... them for obvious reasons: he hasn't told them about his life for the past decade or so. He also feels uncontrollably angry whenever he sees them. As much as James is overwhelmed with fury when he sees his parents, they are equally overwhelmed by a completely different set of emotions: guilt, sadness, confusion, etc. With his parent's arrival also comes the opening of several other previously closed doors. His relationship with Lilly is suddenly out in the open, and Miles, a fine, upstanding citizen, reveals himself to be no better than James - he is as much as an alcoholic as any other criminal in the facility. When James tells his parents the story of his addiction, he is in essence giving himself another chance to regroup. By telling his parents everything about his life that had occurred for the last decade, he is in fact struggling to keep his ...

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