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generous support, we would adopt,

uh... Maurice.

Now, his ancestors were, uh...

angry, aggressive...

and in some cases...

Violent.

- Pretty violent, actually.

- Yeah.

- But we would...

we'd raise him to be a pacifist.

- Like Gandhi?

- Yeah, like the Mahatma.

- Hmm.

- And as you can see,

Catherine is very pregnant.

- I should pop any day, really.

- And we would raise our son

to be... an artist.

- So the son of two scientists

is gonna be raised as an artist.

Bingo.

- Thus proving

the power of nurture.

Double bingo.

- And you have no ethical

concerns about this?

No. Why should we?

I mean, it's no different

to most parents who, you know,

encourage their kids to play piano

or be doctors or super athletes.

- Yeah.

- And at the end of the day,

what matters most is how much

you love your kids, right?

And we're gonna give our kids

every ounce of love we got.

- And... and more importantly,

we will prove

that everyone has the potential

to become anything.

- Any... I mean, anything.

- No one... Yeah.

No one is a prisoner of their

genetic heritage. No way.

- And you believe

you can pull this off?

- Indubitably.

- Absolutely.

Well, if that's the case...

...let's start

changing the world.

(Catherine sighing with relief)

- Well, thank you so much.

It's nice to be nice

As my momma once said

(narrator):

In the spring of 1978,

Ben and Catherine

quit the university

and moved to a cottage Ben

inherited from his father, Henry,

who had inherited it

from his father before him.

And Gertz hired them

an assistant.

- Sorry to disturb you,

but I'm done with the reports.

- What about the bassinets?

- The bassinets are clean.

- Okay. Why don't you, uh,

take the evening off, Sammy?

Okay.

Thank you. (narratorKonstantino Samsonov

was an ex-Olympic

shooting medalist

who defected

from the Soviet Union

by hiding in a pastry truck

at the 1976 Montreal games.

(rock music)

(rifle shot in the distance)

Want to go for a ride?

(rifle shot in the distance)

(snorting like a horse)

(whinnying)

(snorting)

Samsonov graduated

with a certificate

in Child Psychology...

(screaming in the distance)

...from the Lake Champlain

evening program,

which qualified him

as natural caregiver

for the children.

(classical music playing) (crying)

- Oh, no, no, no.

- As toddlers, Luke, Maurice and

Maya listened to classical music

to stimulate their neurological

pathways and cerebral juices.

- Dad, why is Luke

such a fart face?

- Hey. Maurice, that's not nice. And for

the last time, put your PJs on, please.

(narrator):
Every feeling,

urge and emotion Luke felt

was channelled

into artistic expression.

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