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1 00:00:42 Well, thank you, thank you all,
2 00:00:44 parents and town advocates alike,
3 00:00:47 for joining us on this very special evening.
4 00:00:52 We're here tonight to kick off
5 00:00:54 our most ambitious school year yet.
6 00:00:57 We've run the numbers, and folks,
7 00:01:00 there's no simpler way for me to put it.
8 00:01:04 Our children are getting smarter.
9 00:01:09 Harvard, two. Dartmouth, two.
10 00:01:14 Yale, three.
11 00:01:17 U Penn, seven.
12 00:01:19 Thank you.
13 00:01:47 ...and my fellow trustees
14 00:01:49 who wait all year long
15 00:01:51 ranking the top public schools in America
16 00:01:54 based on SATs and college acceptance rates.
17 00:01:58 And Roslyn is four.
18 00:02:06 And now, I'd like to bring out the man responsible.
19 00:02:09 - Congratulations. - Thank you.
20 00:02:10 In his ten years here,
21 00:02:12 he's revamped our education system.
22 00:02:14 From pre-K all the way to high school.
23 00:02:17 Please join me in welcoming to the stage
24 00:02:20 our district superintendent and my friend,
25 00:02:23 Frank Tassone.
26 00:03:07 Good morning.
27 00:03:10 Hey there, good morning.
28 00:03:12 Go Bulldogs.
29 00:03:13 Have we heard about Mr. Kopple?
30 00:03:15 - Wife had twins. - Twins!
31 00:03:17 - Late last night. - Nice. Send over flowers
32 00:03:19 and maybe an edible arrangement.
33 00:03:20 Can we, can we get these things out of here?
34 00:03:21 - Oh, they're nice for morale. - Yeah, it'd be even nicer
35 00:03:23 if they were shaped like ones.
36 00:03:24 - You know, Dr. Tassone... - Hey.
37 00:03:26 A wise woman once said it's not having what you want.
38 00:03:29 - It's wanting what you got. - Mrs. Gluckin.
39 00:03:31 I barely recognize you anymore what with the new name,
40 00:03:34 new office, new job title.
41 00:03:35 The same pay, same paperwork.
42 00:03:38 July and August are all settled up.
43 00:03:39 - Expenses booked and archived. - Perfect.
44 00:03:41 And something else I wanted to talk to you about...
45 00:03:43 Safety gates are all taken care of.
46 00:03:44 I'm meeting with City Hall later today to go over strategy.
47 00:03:47 Jeez, someone's had their coffee.
48 00:03:48 - Yeah. - Uh, Dr. Tassone?
49 00:03:49 - Yeah. - Uh, did you want your flight
50 00:03:51 to the Vegas conference Friday out of JFK or Newark?
51 00:03:53 Thanks, J. Whatever's cheaper works fine.
52 00:03:55 And, uh, Mary Ann, is there any way
53 00:03:57 you'd be able to grab my diet smoothie?
54 00:03:58 - I was running late. - Oh, sure.
55 00:04:00 Uh, but there's one more thing.
56 00:04:01 Carol Schweitzer's been camped up
57 00:04:03 in the conference room since 6:30.
58 00:04:05 - Says it's urgent she speaks with you. - Okay, okay.
59 00:04:08 - Chad. - Chad, Chad Schweitzer's...
60 00:04:10 Okay, I'll take care of it.
61 00:04:12 - Thanks. - Good luck.
62 00:04:13 Stop it.
63 00:04:14 Do us all a favor.
64 00:04:15 If he's not out of there in an hour, call 911.
65 00:04:19 And I am banging down doors
66 00:04:21 until somebody here
67 00:04:22 takes me seriously. All right?
68 00:04:24 That Militzok, she plays favorites, okay?
69 00:04:27 She wouldn't even let him take a bathroom break
70 00:04:29 during the test, and he has a hyperactive bladder.
71 00:04:32 Chad, honey, tell him how you...
72 00:04:34 you know what, I have a note here from his doctor, okay?
73 00:04:36 Ms. Schweitzer, just, just calm down.
74 00:04:38 - Let's, let's just... - No one will listen to me.
75 00:04:40 All right, I don't know what else I'm supposed to do.
76 00:04:42 Chad, he is just as gifted as everyone else in his year.
77 00:04:45 - Absolutely. - And...
78 00:04:46 I'm scared, Dr. Tassone,
79 00:04:48 because if he doesn't get into OMNI...
80 00:04:52 and he starts to think of himself as less than...
81 00:04:54 No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
82 00:04:56 No, I will talk to Ms. Militzok.
83 00:04:57 I will straighten this whole thing out.
84 00:04:59 - You will? - Yes.
85 00:05:00 And, and we'll just set a make-up test for Chad.
86 00:05:03 All right, with ample bathroom time.
87 00:05:05 Thank you, Dr. Tassone.
88 00:05:06 I can't tell you how much I appreciate that.
89 00:05:08 There's no need to thank me, all right?
90 00:05:09 Chad's a smart kid with the world ahead of him,
91 00:05:11 and it's our job to give him the runway.
92 00:05:14 Thank you.
93 00:05:20 It's funny.
94 00:05:22 You know, Chad, when I was your age,
95 00:05:25 I didn't even place into fast track math.
96 00:05:27 - Really? - No. I couldn't nail my times tables.
97 00:05:29 And at the time, I thought my world was ending.
98 00:05:32 But I caught up. You know what?
99 00:05:37 Now I set the math curriculum.
100 00:06:15 Can I help you with something?
101 00:06:17 Oh, no, it's okay.
102 00:06:19 I'm just here for Mrs. Cremona.
103 00:06:22 - Or Gluckin. - Ooh, she's not here,
104 00:06:24 but I'm more than happy to answer any questions if...
105 00:06:26 - Really? That would... - Mm-hmm, yeah.
106 00:06:28 I don't wanna bother you if you're busy, but...
107 00:06:29 No, come on in, bother me.
108 00:06:31 I'm doing spreadsheets. Come, come in.
109 00:06:33 Take a seat.
110 00:06:36 I don't think we've had a chance to meet.
111 00:06:38 - It's Rachel. - Rachel, right.
112 00:06:39 Neil's little sister.
113 00:06:41 Yeah. Wow, good memory.
114 00:06:44 I hope he's keeping out of trouble over at Northwestern.
115 00:06:46 Yeah, he loves it. He's doing bio-chem.
116 00:06:49 Ah, well, they have great journalism there, too.
117 00:06:51 Yes, they do.
118 00:06:55 Okay, so they just, they want me to write an article
119 00:06:57 about the SkyWalk proposal in the new budget.
120 00:07:00 And I just need a pull quote from administration.
121 00:07:03 Yeah, oh, okay. A sound bite, nice.
122 00:07:09 We've been asking high schoolers
123 00:07:11 how we can make their day easier,
124 00:07:12 so we came up with this idea, the SkyWalk.
125 00:07:17 a bridge, to link the school from end to end.
126 00:07:20 And um, it's a huge undertaking for us.
127 00:07:24 And we can't wait to break ground
128 00:07:26 once the plans are approved next May.
129 00:07:30 Great, that's all I need. Thank you so much.
130 00:07:32 That's it? No, no follow-ups?
131 00:07:34 No, it's just a puff piece.
132 00:07:37 They save the real stories for seniors.
133 00:07:39 Rachel.
134 00:07:42 It's only a puff piece if you let it be a puff piece.
135 00:07:48 That's what they'll tell you over at Northwestern.
136 00:07:50 All right? A real journalist
137 00:07:52 can turn any assignment into a story.
138 00:07:59 Are you busy? Just a couple of colleagues want to convey thanks.
139 00:08:02 Rachel Bhargava, staff writer for the "Hilltop Beacon."
140 00:08:06 This is Bob Spicer, school board president.
141 00:08:08 Oh, you're,
142 00:08:09 You're in my daughter, Becca's year, right?
143 00:08:11 Say hi to your dad for me.
144 00:08:13 Nice to meet you, Rachel.
145 00:08:14 And if you want to follow up, just set a time with Mary Ann, okay?
146 00:08:18 And, uh, I'll be keeping an eye out for your byline.
147 00:08:25 The demand is insane. It's skyrocketing.
148 00:08:27 We're seeing three bedrooms go
149 00:08:28 for over a million in Roslyn Heights.
150 00:08:30 Yeah, you just don't see those kinds of numbers
151 00:08:31 in Syosset or Jericho.
152 00:08:33 Right, but those towns are a further commute from the city.
153 00:08:35 Not Manhasset, not Great Neck.
154 00:08:37 It's the public schools. The better the school system,
155 00:08:39 the higher the price tag on the homes, period.
156 00:08:41 Our firm has sold nine separate lots in that area
157 00:08:44 since the report in that journal came out.
158 00:08:45 And, uh, here's a little something
159 00:08:47 - you know, from all of us. - Okay.
160 00:08:50 Really, that's, oh.
161 00:08:54 - Keep up the good work. - Well, thanks, everyone.
162 00:08:56 - Dr. Tassone? - Oh, yeah.
163 00:08:57 - Do you mind if we get a little... - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
164 00:08:58 - Something for my office. - Great.
165 00:09:00 - I really appreciate you... - Scoot in, scoot in, Will.
166 00:09:02 ...coming in today.
167 00:09:04 - Thank you. - Okay.
168 00:09:06 - Okay, thank you. - Okay.
169 00:09:07 All right? Yeah, let's let him...
170 00:09:08 - Let him get back to work. - Thank you.
171 00:09:09 - No, I really appreciate it. - Yeah.
172 00:09:11 - Thank you so much. - Thank you.
173 00:09:13 Okay.
174 00:09:18 I can't eat these. Just, if you put them out
175 00:09:20 for everybody to pick at, that'd be great.
176 00:09:23 They were out of the flax seed.
177 00:09:27 That's okay, that's okay. Thanks.
178 00:09:33 How much do you figure a guy like Bob makes at his regular job?
179 00:09:36 Bob Spicer, you mean?
180 00:09:40 High sixes a year, minimum.
181 00:09:42 Maybe seven figures in this market.
182 00:09:44 - Why? - Oh, forget it.
183 00:09:50 You look tired.
184 00:09:53 You might wanna go home early, get some rest.
185 00:09:54 I gotta run Dickens.
186 00:09:56 Maybe I'll try and bow out and
187 00:09:58 get a headstart and early prep for Vegas this weekend.
188 00:10:00 - I wouldn't bail on book club. - Why?
