Scene 5 Summary

A few days have passed. It is late at night, and Booth is waiting for Grace in his room. She is already a few hours late. The room is prepared for a dinner date. Lincoln returns home. He has lost his job. Booth unsympathetically tries to convince him to leave. Lincoln tells Booth that he'll stay in the room until Grace arrives.

While the brothers are waiting for Grace, they reminisce about their family life. They talk about how their parents left them when they were still teenagers. Their mother left first, and their father left them two years later. According to Lincoln, neither of their parents was fit for domestic life. Both of their parents were attracted to different kinds of lives. Although they struggled to keep the family together for years, in the end, both parents just couldn't keep up the...