Fleming Family/Transcript

Submission reel
Jo: "You're with me in Raleigh, NC, ready to help a family who desperately needs my help. Let's take a look.

Paul: "Hi, I'm Paul Fleming, and I am a former full-time cop."

Darlene: "Hi, I'm Darlene Fleming. We have 3 children. Jessica who is 5, Sylvia who is 3 and Larissa who is 2. Well, we used to have four, until my youngest, Edward who is my 15 month old son disappeared. We looked everywhere for him, and so did the neighborhood and the police and the town."

Paul: "I am a very strict person. I have no tolerance for rule-breaking or disrespect."

Darlene: "The kids hit, kick and scream."

[Sylvia hits Larissa]

Jo: "My word, this has to stop."

Observation begins
Paul: "It's my house, you slept here anyway, that's like saying f*** you, dad, I'll do what I want! It's my house. You don't listen, you're not obedient, you don't get nothing from me. Nothing!"

Jessica: "That isn't fair!"

Paul: "Well then, start obeying the rules!"

Jessica: "I am!"

Paul: "You're NOT! This is a very obvious answer right there! You're not!"

Jessica: "You're scaring me!"

Darlene: "I think we should talk to our marriage counselor."

Paul: "Right, because I said DON'T, that's why! I said don't sleep in here! And you did it anyway! I told you, that's like saying f*** you, dad, I'll do what I want, I don't have to listen to you! And you do, it's MY house!"

Jessica: "Well, maybe I don't want to be in this house anymore! I'd rather live out on the streets because that isn't fair!"

Paul: "That is fair, Jes--"

Jessica: "No, it isn't!"

Paul: "When you don't listen, when you don't listen, there's consequences! Do you understand me?"

Jessica: "You always get ticked off!"

Paul: "Ugh, BECAUSE YOU DON'T LISTEN!!!!!!!!!!!"

Jessica: "THAT ISN'T FAIR!!!"

Paul: "Of course it's fair!"

[Jessica slaps Paul]

Paul: "You slap me in the face and I'll slap you back, WHY'D YOU SLAP ME?! YOU SLAPPED ME?!"

Jessica: "Dad, it isn't fair!"

Paul: "Of course it's fair! You're so stupid! I said don't sleep in here, it was such an easy thing for you to obey! Such and easy thing for you to do, not sleep there! All you had to do is get up! You don't like your bedroom? I can't stand that, you were downstairs, but OK, GO DOWNSTAIRS!"

Jessica: "Why are you yelling?! You're ticked every time I do something! You're stupid and I wish you weren't my daddy!"

Paul: "Go downstairs, you're changing the subject because you know you're wrong!"

Jessica: "No, I'm not!"

Paul: "That's what you do whenever you're proven wrong, you change the subject!"

Jessica: "No!"

Paul: "Well, that's what you just did! We're talking about this right now! Why did you sleep here?! Don't tell me i got ticked because--"

Jessica: "Stop!"

Paul: "We're taking about this room! Why did you sleep here, you know I told you not to!"

[Paul picks up the chair and throws it against the wall]

Jessica: "Because I wasn't old enough!"

Paul: "I don't give a s***, that's a stupid reason! Why did you sleep here when you know I asked you not to, young lady!"

Jessica: "Because we don't need 3 bedrooms. F*** you, you lousy, stinking, no-good son of a b****!"

Paul: "IT DOESN'T F***ING MATTER! That's it, you are going upstairs to your room and you will stay there for the rest of the night."

Observation Continues
Paul: "Look, Jessica dropped by for some corned beef for dinner."

Darlene: "Paul, he was just washing up. Who'd like to say grace?"

Paul: "To h*** with grace, pass me the biscuits."

Larissa: "Never mind. I'll do it. Ahem, God is great, God is good, let us thank him for the food. And please God, bring our baby brother Edward back home safe and sound."

[Jessica accidentally tips over Paul's glass of milk]

Jessica: "I'm sorry,"

Paul: "What is the matter with you? That was my favorite glass, for crying out loud! You clumsy little so-and-so!"

Jessica: "I was gonna give you the biscuits, you idiot!"

Paul: "YOU BREAK EVERYTHING YOU TOUCH!"

Jessica: "What are you talking about? What do you mean, I break everything I touch, you stupid moron?!"

Darlene: "Let's just have a nice supper for once."

Paul: "A nice supper?"

[Paul pushes Darlene's plate off the table causing it to break]

Paul: "There's your nice supper."

[We see an angry lumberjack named Boyd in the scene]

Paul: "You have no respect in this house."

[Boyd walks over to Paul]

Darlene: "Honey, It'd just take a second."

Paul: "You just have to sit there. Get a broom or something!"

[Paul walks over to Darlene]

Paul: "You know why he's like that? Because you let him do whatever he wants!"

Jessica: "I'm out of here!"