189 00:10:01 Those women adore you,
190 00:10:02 and each one talks to two dozen more.
191 00:10:05 The next budget vote's only nine months away.
192 00:10:07 - Right, our SkyWalk. - Yeah, the SkyWalk is big.
193 00:10:09 Gets us to first. That's all that matters.
194 00:10:15 This new diet is kicking my ass.
195 00:10:18 What is that, even?
196 00:10:20 It's got charcoal in it or something like that.
197 00:10:21 Yeah, coal.
198 00:10:23 I would kill somebody for a carb right now.
199 00:10:26 I don't know where you could find one.
200 00:10:28 You are such a bitch.
201 00:10:31 Oh, would you like a bite?
202 00:10:33 - I hate pastrami on rye. - You want a bite?
203 00:10:35 Yeah, I know you hate it.
204 00:10:36 Open up.
205 00:10:38 - Fucking so good. - Right?
206 00:10:40 Come on, you can eat more.
207 00:10:42 You got... come on, one more bite.
208 00:10:44 - I will kill you. - I won't tell anyone.
209 00:10:45 I'm not gonna tell anyone.
210 00:10:48 You're a growing boy.
211 00:10:49 Come on. Eat the fuckin' sandwich.
212 00:11:06 Let's get started.
213 00:11:08 Should we get started, everyone?
214 00:11:10 What do we all think of "Martin Chuzzlewit"?
215 00:11:18 Okay.
216 00:11:21 You know, Frank, the culture is not for everyone.
217 00:11:24 Eh, I thought we wound up having a
218 00:11:26 really good discussion, ultimately.
219 00:11:35 Frank, can I ask you a personal question?
220 00:11:38 Sure.
221 00:11:40 It's just that...
222 00:11:42 Jonah's...
223 00:11:43 you know, having a really hard time with the separation.
224 00:11:46 Yeah. You know, Ms. Schlacter,
225 00:11:49 uh, told me that he's opened up a little bit in Banana Splits?
226 00:11:53 Right, yeah, oh, my God. Yeah.
227 00:11:55 - Thank you for getting him in. - No, of course.
228 00:11:59 It has been so hard on us, and...
229 00:12:02 You have been...
230 00:12:04 such a tremendous help.
231 00:12:06 Oh, Sharon, of course. Anytime, anytime.
232 00:12:10 Yeah, and...
233 00:12:18 - Frank, I'm sorry. - No, no, no, no, no.
234 00:12:20 You want what's best for your son.
235 00:12:21 That's nothing to be ashamed of.
236 00:12:23 Uh, no, it makes you strong. It's, um...
237 00:12:27 I...
238 00:12:28 you know, I think at the end of the day,
239 00:12:30 her memory is still very fresh.
240 00:12:45 Somehow, I'm not surprised.
241 00:12:47 Jenny screwed up some paperwork earlier.
242 00:12:50 I'm saving her ass.
243 00:12:51 Jenny's got a good aunt.
244 00:12:53 How did Dickens go?
245 00:12:56 Well, it was Sharon Katz's place this week.
246 00:13:00 And...
247 00:13:05 - I knew it. - I, I think maybe
248 00:13:07 I shouldn't have offered to wash up.
249 00:13:09 That poor woman.
250 00:13:11 She's nowhere near your type.
251 00:13:13 She's not, she's not.
252 00:13:17 - Jamieson. - Uh, Honors English.
253 00:13:19 - Loves Nietzsche. - Very good.
254 00:13:21 Uh, DiGennaro?
255 00:13:23 Oh, DiGennaro.
256 00:13:26 Social studies,
257 00:13:28 ninth grade global hist...
258 00:13:30 American history.
259 00:13:33 Coaches Little League, too.
260 00:13:35 Yes.
261 00:13:36 Well, these are too easy. Oh, here's a toughie.
262 00:13:41 Todhunter.
263 00:13:42 Oh, shit.
264 00:13:46 Todhunter, Todhunter...
265 00:13:52 Mr. Todhunter.
266 00:13:54 How's that bowling league shaping up this season?
267 00:13:57 We're ahead.
268 00:13:58 But we've got our big match against Jericho on Sunday.
269 00:14:01 Jericho, mm. I think you'll crush them.
270 00:14:04 Thank you for putting this on.
271 00:14:05 - This is so nice. - Oh, of course. My pleasure.
272 00:14:06 - Oh, Frank! - The least I could do.
273 00:14:07 - Yeah, excuse me. - Hey, Frank.
274 00:14:11 So, um...
275 00:14:12 hey, are you getting pumped for Vegas?
276 00:14:13 'Cause, uh, I got my bags packed.
277 00:14:15 I'm ready to go.
278 00:14:16 Yeah. It'll be good to get away from the wife
279 00:14:17 for a few days too, huh?
280 00:14:19 - Right? - Right.
281 00:14:21 A few days, yeah.
282 00:14:24 You want to know how many bids we got from contractors?
283 00:14:27 For the SkyWalk construction,
284 00:14:28 you explored several options, right?
285 00:14:31 - I think we had four or five. - Okay.
286 00:14:35 From which firms, exactly?
287 00:14:36 Hang-hang on a sec.
288 00:14:37 What's this article you're supposed to be writing?
289 00:14:40 Oh, it's a piece on the SkyWalk.
290 00:14:44 And the student paper wanted a deep dive
291 00:14:45 into construction specs?
292 00:14:47 They're giving me free reign, more or less.
293 00:14:50 I guess I'm just looking for an interesting way in.
294 00:14:52 - Oh, okay, Ruth. - Rachel.
295 00:14:54 Rachel, so let me give you a great angle for your story.
296 00:14:57 - Okay. You wanna write this down or are you... - I'm taping.
297 00:15:03 Okay.
298 00:15:05 The SkyWalk is a great project.
299 00:15:07 It'll be the first SkyWalk on all of Long Island,
300 00:15:10 and yet one more reason Roslyn schools
301 00:15:12 put Jericho and Syosset to shame.
302 00:15:14 And it'll look great and make all our lives easier.
303 00:15:17 Thank you, the end. Good night and good luck.
304 00:15:20 What else can I help you with?
305 00:15:24 Do you have the bids handy?
306 00:15:26 Or are they not on you?
307 00:15:27 No, they're not on me. They're locked in the basement,
308 00:15:29 lost in the annals of history.
309 00:15:31 Well, I have next period free.
310 00:15:36 Do you?
311 00:15:40 All right.
312 00:15:44 Good luck finding 'em.
313 00:16:14 Do you need somethin'?
314 00:16:16 Just a couple of photocopies.
315 00:16:20 Okay.
316 00:16:22 - So you're a sophomore? - Junior.
317 00:16:24 My son Jake is actually in the second grade over at Bellmore.
318 00:16:28 You know, not too far from here.
319 00:16:31 South Shore, you know.
320 00:16:45 It's an old building. We get leaks every so often.
321 00:16:54 It usually stops after, like, a minute.
322 00:17:12 We need a hard eight here. We need boxcars.
323 00:17:14 We need boxcars, Lenny, we need boxcars.
324 00:17:20 I know what you're all thinking.
325 00:17:21 At first glance, these numbers might seem prohibitive
326 00:17:24 but I'm here to tell you that with some vision,
327 00:17:27 they can dovetail quite amicably.
328 00:17:30 As we can see, the added benefits
329 00:17:32 to such a program are remunerative.
330 00:17:35 I'd love for you to see what we're doing out there
331 00:17:36 - if you're ever on Long Island. - Yeah, I think,
332 00:17:37 I think we're on the East Coast in November, December.
333 00:17:40 - So I'll... - Well, we're there.
334 00:17:41 Good, good, good, good. Okay.
335 00:17:43 And listen, stop by and have a drink before you leave.
336 00:17:44 - All right? - That was terrific.
337 00:17:46 - Thank you. - Take care.
338 00:17:53 Great.
339 00:17:56 All right.
340 00:17:58 What can I get ya?
341 00:18:00 Just a club soda with lime.
342 00:18:02 And can I see your food menu, please?
343 00:18:16 And...
344 00:18:21 Kyle.
345 00:18:24 Kyle Contreras.
346 00:18:28 Plandome High maybe 15 years ago, right?
347 00:18:33 Yeah, I used to teach English there.
348 00:18:35 Dr. Tassone.
349 00:18:37 Frank.
350 00:18:39 Frank.
351 00:18:42 I would think that you would forget
352 00:18:44 about us the minute we got out of there.
353 00:18:46 No, you'd be surprised.
354 00:18:48 I mean, some things I wish I could forget.
355 00:18:50 Yeah. You know somethin' I wish I could forget?
356 00:18:51 Would be Lippman's hair piece.
357 00:18:53 Do you remember that thing that...
358 00:18:55 That... with the...
359 00:18:58 Oh, my God, Lippman's hair piece, Christ.
360 00:19:01 So, what do you, what do you...
361 00:19:04 are you teaching English at the new place?
362 00:19:05 No, I'm, I'm administrative now.
363 00:19:08 Like a principal?
364 00:19:09 No, like superintendent of schools.
365 00:19:12 Look at that. You love saying that.
366 00:19:14 You love that. Superintendent of schools.
367 00:19:17 - With the head, too. - I've done it for 12 years.
368 00:19:19 I mean, look, it's great.
369 00:19:20 It does have its trade-offs, like anything.
370 00:19:23 I really miss being back in the classroom sometimes
371 00:19:25 with my students, you know.
372 00:19:27 How about you? You, um, you still writing?
373 00:19:30 Short stories, science fiction, right?
374 00:19:32 I remember you used to carry around
375 00:19:34 that beat-up copy of "Dune" everywhere.
376 00:19:35 Yeah, I mostly just wrote that stuff
377 00:19:38 to get out of your book reports.
378 00:19:40 No, come on, come on. There was that really good one
379 00:19:41 about the, um, about the alien colony.
380 00:19:44 I talked about it in your rec for Stony Brook, right?
381 00:19:47 Yeah, yeah, for Stony Brook.
382 00:19:53 Sorry, I, um...
383 00:19:54 I burnt out at Stony Brook.
384 00:19:57 After a few years, I...
385 00:20:00 moved out here.
386 00:20:04 I was dancing up until very recently.
387 00:20:08 Dancing?
388 00:20:13 Thank you.
389 00:20:21 So does your wife come with you on these things, or...
390 00:20:26 Is she back in New York?
391 00:20:27 No, no, no, my wife passed away.
