Summary

Howard goes to the local pub, the Ferry, with all the Seabrook staff after the last class on Friday. He is disappointed that Aurelie does not come. Howard's friend Farley asks about how Halley figures into Howard's obsession with Aurelie, to which Howard explains that their relationship has no emotional depth to it. He gestures to a coworker, Jim Slattery, while saying that he does not want to end up old and married like him. Howard recalls how, when he was a student, Slattery's wife had left him. Her leaving caused Slattery to fall apart. The Seabrook boys were vicious and mean to him. Eventually, after Slattery's wife returned, he became his old self.

At home, Carl watches violent porn and thinks hateful things about women while his parents fight downstairs. Carl's father is having another affair, this time with an underage...