- [last lines]
- Laura MacAffrey: Ed, what are you going to tell everyone - about why we're splitting?
- Ed MacAffrey: [after a long pause] The truth.
- Cindy: Stop it, mommy! Stop yelling!
- Laura MacAffrey: Don't talk to me like that; I am your mother!
- Cindy: I want you to stop it!
- [Laura slaps her very hard]
- Cindy: [cries out in pain] OW!
- Ed MacAffrey: NO!
- Laura MacAffrey: [about to hit her again] Stop cry...
- [Ed grabs Laura]
- Ed MacAffrey: DON'T YOU DARE HIT HER!
- Cindy: Grandpa? Is mommy gonna be okay?
- Jack MacAffrey: I sure hope so, sweetheart. Come here.
- Cindy: Well, is mommy gonna get into trouble?
- Jack MacAffrey: In trouble for what, honey?
- Cindy: Well, for what she did to daddy.
- Jack MacAffrey: What do you mean?
- Cindy: Well, for being so mean to daddy all the time and yelling and breaking things and hitting us and stuff.
- Jack MacAffrey: [amazed] Mommy... did all this?
- [Cindy nods]