392 00:20:35 - I'm sorry. - No, no, it's...
393 00:20:37 it's fine. It was a long time ago.
394 00:20:40 It was before I had you, even.
395 00:20:48 How's the food?
396 00:20:50 Shit.
397 00:21:02 You wanna try somewhere else?
398 00:21:17 I thought you were here for two days.
399 00:21:20 Uh, just for the weekend, yeah.
400 00:21:22 A lot of suits for a weekend.
401 00:21:25 Well, you never know what might come up these...
402 00:21:27 Right.
403 00:21:29 That was always your thing, wasn't it?
404 00:21:31 Even when you were an English teacher,
405 00:21:33 you were always the guy in the suits.
406 00:21:36 What's wrong with a suit?
407 00:21:38 I don't know, it's just...
408 00:21:41 it's a little sad.
409 00:21:43 Just a little sad.
410 00:21:47 I think they put some bottles in the, uh...
411 00:21:50 in the bar fridge, I'm not sure why.
412 00:21:51 You're allowed to make eye contact, Frank.
413 00:22:17 No, I'm not.
414 00:22:20 Right.
415 00:23:20 Dad!
416 00:23:24 I got dinner.
417 00:23:37 Anything happen today?
418 00:23:41 I spoke to the assistant superintendent.
419 00:23:45 For an article.
420 00:23:46 The woman who runs all the business.
421 00:23:51 Wonder if they're looking to hire anybody in development.
422 00:23:54 You're overqualified.
423 00:24:28 Late night, Ms. Gluckin?
424 00:24:30 Jesus, Eddie, you scared the shit out of me.
425 00:24:32 Got any fun plans for the weekend?
426 00:24:34 Yeah, no, all I want is to spend some quiet time
427 00:24:36 at home with my kids.
428 00:24:38 - You know. - All right.
429 00:24:39 Have a good time.
430 00:24:40 - See you next week. - Yeah, good night, Eddie.
431 00:24:42 - Sorry about scare... - That's all right.
432 00:24:54 He's...
433 00:24:56 Okay, first of all, they're too small.
434 00:24:59 Oh, girls, have you met my niece, Jenny Aquila?
435 00:25:01 She's working with me over at Roslyn, district clerk.
436 00:25:04 Isn't this place beautiful?
437 00:25:05 - I mean... - So gorgeous.
438 00:25:08 Howard must be making out like a bandit with those Chevys.
439 00:25:11 He's been consulting a little on the side.
440 00:25:13 I'm proud of him.
441 00:25:16 We're planning a big remodel once the season's through, actually.
442 00:25:20 Who's your contractor?
443 00:25:22 - Ma, help! - Jim Boy's gonna do it.
444 00:25:24 Big goose down. I can't... Ah!
445 00:25:26 Are you sure Jimmy's ready to take on a project this size?
446 00:25:30 Yeah, it'll be good for him.
447 00:25:32 Get his mind going on somethin' new.
448 00:25:34 - Aunt Pam. - Yeah?
449 00:25:36 Uh, can I talk to you inside just for a sec?
450 00:25:37 Sure.
451 00:25:39 All right, Jen. What's going on?
452 00:25:42 Honestly...
453 00:25:45 I feel bad even bringing it up, but, um...
454 00:25:48 Jake's birthday is comin' up.
455 00:25:50 And he's been asking for the Sony PlayStation.
456 00:25:54 - Video game system. - Yeah.
457 00:25:55 And how all his friends have it and how he feels left out.
458 00:26:00 You know, um,
459 00:26:01 money's been tight, and I was just thinking since
460 00:26:04 Howard's been doin' so well and all...
461 00:26:20 I'd pay you back as soon as I'm able.
462 00:26:24 Just put it on the card.
463 00:26:28 Amber, sweetie, do you mind
464 00:26:31 giving your cousin Jenny and me a minute?
465 00:26:35 Thank you.
466 00:26:38 But I was wondering if maybe you could just lend me
467 00:26:40 the money from your personal...
468 00:26:41 Don't worry about it. It'll all be reconciled
469 00:26:43 at the end of the month.
470 00:26:44 I've been doing this a long time.
471 00:26:47 It's, it's just,
472 00:26:48 he wants that PlayStation so much, you know?
473 00:26:50 Just put the receipt on my desk first thing Monday morning
474 00:26:52 and don't give it another thought.
475 00:26:54 Now if you'll excuse me, I have to play host.
476 00:27:06 I don't get this. What is this?
477 00:27:08 It's the SkyWalk piece you wanted.
478 00:27:11 No, this is two pages of contractor bids,
479 00:27:14 building materials, and zoning ordinances
480 00:27:16 in brutal detail.
481 00:27:18 Yeah, it's journalism.
482 00:27:19 Our readers are 15.
483 00:27:21 You realize we have to submit every issue to Bressler
484 00:27:24 before we go to print.
485 00:27:26 And Dr. Tassone, and Pam Cremona.
486 00:27:28 Pam Gluckin. It's Gluckin now.
487 00:27:30 Look, we're not the "New York Times," right?
488 00:27:33 We're an extracurricular. We are a club
489 00:27:36 designed to get us all into good colleges.
490 00:27:38 We have a certain finesse to the way we approach stories here.
491 00:27:41 A je ne sais quoi, if you will.
492 00:27:43 But don't worry, though. You're gonna get the hang of it.
493 00:29:19 Sir.
494 00:29:21 Could I ask, uh,
495 00:29:23 how many of our stores have you visited today?
496 00:29:27 A couple.
497 00:29:28 The ones in Farmingdale and Islip
498 00:29:30 didn't have what I was looking for.
499 00:29:31 I mean, you know, we actually offer
500 00:29:33 free ship-to service for our high-value customers.
501 00:29:40 You think I'm high-value?
502 00:29:42 I mean, reasonably, yeah.
503 00:29:47 So where's this stuff going?
504 00:29:52 - Shit. - Yeah, no, no.
505 00:29:53 - I'll get him. No, he's right here. - Motherfucking shit.
506 00:29:54 No, he's... no worries.
507 00:29:56 Honey, come on, you know how they feel
508 00:29:57 - about the phones on the course. - It's Larry, for you.
509 00:29:59 - My cousin. - Larry, for me?
510 00:30:01 What?
511 00:30:02 Okay, just tell him I'll call him after 18.
512 00:30:05 He says it's about the school.
513 00:30:07 Larry from... the mattress firm?
514 00:30:10 No, he's over at Ace Hardware now.
515 00:30:12 So this kid, he gives my guy a home address.
516 00:30:15 In Westhampton.
517 00:30:17 Full 50 miles outside of Roslyn.
518 00:30:20 And it's a home address.
519 00:30:23 You know? So I say to myself, I say,
520 00:30:25 "What's a Roslyn school's contractor
521 00:30:27 "doing buying supplies
522 00:30:28 "all the way out in Selden for, anyway?"
523 00:30:29 No, we wouldn't, we wouldn't.
524 00:30:30 We get our materials wholesale, anyway.
525 00:30:32 We, we put out bids.
526 00:30:34 Tool chest, shower heads. That's home improvement.
527 00:30:38 - That's not school stuff. - That's right, right.
528 00:30:39 - It doesn't add up, Bob. - Who is this James McCarden
529 00:30:41 and why does he have a Roslyn expense card?
530 00:30:42 I don't know. I don't even know a McCarden.
531 00:30:44 There is no McCarden at Roslyn.
532 00:30:46 Oh, hang on, honey, wasn't Pam Cremona
533 00:30:48 or Gluckin or whatever she is,
534 00:30:50 wasn't her first husband a McCarden?
535 00:30:53 Come on.
536 00:30:54 No way. Pam Gluckin, of all people?
537 00:30:56 She's gonna have a house on Dune Road?
538 00:31:11 - What should we say? - No, there's nothing to say.
539 00:31:13 - The receipts say everything. - Yeah, okay.
540 00:31:15 - But we need to... - Okay, she's right behind you.
541 00:31:20 Hi, Pam.
542 00:31:22 And, uh, I want to thank you all
543 00:31:24 for volunteering time out of your day
544 00:31:26 to speak with me. I would just
545 00:31:28 love to hear from each of you what you hope
546 00:31:29 to achieve in the sixth grade.
547 00:31:31 Yeah, let's start with you, Heather.
548 00:31:33 I wanna get all A's and become
549 00:31:35 a cardiothoracic surgeon like my mom.
550 00:31:40 Great, uh,
551 00:31:42 but just for the purposes of today...
552 00:31:44 if you could just...
553 00:31:46 - Come. - What?
554 00:31:48 Quick.
555 00:31:53 One second. Okay, I'll be back.
556 00:32:26 We're vulnerable here.
557 00:32:27 She stole $30,000 in taxpayer money
558 00:32:30 and that's just between the Ace Hardware.
559 00:32:31 Who knows who else got an expense card?
560 00:32:33 I'm telling you, it's our moral responsibility
561 00:32:35 to report this to the town. We have to.
562 00:32:37 No, this is a criminal matter.
563 00:32:38 We've got to call the police, the FBI.
564 00:32:39 Okay, that was our legal counsel.
565 00:32:42 They do recommend we report.
566 00:32:43 Great, okay, well then, that settles it.
567 00:32:46 I'm gonna call the mayor.
568 00:32:48 Frank, you wanna be on that call?
569 00:32:54 I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
570 00:32:55 Go get him, get him a glass of water.
571 00:32:56 I should have caught this. I should have checked.
572 00:32:58 Pam's been here longer than I have.
573 00:32:59 I didn't even think.
574 00:33:01 No, no, no, no, Frank. It's... it's not your fault.
575 00:33:04 She built up a decade's worth of trust with all of us.
576 00:33:08 We were asleep at the wheel.
577 00:33:11 Thank you.
578 00:33:15 But before we go any further, we need to,
579 00:33:17 we need to know what we're dealing with.
580 00:33:18 I have Phil in my office getting a firm number.
581 00:33:20 Phil, our auditor?
582 00:33:22 The man should be fired.
583 00:33:23 He's the one person who should have caught wind of this.
584 00:33:26 - Prick. - Okay.
585 00:33:27 We can't jump the gun here.
586 00:33:28 Not when there's this much at stake, all right?
587 00:33:33 - Can we... - Okay.
588 00:33:34 We'll give him an hour.
589 00:33:36 - That's... But then, after that... - Right.
590 00:33:39 - we start making calls. - Right.
591 00:33:42 How could Jim Boy be so careless,
592 00:33:44 going around like that?
