Brad: [on the phone] Hey, Eric. Yeah, it's Brad. No, no, no. I can't take you to that party. Yeah, I kinda got busted by my parents. Yeah. I won't be smoking pot for a while.
Tim: For a while?
Brad: Hey, I gotta go. [hangs up]
Jill: So, you're just gonna wait till we get off your back and start smoking again?
Tim: Brad, sit down, please.
Brad: Guys, come on. I mean, it's not like I'm doing hard drugs.
Tim: You don't have to do hard drugs to screw up your life.
Jill: Yep. And we know that from experience.

Brad: So, you were potheads?
Tim: No! I was a beerhead.
Jill: But I was.
Tim: You were friends with a girl who smoked a lot of pot. And she got busted and ended up going to jail. And her family wouldn't talk to her. So, as I recall, her boyfriend had to bail her out. God knows what would've happened if he weren't around. The guy was a saint.
Brad: Was that a story about you?
Tim: No!
Jill: Yes. Yes, it was.
Tim: No!

Jill: And it's not the whole story. I was... I got stoned at a Led Zeppelin concert. I bought some dope that was laced with something.
Brad: What was it laced with?
Jill: I don't know. But I ended up in the emergency room, registered under the name Charlene Fogelman.
Brad: So you used a phony name so your parents wouldn't catch you?
Jill: No. I thought I was Charlene Fogelman.
Brad: Well, then how'd you end up in jail?
Jill: Somebody turned me in. I was messed up for a long time after that.
Tim: She still hyperventilates every time she hears Stairway to Heaven. But who doesn't?

Jill: Look, Brad, I know what this is like, you know? When you're young, you want to have adventures. You think, "Nothing bad can happen to me." It's just not true. Something bad can happen to you. Why would you want to take that risk?
Tim: Your life's, you know, on track now. You don't want to do something that could get it off track. You got so much going for you. You got so much to lose. I mean, how about your soccer scholarship?
Jill: And the trust of a family who loves you.
Brad: Yeah. I don't want to lose my soccer scholarship... or the other thing.
Tim: "The other thing" is the most important thing in your life. Nobody believes in or cares for you as much as we do.
Brad: I know that.

Tim: What are you gonna do the next time you go to a party?
Jill: Which, by the way, will be a very long time from now.
Tim: Someone wants you to smoke some pot, what are you gonna do?
Brad: I'll just say, "No, thanks."
Tim: "Come on! Just a toke, Brad! What's the matter?"
Brad: Dad, I won't take it.
Tim: What are you gonna tell them when they ask why not?
Brad: I don't know. I'll just make up some kind of excuse.
Jill: Here's what they tell us to use at the counseling center. Tell them that you can't smoke because if you get caught again, your parents are gonna put you on drug testing.
Brad: Well, do you think my friends are really gonna buy that?
Tim: Convince them. Because it'll be true!

Brad: OK. I get the picture.
Tim: Good. Now this sensitive, emotional moment's over. I want you go back to your room and I'll talk to you tomorrow after 10:00.
Brad: What then?
Tim: Sentencing.