Hank Palmer: Why'd you pull me out of Boy Scouts?Judge Joseph Palmer: As punishment for blowing up the McCraw's mailbox with M80s.Hank Palmer: I was 13. That you remember. That!Judge Joseph Palmer: Oh, old enough to know better.Hank Palmer: You didn't come to my high school graduation or college. Why?Judge Joseph Palmer: [Overlapping] Oh, boo-f***ing-hoo. "Why?" Jail time, truancy, I don't get to reward anything! None of your shit!Hank Palmer: I graduated from law school, for Christ's sake.Judge Joseph Palmer: As opposed to what? Dropping out?Hank Palmer: F*** you!Judge Joseph Palmer: Let me tell you something, okay? I put a roof over your head, money in your pocket, clothes on your back... food in your mouth! Who paid for that college education? I never showed up to kiss your ass, but your mother? She's a house wife! Why couldn't you swallow your God damned pride and just come home to her? You tell me why!Hank Palmer: [On the verge of tears] You know, you'd invite people at the end of their parole back to court... You'd recognize those who did their time, turned their lives around, made something of themselves. Everyone in the court applauded, and you made sure they did! Tell them how proud you were... Proud of *f***ing* strangers!Judge Joseph Palmer: Is that all you wanted, Henry, was a kind word? An 'atta boy? Then to use your words, you should have come the *f**** home! We all waited, quietly, but you never came. Okay? And I was the one she'd blame, because you wouldn't come home. Me. Now, was I tough on you? Yes. How'd you turn out, Henry? Waiting tables? A bum?Hank Palmer: You put me in Juvenile Detention... you sent me to f***ing Vanderburgh!Judge Joseph Palmer: [Interrupting] No, no, no, no, no, you put yourself there.Hank Palmer: Did I?Judge Joseph Palmer: Yes.Hank Palmer: The prosecutor recommended community service. That was your call!Judge Joseph Palmer: No, no, no, it wouldn't have helped you!Hank Palmer: I didn't need help, I needed you!Judge Joseph Palmer: You were high, you rolled a car with your brother in it! He had a major league career ahead of him, a 90 mile-an-hour fast ball, and he runs a turnip shop! You crippled him, you stole his future, and you call me an ass hole?Hank Palmer: What do you want from me? I was 17 when that happened. I was 17.Judge Joseph Palmer: Oooh, "I was 13, I was 17." You were headed down the wrong path! I did what I thought was right.Hank Palmer: [Holding back tears] You know, I didn't just graduate from law school, I graduated first in my class... I was first in my class... I did really well, dad.Judge Joseph Palmer: You're welcome. [Walks out of the room]Hank Palmer: [Grits his teeth and clenches his fist; he sits at the kitchen table, speaking in a barely audible voice] F***... Damn this house... God damn this *f***ing* house...

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