593 00:33:47 I'm pulling him off the remodel, that's for sure.
594 00:33:49 Just gonna have to hire on a real contractor.
595 00:33:52 - A professional. - Yeah, Pam?
596 00:33:54 No, no, no. Frank's gonna fix this.
597 00:33:56 He knows how important I am to this school.
598 00:33:58 I'm the one who keeps the lights on here, you know?
599 00:34:00 - He'll tell 'em. - Do you think anybody
600 00:34:02 could ever find out about the PlayStation?
601 00:34:05 No, I told you I took care of that.
602 00:34:07 You have nothing to worry about there.
603 00:34:10 That's good.
604 00:34:13 It's just, um...
605 00:34:15 I, uh...
606 00:34:17 I might have also done a little early Christmas shopping
607 00:34:20 over the weekend, too.
608 00:34:22 See, I wasn't gonna mention until after the holiday
609 00:34:24 because I bought you something,
610 00:34:26 and I didn't, I didn't wanna spoil it.
611 00:34:28 I swear, I swear, I was gonna reimburse it all.
612 00:34:31 How much?
613 00:34:33 Not much, you know. Just like, um...
614 00:34:35 maybe...
615 00:34:37 $1,600 at Lord & Taylor and...
616 00:34:40 another 12 at Macy's.
617 00:34:50 Frank's gonna fix this.
618 00:34:54 Give me good news, Phil.
619 00:34:56 There's no way. There's, there's no way.
620 00:34:58 There's check warrants that are missing.
621 00:34:59 Purchase orders. I took her word for it.
622 00:35:02 She would tell me one thing, she'd say don't worry about it,
623 00:35:04 and I believed her like the fucking idiot schmuck I am.
624 00:35:09 Oh, I never even think to check up, to validate.
625 00:35:12 I'm gonna lose my job. I'm gonna lose our firm.
626 00:35:15 - We're dead, they'll kill us. - Hey, hey, no, no, no...
627 00:35:17 Nobody's killing anybody. Phil, look me in the eye.
628 00:35:19 Look me in the eye.
629 00:35:24 You're running the show here. Say it after me.
630 00:35:26 "I am running the show."
631 00:35:31 - I am running the show. - Good.
632 00:35:34 Pull it together.
633 00:35:35 How much did you find concretely?
634 00:35:42 Two hundred twenty-three.
635 00:35:44 Concretely, but that's just the obvious stuff.
636 00:35:46 - Who knows what else is buried... - $223,000.
637 00:35:51 Okay, okay.
638 00:35:56 That's our number.
639 00:35:58 What are you talking about?
640 00:35:59 That's the number we go back to the board with, 223.
641 00:36:01 No, you're not hearing me.
642 00:36:03 That might just be the tip of the iceberg.
643 00:36:04 - Well, you don't know that. - Frank.
644 00:36:06 The receipts are gone.
645 00:36:08 They're in the bin of a shredder, probably.
646 00:36:09 She could have misplaced them.
647 00:36:11 I mean, there's a very real scenario here
648 00:36:13 where all the other expenses are legit, right?
649 00:36:15 - Maybe, I don't know. - Okay, Phil, Phil.
650 00:36:17 She's not some criminal mastermind.
651 00:36:19 All right, Pam is our friend,
652 00:36:21 and she has made a stupid mistake.
653 00:36:25 But what...
654 00:36:27 but what about the state comptroller?
655 00:36:31 Hevesi could barge into this office
656 00:36:32 at any given moment, conduct an outside audit.
657 00:36:34 Has he ever done that once in your 30 years of experience?
658 00:36:39 Exactly.
659 00:36:40 Just...
660 00:36:43 give me a number, and...
661 00:36:47 I'll take care of the board.
662 00:37:14 Okay, okay, everyone.
663 00:37:17 So, the, uh...
664 00:37:20 the sum total is $250,000.
665 00:37:22 - What? - Jesus, are you kidding me?
666 00:37:25 - That woman has a set of balls on her. - We can just...
667 00:37:27 - When I get my chance. - You never will.
668 00:37:29 She's gonna be Nassau PD's for the taking.
669 00:37:31 - And that shitbird son of hers. - No, no, no, no, no.
670 00:37:32 - No, no, no, Bob. - Okay, all right, let's do this right.
671 00:37:34 - Put the phone away, Bob. - And why should he?
672 00:37:36 Because we will lose everything.
673 00:37:43 What do you mean, Frank?
674 00:37:44 Once word gets out about Pam,
675 00:37:46 we're inviting "The Times," "Newsday,"
676 00:37:49 and every other paper in the tri-state area
677 00:37:51 - to our front door. - With all due respect,
678 00:37:52 screw the papers. This is a very real crime here.
679 00:37:54 A theft of taxpayer money.
680 00:37:56 Judy, you've served on the school board
681 00:37:57 for how long, seven years?
682 00:37:59 - Eight, proudly, - Okay, and in eight years,
683 00:38:00 how many times has our budget been passed
684 00:38:02 by taxpayers without incident?
685 00:38:04 - Eight. - Right.
686 00:38:06 So what happens when our next budget goes up
687 00:38:07 for approval in May?
688 00:38:08 The budget that we've worked all year on.
689 00:38:10 The stimulus that gets us the SkyWalk.
690 00:38:12 That gets us to first. What happens?
691 00:38:15 I get what he's saying.
692 00:38:16 I mean, how's it going to look?
693 00:38:18 A school employee is able to take
694 00:38:21 hundreds of thousands of dollars from the coffer
695 00:38:23 without anyone noticing.
696 00:38:24 Why would we pump more money into the school system?
697 00:38:27 Right, if a scandal this seismic breaks,
698 00:38:29 I mean, our budget is torpedoed, done.
699 00:38:31 We are right back to square one.
700 00:38:33 I don't know, you can't pay the teachers.
701 00:38:34 Maybe they start migrating out.
702 00:38:37 This can't affect the colleges, huh?
703 00:38:38 I think we'd have to expect that admissions
704 00:38:41 at top-tier schools would view us
705 00:38:42 under a radically different lens, yeah.
706 00:38:43 No, wait, what, what, why would they ever?
707 00:38:45 If they smell trouble, then they...
708 00:38:48 I don't know, they might decide to lay off Roslyn kids for a while.
709 00:38:51 "Yeses" can become "Nos" overnight.
710 00:38:52 I've-I've heard of that happening before.
711 00:38:55 I have. So anyway, let's just...
712 00:38:57 let's tease this out, okay?
713 00:39:00 We don't perform, we go down in the rankings.
714 00:39:03 And then our sister schools
715 00:39:04 nose us out of the top ten, top hundred.
716 00:39:05 Syosset and Jericho, those sons of bitches.
717 00:39:07 And that's when we start seeing
718 00:39:08 property values adversely affected.
719 00:39:17 He's right. Of course he is.
720 00:39:20 As far as real estate,
721 00:39:22 especially Long Island,
722 00:39:24 a town is only as good as its...
723 00:39:26 Public school system.
724 00:39:30 After everything we've worked for, huh?
725 00:39:33 Years that it's taken to, to, to get this far.
726 00:39:39 These are our kids we're talking about.
727 00:39:43 I can think of one other option.
728 00:39:50 Frank.
729 00:39:53 Everything's gonna be okay, Pam.
730 00:39:54 We're, we're gonna get you home to your family real soon.
731 00:39:58 We're good, close the door.
732 00:40:01 The board is very aware of how hard you worked
733 00:40:04 for the schools, for Roslyn, for their kids.
734 00:40:06 They know what an asset you've been, and, um...
735 00:40:09 that is why they see this for-for what it is.
736 00:40:12 A lapse in judgment.
737 00:40:13 And in light of that, they're opting
738 00:40:15 not to press charges or involve the police.
739 00:40:17 Thank you, thank you. All of you.
740 00:40:19 So you'll make full restitution to the school
741 00:40:22 at the sum of $250,000.
742 00:40:25 250, full... full restitution, of course.
743 00:40:27 I'll, I'll make it happen.
744 00:40:28 And then you'll finish out the work week
745 00:40:29 and resign quietly.
746 00:40:35 Wait.
747 00:40:37 - What? - Okay.
748 00:40:38 Tomorrow morning, you'll surrender
749 00:40:39 your administrators license to the board
750 00:40:42 and you'll sign an NDA committing...
751 00:40:43 Frank, Frank, I don't... I don't understand what's happening.
752 00:40:47 I don't understand this. Why are you...
753 00:40:48 You stole from the schools, Pam.
754 00:40:51 From, from the taxpayers.
755 00:40:53 From, from the kids we're supposed to serve.
756 00:40:57 I mean, this...
757 00:40:59 kind of behavior goes beyond the bounds of immoral.
758 00:41:01 It, it's, it's cruel, it's...
759 00:41:04 It's heinous. It's, it's sociopathic, even.
760 00:41:06 Sociopathic, what?
761 00:41:08 The shameless self-interest.
762 00:41:09 The, the, the unstable personality.
763 00:41:12 The parade of rotten marriages, it...
764 00:41:15 Frank.
765 00:41:19 Look, you need help, Pam.
766 00:41:21 Real medical help.
767 00:41:23 You're a sick woman.
768 00:41:25 We're concerned about you, Pam.
769 00:41:38 I am...
770 00:41:41 I'm a sick woman.
771 00:41:46 I'm...
772 00:41:47 I'm ashamed of my actions. I'm ashamed of myself. I'm...
773 00:41:51 There's no excuse for it.
774 00:41:54 Well, the sociopathy.
775 00:41:57 - Yeah, Bob, the... - Yeah.
776 00:42:02 Okay.
777 00:42:04 We'll make all the arrangements first thing tomorrow morning.
778 00:42:15 Yeah, of course.
779 00:42:19 Good night, all.
780 00:42:26 Well, that went better than I thought.
781 00:42:29 You saved our ass, Frank.
782 00:42:31 - Oh, God, yeah. - Thank you.
783 00:42:34 Yeah.
784 00:43:06 What the hell was that?
785 00:43:08 I... can you hear me?
786 00:43:11 Frank?
787 00:43:15 Okay.
788 00:43:16 I'm just, I'm just trying to...
789 00:43:18 I'm trying to wrap my head around this.
790 00:43:54 I wasn't sure you were gonna call.
791 00:43:58 Is everything okay?
792 00:44:00 Yeah, sorry, I, um...
793 00:44:03 just wanted to hear your voice.
794 00:44:23 - Where is he? - Pam.
