,430 --> 00:28:14,830
Yeah, never looked back.

618
00:28:22,370 --> 00:28:25,210
I found a family
that embraced me,

619
00:28:25,300 --> 00:28:28,300
that didn’t judge me at all.

620
00:28:28,410 --> 00:28:30,880
Over time, I started
transforming myself.

621
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:34,220
It’s the first time I was
actually doing something

622
00:28:34,310 --> 00:28:36,550
where I was achieving a goal.

623
00:28:36,650 --> 00:28:40,150
The one big one that stood out
was doing The Ed Sullivan Show.

624
00:28:40,250 --> 00:28:41,990
I was 15.

625
00:28:42,090 --> 00:28:44,530
It was really exciting.

626
00:28:44,620 --> 00:28:46,360
And then...

627
00:28:46,460 --> 00:28:47,900
I ended up injuring myself.

628
00:28:51,300 --> 00:28:52,540
I could barely walk.

629
00:28:54,100 --> 00:28:55,470
I didn’t want to accept it,
right?

630
00:28:55,570 --> 00:28:57,770
I really needed to get
it operated on,

631
00:28:57,870 --> 00:28:59,910
but I couldn’t do it.
I guess I was afraid.

632
00:29:01,410 --> 00:29:03,350
{\an8}I wasn’t dealing
with the problem;

633
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:05,710
I was running away from it.

634
00:29:05,810 --> 00:29:08,980
I knew that I can’t do it,
that I can’t dance.

635
00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:11,020
And I left.

636
00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:13,020
Yeah, it was...

637
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:14,490
a kick to my ego.

638
00:29:14,590 --> 00:29:16,490
My soul, really,
because I loved dance;

639
00:29:16,590 --> 00:29:19,090
it was my whole life.

640
00:29:19,190 --> 00:29:22,460
My career ended
after only seven years.

641
00:29:25,900 --> 00:29:27,540
And then...

642
00:29:27,630 --> 00:29:29,830
Allan popped into my life.

643
00:29:29,930 --> 00:29:32,800
He made me an offer
I couldn’t refuse.

644
00:29:34,110 --> 00:29:36,050
Why didn’t you stop?

645
00:29:36,140 --> 00:29:37,580
Take the safer route?

646
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:39,320
-It’s all I knew how to do.

647
00:29:39,410 --> 00:29:41,610
And at the same time,
I also believed in it.

648
00:29:41,710 --> 00:29:45,810
So I was kind of like
a minor crusader at the time.

649
00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:48,190
I thought it should be legal,
and it shouldn’t

650
00:29:48,290 --> 00:29:49,560
be anybody else’s business.

651
00:29:49,650 --> 00:29:51,390
-I don’t agree with it.

652
00:29:51,490 --> 00:29:53,960
Now it’s spoken of
as being legal,

653
00:29:54,060 --> 00:29:56,500
but that’s now, that’s today.
That’s present day.

654
00:29:56,590 --> 00:30:00,030
There’s such a sense of pride
that he carries

655
00:30:00,130 --> 00:30:03,530
about what he did,
a dismissal of

656
00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:06,340
how this has affected
the entire family.

657
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:10,310
{\an8}He was always caught
in this quagmire

658
00:30:10,410 --> 00:30:13,510
{\an8}of having to support a family.

659
00:30:13,610 --> 00:30:16,950
He never had confidence
in himself to do something else.

660
00:30:18,550 --> 00:30:20,490
"Seven Point Cannabis."

661
00:30:21,590 --> 00:30:23,260
It’s kind of
a classy-looking joint.

662
00:30:23,350 --> 00:30:24,620
-Yeah, very.

663
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:26,520
<i> My dad
quit the business</i>

664
00:30:26,620 --> 00:30:28,660
<i>years before legalization.</i>

665
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:31,830
Eventually,
your dad wanted out.

666
00:30:31,930 --> 00:30:33,830
The bad elements
started moving in.

667
00:30:33,930 --> 00:30:36,070
The bikers, the Mafia.

668
00:30:36,170 --> 00:30:38,770
Man, I don’t want to be
in this business anymore.

669
00:30:40,540 --> 00:30:42,610
<i> When my dad
opens up about his past,</i>

670
00:30:42,710 --> 00:30:44,010
<i>I can empathize with him.</i>

671
00:30:45,910 --> 00:30:47,010
<i>I can identify.</i>

672
00:30:48,910 --> 00:30:50,010
<i>And I’m not alone.</i>

673
00:30:51,750 --> 00:30:55,490
I’m very hard on myself
when that temper comes out.

