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| Credit Group, Portrayed By | Guest Starring Patrick Breen |
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| First Appearance | The Princess and the Plea |
| Last Appearance | The Princess and the Plea |
Henry
Friend of Gabe. Man of intellect.
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Biography
S5E8 - Abe goes out to dinner with Gabe, Arthur and Henry. The group sits and talks for a long time without ordering. Tovar, the waiter, attempts to get their order many times, but Henry violently repudiates his food descriptions as pretentious. Maudlin from his recent sixty-fourth birthday, and the growing realization that Esther is the prodigy in Midge’s bloodline and not Ethan, Abe remains silent for most of the evening. Eventually, Gabe calls him out for it, prompting him to voice his struggle. This leads Henry to reflect on the growing rate of change in society and Arthur to tell a story about a moment of dissociation from his and his wife’s things. Finally, Abe shares an epiphany about how wrong he has been all his life about the roles of men and women, and how he has failed to properly support and appreciate his daughter. After a moment of stunned silence, Henry finally concedes that they ought to order something.
Quotes & Dialogue
HENRY: Can you recommend a red wine without using the words “tannic” or “fruit-forward”?
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HENRY: An underused word, “crapulence.” For a reason.
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HENRY: Yes, and it's physiological as much it is psychological. Homo sapiens crawled along, playing the same roles for tens and tens of thousands of years, and now, suddenly, we're forced to adapt to this rapid-fire change. More change in a year than our predecessors experienced in a lifetime, in a millennium. Think about it. Change, to our predecessors, were sudden exogenous events: earthquakes, floods, an eclipse, a saber-toothed tiger lunging at you out of nowhere. They were things to be dealt with, in the moment. Then things naturally reverted back to the norm. But now… change happens over you. Change itself is the flood, change itself is the saber-toothed. Change itself is the norm.
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HENRY: My son. Bright boy. Warned me again and again that I was smothering him. I thought I was guiding him. Then he moved out, he stopped calling. He stopped…
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