795 00:44:25 - Where is he? - Pam, just...
796 00:44:27 - Just sit down for a second. - No, I wanna talk to Jimmy.
797 00:44:28 - Where is he? - Just sit down for a little bit.
798 00:44:29 Is he in this room? No, he's in his bedroom, isn't he?
799 00:44:31 - Just... - Don't touch me.
800 00:44:32 - Don't touch me! - All right!
801 00:44:37 Hey, Ma.
802 00:44:43 Hi, Ma?
803 00:44:44 Hi, Ma?
804 00:44:47 - Hey, Aunt Pam! - Get outta my house, Jimmy!
805 00:44:48 - Pam! - I don't want you here anymore.
806 00:44:50 - Get the hell out! - Pam.
807 00:44:51 - I don't wanna see your face anymore. - Pam, stop it.
808 00:44:53 - Stop it, you don't mean it. - Hey, what's going on?
809 00:44:54 You don't mean it. She doesn't mean it, Jim.
810 00:44:56 - She doesn't mean one word of it. - What's going on?
811 00:45:01 Your mother lost her job today.
812 00:45:02 Yeah, not my job, Howard. My career.
813 00:45:05 I don't get it, can't you just get a different job
814 00:45:08 at another school?
815 00:45:14 They're taking my license.
816 00:45:17 Mom, what did you do?
817 00:45:23 I took money from them.
818 00:45:26 Yeah, I stole. We all did.
819 00:45:30 Okay, look, just go back to your rooms, please.
820 00:45:31 - Yeah. - Please let me talk to your mother.
821 00:45:32 Your car, your clothes.
822 00:45:34 This house, the other houses.
823 00:45:36 - What are you talking about? - You didn't want state school.
824 00:45:39 You wanted private college.
825 00:45:44 I wanted you to be happy with me.
826 00:45:46 Pam, Pam, listen. It's okay.
827 00:45:50 We'll get you a job down at the dealership, okay?
828 00:45:53 Yeah, yeah, they're looking for a new girl at the front desk.
829 00:45:56 - Like a secretary? - No, no.
830 00:45:58 Not, not as... not like a secretary.
831 00:46:00 You'll find something. I'm just saying...
832 00:46:02 - I have degrees. - I know.
833 00:46:03 I went to school for years to get degrees.
834 00:46:06 I drove the bus. I did the steno pool.
835 00:46:08 - I did everything I had to. - Listen to me, Pam.
836 00:46:11 - Listen to me. - I'm gonna be sick.
837 00:46:13 You are the smartest woman I have ever known.
838 00:46:16 We're gonna get through this and you're gonna
839 00:46:17 land on your feet, you will.
840 00:46:21 Come here.
841 00:46:23 - Howard. - I know.
842 00:46:26 - Howard. - I know.
843 00:46:28 I know.
844 00:46:42 Mrs. Gluckin.
845 00:46:44 I was just wondering.
846 00:46:45 Could I get the key to the basement again?
847 00:46:47 I just want to look up a few more things.
848 00:46:50 What's this for, Rachel?
849 00:46:52 Just for some stuff I wanted to verify.
850 00:46:54 I can answer your questions.
851 00:46:59 Okay, well...
852 00:47:01 I did the math, and it looks like the SkyWalk
853 00:47:04 is gonna end up costing around eight million dollars.
854 00:47:06 - Seven-five, sure. - Right.
855 00:47:08 It just seems like a lot of our resources
856 00:47:10 to be spending on cosmetics.
857 00:47:13 Cosmetics? People love the SkyWalk.
858 00:47:16 "The Beacon" loves the SkyWalk.
859 00:47:18 There was that nice poll you guys did.
860 00:47:20 Right.
861 00:47:21 But the ceilings at the high school are still leaking.
862 00:47:24 I mean, some of the classrooms had to get shut down.
863 00:47:26 Sounds like you should bring that up
864 00:47:27 with your student government.
865 00:47:31 There was also the pizza oven.
866 00:47:34 - What? - I saw a line item
867 00:47:36 in the expense reports for a pizza oven.
868 00:47:39 But then I asked Paula in the cafeteria
869 00:47:41 and she said she knew nothing about it.
870 00:47:42 Just stop it.
871 00:47:48 I am sorry to be the one to tell you this,
872 00:47:50 but no one is keeping anything from you, okay?
873 00:47:53 On the contrary, we come in here every day
874 00:47:55 at the crack of dawn because we care.
875 00:47:58 We care about providing you
876 00:48:00 with a proper quality education because we're good people.
877 00:48:04 Because we want you to have a good life.
878 00:48:06 Okay?
879 00:48:09 Okay.
880 00:48:11 Okay.
881 00:48:14 The individual purchase orders are still public record, though.
882 00:48:26 Here you go.
883 00:48:29 Thank you.
884 00:48:32 Oh, and Rachel.
885 00:48:33 You were right about that pizza oven.
886 00:48:35 It didn't go to the high school
887 00:48:37 because we bought it for the middle school.
888 00:48:40 Yeah, they have pizza for days down there.
889 00:48:42 Go get yourself a slice.
890 00:48:50 Morning.
891 00:48:51 - Hi. - Oh, hey, Rachel.
892 00:48:54 Dr. Tassone, Pam Gluckin's in a bit of a state.
893 00:48:57 Yeah, I have a very busy morning.
894 00:48:59 Just tell her I can't. Good morning.
895 00:49:01 Frank, Frank, Frank!
896 00:49:04 Fra...
897 00:49:10 I'm sorry, Dr. Tassone's very busy this morning.
898 00:49:12 Get out of my way, Mary Ann.
899 00:49:13 - Pam, Pam. - Please.
900 00:49:16 You know what? It's fine.
901 00:49:21 Everything's fine.
902 00:49:44 My exit interview for him.
903 00:49:56 Hey, Dr. Tassone.
904 00:49:57 Mary Ann said you wanted to see me?
905 00:49:59 Yes, yes. Uh, take a seat.
906 00:50:01 Just close the door behind you there.
907 00:50:09 So, I think maybe
908 00:50:11 it is time that we talked about your value
909 00:50:14 in this workplace.
910 00:50:18 I, uh...
911 00:50:21 - This isn't... - No, rest assured,
912 00:50:23 we all want you to succeed here.
913 00:50:26 Which is...
914 00:50:28 Which is why we would like to transition you
915 00:50:32 to our special utilities department.
916 00:50:38 Sir, um...
917 00:50:40 you know, I just thought I was a really good fit up here.
918 00:50:43 Oh, yeah, no, no, no. We're just doing some shuffling
919 00:50:46 and we could really use an extra hand down there.
920 00:50:48 Okay?
921 00:50:51 What about Pam's old job? You know, I thought maybe, uh,
922 00:50:54 you know, like a manager, maybe I could be...
923 00:50:57 Maybe I could be right for that.
924 00:50:58 Yeah, well, actually, Philip Metzger's
925 00:51:00 gonna be stepping in as the interim business manager.
926 00:51:03 - Phil the auditor? - Yeah, yeah.
927 00:51:04 I mean, until we can find a more permanent replacement for Pam.
928 00:51:07 But...
929 00:51:09 we're pretty excited about him.
930 00:51:15 I think that I should, uh...
931 00:51:20 think, um...
932 00:51:25 I know what you all did to Pam.
933 00:51:30 And I could, you know, I could...
934 00:51:33 maybe tell people.
935 00:51:36 Sorry, hold on a second. I'm so sorry to interrupt.
936 00:51:39 I just noticed that necklace you have on.
937 00:51:41 How it really complements your eyes.
938 00:51:45 - Thank you. - It's, uh,
939 00:51:47 yeah, that's, that's new, isn't it?
940 00:51:48 I don't think I've seen you wearing it around before.
941 00:51:52 Yeah, I thought so. Yeah. I've got...
942 00:51:55 I got sort of an eye for these things, I don't know.
943 00:51:57 So, um, what do you think?
944 00:51:59 Is that... is that a Macy's purchase or are we talking
945 00:52:01 Lord & Taylor collection?
946 00:52:10 Special utilities, you said?
947 00:52:12 Yeah, I think so.
948 00:52:15 Okay, thanks, Jen.
949 00:52:38 Mary Ann, can I get a cup of that new coffee in here?
950 00:52:50 Rocco, you're so annoying.
951 00:52:51 Get out of the way.
952 00:52:52 Go.
953 00:53:05 - Mom! - This is she.
954 00:53:09 No.
955 00:53:10 Wait, what?
956 00:53:12 Yeah, thank you. Please don't call here again.
957 00:53:15 - Who was that? - That was a student.
958 00:53:17 They want to donate the fashion show proceeds
959 00:53:19 to help pay for my medical expenses.
960 00:53:21 - But you're not sick. - Don't eat that.
961 00:53:23 We're returning them.
962 00:53:24 Pam, what the hell is going on?
963 00:53:29 Okay, uh...
964 00:53:31 first off, we want to take a moment
965 00:53:33 to acknowledge Pamela Gluckin.
966 00:53:36 Our hearts go out to her and her entire family
967 00:53:38 and we wish her a safe and speedy recovery, yeah.
968 00:53:44 Okay, all right, now.
969 00:53:46 Onto the fun stuff.
970 00:53:49 Look at these numbers, folks.
971 00:53:51 These are the best early decision numbers
972 00:53:54 that we've ever seen.
973 00:53:56 Yeah.
974 00:53:57 Give yourselves a round of applause.
975 00:55:19 Seven.
976 00:55:22 Six.
977 00:55:25 Five.
978 00:55:46 Hey, Rachel, um, where's the article
979 00:55:48 on the Cancer Benefit Fashion Show?
980 00:55:51 I'll get that to you tomorrow.
981 00:55:53 But we go to print tomorrow.
982 00:55:55 Okay, I'll have it tonight.
983 00:55:57 Look, if you wanna be a part of the paper,
984 00:56:00 you gotta be a part of the paper.
985 00:56:01 Look, I'm gonna be late.
986 00:56:03 Rachel. Rachel!
987 00:56:06 - Shit. - Oh, my God.
988 00:56:08 - Sorry, shit. - Seriously?
989 00:56:15 What is this?
990 00:56:16 It's just a personal project. None of your business.
991 00:56:24 Look, I'm sorry for being a hard-ass.
992 00:56:27 I know you're going through a lot at home.
993 00:56:29 What's that supposed to mean?
994 00:56:32 You know, just everything with your dad.