674
00:30:55,590 --> 00:30:58,290
And unfortunately,
it happens with, you know,

675
00:30:58,390 --> 00:31:00,690
partners that I’ve been with.

676
00:31:00,790 --> 00:31:03,230
Yeah, that’s a side of me
that I don’t--

677
00:31:03,330 --> 00:31:04,830
I really don’t like.

678
00:31:04,930 --> 00:31:05,830
-Mm-hm.

679
00:31:07,370 --> 00:31:08,870
I don’t have it at all.

680
00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:12,300
And I also feel
horrible about it,

681
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:14,670
and I’m trying really hard.

682
00:31:14,770 --> 00:31:16,010
-Same.

683
00:31:16,110 --> 00:31:18,280
<i> Both my sister and I
have carried our tempers</i>

684
00:31:18,380 --> 00:31:19,850
<i>into our adult lives.</i>

685
00:31:22,110 --> 00:31:23,950
<i>We want to be better.</i>

686
00:31:24,050 --> 00:31:27,790
<i>There’s a strange comfort
in saying it all out loud,</i>

687
00:31:27,890 --> 00:31:30,930
<i>and I wonder why we haven’t
all sat down to talk.</i>

688
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:34,890
What I was saying before
about Melanie and Elliot,

689
00:31:34,990 --> 00:31:36,330
we haven’t sat down...

690
00:31:36,430 --> 00:31:37,460
-That’s right.

691
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:39,130
-...and talked about this
as a family.

692
00:31:39,230 --> 00:31:40,130
- I know.
- I know that.

693
00:31:40,230 --> 00:31:42,470
-At all.
-No.

694
00:31:42,570 --> 00:31:46,470
The two of them
are so hard to get through to.

695
00:31:46,570 --> 00:31:48,840
I just think
if you open the door to them

696
00:31:48,940 --> 00:31:51,810
and just say, "I want to talk,
I want to hear from you,

697
00:31:51,910 --> 00:31:54,650
"I want to know what you think,
and I want to just listen,"

698
00:31:54,750 --> 00:31:56,550
I think that would be
really powerful.

699
00:32:05,190 --> 00:32:06,790
-Yeah, I think it would be good.

700
00:32:08,860 --> 00:32:11,100
<i> But...
we weren’t good.</i>

701
00:32:17,740 --> 00:32:21,110
After a crew member
misplaces my dad’s car keys,

702
00:32:21,210 --> 00:32:23,280
my dad loses his temper...

703
00:32:23,370 --> 00:32:24,470
and quits the film.

704
00:32:27,010 --> 00:32:27,780
Oh, it’s him.

705
00:32:29,450 --> 00:32:30,480
{\an8}Hello?

706
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:36,020
{\an8}-What didn’t I understand
about what--

707
00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:40,430
{\an8}-They’re on their way
right now, Dad.

708
00:33:19,100 --> 00:33:21,770
<i> I’m not sure
I want this anymore.</i>

709
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,040
You’re never
going to feel the closeness

710
00:33:29,140 --> 00:33:31,310
that you think you have
with your children.

711
00:33:31,410 --> 00:33:34,210
And if you want to take that to
your grave, be my guest, buddy.

712
00:33:34,310 --> 00:33:36,080
Now I feel foolish

713
00:33:36,180 --> 00:33:37,750
because Dad will never change.

714
00:33:37,850 --> 00:33:40,450
But Michael, there’s
nothing you can do about it.

715
00:33:40,550 --> 00:33:43,190
I actually think
if Mom wasn’t around,

716
00:33:43,290 --> 00:33:45,060
he probably would never call us.

717
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:47,030
He wouldn’t.

718
00:33:47,130 --> 00:33:49,600
<i> This is always
the risk with my father.</i>

719
00:33:49,690 --> 00:33:52,060
<i>If you push him too hard,
he walks away.</i>

720
00:33:53,230 --> 00:33:55,430
<i>It’s like disappearing
is how he survives.</i>

721
00:33:56,700 --> 00:33:59,740
<i>He’s done it with Damian,
my older half-brother</i>

722
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:01,340
<i>from my father’s
first marriage.</i>

723
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:03,740
Merry Christmas, guys!

724
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:06,810
They have a very
complicated relationship.

