I saw a guy being really abusive to his girlfriend. She was asking people to help, but no one would. When he grabbed her, I tried to separate them, but he turned on me. I punched him and knocked him down. It wasn't a scandal; I was just doing what anybody should.

She wound up teaching in Connecticut but the way Timothy Hutton saw it after a while if we all stayed there my sister and I would just wind up as the proprietors of the local drugstore or something so that was why Timothy Hutton took us to Berkeley – to get us into the world I guess. In 2010 he directed the music video for "The House Rules" by country rocker/Leverage co-star Christian Kane. That year he also played the son of Donna Reed in the Ross Hunter NBC television film The Best Place to Be.

He is the youngest actor to win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor which he won at the age of 20 for his performance as Conrad Jarrett in Ordinary People (1980). Hutton has since appeared regularly in feature films and on television with featured roles in Taps The Falcon and the Snowman and The Dark Half among others. The final episode aired on December 25 2012.