995 00:56:34 Yeah, what about him?
996 00:56:37 I mean, the parents talk to each other.
997 00:56:39 I know that some shit happened at work.
998 00:56:44 You don't know anything.
999 00:56:46 Fuck, Rachel.
1000 00:57:14 Rach?
1001 00:57:17 - Dinner. - Okay.
1002 00:57:20 What's all this?
1003 00:57:23 Research.
1004 00:57:24 These are invoices from the school district.
1005 00:57:36 The school district invoiced over a million dollars
1006 00:57:38 in lab equipment?
1007 00:57:41 And that's just one supplier.
1008 00:57:46 You thought about calling this company?
1009 00:58:01 Oh, God, I'm gonna miss my flight.
1010 00:58:03 Not if you stay another day.
1011 00:58:05 You know I can't do that.
1012 00:58:10 You could get a job here.
1013 00:58:13 There are schools in Clark County.
1014 00:58:15 Sure, but good ones?
1015 00:58:18 Was Roslyn any good before you?
1016 00:58:30 Hi, is this Champion Products in Uniondale?
1017 00:58:33 - Yes, it is. - Hi, my name is Rachel.
1018 00:58:35 I was just hoping to ask you about a series of charges.
1019 00:58:35 Okay, yes, yes. Thank you for verifying, Felice.
1020 00:58:38 You've been a huge help.
1021 00:58:40 - Yeah. - Thank you, bye-bye.
1022 00:58:43 That's right.
1023 00:58:46 Yeah, I can hold.
1024 00:58:56 Bellmore Fine Auto, this is Howard.
1025 00:59:01 I'm sorry. Bellmore Fine Auto?
1026 00:59:03 I had this number listed as an H. G. Consulting.
1027 00:59:27 What's the matter?
1028 00:59:29 Oh, nothing, I'm just, just tired.
1029 00:59:32 I'll take those invoices.
1030 00:59:43 Next up is WordPower Tech.
1031 00:59:46 Now, they billed the school district $800,000
1032 00:59:49 but no one has any idea who they are.
1033 00:59:52 And they're consistent.
1034 00:59:53 They've billed every year for the past ten.
1035 00:59:55 Yeah, the company's registered to Thomas Tuggiero
1036 00:59:57 with an address in Manhattan.
1037 00:59:59 I tried calling but the number is disconnected.
1038 01:00:02 We're gonna leave that one a question mark for right now
1039 01:00:04 because the next one I've got is Porto Office Supplies.
1040 01:00:08 Now, I can't find any...
1041 01:01:22 What, did you forget your key?
1042 01:01:28 Hello.
1043 01:01:33 Can I help you with something?
1044 01:01:35 Is this...
1045 01:01:39 I'm...
1046 01:01:41 I'm canvassing.
1047 01:01:42 For who?
1048 01:01:49 It's...
1049 01:01:51 I'm, I have the wrong apartment.
1050 01:02:39 You're back.
1051 01:02:41 I'm back. Hey, thanks.
1052 01:02:47 Hey, what's for dinner?
1053 01:02:49 Salmon.
1054 01:03:00 What's the matter?
1055 01:03:03 Oh, it's just work. Sorry.
1056 01:03:07 The salmon's a little dry.
1057 01:03:10 It's great.
1058 01:03:13 I can tell when you're lying.
1059 01:03:20 A little dry, maybe.
1060 01:03:21 The couscous, though, is a small masterpiece.
1061 01:03:23 Oh, well, thank you very much.
1062 01:03:31 How was Omaha?
1063 01:03:33 Dull. Dull as all hell.
1064 01:03:38 So...
1065 01:03:41 So I'm sitting there sandwiched between Doug and Joe
1066 01:03:43 and there's no A/C in the conference center
1067 01:03:46 so you can imagine the smell while they...
1068 01:03:48 Oh, God.
1069 01:03:49 ...talked for hours about STEM programs and state aid.
1070 01:03:54 It was, oh, yeah.
1071 01:03:56 - It was, it was a riot. - Oh, sounds like a nightmare.
1072 01:04:02 Maybe I'll come along next time.
1073 01:04:05 As a buffer.
1074 01:04:10 I would never subject you to that.
1075 01:04:52 Okay, you have documents to back this up?
1076 01:04:55 Years' worth of supposed payments to vendors
1077 01:04:57 and confirmation they were never received.
1078 01:05:00 Some of these companies, they don't even exist.
1079 01:05:02 Well, no, you don't know that.
1080 01:05:04 I mean, you know that for sure, right?
1081 01:05:06 WordPower Tech.
1082 01:05:08 They've billed the district almost a million dollars
1083 01:05:09 and no one knows anything.
1084 01:05:12 - Because it isn't anything. - Okay.
1085 01:05:13 It is a private apartment on the upper East Side.
1086 01:05:15 - Yes, but that doesn't... - And our superintendent
1087 01:05:17 - has the key. - ...necessarily mean that it's fake.
1088 01:05:21 Come on, Nick, you know what this is.
1089 01:05:23 If he hasn't reported this, it's fraud.
1090 01:05:25 He's writing my college recommendation letter.
1091 01:05:32 Fuck, fuck, god damn it.
1092 01:05:35 What are we even talking about right now?
1093 01:05:40 Are you sure? Are you sure, sure, sure
1094 01:05:43 you actually wanna do this?
1095 01:06:16 Mind if I join you?
1096 01:06:30 Don't ever let a doctor find out
1097 01:06:32 you have high cholesterol, Rachel.
1098 01:06:34 They'll make you do the most horrible things.
1099 01:06:40 So.
1100 01:06:42 About yesterday.
1101 01:06:47 - That was... - What were you doing there?
1102 01:06:51 I'm not upset.
1103 01:06:52 But it is very important that you be honest.
1104 01:06:57 I was following up on the listed address
1105 01:07:00 for a school contractor.
1106 01:07:03 Why were you doing that?
1107 01:07:06 It's public record. Anyone could take the time...
1108 01:07:08 I didn't ask you if it was public record.
1109 01:07:10 I... I just asked you why.
1110 01:07:16 It's for something I'm writing.
1111 01:07:25 I think you have real potential.
1112 01:07:27 - Dr. Tassone... - No, I'm serious.
1113 01:07:29 I, I read all your bylines.
1114 01:07:31 You've come such a long way since past September.
1115 01:07:33 Your confidence, strength of ability.
1116 01:07:36 - Thank you. - No, you have a tremendous future ahead of you,
1117 01:07:38 Rachel, you do.
1118 01:07:39 But...
1119 01:07:40 You're still young, too.
1120 01:07:42 Which is why you need to know, and I mean this,
1121 01:07:46 if you go public...
1122 01:07:48 with something you don't fully understand,
1123 01:07:51 it'll, it'll come back on you hard.
1124 01:08:13 I don't know, I...
1125 01:08:15 I guess it's our fault, mainly.
1126 01:08:18 We try to create a safe environment for students to...
1127 01:08:22 challenge, take risks, make mistakes, grow.
1128 01:08:26 But this mistake, if you make it,
1129 01:08:29 we will not be able to protect you.
1130 01:08:31 Not me, not your teachers. Because it'll change everything.
1131 01:08:36 And a lot of innocent people will get hurt.
1132 01:08:39 Right?
1133 01:08:41 I mean, these kinds of inquiries
1134 01:08:43 are, are... are like setting off a grenade.
1135 01:08:46 There's fallout in the pursuit. In the frenzy.
1136 01:08:51 There's collateral damage.
1137 01:08:53 Right...
1138 01:08:55 You must know all about that.
1139 01:09:04 It's not perfect, but it works.
1140 01:09:07 What we have here works.
1141 01:09:10 I hope we can keep it that way.
1142 01:09:45 All right, let's get into it. Uh, Rachel.
1143 01:09:48 Hey, Rachel.
1144 01:09:50 Rachel, are you still with us?
1145 01:09:54 Yeah, yeah, I'm here.
1146 01:09:56 - Sorry. - All right.
1147 01:09:57 Question number four,
1148 01:09:58 what is the symbol for potassium?
1149 01:10:00 Anybody?
1150 01:10:11 Yeah.
1151 01:10:14 Hey, Frank.
1152 01:10:16 I've been doing some more digging over the past week.
1153 01:10:20 I'm... concerned...
1154 01:10:23 with what I found.
1155 01:10:25 Okay, come in.
1156 01:10:29 Look, now we don't have receipts,
1157 01:10:32 but some of these vendors, they're...
1158 01:10:38 this Pam thing isn't a question of $250,000
1159 01:10:41 like we'd initially thought.
1160 01:10:45 Well, okay, uh,
1161 01:10:46 do you have any sense of what the number might be?
1162 01:10:49 I mean, are we talking 500?
1163 01:10:52 Are we talking a million?
1164 01:10:54 I mean, Phil, work with me. I can't do anything but just...
1165 01:10:55 I don't know, I don't know.
1166 01:10:58 You don't... okay, fine. So...
1167 01:11:01 figure it out, all right?
1168 01:11:02 Work your numbers magic and then,
1169 01:11:04 let's the two of us deal with it from there, okay?
1170 01:11:08 Thanks, Phil.
1171 01:11:09 Well, there's something else.
1172 01:11:13 A flight to London, Heathrow, over winter break...
1173 01:11:16 - ...billed to... - Yeah, that's me.
1174 01:11:17 That flight was for me, for the Pell Conference.
1175 01:11:19 You knew about the Pell.
1176 01:11:20 First class, Concorde jet.
1177 01:11:25 I don't book the flights. That's always been Jenny's job.
1178 01:11:28 - But look, even if I had... - The charge is for two seats.
1179 01:11:33 Two seats side by side in first.
1180 01:11:36 It's $5,000 each way per ticket.
1181 01:11:39 It's $20,000.
1182 01:11:43 Yeah, well, that sounds like a mistake.
1183 01:11:46 You know, I called the airline.
1184 01:11:52 Who's Kyle Contreras?
1185 01:12:08 Okay, okay.
1186 01:12:11 So that's how you wanna play it.
1187 01:12:13 What, no. I'm not playing...
1188 01:12:15 I mean, the audacity.
1189 01:12:16 Coming from the man who spent six months
1190 01:12:19 falsifying our records to mask his own negligence
1191 01:12:22 of fiduciary duty to the school.
1192 01:12:24 Wait a second, that's not what, that's not what's going on.
1193 01:12:26 No, no?
1194 01:12:27 Pam didn't have to happen, right?
