Chapter 1 of 12 · 2'14"
They are ushered in, names get tangled, and someone lands on "Mr. and Mrs. Stone." A home test already said pregnant. "Do you see that flicker?" The answer is a heartbeat at eight or nine weeks, then "Now the fun part starts," and the two of them are given the room.
A Home Test Brings Them In
The Flicker Is a Heartbeat
Allison Scott is called into the exam. Thomas Pellagrino and Ben Stone give their names. She is guessed to be Debbie's sister, Alice first, then Allison, and they are called Mr. and Mrs. Stone. She says a home test already read pregnant. A scan shows a sac, an embryo, and a flicker that is a heartbeat, eight or nine weeks. Congratulations follows, then a picture, then time alone.
The room runs on two tracks. One is the chart: a home test, "so here we are," then cervix, uterus, amniotic sac, embryo. The other is clumsy bedside talk. "Hi, there, champ" and "you do look a lot like your sister" sit beside "This is gonna be cold. And you're next," which pulls the second person into the exam. The picture does the telling. "Do you see that flicker?" is answered "that's a heartbeat," then softened to "it looks like you are pregnant," eight or nine weeks, and "Congratulations." "That's it?" meets "Yep," "Take good care of it," and "Now the fun part starts." All the cheer is offered. After "I'll give you a little time alone," what comes out is "Oh, God. Oh, no," answered only by "It's okay." The lines never say why the news lands as "no."
A1–C2 is the CEFR scale. Cards above the level you pick fade, and playback will not auto-pause on them.
“I took a home pregnancy test, and it said I was pregnant, so here we are.”
She states the test and stops on the fact that they showed up.
Neutral
“Well, you do look a lot like your sister.”
Do makes the sister resemblance sound definite, well after her name has been corrected.
Neutral
“This is gonna be cold. And you're next.”
A chill warning turns into a joke that pulls the other person into the exam.
Informal
“Do you see that flicker? You know what that is?”
He holds back the word heartbeat and lets the flicker do the revealing.
Neutral
“Yeah, it looks like you are pregnant.”
The hedge keeps a clear result from sounding like a verdict.
Neutral
“I'll give you a little time alone, there.”
He leaves so the news can sit with them instead of with an audience.
Neutral
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Chapter 1 of 12 · about 33 min to go
Up next · 02another day at the officeThe scene: Allison Meets the RoommatesThe lines never give a reason. Those words come after "Congratulations," "Take good care of it," "Now the fun part starts," and "I'll give you a little time alone." The only reply is "It's okay."
The line is "what can I help you with today, Mr. and Mrs. Stone?" Earlier, one introduction is "I'm Ben Stone," and Alice is corrected to Allison, Debbie's sister. Nothing here says they are married, and nobody fixes the title.
The tour names "the cervix and the uterus," then "that dark sac" as "the amniotic sac," then "the embryo" in the middle. "Do you see that flicker?" is answered "Yeah, that's a heartbeat."
The line is "About eight or nine weeks, I'd say," right after "Yeah, it looks like you are pregnant," and just before "Congratulations." The home test is only the reason they came.
It is glued to "This is gonna be cold." The cold part is announced, then the other person is included. The scene never shows that second turn.