725
00:34:06,910 --> 00:34:09,380
<i> My father
supported Damian financially,</i>

726
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:11,980
<i> though they’ve
sometimes been estranged.</i>

727
00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:14,980
When I was a kid,
I asked him what you did.

728
00:34:15,090 --> 00:34:16,560
And what did he say?

729
00:34:16,650 --> 00:34:18,250
"I don’t know
what Dad does."

730
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:19,730
Right, so,
and he still doesn’t.

731
00:34:19,820 --> 00:34:22,120
Why haven’t you
told him yet, though?

732
00:34:22,230 --> 00:34:25,200
-I don’t consider him
part of this family.

733
00:34:25,300 --> 00:34:26,740
-But he is your son,
and surely--

734
00:34:26,830 --> 00:34:28,700
-Yeah, but he wasn’t
part of my life.

735
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:30,100
He was a distant
relative, really.

736
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:32,440
It’s not the same dynamics,
and I certainly

737
00:34:32,540 --> 00:34:34,710
wouldn’t have told him
before I told you guys.

738
00:34:34,810 --> 00:34:36,310
Would you
consider telling him now?

739
00:34:36,410 --> 00:34:40,450
I have no reason
to tell him outright.

740
00:34:40,550 --> 00:34:42,020
<i> I can relate
to Damian.</i>

741
00:34:42,610 --> 00:34:43,780
<i>My dad blows up,</i>

742
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:46,720
<i>and then it’s like
it never happened.</i>

743
00:34:46,820 --> 00:34:47,990
<i>It’s his pattern.</i>

744
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:54,860
Were you expecting
something to come out of this?

745
00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:56,360
What were you thinking?

746
00:34:56,460 --> 00:34:59,000
I was hoping to, like,
come out of it feeling closer.

747
00:34:59,100 --> 00:35:00,340
-A-ha.

748
00:35:00,430 --> 00:35:03,600
-I thought it was happening,
and then we had that blow-up.

749
00:35:03,700 --> 00:35:07,240
Yeah, that blow-up just had...

750
00:35:07,340 --> 00:35:12,810
All that had to do with just me
panicking on losing control.

751
00:35:12,910 --> 00:35:14,750
And I’m sorry
I took it out on you,

752
00:35:14,850 --> 00:35:16,920
but it was really me
I was angry at.

753
00:35:17,010 --> 00:35:18,850
It reminded me of,
like, old Dad.

754
00:35:18,950 --> 00:35:20,590
-The old days?
-It scared me.

755
00:35:20,690 --> 00:35:22,690
-That won’t happen again.
Trust me.

756
00:35:22,790 --> 00:35:24,890
Listen, I want to have
a relationship with you.

757
00:35:24,990 --> 00:35:27,130
-Yeah, I know.
I do, too.

758
00:35:27,230 --> 00:35:29,970
-Because you and Zaide didn’t
really get along very well.

759
00:35:30,060 --> 00:35:33,600
-That’s what also hurts, is when
I behave the way I do with you.

760
00:35:33,700 --> 00:35:36,100
He did shit like that, so...

761
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:41,240
-Is there a way that you could
see him as just a person

762
00:35:41,340 --> 00:35:45,040
that’s flawed, like me,
like you, in that way?

763
00:35:45,140 --> 00:35:46,040
-Yes, yeah.

764
00:35:46,140 --> 00:35:48,380
-That maybe he also
didn’t like himself

765
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:49,580
when he behaved like that?

766
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:51,580
- Yes, yeah, yeah.
- He talked one day--

767
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:53,550
I think he was saying to me,
he said,

768
00:35:53,650 --> 00:35:55,450
"I’d like to know
what it is you do."

769
00:35:55,550 --> 00:35:56,520
Your dad?

770
00:35:56,620 --> 00:35:58,320
-Yeah, like, "Is there
something I could do?"

771
00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:01,990
He drove product
across the border for me.

772
00:36:02,090 --> 00:36:05,160
The best profile
is like a senior citizen.

773
00:36:05,260 --> 00:36:08,300
He’d never done anything
dishonest in his whole life.

774
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:11,240
But his reasoning was he wanted
to spend some time with me.

775
00:36:12,470 --> 00:36:14,340
Your dad literally
became a drug mule.

776
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:18,080
He went to those lengths
to connect with you.

777
00:36:18,180 --> 00:36:19,780
-Yeah.

778
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:22,780
And you’re doing this
to connect with me?

779
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:24,680
All right, I get that.

780
00:36:24,780 --> 00:36:26,150
Yeah.

