She's also having problems with her current husband, and they are separated. Evelyn is disappointed in her dead daughter for being too weak to complete the Millennium Prize problem, disappointed in Frank for having quit his professorship at Boston University, and resentful of her late husband for disrupting her successful career. When Frank disagrees, she takes him to court.In the court hearings and over that period of time, we find out more about the friction between Evelyn and Frank. She criticizes Frank's lifestyle choices and demands to take Mary away with her to Boston. She's a rich, bossy Englishwoman whose ideas of life and ambition Frank clearly disagrees with. The Principal then reaches out to Evelyn (), Frank's mother and Mary's grandmother.Evelyn shows up at Frank's door soon after and meets Mary for the first time. Frank refuses the offer on the grounds that she wants Mary to have a normal childhood.
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Frank is called to the Principal's office, where she tells him she can get a full ride for Mary at a nearby school for the gifted. He's been raising her since then.On the school bus one day, Mary witnesses bullying and she stands up for the victim, breaking the nose of the bully who's five years her senior.
When he got back, Diane had committed suicide in the bathroom, and Mary was in his living room. She said she needed to talk to him but Frank, already late for a date, told her they'd talk when he got back. Diane, her sister, appeared at her doorstep out of the blue one night with Mary, who was just a baby at the time. She then confronts Frank at the bar she knows he hangs out on Friday nights and learns the back story. Frank chalks it off to some simple algorithm he's taught her and walks away before Bonnie can discuss the matter with him any further.Bonnie then does her own research and finds out that Mary's mom Diane was a Math genius, also, working on one of the Millennium Prize problems when she apparently took her own life and was survived by her brother Frank. When Frank comes to pick Mary up, Bonnie catches up to him on the front yard and tells him she thinks Mary might be a gifted child. As soon as she introduces herself to the children, Mary demands to know if she's "the boss", and upon confirmation, demands that she call Frank right away and tell him to get her out of there. After recess, the Principal requests a walk-in observation of Bonnie's class. Bonnie warns her for speaking out of turn and starts asking her increasingly difficult arithmetic problems to make a point.
Mary eventually speaks up, making it known that the lack of challenge is beyond her ability to bear.
Roberta isn't convinced, but there's nothing she can do, so she lets go.At school, Mary is shown bored out of her mind as Bonnie (), her teacher, goes over first-grade math problems with the rest of the class. Frank tries to calm her down, saying Mary needs friends and social skills. She tells him to get in his car and bring Mary back before it's too late, afraid that she will be taken away once everyone realizes she's a child prodigy. As soon as he sees the reluctant, sulking Mary off to school, he's confronted by Roberta (), who's his landlady and friend, and cares deeply for Mary. She wants Frank () to continue homeschooling her, but he says he's taught her everything he knows, and she needs the experience. In the morning of her first day at school, Mary () is in a foul mood because she doesn't want to go.
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