[Jessica leaves the table]

Darlene: "That's OK, you just relax and get another drink."

Paul: "Don't tell me what to do."

[Paul punches Darlene in the face]

Darlene: "Ow!"

[Darlene sobs]

Darlene: "Why are you always provoking me?"

[Paul looks at Boyd]

Paul: "Because he's a bad kid, that's why."

Boyd: "Well, that's a load of c***! Who the h*** were you to say?!"

Paul: "I'm his father. And you show your father respect."

Boyd: "The day he deserved it, you drunken boy! Punching women and kids is what they call fatherhood in your life?!"

Paul: "He deserved it. Believe me, you were nothing but ungrateful."

[Boyd's anger explodes]

Boyd [angrily]: I WAS A KID! KIDS AIN'T SUPPOSED TO BE UNGRATEFUL! YOU FORCE THEM TO EAT THEIR FOOD AND BREAK THEIR HEART, YOU SELFISH D***! You died. And I was still so afraid I'd turn into you and the kids of my own!"

Paul: "You break everything you touch!"

Boyd: "Uh-huh. I adopted 2 boys! And they grew up great! They grew up heroes... SO YOU CAN GO TO H***!!!"

Jessica: "That's right, a**hole!"

Jo: "What came next was absolutely shocking!"

[Paul beheads Boyd]

Jessica: "What the h*** was that all about?"

Darlene: "Jessica, sweetheart Daddy is not getting his own way, that's why."

[Jessica cries]

Paul: "Why the f*** are you crying?"

Jessica: "F*** YOU, YOU A**-HOLE!

[Paul spanks Jessica really heard with a paddle, tennis racket and mace and a belt]

Paul: "Shut up, you bad girl!"

[Jessica cries harder]

Darlene: "Jessie, baby it's OK. I know daddy is worked up. Listen to me. Baby girl, nothing is your fault. You are the sweetest person I know."

[Paul shakes the other two, who are crying and bangs their heads against the door and prepares to stab them with a knife and kill them]

Paul: "THIS IS WHAT I SHOULD HAVE DONE TO ALL THREE OF YOU GIRLS A LONG TIME AGO!"

Darlene: "Girls, pack your things. We are leaving for Japan. I have a friend who lives there."

Paul: "Darlene, Jessica is a bad girl!"

Darlene: "I want to speak to a marriage counselor about our problem."

Paul: "Darlene, if you walk out on me, you are a dead woman! Do you hear me?"

[Jessica races to her room, slams the door and begins playing with her Barbie dolls]

[Larissa and Sylvia play with their Hello Kitty plush toys, Barbie dolls, and dollhouse]

Trip to the supermarket
Paul: "Darlene, you are a dead woman if I ever catch you having an affair with anyone else! You got that?"

Leaving for School
Paul: "Jessica, if you don't come home, I will kill you."

[Deanne drops Jessica and Sylvia off at kindergarten]

Going to Grandma's
[Deanne drives away from the school and drops Larissa at her grandmother's and then drives off to work]

Edward Found
Jo: "The next morning, a police officer who happened to be Paul Fleming's former partner, arrived at the Fleming door with a huge shock,"

Police Officer: Sorry to bother you ma'am, but is this your son?

At Court
Judge: "Paul Fleming, according to your background, you are not a legal American citizen but it says that you were born in Saudi Arabia. It states here that you came to America as an illegal immigrant."

[the evidence is a counterfeit birth certificate, a fake social security card and a fake passport Paul had used to enter the country, the autopsy report of Paul Fleming's 15-month-old son Edward from the coroner]

Judge: Not only have you been terminated from the police force, but you were sent to court by the police due to child murder, spouse and child abuse. I'm sentencing you to 3 years to life in prison! Paul Fleming is found...

[Darlene, Jessica, Sylvia & Larissa have their fingers crossed]

Judge: "GUILTY!"

Paul: "This is not the end! If I can't have the girls, then no one else will!"

[Paul takes out a wine bottle and smashes it on Darlene's head]

[Paul is pulls out a hunting knife, preparing to stab Darlene]

Paul: "Off with their heads!!"

Judge: "Bailiff."

[The Bailiff grab the screaming Paul. Darlene and her children escape from the court.]

Judge: "Take him to a jail for 3 years back to his country!"

Paul: (to Darlene and her children) "This is not the end. Society may lock me up and throw away the key, but they can't keep me locked up forever!!! Just you wait, Darlene!!! I will be back on the streets and I will find you!"

Funeral for Edward
(Darlene and her daughters are at Edward's funeral)

(We see an infant-sized coffin covered with teddy bears and flowers)

The Flemings Move To Japan
Jo: "While Dad was arrested for attempted murder, murder of a child, child and spousal abuse, Darlene is now married to Winston Fleming. Darlene took her daughters to Tokyo to stay with a friend for a while."