781
00:36:26,250 --> 00:36:28,890
<i> My dad decides
to give me back the footage...</i>

782
00:36:28,990 --> 00:36:30,630
- Okay.
- There you go.

783
00:36:30,720 --> 00:36:31,850
<i> ...while
he’s still alive.</i>

784
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:33,400
-Don’t lose ’em.

785
00:36:36,260 --> 00:36:38,960
<i> My siblings agree
to talk to my dad,</i>

786
00:36:39,060 --> 00:36:41,630
<i>but only if he’s the one
who asks them to.</i>

787
00:36:41,730 --> 00:36:42,900
Am I going first?

788
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:44,240
<i> He does.</i>

789
00:36:45,940 --> 00:36:47,380
- Hi.
- Come on in.

790
00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:50,610
Mom, do you
want to sit over there?

791
00:36:50,710 --> 00:36:52,580
Dad, you can sit here.

792
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:54,220
I guess I’ll start with...

793
00:36:54,310 --> 00:36:57,050
how are you guys feeling?

794
00:36:57,150 --> 00:36:58,080
-Nervous.

795
00:36:59,650 --> 00:37:01,020
You know,
I really don’t know

796
00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:03,290
how it affected
the three of you.

797
00:37:03,390 --> 00:37:05,590
I want to hear that.

798
00:37:05,690 --> 00:37:06,860
-I do have a question.

799
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:09,130
Were you in it
before you met Mom?

800
00:37:09,230 --> 00:37:10,430
-Oh, yeah.

801
00:37:10,530 --> 00:37:11,870
- Yes.
- Yeah.

802
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:13,660
It was around
a month and a half

803
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:14,930
after we had been dating...

804
00:37:15,030 --> 00:37:17,870
I sat her down
and I told her what I did,

805
00:37:17,970 --> 00:37:20,040
thinking, "Well,
that will be the end of that."

806
00:37:20,140 --> 00:37:22,380
Maybe that was your big mistake.

807
00:37:23,980 --> 00:37:25,680
You never thought,
"At some point,

808
00:37:25,780 --> 00:37:27,480
"my kids are probably
gonna wanna know,

809
00:37:27,580 --> 00:37:29,820
"’Hey, what did you do for work
all these years?’"

810
00:37:29,910 --> 00:37:31,510
-Well, why didn’t
you ever ask me?

811
00:37:31,620 --> 00:37:32,550
-We did.
-We did.

812
00:37:32,650 --> 00:37:33,680
-Did you?
-Yeah.

813
00:37:33,780 --> 00:37:35,220
-No, I don’t even
remember you guys

814
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:36,890
ever coming and confronting me
and saying--

815
00:37:36,990 --> 00:37:38,890
-Well, you don’t remember
a lot of things, Dad,

816
00:37:38,990 --> 00:37:40,760
but that happened.
Like, that’s the honest truth.

817
00:37:40,860 --> 00:37:42,300
It happened.

818
00:37:42,390 --> 00:37:44,530
The fact that we even
had to ask that question

819
00:37:44,630 --> 00:37:46,170
is not common, right?

820
00:37:46,260 --> 00:37:48,960
-It wasn’t a lie to me.
It was just protection.

821
00:37:49,070 --> 00:37:51,710
You know, making
a bubble around the family,

822
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:55,600
where there was no risk
of that outside world

823
00:37:55,710 --> 00:37:58,150
getting in there
and affecting you guys.

824
00:37:58,240 --> 00:38:02,140
-I was so hung up
over what you did

825
00:38:02,250 --> 00:38:05,150
that I didn’t want
to talk to you about anything.

826
00:38:05,250 --> 00:38:07,290
- Yeah, I got that vibe.
- We got that.

827
00:38:07,390 --> 00:38:10,030
I was angry that that
was a path that you chose,

828
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:12,120
knowing it could have
the potential

829
00:38:12,220 --> 00:38:14,620
of putting your whole family
in jeopardy.

830
00:38:14,730 --> 00:38:16,300
-Believe it or not,
I believed in it.

831
00:38:16,390 --> 00:38:19,260
I believed the fact that
it was illegal was wrong.

832
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:21,930
Lo and behold,
the country legalized it.

833
00:38:22,030 --> 00:38:23,770
They caught up to my thinking.

834
00:38:23,870 --> 00:38:25,870
-I can intellectually
understand that,

835
00:38:25,970 --> 00:38:28,870
but I feel like
you’re downplaying the risks.

