Alex Standall: Mom, did I leave a note?
Carolyn Standall: Yes. You left a note.
Alex Standall: I want to see it.
Carolyn Standall: Alex, honey, I... I don't know that you're ready to...
Alex Standall: What? To know the truth? Or know why I did it? Is this that you don't want me to think about it or you just don't want to talk about it? It's my godd*mn note, Mom, I want to see it!
(She gives him the note eventually)
Carolyn Standall: Do you want to talk about it?
Alex Standall: Um... What does this mean? "I could have stopped it." What does that mean? How could I have stopped it?
Carolyn Standall: It just means that you felt terrible guilt. That you felt responsible, but that is too much for any one person to take on. You know that now, right?
Alex Standall: "I could have stopped it."