Mike Picks Up the Runaway Kyle, Explained：worried sick

What's really going on

The scene is a quiet standoff between adults who want to fix things and a kid who has already decided he's on his own. Notice how the questions stay kind but pointed — they name what everyone is avoiding rather than shout it: "Is there a reason you don't wanna go home?" Kyle answers with a fact, not a feeling: "I can't live there anymore." He deflects the bruise, shrugs off his mother ("She doesn't care about me"), and mentions her boyfriend with open contempt. The adults try a softer angle, insisting she's "worried sick" and simply can't reach him. It's the film's first real look at Kyle's damage, and at the instinct to rescue a kid the system overlooked.

Theme

このチャプターで学べること

• Use break into for forced entry
• Hear good luck with that as sarcasm
• Say worried sick for extreme worry
• Catch unless as the help condition
• Hear I can't live there anymore

発音のポイント

• Take care — elision
• talk about it — liaison
• you'll see — elision
• worried sick — elision