It's as if Gramps has such deep seated cognitive dissonance, such total blankness as to the situation he is in. Here he is, extolling his parenting skills, he waits for the bus, he goes over the class notes, he searches out the old toys and equipment for his grandson, he and his lady wife, full of the milk of human kindness even go real estate shopping, no finer accolade could be given to parents who do this, grandma , ditto. And , ridiculously, he whinges about the mother of Corey, her unsuitability due to factors Gramps regards as important, like Christophers pending Masters degree, which is useless really, if his mind turns to murder.
His and Granma's attempt at testimony would have gone a lot better if they could have contained their bone deep fixation on their superiority, compared to , say, Breanna. Compared to a lot of other people, Pa and Ma were simply thugs in polyester, of no intellect whatsoever. The judge could hardly contain himself at their temerity. Granpa even got offended at an actual judge questioning him. .. like,.. what does this bloke know? doesn't he know I 'm a law enforcer? .. to a judge!
Totally unaware of the fact that there sits their son, charged with the murder, a hideous hands on , deliberate calculated murder of his own 6 yr old son. Where did the son learn his parenting from?
And they knew he was unpredictably violent, his chosen response to being thwarted and exasperated was violence. They knew this because they obviously had parted with wads of cash for lawyers for him before. Some heavy lifting must have happened to keep Gregor Jnr out of prison, all things considered. And they let this precious grandson go off with him to his own apartment.
( I have to hand it to the good citizens of New Jersey, never in my life have I heard of people hurling hamhocks at houses in response to civil outrage... that detail slayed me ) ..