1195 01:12:29 You could have prevented that. You're the auditor.
1196 01:12:32 The people here pay you for what?
1197 01:12:34 So you can go off and do your community theater
1198 01:12:37 instead of taking care of our school's books?
1199 01:12:40 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1200 01:12:42 Oh, I can point fingers too, Phil.
1201 01:12:44 Right, but I think we both agree that
1202 01:12:46 that wouldn't be a very productive use of our time.
1203 01:12:48 - But... - Phil.
1204 01:12:51 Are you gonna do your job,
1205 01:12:52 or do I have to call Hevesi in here himself
1206 01:12:55 to come and do it for you?
1207 01:12:56 Because I will call him right now.
1208 01:12:58 I will deal with it.
1209 01:13:00 I'm sorry that I brought it up. I shouldn't have.
1210 01:13:01 Yeah, damn right you shouldn't have.
1211 01:13:04 You won't hear about it again.
1212 01:13:07 Good.
1213 01:13:10 Get out of here.
1214 01:13:39 Hey, Dad, can I ask you something?
1215 01:13:42 And you don't have to answer if you don't want to.
1216 01:13:46 Yeah, you can ask me anything.
1217 01:13:51 I mean, I know what you had said at, at the time,
1218 01:13:53 when, um,
1219 01:13:55 all that stuff was happening.
1220 01:13:57 The insider trading.
1221 01:14:02 Did you really not know?
1222 01:14:07 Are you asking me if I was a part of it?
1223 01:14:12 No, I wasn't.
1224 01:14:14 Not at any point in time, I promise you.
1225 01:14:19 But, uh...
1226 01:14:23 You gotta understand,
1227 01:14:24 those were guys that I had come up with my entire career.
1228 01:14:26 Guys whose kids you and Neil played with on the weekends.
1229 01:14:30 Guys with families. They were good people.
1230 01:14:33 And it was all gonna even out in the long run.
1231 01:14:36 So who cares?
1232 01:14:41 I didn't say anything.
1233 01:14:44 I could have.
1234 01:14:46 But I didn't.
1235 01:14:50 And that's something I live with.
1236 01:15:37 Morning.
1237 01:15:39 Morning.
1238 01:16:49 Bob...
1239 01:16:51 you had me serve as the public face of this district,
1240 01:16:54 an image that reflects prosperity.
1241 01:16:56 Okay, I know it might look bad all laid out like that
1242 01:16:59 but try and see this from my point of view.
1243 01:17:01 This is me doing the job I was hired for.
1244 01:17:03 A wrinkled suit. Yeah, okay, that's one thing.
1245 01:17:07 This is something else entirely.
1246 01:17:09 No, no, no, my employment contract
1247 01:17:11 has a clause that allows me full discretion
1248 01:17:12 on all charges necessary and proper
1249 01:17:15 - to the discharge of my duties. - I know that.
1250 01:17:17 I wrote your employment contract.
1251 01:17:19 The key word there was "discretion."
1252 01:17:21 - Bob, you're not hearing me. - I'm hearing fine.
1253 01:17:25 You spent $30,000 on dry cleaning.
1254 01:17:27 Over a number of years, yes, I did,
1255 01:17:30 and I will pay it all back.
1256 01:17:33 Right, but I did it for the good of the school.
1257 01:17:34 No, you just... you wanted to look pretty.
1258 01:17:40 Come on, Frank.
1259 01:17:42 It's practically, it's an open secret
1260 01:17:44 nowadays with the way you're carrying on.
1261 01:17:46 The flashy suits, the cologne.
1262 01:17:49 The shit that you're doing to your face.
1263 01:17:53 They laugh at you.
1264 01:17:56 You were my guy.
1265 01:17:59 I brought you in. I defended you.
1266 01:18:02 Now, I'm compromised now. We all are.
1267 01:18:05 Because of, of...
1268 01:18:10 What did you people do to us?
1269 01:18:20 Okay, okay.
1270 01:18:30 So we were at dinner
1271 01:18:32 however many years ago.
1272 01:18:34 Uh, it was nowhere fancy. It was...
1273 01:18:36 a pizza place on Bell Boulevard.
1274 01:18:38 Two Greek salads and a fountain drink.
1275 01:18:42 And I fucked up, I used the wrong card by accident.
1276 01:18:45 It's for $20.
1277 01:18:47 And I said, I'd even it all out on Monday.
1278 01:18:50 I'd reimburse the school out of pocket.
1279 01:18:51 Whatever we had to do, you know.
1280 01:18:54 Monday came and went.
1281 01:18:57 Nobody said anything. Nobody, nobody cared.
1282 01:19:02 On Tuesday, it was a 60 cent bagel.
1283 01:19:05 Bob, if...
1284 01:19:07 if I wanted the money...
1285 01:19:10 I would have gone to Wall Street.
1286 01:19:12 I'd be living in a big house
1287 01:19:13 in the country estates like you, but...
1288 01:19:17 I wanted to make a difference.
1289 01:19:19 Right?
1290 01:19:21 I did, we did, look.
1291 01:19:24 We're number four.
1292 01:19:26 I got us all the way to number four.
1293 01:19:28 Right, and I did it on a glorified teacher's salary
1294 01:19:30 while you and everyone else made millions off the district.
1295 01:19:34 I got us to number four,
1296 01:19:35 and I will get us to number one.
1297 01:19:37 The board, we convened an emergency session.
1298 01:19:39 We're gonna make a public statement
1299 01:19:41 to the town about the way we handled Pam in November.
1300 01:19:44 What? Come on, no.
1301 01:19:46 - No, yes, that's how it has to be. - No, no.
1302 01:19:49 Not now, no.
1303 01:19:50 Not until the budget vote goes through.
1304 01:19:52 It's a few days away. Bob, it's...
1305 01:19:56 Bob.
1306 01:20:01 I can still get Becca into Harvard.
1307 01:20:07 I hope you find peace, Frank.
1308 01:20:53 - Why are we hearing about this... - Please...
1309 01:20:55 from our children and not from you?
1310 01:20:58 - We know you're... - Where the hell's our money?
1311 01:21:00 We know you're upset. We know you're angry.
1312 01:21:02 But we cannot... we simply cannot afford
1313 01:21:05 to hold our school's budget hostage
1314 01:21:06 to place a filibuster on your children's education.
1315 01:21:11 This is collusion at the highest level.
1316 01:21:14 We demand resignations.
1317 01:21:17 This is not productive.
1318 01:21:19 No, no, no, no, I understand where this is coming from.
1319 01:21:21 But I will answer each of your questions.
1320 01:21:24 First, please just let me read this statement that I prepared.
1321 01:21:27 You all should be in prison!
1322 01:21:31 Enough!
1323 01:21:48 Mary Ann, what the hell's going on?
1324 01:21:50 Mary Ann?
1325 01:21:51 Hevesi called this morning.
1326 01:21:53 Frank, you said he would never call.
1327 01:21:56 Frank.
1328 01:22:01 Hi, Dr. Tassone.
1329 01:22:03 Oh, we're so glad we could catch you.
1330 01:22:05 Uh, Ms. Schweitzer, uh, Carol, now's really not the best time.
1331 01:22:08 Please, please, we just need one minute of your attention.
1332 01:22:10 Chad has something that he would really like to share with you.
1333 01:22:13 All right, please, why don't you just take a moment,
1334 01:22:15 all right, and hear him out.
1335 01:22:16 Of course.
1336 01:22:19 Of course I will.
1337 01:22:22 - Yeah? - Okay.
1338 01:22:26 Good afternoon, Dr. Tassone. How was your weekend?
1339 01:22:28 Good, I hope. I'd like to talk to you today
1340 01:22:31 about the OMNI program that you are running.
1341 01:22:32 Wait, I thought we already discussed the subject of OMNI last fall.
1342 01:22:35 Oh, yeah, no, Militzok gave him the make-up test
1343 01:22:37 but she made it harder to spite him.
1344 01:22:39 And no third grader could pass that test.
1345 01:22:41 All right, well, I guess I'll just have to look into it.
1346 01:22:43 Chad, why don't you just finish reading for Dr. Tassone?
1347 01:22:45 - Okay. - Uh-huh.
1348 01:22:48 I very much hope that you will still consider me
1349 01:22:50 for this amazing program.
1350 01:22:51 I believe I am very bright and could benefit
1351 01:22:54 from learning thusly at an ack...
1352 01:22:58 - ack... - Okay, sound that out.
1353 01:23:00 acc... acc...
1354 01:23:01 - Accelerated? - Mm-hmm, that's right.
1355 01:23:04 Dr. Tassone. You hear what Dr. Tassone said?
1356 01:23:06 Okay, all right, start again from the beginning of the paragraph.
1357 01:23:10 Good afternoon, Dr. Tassone. How was your weekend?
1358 01:23:12 - Good, I hope. - Oh, no, no, let's, let's skip
1359 01:23:14 to that trouble sentence there, Chad.
1360 01:23:15 That's okay. All right, yeah, take your time.
1361 01:23:17 From...
1362 01:23:19 I believe I am very bright and could benefit
1363 01:23:22 from learning thusly at an ack...
1364 01:23:25 - Accelerated. - "Ackselated"?
1365 01:23:28 Accelerated.
1366 01:23:30 - "Arrelicated"? - Ac-celerated.
1367 01:23:36 Okay.
1368 01:23:39 Do you like race cars, Chad?
1369 01:23:42 Yeah? Okay.
1370 01:23:48 Let's say you're in a racecar.
1371 01:23:50 All right, here, you don't need that.
1372 01:23:54 You're in a racecar.
1373 01:23:56 First place at the Indy 500
1374 01:23:59 with, with all the sponsorships in the world.
1375 01:24:02 The wind is in your hair and you're feeling just great,
1376 01:24:05 and all of a sudden, you feel this thing behind you
1377 01:24:08 digging into your fender,
1378 01:24:09 and you look into the mirror, right.
1379 01:24:10 And there's this hook.
1380 01:24:11 There's a hook in your fender dug in real good,
1381 01:24:14 and it's connected to a... a long metal rope
1382 01:24:16 and at the end of that rope
1383 01:24:17 is, well, it's a massive five-ton cinder block.
1384 01:24:20 Okay, Chad? All right?
1385 01:24:22 So your job is driving.
1386 01:24:24 You're Dale Earnhardt and here's this cinder block,
1387 01:24:26 and all the other cars are soaring past you and
1388 01:24:28 you've gone from first to last place
1389 01:24:30 and you keep thinking to yourself,
1390 01:24:31 "What the hell do I have to do to get this thing off my back?"