836
00:38:28,970 --> 00:38:32,140
-I went to great lengths
to secure our life.

837
00:38:32,240 --> 00:38:34,840
Otherwise, you would
have felt the bumps of things

838
00:38:34,950 --> 00:38:36,420
happening a lot,
like that were--

839
00:38:36,510 --> 00:38:38,280
- We did feel the bumps.
- No, but nothing specific.

840
00:38:38,380 --> 00:38:40,650
Nobody kicked open the door,
you know?

841
00:38:40,750 --> 00:38:41,880
-But we had nightmares

842
00:38:41,990 --> 00:38:43,530
that people were
gonna kick open the door.

843
00:38:43,620 --> 00:38:45,820
I understand, but nothing
over that whole period of time

844
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:48,260
actually materialized.

845
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:50,860
I spent a lot of time, like,
overhearing you guys getting in,

846
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:53,500
like, these incredible rows.

847
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:57,340
Yeah, I don’t know that
I felt safe, like, emotionally.

848
00:38:57,440 --> 00:38:59,510
Because you do understand
that the environment

849
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:02,840
that you create at home
impacts your children

850
00:39:02,940 --> 00:39:05,210
and the people
that live with you.

851
00:39:05,310 --> 00:39:07,880
Very often, like, we were
walking around on eggshells.

852
00:39:09,050 --> 00:39:11,220
-We were your release.

853
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:13,990
So when you got home,
like, you took it out on us.

854
00:39:14,090 --> 00:39:18,060
You know, I was on
fight-or-flight kinda mode.

855
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:20,230
-The consequences, though,
were that, you know,

856
00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:23,190
if you got busted,
we might have no dad.

857
00:39:23,290 --> 00:39:25,060
Well, listen,
people get busted all the time,

858
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:27,130
and they still end up
getting out of jail, and--

859
00:39:27,230 --> 00:39:29,300
Do you think that
would have not impacted us?

860
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:30,600
-Yes.

861
00:39:30,700 --> 00:39:33,040
-Like, we would have been like,
"Oh, our dad went to jail.

862
00:39:33,140 --> 00:39:34,480
"Oh, yeah, okay."
Mom doesn’t work...

863
00:39:34,570 --> 00:39:35,810
I would have gotten out.

864
00:39:35,910 --> 00:39:37,180
You had
no control over that.

865
00:39:37,270 --> 00:39:38,840
Elliott?

866
00:39:38,940 --> 00:39:40,840
When you guys
would have arguments,

867
00:39:40,950 --> 00:39:43,120
like, I wish there was something
I could have done.

868
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:46,360
-There was nothing
you needed to do.

869
00:39:51,020 --> 00:39:52,820
That wasn’t
your responsibility.

870
00:39:58,430 --> 00:39:59,360
-I’m sorry.

871
00:40:08,870 --> 00:40:10,710
Are you okay, Elliot?

872
00:40:10,810 --> 00:40:11,910
-I’m okay.

873
00:40:12,980 --> 00:40:15,020
-I’m sorry for-- if it--
you know...

874
00:40:15,110 --> 00:40:18,980
It’s all I have right now,
is a sorry. And, uh...

875
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:21,020
I did it with Mike,
like, a few weeks ago.

876
00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:22,120
Yeah.

877
00:40:22,220 --> 00:40:23,860
-And I feel terrible about it.

878
00:40:23,950 --> 00:40:25,850
Yeah.

879
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:27,800
You know,
when I look at Dad

880
00:40:27,890 --> 00:40:28,960
when he’s like that,

881
00:40:29,060 --> 00:40:31,760
and I feel like
I’m looking in the mirror.

882
00:40:31,860 --> 00:40:34,760
-You got that from me,
unfortunately.

883
00:40:34,870 --> 00:40:36,470
And you saw
your dad do that.

884
00:40:36,570 --> 00:40:37,910
I saw my dad do that.

885
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:40,300
Until it stops,
it keeps going.

886
00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:41,200
-Yeah.

887
00:40:41,310 --> 00:40:43,080
- Right?
- Until we stop it here.

888
00:40:43,170 --> 00:40:44,770
-I trust that you love me.

889
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:46,880
I’m still gonna take time

890
00:40:46,980 --> 00:40:48,350
to work towards
trusting you more.

891
00:40:48,450 --> 00:40:49,220
-Yeah.

892
00:40:49,310 --> 00:40:50,780
-But I accept your apology.

893
00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:52,550
-Thank you.

