The Middle (TV Series)

Twenty Years (2012)

Charlie McDermott: Axl Heck

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• Axl Heck : Come on, Brick. What do you want me to say? I can't rewind time. I can't undo what I did. I messed up. I'm sorry. Just be my brother again, all right? I can't be alone with these people.

  Brick Heck : I don't play sports. I don't exactly have a ton of friends. I have books. You don't read. You don't understand. You don't know what it's like to live in different worlds, to travel on great adventures through the galaxy with people you know better than you know your own family. To live and die with them. Have you ever loved anything? Do you have any idea?

  [grabs books] 

  Brick Heck : These are my friends, Axl, my best friends in the world. You took away something from me that I can never get back. You took it, and you wrecked it.

• Sue Heck : Okay, as I'm sure you know, it's Mom and Dad's anniversary coming up. It's their 20th! So what are we going to do for them?

  Axl Heck : We lit up their lives every day. What more do they want?

• Brick Heck : Where's my book, Axl? I know you took it.

  Axl Heck : Hey! Until I see some proof, I will not even address these malicious and spurious charges. "Law and Order". Watch it.

• Brick Heck : Please, Axl, please don't tell me the ending. I've spent six years of my life waiting to see how it ends!

  Axl Heck : I don't know. It's just so good. I gotta tell somebody.

  Brick Heck : You can have the guitar back. It's all yours!

  Axl Heck : Eh. I don't want the guitar anymore. I'm kinda into reading now.

  Brick Heck : Please, Axl, just... just give me the book back.

  Axl Heck : Yeah, okay.

  [hands book to Brick] 

  Brick Heck : Thank you.

  Axl Heck : Professor Faxon has been dead the whole time.

  Brick Heck : No!

  Axl Heck : The seventh circle only exists in Professor Faxon's mind.

  Brick Heck : No!

  Axl Heck : Planet Nowhere is just Earth four million years ago!

  Brick Heck : No!

  [drops to floor] 

  Axl Heck : Oh. Brick?

  [nudges him] 

  Axl Heck : I think I killed Brick!

• Sue Heck : You know what? A lot of this is your fault. I really could have used Brick's help, but you broke him!

  Axl Heck : Well, he took my guitar. He brought this on himself. He had to feel my wrath.

  Sue Heck : Well, you know what? None of this is gonna stop me. Because Sue Heck does not give up.

  Axl Heck : Why not? If anyone should give up, it's you.

• Brick Heck : What's this?

  Axl Heck : It's a, uh... it's a new ending to "Planet Nowhere" that I came up with myself, so, you know, you can have, like, the experience you missed out on or something.

  Brick Heck : Really? You did this for me?

  Axl Heck : Mm.

  Brick Heck : Wow, this sucks.

  Axl Heck : You sure? Maybe you just didn't get it. You see, the entire planet lives inside the stomach of this ginormous dragon, and then, when the dragon barfs it all up, it's just like...

  Brick Heck : I-I get it.