1391 01:24:33 Well, I'll tell you, Chad. It's real simple.
1392 01:24:34 You just put your foot on the gas real hard
1393 01:24:37 and you accelerate,
1394 01:24:39 you accelerate so fast that rope snaps in two,
1395 01:24:41 the cinder block explodes,
1396 01:24:43 and just say it with me, Chad.
1397 01:24:44 Accelerate. Accelerate. Accelerate.
1398 01:24:47 - Accelerate? - Yes.
1399 01:24:50 - Okay. - Yes!
1400 01:24:52 What, what is your problem, huh?
1401 01:24:56 My problem?
1402 01:24:59 My problem is you.
1403 01:25:01 Carol, it's, it's, it's the people who
1404 01:25:04 who trot their poor children out like racehorses at Belmont.
1405 01:25:07 - Excuse me? - Who derive some perverse joy
1406 01:25:09 out of treating us like low-level service reps.
1407 01:25:12 - Okay... - I mean, do you remember the teachers who sat with you,
1408 01:25:15 who held you by the hand,
1409 01:25:16 - who taught you to add. - No.
1410 01:25:18 And subtract, or showed you Gatsby,
1411 01:25:20 Salinger for the first time. "Mockingbird," even.
1412 01:25:23 Do, do their names escape you?
1413 01:25:24 - Are their faces a blur? - Okay.
1414 01:25:26 No, you listen to me!
1415 01:25:29 You don't wanna see us as people
1416 01:25:31 because that is not convenient for you.
1417 01:25:33 You just leave us behind at will.
1418 01:25:37 Never think about us again.
1419 01:25:39 All right, you might forget, but we don't.
1420 01:25:42 We never forget, ever.
1421 01:25:48 What's wrong with him?
1422 01:25:50 You know what, I don't know.
1423 01:25:51 I don't think anything's wrong.
1424 01:25:52 We're gonna get some food and we're gonna go home, okay?
1425 01:25:56 All right.
1426 01:25:58 You should be ashamed of yourself.
1427 01:26:33 Two beach front homes in Florida and the Hamptons.
1428 01:26:35 Five Yamaha Jet-Skis. Luxury cars.
1429 01:26:39 Vacations to Brazil, Puerto Rico, Hawaii.
1430 01:26:46 Electronics, jewelry and artwork.
1431 01:26:50 Dog food.
1432 01:26:51 Is my lawyer here yet?
1433 01:26:52 You're going away for a long time, Pam.
1434 01:26:54 And not just you.
1435 01:26:54 We've got enough here to indict the whole family.
1436 01:26:56 Don't you talk about them.
1437 01:26:57 And poor Jim especially.
1438 01:26:59 Just gettin' back on his feet and all.
1439 01:27:02 You have any idea what the job market looks like
1440 01:27:04 these days for ex-cons?
1441 01:27:10 You know...
1442 01:27:12 it may not be too late for you to save them.
1443 01:27:15 Save your son.
1444 01:27:27 What are you doing here?
1445 01:27:30 I wanted to see you.
1446 01:27:35 You don't have work?
1447 01:27:37 I quit.
1448 01:27:41 - When? - Today.
1449 01:27:44 I just...
1450 01:27:45 just got on a plane and now I'm here.
1451 01:27:48 And I... I'm not leaving again.
1452 01:28:55 Dance.
1453 01:28:57 - Dance with me, Frank. - No, no.
1454 01:29:02 A little move, come on.
1455 01:29:05 Come on.
1456 01:29:06 Please.
1457 01:29:09 There we go.
1458 01:29:10 Drink down, drink down.
1459 01:29:18 Okay.
1460 01:29:20 What?
1461 01:29:33 - Shake it up, shake it. - No.
1462 01:29:43 Come on!
1463 01:30:54 They don't need to watch.
1464 01:31:39 There's $30,000 in the top drawer of the dresser.
1465 01:31:44 What?
1466 01:31:45 Okay, if you're careful, you can make it last a year.
1467 01:31:48 What are you talking about?
1468 01:31:49 What you've got in you is so special
1469 01:31:53 that you can't ever, ever let anyone take it away from you
1470 01:31:57 or exploit it.
1471 01:31:58 What the hell...
1472 01:32:00 You really, you really...
1473 01:32:02 - ...is happening right now? - You don't want me here.
1474 01:32:04 You're under arrest for a warrant out of the state of New York.
1475 01:32:06 Please step out of the car.
1476 01:32:07 Frank, what the hell is happening right now?
1477 01:32:10 Sir, I need your hands on the dash.
1478 01:32:11 Frank, what the hell is happening right now?
1479 01:32:13 You don't know me.
1480 01:32:14 - Frank! - Okay, I'm no good.
1481 01:32:17 All this time
1482 01:32:17 I've been lying to you and everyone else.
1483 01:32:19 - I'm a liar. - Now!
1484 01:32:20 Put your hands on the dash now.
1485 01:32:21 Do what... Frank, do what they say, now.
1486 01:32:23 - Get out of the car. - I'm sorry.
1487 01:32:25 - No, no, no. - Out of the car.
1488 01:32:28 Frank!
1489 01:32:29 - No, sir, stand back, sir, stop. - Frank!
1490 01:32:32 He's not doing anything. Leave him alone.
1491 01:32:34 Frank, Frank!
1492 01:32:36 Shit.
1493 01:32:37 Frank, Frank, Frank!
1494 01:32:44 We printed,
1495 01:32:48 pamphlets for the school district.
1496 01:32:51 Handbooks and such.
1497 01:32:52 We?
1498 01:32:54 Me.
1499 01:32:57 WordPower was just me.
1500 01:33:00 No partners.
1501 01:33:03 I only ask because
1502 01:33:04 it looks like half your corporation's earnings
1503 01:33:06 were transferred over to one Francis A. Tassone.
1504 01:33:14 You can't make me.
1505 01:33:17 No, you, you can't...
1506 01:33:20 make me testify against my spouse.
1507 01:33:26 Spouse?
1508 01:33:29 We're domestic partners.
1509 01:33:34 We've been together 33 years.
1510 01:33:38 We're entitled to federal protections.
1511 01:33:40 Are you legally wed?
1512 01:33:46 You know something?
1513 01:33:48 Everybody we spoke to said Tassone
1514 01:33:50 did talk about a spouse, a wife.
1515 01:33:52 But that she'd been dead for some time.
1516 01:33:54 Thirty-odd years or something.
1517 01:33:55 You remember that, the bridal photo he had on his desk.
1518 01:33:58 We ever get a name on her?
1519 01:34:00 Stop it.
1520 01:34:04 Stop what?
1521 01:34:06 I mean, you must have seen it, too.
1522 01:34:09 I'm sure you were over by his office all the time
1523 01:34:11 what with that $800,000 job you were doing for the school.
1524 01:34:19 Okay.
1525 01:34:22 Let's try another avenue.
1526 01:34:26 Were you aware...
1527 01:34:29 that your partner...
1528 01:34:31 closed on a property in Nevada earlier this year
1529 01:34:35 with another man?
1530 01:34:53 He's a dancer.
1531 01:35:49 A terrible thing happened here.
1532 01:35:51 And it's not just the money.
1533 01:35:52 It's about trust in our schools.
1534 01:35:54 The integrity of our institutions.
1535 01:35:56 I don't know how we ever recover from this.
1536 01:35:58 It was never the same between the parents and teachers.
1537 01:36:01 They treated us differently after that.
1538 01:36:03 Like we knew.
1539 01:36:05 Like we had any idea at all.
1540 01:36:07 Of course we wish we would have found out about this earlier.
1541 01:36:09 You know, when things are going well,
1542 01:36:11 who wants to go huntin' for problems?
1543 01:36:20 He went out of his way.
1544 01:36:22 If we ever needed anything from him
1545 01:36:24 he was there with a smile.
1546 01:36:26 So we were all happy.
1547 01:36:29 So we didn't ask questions.
1548 01:36:30 So you have this, this liar and his boyfriend
1549 01:36:34 trotting around in the city in God knows what.
1550 01:36:38 He just pulled the wool over our eyes.
1551 01:36:40 You know, what can I say? It's sick, it is.
1552 01:36:42 You think back over the smaller moments,
1553 01:36:45 over the years where he just seemed...
1554 01:36:49 I don't know, he just seemed so real.
1555 01:36:51 So real.
1556 01:36:55 Thanks.
1557 01:37:07 No, I know. I know you do.
1558 01:38:37 The outgoing seniors.
1559 01:38:39 They're going to the Ivy League in unprecedented numbers.
1560 01:38:43 It was the first year on record
1561 01:38:46 that we had admission offers from each school
1562 01:38:50 going up!
1563 01:38:53 And what changed?
1564 01:38:55 What makes our little public school
1565 01:38:57 so different from all the others like ours on Long Island?
1566 01:39:00 Let alone in the country at large.
1567 01:39:04 At the end of the day,
1568 01:39:06 I think it boils down to integrity.
1569 01:39:10 Integrity in our faculty,
1570 01:39:12 in our classrooms and curriculum,
1571 01:39:15 and our approach to a broad-minded, hands-on education.
1572 01:39:21 That's all the stuff that gets thrown around all the time, sure.
1573 01:39:25 But never in my career
1574 01:39:27 have I seen such passion for all these factors.
1575 01:39:31 And then, paired with the willingness to think big.
1576 01:39:38 You know why you're here.
1577 01:39:40 You know what this means for our town.
1578 01:39:43 But I'm gonna tell you about one man who's a hero
1579 01:39:47 without whom none of this would be possible.
1580 01:39:50 You don't get to number one overnight.
1581 01:39:52 It takes years of hard work.
1582 01:39:55 And this is really a man
1583 01:39:56 who knows what it means to work together.
1584 01:40:03 Before Frank Tassone...
1585 01:40:07 There was no community service.
1586 01:40:10 There was no public outreach.
1587 01:40:12 There was no SkyWalk.
1588 01:40:14 This is a man who has given the school so much.
1589 01:40:17 Magnificent.
1590 01:40:20 Congratulations.
1591 01:40:21 Ladies and gentlemen,
1592 01:40:22 please join me in welcoming the man
1593 01:40:25 who whipped our kids' schools into shape
1594 01:40:28 and got us all the way to number one!
1595 01:40:43 You did it, Frank.
1596 01:41:05 Number one, number one, number one!