894
00:40:52,650 --> 00:40:58,590
-You don’t have to put on
any front anymore, right?

895
00:40:58,690 --> 00:41:01,560
And I think that’s gonna take
some time and work for you

896
00:41:01,660 --> 00:41:02,660
to understand what that is.

897
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:03,790
-Yeah, it will.

898
00:41:03,890 --> 00:41:05,860
-Because I’m not really sure
that you even know

899
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:08,100
who the real Eric is anymore,

900
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:10,600
because of how many
different faces you had to wear.

901
00:41:10,700 --> 00:41:11,830
-Faces I wore.
Yeah, yeah.

902
00:41:11,940 --> 00:41:13,010
-That was the past.
-Yeah.

903
00:41:13,100 --> 00:41:14,670
-I’m assuming you don’t
do this anymore.

904
00:41:14,770 --> 00:41:15,700
- No.
- Okay.

905
00:41:15,810 --> 00:41:18,110
Just... just clarify that.

906
00:41:18,210 --> 00:41:21,380
<i> I know people
don’t change overnight.</i>

907
00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:22,650
<i>It takes time...</i>

908
00:41:22,750 --> 00:41:24,120
<i>and courage.</i>

909
00:41:24,220 --> 00:41:25,960
My little daughter.

910
00:41:26,050 --> 00:41:28,350
-Yeah, I know, Dad.

911
00:41:28,450 --> 00:41:30,190
I hope you don’t have
any other daughters.

912
00:41:30,290 --> 00:41:31,830
That would be a real shock.

913
00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:33,050
-Would it?

914
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:34,190
Yeah.

915
00:41:34,290 --> 00:41:35,090
-I do.

916
00:41:35,190 --> 00:41:36,590
-What?
-Mm-hm.

917
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:40,430
You don’t want me
to lie anymore, do you?

918
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:42,770
-Wow.

919
00:41:42,870 --> 00:41:44,940
<i> My dad’s not kidding.</i>

920
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:46,910
<i> He’s never met
his other daughter,</i>

921
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:48,970
<i>but she’d be in her 50s by now.</i>

922
00:41:50,170 --> 00:41:52,240
<i>I guess if you ask
for the truth,</i>

923
00:41:52,340 --> 00:41:54,040
<i>you have to be open
to receiving it.</i>

924
00:41:54,140 --> 00:41:55,840
-Oh my God.
Oh!

925
00:41:55,950 --> 00:41:58,520
<i> At least now we have
a chance to understand it.</i>

926
00:41:58,620 --> 00:42:02,160
I guess I feel like less
burdened about the situation.

927
00:42:02,250 --> 00:42:04,290
There’s not, like, something
in the back of my mind

928
00:42:04,390 --> 00:42:06,060
that I’m, like, holding onto.

929
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:07,760
<i> Telling each other
the truth</i>

930
00:42:07,860 --> 00:42:10,360
<i>has changed something for us.</i>

931
00:42:11,660 --> 00:42:15,560
It gave you and your
siblings some kind of peace.

932
00:42:17,100 --> 00:42:19,340
But what do you
get personally for you,

933
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:21,180
that’s not about
what your kids get?

934
00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:26,510
It’s a weight
off of my shoulders.

935
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:28,710
Yeah.

936
00:42:31,420 --> 00:42:36,360
For what they did,
to be able to raise three kids

937
00:42:36,450 --> 00:42:40,420
that have all
grown up into adults

938
00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:43,820
and are having
families of their own,

939
00:42:43,930 --> 00:42:47,130
that’s, you know,
pretty remarkable.

940
00:42:47,230 --> 00:42:49,170
So, out of all of this,
like, craziness...

941
00:42:51,340 --> 00:42:54,340
We’re not that screwed up.

942
00:42:55,470 --> 00:42:57,240
Now, I’m not sure
I’m gonna show up

943
00:42:57,340 --> 00:42:58,270
at premiere night.

944
00:42:58,380 --> 00:43:00,420
- Why not?
- Are you afraid?

945
00:43:00,510 --> 00:43:03,050
- Yeah, no, no, I’m not--
- I’m not afraid anymore, no.

946
00:43:11,460 --> 00:43:12,490
{\an8}Michael!

947
00:43:13,660 --> 00:43:15,530
{\an8}<i> What kind of father
will I be?</i>

948
00:43:17,860 --> 00:43:19,630
{\an8}<i>I just hope I get to find out.</i>

949
00:43:23,100 --> 00:43:24,400
Start with your name.



