Standing Up (II) (2013)

Chandler Canterbury: Howie

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• [last lines] 

  Grace : [narrating]  The bullies tried to make us seem small. In a weird way. it did just the opposite. I wasn't afraid anymore. And Howie wasn't alone. God has a way of giving you what you need when times get tough.

  Howie : [cut to her opening her mail]  In the fall, Howie found a family that adopted him in Connecticut. We stayed in touch, and the next summer Mom took us to the museum to see the cut-up people. And then to NASA to see the rockets.

  Grace : [reading his enclosed note]  I am afraid I will never make it back to Tall Pine to pay our debt. Enclosed please find my half of the money. Did you find out who the cut-up people were in the museum> I think about them a lot.-Howie P.S. Bryce was wrong. You were a SUPER-FINE FOX.

• Grace : What if he catches us?

  Howie : [seeing the clerk mopping his brow]  If we can't run faster than him, then we deserve to get caught.

• Butch : I was just telling Bonnie here that she needs a real man to take care of her.

  Howie : Well, she's got real man!

  Butch : No, there's only one real man here, and I can't see him, 'cause I don't have a mirror.

• Grace : The Museum of Science and Industry is just a couple of miles from my house. They have lots of cool exhibitions and things. They have this big heart that you can walk into. And they have all these little people sliced up in thin little slices. They're stuck in these glass doors, and when you turn the doors, you can see everything - all their insides.

  Howie : Are they real people? Like, really real?

  Grace : Yeah. There's a man and a lady, all sliced up.

  Howie : Well, where'd they get the bodies? I mean, who would want to be cut up and displayed like that?

  Grace : I do not know. I never really thought about it before.

  Howie : I bet they didn't have families. Maybe they were war prisoners.

  Grace : Maybe.

• Grace : [tussling and giggling]  I'm brilliant, don't you think?

  Howie : I guess.

  Grace : No, say it!

  Howie : Okay, okay, okay.

  Grace : Say it...

  Howie : Okay. I'm brilliant.

  [both cackling] 

• Howie : Did you know that Bryce classifies all girls? You know, super-fine foxes, foxes, middle-of-the-road, dogs, and real dogs.

  Grace : What was that?

  Howie : He said that you were a dog.

  Grace : Oh...

  [taking off her glasses] 

  Howie : But, he didn't even really look at you, though. He couldn't have, he wouldn't have said that if he really looked at you.

  Grace : I feel gross. I'm gonna go take a shower...